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diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/northamerica b/contrib/tzdata/northamerica index 7658a45..e1ed9e4 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/northamerica +++ b/contrib/tzdata/northamerica @@ -24,8 +24,32 @@ # was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines # in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC, # but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich. -# His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00, -# and the most of the country soon followed suit. + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-21): +# Dowd's proposal left many details unresolved, such as where to draw +# lines between time zones. The key individual who made time zones +# work in the US was William Frederick Allen - railway engineer, +# managing editor of the Travelers' Guide, and secretary of the +# General Time Convention, a railway standardization group. Allen +# spent months in dialogs with scientific and railway leaders, +# developed a workable plan to institute time zones, and presented it +# to the General Time Convention on 1883-04-11, saying that his plan +# meant "local time would be practically abolished" - a plus for +# railway scheduling. By the next convention on 1883-10-11 nearly all +# railroads had agreed and it took effect on 1883-11-18 at 12:00. +# That Sunday was called the "day of two noons", as the eastern parts +# of the new zones observed noon twice. Allen witnessed the +# transition in New York City, writing: +# +# I heard the bells of St. Paul's strike on the old time. Four +# minutes later, obedient to the electrical signal from the Naval +# Observatory ... the time-ball made its rapid descent, the chimes +# of old Trinity rang twelve measured strokes, and local time was +# abandoned, probably forever. +# +# Most of the US soon followed suit. See: +# Bartky IR. The adoption of standard time. Technol Cult 1989 Jan;30(1):25-56. +# http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105430 # From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): # That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. @@ -325,6 +349,16 @@ Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 # Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent.... # http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act3.pdf +# From an email administrator of the City of Fort Pierre, SD (2015-12-21): +# Fort Pierre is technically located in the Mountain time zone as is +# the rest of Stanley County. Most of Stanley County and Fort Pierre +# uses the Central time zone due to doing most of their business in +# Pierre so it simplifies schedules. I have lived in Stanley County +# all my life and it has been that way since I can remember. (43 years!) +# +# From Paul Eggert (2015-12-25): +# Assume this practice predates 1970, so Fort Pierre can use America/Chicago. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -403,11 +437,42 @@ Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 # north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren), # Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern 3/4 of # Malheur county), and Washington + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-20): +# In early February 1948, in response to California's electricity shortage, +# PG&E changed power frequency from 60 to 59.5 Hz during daylight hours, +# causing electric clocks to lose six minutes per day. (This did not change +# legal time, and is not part of the data here.) See: +# Ross SA. An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948. +# Working Paper No. 8, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, +# 1973-11. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x22k30c +# +# In another measure to save electricity, DST was instituted from 1948-03-14 +# at 02:01 to 1949-01-16 at 02:00, with the governor having the option to move +# the fallback transition earlier. See pages 3-4 of: +# http://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1948/48Vol1_Chapters.pdf +# +# In response: +# +# Governor Warren received a torrent of objecting mail, and it is not too much +# to speculate that the objections to Daylight Saving Time were one important +# factor in the defeat of the Dewey-Warren Presidential ticket in California. +# -- Ross, p 25 +# +# On December 8 the governor exercised the option, setting the date to January 1 +# (LA Times 1948-12-09). The transition time was 02:00 (LA Times 1949-01-01). +# +# Despite the controversy, in 1949 California voters approved Proposition 12, +# which established DST from April's last Sunday at 01:00 until September's +# last Sunday at 02:00. This was amended by 1962's Proposition 6, which changed +# the fall-back date to October's last Sunday. See: +# http://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1501&context=ca_ballot_props +# http://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1636&context=ca_ballot_props # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER -Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D +Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:01 1:00 D Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S -Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 1:00 1:00 D Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -481,6 +546,12 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 # For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's # abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-11-09): +# It seems Metlakatla did go off PST on Sunday, November 1, changing +# their time to AKST and are going to follow Alaska's DST, switching +# between AKST and AKDT from now on.... +# http://www.krbd.org/2015/10/30/annette-island-times-they-are-a-changing/ + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 @@ -506,7 +577,8 @@ Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 -8:00 - PST 1969 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 - -8:00 - PST + -8:00 - PST 2015 Nov 1 2:00 + -9:00 US AK%sT Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 -9:00 - YST 1942 @@ -2174,39 +2246,39 @@ Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # aka Panniqtuuq -Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - zzz 1921 # trading post est. +Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - -00 1921 # trading post est. -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 Canada E%sT # formerly Frobisher Bay -Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - zzz 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. +Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - -00 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 Canada E%sT # aka Qausuittuq -Zone America/Resolute 0 - zzz 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded +Zone America/Resolute 0 - -00 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 -6:00 Canada C%sT # aka Kangiqiniq -Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - zzz 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded +Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - -00 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 -6:00 Canada C%sT # aka Iqaluktuuttiaq -Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - zzz 1920 # trading post est.? +Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - -00 1920 # trading post est.? -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 -7:00 Canada M%sT -Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - zzz 1935 # Yellowknife founded? +Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded? -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 -7:00 Canada M%sT -Zone America/Inuvik 0 - zzz 1953 # Inuvik founded +Zone America/Inuvik 0 - -00 1953 # Inuvik founded -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 -7:00 Canada M%sT @@ -2458,13 +2530,22 @@ Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 -6:00 Mexico C%sT -# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) +# Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) +# This includes the following municipalities: +# in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava, +# Guerrero, Hidalgo. +# in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama. +# in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, +# Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. +# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, +# 2016-03-12 +# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-horario-de-verano-en-zona-fronteriza Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 -6:00 - CST 1988 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 -6:00 US C%sT -# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) +# Durango; Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44 -6:00 - CST 1988 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 @@ -2480,6 +2561,9 @@ Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 -6:00 Mexico C%sT # Chihuahua (near US border) +# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, +# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. +# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.) Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 @@ -2567,7 +2651,7 @@ Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:59:00 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 -6:00 Mexico C%sT -# Baja California (near US border) +# Baja California Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 -7:00 - MST 1924 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 @@ -2587,25 +2671,6 @@ Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 -8:00 US P%sT -# Baja California (away from US border) -Zone America/Santa_Isabel -7:39:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:20:32 - -7:00 - MST 1924 - -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 - -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 - -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 - -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 - -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 - -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u - -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace - -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 - -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 - -8:00 - PST 1954 - -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 - -8:00 - PST 1976 - -8:00 US P%sT 1996 - -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 - -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 - -8:00 Mexico P%sT # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from # America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 @@ -2618,6 +2683,13 @@ Zone America/Santa_Isabel -7:39:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:20:32 # other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its # name or contents should be. # +# From Paul Eggert (2015-10-08): +# Formerly there was an America/Santa_Isabel zone, but this appears to +# have come from a misreading of +# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 +# It has been moved to the 'backward' file. +# +# # Revillagigedo Is # no information @@ -2692,17 +2764,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton -4:00 US A%sT # Cayman Is - -# From Paul Eggert (2015-05-15): -# The Cayman government has decided to introduce DST in 2016, the idea being -# to keep in sync with New York. The legislation hasn't passed but the change -# seems quite likely. See: Meade B. Cayman 27. -# http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2015/05/15/clock-ticks-toward-daylight-saving-time-in-cayman - -Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown - -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time - -5:00 - EST 2016 - -5:00 US E%sT +# See America/Panama. # Costa Rica @@ -3065,6 +3127,13 @@ Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 # http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ # http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 +# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-03-12): +# Jean Antoine, editor of www.haiti-reference.com informed us that Haiti +# are not going on DST this year. Several other resources confirm this: ... +# http://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/presse/heure_d_t_pas_de_changement_d_heure_pr_vu_pour_cet_ann_e.html +# http://www.vantbefinfo.com/changement-dheure-pas-pour-haiti/ +# http://news.anmwe.com/haiti-lheure-nationale-ne-sera-ni-avancee-ni-reculee-cette-annee/ + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D @@ -3075,8 +3144,8 @@ Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S -Rule Haiti 2012 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Haiti 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S +Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT @@ -3225,6 +3294,7 @@ Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time -5:00 - EST +Link America/Panama America/Cayman # Puerto Rico # There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. @@ -3266,7 +3336,7 @@ Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre # indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. # # From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): -# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UTC-4 year-round. See: +# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UT -04 year-round. See: # http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm # Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ... # From Chris Walton (2014-11-04): |
