From 1452fb439c7f2f84d523991ea9b21321e3c500ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wollman Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:46:27 +0000 Subject: Merge tzdata2005l update from vendor branch. MT6: after release MT5: immediately --- share/zoneinfo/africa | 32 ++++-- share/zoneinfo/asia | 260 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------- share/zoneinfo/australasia | 106 +++++++++++++----- share/zoneinfo/europe | 203 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------- share/zoneinfo/leapseconds | 83 +++++++------- share/zoneinfo/northamerica | 213 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- share/zoneinfo/southamerica | 57 +++++----- share/zoneinfo/zone.tab | 30 +++-- 8 files changed, 654 insertions(+), 330 deletions(-) (limited to 'share') diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/africa b/share/zoneinfo/africa index e8223f7..87ae9e3 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/africa +++ b/share/zoneinfo/africa @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)africa 7.36 +# @(#)africa 7.39 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ # # Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT # for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, -# but Mark R V Murray reports that +# but Mark R V Murray reports that # `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa, # `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and # `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar 2:00 - SAST # Liberia -# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): +# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): # In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch # from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes. # Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959 @@ -348,9 +348,6 @@ Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 -1:00 - WAT 1960 Jun 20 0:00 - GMT -# no longer different from Bamako, but too famous to omit -Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912 - 0:00 - GMT # Mauritania # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -557,6 +554,23 @@ Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 0:00 - GMT # Tunisia + +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-30): +# +# My correspondent, Risto Nykanen, has alerted me to another adoption of DST, +# this time in Tunisia. According to Yahoo France News +# , in a story attributed to AP +# and dated 2005-04-26, "Tunisia has decided to advance its official time by +# one hour, starting on Sunday, May 1. Henceforth, Tunisian time will be +# UTC+2 instead of UTC+1. The change will take place at 23:00 UTC next +# Saturday." (My translation) +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-02): +# LaPresse, the first national daily newspaper ... +# +# ... DST for 2005: on: Sun May 1 0h standard time, off: Fri Sept. 30, +# 1h standard time. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 - @@ -579,6 +593,8 @@ Rule Tunisia 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 1988 1990 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 - Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 2005 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tunisia 2005 only - Sep 30 1:00s 0 - # Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21. # Shanks says the 1911 switch occurred on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/asia b/share/zoneinfo/asia index 3c2c1a1..7c9b7b6 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/asia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/asia @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.77 +# @(#)asia 7.84 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence - 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s + 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 4:00 Azer AZ%sT @@ -137,8 +137,12 @@ Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu # British Indian Ocean Territory # Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the # 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996. +# We have no information as to when standard time was introduced; +# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which +# then contained the Chagos Archipelago). # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time +Zone Indian/Chagos 4:49:40 - LMT 1907 + 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time 6:00 - IOT # Brunei @@ -186,7 +190,7 @@ Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN # CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 -# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): +# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): # Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, # observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's # note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. @@ -197,7 +201,6 @@ Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D -Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D @@ -325,19 +328,19 @@ Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia # Georgia -# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): +# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): # Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward # an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, # an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! # We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. # -# From Mathew Englander , quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): +# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): # Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia # will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, # President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. # # From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): -# +# # Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet # republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it # is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours @@ -383,11 +386,11 @@ Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 - 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time + 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3 + 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 - 9:00 - TPT + 9:00 - TLT # India # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -472,12 +475,33 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov # Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates.... # I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct # here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. - -# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-15) +# +# From Roozbeh Pournader (2005-04-05): +# The text of the Iranian law, in effect since 1925, clearly mentions +# that the true solar year is the measure, and there is no arithmetic +# leap year calculation involved. There has never been any serious +# plan to change that law.... +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-05): # Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. -# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates. -# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050 -# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. +# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates, +# stopping after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. +# That cal-persia used Birashk's approximation, which disagrees with the solar +# calendar predictions for the year 2025, so I corrected those dates by hand. +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-03-30), writing about future +# discrepancies between cal-persia and the Iranian calendar: +# For 2091 solar-longitude-after yields 2091-03-20 08:40:07.7 UT for +# the vernal equinox and that gets so close to 12:00 some local +# Iranian time that the definition of the correct location needs to be +# known exactly, amongst other factors. 2157 is even closer: +# 2157-03-20 08:37:15.5 UT. But the Gregorian year 2025 should give +# no interpretation problem whatsoever. By the way, another instant +# in the near future where there will be a discrepancy between +# arithmetical and astronomical Iranian calendars will be in 2058: +# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of +# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date +# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical). # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D @@ -515,10 +539,10 @@ Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S +Rule Iran 2024 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Iran 2024 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S +Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D @@ -539,7 +563,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 # Iraq # -# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12): +# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12): # An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in # the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: # "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and @@ -638,8 +662,9 @@ Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S -# From Ephraim Silverberg -# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25): +# From Ephraim Silverberg +# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22, +# and 2005-02-17): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. @@ -690,13 +715,13 @@ Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 # (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz # # The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. # # The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz # # where YYYY is the relevant year. @@ -716,12 +741,12 @@ Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S # # The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz # # The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates # for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D @@ -735,52 +760,80 @@ Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S -# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25): -# Here are guesses for rules after 2004. -# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S +# The proposed law agreed upon by the Knesset Interior Committee on +# 2005-02-14 is that, for 2005 and beyond, DST starts at 02:00 the +# last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April +# 1st itself if it falls on a Friday) and ends at 02:00 on the Saturday +# night _before_ the fast of Yom Kippur. +# +# Those who can read Hebrew can view the announcement at: +# +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-02-22): +# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program +# (2005-02-20) +# along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4, +# to generate the transitions in this list. +# (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.) +# The spring transitions below all correspond to the following Rule: +# +# Rule Zion 2005 max - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +# +# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support +# "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the +# springtime transitions explicitly. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Zion 2005 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2006 2010 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2006 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2007 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2008 only - Oct 5 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2009 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2010 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2011 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2011 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2012 2015 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2012 only - Sep 23 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2013 only - Sep 8 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2014 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2015 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2016 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2016 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2017 2021 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2017 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2018 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2019 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2020 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2021 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2022 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2022 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2023 2032 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2023 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2024 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2025 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2026 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2027 only - Oct 10 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2028 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2029 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2030 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2031 only - Sep 21 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2032 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2033 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2033 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2034 2037 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2034 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2035 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2036 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2037 only - Sep 13 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 2:00 Zion I%sT -# From Ephraim Silverberg (2003-03-23): -# -# Minister of Interior Poraz has announced that he will respect the law -# passed in July 2000 (proposed at the time jointly by himself and -# then-MK David Azulai [Shas]) fixing the dates for 2000-2004. Hence, -# the dates for 2003 and 2004 remain unchanged.... -# -# As far as 2005 and beyond, no dates have been set. However, the -# minister has mentioned that he wishes to propose to move Israel's -# timezone in 2005 from GMT+2 to GMT+3 and upon that have DST during -# the summer months (i.e. GMT+4). However, no legislation in this -# direction is expected until the latter part of 2004 which is a long -# time off in terms of Israeli politics. - -# (2004-09-20): -# The latest rumour, however, is that in 2005, when the clock changes to -# Daylight Saving Time (date as yet unknown), the move will be a two-hour leap -# forward (from UTC+0200 to UTC+0400) and then, in the fall, the clock will -# move back only an hour to UTC+0300 thus effectively moving Israel's timezone -# from UTC+0200 to UTC+0300. However, no actual draft has been put before the -# Knesset (Israel's Parliament) though the intention is to do so this -# month [2004-09]. - -# (2004-09-26): -# Even though the draft law for the above did pass the Ministerial Committee -# for Legislative Matters three months ago, it was voted down in today's -# Cabinet meeting. The current suggestion is to keep the current timezone at -# UTC+0200 but have an extended period of Daylight Saving Time (UTC+0300) from -# the beginning of Passover holiday in the spring to after the Tabernacle -# holiday in the fall (i.e. the dates of which are governed by the Hebrew -# calendar but this means at least 184 days of DST). However, this is only a -# suggestion that was raised in today's cabinet meeting and has not yet been -# drafted. - ############################################################################### @@ -789,7 +842,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 # `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. -# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06): +# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06): # Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had # daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued # because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' @@ -876,14 +929,16 @@ Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 2:00 Jordan EE%sT + # Kazakhstan + # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): -# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan +# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan # stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) # and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. # Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time # IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. -# + # From Paul Eggert (2001-10-18): # German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses # RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. @@ -893,7 +948,24 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. # - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. # - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. + +# +# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21): +# +# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing +# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health +# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity. # +# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28): +# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone +# was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has +# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone +# closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the +# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau, +# Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses +# everything else.... I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones +# de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively. + # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # @@ -902,7 +974,8 @@ Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 6:00 - ALMT 1992 - 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT + 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 2005 Mar 15 + 6:00 - ALMT # Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.) Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time @@ -912,7 +985,8 @@ Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 - 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT + 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 2005 Mar 15 + 6:00 - QYZT # Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk) Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time @@ -921,7 +995,8 @@ Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence - 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT # Aqtobe Time + 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time + 5:00 - AQTT # Mangghystau # Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region, # so include time stamps before 1963. @@ -933,7 +1008,8 @@ Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time - 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT + 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 + 5:00 - AQTT # West Kazakhstan Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time @@ -943,10 +1019,18 @@ Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence - 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT # Oral Time + 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time + 5:00 - ORAT # Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) # Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15): +# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway +# +# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article +# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - @@ -1116,7 +1200,7 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # # [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] -# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17): +# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17): # Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March. # It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of # September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001. @@ -1125,6 +1209,24 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs # Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them. +# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): +# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones. +# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says +# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft +# Windows XP as the source. Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that +# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST. +# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in +# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed. +# He also found +# +# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius" +# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones. +# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT +# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT. +# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the +# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session." +# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - @@ -1216,7 +1318,7 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # Palestine -# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15): +# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15): # # From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now # known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. @@ -1478,7 +1580,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - UZT # Vietnam -# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long. # We'll stick with the traditional name for now. # From Shanks: diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/australasia b/share/zoneinfo/australasia index d8a8e36..57bd60a 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/australasia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.69 +# @(#)australasia 7.73 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 8:00 - WST # Queensland # -# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): +# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): # I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast # of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after # Queensland ceased to. @@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ Rule AS 1991 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1992 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1993 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1994 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 9:00 - CST 1899 May @@ -85,6 +87,11 @@ Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 9:30 AS CST # Tasmania +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): +# +# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - @@ -99,15 +106,22 @@ Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AT 1991 1999 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 1991 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AT 1991 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule AT 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AT 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AT 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AT 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb 10:00 Aus EST 1967 10:00 AT EST +Zone Australia/Currie 9:35:28 - LMT 1895 Sep + 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 + 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb + 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Jul + 10:00 AT EST # Victoria # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -118,9 +132,11 @@ Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AV 1988 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AV 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule AV 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AV 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AV 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AV 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 Aus EST 1971 @@ -137,9 +153,11 @@ Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AN 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AN 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AN 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AN 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AN 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 Aus EST 1971 @@ -160,9 +178,11 @@ Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 - Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 0:30 - Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 - -Rule LH 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - +Rule LH 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 - Rule LH 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - +Rule LH 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - +Rule LH 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 - EST 1981 Mar 10:30 LH LHST @@ -199,9 +219,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua -10:00 Cook CK%sT # Cocos -# From USNO (1989): +# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978. +# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time +Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 + 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time # Fiji # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -262,9 +284,6 @@ Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 # Micronesia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Yap 9:12:32 - LMT 1901 # Colonia - 9:00 - YAPT 1969 Oct # Yap Time - 10:00 - YAPT Zone Pacific/Truk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 10:00 - TRUT # Truk Time Zone Pacific/Ponape 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia @@ -381,11 +400,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa -# W Samoa +# Samoa Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time - -11:00 - WST # W Samoa Time + -11:00 - WST # Samoa Time # Solomon Is # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea @@ -434,6 +453,17 @@ Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST # uninhabited # Midway +# +# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): +# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, +# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3] +# reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly +# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting +# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone +# designations that I've never seen before:.... +# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun. +# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A " +# Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 @@ -475,7 +505,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). @@ -632,13 +662,13 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): # Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. -# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper +# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper # reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, # but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 # and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. # For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. -# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): +# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): # # Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, # and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more @@ -657,6 +687,24 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Standard Time Act, 1898 # +# From David Grosz (2005-06-13): +# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by +# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. +# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday +# in April instead of the last Sunday in March. +# +# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14): +# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan +# to extend DST together in 2006. +# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt +# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html +# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html +# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772 +# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles +# allude to it. +# But not Queensland +# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html. + # Northern Territory # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): @@ -843,7 +891,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can # only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... -# From John Warburton (1994-10-07): +# From John Warburton (1994-10-07): # The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... # was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... # start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. @@ -903,7 +951,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Arthur David Olson: # New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. -# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz), +# Based on law library research by John Mackin, # who notes: # In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the # individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' @@ -923,7 +971,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Lawlink NSW: Daylight Saving in New South Wales # -# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): +# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): # DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual # October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore, # @@ -1057,7 +1105,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); # Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. -# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight +# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight # Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard # time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. # As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. @@ -1136,7 +1184,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Micronesia -# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16), +# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16), # ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" # (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.'' # @@ -1244,10 +1292,10 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan # Government. -# From Steffen Thorsen [straen@thorsen.priv.no] (1999-09-09): +# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): # * Tonga will introduce DST in November # -# I was given this link by John Letts : +# I was given this link by John Letts: # # http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm # @@ -1257,7 +1305,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead # (12 + 1 hour DST). -# From Arthur David Olson [arthur_david_olson@nih.gov] (1999-09-20): +# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20): # According to +# From: Jonathan Leffler # [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament. # If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in # politics making a fortune, not computing. -# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-14): +# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14): # I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the # acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time. Look for the published # time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and @@ -204,15 +204,15 @@ # and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first, # so we use `BDST'. -# Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length +# Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length # the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. -# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating +# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating # and extending this list, which can be found in # # History of legal time in Britain # -# From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06): +# From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06): # # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; # see Lord Tanlaw's speech @@ -255,6 +255,35 @@ # "Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time." # -- James Joyce, Ulysses +# From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26): +# Irish laws are available online at www.irishstatutebook.ie. These include +# various relating to legal time, for example: +# +# ZZA13Y1923.html ZZA12Y1924.html ZZA8Y1925.html ZZSIV20PG1267.html +# +# ZZSI71Y1947.html ZZSI128Y1948.html ZZSI23Y1949.html ZZSI41Y1950.html +# ZZSI27Y1951.html ZZSI73Y1952.html +# +# ZZSI11Y1961.html ZZSI232Y1961.html ZZSI182Y1962.html +# ZZSI167Y1963.html ZZSI257Y1964.html ZZSI198Y1967.html +# ZZA23Y1968.html ZZA17Y1971.html +# +# ZZSI67Y1981.html ZZSI212Y1982.html ZZSI45Y1986.html +# ZZSI264Y1988.html ZZSI52Y1990.html ZZSI371Y1992.html +# ZZSI395Y1994.html ZZSI484Y1997.html ZZSI506Y2001.html +# +# [These are all relative to the root, e.g., the first is +# .] +# +# (These are those I found, but there could be more. In any case these +# should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover +# the laws applicable in Ireland.) +# +# (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined +# in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it +# is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time +# being GMT+1.) + # From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28): # Clive Feather (, 1997-03-31) # reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time @@ -393,13 +422,6 @@ Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 0:00 EU GMT/BST -Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 - -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin/Dunsink MT - -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s # Irish Summer Time - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 - 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u - 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 - 0:00 EU GMT/BST Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:00 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s @@ -507,7 +529,7 @@ Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT # Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST # for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage. -# From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12): +# From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12): # The official German names ... are # # Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ) = UTC+01:00 @@ -623,7 +645,7 @@ Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 # pp 8-9. # LMT before 1892 was 0:17:30, according to the official journal of Belgium: # Moniteur Belge, Samedi 30 Avril 1892, N.121. -# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for these references. +# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for these references. # The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium. # Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect. # @@ -682,7 +704,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 # Bulgaria # -# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): +# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): # A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says: # EET --> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ... # EETDST --> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October @@ -727,6 +749,40 @@ Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850 1:00 EU CE%sT # Denmark, Faeroe Islands, and Greenland + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-04-26): +# http://www.hum.aau.dk/~poe/tid/tine/DanskTid.htm says that the law +# [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01.... +# The page http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A18930008330-REGL +# confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29. +# +# The EU treaty with effect from 1973: +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19722110030-REGL +# +# This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes +# in subsequenet decrees with the law +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/A19740022330-REGL +# +# It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980. I have +# not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST +# changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to +# 1980-09-28 at 02:00. If this is true, this differs slightly from +# the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00. We don't know +# when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only +# confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981: +# The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning +# working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which +# was suspended on that night): +# http://www.retsinfo.dk/_GETDOCI_/ACCN/C19801120554-REGL + +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-06-11): +# The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between +# Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11): +# Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not +# wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 - @@ -739,13 +795,10 @@ Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 - Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 - -# Whitman also gives 1949 Apr 9 to 1949 Oct 1, and disagrees in minor ways -# about many of the above dates; go with Shanks. # -# For 1894, Shanks says Jan, Whitman Apr; go with Whitman. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890 - 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Apr # Copenhagen Mean Time + 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Jan 1 # Copenhagen MT 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980 @@ -754,6 +807,11 @@ Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn 0:00 - WET 1981 0:00 EU WE%sT # +# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-31): +# During World War II, Germany maintained secret manned weather stations in +# East Greenland and Franz Josef Land, but we don't know their time zones. +# My source for this is Wilhelm Dege's book mentioned under Svalbard. +# # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): # Greenland joined the EU as part of Denmark, obtained home rule on 1979-05-01, # and left the EU on 1985-02-01. It therefore should have been using EU @@ -840,12 +898,12 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base -4:00 Thule A%sT # Estonia -# From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15): +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15): # A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards # [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it, # a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989.... # -# From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28): +# From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28): # [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s, # but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:] # ``I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different @@ -855,7 +913,7 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base # human physiology. It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to # summer time next spring.'' -# From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited: +# From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited: # # The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law # @@ -904,11 +962,11 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 # Finland # -# From Hannu Strang (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC): +# From Hannu Strang (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC): # Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one, # and it's supposed to change at 4am... # -# From Paul Eggert (25 Sep 1994): +# From Paul Eggert (25 Sep 1994): # Shanks says Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time since 1981. # Go with Strang instead. # @@ -985,7 +1043,7 @@ Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S # Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collognes (Haute-Savioe). Rule France 1941 only - May 5 0:00 2:00 M # Midsummer # Shanks says this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00, -# but go with Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr (1997-12-12), +# but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12), # who quotes the Ephemerides Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes # as saying 5/10/41 22hUT. Rule France 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1019,7 +1077,7 @@ Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 # Germany -# From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29): +# From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29): # The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische # Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916. # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.] @@ -1134,7 +1192,7 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # Iceland # -# From Adam David (1993-11-06): +# From Adam David (1993-11-06): # The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT. # # (1993-12-05): @@ -1161,7 +1219,7 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it # might mean something else (???). # -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # The Iceland Almanak, Shanks and Whitman disagree on many points. # We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks, namely that # Reykavik was 21W57 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that. @@ -1277,7 +1335,7 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # Latvia -# From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17): +# From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17): # I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy # of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the @@ -1364,7 +1422,7 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. -# From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07): +# From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07): # I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone # (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. @@ -1471,7 +1529,7 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta # on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree). # In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area # and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time. -# But moldavizolit@tirastel.md and mk@tirastel.md separately reported via +# But [two people] separately reported via # Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau. # The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now. @@ -1574,12 +1632,10 @@ Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 1:00 EU CE%sT # Norway +# http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Whitman gives 1916 May 21 - 1916 Oct 21; go with Shanks. Rule Norway 1916 only - May 22 1:00 1:00 S Rule Norway 1916 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - -# Whitman says DST observed 1935-08-11/1942-11-01, then 1943-03-29/10-04, -# 1944-04-03/10-02, and 1945-04-01/10-01; go with Shanks. Rule Norway 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S @@ -1633,7 +1689,7 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 # says that the Germans were # expelled on 1942-05-14. However, small parties of Germans did return, # and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954) -# +# # the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named # Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945. # @@ -1652,19 +1708,26 @@ Rule Poland 1944 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - # For 1944-1948 Whitman gives the previous day; go with Shanks. Rule Poland 1945 only - Apr 29 0:00 1:00 S Rule Poland 1945 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Poland 1946 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 - -Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Poland 1947 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 - -Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S -# Whitman also gives 1949 Apr 9 - 1949 Oct 1; go with Shanks. +# For 1946 on the source is Kazimierz Borkowski, +# Torun Center for Astronomy, Dept. of Radio Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus U., +# +# Thanks to Przemyslaw Augustyniak (2005-05-28) for this reference. +# He also gives these further references: +# Mon Pol nr 13, poz 162 (1995) +# Druk nr 2180 (2003) +Rule Poland 1946 only - Apr 14 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Poland 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1957 only - Jun 2 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - Rule Poland 1958 only - Mar 30 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1959 only - May 31 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1959 1961 - Oct Sun>=1 1:00s 0 - Rule Poland 1960 only - Apr 3 1:00s 1:00 S -Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May Sun>=25 1:00s 1:00 S +Rule Poland 1961 1964 - May lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S Rule Poland 1962 1964 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 @@ -1673,33 +1736,17 @@ Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 2:00 Poland EE%sT 1922 Jun 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1940 Jun 23 2:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct - 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 Apr 3 1:00 - 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1999 -# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) gives EU rules, but the _The Warsaw Voice_ -# -# http://www.warsawvoice.com/pl/v361/NewsInBrief.shtml (1995-09-24) -# -# says the autumn 1995 switch was at 02:00. -# Stick with W-Eur for now. -# -# From Marcin.Kasperski@softax.com.pl (1999-06-10): -# According to my colleagues someone recently decided, that Poland would -# follow European Union regulations, so - I think - the matter is not -# worth further discussion. -# -# From Paul Eggert (1999-06-10): -# Kasperski also writes that the government futzed with the rules in 1997 -# or 1998 but he doesn't remember the details. Assume they switched to -# EU rules in 1999. + 1:00 Poland CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 W-Eur CE%sT 1988 1:00 EU CE%sT # Portugal # -# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12): +# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12): # Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone # (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC. # -# Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve +# Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve # that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring. # The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter. # @@ -1829,25 +1876,25 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # Russia -# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12): # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations. # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991, # are from Andrey A. Chernov. The rest is from Shanks, except we follow # Chernov's report that 1992 DST transitions were Sat 23:00, not Sun 02:00s. # -# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): +# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski (1994-06-29): # But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow! # I do not know why they have decided to make this change; # as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching # so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch. # -# From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04): +# From Andrey A. Chernov (1996-10-04): # `MSK' and `MSD' were born and used initially on Moscow computers with # UNIX-like OSes by several developer groups (e.g. Demos group, Kiae group).... # The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor # (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there. # -# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-10-30): +# From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30): # According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from # Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ... # still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located. @@ -2035,7 +2082,7 @@ Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s -# Metod Kozelj reports that the legal date of +# Metod Kozelj reports that the legal date of # transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time. # Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj. 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 @@ -2309,7 +2356,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 2:00 - EET 1992 -# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12): # The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. # Shanks says ``date of change uncertain'', but implies that it happened @@ -2339,8 +2386,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # ... # Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100 -# From: seismo!mcvax!cgcha!wtho (Tom Hofmann) -# Message-Id: <8701281556.AA22174@cgcha.uucp> +# From: Tom Hofmann # ... # # ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when @@ -2359,11 +2405,11 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # # Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG, # 4002 Basle, Switzerland -# UUCP: ...!mcvax!cernvax!cgcha!wtho +# ... # ... # Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100 -# From: seismo!mcvax!cwi.nl!dik (Dik T. Winter) +# From: Dik T. Winter # ... # # The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct. @@ -2389,8 +2435,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # # ... # dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland -# INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl -# BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax +# ... # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ... diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds b/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds index 8832d0f..a107883 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds +++ b/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)leapseconds 7.17 +# @(#)leapseconds 7.20 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file. @@ -45,55 +45,48 @@ Leap 1997 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S Leap 2005 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -# -# -# -# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) -# +# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) +# # SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE -# +# # SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE -# OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS +# OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS # 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) # Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 # FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 -# e-mail : services.iers@obspm.fr +# ... # http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc -# -# Paris, 4 July 2005 -# -# Bulletin C 30 -# -# To authorities responsible -# for the measurement and -# distribution of time -# -# +# +# Paris, 4 July 2005 +# +# Bulletin C 30 +# +# To authorities responsible +# for the measurement and +# distribution of time +# +# # UTC TIME STEP # on the 1st of January 2006 -# -# -# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2005. -# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: -# -# 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 59s -# 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 60s -# 2006 January 1, 0h 0m 0s -# -# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: -# -# from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2006 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 32s -# from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 33s -# -# Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December -# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every -# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there -# will be no time step at the next possible date. -# -# -# -# Daniel GAMBIS -# Head -# Earth Orientation Center of IERS -# Observatoire de Paris, France -# +# +# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2005. +# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: +# +# 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 59s +# 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 60s +# 2006 January 1, 0h 0m 0s +# +# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: +# +# from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2006 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 32s +# from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 33s +# +# Leap seconds can be introduced in UtC at the end of the months of December +# or June, depending on the evolution of UT1-TAI. Bulletin C is mailed every +# six months, either to announce a time step in UTC or to confirm that there +# will be no time step at the next possible date. +# +# Daniel GAMBIS +# Head +# Earth Orientation Center of IERS +# Observatoire de Paris, France diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica index 19b635f..61f3f2a 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -# @(#)northamerica 7.70 +# @(#)northamerica 7.78 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). @@ -24,12 +24,16 @@ # 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 (1995-12-19): +# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): +# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. +# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). + +# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): # A good source for time zone historical data in the US is # Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). # Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. -# It is the source for the US and Puerto Rico entries below. +# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US and Puerto Rico entries below. # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): # Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin @@ -48,7 +52,8 @@ # to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make # them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. # -# -- Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947), XIX, Sunday +# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, +# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday # # For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see # Robert Garland's @@ -78,7 +83,7 @@ # Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." # (August 1945) by way of confirmation. -# From Joseph Gallant , citing +# From Joseph Gallant citing # George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): # At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set # to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people @@ -111,15 +116,14 @@ Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S -Rule US 1967 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -# -# H.R.177 -# (introduced 1999-01-06) would change April to March in the above rule. +Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. @@ -197,7 +201,26 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. # See the file "australasia". - + +# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 +# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. +# +# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. +# (a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 +# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- +# (1) by striking `first Sunday of April' and inserting `second +# Sunday of March'; and +# (2) by striking `last Sunday of October' and inserting `first +# Sunday of November'. +# (b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the +# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. +# (c) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the effective +# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress +# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United +# States. +# (d) Right to Revert- Congress retains the right to revert the +# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the +# Department study is complete. # US eastern time, represented by New York @@ -208,6 +231,13 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, # Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia +# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): +# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington +# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... +# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time +# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their +# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -215,7 +245,7 @@ Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 @@ -241,7 +271,7 @@ Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 @@ -250,7 +280,7 @@ Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 -6:00 US C%sT # Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. -Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 02:00 -6:00 US C%sT @@ -269,7 +299,7 @@ Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 @@ -289,7 +319,7 @@ Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 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] -Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 -8:00 US P%sT @@ -355,10 +385,26 @@ Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 -10:00 US HA%sT +# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. +# # Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) # switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, # and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. -# These switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. +# +# From David Flater (2004-11-09): +# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska +# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which +# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 +# possibly until 1983: +# +# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: +# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important +# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was +# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it +# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard +# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, +# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with +# three votes for and one against." # Hawaii # @@ -400,7 +446,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1900 Jan 1 12:00 # Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. # Go with the Arizona State Library instead. -Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 00:01 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 00:01 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 00:01 @@ -422,9 +468,9 @@ Link America/Denver America/Shiprock # Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, # Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties) and eastern Oregon # switched four weeks late in 1974. -# +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 @@ -457,18 +503,19 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # # Most of EST-only Indiana last observed DST in 1970. -# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06), following a tip by Markus Kuhn: -# Pam Belluck reported in the New York Times (2001-01-31) that the -# Indiana Legislature is considering a bill to adopt DST statewide. -# Her article mentioned Vevay, whose post office observes a different -# time zone from Danner's Hardware across the street. +# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): +# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006, +# and that many counties may switch either to Central or to Eastern time. +# The county-by-county decisions have not been made yet, so for now assume +# that no counties will switch: this assumption is most likely wrong, +# but it's the best we can do for now. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 @@ -477,8 +524,8 @@ Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 - -5:00 - EST -Link America/Indianapolis America/Indiana/Indianapolis + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # # Part of Crawford County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1975, # and left its clocks alone in 1974. @@ -488,14 +535,15 @@ Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # # Starke County, Indiana # From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): @@ -509,20 +557,22 @@ Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # # Switzerland County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1972. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. # This also includes a part of Indiana immediately adjacent to Louisville. @@ -535,7 +585,7 @@ Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 @@ -544,7 +594,6 @@ Zone America/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 -5:00 US E%sT -Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville # # Wayne, Clinton, and Russell Counties, Kentucky # @@ -572,7 +621,7 @@ Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville # Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158. # # -Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 -6:00 - CST 1968 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 @@ -681,7 +730,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST ################################################################################ -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the US is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). @@ -709,7 +758,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST # Canada -# From Alain LaBont (1994-11-14): +# From Alain LaBont (1994-11-14): # I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada # for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... # @@ -738,7 +787,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST # T: de Terre-Neuve # Y: du Yukon Yukon # -# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): # Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. # Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks. @@ -1123,7 +1172,7 @@ Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 # Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton # are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. -# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): +# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): # The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the # provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. # A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and @@ -1241,7 +1290,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. -# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: +# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: # * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, # c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid; # see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). @@ -1266,8 +1315,6 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, # and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when # Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. -# We'll ignore the claim about Coral Harbour for now, -# since we have no further info. # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): # On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, @@ -1342,6 +1389,23 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # more. # [Also see (2001-03-09).] +# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): +# According to maps at +# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SWE.jpg +# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SSE.jpg +# (both dated 2003), and +# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp +# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time +# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year +# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. +# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it +# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... +# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): +# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed +# daylight saving only during wartime. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S @@ -1365,6 +1429,9 @@ Zone America/Iqaluit -4:33:52 - LMT 1884 # Frobisher Bay before 1987 -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 +Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 - LMT 1884 + -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1946 + -5:00 - EST Zone America/Rankin_Inlet -6:08:40 - LMT 1884 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 @@ -1404,7 +1471,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # Shanks reports that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. # Shanks says the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. # Shanks reports no DST during summer 1931. -# Shanks reports a transition at 1032-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. +# Shanks reports a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. # Shanks does not report transitions for Baja in 1945 or 1948. # Shanks reports southern Mexico transitions on 1981-12-01, not 12-23. # Shanks says Quintana Roo switched to -6:00 on 1982-12-02, and to -5:00 @@ -1420,7 +1487,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # Shanks gives 1942-04-01 instead of 1942-04-24, and omits the 1981 # and 1988 DST experiments. Go with spin.com.mx. -# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): +# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): # A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree # outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. # @@ -1850,6 +1917,26 @@ Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 -6:00 Guat C%sT # Haiti +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): +# Risto O. Nykanen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. +# I searched for confirmation, and I found a +# press release +# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), +# . Translated from French, it says: +# +# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general +# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior +# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the +# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next +# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. +# +# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform +# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour +# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in +# October 2005. +# +# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" + # 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 @@ -1857,6 +1944,8 @@ Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S # Shanks says AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. Go with IATA. 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 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Haiti 2005 only - Oct lastSun 0:00 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 @@ -1908,11 +1997,39 @@ Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Olveston # Nicaragua seems to be back at -6:00 but I have not been able to find when # they changed from -5:00. # +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): +# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started +# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of +# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet +# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". +# Some background information is available on the President's official site: +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm +# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2005/Decreto%2023-2005%20Se%20adelanta%20en%20una%20hora%20en%20todo%20el%20territorio%20nacional%20apartir%20de%20las%2024horas%20del%2009%20de%20Abril.pdf +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): +# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's +# assume that it is daylight saving and that they'll switch back on the +# 3rd Sunday in September. +# +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): +# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at +# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html +# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last +# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 +# during the Arnoldo Aleman administration."... +# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously +# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time +# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to +# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S Rule Nic 1992 only - Jan 1 4:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1992 only - Sep 24 0:00 0 S +Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Nic 2005 only - Sep 18 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? @@ -1920,7 +2037,7 @@ Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1993 Jan 1 4:00 -5:00 - EST 1998 Dec - -6:00 - CST + -6:00 Nic C%sT # Panama # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/southamerica b/share/zoneinfo/southamerica index eacd182..9bf068b 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/southamerica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/southamerica @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)southamerica 7.55 +# @(#)southamerica 7.61 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert (1999-07-07): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-07-07): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1988-01-199): # ARGENTINA 3 H BEHIND UTC -# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): +# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table... # AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina. @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Rule Arg 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1988 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S # -# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): +# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A., # obtaining the data from the: # Talleres de Hidrografia Naval Argentina @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Rule Arg 1988 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1989 1993 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # -# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): +# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made. @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # Argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST. # So Buenos Aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times. # -# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre (2000-04-04): +# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre (2000-04-04): # The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando # de la Rua on March 2, 2000, because it would make people spend more energy # in the winter time, rather than less. The change took effect on March 3. @@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Jujuy -4:21:12 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART # -# Catamarca (CT) +# Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH) Zone America/Argentina/Catamarca -4:23:08 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec @@ -323,20 +323,6 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 - WART 2004 Sep 26 -3:00 - ART # -# Chubut (CH) -# The name "Comodoro Rivadavia" exceeds the 14-byte POSIX limit. -Zone America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia -4:30:00 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 - -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May - -4:00 - ART 1930 Dec - -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 - -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1991 Mar 3 - -4:00 - WART 1991 Oct 20 - -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 - -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 - -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 - -4:00 - WART 2004 Jun 20 - -3:00 - ART -# # Santa Cruz (SC) Zone America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos -4:36:52 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May # Cordoba Mean Time @@ -374,7 +360,7 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # Brazil -# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules # just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade. # The rule change lasted only part of the day; @@ -532,7 +518,7 @@ Rule Brazil 1996 only - Feb 11 0:00 0 - # adopted by same states, minus AL, SE. Rule Brazil 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 1997 only - Feb 16 0:00 0 - -# From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12): +# From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12): # In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that # because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS, # they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit. @@ -942,9 +928,16 @@ Rule Para 1998 2001 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # A decree was issued in Paraguay (no. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the # dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in # April. -Rule Para 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - -Rule Para 2002 max - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S - +Rule Para 2002 2004 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - +Rule Para 2002 2003 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-01-02): +# There are several sources that claim that Paraguay made +# a timezone rule change in autumn 2004. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05): +# Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05) +Rule Para 2004 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Para 2005 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890 @@ -957,7 +950,7 @@ Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890 # # # From Evelyn C. Leeper via Mark Brader (2003-10-26): -# When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over +# When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over # sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon. # # From Paul Eggert (2003-11-02): @@ -1003,7 +996,7 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 -4:00 - AST # Uruguay -# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules. # From Shanks: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -1056,8 +1049,12 @@ Rule Uruguay 1993 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 - # From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20): # The uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time.... # http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/decretos/2004091502.htm -Rule Uruguay 2004 only - Sep Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 - +Rule Uruguay 2004 only - Sep 19 0:00 1:00 S +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-03-11): +# Uruguay's DST was scheduled to end on Sunday, 2005-03-13, but in order to +# save energy ... it was postponed two weeks.... +# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/noticias/2005/03/2005031005.htm +Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Mar 27 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28 -3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab b/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab index 34e940b..57dadf0 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab +++ b/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -# @(#)zone.tab 1.30 +# @(#)zone.tab 1.32 # # TZ zone descriptions # -# From Paul Eggert (1996-08-05): +# From Paul Eggert (1996-08-05): # # This file contains a table with the following columns: # 1. ISO 3166 2-character country code. See /usr/share/misc/iso3166. @@ -45,17 +45,17 @@ AR -3436-05827 America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires Buenos Aires (BA, CF) AR -3124-06411 America/Argentina/Cordoba most locations (CB, CC, CN, ER, FM, LP, MN, NQ, RN, SA, SE, SF, SL) AR -2411-06518 America/Argentina/Jujuy Jujuy (JY) AR -3124-06411 America/Argentina/Tucuman Tucuman (TM) -AR -2828-06547 America/Argentina/Catamarca Catamarca (CT) +AR -2828-06547 America/Argentina/Catamarca Catamarca (CT), Chubut (CH) AR -2926-06651 America/Argentina/La_Rioja La Rioja (LR) AR -3132-06831 America/Argentina/San_Juan San Juan (SJ) AR -3253-06849 America/Argentina/Mendoza Mendoza (MZ) -AR -4552-06730 America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia Chubut (CH) AR -5138-06913 America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos Santa Cruz (SC) AR -5448-06818 America/Argentina/Ushuaia Tierra del Fuego (TF) AS -1416-17042 Pacific/Pago_Pago AT +4813+01620 Europe/Vienna AU -3133+15905 Australia/Lord_Howe Lord Howe Island -AU -4253+14719 Australia/Hobart Tasmania +AU -4253+14719 Australia/Hobart Tasmania - most locations +AU -3956+14352 Australia/Currie Tasmania - King Island AU -3749+14458 Australia/Melbourne Victoria AU -3352+15113 Australia/Sydney New South Wales - most locations AU -3157+14127 Australia/Broken_Hill New South Wales - Yancowinna @@ -107,9 +107,10 @@ CA +4531-07334 America/Montreal Eastern Time - Quebec - most locations CA +4339-07923 America/Toronto Eastern Time - Ontario - most locations CA +4901-08816 America/Nipigon Eastern Time - Ontario & Quebec - places that did not observe DST 1967-1973 CA +4823-08915 America/Thunder_Bay Eastern Time - Thunder Bay, Ontario -CA +6608-06544 America/Pangnirtung Eastern Standard Time - Pangnirtung, Nunavut -CA +6344-06828 America/Iqaluit Eastern Standard Time - east Nunavut -CA +6245-09210 America/Rankin_Inlet Eastern Standard Time - central Nunavut +CA +6608-06544 America/Pangnirtung Eastern Time - Pangnirtung, Nunavut +CA +6344-06828 America/Iqaluit Eastern Time - east Nunavut +CA +6408-08310 America/Coral_Harbour Eastern Standard Time - Southampton Island +CA +6245-09210 America/Rankin_Inlet Central Time - central Nunavut CA +4953-09709 America/Winnipeg Central Time - Manitoba & west Ontario CA +4843-09429 America/Rainy_River Central Time - Rainy River & Fort Frances, Ontario CA +6903-10505 America/Cambridge_Bay Central Time - west Nunavut @@ -165,15 +166,13 @@ ET +0902+03842 Africa/Addis_Ababa FI +6010+02458 Europe/Helsinki FJ -1808+17825 Pacific/Fiji FK -5142-05751 Atlantic/Stanley -FM +0931+13808 Pacific/Yap Yap -FM +0725+15147 Pacific/Truk Truk (Chuuk) +FM +0725+15147 Pacific/Truk Truk (Chuuk) and Yap FM +0658+15813 Pacific/Ponape Ponape (Pohnpei) FM +0519+16259 Pacific/Kosrae Kosrae FO +6201-00646 Atlantic/Faeroe FR +4852+00220 Europe/Paris GA +0023+00927 Africa/Libreville -GB +512830-0001845 Europe/London Great Britain -GB +5435-00555 Europe/Belfast Northern Ireland +GB +512830-0001845 Europe/London GD +1203-06145 America/Grenada GE +4143+04449 Asia/Tbilisi GF +0456-05220 America/Cayenne @@ -248,8 +247,7 @@ MG -1855+04731 Indian/Antananarivo MH +0709+17112 Pacific/Majuro most locations MH +0905+16720 Pacific/Kwajalein Kwajalein MK +4159+02126 Europe/Skopje -ML +1239-00800 Africa/Bamako southwest Mali -ML +1446-00301 Africa/Timbuktu northeast Mali +ML +1239-00800 Africa/Bamako MM +1647+09610 Asia/Rangoon MN +4755+10653 Asia/Ulaanbaatar most locations MN +4801+09139 Asia/Hovd Bayan-Olgiy, Govi-Altai, Hovd, Uvs, Zavkhan @@ -370,9 +368,9 @@ UM +2813-17722 Pacific/Midway Midway Islands UM +1917+16637 Pacific/Wake Wake Island US +404251-0740023 America/New_York Eastern Time US +421953-0830245 America/Detroit Eastern Time - Michigan - most locations -US +381515-0854534 America/Louisville Eastern Time - Kentucky - Louisville area +US +381515-0854534 America/Kentucky/Louisville Eastern Time - Kentucky - Louisville area US +364947-0845057 America/Kentucky/Monticello Eastern Time - Kentucky - Wayne County -US +394606-0860929 America/Indianapolis Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - most locations +US +394606-0860929 America/Indiana/Indianapolis Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - most locations US +382232-0862041 America/Indiana/Marengo Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Crawford County US +411745-0863730 America/Indiana/Knox Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Starke County US +384452-0850402 America/Indiana/Vevay Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Switzerland County -- cgit v1.1