From 8b648aad4d43d0e5cc2b23a3c8f7dfcb62f03ba8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Garrett Wollman Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 19:00:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated timezone database from Arthur Olson. PR: conf/31851 --- share/zoneinfo/africa | 24 ++- share/zoneinfo/antarctica | 21 ++- share/zoneinfo/asia | 103 ++++++++---- share/zoneinfo/australasia | 121 +++++++++++++- share/zoneinfo/backward | 9 +- share/zoneinfo/europe | 322 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- share/zoneinfo/leapseconds | 31 +++- share/zoneinfo/northamerica | 94 +++++++---- share/zoneinfo/southamerica | 91 +++++++--- share/zoneinfo/zone.tab | 33 ++-- 10 files changed, 684 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/africa b/share/zoneinfo/africa index 61258bff697e..e8223f78f56d 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/africa +++ b/share/zoneinfo/africa @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)africa 7.34 +# @(#)africa 7.36 # 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 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). # -# Gwillim Law writes that a good source +# Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ # I invented the following abbreviations; corrections are welcome! # 2:00 WAST West Africa Summer Time # 2:30 BEAT British East Africa Time (no longer used) -# 2:45 BEAUT British East Africa Unified Time (no longer used) +# 2:44:45 BEAUT British East Africa Unified Time (no longer used) # 3:00 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used) # 3:00 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used) # 3:00 EAT East Africa Time @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ Zone Africa/Algiers 0:12:12 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 # Angola # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892 - 0:52:04 - LMT 1911 May 26 # Luanda Mean Time? + 0:52:04 - AOT 1911 May 26 # Angola Time 1:00 - WAT # Benin @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1911 May 26 Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul 3:00 - EAT 1930 2:30 - BEAT 1940 - 2:45 - BEAUT 1960 + 2:44:45 - BEAUT 1960 3:00 - EAT # Lesotho @@ -287,9 +287,9 @@ Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar 2:00 - SAST # Liberia -# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): +# 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 minutes. +# 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. # Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks. # For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman @@ -481,6 +481,12 @@ Zone Africa/Dakar -1:09:44 - LMT 1912 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria 4:00 - SCT # Seychelles Time +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): +# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the +# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory +# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know +# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now. +# Possibly the islands were uninhabited. # Sierra Leone # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -542,7 +548,7 @@ Zone Africa/Mbabane 2:04:24 - LMT 1903 Mar # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931 3:00 - EAT 1948 - 2:45 - BEAUT 1961 + 2:44:45 - BEAUT 1961 3:00 - EAT # Togo @@ -585,7 +591,7 @@ Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12 Zone Africa/Kampala 2:09:40 - LMT 1928 Jul 3:00 - EAT 1930 2:30 - BEAT 1948 - 2:45 - BEAUT 1957 + 2:44:45 - BEAUT 1957 3:00 - EAT # Zambia diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/antarctica b/share/zoneinfo/antarctica index c98e528c1e4b..6f87e9f7d52c 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/antarctica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/antarctica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)antarctica 7.21 +# @(#)antarctica 7.22 # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - Rule ArgAQ 1974 1976 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 S Rule ArgAQ 1975 1977 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 - -Rule ChileAQ 1969 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S -Rule ChileAQ 1970 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1966 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1967 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 - Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 0:00 1:00 S Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 0:00 0 - Rule ChileAQ 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S @@ -92,11 +92,13 @@ Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 # Brazil - year-round base # Ferraz, King George Island, since 1983/4 -# Chile - year-round bases +# Chile - year-round bases and towns # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 -# Frei, King George Is, -6214-05848, since 1969 +# Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 # O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 # Prat, -6230-05941 +# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), King George Island, since 1984-04-09 +# These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. # China - year-round bases # Great Wall, King George Island, since 1985-02-20 @@ -219,6 +221,15 @@ Rule NZAQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S # of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The # natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT.'' # +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): +# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it +# in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local +# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this +# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean +# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks +# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time +# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6. +# Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/asia b/share/zoneinfo/asia index 2d7520aeb45c..0d58ca96e8e1 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/asia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.63 +# @(#)asia 7.65 # 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 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). # -# Gwillim Law writes that a good source +# Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries @@ -37,8 +37,11 @@ # 4:00 GST Gulf* # 5:30 IST India # 7:00 ICT Indochina* +# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia +# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia # 8:00 CST China # 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* +# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia # 9:00 JST Japan # 9:00 KST Korea # 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time @@ -131,9 +134,11 @@ Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time # British Indian Ocean Territory -# From Whitman: +# 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. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT # BIOT Time +Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time + 6:00 - IOT # Brunei # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -205,7 +210,7 @@ Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 8:00 PRC C%sT -Zone Asia/Chungking 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chongqing +Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking 7:00 - CHUT 1980 May # Chungking Time 8:00 PRC C%sT Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi @@ -258,7 +263,7 @@ Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 +Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei 8:00 Taiwan C%sT # Macao (Macau, Aomen) @@ -357,7 +362,7 @@ Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3 - 8:00 - TPT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 + 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 9:00 - TPT # India @@ -374,27 +379,43 @@ Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Nicobar Is # Indonesia +# +# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks: +# +# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some +# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat +# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10 # Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13, # but this must be a typo. 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time - 7:30 - JAVT 1942 Mar 23 + 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 7:30 - JAVT 1948 May - 8:00 - JAVT 1950 May - 7:30 - JAVT 1964 - 7:00 - JAVT + 7:30 - WIT 1948 May + 8:00 - WIT 1950 May + 7:30 - WIT 1964 + 7:00 - WIT +Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May + 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT + 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29 + 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug + 7:30 - WIT 1948 May + 8:00 - WIT 1950 May + 7:30 - WIT 1964 + 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1 + 7:00 - WIT Zone Asia/Ujung_Pandang 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT - 8:00 - BORT 1942 Feb 9 # Borneo Time + 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 8:00 - BORT + 8:00 - CIT Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov - 9:00 - JAYT 1944 # Jayapura Time + 9:00 - EIT 1944 9:30 - CST 1964 - 9:00 - JAYT + 9:00 - EIT # Iran # From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales: @@ -911,9 +932,11 @@ Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880 # Malaysia # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS +Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 - +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# peninsular Malaysia Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time @@ -922,6 +945,7 @@ Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880 7:20 - MALT 1950 7:30 - MALT 1982 May 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time +# Sabah & Sarawak Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 @@ -960,38 +984,51 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij. # From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15): -# For now, we'll comment out the east zone (Choybalsan) -# and use Shanks's and the IATA's data for the daylight-saving rules. # Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia. # We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone; # the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us, # and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd # is good enough for our purposes. +# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13): +# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier +# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28), +# there are three time zones. +# +# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai +# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov, +# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi +# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar +# +# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - -Rule Mongol 1991 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Mongol 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - -# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25; go with Shanks. -Rule Mongol 1996 only - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - -Rule Mongol 1997 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists +# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00. +# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998. +Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - # IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. +Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr 27 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Mongol 2001 only - Sep 28 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT +# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT -# We're not sure about this entry yet, so we'll omit it for now. -#Zone Asia/Choybalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug -# 8:00 - CHOT 1978 # Choybalsan Time -# 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT 19?? -# 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT +# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan, +# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan +Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug + 7:00 - ULAT 1978 + 8:00 - ULAT 1983 Apr + 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT # Choibalsan Time # Nepal # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/australasia b/share/zoneinfo/australasia index fe01a3e15c9b..c30ea37503b1 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/australasia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.64 +# @(#)australasia 7.65 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ # Australia +# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Aus 1917 only - Jan 1 0:01 1:00 - Rule Aus 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 0 - @@ -359,7 +361,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror # Papua New Guinea # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 - 9:48:40 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time + 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time # Pitcairn @@ -399,6 +401,8 @@ Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - Rule Tonga 2000 only - Nov 4 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2001 only - Jan 27 2:00s 0 - +Rule Tonga 2001 only - Nov 25 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Tonga 2002 only - Mar 3 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time @@ -473,7 +477,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). # -# Gwillim Law writes that a good source +# Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries @@ -535,12 +539,93 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times; # time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC. -# From Arthur David Olson (March 8 1992): +# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): # Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is: # CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30 # WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00 # EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00 +# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-05), summarizing a long discussion about "EST" +# versus "AEST" etc.: +# +# I see the following points of dispute: +# +# * How important are unique time zone abbreviations? +# +# Here I tend to agree with the point (most recently made by Chris +# Newman) that unique abbreviations should not be essential for proper +# operation of software. We have other instances of ambiguity +# (e.g. "IST" denoting both "Israel Standard Time" and "Indian +# Standard Time"), and they are not likely to go away any time soon. +# In the old days, some software mistakenly relied on unique +# abbreviations, but this is becoming less true with time, and I don't +# think it's that important to cater to such software these days. +# +# On the other hand, there is another motivation for unambiguous +# abbreviations: it cuts down on human confusion. This is +# particularly true for Australia, where "EST" can mean one thing for +# time T and a different thing for time T plus 1 second. +# +# * Does the relevant legislation indicate which abbreviations should be used? +# +# Here I tend to think that things are a mess, just as they are in +# many other countries. We Americans are currently disagreeing about +# which abbreviation to use for the newly legislated Chamorro Standard +# Time, for example. +# +# Personally, I would prefer to use common practice; I would like to +# refer to legislation only for examples of common practice, or as a +# tiebreaker. +# +# * Do Australians more often use "Eastern Daylight Time" or "Eastern +# Summer Time"? Do they typically prefix the time zone names with +# the word "Australian"? +# +# My own impression is that both "Daylight Time" and "Summer Time" are +# common and are widely understood, but that "Summer Time" is more +# popular; and that the leading "A" is also common but is omitted more +# often than not. I just used AltaVista advanced search and got the +# following count of page hits: +# +# 1,103 "Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au +# 971 "Australian Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au +# 613 "Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au +# 127 "Australian Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au +# +# Here "Summer" seems quite a bit more popular than "Daylight", +# particularly when we know the time zone is Australian and not US, +# say. The "Australian" prefix seems to be popular for Eastern Summer +# Time, but unpopular for Eastern Daylight Time. +# +# For abbreviations, tools like AltaVista are less useful because of +# ambiguity. Many hits are not really time zones, unfortunately, and +# many hits denote US time zones and not Australian ones. But here +# are the hit counts anyway: +# +# 161,304 "EST" and domain:au +# 25,156 "EDT" and domain:au +# 18,263 "AEST" and domain:au +# 10,416 "AEDT" and domain:au +# +# 14,538 "CST" and domain:au +# 5,728 "CDT" and domain:au +# 176 "ACST" and domain:au +# 29 "ACDT" and domain:au +# +# 7,539 "WST" and domain:au +# 68 "AWST" and domain:au +# +# This data suggest that Australians tend to omit the "A" prefix in +# practice. The situation for "ST" versus "DT" is less clear, given +# the ambiguities involved. +# +# * How do Australians feel about the abbreviations in the tz database? +# +# If you just count Australians on this list, I count 2 in favor and 3 +# against. One of the "against" votes (David Keegel) counseled delay, +# saying that both AEST/AEDT and EST/EST are widely used and +# understood in Australia. + # 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 @@ -756,6 +841,28 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] # # [ Nov 1990 ] +# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29): +# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an +# interesting story about daylight savings time. Dr. John Heilbron was +# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar +# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located +# in Melbourne, Australia. +# +# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which +# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day +# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's +# fallen WWI soldiers. And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time, +# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the +# expected time. +# +# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had +# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of +# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?). Perhaps +# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more. +# +# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html +# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au + # New South Wales # From Arthur David Olson: @@ -1120,6 +1227,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): # Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27. +# From Rives McDow (2001-07-17): +# The Kingdom of Tonga will move to DST at 0200 local time on Sunday, +# November 25, 2001 and revert back to standard time at 0300 local +# time on Sunday, March 3, 2002. + + ############################################################################### # The International Date Line diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/backward b/share/zoneinfo/backward index 0bfa8724f4b9..45ade4dd3dea 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/backward +++ b/share/zoneinfo/backward @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)backward 7.20 +# @(#)backward 7.21 # This file provides links between current names for time zones # and their old names. Many names changed in late 1993. @@ -9,8 +9,9 @@ Link America/Indianapolis America/Fort_Wayne Link America/Indiana/Knox America/Knox_IN Link America/Rio_Branco America/Porto_Acre Link America/St_Thomas America/Virgin -Link Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dacca Link Asia/Ashgabat Asia/Ashkhabad +Link Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking +Link Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dacca Link Asia/Jerusalem Asia/Tel_Aviv Link Asia/Thimphu Asia/Thimbu Link Asia/Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulan_Bator @@ -43,9 +44,9 @@ Link Pacific/Easter Chile/EasterIsland Link America/Havana Cuba Link Africa/Cairo Egypt Link Europe/Dublin Eire +Link Europe/Chisinau Europe/Tiraspol Link Europe/London GB Link Europe/London GB-Eire -Link Europe/Chisinau Europe/Tiraspol Link Etc/GMT+0 GMT+0 Link Etc/GMT-0 GMT-0 Link Etc/GMT0 GMT0 @@ -65,9 +66,9 @@ Link America/Denver Navajo Link Pacific/Auckland NZ Link Pacific/Chatham NZ-CHAT Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Samoa -Link Asia/Shanghai PRC Link Europe/Warsaw Poland Link Europe/Lisbon Portugal +Link Asia/Shanghai PRC Link Asia/Taipei ROC Link Asia/Seoul ROK Link Asia/Singapore Singapore diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/europe b/share/zoneinfo/europe index 43b4af392a6b..b87e31526de4 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/europe +++ b/share/zoneinfo/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.78 +# @(#)europe 7.80 # 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 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). # -# Gwillim Law writes that a good source +# Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries @@ -41,7 +41,10 @@ # 0:00 GMT BST Greenwich, British Summer # 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer # 0:00 WET WEST Western Europe +# 0:19:32 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)* +# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)* # 1:00 CET CEST Central Europe +# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)* # 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe # 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow # @@ -203,7 +206,7 @@ # (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976) # . -# From Paul Eggert (2000-02-17): +# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-18): # # For lack of other data, we'll follow Shanks for Eire in 1940-1948. # @@ -231,6 +234,12 @@ # # # Whitman says Dublin Mean Time was -0:25:21, which is more precise than Shanks. +# Perhaps this was Dunsink Observatory Time, as Dunsink Observatory +# (8 km NW of Dublin's center) seemingly was to Dublin as Greenwich was +# to London. For example: +# +# "Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time." +# -- James Joyce, Ulysses # From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28): # Clive Feather (, 1997-03-31) @@ -371,14 +380,14 @@ Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 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 MT + -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 -0:25:21 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 - -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin MT +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 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1921 Dec 6 # independence 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1940 Feb 25 2:00 @@ -725,12 +734,36 @@ Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn # used C-Eur rules after 1980, but IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says they use EU # rules since at least 1991. Assume EU rules since 1980. +# From Gwillin Law (2001-06-06), citing +# (2001-03-15), +# and with translations corrected by Steffen Thorsen: +# +# Greenland has four local times, and the relation to UTC +# is according to the following time line: +# +# The military zone near Thule UTC-4 +# Standard Greenland time UTC-3 +# Scoresbysund UTC-1 +# Danmarkshavn UTC +# +# In the military area near Thule and in Danmarkshavn DST will not be +# introduced. + +# From Paul Eggert (2001-09-29): +# The 1997 CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT; the 1995 map as like Godthab. +# For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthab before 1996. +# The 2000 IATA shows Thule as observing DST, so assume they stopped in 2001. + # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Thule 1993 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Thule 1993 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Thule 1993 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Thule 1993 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 + -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 + -3:00 EU WG%sT 1996 + 0:00 - GMT Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit -2:00 - CGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 -2:00 C-Eur CG%sT 1981 Mar 29 @@ -1078,7 +1111,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:27:24 - LMT 1837 # # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): # Sicily and Sardinia each had their own time zones from 1866 to 1893, -# called ``Palermo Time'' (+0053) and ``Cagliari Time'' (+0038). +# called Palermo Time (+00:53:28) and Cagliari Time (+00:36:32). # During World War II, German-controlled Italy used German time. # But these events all occurred before the 1970 cutoff, # so record only the time in Rome. @@ -1371,22 +1404,59 @@ Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 1:00 EU CE%sT # Netherlands + # Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940, # but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time. -# The data before 1945 is taken from + +# However, Robert H. van Gent writes (2001-04-01): +# Howse's statement is only correct up to 1909. From 1909-05-01 (00:00:00 +# Amsterdam mean time) onwards, the whole of the Netherlands (including +# the Dutch railways) was required by law to observe Amsterdam mean time +# (19 minutes 32.13 seconds ahead of GMT). This had already been the +# common practice (except for the railways) for many decades but it was +# not until 1909 when the Dutch government finally defined this by law. +# On 1937-07-01 this was changed to 20 minutes (exactly) ahead of GMT and +# was generally known as Dutch Time ("Nederlandse Tijd"). +# +# (2001-04-08): +# 1892-05-01 was the date when the Dutch railways were by law required to +# observe GMT while the remainder of the Netherlands adhered to the common +# practice of following Amsterdam mean time. +# +# (2001-04-09): +# In 1835 the authorities of the province of North Holland requested the +# municipal authorities of the towns and cities in the province to observe +# Amsterdam mean time but I do not know in how many cases this request was +# actually followed. +# +# From 1852 onwards the Dutch telegraph offices were by law required to +# observe Amsterdam mean time. As the time signals from the observatory of +# Leiden were also distributed by the telegraph system, I assume that most +# places linked up with the telegraph (and railway) system automatically +# adopted Amsterdam mean time. +# +# Although the early Dutch railway companies initially observed a variety +# of times, most of them had adopted Amsterdam mean time by 1858 but it +# was not until 1866 when they were all required by law to observe +# Amsterdam mean time. + +# The data before 1945 are taken from # . + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time Rule Neth 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 AMT # Amsterdam Mean Time Rule Neth 1917 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 AMT Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST -Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep lastMon 2:00s 0 AMT Rule Neth 1922 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1922 1936 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 AMT Rule Neth 1923 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1924 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1925 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +# From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week +# in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend. Rule Neth 1926 1931 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1932 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST Rule Neth 1933 1936 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST @@ -1396,10 +1466,13 @@ Rule Neth 1937 1939 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 - Rule Neth 1938 1939 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Neth 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - +# +# Amsterdam Mean Time was +00:19:32.13 exactly, but the .13 is omitted +# below because the current format requires GMTOFF to be an integer. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:28 - LMT 1892 May - 0:19:28 Neth %s 1937 Jul - 0:20 Neth NE%sT 1940 May 17 0:00 +Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 + 0:19:32 Neth %s 1937 Jul 1 + 0:20 Neth NE%sT 1940 May 16 0:00 # Dutch Time 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Neth CE%sT 1977 1:00 EU CE%sT @@ -1417,17 +1490,62 @@ Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Norway 1959 1965 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - Rule Norway 1965 only - Apr 25 2:00s 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 +Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1940 Aug 10 23:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT # Svalbard & Jan Mayen + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2001-05-01): +# Although I could not find it explicitly, it seems that Jan Mayen and +# Svalbard have been using the same time as Norway at least since the +# time they were declared as parts of Norway. Svalbard was declared +# as a part of Norway by law of 1925-07-17 no 11, section 4 and Jan +# Mayen by law of 1930-02-27 no 2, section 2. (From +# http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19250717-011.html and +# http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-19300227-002.html). The law/regulation +# for normal/standard time in Norway is from 1894-06-29 no 1 (came +# into operation on 1895-01-01) and Svalbard/Jan Mayen seem to be a +# part of this law since 1925/1930. (From +# http://www.lovdata.no/all/nl-18940629-001.html ) I have not been +# able to find if Jan Mayen used a different time zone (e.g. -0100) +# before 1930. Jan Mayen has only been "inhabitated" since 1921 by +# Norwegian meteorologists and maybe used the same time as Norway ever +# since 1921. Svalbard (Arctic/Longyearbyen) has been inhabited since +# before 1895, and therefore probably changed the local time somewhere +# between 1895 and 1925 (inclusive). + +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-01): +# +# Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II, +# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Olso was +# keeping Berlin time. +# +# says that the meteorologists +# burned down their station in 1940 and left the island, but returned in +# 1941 with a small Norwegian garrison and continued operations despite +# frequent air ttacks from Germans. In 1943 the Americans established a +# radiolocating station on the island, called "Atlantic City". Possibly +# the UTC offset changed during the war, but I think it unlikely that +# Jan Mayen used German daylight-saving rules. +# +# Svalbard is more complicated, as it was raided in August 1941 by an +# Allied party that evacuated the civilian population to England (says +# ). The Svalbard FAQ +# 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. +# +# All these events predate our cutoff date of 1970. Unless we can +# come up with more definitive info about the timekeeping during the +# war years it's probably best just do do the following for now: Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen -# From Whitman: -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Atlantic/Jan_Mayen -1:00 - EGT +Link Europe/Oslo Atlantic/Jan_Mayen # Poland # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -1571,14 +1689,14 @@ Zone Europe/Lisbon -0:36:32 - LMT 1884 1:00 EU CE%sT 1996 Mar 31 1:00u 0:00 EU WE%sT Zone Atlantic/Azores -1:42:40 - LMT 1884 # Ponta Delgada - -1:55 - HMT 1911 May 24 # Horta Mean Time + -1:54:32 - HMT 1911 May 24 # Horta Mean Time -2:00 Port AZO%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 # Azores Time -1:00 Port AZO%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s -1:00 W-Eur AZO%sT 1992 Sep 27 1:00s 0:00 EU WE%sT 1993 Mar 28 1:00u -1:00 EU AZO%sT Zone Atlantic/Madeira -1:07:36 - LMT 1884 # Funchal - -1:08 - FMT 1911 May 24 # Funchal Mean Time + -1:07:36 - FMT 1911 May 24 # Funchal Mean Time -1:00 Port MAD%sT 1966 Apr 3 2:00 # Madeira Time 0:00 Port WE%sT 1983 Sep 25 1:00s 0:00 EU WE%sT @@ -1619,6 +1737,12 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # 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): +# 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): # `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).... @@ -1637,12 +1761,44 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # the rest of Russia for two weeks--even soldiers stationed here began # enforcing curfew at the wrong time. # +# From Gwillim Law (2001-06-05): +# There's considerable evidence that Sakhalin Island used to be in +# UTC+11, and has changed to UTC+10, in this decade. I start with the +# SSIM, which listed Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in zone RU10 along with Magadan +# until February 1997, and then in RU9 with Khabarovsk and Vladivostok +# since September 1997.... Although the Kuril Islands are +# administratively part of Sakhalin oblast', they appear to have +# remained on UTC+11 along with Magadan. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr +# +# Kaliningradskaya oblast'. +Zone Europe/Kaliningrad 1:22:00 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 2:00 Poland CE%sT 1946 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Respublika Adygeya, Arkhangel'skaya oblast', Astrakhanskaya oblast', +# Belgorodskaya oblast', Bryanskaya oblast', Vladimirskaya oblast', +# Volgogradskaya oblast', Vologodskaya oblast', Voronezhskaya oblast', +# Respublika Dagestan, Ivanovskaya oblast', Respublika Ingushetiya, +# Kabarbino-Balkarskaya Respublika, Respublika Kalmykiya, +# Kalyzhskaya oblast', Respublika Karachaevo-Cherkessiya, +# Respublika Kareliya, Kirovskaya oblast', Respublika Komi, +# Kostromskaya oblast', Krasnodarskij kraj, Kurskaya oblast', +# Leningradskaya oblast', Lipetskaya oblast', Respublika Marij El, +# Respublika Mordoviya, Moskva, Moskovskaya oblast', +# Murmanskaya oblast', Nenetskij avtonomnyj okrug, +# Nizhegorodskaya oblast', Novgorodskaya oblast', Orlovskaya oblast', +# Penzenskaya oblast', Pskovskaya oblast', Rostovskaya oblast', +# Ryazanskaya oblast', Sankt-Peterburg, Saratovskaya oblast', +# Respublika Severnaya Osetiya, Smolenskaya oblast', +# Stavropol'skij kraj, Tambovskaya oblast', Respublika Tatarstan, +# Tverskaya oblast', Tyl'skaya oblast', Ul'yanovskaya oblast', +# Chechenskaya Respublika, Chuvashskaya oblast', +# Yaroslavskaya oblast' Zone Europe/Moscow 2:30:20 - LMT 1880 2:30 - MMT 1916 Jul 3 # Moscow Mean Time 2:30:48 Russia %s 1919 Jul 1 2:00 @@ -1651,6 +1807,9 @@ Zone Europe/Moscow 2:30:20 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Samarskaya oblast', Udmyrtskaya respublika Zone Europe/Samara 3:20:36 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 3:00 - KUYT 1930 Jun 21 # Kuybyshev 4:00 Russia KUY%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00s @@ -1658,59 +1817,115 @@ Zone Europe/Samara 3:20:36 - LMT 1919 Jul 1 2:00 2:00 Russia KUY%sT 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 3:00 - KUYT 1991 Oct 20 3:00 4:00 Russia SAM%sT # Samara Time +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Respublika Bashkortostan, Komi-Permyatskij avtonomnyj okrug, +# Kurganskaya oblast', Orenburgskaya oblast', Permskaya oblast', +# Sverdlovskaya oblast', Tyumenskaya oblast', +# Khanty-Manskijskij avtonomnyj okrug, Chelyabinskaya oblast', +# Yamalo-Nenetskij avtonomnyj okrug. Zone Asia/Yekaterinburg 4:02:24 - LMT 1919 Jul 15 4:00 4:00 - SVET 1930 Jun 21 # Sverdlovsk Time 5:00 Russia SVE%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 4:00 Russia SVE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 5:00 Russia YEK%sT # Yekaterinburg Time +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Respublika Altaj, Altajskij kraj, Omskaya oblast'. Zone Asia/Omsk 4:53:36 - LMT 1919 Nov 14 5:00 - OMST 1930 Jun 21 # Omsk TIme 6:00 Russia OMS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 5:00 Russia OMS%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 6:00 Russia OMS%sT -# 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. +# +# Novosibirskaya oblast'. Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00 6:00 - NOVT 1930 Jun 21 # Novosibirsk Time 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 6:00 Russia NOV%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 7:00 Russia NOV%sT 1993 May 23 # says Shanks 6:00 Russia NOV%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Kemerovskaya oblast', Krasnoyarskij kraj, +# Tajmyrskij (Dolgano-Nenetskij) avtonomnyj okrug, Tomskaya oblast', +# Respublika Tuva, Respublika Khakasiya, Evenkijskij avtonomnyj okrug. Zone Asia/Krasnoyarsk 6:11:20 - LMT 1920 Jan 6 6:00 - KRAT 1930 Jun 21 # Krasnoyarsk Time 7:00 Russia KRA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 6:00 Russia KRA%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 7:00 Russia KRA%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Respublika Buryatiya, Irkutskaya oblast', +# Ust'-Ordynskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug. Zone Asia/Irkutsk 6:57:20 - LMT 1880 6:57:20 - IMT 1920 Jan 25 # Irkutsk Mean Time 7:00 - IRKT 1930 Jun 21 # Irkutsk Time 8:00 Russia IRK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 7:00 Russia IRK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 8:00 Russia IRK%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Aginskij Buryatskij avtonomnyj okrug, Amurskaya oblast', +# [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya), Chitinskaya oblast'. +# +# From Alan Pritchard (2001-08-24): [The Sakha districts are:] +# Aldansky, Amginsky, Anabarsky, Bulunsky, Churapchinsky, +# Eveno-Bytantaisky, Gorny, Khangalassky, Kobyaisky, Lensky, +# Megino-Kangalassky, Mirninsky, Namsky, Nyurbinsky, Olenyoksky, +# Olyokminsky, Srednekolymsky, Suntarsky, Tattinsky, Ust-Aldansky, +# Verkhnekolymsky, Verkhnevilyuisky, Vilyuisky, Zhigansky. Zone Asia/Yakutsk 8:38:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 8:00 - YAKT 1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time 9:00 Russia YAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 8:00 Russia YAK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 9:00 Russia YAK%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Evrejskaya avtonomnaya oblast', Khabarovskij kraj, Primorskij kraj, +# [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya). +# +# From Alan Pritchard (2001-08-24): [The Sakha districts are:] +# Tomponsky, Ust-Maisky, Ust-Yansky, Verkhoyansky. Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:44 - LMT 1922 Nov 15 9:00 - VLAT 1930 Jun 21 # Vladivostok Time 10:00 Russia VLA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 9:00 Russia VLA%sST 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 10:00 Russia VLA%sT +# +# Sakhalinskaya oblast'. +# The Zone name should be Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long. +Zone Asia/Sakhalin 9:30:48 - LMT 1905 Aug 23 + 9:00 - CJT 1938 + 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 25 + 11:00 Russia SAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s # Sakhalin T. + 10:00 Russia SAK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 11:00 Russia SAK%sT 1997 Mar lastSun 2:00s + 10:00 Russia SAK%sT +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Magadanskaya oblast', Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya). +# +# From Alan Pritchard (2001-08-24): [The Sakha districts are:] +# Abyisky, Allaikhovsky, Momsky, Nizhnekolymsky, Oimyakonsky. Zone Asia/Magadan 10:03:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 10:00 - MAGT 1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time 11:00 Russia MAG%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 10:00 Russia MAG%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 11:00 Russia MAG%sT -# This name should be Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, but that's too long. +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] +# Kamchatskaya oblast', Koryakskij avtonomnyj okrug. +# +# The Zone name should be Asia/Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski, but that's too long. Zone Asia/Kamchatka 10:34:36 - LMT 1922 Nov 10 11:00 - PETT 1930 Jun 21 # P-K Time 12:00 Russia PET%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 11:00 Russia PET%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 12:00 Russia PET%sT +# +# Chukotskij avtonomnyj okrug Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May 2 12:00 - ANAT 1930 Jun 21 # Anadyr Time 13:00 Russia ANA%sT 1982 Apr 1 0:00s @@ -1795,11 +2010,56 @@ Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C. # Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU. # Sweden + +# From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks: +# +# The law "Svensk forfattningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879: +# From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all +# places in the country is "the mean solar time for the meridian at +# three degrees, or twelve minutes of time, to the west of the +# meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated 1878-05-31. +# +# The observatory at that time had the meridian 18 degrees 03' 30" +# eastern longitude = 01:12:14 in time. Less 12 minutes gives the +# national standard time as 01:00:14 ahead of GMT.... +# +# About the beginning of CET in Sweden. The lawtext ("Svensk +# forfattningssamling 1899, no 44") states, that "from the beginning +# of 1900... ... the same as the mean solar time for the meridian at +# the distance of one hour of time from the meridian of the English +# observatory at Greenwich, or at 12 minutes 14 seconds to the west +# from the meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated +# 1899-06-16. In short: At 1900-01-01 00:00:00 the new standard time +# in Sweden is 01:00:00 ahead of GMT. +# +# 1916: The lawtext ("Svensk forfattningssamling 1916, no 124") states +# that "1916-05-15 is considered to begin one hour earlier". It is +# pretty obvious that at 05-14 23:00 the clocks are set to 05-15 00:00.... +# Further the law says, that "1916-09-30 is considered to end one hour later". +# +# The laws regulating [DST] are available on the site of the Swedish +# Parliament beginning with 1985 - the laws regulating 1980/1984 are +# not available on the site (to my knowledge they are only available +# in Swedish): (type +# "sommartid" without the quotes in the field "Fritext" and then click +# the Sok-button). +# +# (2001-05-13): +# +# I have now found a newspaper stating that at 1916-10-01 01:00 +# summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show +# 1916-10-01 00:00 standard time. The article also reports that some +# people thought the switch to standard time would take place already +# at 1916-10-01 00:00 summer time, but they had to wait for another +# hour before the event took place. +# +# Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1878 May 31 - 1:12:12 - SMT 1900 Jan 1 1:00 # Stockholm MT - 1:00 - CET 1916 Apr 14 23:00s - 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Sep 30 23:00s +Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 + 1:00:14 - SET 1900 Jan 1 # Swedish Time + 1:00 - CET 1916 May 14 23:00 + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Oct 1 01:00 1:00 - CET 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds b/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds index f730e489c4d5..495eb818dfe7 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds +++ b/share/zoneinfo/leapseconds @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)leapseconds 7.13 +# @(#)leapseconds 7.14 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file. @@ -43,8 +43,9 @@ Leap 1994 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 1995 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S Leap 1997 Jun 30 23:59:60 + S Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S -# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS) -# SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE + +# INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION SERVICE (IERS) +# SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE # # SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE # OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS @@ -53,12 +54,26 @@ Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S # FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 # Internet : iers@obspm.fr # -# Paris, 11 January 2001 +# Paris, 25 June 2001 # -# Bulletin C 21 +# Bulletin C 22 # -# To authorities responsible for the measurement and distribution of time +# To authorities responsible +# for the measurement and +# distribution of time # -# INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI +# INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI # -# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2001. +# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2001. +# The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is : +# +# from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -32 s +# +# 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 +# Director +# Earth Orientation Center of IERS diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica index 58e790c1c15a..6821e9967453 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)northamerica 7.58 +# @(#)northamerica 7.60 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -81,12 +81,12 @@ # 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 Atlee's address, but the American people +# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people # never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, # CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, # but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word # of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in -# London which were to precede Mr. Atlee's speech. +# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D @@ -185,15 +185,8 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. # See the file "australasia". -# From Ryan Alessi of the Thousand Oaks Star (2001-02-15) via Rives McDow: -# Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, introduced a bill in Congress on -# Wednesday that could have California operating on Denver time as -# early as this summer.... The options include keeping -# daylight-saving time all year long, or setting clocks back two hours -# -- instead of just one -- during the existing daylight-saving time. - -# US Eastern time, represented by New York +# US eastern time, represented by New York # Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, # Georgia, far southeastern Indiana, eastern Kentucky, Maine, @@ -215,7 +208,7 @@ Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967 -5:00 US E%sT -# US Central time, represented by Chicago +# US central time, represented by Chicago # Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle, Illinois, western Indiana # corners, Iowa, most of Kansas, western Kentucky, Louisiana, @@ -239,11 +232,16 @@ Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 -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 + -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 02:00 + -6:00 US C%sT -# US Mountain time, represented by Denver +# US mountain time, represented by Denver # # Colorado, southern Idaho, far western Kansas, Montana, western -# Nebraska, New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, far eastern Oregon, +# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), +# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, far eastern Oregon, # western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, # and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming # @@ -263,7 +261,7 @@ Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles # -# California, northern Idaho, Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington +# California, northern Idaho, most of Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D @@ -280,7 +278,7 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # Alaska # AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO. # -# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-01): +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): # Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, # and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. # This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian, @@ -288,6 +286,13 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent # the Julian calendar. # +# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were +# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. +# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement +# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there +# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps +# it's best to simply use the official transition. +# # 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 @@ -407,7 +412,7 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # 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 than Danner's Hardware across the street. +# time zone from Danner's Hardware across the street. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D @@ -511,6 +516,13 @@ Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville # Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern # (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, # The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). +# +# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): +# The final rule was published in the +# +# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158. +# +# Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 -6:00 - CST 1968 @@ -526,13 +538,20 @@ Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 # West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 # Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 -# There is another change in the offing; Mercer County, ND is looking -# to change from MT to CT. It is possible that two other ND counties -# (Sioux and Morton) will look to change also. If made, the earliest -# a change would be effective is October 2001. # -# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): -# FIXME: I haven't yet had time to incorporate all the above changes. +# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): +# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, +# so omit that change for now. +# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. +# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. +# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on +# 1999-10-31. See the +# +# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), page 56705-56707. +# +# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated +# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; +# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. # Michigan # @@ -589,10 +608,11 @@ Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 -6:00 US C%sT # Navassa +# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service # claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act # also claimed by Haiti # occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co -# US lighthouse 1917/1997-01 +# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 # currently uninhabited # see Mark Fineman, ``An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord'', # _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites @@ -617,7 +637,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). # -# Gwillim Law writes that a good source +# Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries @@ -1076,9 +1096,9 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): # # Basic Facts: The New Territory -# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on Eastern time, +# (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. +# 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. @@ -1333,6 +1353,15 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # References: "Diario de Monterrey" # Palabra (2001-03-31) +# From Reuters (2001-09-04): +# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was +# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the +# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation +# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 +# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to +# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not +# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S @@ -1369,7 +1398,8 @@ Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 - -6:00 Mexico C%sT + -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 02:00 + -6:00 - CST # Chihuahua Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 @@ -1670,7 +1700,7 @@ Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:12 - LMT 1890 # Kingston # Martinique # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France - -4:04 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT + -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 -4:00 - AST @@ -1696,7 +1726,7 @@ Rule Nic 1992 only - Jan 1 4:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1992 only - Sep 24 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 - -5:45 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time + -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? -6:00 - CST 1973 May -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1993 Jan 1 4:00 @@ -1706,7 +1736,7 @@ Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 # Panama # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 - -5:20 - PMT 1908 Apr 22 # Panama Mean Time + -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colon Mean Time -5:00 - EST # Puerto Rico @@ -1725,7 +1755,7 @@ Zone America/St_Kitts -4:10:52 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 # Basseterre # St Lucia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/St_Lucia -4:04:00 - LMT 1890 # Castries - -4:04 - CMT 1912 # Castries Mean Time + -4:04:00 - CMT 1912 # Castries Mean Time -4:00 - AST # St Pierre and Miquelon diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/southamerica b/share/zoneinfo/southamerica index b51e7cfd5019..4e6743c9c614 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/southamerica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/southamerica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)southamerica 7.40 +# @(#)southamerica 7.42 # 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 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). # -# Gwillim Law writes that a good source +# Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries @@ -125,6 +125,29 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # 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. # +# From Mariano Absatz (2001-06-06): +# one of the major newspapers here in Argentina said that the 1999 +# Timezone Law (which never was effectively applied) will (would?) be +# in effect.... The article is at +# http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-06/e-01701.htm +# ... The Law itself is "Ley No 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted +# 1999-09-17, and published 1999-09-21. The official publication is at: +# http://www.boletin.jus.gov.ar/BON/Primera/1999/09-Septiembre/21/PDF/BO21-09-99LEG.PDF +# Regretfully, you have to subscribe (and pay) for the on-line version.... +# +# (2001-06-12): +# the timezone for Argentina will not change next Sunday. +# Apparently it will do so on Sunday 24th.... +# http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-12/s-03501.htm +# +# (2001-06-25): +# Last Friday (yes, the last working day before the date of the change), the +# Senate annulled the 1999 law that introduced the changes later postponed. +# http://www.clarin.com.ar/diario/2001-06-22/s-03601.htm +# It remains the vote of the Deputies..., but it will be the same.... +# This kind of things had always been done this way in Argentina. +# We are still -03:00 all year round in all of the country. +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # # Buenos Aires (BA), Capital Federal (CF), Santa Cruz (SC), @@ -206,7 +229,7 @@ Zone America/Aruba -4:40:24 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad # Bolivia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 - -4:32:36 - LPMT 1931 Oct 15 # La Paz Mean Time + -4:32:36 - CMT 1931 Oct 15 # Calamarca MT -4:32:36 1:00 BOST 1932 Mar 21 # Bolivia ST -4:00 - BOT # Bolivia Time @@ -382,8 +405,14 @@ Rule Brazil 2000 only - Feb 27 0:00 0 - # repeals DST in PE and RR, effective 2000-10-15 00:00. # Decree 3,632 (2000-10-17) # repeals DST in SE, AL, PB, RN, CE, PI and MA, effective 2000-10-22 00:00. +# Decree 3,916 +# (2001-09-13) reestablishes DST in AL, CE, MA, PB, PE, PI, RN, SE. # -# These give only one year's rules. After that, the rules are guesses +# The latest decree listed above says that the following states observe DST: +# AL, BA, CE, DF, ES, GO, MA, MG, MS, MT, +# PB, PE, PI, PR, RJ, RN, RS, SC, SE, SP, TO. +# +# For dates after mid-2002, the following rules are guesses # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. Rule Brazil 2000 max - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - @@ -409,14 +438,16 @@ Zone America/Fortaleza -2:34:00 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 1990 Sep 17 -3:00 - BRT 1999 Sep 30 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2000 Oct 22 - -3:00 - BRT + -3:00 - BRT 2001 Sep 13 + -3:00 Brazil BR%sT # # Pernambuco (PE) (except Atlantic islands) Zone America/Recife -2:19:36 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 1990 Sep 17 -3:00 - BRT 1999 Sep 30 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2000 Oct 15 - -3:00 - BRT + -3:00 - BRT 2001 Sep 13 + -3:00 Brazil BR%sT # # Tocantins (TO) Zone America/Araguaina -3:12:48 - LMT 1914 @@ -431,7 +462,8 @@ Zone America/Maceio -2:22:52 - LMT 1914 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 1996 Sep 4 -3:00 - BRT 1999 Sep 30 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT 2000 Oct 22 - -3:00 - BRT + -3:00 - BRT 2001 Sep 13 + -3:00 Brazil BR%sT # # Bahia (BA), Goias (GO), Distrito Federal (DF), Minas Gerais (MG), # Espirito Santo (ES), Rio de Janeiro (RJ), Sao Paulo (SP), Parana (PR), @@ -441,7 +473,7 @@ Zone America/Sao_Paulo -3:06:28 - LMT 1914 -3:00 1:00 BRST 1964 -3:00 Brazil BR%sT # -# Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul +# Mato Grosso (MT), Mato Grosso do Sul (MS) Zone America/Cuiaba -3:44:20 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT # @@ -493,16 +525,26 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914 # Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later, # on April 3, (one-time change). -# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): -# I came across a Chilean on-line newspaper, La Tercera. Its -# -# 1998-03-13 issue -# , says (my translation): -# "At 24:00 (midnight) tomorrow (Saturday) - 22:00 in the insular -# territory [Easter Island, Juan Fernandez, etc.] - winter time will -# begin in the entire country." +# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-04): +# I came across another article in "La Tercera" about Chilean DST. +# +# It clearly confirms my earlier suggestion, that DST begins at 22:00 +# on Easter Island.... But it also seems to be saying that the +# observance of DST in Chile began in 1966, rather than 1969 as +# ... [Shanks] has it.... +# +# My translation: +# +# "The Chilean Army has announced that summer time will begin tomorrow, +# Saturday, October 14 in continental Chile, insular Chile, and +# Antarctica, as provided by Supreme Decree 25 of January 11, 1966. +# By the preceding, official time in continental Chile and Chilean +# Antarctic, and official time in Western Insular Chile, which applies +# to Easter Island and Sala y Gomez Island, will be set forward at +# midnight and at 22:00, respectively, by 20 minutes." -# From Paul Eggert (2001-02-21): +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): +# Go with this article in preference to Shanks's 1969 date for modern DST. # Assume this rule has been used since DST was introduced in the islands. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -510,8 +552,8 @@ Rule Chile 1918 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1919 only - Jul 2 0:00 0 - Rule Chile 1927 1931 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Chile 1928 1932 - Apr 1 0:00 0 - -Rule Chile 1969 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S -Rule Chile 1970 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule Chile 1966 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule Chile 1967 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S Rule Chile 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - Rule Chile 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S @@ -528,10 +570,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890 # Mataveri -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 14 # Easter I Time -6:00 Chile EAS%sT # -# Whitman says Juan Fernandez Is are like America/Santiago. -# San Ambrosio, San Felix -# no information; probably like America/Santiago - +# Sala y Gomez Island is like Pacific/Easter. +# Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernandez Is, San Ambrosio, +# San Felix, and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago. # Colombia # Shanks specifies 24:00 for 1992 transition times; go with IATA, @@ -717,7 +758,7 @@ Rule Peru 1994 only - Jan 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Peru 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Lima -5:08:12 - LMT 1890 - -5:09 - LMT 1908 Jul 28 # Lima Mean Time + -5:08:36 - LMT 1908 Jul 28 # Lima Mean Time? -5:00 Peru PE%sT # Peru Time # South Georgia @@ -802,6 +843,6 @@ Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28 # Venezuela # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Caracas -4:27:44 - LMT 1890 - -4:27:44 - CMT 1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time + -4:27:40 - CMT 1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time? -4:30 - VET 1965 # Venezuela Time -4:00 - VET diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab b/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab index c28904e6bc82..1070f9c9c47d 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab +++ b/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)zone.tab 1.22 +# @(#)zone.tab 1.24 # # TZ zone descriptions # @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ # first latitude (+ is north), then longitude (+ is east). # 3. Zone name used in value of TZ environment variable. # 4. Comments; present if and only if the country has multiple rows. -# +# # Columns are separated by a single tab. # The table is sorted first by country, then an order within the country that # (1) makes some geographical sense, and @@ -120,13 +120,13 @@ CG -0416+01517 Africa/Brazzaville CH +4723+00832 Europe/Zurich CI +0519-00402 Africa/Abidjan CK -2114-15946 Pacific/Rarotonga -CL -3327-07040 America/Santiago mainland -CL -2710-10927 Pacific/Easter Easter Island +CL -3327-07040 America/Santiago most locations +CL -2710-10927 Pacific/Easter Easter Island & Sala y Gomez CM +0403+00942 Africa/Douala -CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin north Manchuria -CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai China coast -CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chungking China mountains -CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi Tibet & Xinjiang +CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai most eastern locations +CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin Heilongjiang +CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chongqing central China +CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi Tibet & most of Xinjiang CN +3929+07559 Asia/Kashgar Eastern Turkestan CO +0436-07405 America/Bogota CR +0956-08405 America/Costa_Rica @@ -168,9 +168,10 @@ GE +4143+04449 Asia/Tbilisi GF +0456-05220 America/Cayenne GH +0533-00013 Africa/Accra GI +3608-00521 Europe/Gibraltar -GL +7030-02215 America/Scoresbysund east Greenland -GL +6411-05144 America/Godthab southwest Greenland -GL +7634-06847 America/Thule northwest Greenland +GL +6411-05144 America/Godthab most locations +GL +7646-01840 America/Danmarkshavn Danmarkshavn +GL +7030-02215 America/Scoresbysund Scoresbysund / Ittoqqortoormiit +GL +7634-06847 America/Thule Thule / Pituffik and environs GM +1328-01639 Africa/Banjul GN +0931-01343 Africa/Conakry GP +1614-06132 America/Guadeloupe @@ -187,7 +188,8 @@ HR +4548+01558 Europe/Zagreb HT +1832-07220 America/Port-au-Prince HU +4730+01905 Europe/Budapest ID -0610+10648 Asia/Jakarta Java & Sumatra -ID -0507+11924 Asia/Ujung_Pandang Borneo & Celebes +ID -0002+10920 Asia/Pontianak west & central Borneo +ID -0507+11924 Asia/Ujung_Pandang east & south Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Nusa Tengarra, west Timor ID -0232+14042 Asia/Jayapura Irian Jaya & the Moluccas IE +5320-00615 Europe/Dublin IL +3146+03514 Asia/Jerusalem @@ -237,7 +239,8 @@ ML +1239-00800 Africa/Bamako southwest Mali ML +1446-00301 Africa/Timbuktu northeast Mali MM +1647+09610 Asia/Rangoon MN +4755+10653 Asia/Ulaanbaatar most locations -MN +4801+09139 Asia/Hovd Bayan-Olgiy, Hovd, Uvs +MN +4801+09139 Asia/Hovd Bayan-Olgiy, Govi-Altai, Hovd, Uvs, Zavkhan +MN +4804+11430 Asia/Choibalsan Dornod, Sukhbaatar MO +2214+11335 Asia/Macao MP +1512+14545 Pacific/Saipan MQ +1436-06105 America/Martinique @@ -303,7 +306,8 @@ RU +5601+09250 Asia/Krasnoyarsk Moscow+04 - Yenisei River RU +5216+10420 Asia/Irkutsk Moscow+05 - Lake Baikal RU +6200+12940 Asia/Yakutsk Moscow+06 - Lena River RU +4310+13156 Asia/Vladivostok Moscow+07 - Amur River -RU +5934+15048 Asia/Magadan Moscow+08 - Magadan & Sakhalin +RU +4658+14242 Asia/Sakhalin Moscow+07 - Sakhalin Island +RU +5934+15048 Asia/Magadan Moscow+08 - Magadan RU +5301+15839 Asia/Kamchatka Moscow+09 - Kamchatka RU +6445+17729 Asia/Anadyr Moscow+10 - Bering Sea RW -0157+03004 Africa/Kigali @@ -361,6 +365,7 @@ US +411745-0863730 America/Indiana/Knox Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Starke US +384452-0850402 America/Indiana/Vevay Eastern Standard Time - Indiana - Switzerland County US +415100-0873900 America/Chicago Central Time US +450628-0873651 America/Menominee Central Time - Michigan - Wisconsin border +US +470659-1011757 America/North_Dakota/Center Central Time - North Dakota - Oliver County US +394421-1045903 America/Denver Mountain Time US +433649-1161209 America/Boise Mountain Time - south Idaho & east Oregon US +364708-1084111 America/Shiprock Mountain Time - Navajo