diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/asia b/share/zoneinfo/asia index 7c9b7b608be2..52ba32338e98 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/asia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.84 +# @(#)asia 7.85 # 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 @@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ # 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 +# 9:00 JST JDT Japan +# 9:00 KST KDT Korea # 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time # # See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. @@ -846,14 +846,28 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 # 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.'' + +# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times +# : +# Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on +# [1948-05-01].... But lack of prior debate and the execution of +# daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated +# deep hatred of the concept.... The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to +# dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San +# Francisco Peace Treaty was signed. (A government poll in 1951 showed 53% +# of the Japanese wanted to scrap daylight-saving time, as opposed to 30% who +# wanted to keep it.) + # Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S -#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -# but the only locations using it were US military bases. -# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo. +Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S +Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +# but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since +# Shanks's audience is astrologers) were US military bases. For now, assume +# that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what +# would have been the point of the 1951 poll? # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): # 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical @@ -883,7 +897,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u 9:00 - JST 1896 9:00 - CJT 1938 - 9:00 - JST + 9:00 Japan J%sT # Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. # Jordan diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica index 61f3f2a4d81d..40a2ce269de4 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)northamerica 7.78 +# @(#)northamerica 7.79 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -110,6 +110,12 @@ # # He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. +# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): +# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations +# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of +# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed +# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -225,8 +231,8 @@ Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S # US eastern time, represented by New York # Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, -# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, and -# Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, +# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky +# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, # New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, # Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, # Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia @@ -481,27 +487,30 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 # For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: # # What time is it in Indiana? -# (1999-04-06) +# (2005-05-03) +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-22): +# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, +# with the following exceptions: +# +# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, +# Vandenburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. +# +# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. +# +# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like +# America/Kentucky/Louisville. +# +# - Crawford, Starke, and Switzerland counties have their own time zone +# histories as noted below. # -# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): -# Indiana generally observes either EST all year, or CST/CDT, -# but areas near Cincinnati and Louisville use those cities' timekeeping -# and in 1969 and 1970 the whole state observed daylight time; -# and there are other exceptions as noted below. # Shanks partitions Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, # and writes ``Even newspaper reports present contradictory information.'' # Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. # -# Since 1970, EST-only Indiana has been like America/Indianapolis, -# with exceptions noted below for Crawford, Starke, and Switzerland counties. -# The parts of Indiana not listed below have been like America/Chicago, -# America/Louisville, or America/New_York. -# # Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript # that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the `America' level. # So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory `America/Indiana'. -# -# Most of EST-only Indiana last observed DST in 1970. # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): # http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006, @@ -575,7 +584,7 @@ Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 -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. +# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S @@ -716,17 +725,6 @@ Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 # _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites # Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). -# Old names, for S5 users - -# Link LINK-FROM LINK-TO -Link America/New_York EST5EDT -Link America/Chicago CST6CDT -Link America/Denver MST7MDT -Link America/Los_Angeles PST8PDT -Link America/Indianapolis EST -Link America/Phoenix MST -Link Pacific/Honolulu HST - ################################################################################