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diff --git a/timezone/asia b/timezone/asia index c7180eb408..de1a379846 100644 --- a/timezone/asia +++ b/timezone/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.35 +# @(#)asia 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 @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 7:00 - ICT -# People's Republic of China +# China # From Guy Harris: # People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. @@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 ############################################################################### -# Republic of China +# Taiwan # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov # From Paul Eggert (1996-12-17), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales: # Ahmea Alavi in # <a href="http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt"> -# http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt (1993-08-04) +# TAGHVEEM (1993-08-04) # </a> # writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day # of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM: @@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 ############################################################################### -# Korea +# Korea (North and South) # From Guy Harris: # According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco, @@ -779,9 +779,9 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time # Mongolia -# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and -# <a href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif"> -# http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif (1995) +# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map +# <a href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/rmap-pdf/802483.pdf"> +# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01) # </a> # both say that it has just one. # Let's comment out the western and eastern Mongolian time zones @@ -827,6 +827,61 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 5:00 - PKT # Pakistan Time # Palestine + +# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (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. +# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too... +# +# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05 +# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no +# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt, +# though. +# +# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally +# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from +# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the +# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major +# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and +# East Jerusalem. +# +# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except +# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might +# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware +# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer +# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected). +# +# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most +# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to +# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to +# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't +# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the +# Jordanian one). +# +# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that: +# +# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996- +# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------- +# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion +# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan +# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan +# +# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they +# have one). + +# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25): +# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go +# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947, +# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996. +# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since +# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about +# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. +# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries +# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules +# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please +# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions. + # These rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S @@ -837,9 +892,10 @@ Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct - 2:00 - EET 1957 May 10 - 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 30 - 2:00 Zion I%sT + 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 + 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 + 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 + 2:00 Jordan EE%sT # Paracel Is # no information @@ -890,17 +946,17 @@ Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880 # Sri Lanka # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): # <a href="http://www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html"> -# http://www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html (1996-05-24) +# Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout (1996-05-24) # </a> # reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at # midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.'' # Transitions before 1996 are from Shanks (1991). # # From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted -# in +# by Shamindra in # <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net"> -# news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net (1996-10-26): -# </a> +# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26) +# </a>: # With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 # Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. @@ -990,14 +1046,6 @@ Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - UZT # Uzbekistan Time # Shanks has Tashkent using DST after 1991, but usno1995 says they don't. # Guess no DST after 1991. -# <a href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif"> -# http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif (1995) -# </a> -# says that Uzbekistan has two time zones, but a cable -# <a href="http://www.itaiep.doc.gov/bisnis/cables/960510uz.html"> -# http://www.itaiep.doc.gov/bisnis/cables/960510uz.html (1996-05-10) -# </a> -# from the American Embassy in Tashkent implies that they have just one. # Vietnam # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): |