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diff --git a/timezone/asia b/timezone/asia index 446cc16e6f..3c2c1a1868 100644 --- a/timezone/asia +++ b/timezone/asia @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)asia 8.1 -# <pre> +# @(#)asia 7.77 # 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), @@ -44,8 +43,8 @@ # 8:00 CST China # 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* # 9:00 EIT east Indonesia -# 9:00 JST JDT Japan -# 9:00 KST KDT Korea +# 9:00 JST Japan +# 9:00 KST Korea # 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time # # See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. @@ -86,7 +85,7 @@ Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890 # Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991, # then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997. # Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz -# reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST +# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST # in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that # Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, # but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. @@ -100,18 +99,15 @@ Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT # Azerbaijan -# From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23): -# According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997 -# Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S -Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 - +Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 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 lastSat 23:00 + 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 4:00 Azer AZ%sT @@ -141,12 +137,8 @@ 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 4:49:40 - LMT 1907 - 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time +Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time 6:00 - IOT # Brunei @@ -194,7 +186,7 @@ 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (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. @@ -205,6 +197,7 @@ 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 @@ -332,19 +325,19 @@ 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (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 <mathew@io.org>, 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 @@ -352,17 +345,6 @@ Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia # Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process # of integration into Europe. -# From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07): -# Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on -# [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. -# Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT -# +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document -# about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, -# because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time.... -# I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our -# DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month. - - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time @@ -374,8 +356,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27 - 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 2005 Mar lastSun 2:00 - 4:00 - GET + 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT # East Timor @@ -402,11 +383,11 @@ Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 - 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time + 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug - 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3 + 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 - 9:00 - TLT + 9:00 - TPT # India # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -491,33 +472,12 @@ 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 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): + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-15) # 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, -# 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). +# 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. # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D @@ -555,10 +515,10 @@ 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 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 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 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 @@ -579,7 +539,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 # Iraq # -# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12): +# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (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 @@ -678,9 +638,8 @@ 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, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22, -# and 2005-02-17): +# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> +# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. @@ -731,13 +690,13 @@ 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.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.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.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz # # where YYYY is the relevant year. @@ -757,12 +716,12 @@ 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.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.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.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.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 @@ -776,80 +735,52 @@ 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 -# 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 -# <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (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 +# 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 # 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. + ############################################################################### @@ -858,32 +789,18 @@ 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (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.'' - -# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times -# <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm>: -# 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 (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? +#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. # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): # 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical @@ -913,7 +830,7 @@ Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u 9:00 - JST 1896 9:00 - CJT 1938 - 9:00 Japan J%sT + 9:00 - JST # Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. # Jordan @@ -931,13 +848,6 @@ Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u # The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in # government's departments from six to seven hours. # -# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): -# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. -# -# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): -# For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year -# about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year. -# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - @@ -960,25 +870,20 @@ Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S -Rule Jordan 1999 2002 - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - +Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S -Rule Jordan 2003 only - Oct 24 0:00s 0 - -Rule Jordan 2004 only - Oct 15 0:00s 0 - -Rule Jordan 2005 max - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 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 <evti@chevron.com> (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. @@ -988,24 +893,7 @@ 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. - -# <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm"> -# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21): -# </a> -# 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] # @@ -1014,8 +902,7 @@ 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 2005 Mar 15 - 6:00 - ALMT + 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT # 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 @@ -1025,8 +912,7 @@ 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 2005 Mar 15 - 6:00 - QYZT + 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT # Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk) Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time @@ -1035,8 +921,7 @@ 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 2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time - 5:00 - AQTT + 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT # Aqtobe Time # Mangghystau # Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region, # so include time stamps before 1963. @@ -1048,8 +933,7 @@ 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 2005 Mar 15 - 5:00 - AQTT + 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT # West Kazakhstan Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time @@ -1059,33 +943,21 @@ 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 2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time - 5:00 - ORAT + 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT # Oral Time # 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 -# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml> -# 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. -# From Malik Abdugaliev (2005-09-21): -# Our government cancels daylight saving time 6th of August 2005. -# From 2005-08-12 our GMT-offset is +6, w/o any daylight saving. - # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S -Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - -Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S -Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2004 - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - +Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S +Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S +Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence - 5:00 Kyrgyz KG%sT 2005 Aug 12 # Kyrgyzstan Time - 6:00 - KGT + 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time ############################################################################### @@ -1244,7 +1116,7 @@ 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 <ganbold@micom.mng.net> (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. @@ -1253,24 +1125,6 @@ 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 -# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&> -# 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 - @@ -1362,7 +1216,7 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # Palestine -# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15): +# 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. @@ -1434,15 +1288,6 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, # and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. -# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): -# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. - -# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): -# A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of -# the Ramadan. Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think -# there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks -# earlier--the same goes for Jordan. - # The 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 @@ -1453,9 +1298,7 @@ Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 2005 max - Oct 4 2:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct @@ -1635,7 +1478,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - UZT # Vietnam -# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (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: |