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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)northamerica	7.75
+# @(#)northamerica	7.79
 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
@@ -110,21 +110,26 @@
 #
 # 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
 Rule	US	1942	only	-	Feb	9	2:00	1:00	W # War
 Rule	US	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
 Rule	US	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
-Rule	US	1967	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
+Rule	US	1967	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
 Rule	US	1967	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
 Rule	US	1974	only	-	Jan	6	2:00	1:00	D
 Rule	US	1975	only	-	Feb	23	2:00	1:00	D
 Rule	US	1976	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
-Rule	US	1987	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
-# <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.00177:">
-# H.R.177
-# </a> (introduced 1999-01-06) would change April to March in the above rule.
+Rule	US	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
+Rule	US	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
+Rule	US	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
 
 # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
 # ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967.
@@ -202,13 +207,32 @@ Rule	US	1987	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
 # Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation
 # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.
 # See the file "australasia".
-
+ 
+# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09
+# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08.
+#
+# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
+#   (a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
+#   U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended--
+#     (1) by striking `first Sunday of April' and inserting `second
+#     Sunday of March'; and
+#     (2) by striking `last Sunday of October' and inserting `first
+#     Sunday of November'.
+#   (b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the
+#   date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later.
+#   (c) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the effective
+#   date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress
+#   on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United
+#   States.
+#   (d) Right to Revert- Congress retains the right to revert the
+#   Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the
+#   Department study is complete.
 
 # US eastern time, represented by New York
 
 # 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
@@ -463,40 +487,44 @@ Zone America/Boise	-7:44:49 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:15:11
 # For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see:
 # <a href="http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html">
 # What time is it in Indiana?
-# </a> (1999-04-06)
+# </a> (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 (2001-03-06), following a tip by Markus Kuhn:
-# Pam Belluck reported in the New York Times (2001-01-31) that the
-# Indiana Legislature is considering a bill to adopt DST statewide.
-# Her article mentioned Vevay, whose post office observes a different
-# time zone from Danner's Hardware across the street.
+# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
+# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006,
+# and that many counties may switch either to Central or to Eastern time.
+# The county-by-county decisions have not been made yet, so for now assume
+# that no counties will switch: this assumption is most likely wrong,
+# but it's the best we can do for now.
 
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
 Rule Indianapolis 1941	only	-	Jun	22	2:00	1:00	D
 Rule Indianapolis 1941	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
 Rule Indianapolis 1946	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22
+Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22
 			-6:00	US	C%sT	1920
 			-6:00 Indianapolis C%sT	1942
 			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
@@ -505,8 +533,8 @@ Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22
 			-6:00	-	CST	1958 Apr 27 2:00
 			-5:00	-	EST	1969
 			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
-			-5:00	-	EST
-Link America/Indianapolis America/Indiana/Indianapolis
+			-5:00	-	EST	2006
+			-5:00	US	E%sT
 #
 # Part of Crawford County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1975,
 # and left its clocks alone in 1974.
@@ -523,7 +551,8 @@ Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:14:37
 			-5:00	US	E%sT	1974 Jan  6 2:00
 			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1974 Oct 27 2:00
 			-5:00	US	E%sT	1976
-			-5:00	-	EST
+			-5:00	-	EST	2006
+			-5:00	US	E%sT
 #
 # Starke County, Indiana
 # From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28):
@@ -542,7 +571,8 @@ Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:13:30
 			-6:00	Starke	C%sT	1962 Apr 29 2:00
 			-5:00	-	EST	1963 Oct 27 2:00
 			-6:00	US	C%sT	1991 Oct 27 2:00
-			-5:00	-	EST
+			-5:00	-	EST	2006
+			-5:00	US	E%sT
 #
 # Switzerland County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1972.
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -550,10 +580,11 @@ Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:19:44
 			-6:00	US	C%sT	1954 Apr 25 2:00
 			-5:00	-	EST	1969
 			-5:00	US	E%sT	1973
-			-5:00	-	EST
+			-5:00	-	EST	2006
+			-5:00	US	E%sT
 
 # Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974.
-# This also includes a part of Indiana immediately adjacent to Louisville.
+# 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
@@ -563,7 +594,7 @@ Rule Louisville	1946	only	-	Jun	2	2:00	0	S
 Rule Louisville	1950	1955	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
 Rule Louisville	1956	1960	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone America/Louisville	-5:43:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:16:58
+Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:16:58
 			-6:00	US	C%sT	1921
 			-6:00 Louisville C%sT	1942
 			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
@@ -572,7 +603,6 @@ Zone America/Louisville	-5:43:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:16:58
 			-5:00	US	E%sT	1974 Jan  6 2:00
 			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1974 Oct 27 2:00
 			-5:00	US	E%sT
-Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville
 #
 # Wayne, Clinton, and Russell Counties, Kentucky
 #
@@ -695,17 +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
-
 ################################################################################
 
 
@@ -1294,8 +1313,6 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 -	LMT	1884
 # </a> (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time,
 # and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST.  We don't know when
 # Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995.
-# We'll ignore the claim about Coral Harbour for now,
-# since we have no further info.
 
 # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
 # On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time,
@@ -1370,6 +1387,23 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 -	LMT	1884
 # more.
 # [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).]
 
+# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21):
+# According to maps at
+# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SWE.jpg
+# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SSE.jpg
+# (both dated 2003), and
+# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp
+# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time
+# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year
+# round.  Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this.
+# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it
+# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years....
+# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26):
+# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed
+# daylight saving only during wartime.
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	NT_YK	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
 Rule	NT_YK	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
@@ -1393,6 +1427,9 @@ Zone America/Iqaluit	-4:33:52 -	LMT	1884 # Frobisher Bay before 1987
 			-5:00	NT_YK	E%sT	1999 Oct 31 2:00
 			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29 2:00
 			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
+Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 -	LMT	1884
+			-5:00	NT_YK	E%sT	1946
+			-5:00	-	EST
 Zone America/Rankin_Inlet -6:08:40 -	LMT	1884
 			-6:00	NT_YK	C%sT	2000 Oct 29 2:00
 			-5:00	-	EST	2001 Apr  1 3:00
@@ -1968,10 +2005,21 @@ Zone America/Montserrat	-4:08:52 -	LMT	1911 Jul 1 0:01   # Olveston
 # The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here:
 # http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2005/Decreto%2023-2005%20Se%20adelanta%20en%20una%20hora%20en%20todo%20el%20territorio%20nacional%20apartir%20de%20las%2024horas%20del%2009%20de%20Abril.pdf
 #
-# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-12):
+# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01):
 # The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's
 # assume that it is daylight saving and that they'll switch back on the
-# 2nd Sunday in September.
+# 3rd Sunday in September.
+#
+# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21):
+# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at
+# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html
+# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish):  "The last
+# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000
+# during the Arnoldo Aleman administration."...
+# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously
+# since December 1998.  I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time
+# changes in 2000.  Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to
+# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000.
 #
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	D
@@ -1979,7 +2027,7 @@ Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Jun	Mon>=23	0:00	0	S
 Rule	Nic	1992	only	-	Jan	1	4:00	1:00	D
 Rule	Nic	1992	only	-	Sep	24	0:00	0	S
 Rule	Nic	2005	only	-	Apr	10	0:00	1:00	D
-Rule	Nic	2005	only	-	Sep	11	0:00	0	S
+Rule	Nic	2005	only	-	Sep	18	0:00	0	S
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	America/Managua	-5:45:08 -	LMT	1890
 			-5:45:12 -	MMT	1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time?