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| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/africa | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/antarctica | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/asia | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/australasia | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/europe | 78 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/iso3166.tab | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/leapseconds | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/northamerica | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/solar87 | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/solar88 | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/solar89 | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/southamerica | 18 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | timezone/zone.tab | 4 |
13 files changed, 124 insertions, 114 deletions
diff --git a/timezone/africa b/timezone/africa index 689c2c414c..7d75ae3a05 100644 --- a/timezone/africa +++ b/timezone/africa @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)africa 7.37 +# @(#)africa 7.38 # 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ # # Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT # for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively, -# but Mark R V Murray <markm@grondar.za> reports that +# but Mark R V Murray reports that # `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa, # `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and # `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar 2:00 - SAST # Liberia -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (2001-07-17): +# 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 or 20 minutes. # Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday. diff --git a/timezone/antarctica b/timezone/antarctica index ad47860bd6..c11d24e7d5 100644 --- a/timezone/antarctica +++ b/timezone/antarctica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)antarctica 7.24 +# @(#)antarctica 7.25 # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): # In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. [See] # <a href="http://www.crl.go.jp/uk/uk201/basyo.htm">[reference in Japanese]</a> -# and information from KAMO Hiroyasu <wd@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp>. +# and information from KAMO Hiroyasu. # # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, # was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 # # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) # -# From Ethan Dicks <erd@mcmsun5.mcmurdo.gov> (1996-10-06): +# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06): # It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us # and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line.... # I verified with someone who was there that since 1980, diff --git a/timezone/asia b/timezone/asia index 024cb37e57..1a40fb4c5f 100644 --- a/timezone/asia +++ b/timezone/asia @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.82 +# @(#)asia 7.83 # 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): +# From Paul Eggert (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. @@ -329,13 +329,13 @@ Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia # Georgia -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19): +# From Paul Eggert (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 <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): +# From Mathew Englander, 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. @@ -564,7 +564,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 # Iraq # -# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12): +# From Jonathan Lennox (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 @@ -663,7 +663,7 @@ 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 <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> +# 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): @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 # `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06): +# From Paul Eggert (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.'' @@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # Kazakhstan # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): -# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan +# Andrew Evtichov (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 @@ -1182,7 +1182,7 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # # [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] -# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar <ganbold@micom.mng.net> (2004-04-17): +# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (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. @@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # Palestine -# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15): +# From Amos Shapir (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. @@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - UZT # Vietnam -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (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: diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia index 41c7368852..b39ada2cd4 100644 --- a/timezone/australasia +++ b/timezone/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.71 +# @(#)australasia 7.72 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 8:00 - WST # Queensland # -# From Alex Livingston <alex@agsm.unsw.edu.au> (1996-11-01): +# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): # I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast # of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after # Queensland ceased to. @@ -488,7 +488,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). @@ -645,13 +645,13 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): # Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. -# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper +# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper # reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, # but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 # and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. # For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. -# From Eric Ulevik <eau@zip.com.au> (1998-01-05): +# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): # # Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, # and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more @@ -916,7 +916,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Arthur David Olson: # New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. -# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz), +# Based on law library research by John Mackin, # who notes: # In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the # individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' @@ -936,7 +936,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Lawlink NSW: Daylight Saving in New South Wales # </a> -# From Eric Ulevik <eau@ozemail.com.au> (1999-05-26): +# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): # DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual # October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore, # <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html"> @@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); # Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. -# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight +# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight # Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard # time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. # As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. @@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Micronesia -# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16), +# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16), # ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" # (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.'' # @@ -1257,10 +1257,10 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan # Government. -# From Steffen Thorsen [straen@thorsen.priv.no] (1999-09-09): +# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): # * Tonga will introduce DST in November # -# I was given this link by John Letts <johnletts@earthlink.net>: +# I was given this link by John Letts: # <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> # http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm # </a> @@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead # (12 + 1 hour DST). -# From Arthur David Olson [arthur_david_olson@nih.gov] (1999-09-20): +# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20): # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html> # http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html # </a>: diff --git a/timezone/europe b/timezone/europe index 3bf1b1ab02..9535a667b5 100644 --- a/timezone/europe +++ b/timezone/europe @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.92 +# @(#)europe 7.94 # 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain, # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-04), +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04), # The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy, # Luxembourg, the Netherlands. # Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom. @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ # Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire) -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06): +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-07-06): # # On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about # historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ # # [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.] -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # # Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time. # The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time, @@ -168,12 +168,12 @@ # known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom. # Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed) -# From: Jonathan Leffler <nih-csl!uunet!mcvax!sphinx.co.uk!john> +# From: Jonathan Leffler # [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament. # If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in # politics making a fortune, not computing. -# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-14): +# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-14): # I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the # acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time. Look for the published # time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and @@ -204,15 +204,15 @@ # and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first, # so we use `BDST'. -# Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19) described at length +# Peter Ilieve (1998-04-19) described at length # the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom. -# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> has been updating +# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers has been updating # and extending this list, which can be found in # <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/"> # History of legal time in Britain # </a> -# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06): +# From Joseph S. Myers (1998-01-06): # # The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC; # see Lord Tanlaw's speech @@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT # Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST # for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage. -# From Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> (1996-07-12): +# From Markus Kuhn (1996-07-12): # The official German names ... are # # Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ) = UTC+01:00 @@ -652,7 +652,7 @@ Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880 # pp 8-9. # LMT before 1892 was 0:17:30, according to the official journal of Belgium: # Moniteur Belge, Samedi 30 Avril 1892, N.121. -# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie <pascal@belnet.be> for these references. +# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie for these references. # The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium. # Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect. # @@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880 # Bulgaria # -# From Plamen Simenov <P.Simeonov@cnsys.bg> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): +# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): # A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says: # EET --> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ... # EETDST --> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October @@ -874,12 +874,12 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base -4:00 Thule A%sT # Estonia -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-10-15): +# From Peter Ilieve (1994-10-15): # A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards # [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it, # a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989.... # -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1996-10-28): +# From Peter Ilieve (1996-10-28): # [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s, # but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:] # ``I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different @@ -889,7 +889,7 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base # human physiology. It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to # summer time next spring.'' -# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-11-04), heavily edited: +# From Peter Ilieve (1998-11-04), heavily edited: # <a href="http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390"> # The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law # </a> @@ -938,11 +938,11 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880 # Finland # -# From Hannu Strang <chs@apu.fi> (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC): +# From Hannu Strang (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC): # Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one, # and it's supposed to change at 4am... # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (25 Sep 1994): +# From Paul Eggert (25 Sep 1994): # Shanks says Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time since 1981. # Go with Strang instead. # @@ -1019,7 +1019,7 @@ Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S # Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collognes (Haute-Savioe). Rule France 1941 only - May 5 0:00 2:00 M # Midsummer # Shanks says this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00, -# but go with Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr (1997-12-12), +# but go with Denis Excoffier (1997-12-12), # who quotes the Ephemerides Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes # as saying 5/10/41 22hUT. Rule France 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1053,7 +1053,7 @@ Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01 # Germany -# From Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> (1998-09-29): +# From Markus Kuhn (1998-09-29): # The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische # Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916. # [See tz-link.htm for the URL.] @@ -1168,7 +1168,7 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # Iceland # -# From Adam David <adam@veda.is> (1993-11-06): +# From Adam David (1993-11-06): # The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT. # # (1993-12-05): @@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ Zone Europe/Budapest 1:16:20 - LMT 1890 Oct # might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it # might mean something else (???). # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # The Iceland Almanak, Shanks and Whitman disagree on many points. # We go with the Almanak, except for one claim from Shanks, namely that # Reykavik was 21W57 from 1837 to 1908, local mean time before that. @@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino # Latvia -# From Liene Kanepe <Liene_Kanepe@lm.gov.lv> (1998-09-17): +# From Liene Kanepe (1998-09-17): # I asked about this matter Scientific Secretary of the Institute of Astronomy # of The University of Latvia Dr. paed Mr. Ilgonis Vilks. I also searched the @@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun # IATA SSIM (1992/1996) says Lithuania uses W-Eur rules, but since it is # known to be wrong about Estonia and Latvia, assume it's wrong here too. -# From Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@pub.osf.lt> (1998-08-07): +# From Marius Gedminas (1998-08-07): # I would like to inform that in this year Lithuanian time zone # (Europe/Vilnius) was changed. @@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 # Valletta # on 1991-08-27 (the 1992-01-19 date is that of a Russian decree). # In early 1992 there was large-scale interethnic violence in the area # and it's possible that some Russophones continued to observe Moscow time. -# But moldavizolit@tirastel.md and mk@tirastel.md separately reported via +# But [two people] separately reported via # Jesper Norgaard that as of 2001-01-24 Tiraspol was like Chisinau. # The Tiraspol entry has therefore been removed for now. @@ -1716,7 +1716,7 @@ Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 # says the autumn 1995 switch was at 02:00. # Stick with W-Eur for now. # -# From Marcin.Kasperski@softax.com.pl (1999-06-10): +# From Marcin Kasperski (1999-06-10): # According to my colleagues someone recently decided, that Poland would # follow European Union regulations, so - I think - the matter is not # worth further discussion. @@ -1729,11 +1729,11 @@ Zone Europe/Warsaw 1:24:00 - LMT 1880 # Portugal # -# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro <rps@inescca.inescc.pt> (1992-11-12): +# From Rui Pedro Salgueiro (1992-11-12): # Portugal has recently (September, 27) changed timezone # (from WET to MET or CET) to harmonize with EEC. # -# Martin Bruckmann <martin@ua.pt> (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve +# Martin Bruckmann (1996-02-29) reports via Peter Ilieve # that Portugal is reverting to 0:00 by not moving its clocks this spring. # The new Prime Minister was fed up with getting up in the dark in the winter. # @@ -1863,25 +1863,25 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct # Russia -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-11-12): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12): # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations. # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991, # 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 <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (1994-06-29): +# 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 <ache@nagual.ru> (1996-10-04): +# 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).... # The next step was the UUCP network, the Relcom predecessor # (used mainly for mail), and MSK/MSD was actively used there. # -# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-10-30): +# From Chris Carrier (1996-10-30): # According to a friend of mine who rode the Trans-Siberian Railroad from # Moscow to Irkutsk in 1995, public air and rail transport in Russia ... # still follows Moscow time, no matter where in Russia it is located. @@ -2069,7 +2069,7 @@ Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s -# Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj@rzs-hm.si> reports that the legal date of +# Metod Kozelj reports that the legal date of # transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time. # Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj. 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 @@ -2343,7 +2343,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 2:00 - EET 1992 -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-11-12): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-12): # The _Economist_ (1994-05-28, p 45) reports that central Crimea switched # from Kiev to Moscow time sometime after the January 1994 elections. # Shanks says ``date of change uncertain'', but implies that it happened @@ -2373,8 +2373,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # ... # Date: Wed, 28 Jan 87 16:56:27 -0100 -# From: seismo!mcvax!cgcha!wtho (Tom Hofmann) -# Message-Id: <8701281556.AA22174@cgcha.uucp> +# From: Tom Hofmann # ... # # ...the European time rules are...standardized since 1981, when @@ -2393,11 +2392,11 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # # Tom Hofmann, Scientific Computer Center, CIBA-GEIGY AG, # 4002 Basle, Switzerland -# UUCP: ...!mcvax!cernvax!cgcha!wtho +# ... # ... # Date: Wed, 4 Feb 87 22:35:22 +0100 -# From: seismo!mcvax!cwi.nl!dik (Dik T. Winter) +# From: Dik T. Winter # ... # # The information from Tom Hofmann is (as far as I know) not entirely correct. @@ -2423,8 +2422,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880 # # ... # dik t. winter, cwi, amsterdam, nederland -# INTERNET : dik@cwi.nl -# BITNET/EARN: dik@mcvax +# ... # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ... diff --git a/timezone/iso3166.tab b/timezone/iso3166.tab index dad0d9d34a..07b43fc7c4 100644 --- a/timezone/iso3166.tab +++ b/timezone/iso3166.tab @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # ISO 3166 alpha-2 country codes # -# @(#)iso3166.tab 1.16 +# @(#)iso3166.tab 1.17 # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (2004-06-14): +# From Paul Eggert (2004-06-14): # # This file contains a table with the following columns: # 1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, current as of diff --git a/timezone/leapseconds b/timezone/leapseconds index 2966e760e3..a1078837d7 100644 --- a/timezone/leapseconds +++ b/timezone/leapseconds @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)leapseconds 7.19 +# @(#)leapseconds 7.20 # Allowance for leapseconds added to each timezone file. @@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ 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 +Leap 2005 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S # INTERNATIONAL EARTH ROTATION AND REFERENCE SYSTEMS SERVICE (IERS) +# # SERVICE INTERNATIONAL DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE ET DES SYSTEMES DE REFERENCE # # SERVICE DE LA ROTATION TERRESTRE @@ -52,29 +54,39 @@ Leap 1998 Dec 31 23:59:60 + S # 61, Av. de l'Observatoire 75014 PARIS (France) # Tel. : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 26 # FAX : 33 (0) 1 40 51 22 91 -# Internet : services.iers@obspm.fr -# -# Paris, 21 July 2004 -# +# ... +# http://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc # -# Bulletin C 28 +# Paris, 4 July 2005 +# +# Bulletin C 30 # # To authorities responsible # for the measurement and # distribution of time # -# INFORMATION ON UTC - TAI # -# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2004. +# UTC TIME STEP +# on the 1st of January 2006 +# +# A positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2005. +# The sequence of dates of the UTC second markers will be: +# +# 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 59s +# 2005 December 31, 23h 59m 60s +# 2006 January 1, 0h 0m 0s +# # The difference between UTC and the International Atomic Time TAI is: # -# from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = -32 s +# from 1999 January 1, 0h UTC, to 2006 January 1 0h UTC : UTC-TAI = - 32s +# from 2006 January 1, 0h UTC, until further notice : UTC-TAI = - 33s # -# Leap seconds can be introduced in UTC at the end of the months of December +# 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 +# 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 +# Head # Earth Orientation Center of IERS +# Observatoire de Paris, France diff --git a/timezone/northamerica b/timezone/northamerica index 64e4409345..c290caf67b 100644 --- a/timezone/northamerica +++ b/timezone/northamerica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)northamerica 7.74 +# @(#)northamerica 7.75 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ # Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." # </a> (August 1945) by way of confirmation. -# From Joseph Gallant <notquite@hotmail.com>, citing +# 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 Attlee's address, but the American people @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST # Canada -# From Alain LaBont<e'> <ALB@immedia.ca> (1994-11-14): +# From Alain LaBont<e'> (1994-11-14): # I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada # for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... # @@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 # Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton # are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. -# From W. Jones <jones@skdad.usask.ca> (1992-11-06): +# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): # The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the # provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. # A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and @@ -1269,7 +1269,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. -# Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org> (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: +# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: # * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, # c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid; # see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). @@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # Shanks gives 1942-04-01 instead of 1942-04-24, and omits the 1981 # and 1988 DST experiments. Go with spin.com.mx. -# From Alan Perry <alan.perry@eng.sun.com> (1996-02-15): +# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): # A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree # outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. # diff --git a/timezone/solar87 b/timezone/solar87 index 3f32347973..21ba2c2d64 100644 --- a/timezone/solar87 +++ b/timezone/solar87 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)solar87 7.3 +# @(#)solar87 7.4 # So much for footnotes about Saudi Arabia. # Apparent noon times below are for Riyadh; your mileage will vary. @@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ Rule sol87 1987 only - Dec 31 12:02:45s -0:02:45 - # Before and after 1987, we'll operate on local mean solar time. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Riyadh87 3:07:04 - ?? 1987 - 3:07:04 sol87 ?? 1988 - 3:07:04 - ?? +Zone Asia/Riyadh87 3:07:04 - zzz 1987 + 3:07:04 sol87 zzz 1988 + 3:07:04 - zzz # For backward compatibility... Link Asia/Riyadh87 Mideast/Riyadh87 diff --git a/timezone/solar88 b/timezone/solar88 index 41a64e5023..7e15f2b077 100644 --- a/timezone/solar88 +++ b/timezone/solar88 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)solar88 7.3 +# @(#)solar88 7.4 # Apparent noon times below are for Riyadh; they're a bit off for other places. # Times were computed using formulas in the U.S. Naval Observatory's @@ -381,8 +381,8 @@ Rule sol88 1988 only - Dec 31 12:03:05s -0:03:05 - # Before and after 1988, we'll operate on local mean solar time. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Riyadh88 3:07:04 - ?? 1988 - 3:07:04 sol88 ?? 1989 - 3:07:04 - ?? +Zone Asia/Riyadh88 3:07:04 - zzz 1988 + 3:07:04 sol88 zzz 1989 + 3:07:04 - zzz # For backward compatibility... Link Asia/Riyadh88 Mideast/Riyadh88 diff --git a/timezone/solar89 b/timezone/solar89 index a6d3d718d3..3c36b6a30d 100644 --- a/timezone/solar89 +++ b/timezone/solar89 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)solar89 7.4 +# @(#)solar89 7.5 # Apparent noon times below are for Riyadh; they're a bit off for other places. # Times were computed using a formula provided by the U. S. Naval Observatory: @@ -386,8 +386,8 @@ Rule sol89 1989 only - Dec 31 12:03:00s -0:03:00 - # Before and after 1989, we'll operate on local mean solar time. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Riyadh89 3:07:04 - ?? 1989 - 3:07:04 sol89 ?? 1990 - 3:07:04 - ?? +Zone Asia/Riyadh89 3:07:04 - zzz 1989 + 3:07:04 sol89 zzz 1990 + 3:07:04 - zzz # For backward compatibility... Link Asia/Riyadh89 Mideast/Riyadh89 diff --git a/timezone/southamerica b/timezone/southamerica index 6f3b081294..d348d7a475 100644 --- a/timezone/southamerica +++ b/timezone/southamerica @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)southamerica 7.59 +# @(#)southamerica 7.60 # 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-07-07): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-07-07): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1988-01-199): # ARGENTINA 3 H BEHIND UTC -# From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (1995-06-26): +# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # I am sending modifications to the Argentine time zone table... # AR was chosen because they are the ISO letters that represent Argentina. @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ Rule Arg 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1988 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S # -# From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (1995-06-26): +# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # These corrections were contributed by InterSoft Argentina S.A., # obtaining the data from the: # Talleres de Hidrografia Naval Argentina @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Rule Arg 1988 only - Dec 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Arg 1989 1993 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Arg 1989 1992 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S # -# From Hernan G. Otero <hernan@isoft.com.ar> (1995-06-26): +# From Hernan G. Otero (1995-06-26): # From this moment on, the law that mandated the daylight saving # time corrections was derogated and no more modifications # to the time zones (for daylight saving) are now made. @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # Argentina decided not to become one of the countries that go on or off DST. # So Buenos Aires should be -3 hours from GMT at all times. # -# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre <farcejofre@bigfoot.com> (2000-04-04): +# From Fabian L. Arce Jofre (2000-04-04): # The law that claimed DST for Argentina was derogated by President Fernando # 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. @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # Brazil -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # The mayor of Rio recently attempted to change the time zone rules # just in his city, in order to leave more summer time for the tourist trade. # The rule change lasted only part of the day; @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ Rule Brazil 1996 only - Feb 11 0:00 0 - # adopted by same states, minus AL, SE. Rule Brazil 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Brazil 1997 only - Feb 16 0:00 0 - -# From Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@gns.com.br> (1998-02-12): +# From Daniel C. Sobral (1998-02-12): # In 1997, the DS began on October 6. The stated reason was that # because international television networks ignored Brazil's policy on DS, # they bought the wrong times on satellite for coverage of Pope's visit. @@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 -4:00 - AST # Uruguay -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): +# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): # Uruguay wins the prize for the strangest peacetime manipulation of the rules. # From Shanks: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S diff --git a/timezone/zone.tab b/timezone/zone.tab index e3c8e39e1e..794c342a2d 100644 --- a/timezone/zone.tab +++ b/timezone/zone.tab @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -# @(#)zone.tab 1.30 +# @(#)zone.tab 1.31 # # TZ zone descriptions # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-08-05): +# From Paul Eggert (1996-08-05): # # This file contains a table with the following columns: # 1. ISO 3166 2-character country code. See the file `iso3166.tab'. |