1# @(#)asia 7.72
2
3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
6
7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22):
8#
9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
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330# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,
331# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!
332# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
333#
334# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
335# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia
336# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,
337# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
338# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
339Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880
340 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time
341 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time
342 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
343 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence
344 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time
345 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun
346 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun
347 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun
348 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT
349
350# East Timor
351
352# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
353# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
354# East Timor may be late for its millennium
355# </a> (1999-12-26/31):
356# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun
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375 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
376 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
377 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3
378 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00
379 9:00 - TPT
380
381# India
382# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
383Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880
384 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
385 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
386 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
387 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
388 5:30 - IST
389# The following are like Asia/Calcutta:
390# Andaman Is
391# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
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745#
746# As far as 2005 and beyond, no dates have been set. However, the
747# minister has mentioned that he wishes to propose to move Israel's
748# timezone in 2005 from GMT+2 to GMT+3 and upon that have DST during
749# the summer months (i.e. GMT+4). However, no legislation in this
750# direction is expected until the latter part of 2004 which is a long
751# time off in terms of Israeli politics.
752
753
754
755###############################################################################
756
757# Japan
758
759# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
760
761# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06):
762# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
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1006Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
1007 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
1008
1009# Malaysia
1010# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1011Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer
1012Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 -
1013#
1014# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1015# peninsular Malaysia
1016Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880
1017 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time
1018 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time
1019 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15
1020 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
1021 7:20 - MALT 1950
1022 7:30 - MALT 1982 May
1023 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time
1024# Sabah & Sarawak
1025Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar
1026 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time
1027 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942
1028 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
1029 8:00 - BORT 1982 May
1030 8:00 - MYT
1031
1032# Maldives
1033# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1034Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
1035 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time
1036 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time
1037
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1073#
1074# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai
1075# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov,
1076# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi
1077# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar
1078#
1079# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.]
1080
1081# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1082Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1083Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1084# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists
1085# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00.
1086# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998.
1087Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
1088Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
1089# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST.
1090Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr 27 2:00s 1:00 S
1091Rule Mongol 2001 only - Sep 28 2:00s 0 -
1092
1093# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1094# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
1095Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug
1096 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time
1097 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT
1098# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga
1099Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug
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1290 3:00 - AST
1291
1292# Saudi Arabia
1293# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1294Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950
1295 3:00 - AST
1296
1297# Singapore
1298# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1299Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880
1300 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time
1301 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time
1302 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15
1303 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
1304 7:20 - MALT 1950
1305 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence
1306 7:30 - SGT 1982 May # Singapore Time
1307 8:00 - SGT
1308
1309# Spratly Is
1310# no information
1311
1312# Sri Lanka
1313# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
1314# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout"
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2
3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
6
7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22):
8#
9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
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330# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,
331# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!
332# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
333#
334# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
335# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia
336# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,
337# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
338# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
339Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880
340 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time
341 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time
342 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
343 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence
344 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time
345 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun
346 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun
347 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun
348 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT
349
350# East Timor
351
352# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
353# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
354# East Timor may be late for its millennium
355# </a> (1999-12-26/31):
356# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun
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375 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
376 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
377 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3
378 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00
379 9:00 - TPT
380
381# India
382# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
383Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880
384 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
385 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
386 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
387 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
388 5:30 - IST
389# The following are like Asia/Calcutta:
390# Andaman Is
391# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
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745#
746# As far as 2005 and beyond, no dates have been set. However, the
747# minister has mentioned that he wishes to propose to move Israel's
748# timezone in 2005 from GMT+2 to GMT+3 and upon that have DST during
749# the summer months (i.e. GMT+4). However, no legislation in this
750# direction is expected until the latter part of 2004 which is a long
751# time off in terms of Israeli politics.
752
753
754
755###############################################################################
756
757# Japan
758
759# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
760
761# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06):
762# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
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1006Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
1007 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
1008
1009# Malaysia
1010# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1011Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer
1012Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 -
1013#
1014# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1015# peninsular Malaysia
1016Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880
1017 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time
1018 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time
1019 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15
1020 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
1021 7:20 - MALT 1950
1022 7:30 - MALT 1982 May
1023 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time
1024# Sabah & Sarawak
1025Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar
1026 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time
1027 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942
1028 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
1029 8:00 - BORT 1982 May
1030 8:00 - MYT
1031
1032# Maldives
1033# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1034Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
1035 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time
1036 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time
1037
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1073#
1074# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai
1075# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov,
1076# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi
1077# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar
1078#
1079# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.]
1080
1081# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1082Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1083Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1084# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists
1085# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00.
1086# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998.
1087Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
1088Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
1089# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST.
1090Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr 27 2:00s 1:00 S
1091Rule Mongol 2001 only - Sep 28 2:00s 0 -
1092
1093# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1094# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
1095Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug
1096 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time
1097 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT
1098# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga
1099Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug
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1290 3:00 - AST
1291
1292# Saudi Arabia
1293# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1294Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950
1295 3:00 - AST
1296
1297# Singapore
1298# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1299Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880
1300 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time
1301 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time
1302 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15
1303 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
1304 7:20 - MALT 1950
1305 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence
1306 7:30 - SGT 1982 May # Singapore Time
1307 8:00 - SGT
1308
1309# Spratly Is
1310# no information
1311
1312# Sri Lanka
1313# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
1314# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout"
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