1# @(#)asia 7.77
| 1# @(#)asia 7.84
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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
| 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):
| 7# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22):
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8#
9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
12#
13# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
14# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
15# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
16# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
17# of the IATA's data after 1990.
18#
19# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990,
20# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
21#
22# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
23# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
24# I found in the UCLA library.
25#
26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
28#
29# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
30# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
31# Corrections are welcome!
32# std dst
33# LMT Local Mean Time
34# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time
35# 2:00 IST IDT Israel
36# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia*
37# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran
38# 4:00 GST Gulf*
39# 5:30 IST India
40# 7:00 ICT Indochina*
41# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia
42# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia
43# 8:00 CST China
44# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
45# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia
46# 9:00 JST Japan
47# 9:00 KST Korea
48# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time
49#
50# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
51
52# From Guy Harris:
53# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
54# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
55# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
56# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses.
57
58###############################################################################
59
60# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.
61# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
62Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S
63Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 -
64Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
65Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
66Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
67Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
68Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
69Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
70Rule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
71Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
72Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
73Rule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
74Rule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
75Rule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
76
77# Afghanistan
78# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
79Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890
80 4:00 - AFT 1945
81 4:30 - AFT
82
83# Armenia
84# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
85# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991,
86# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997.
87# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz
88# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
89# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
90# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
91# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
92# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
93Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2
94 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time
95 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
96 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence
97 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s
98 4:00 - AMT 1997
99 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT
100
101# Azerbaijan
102# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
103Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S
104Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 -
105# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
106Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
107 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time
108 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
109 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence
| 8#
9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
12#
13# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
14# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
15# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
16# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
17# of the IATA's data after 1990.
18#
19# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990,
20# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
21#
22# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
23# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
24# I found in the UCLA library.
25#
26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
28#
29# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
30# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
31# Corrections are welcome!
32# std dst
33# LMT Local Mean Time
34# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time
35# 2:00 IST IDT Israel
36# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia*
37# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran
38# 4:00 GST Gulf*
39# 5:30 IST India
40# 7:00 ICT Indochina*
41# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia
42# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia
43# 8:00 CST China
44# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
45# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia
46# 9:00 JST Japan
47# 9:00 KST Korea
48# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time
49#
50# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
51
52# From Guy Harris:
53# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
54# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
55# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
56# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses.
57
58###############################################################################
59
60# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.
61# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
62Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S
63Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 -
64Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
65Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
66Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
67Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
68Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
69Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
70Rule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
71Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
72Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
73Rule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
74Rule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
75Rule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
76
77# Afghanistan
78# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
79Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890
80 4:00 - AFT 1945
81 4:30 - AFT
82
83# Armenia
84# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
85# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991,
86# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997.
87# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz
88# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
89# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
90# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
91# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
92# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
93Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2
94 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time
95 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
96 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence
97 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s
98 4:00 - AMT 1997
99 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT
100
101# Azerbaijan
102# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
103Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S
104Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 -
105# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
106Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
107 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time
108 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
109 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence
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110 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s
| 110 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00
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111 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time
112 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997
113 4:00 Azer AZ%sT
114
115# Bahrain
116# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
117Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah
118 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
119 3:00 - AST
120
121# Bangladesh
122# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
123Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890
124 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
125 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
126 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
127 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30
128 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time
129 6:00 - BDT # Bangladesh Time
130
131# Bhutan
132# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
133Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu
134 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct
135 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time
136
137# British Indian Ocean Territory
138# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the
139# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996.
| 111 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time
112 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997
113 4:00 Azer AZ%sT
114
115# Bahrain
116# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
117Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah
118 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
119 3:00 - AST
120
121# Bangladesh
122# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
123Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890
124 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
125 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
126 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
127 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30
128 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time
129 6:00 - BDT # Bangladesh Time
130
131# Bhutan
132# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
133Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu
134 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct
135 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time
136
137# British Indian Ocean Territory
138# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the
139# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996.
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| 140# We have no information as to when standard time was introduced;
141# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which
142# then contained the Chagos Archipelago).
|
140# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 143# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
|
141Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time
| 144Zone Indian/Chagos 4:49:40 - LMT 1907
145 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time
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142 6:00 - IOT
143
144# Brunei
145# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
146Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan
147 7:30 - BNT 1933
148 8:00 - BNT
149
150# Burma / Myanmar
151# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
152Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon
153 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time?
154 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time
155 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3
156 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time
157
158# Cambodia
159# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
160Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
161 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
162 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
163 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
164 7:00 - ICT
165
166# China
167
168# From Guy Harris:
169# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone.
170
171# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
172# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though
173# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
174# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China
175# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
176# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it.
177#
178# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
179# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for
180# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
181#
182# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14
183# 1987 mid-April - ??
184
185# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
186# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
187# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10
188
| 146 6:00 - IOT
147
148# Brunei
149# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
150Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan
151 7:30 - BNT 1933
152 8:00 - BNT
153
154# Burma / Myanmar
155# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
156Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon
157 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time?
158 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time
159 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3
160 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time
161
162# Cambodia
163# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
164Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
165 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
166 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
167 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
168 7:00 - ICT
169
170# China
171
172# From Guy Harris:
173# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone.
174
175# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
176# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though
177# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
178# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China
179# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
180# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it.
181#
182# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
183# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for
184# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
185#
186# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14
187# 1987 mid-April - ??
188
189# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
190# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
191# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10
192
|
189# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19):
| 193# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
|
190# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1,
191# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's
192# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.
193# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones.
194
195# From Shanks:
196# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
197Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
198Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
199Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D
| 194# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1,
195# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's
196# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.
197# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones.
198
199# From Shanks:
200# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
201Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
202Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
203Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D
|
200Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S
| |
201Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D
202Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S
203Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D
204#
205# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
206#
207# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20):
208# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five
209# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official
210# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949):
211# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
212Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
213 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time
214 8:00 - CST 1940
215 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May
216 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May
217 8:00 PRC C%sT
218# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time")
219Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928
220 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949
221 8:00 PRC C%sT
222# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area)
223Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking
224 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time
225 8:00 PRC C%sT
226# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time")
227Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi
228 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time
229 8:00 PRC C%sT
230# Kunlun Time
231Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
232 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time
233 5:00 - KAST 1980 May
234 8:00 PRC C%sT
235
236# Hong Kong (Xianggang)
237# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
238Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S
239Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 -
240Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S
241Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 -
242Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S
243Rule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 -
244Rule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S
245Rule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 -
246Rule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S
247Rule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 -
248Rule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
249Rule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
250Rule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
251Rule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S
252Rule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
253# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
254Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30
255 8:00 HK HK%sT
256
257
258###############################################################################
259
260# Taiwan
261
262# Shanks writes that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it
263# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't
264# have any other information.
265
266# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
267Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
268Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
269Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D
270Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
271Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
272Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
273Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
274Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
275Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
276Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D
277Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
278# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
279Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei
280 8:00 Taiwan C%sT
281
282# Macau (Macao, Aomen)
283# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
284Rule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
285Rule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
286Rule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
287Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
288Rule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
289Rule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 -
290Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
291Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
292Rule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
293Rule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
294Rule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 -
295Rule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S
296Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
297Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
298# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
299Zone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912
300 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China
301 8:00 PRC C%sT
302
303
304###############################################################################
305
306# Cyprus
307# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
308Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S
309Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 -
310Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S
311Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 -
312Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
313Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
314Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
315Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
316Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
317# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
318Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14
319 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep
320 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT
321# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time.
322
323# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
324# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.
325Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia
326
327# Georgia
| 204Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D
205Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S
206Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D
207#
208# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
209#
210# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20):
211# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five
212# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official
213# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949):
214# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
215Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
216 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time
217 8:00 - CST 1940
218 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May
219 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May
220 8:00 PRC C%sT
221# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time")
222Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928
223 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949
224 8:00 PRC C%sT
225# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area)
226Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking
227 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time
228 8:00 PRC C%sT
229# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time")
230Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi
231 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time
232 8:00 PRC C%sT
233# Kunlun Time
234Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
235 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time
236 5:00 - KAST 1980 May
237 8:00 PRC C%sT
238
239# Hong Kong (Xianggang)
240# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
241Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S
242Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 -
243Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S
244Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 -
245Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S
246Rule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 -
247Rule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S
248Rule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 -
249Rule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S
250Rule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 -
251Rule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
252Rule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
253Rule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
254Rule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S
255Rule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
256# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
257Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30
258 8:00 HK HK%sT
259
260
261###############################################################################
262
263# Taiwan
264
265# Shanks writes that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it
266# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't
267# have any other information.
268
269# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
270Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
271Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
272Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D
273Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
274Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
275Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
276Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
277Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
278Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
279Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D
280Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
281# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
282Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei
283 8:00 Taiwan C%sT
284
285# Macau (Macao, Aomen)
286# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
287Rule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
288Rule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
289Rule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
290Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
291Rule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
292Rule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 -
293Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
294Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
295Rule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
296Rule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
297Rule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 -
298Rule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S
299Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
300Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
301# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
302Zone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912
303 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China
304 8:00 PRC C%sT
305
306
307###############################################################################
308
309# Cyprus
310# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
311Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S
312Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 -
313Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S
314Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 -
315Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
316Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
317Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
318Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
319Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
320# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
321Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14
322 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep
323 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT
324# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time.
325
326# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
327# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.
328Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia
329
330# Georgia
|
328# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19):
| 331# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19):
|
329# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward
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#
| 332# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward
333# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,
334# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!
335# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
336#
|
334# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
| 337# From Mathew Englander, 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#
339# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27):
| 338# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia
339# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,
340# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
341#
342# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27):
|
340#
| 343#
|
341# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet
342# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it
343# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours
344# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia,
345# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process
346# of integration into Europe.
347
348# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
349Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880
350 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time
351 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time
352 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
353 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence
354 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time
355 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun
356 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun
357 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun
358 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27
359 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT
360
361# East Timor
362
363# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
364# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
365# East Timor may be late for its millennium
366# </a> (1999-12-26/31):
367# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun
368# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the
369# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it
370# conflicts with their way of life.
371
372# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
373# We don't have any record of the above attempt.
374# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data.
375
376# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html">
377# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General
378# (2000-08-16)</a>:
379# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided
380# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change,
381# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at
382# midnight on Saturday, September 16.
383
384# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
385Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912
| 344# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet
345# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it
346# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours
347# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia,
348# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process
349# of integration into Europe.
350
351# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
352Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880
353 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time
354 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time
355 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
356 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence
357 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time
358 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun
359 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun
360 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun
361 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27
362 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT
363
364# East Timor
365
366# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
367# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
368# East Timor may be late for its millennium
369# </a> (1999-12-26/31):
370# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun
371# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the
372# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it
373# conflicts with their way of life.
374
375# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
376# We don't have any record of the above attempt.
377# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data.
378
379# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html">
380# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General
381# (2000-08-16)</a>:
382# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided
383# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change,
384# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at
385# midnight on Saturday, September 16.
386
387# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
388Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912
|
386 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
| 389 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
|
387 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
| 390 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
|
388 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3
| 391 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3
|
389 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00
| 392 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00
|
390 9:00 - TPT
| 393 9:00 - TLT
|
391
392# India
393# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
394Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata
395 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
396 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
397 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
398 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
399 5:30 - IST
400# The following are like Asia/Calcutta:
401# Andaman Is
402# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
403# Nicobar Is
404
405# Indonesia
406#
407# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks:
408# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime>
409# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some
410# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat
411# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7.
412#
413# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
414Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10
415# Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13,
416# but this must be a typo.
417 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta
418 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time
419 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23
420 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
421 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
422 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
423 7:30 - WIT 1964
424 7:00 - WIT
425Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May
426 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT
427 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29
428 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
429 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
430 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
431 7:30 - WIT 1964
432 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1
433 7:00 - WIT
434Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920
435 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT
436 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9
437 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
438 8:00 - CIT
439Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
440 9:00 - EIT 1944
441 9:30 - CST 1964
442 9:00 - EIT
443
444# Iran
445
446# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15):
447# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian).
448# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine:
449#
450# Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16]
451# No. 16760/T233 H 1370/6/10 [1991-09-01]
452#
453# The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country
454#
455# The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14],
456# based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13]
457# of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs,
458# and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers
459# and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and
460# for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that:
461#
462# The official time of the country will should move forward one hour
463# at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return
464# to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of
465# Shahrivar.
466#
467# First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi
468#
469# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed
470# for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the
471# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last
472# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates....
473# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct
474# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time.
| 394
395# India
396# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
397Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata
398 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
399 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
400 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
401 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
402 5:30 - IST
403# The following are like Asia/Calcutta:
404# Andaman Is
405# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
406# Nicobar Is
407
408# Indonesia
409#
410# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks:
411# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime>
412# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some
413# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat
414# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7.
415#
416# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
417Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10
418# Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13,
419# but this must be a typo.
420 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta
421 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time
422 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23
423 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
424 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
425 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
426 7:30 - WIT 1964
427 7:00 - WIT
428Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May
429 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT
430 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29
431 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
432 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
433 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
434 7:30 - WIT 1964
435 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1
436 7:00 - WIT
437Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920
438 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT
439 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9
440 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
441 8:00 - CIT
442Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
443 9:00 - EIT 1944
444 9:30 - CST 1964
445 9:00 - EIT
446
447# Iran
448
449# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15):
450# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian).
451# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine:
452#
453# Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16]
454# No. 16760/T233 H 1370/6/10 [1991-09-01]
455#
456# The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country
457#
458# The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14],
459# based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13]
460# of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs,
461# and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers
462# and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and
463# for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that:
464#
465# The official time of the country will should move forward one hour
466# at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return
467# to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of
468# Shahrivar.
469#
470# First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi
471#
472# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed
473# for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the
474# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last
475# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates....
476# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct
477# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time.
|
475
476# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-15)
| 478#
479# From Roozbeh Pournader (2005-04-05):
480# The text of the Iranian law, in effect since 1925, clearly mentions
481# that the true solar year is the measure, and there is no arithmetic
482# leap year calculation involved. There has never been any serious
483# plan to change that law....
484#
485# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-05):
|
477# Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter.
| 486# Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter.
|
478# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates.
479# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050
480# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow.
| 487# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates,
488# stopping after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow.
489# That cal-persia used Birashk's approximation, which disagrees with the solar
490# calendar predictions for the year 2025, so I corrected those dates by hand.
|
481#
| 491#
|
| 492# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-03-30), writing about future
493# discrepancies between cal-persia and the Iranian calendar:
494# For 2091 solar-longitude-after yields 2091-03-20 08:40:07.7 UT for
495# the vernal equinox and that gets so close to 12:00 some local
496# Iranian time that the definition of the correct location needs to be
497# known exactly, amongst other factors. 2157 is even closer:
498# 2157-03-20 08:37:15.5 UT. But the Gregorian year 2025 should give
499# no interpretation problem whatsoever. By the way, another instant
500# in the near future where there will be a discrepancy between
501# arithmetical and astronomical Iranian calendars will be in 2058:
502# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of
503# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date
504# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical).
505#
|
482# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
483Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
484Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S
485Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S
486Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S
487Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 D
488Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
489Rule Iran 1991 1995 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
490Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
491Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
492Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
493Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
494Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
495Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
496Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
497Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
498Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
499Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
500Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
501Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
502Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
503Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
504Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
505Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
506Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
507Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
508Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
509Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
510Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
511Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
512Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
513Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
514Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
515Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
516Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
517Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
| 506# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
507Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
508Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S
509Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S
510Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S
511Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 D
512Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
513Rule Iran 1991 1995 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
514Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
515Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
516Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
517Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
518Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
519Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
520Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
521Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
522Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
523Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
524Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
525Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
526Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
527Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
528Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
529Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
530Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
531Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
532Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
533Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
534Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
535Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
536Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
537Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
538Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
539Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
540Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
541Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
|
518Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
519Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
520Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
521Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
| 542Rule Iran 2024 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
543Rule Iran 2024 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
544Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
545Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
|
522Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
523Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
524Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
525Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
526Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
527Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
528Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
529Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
530Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
531Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
532# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
533Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916
534 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time
535 3:30 - IRST 1977 Nov
536 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979
537 3:30 Iran IR%sT
538
539
540# Iraq
541#
| 546Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
547Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
548Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
549Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
550Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
551Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
552Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
553Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
554Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
555Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
556# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
557Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916
558 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time
559 3:30 - IRST 1977 Nov
560 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979
561 3:30 Iran IR%sT
562
563
564# Iraq
565#
|
542# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12):
| 566# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12):
|
543# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
544# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph:
545# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and
546# are an hour ahead of Baghdad."
547#
548# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows:
549# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi
550# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred
551# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone
552# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq.
553#
554# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim.
555
556# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
557Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
558Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
559Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
560Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
561Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S
562Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D
563# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo.
564# Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this.
565Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D
566Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S
567# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
568Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890
569 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time?
570 3:00 - AST 1982 May
571 3:00 Iraq A%sT
572
573
574###############################################################################
575
576# Israel
577
578# From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11):
579#
580# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three
581# different abbreviations in use:
582#
583# JST Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University]
584# IZT Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion]
585# EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else]
586#
587# Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities,
588# I ruled out JST. As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe,
589# EEST was equally unacceptable. Since "zonal" was not compatible with
590# any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go
591# and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone
592# settings in Israeli computers.
593#
594# In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India,
595# high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's
596# family is from India).
597
598# From Shanks:
599# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
600Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
601Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
602Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
603Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
604Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
605Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
606Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D
607Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
608Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD
609Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D
610Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
611Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
612Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
613Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S
614Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
615Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S
616Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D
617Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S
618Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D
619Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S
620Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D
621Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S
622Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D
623Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S
624Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
625Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S
626Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D
627Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
628Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D
629Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S
630Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D
631Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S
632Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D
633Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
634Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D
635Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S
636Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
637Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
638Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D
639Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
640
| 567# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
568# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph:
569# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and
570# are an hour ahead of Baghdad."
571#
572# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows:
573# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi
574# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred
575# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone
576# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq.
577#
578# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim.
579
580# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
581Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
582Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
583Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
584Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
585Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S
586Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D
587# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo.
588# Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this.
589Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D
590Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S
591# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
592Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890
593 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time?
594 3:00 - AST 1982 May
595 3:00 Iraq A%sT
596
597
598###############################################################################
599
600# Israel
601
602# From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11):
603#
604# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three
605# different abbreviations in use:
606#
607# JST Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University]
608# IZT Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion]
609# EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else]
610#
611# Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities,
612# I ruled out JST. As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe,
613# EEST was equally unacceptable. Since "zonal" was not compatible with
614# any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go
615# and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone
616# settings in Israeli computers.
617#
618# In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India,
619# high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's
620# family is from India).
621
622# From Shanks:
623# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
624Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
625Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
626Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
627Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
628Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
629Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
630Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D
631Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
632Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD
633Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D
634Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
635Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
636Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
637Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S
638Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
639Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S
640Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D
641Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S
642Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D
643Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S
644Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D
645Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S
646Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D
647Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S
648Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
649Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S
650Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D
651Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
652Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D
653Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S
654Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D
655Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S
656Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D
657Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
658Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D
659Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S
660Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
661Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
662Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D
663Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
664
|
641# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il>
642# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25):
| 665# From Ephraim Silverberg
666# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22,
667# and 2005-02-17):
|
643
644# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of
645# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
646# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150
647# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to
648# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to
649# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a
650# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard
651# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard
652# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid
653# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to
654# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from
655# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time
656# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for
657# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was
658# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it
659# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all
660# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no
661# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date
662# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve
663# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date
664# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]
665# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar).
666
667# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
668Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
669Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
670Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D
671Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S
672Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D
673Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S
674Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D
675Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
676Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D
677Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S
678
679# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the
680# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by
681# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448.
682
683# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
684Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
685Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S
686Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
687Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
688
689# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
690# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998
691# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at:
692#
| 668
669# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of
670# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
671# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150
672# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to
673# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to
674# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a
675# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard
676# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard
677# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid
678# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to
679# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from
680# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time
681# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for
682# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was
683# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it
684# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all
685# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no
686# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date
687# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve
688# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date
689# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]
690# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar).
691
692# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
693Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
694Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
695Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D
696Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S
697Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D
698Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S
699Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D
700Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
701Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D
702Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S
703
704# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the
705# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by
706# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448.
707
708# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
709Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
710Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S
711Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
712Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
713
714# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
715# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998
716# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at:
717#
|
693# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz
| 718# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz
|
694#
695# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa.
696#
697# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at:
698#
| 719#
720# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa.
721#
722# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at:
723#
|
699# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz
| 724# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz
|
700#
701# where YYYY is the relevant year.
702
703# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
704Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D
705Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S
706Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
707Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S
708Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D
709Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
710Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D
711Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S
712
713# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for
714# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the
715# years 2001-2004 as well.
716#
717# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at:
718#
| 725#
726# where YYYY is the relevant year.
727
728# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
729Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D
730Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S
731Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
732Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S
733Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D
734Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
735Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D
736Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S
737
738# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for
739# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the
740# years 2001-2004 as well.
741#
742# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at:
743#
|
719# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz
| 744# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz
|
720#
721# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates
722# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at:
723#
| 745#
746# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates
747# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at:
748#
|
724# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz
| 749# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz
|
725
726# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
727Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
728Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S
729Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D
730Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S
731Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D
732Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S
733Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D
734Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S
735Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D
736Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S
737
| 750
751# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
752Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
753Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S
754Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D
755Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S
756Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D
757Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S
758Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D
759Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S
760Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D
761Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S
762
|
738# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25):
739# Here are guesses for rules after 2004.
740# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all.
741# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
742Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D
743Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S
| 763# The proposed law agreed upon by the Knesset Interior Committee on
764# 2005-02-14 is that, for 2005 and beyond, DST starts at 02:00 the
765# last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April
766# 1st itself if it falls on a Friday) and ends at 02:00 on the Saturday
767# night _before_ the fast of Yom Kippur.
768#
769# Those who can read Hebrew can view the announcement at:
770#
771# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps
|
744
| 772
|
| 773# From Paul Eggert (2005-02-22):
774# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program
775# <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (2005-02-20)
776# along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4,
777# to generate the transitions in this list.
778# (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.)
779# The spring transitions below all correspond to the following Rule:
780#
781# Rule Zion 2005 max - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
782#
783# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support
784# "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the
785# springtime transitions explicitly.
786
787# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
788Rule Zion 2005 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
789Rule Zion 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S
790Rule Zion 2006 2010 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
791Rule Zion 2006 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S
792Rule Zion 2007 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S
793Rule Zion 2008 only - Oct 5 2:00 0 S
794Rule Zion 2009 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S
795Rule Zion 2010 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S
796Rule Zion 2011 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
797Rule Zion 2011 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S
798Rule Zion 2012 2015 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
799Rule Zion 2012 only - Sep 23 2:00 0 S
800Rule Zion 2013 only - Sep 8 2:00 0 S
801Rule Zion 2014 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S
802Rule Zion 2015 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S
803Rule Zion 2016 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
804Rule Zion 2016 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S
805Rule Zion 2017 2021 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
806Rule Zion 2017 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S
807Rule Zion 2018 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S
808Rule Zion 2019 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S
809Rule Zion 2020 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S
810Rule Zion 2021 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S
811Rule Zion 2022 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
812Rule Zion 2022 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S
813Rule Zion 2023 2032 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
814Rule Zion 2023 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S
815Rule Zion 2024 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S
816Rule Zion 2025 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S
817Rule Zion 2026 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S
818Rule Zion 2027 only - Oct 10 2:00 0 S
819Rule Zion 2028 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S
820Rule Zion 2029 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S
821Rule Zion 2030 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S
822Rule Zion 2031 only - Sep 21 2:00 0 S
823Rule Zion 2032 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S
824Rule Zion 2033 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
825Rule Zion 2033 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S
826Rule Zion 2034 2037 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
827Rule Zion 2034 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S
828Rule Zion 2035 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 S
829Rule Zion 2036 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S
830Rule Zion 2037 only - Sep 13 2:00 0 S
831
|
745# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
746Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880
747 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time?
748 2:00 Zion I%sT
749
| 832# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
833Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880
834 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time?
835 2:00 Zion I%sT
836
|
750# From Ephraim Silverberg (2003-03-23):
751#
752# Minister of Interior Poraz has announced that he will respect the law
753# passed in July 2000 (proposed at the time jointly by himself and
754# then-MK David Azulai [Shas]) fixing the dates for 2000-2004. Hence,
755# the dates for 2003 and 2004 remain unchanged....
756#
757# As far as 2005 and beyond, no dates have been set. However, the
758# minister has mentioned that he wishes to propose to move Israel's
759# timezone in 2005 from GMT+2 to GMT+3 and upon that have DST during
760# the summer months (i.e. GMT+4). However, no legislation in this
761# direction is expected until the latter part of 2004 which is a long
762# time off in terms of Israeli politics.
| |
763
| 837
|
764# (2004-09-20):
765# The latest rumour, however, is that in 2005, when the clock changes to
766# Daylight Saving Time (date as yet unknown), the move will be a two-hour leap
767# forward (from UTC+0200 to UTC+0400) and then, in the fall, the clock will
768# move back only an hour to UTC+0300 thus effectively moving Israel's timezone
769# from UTC+0200 to UTC+0300. However, no actual draft has been put before the
770# Knesset (Israel's Parliament) though the intention is to do so this
771# month [2004-09].
| |
772
| 838
|
773# (2004-09-26):
774# Even though the draft law for the above did pass the Ministerial Committee
775# for Legislative Matters three months ago, it was voted down in today's
776# Cabinet meeting. The current suggestion is to keep the current timezone at
777# UTC+0200 but have an extended period of Daylight Saving Time (UTC+0300) from
778# the beginning of Passover holiday in the spring to after the Tabernacle
779# holiday in the fall (i.e. the dates of which are governed by the Hebrew
780# calendar but this means at least 184 days of DST). However, this is only a
781# suggestion that was raised in today's cabinet meeting and has not yet been
782# drafted.
783
784
785
| |
786###############################################################################
787
788# Japan
789
790# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
791
| 839###############################################################################
840
841# Japan
842
843# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
844
|
792# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06):
| 845# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06):
|
793# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
794# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued
795# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.''
796# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows:
797# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
798#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
799#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S
800#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
801#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
802# but the only locations using it were US military bases.
803# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo.
804
805# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09):
806# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical
807# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0.
808# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996'
809# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan....
810# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST).
811# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07.
812
813# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16):
814# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan,
815# which stands for the time on E 135 degree.
816# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central
817# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard
818# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard
819# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No.
820# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is
821# standard....
822#
823# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate.
824# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor.
825
826# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki)
827# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1.
828
829# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
830Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u
831 9:00 - JST 1896
832 9:00 - CJT 1938
833 9:00 - JST
834# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
835
836# Jordan
837#
838# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
839# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
840# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight,
841# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time
842# all year round.
843#
844# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html">
845# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09):
846# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back
847# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final!
848# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in
849# government's departments from six to seven hours.
850#
851# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
852Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S
853Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
854Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
855Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
856Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
857Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
858Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
859Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
860Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
861Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
862Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
863Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S
864Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S
865Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S
866Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 -
867Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S
868Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
869Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
870Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
871Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 -
872Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S
873Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 -
874Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S
875# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
876Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
877 2:00 Jordan EE%sT
878
| 846# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
847# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued
848# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.''
849# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows:
850# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
851#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
852#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S
853#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
854#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
855# but the only locations using it were US military bases.
856# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo.
857
858# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09):
859# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical
860# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0.
861# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996'
862# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan....
863# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST).
864# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07.
865
866# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16):
867# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan,
868# which stands for the time on E 135 degree.
869# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central
870# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard
871# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard
872# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No.
873# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is
874# standard....
875#
876# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate.
877# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor.
878
879# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki)
880# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1.
881
882# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
883Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u
884 9:00 - JST 1896
885 9:00 - CJT 1938
886 9:00 - JST
887# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
888
889# Jordan
890#
891# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
892# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
893# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight,
894# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time
895# all year round.
896#
897# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html">
898# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09):
899# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back
900# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final!
901# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in
902# government's departments from six to seven hours.
903#
904# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
905Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S
906Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
907Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
908Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
909Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
910Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
911Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
912Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
913Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
914Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
915Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
916Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S
917Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S
918Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S
919Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 -
920Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S
921Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
922Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
923Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
924Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 -
925Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S
926Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 -
927Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S
928# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
929Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
930 2:00 Jordan EE%sT
931
|
| 932
|
879# Kazakhstan
| 933# Kazakhstan
|
| 934
|
880# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
| 935# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
|
881# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
| 936# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
|
882# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk)
883# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones.
884# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time
885# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan.
| 937# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk)
938# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones.
939# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time
940# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan.
|
886#
| 941
|
887# From Paul Eggert (2001-10-18):
888# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses
889# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it.
890# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules.
891# Also go with the following claims of Shanks:
892#
893# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991.
894# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00.
895# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989.
| 942# From Paul Eggert (2001-10-18):
943# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses
944# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it.
945# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules.
946# Also go with the following claims of Shanks:
947#
948# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991.
949# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00.
950# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989.
|
| 951
952# <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm">
953# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21):
954# </a>
955# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing
956# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health
957# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity.
|
896#
| 958#
|
| 959# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28):
960# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone
961# was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has
962# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone
963# closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the
964# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau,
965# Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses
966# everything else.... I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones
967# de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively.
968
|
897#
898# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
899#
900# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan
901Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata
902 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time
903 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991
904 6:00 - ALMT 1992
| 969#
970# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
971#
972# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan
973Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata
974 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time
975 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991
976 6:00 - ALMT 1992
|
905 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT
| 977 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 2005 Mar 15
978 6:00 - ALMT
|
906# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.)
907Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2
908 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time
909 5:00 - KIZT 1981 Apr 1
910 5:00 1:00 KIZST 1981 Oct 1
911 6:00 - KIZT 1982 Apr 1
912 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991
913 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
914 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
| 979# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.)
980Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2
981 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time
982 5:00 - KIZT 1981 Apr 1
983 5:00 1:00 KIZST 1981 Oct 1
984 6:00 - KIZT 1982 Apr 1
985 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991
986 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
987 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
|
915 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT
| 988 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 2005 Mar 15
989 6:00 - QYZT
|
916# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk)
917Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
918 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time
919 5:00 - AKTT 1981 Apr 1
920 5:00 1:00 AKTST 1981 Oct 1
921 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1
922 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991
923 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
| 990# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk)
991Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
992 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time
993 5:00 - AKTT 1981 Apr 1
994 5:00 1:00 AKTST 1981 Oct 1
995 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1
996 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991
997 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
|
924 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT # Aqtobe Time
| 998 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time
999 5:00 - AQTT
|
925# Mangghystau
926# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region,
927# so include time stamps before 1963.
928Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2
929 4:00 - FORT 1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T
930 5:00 - FORT 1963
931 5:00 - SHET 1981 Oct 1 # Shevchenko Time
932 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1
933 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991
934 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence
935 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time
| 1000# Mangghystau
1001# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region,
1002# so include time stamps before 1963.
1003Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2
1004 4:00 - FORT 1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T
1005 5:00 - FORT 1963
1006 5:00 - SHET 1981 Oct 1 # Shevchenko Time
1007 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1
1008 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991
1009 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence
1010 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time
|
936 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT
| 1011 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15
1012 5:00 - AQTT
|
937# West Kazakhstan
938Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk
939 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time
940 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1
941 5:00 1:00 URAST 1981 Oct 1
942 6:00 - URAT 1982 Apr 1
943 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00
944 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991
945 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
| 1013# West Kazakhstan
1014Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk
1015 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time
1016 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1
1017 5:00 1:00 URAST 1981 Oct 1
1018 6:00 - URAT 1982 Apr 1
1019 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00
1020 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991
1021 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
|
946 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT # Oral Time
| 1022 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time
1023 5:00 - ORAT
|
947
948# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan)
949# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks.
| 1024
1025# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan)
1026# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks.
|
| 1027
1028# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15):
1029# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway
1030# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml>
1031# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article
1032# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC.
1033
|
950# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
951Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S
952Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
953Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S
954Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 -
955# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
956Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
957 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time
958 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
959 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence
960 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time
961
962###############################################################################
963
964# Korea (North and South)
965
966# From Guy Harris:
967# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco,
968# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know
969# at what time of day DST starts or ends.
970
971# From Shanks:
972# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
973Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D
974Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
975Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun<=14 0:00 1:00 D
976Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun<=14 0:00 0 S
977
978# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
979Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890
980 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
981 9:00 - KST 1928
982 8:30 - KST 1932
983 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
984 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10
985 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct
986 9:00 ROK K%sT
987Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890
988 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
989 9:00 - KST 1928
990 8:30 - KST 1932
991 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
992 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10
993 9:00 - KST
994
995###############################################################################
996
997# Kuwait
998# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
999Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950
1000 3:00 - AST
1001
1002# Laos
1003# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1004Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan
1005 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
1006 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
1007 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
1008 7:00 - ICT
1009
1010# Lebanon
1011# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1012Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S
1013Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 -
1014Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
1015Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
1016Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
1017Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
1018Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S
1019Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
1020Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1021Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1022Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S
1023Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1024Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1025Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
1026Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
1027Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1028Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 -
1029Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
1030Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
1031Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1032Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
1033Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
1034Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
1035Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
1036# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1037Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
1038 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
1039
1040# Malaysia
1041# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1042Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer
1043Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 -
1044#
1045# peninsular Malaysia
1046# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
1047# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
1048# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1049Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1
1050 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
1051 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time
1052 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1
1053 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1
1054 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16
1055 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
1056 7:30 - MALT 1982 Jan 1
1057 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time
1058# Sabah & Sarawak
1059# From Paul Eggert (2003-11-01):
1060# The data here are mostly from Shanks, but the 1942, 1945 and 1982
1061# transition dates are from Mok Ly Yng.
1062# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1063Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar
1064 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time
1065 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 Feb 16
1066 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
1067 8:00 - BORT 1982 Jan 1
1068 8:00 - MYT
1069
1070# Maldives
1071# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1072Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
1073 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time
1074 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time
1075
1076# Mongolia
1077
1078# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map
1079# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01)
1080# both say that it has just one.
1081
1082# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11):
1083# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm">
1084# General Information Mongolia
1085# </a> (1999-09)
1086# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of
1087# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and
1088# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus
1089# eight hours."
1090
1091# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13):
1092# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998
1093# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am
1094# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time
1095# of implementation may have been different....
1096# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time
1097# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod,
1098# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij.
1099
1100# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15):
1101# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia.
1102# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone;
1103# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us,
1104# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd
1105# is good enough for our purposes.
1106
1107# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13):
1108# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier
1109# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28),
1110# there are three time zones.
1111#
1112# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai
1113# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov,
1114# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi
1115# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar
1116#
1117# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.]
1118
| 1034# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1035Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S
1036Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
1037Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S
1038Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 -
1039# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1040Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
1041 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time
1042 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1043 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence
1044 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time
1045
1046###############################################################################
1047
1048# Korea (North and South)
1049
1050# From Guy Harris:
1051# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco,
1052# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know
1053# at what time of day DST starts or ends.
1054
1055# From Shanks:
1056# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1057Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D
1058Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
1059Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun<=14 0:00 1:00 D
1060Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun<=14 0:00 0 S
1061
1062# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1063Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890
1064 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
1065 9:00 - KST 1928
1066 8:30 - KST 1932
1067 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
1068 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10
1069 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct
1070 9:00 ROK K%sT
1071Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890
1072 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
1073 9:00 - KST 1928
1074 8:30 - KST 1932
1075 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
1076 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10
1077 9:00 - KST
1078
1079###############################################################################
1080
1081# Kuwait
1082# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1083Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950
1084 3:00 - AST
1085
1086# Laos
1087# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1088Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan
1089 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
1090 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
1091 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
1092 7:00 - ICT
1093
1094# Lebanon
1095# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1096Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S
1097Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 -
1098Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
1099Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
1100Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
1101Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
1102Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S
1103Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
1104Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1105Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1106Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S
1107Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1108Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1109Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
1110Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
1111Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1112Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 -
1113Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
1114Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
1115Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1116Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
1117Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
1118Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
1119Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
1120# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1121Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
1122 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
1123
1124# Malaysia
1125# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1126Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer
1127Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 -
1128#
1129# peninsular Malaysia
1130# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
1131# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
1132# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1133Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1
1134 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
1135 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time
1136 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1
1137 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1
1138 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16
1139 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
1140 7:30 - MALT 1982 Jan 1
1141 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time
1142# Sabah & Sarawak
1143# From Paul Eggert (2003-11-01):
1144# The data here are mostly from Shanks, but the 1942, 1945 and 1982
1145# transition dates are from Mok Ly Yng.
1146# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1147Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar
1148 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time
1149 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 Feb 16
1150 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
1151 8:00 - BORT 1982 Jan 1
1152 8:00 - MYT
1153
1154# Maldives
1155# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1156Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
1157 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time
1158 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time
1159
1160# Mongolia
1161
1162# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map
1163# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01)
1164# both say that it has just one.
1165
1166# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11):
1167# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm">
1168# General Information Mongolia
1169# </a> (1999-09)
1170# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of
1171# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and
1172# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus
1173# eight hours."
1174
1175# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13):
1176# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998
1177# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am
1178# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time
1179# of implementation may have been different....
1180# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time
1181# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod,
1182# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij.
1183
1184# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15):
1185# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia.
1186# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone;
1187# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us,
1188# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd
1189# is good enough for our purposes.
1190
1191# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13):
1192# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier
1193# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28),
1194# there are three time zones.
1195#
1196# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai
1197# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov,
1198# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi
1199# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar
1200#
1201# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.]
1202
|
1119# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar <ganbold@micom.mng.net> (2004-04-17):
| 1203# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17):
|
1120# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March.
1121# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of
1122# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001.
1123#
1124# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17):
1125# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs
1126# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them.
1127
| 1204# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March.
1205# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of
1206# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001.
1207#
1208# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17):
1209# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs
1210# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them.
1211
|
| 1212# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26):
1213# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones.
1214# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says
1215# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft
1216# Windows XP as the source. Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that
1217# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST.
1218# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in
1219# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed.
1220# He also found
1221# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&>
1222# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius"
1223# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones.
1224# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT
1225# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT.
1226# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the
1227# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session."
1228# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation.
1229
|
1128# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1129Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1130Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1131# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists
1132# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00.
1133# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998.
1134Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
1135Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
1136# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST.
1137Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
1138Rule Mongol 2001 max - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 -
1139Rule Mongol 2002 max - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
1140
1141# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1142# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
1143Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug
1144 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time
1145 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT
1146# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga
1147Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug
1148 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time
1149 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT
1150# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan,
1151# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan
1152Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug
1153 7:00 - ULAT 1978
1154 8:00 - ULAT 1983 Apr
1155 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT # Choibalsan Time
1156
1157# Nepal
1158# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1159Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
1160 5:30 - IST 1986
1161 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time
1162
1163# Oman
1164# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1165Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920
1166 4:00 - GST
1167
1168# Pakistan
1169
1170# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13):
1171# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a
1172# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002
1173# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was
1174# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the
1175# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on.
1176
1177# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15):
1178# Jesper Norgaard found this URL:
1179# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm
1180# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to
1181# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first
1182# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on
1183# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00,
1184# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like
1185# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday
1186# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the
1187# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02.
1188
1189# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09):
1190# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05
1191# that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow for now.
1192
1193# From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14):
1194# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm
1195# there will be no DST in Pakistan this year:
1196#
1197# ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh
1198# Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous
1199# decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by
1200# one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy.
1201#
1202# The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather
1203# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity.
1204
1205
1206# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1207Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S
1208Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 -
1209# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1210Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
1211 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
1212 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
1213 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30
1214 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
1215 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time
1216
1217# Palestine
1218
| 1230# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1231Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1232Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1233# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists
1234# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00.
1235# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998.
1236Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
1237Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
1238# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST.
1239Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
1240Rule Mongol 2001 max - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 -
1241Rule Mongol 2002 max - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
1242
1243# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1244# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
1245Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug
1246 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time
1247 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT
1248# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga
1249Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug
1250 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time
1251 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT
1252# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan,
1253# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan
1254Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug
1255 7:00 - ULAT 1978
1256 8:00 - ULAT 1983 Apr
1257 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT # Choibalsan Time
1258
1259# Nepal
1260# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1261Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
1262 5:30 - IST 1986
1263 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time
1264
1265# Oman
1266# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1267Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920
1268 4:00 - GST
1269
1270# Pakistan
1271
1272# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13):
1273# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a
1274# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002
1275# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was
1276# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the
1277# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on.
1278
1279# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15):
1280# Jesper Norgaard found this URL:
1281# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm
1282# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to
1283# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first
1284# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on
1285# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00,
1286# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like
1287# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday
1288# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the
1289# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02.
1290
1291# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09):
1292# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05
1293# that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow for now.
1294
1295# From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14):
1296# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm
1297# there will be no DST in Pakistan this year:
1298#
1299# ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh
1300# Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous
1301# decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by
1302# one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy.
1303#
1304# The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather
1305# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity.
1306
1307
1308# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1309Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S
1310Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 -
1311# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1312Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
1313 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
1314 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
1315 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30
1316 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
1317 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time
1318
1319# Palestine
1320
|
1219# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15):
| 1321# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15):
|
1220#
1221# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now
1222# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule.
1223# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too...
1224#
1225# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05
1226# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no
1227# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt,
1228# though.
1229#
1230# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally
1231# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from
1232# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the
1233# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major
1234# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and
1235# East Jerusalem.
1236#
1237# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except
1238# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might
1239# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware
1240# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer
1241# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected).
1242#
1243# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most
1244# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to
1245# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to
1246# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't
1247# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the
1248# Jordanian one).
1249#
1250# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that:
1251#
1252# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996-
1253# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------
1254# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion
1255# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan
1256# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan
1257#
1258# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they
1259# have one).
1260
1261# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25):
1262# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go
1263# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947,
1264# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996.
1265# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since
1266# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about
1267# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
1268# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries
1269# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules
1270# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please
1271# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions.
1272
1273# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time,
1274# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg:
1275#
1276# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time
1277# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks
1278# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule,
1279# the PA has decided to implement DST in April.
1280
1281# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
1282# Daoud Kuttab writes in
1283# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html">
1284# Holiday havoc
1285# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that
1286# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15.
1287# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source).
1288# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
1289# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
1290
1291# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
1292# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1293Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
1294Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1295Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1296Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
1297Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
1298Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
1299
1300Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S
1301Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
1302
1303# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1304Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
1305 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15
1306 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5
1307 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996
1308 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999
1309 2:00 Palestine EE%sT
1310
1311# Paracel Is
1312# no information
1313
1314# Philippines
1315# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the
1316# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to
1317# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a
1318# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>.
1319# The rest of this data is from Shanks.
1320# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1321Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S
1322Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 -
1323Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S
1324Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 -
1325Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S
1326Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
1327# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1328Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
1329 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11
1330 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May
1331 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov
1332 8:00 Phil PH%sT
1333
1334# Qatar
1335# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1336Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha
1337 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
1338 3:00 - AST
1339
1340# Saudi Arabia
1341# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1342Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950
1343 3:00 - AST
1344
1345# Singapore
1346# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
1347# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
1348# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1349Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1
1350 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
1351 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time
1352 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1
1353 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1
1354 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16
1355 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
1356 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence
1357 7:30 - SGT 1982 Jan 1 # Singapore Time
1358 8:00 - SGT
1359
1360# Spratly Is
1361# no information
1362
1363# Sri Lanka
1364# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
1365# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout"
1366# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24,
1367# no longer available as of 1999-08-17)
1368# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at
1369# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.''
1370#
1371# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted
1372# by Shamindra in
1373# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net">
1374# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26)
1375# </a>:
1376# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996
1377# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT.
1378
1379# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1380Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880
1381 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time
1382 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5
1383 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep
1384 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00
1385 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00
1386 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30
1387 6:00 - LKT
1388
1389# Syria
1390# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1391Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
1392Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
1393Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S
1394Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1395Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
1396Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1397Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1398Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1399Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S
1400Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1401Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
1402Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 -
1403Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S
1404Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1405Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S
1406Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 -
1407Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S
1408Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 -
1409Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S
1410Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S
1411Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1412Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S
1413Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1414Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1415Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1416Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S
1417Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
1418Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
1419# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
1420# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
1421# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31;
1422# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks.
1423Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1424Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1425Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S
1426Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1427# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1428Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq
1429 2:00 Syria EE%sT
1430
1431# Tajikistan
1432# From Shanks.
1433# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1434Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1435 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time
1436 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1437 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s
1438 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time
1439
1440# Thailand
1441# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1442Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880
1443 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time
1444 7:00 - ICT
1445
1446# Turkmenistan
1447# From Shanks.
1448# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1449Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad
1450 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time
1451 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00
1452 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence
1453 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
1454 5:00 - TMT
1455
1456# United Arab Emirates
1457# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1458Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920
1459 4:00 - GST
1460
1461# Uzbekistan
1462# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1463Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1464 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time
1465 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1
1466 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1
1467 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time
1468 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
1469 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
1470 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
1471 5:00 - UZT
1472Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1473 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time
1474 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1475 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
1476 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
1477 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
1478 5:00 - UZT
1479
1480# Vietnam
| 1322#
1323# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now
1324# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule.
1325# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too...
1326#
1327# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05
1328# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no
1329# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt,
1330# though.
1331#
1332# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally
1333# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from
1334# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the
1335# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major
1336# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and
1337# East Jerusalem.
1338#
1339# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except
1340# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might
1341# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware
1342# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer
1343# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected).
1344#
1345# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most
1346# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to
1347# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to
1348# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't
1349# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the
1350# Jordanian one).
1351#
1352# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that:
1353#
1354# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996-
1355# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------
1356# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion
1357# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan
1358# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan
1359#
1360# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they
1361# have one).
1362
1363# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25):
1364# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go
1365# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947,
1366# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996.
1367# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since
1368# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about
1369# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
1370# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries
1371# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules
1372# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please
1373# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions.
1374
1375# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time,
1376# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg:
1377#
1378# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time
1379# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks
1380# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule,
1381# the PA has decided to implement DST in April.
1382
1383# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
1384# Daoud Kuttab writes in
1385# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html">
1386# Holiday havoc
1387# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that
1388# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15.
1389# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source).
1390# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
1391# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
1392
1393# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
1394# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1395Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
1396Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1397Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1398Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
1399Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
1400Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
1401
1402Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S
1403Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
1404
1405# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1406Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
1407 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15
1408 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5
1409 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996
1410 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999
1411 2:00 Palestine EE%sT
1412
1413# Paracel Is
1414# no information
1415
1416# Philippines
1417# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the
1418# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to
1419# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a
1420# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>.
1421# The rest of this data is from Shanks.
1422# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1423Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S
1424Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 -
1425Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S
1426Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 -
1427Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S
1428Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
1429# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1430Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
1431 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11
1432 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May
1433 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov
1434 8:00 Phil PH%sT
1435
1436# Qatar
1437# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1438Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha
1439 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
1440 3:00 - AST
1441
1442# Saudi Arabia
1443# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1444Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950
1445 3:00 - AST
1446
1447# Singapore
1448# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
1449# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
1450# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1451Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1
1452 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
1453 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time
1454 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1
1455 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1
1456 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16
1457 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
1458 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence
1459 7:30 - SGT 1982 Jan 1 # Singapore Time
1460 8:00 - SGT
1461
1462# Spratly Is
1463# no information
1464
1465# Sri Lanka
1466# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
1467# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout"
1468# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24,
1469# no longer available as of 1999-08-17)
1470# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at
1471# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.''
1472#
1473# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted
1474# by Shamindra in
1475# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net">
1476# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26)
1477# </a>:
1478# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996
1479# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT.
1480
1481# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1482Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880
1483 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time
1484 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5
1485 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep
1486 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00
1487 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00
1488 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30
1489 6:00 - LKT
1490
1491# Syria
1492# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1493Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
1494Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
1495Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S
1496Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1497Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
1498Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1499Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1500Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1501Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S
1502Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1503Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
1504Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 -
1505Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S
1506Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1507Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S
1508Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 -
1509Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S
1510Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 -
1511Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S
1512Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S
1513Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1514Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S
1515Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1516Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1517Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1518Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S
1519Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
1520Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
1521# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
1522# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
1523# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31;
1524# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks.
1525Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1526Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1527Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S
1528Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1529# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1530Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq
1531 2:00 Syria EE%sT
1532
1533# Tajikistan
1534# From Shanks.
1535# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1536Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1537 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time
1538 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1539 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s
1540 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time
1541
1542# Thailand
1543# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1544Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880
1545 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time
1546 7:00 - ICT
1547
1548# Turkmenistan
1549# From Shanks.
1550# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1551Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad
1552 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time
1553 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00
1554 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence
1555 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
1556 5:00 - TMT
1557
1558# United Arab Emirates
1559# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1560Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920
1561 4:00 - GST
1562
1563# Uzbekistan
1564# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1565Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1566 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time
1567 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1
1568 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1
1569 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time
1570 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
1571 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
1572 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
1573 5:00 - UZT
1574Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1575 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time
1576 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1577 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
1578 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
1579 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
1580 5:00 - UZT
1581
1582# Vietnam
|
1481# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
| 1583# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18):
|
1482# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long.
1483# We'll stick with the traditional name for now.
1484# From Shanks:
1485# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1486Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
1487 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
1488 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
1489 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
1490 7:00 - ICT
1491
1492# Yemen
1493# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1494Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950
1495 3:00 - AST
| 1584# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long.
1585# We'll stick with the traditional name for now.
1586# From Shanks:
1587# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1588Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
1589 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
1590 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
1591 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
1592 7:00 - ICT
1593
1594# Yemen
1595# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1596Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950
1597 3:00 - AST
|