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4 5# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 6# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 7# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 8 9# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): 10# 11# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 12# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), 13# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). 14# 15# Gwillim Law <Gwil_Law@bridge-point.com> writes that a good source 16# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 17# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 18# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 19# of the IATA's data after 1990. 20# 21# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, 22# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 23# 24# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 25# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 26# I found in the UCLA library. 27# 28# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 29# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 30# 31# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 32# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 33# Corrections are welcome! 34# std dst 35# LMT Local Mean Time 36# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time 37# 2:00 IST IDT Israel 38# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* 39# 4:00 GST Gulf* 40# 5:30 IST India 41# 7:00 ICT Indochina* 42# 8:00 CST China 43# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* 44# 9:00 JST Japan 45# 9:00 KST Korea 46# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time 47# 48# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. 49 50# From Guy Harris: 51# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as 52# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental 53# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide - 54# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses. 55 56############################################################################### 57 58# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file. 59# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 60Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S 61Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - 62Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 63Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 64Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 65Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 66Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 67Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 68Rule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 69Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S 70Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - 71Rule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 72Rule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 73Rule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - 74 75# Afghanistan 76# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 77Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890 78 4:00 - AFT 1945 79 4:30 - AFT 80 81# Armenia 82# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): 83# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991, 84# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997. 85# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz 86# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST 87# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that 88# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, 89# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. 90# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 91Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 92 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time 93 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 94 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence 95 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s 96 4:00 - AMT 1997 97 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 98 99# Azerbaijan 100# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 101Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S 102Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 - 103# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 104Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 105 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 106 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 107 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 108 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s 109 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 110 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 111 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 112 113# Bahrain 114# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 4 5# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 6# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 7# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 8 9# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): 10# 11# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 12# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), 13# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). 14# 15# Gwillim Law <Gwil_Law@bridge-point.com> writes that a good source 16# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 17# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 18# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 19# of the IATA's data after 1990. 20# 21# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, 22# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 23# 24# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 25# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 26# I found in the UCLA library. 27# 28# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 29# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 30# 31# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 32# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 33# Corrections are welcome! 34# std dst 35# LMT Local Mean Time 36# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time 37# 2:00 IST IDT Israel 38# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* 39# 4:00 GST Gulf* 40# 5:30 IST India 41# 7:00 ICT Indochina* 42# 8:00 CST China 43# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* 44# 9:00 JST Japan 45# 9:00 KST Korea 46# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time 47# 48# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. 49 50# From Guy Harris: 51# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as 52# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental 53# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide - 54# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses. 55 56############################################################################### 57 58# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file. 59# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 60Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S 61Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - 62Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 63Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 64Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 65Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 66Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 67Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 68Rule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 69Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S 70Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - 71Rule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 72Rule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 73Rule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - 74 75# Afghanistan 76# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 77Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890 78 4:00 - AFT 1945 79 4:30 - AFT 80 81# Armenia 82# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): 83# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991, 84# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997. 85# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz 86# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST 87# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that 88# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, 89# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. 90# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 91Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 92 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time 93 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 94 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence 95 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s 96 4:00 - AMT 1997 97 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 98 99# Azerbaijan 100# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 101Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S 102Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 - 103# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 104Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 105 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 106 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 107 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 108 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s 109 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 110 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 111 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 112 113# Bahrain 114# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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115Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al-Manamah
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116 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 117 3:00 - AST 118 119# Bangladesh 120# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 121Zone Asia/Dacca 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 122 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 123 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 124 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 125 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 126 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time 127 6:00 - BDT # Bangladesh Time 128 129# Bhutan 130# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 116 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 117 3:00 - AST 118 119# Bangladesh 120# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 121Zone Asia/Dacca 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 122 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 123 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 124 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 125 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 126 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time 127 6:00 - BDT # Bangladesh Time 128 129# Bhutan 130# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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131Zone Asia/Thimbu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15
| 131Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu
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132 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct 133 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time 134 135# British Indian Ocean Territory 136# From Whitman: 137# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 138Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT # BIOT Time 139 140# Brunei 141# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 142Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan 143 7:30 - BNT 1933 144 8:00 - BNT 145 146# Burma / Myanmar 147# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 148Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon 149 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time? 150 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time 151 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3 152 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time 153 154# Cambodia 155# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 156Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 157 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 158 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 159 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 160 7:00 - ICT 161 162# China 163 164# From Guy Harris: 165# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. 166 167# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 168# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though 169# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the 170# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China 171# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of 172# the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it. 173# 174# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too 175# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for 176# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP): 177# 178# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 179# 1987 mid-April - ?? 180 181# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 182# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN 183# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 184 185# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): 186# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, 187# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's 188# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. 189# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones. 190 191# From Shanks: 192# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 193Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 194Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 195Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D 196Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S 197Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D 198Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S 199Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D 200# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 132 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct 133 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time 134 135# British Indian Ocean Territory 136# From Whitman: 137# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 138Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT # BIOT Time 139 140# Brunei 141# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 142Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan 143 7:30 - BNT 1933 144 8:00 - BNT 145 146# Burma / Myanmar 147# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 148Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon 149 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time? 150 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time 151 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3 152 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time 153 154# Cambodia 155# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 156Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 157 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 158 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 159 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 160 7:00 - ICT 161 162# China 163 164# From Guy Harris: 165# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. 166 167# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 168# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though 169# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the 170# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China 171# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of 172# the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it. 173# 174# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too 175# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for 176# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP): 177# 178# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 179# 1987 mid-April - ?? 180 181# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 182# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN 183# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 184 185# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): 186# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, 187# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's 188# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. 189# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones. 190 191# From Shanks: 192# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 193Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 194Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 195Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D 196Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S 197Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D 198Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S 199Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D 200# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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201Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928
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202 8:30 - HART 1932 Mar # Harbin Time 203 8:00 - CST 1940 204 9:00 - HART 1966 May 205 8:30 - HART 1980 May 206 8:00 PRC C%sT 207Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928 208 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 209 8:00 PRC C%sT
| 202 8:30 - HART 1932 Mar # Harbin Time 203 8:00 - CST 1940 204 9:00 - HART 1966 May 205 8:30 - HART 1980 May 206 8:00 PRC C%sT 207Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928 208 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 209 8:00 PRC C%sT
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210Zone Asia/Chungking 7:06:20 - LMT 1928
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211 7:00 - CHUT 1980 May # Chungking Time 212 8:00 PRC C%sT
| 211 7:00 - CHUT 1980 May # Chungking Time 212 8:00 PRC C%sT
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213Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928
| 213Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi
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214 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time 215 8:00 PRC C%sT
| 214 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time 215 8:00 PRC C%sT
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216Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928
| 216Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
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217 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time 218 5:00 - KAST 1980 May 219 8:00 PRC C%sT
| 217 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time 218 5:00 - KAST 1980 May 219 8:00 PRC C%sT
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220# Hong Kong
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221# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 222Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S 223Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 - 224Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S 225Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 - 226Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S 227Rule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 - 228Rule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S 229Rule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 - 230Rule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S 231Rule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 - 232Rule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 233Rule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 234Rule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 235Rule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S 236Rule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 237# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 238Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 239 8:00 HK HK%sT 240 241 242############################################################################### 243 244# Taiwan 245 246# Shanks writes that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it 247# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't 248# have any other information. 249 250# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 251Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 252Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 253Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D 254Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 255Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 256Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 257Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 258Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 259Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 260Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D 261Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 262# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 263Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 264 8:00 Taiwan C%sT 265
| 221# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 222Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S 223Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 - 224Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S 225Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 - 226Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S 227Rule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 - 228Rule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S 229Rule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 - 230Rule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S 231Rule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 - 232Rule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 233Rule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 234Rule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 235Rule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S 236Rule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 237# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 238Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 239 8:00 HK HK%sT 240 241 242############################################################################### 243 244# Taiwan 245 246# Shanks writes that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it 247# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't 248# have any other information. 249 250# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 251Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 252Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 253Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D 254Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 255Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 256Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 257Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 258Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 259Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 260Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D 261Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 262# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 263Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 264 8:00 Taiwan C%sT 265
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266# Macao
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267# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 268Rule Macao 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 269Rule Macao 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 270Rule Macao 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 271Rule Macao 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 272Rule Macao 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 273Rule Macao 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 - 274Rule Macao 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 275Rule Macao 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 276Rule Macao 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 277Rule Macao 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 278Rule Macao 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 - 279Rule Macao 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S 280Rule Macao 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 281Rule Macao 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 282# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 283Zone Asia/Macao 7:34:20 - LMT 1912 284 8:00 Macao MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China 285 8:00 PRC C%sT 286 287 288############################################################################### 289 290# Cyprus 291# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 292Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S 293Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 - 294Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 295Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 - 296Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 297Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 298Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 299Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 300Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 301# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 302Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 303 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 304 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 305# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. 306
| 267# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 268Rule Macao 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 269Rule Macao 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 270Rule Macao 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 271Rule Macao 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 272Rule Macao 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 273Rule Macao 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 - 274Rule Macao 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 275Rule Macao 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 276Rule Macao 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 277Rule Macao 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 278Rule Macao 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 - 279Rule Macao 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S 280Rule Macao 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 281Rule Macao 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 282# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 283Zone Asia/Macao 7:34:20 - LMT 1912 284 8:00 Macao MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China 285 8:00 PRC C%sT 286 287 288############################################################################### 289 290# Cyprus 291# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 292Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S 293Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 - 294Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 295Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 - 296Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 297Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 298Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 299Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 300Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 301# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 302Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 303 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 304 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 305# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. 306
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| 307# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72. 308# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe. 309Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia 310
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307# Georgia 308# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19): 309# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward 310# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, 311# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! 312# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. 313# 314# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): 315# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia 316# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, 317# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 318# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 319Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 320 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time 321 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 322 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 323 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 324 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 325 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 326 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 327 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 328 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 329 330# East Timor 331# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 332Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 333 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 334 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 335 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3 336 8:00 - TPT # East Timor Time 337 338# India 339# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 340Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 341 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 342 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 343 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 344 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 345 5:30 - IST 346# The following are like Asia/Calcutta: 347# Andaman Is 348# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is) 349# Nicobar Is 350 351# Indonesia 352# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 353Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10 354# Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13, 355# but this must be a typo. 356 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta 357 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time 358 7:30 - JAVT 1942 Mar 23 359 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 360 7:30 - JAVT 1948 May 361 8:00 - JAVT 1950 May 362 7:30 - JAVT 1964 363 7:00 - JAVT 364Zone Asia/Ujung_Pandang 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 365 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT 366 8:00 - BORT 1942 Feb 9 # Borneo Time 367 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 368 8:00 - BORT 369Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 370 9:00 - JAYT 1944 # Jayapura Time 371 9:30 - CST 1964 372 9:00 - JAYT 373 374# Iran 375# From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales: 376# Ahmea Alavi in 377# <a href="http://www.persia.org/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt"> 378# TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12) 379# </a> 380# writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day 381# of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM: 382# 383# DST start DST end 384# year SSIM Alavi SSIM Alavi 385# 1991 05-03!= 03-21 09-20!= 09-23 386# 1992 03-22!= 03-21 09-23 09-23 387# 1993 03-21 03-21 09-23 09-23 388# 1994 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 389# 1995 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 390# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-22 09-22 391# 1997 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 392# 1998 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23 393# 1999 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 394# 2000 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22 395# 2001 03-19!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23 396# 2002 03-18!= 03-21 09-18!= 09-23 397# 398# Go with Alavi starting with 1992. 399# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates. 400# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050 401# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. 402# 403# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 404Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 405Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 - 406Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 - 407Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 408Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00s 1:00 S 409Rule Iran 1991 only - Sep 20 0:00s 0 - 410Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 411Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 412Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 413Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 414Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 415Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 416Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 417Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 418Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 419Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 420Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 421Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 422Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 423Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 424Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 425Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 426Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 427Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 428Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 429Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 430Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 431Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 432Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 433Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 434Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 435Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 436Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 437Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 438Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 439Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 440Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 441Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 442Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 443Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 444Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 445Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 446Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 447Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 448Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 449Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 450Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 451Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 452Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 453Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 454# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 455Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 456 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time 457 3:30 - IRT 1977 Nov 458 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979 459 3:30 Iran IR%sT 460 461 462# Iraq 463# 464# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12): 465# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in 466# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: 467# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and 468# are an hour ahead of Baghdad." 469# 470# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows: 471# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi 472# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred 473# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone 474# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. 475# 476# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. 477 478# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 479Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 480Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 481Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 482Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 483Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S 484Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D 485# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. 486# Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this. 487Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D
| 311# Georgia 312# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19): 313# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward 314# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, 315# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! 316# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. 317# 318# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): 319# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia 320# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, 321# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 322# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 323Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 324 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time 325 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 326 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 327 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 328 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 329 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 330 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 331 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 332 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 333 334# East Timor 335# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 336Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 337 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 338 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 339 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3 340 8:00 - TPT # East Timor Time 341 342# India 343# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 344Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 345 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 346 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 347 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 348 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 349 5:30 - IST 350# The following are like Asia/Calcutta: 351# Andaman Is 352# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is) 353# Nicobar Is 354 355# Indonesia 356# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 357Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10 358# Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13, 359# but this must be a typo. 360 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta 361 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time 362 7:30 - JAVT 1942 Mar 23 363 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 364 7:30 - JAVT 1948 May 365 8:00 - JAVT 1950 May 366 7:30 - JAVT 1964 367 7:00 - JAVT 368Zone Asia/Ujung_Pandang 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 369 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT 370 8:00 - BORT 1942 Feb 9 # Borneo Time 371 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 372 8:00 - BORT 373Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 374 9:00 - JAYT 1944 # Jayapura Time 375 9:30 - CST 1964 376 9:00 - JAYT 377 378# Iran 379# From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales: 380# Ahmea Alavi in 381# <a href="http://www.persia.org/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt"> 382# TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12) 383# </a> 384# writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day 385# of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM: 386# 387# DST start DST end 388# year SSIM Alavi SSIM Alavi 389# 1991 05-03!= 03-21 09-20!= 09-23 390# 1992 03-22!= 03-21 09-23 09-23 391# 1993 03-21 03-21 09-23 09-23 392# 1994 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 393# 1995 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 394# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-22 09-22 395# 1997 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 396# 1998 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23 397# 1999 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 398# 2000 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22 399# 2001 03-19!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23 400# 2002 03-18!= 03-21 09-18!= 09-23 401# 402# Go with Alavi starting with 1992. 403# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates. 404# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050 405# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. 406# 407# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 408Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 409Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 - 410Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 - 411Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 412Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00s 1:00 S 413Rule Iran 1991 only - Sep 20 0:00s 0 - 414Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 415Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 416Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 417Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 418Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 419Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 420Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 421Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 422Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 423Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 424Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 425Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 426Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 427Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 428Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 429Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 430Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 431Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 432Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 433Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 434Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 435Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 436Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 437Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 438Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 439Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 440Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 441Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 442Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 443Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 444Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 445Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 446Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 447Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 448Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 449Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 450Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 451Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 452Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 453Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 454Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 455Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 456Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 457Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 458# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 459Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 460 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time 461 3:30 - IRT 1977 Nov 462 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979 463 3:30 Iran IR%sT 464 465 466# Iraq 467# 468# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12): 469# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in 470# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: 471# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and 472# are an hour ahead of Baghdad." 473# 474# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows: 475# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi 476# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred 477# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone 478# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. 479# 480# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. 481 482# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 483Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 484Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 485Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 486Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 487Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S 488Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D 489# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. 490# Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this. 491Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D
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489# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 490Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 491 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? 492 3:00 - AST 1982 May 493 3:00 Iraq A%sT 494 495 496############################################################################### 497 498# Israel 499 500# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 501# ISRAEL 2 H AHEAD OF UTC 502# ISRAEL 3 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 10 - SEP 3 503 504# From Shanks: 505# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 506Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 507Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 508Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 509Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 510Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 511Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 512Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D 513Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 514Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD 515Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D 516Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 517Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 518Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 519Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S 520Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 521Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S 522Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D 523Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S 524Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D 525Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S 526Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D 527Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S 528Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D 529Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S 530Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 531Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S 532Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D 533Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 534Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D 535Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S 536Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D 537Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S 538Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 539Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 540Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D 541Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 542Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D 543Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 544Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D 545Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 546 547# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> 548# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25): 549 550# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of 551# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. 552# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150 553# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to 554# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to 555# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a 556# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard 557# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard 558# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid 559# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to 560# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from 561# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time 562# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for 563# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was 564# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it 565# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all 566# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no 567# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date 568# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve 569# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date 570# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] 571# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar). 572 573# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 574Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 575Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 576Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D 577Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S 578Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D 579Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S 580Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D 581Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 582Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D 583Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 584 585# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the 586# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by 587# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448. 588 589# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 590Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 591Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S 592Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 593Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 594 595# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the 596# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 597# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: 598# 599# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz 600# 601# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. 602# 603# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: 604# 605# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz 606# 607# where YYYY is the relevant year. 608 609# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 610Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D 611Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 612Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 613Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 614Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D 615Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 616Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D 617Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S 618 619# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for 620# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the 621# years 2001-2004 as well. 622# 623# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: 624# 625# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz 626# 627# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates 628# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: 629# 630# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz 631 632# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 633Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 634Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S 635Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D 636Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S 637Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D 638Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S 639Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D 640Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S 641Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D 642Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S 643 644# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25): 645# Here are guesses for rules after 2004. 646# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. 647# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 648Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D 649Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S 650 651# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 652Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 653 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 654 2:00 Zion I%sT 655 656 657############################################################################### 658 659# Japan 660 661# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. 662 663# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06): 664# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had 665# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued 666# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' 667# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows: 668# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 669#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 670#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S 671#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 672#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 673# but the only locations using it were US military bases. 674# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo. 675 676# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): 677# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical 678# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0. 679# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996' 680# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.... 681# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST). 682# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07. 683 684# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16): 685# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan, 686# which stands for the time on E 135 degree. 687# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central 688# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard 689# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard 690# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No. 691# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is 692# standard.... 693# 694# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate. 695# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor. 696 697# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki) 698# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1. 699 700# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 701Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u 702 9:00 - JST 1896 703 9:00 - CJT 1938 704 9:00 - JST 705# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. 706 707# Jordan 708# 709# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html"> 710# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): 711# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight, 712# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time 713# all year round. 714# 715# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html"> 716# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09): 717# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back 718# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final! 719# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in 720# government's departments from six to seven hours. 721# 722# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 723Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S 724Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 725Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 726Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 727Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 728Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 729Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 730Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 731Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 732Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 733Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 734Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S 735Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S 736Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S 737Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - 738Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S 739Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 740Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 741Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 742Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - 743Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S 744Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - 745Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S 746# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 747Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 748 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 749 750# Kazakhstan 751# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 752# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan 753# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) 754# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. 755# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time 756# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. 757# 758# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 759Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 760 5:00 - ALMT 1957 Mar # Alma-Ata Time 761 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 762 5:00 1:00 ALMST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 763 5:00 - ALMT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 764 6:00 E-EurAsia ALM%sT 765Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 766 4:00 - AKT 1957 Mar # Aktyubinsk Time 767 5:00 RussiaAsia AK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 768 4:00 1:00 AKTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 769 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtobe Time 770 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT 771Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Aktau 772 4:00 - SHET 1957 Mar # Fort Shevchenko Time 773 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 774 4:00 1:00 AQTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 775 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtau Time 776 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT 1995 Sep lastSun 777 4:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT 778
| 493# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 494Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 495 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? 496 3:00 - AST 1982 May 497 3:00 Iraq A%sT 498 499 500############################################################################### 501 502# Israel 503 504# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 505# ISRAEL 2 H AHEAD OF UTC 506# ISRAEL 3 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 10 - SEP 3 507 508# From Shanks: 509# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 510Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 511Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 512Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 513Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 514Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 515Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 516Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D 517Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 518Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD 519Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D 520Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 521Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 522Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 523Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S 524Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 525Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S 526Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D 527Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S 528Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D 529Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S 530Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D 531Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S 532Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D 533Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S 534Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 535Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S 536Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D 537Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 538Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D 539Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S 540Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D 541Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S 542Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 543Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 544Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D 545Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 546Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D 547Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 548Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D 549Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 550 551# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> 552# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25): 553 554# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of 555# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. 556# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150 557# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to 558# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to 559# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a 560# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard 561# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard 562# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid 563# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to 564# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from 565# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time 566# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for 567# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was 568# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it 569# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all 570# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no 571# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date 572# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve 573# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date 574# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] 575# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar). 576 577# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 578Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 579Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 580Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D 581Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S 582Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D 583Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S 584Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D 585Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 586Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D 587Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 588 589# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the 590# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by 591# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448. 592 593# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 594Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 595Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S 596Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 597Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 598 599# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the 600# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 601# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: 602# 603# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz 604# 605# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. 606# 607# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: 608# 609# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz 610# 611# where YYYY is the relevant year. 612 613# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 614Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D 615Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 616Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 617Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 618Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D 619Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 620Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D 621Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S 622 623# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for 624# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the 625# years 2001-2004 as well. 626# 627# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: 628# 629# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz 630# 631# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates 632# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: 633# 634# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz 635 636# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 637Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 638Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S 639Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D 640Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S 641Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D 642Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S 643Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D 644Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S 645Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D 646Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S 647 648# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25): 649# Here are guesses for rules after 2004. 650# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. 651# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 652Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D 653Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S 654 655# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 656Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 657 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 658 2:00 Zion I%sT 659 660 661############################################################################### 662 663# Japan 664 665# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. 666 667# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06): 668# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had 669# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued 670# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' 671# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows: 672# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 673#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 674#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S 675#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 676#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 677# but the only locations using it were US military bases. 678# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo. 679 680# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): 681# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical 682# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0. 683# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996' 684# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.... 685# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST). 686# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07. 687 688# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16): 689# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan, 690# which stands for the time on E 135 degree. 691# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central 692# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard 693# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard 694# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No. 695# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is 696# standard.... 697# 698# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate. 699# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor. 700 701# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki) 702# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1. 703 704# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 705Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u 706 9:00 - JST 1896 707 9:00 - CJT 1938 708 9:00 - JST 709# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. 710 711# Jordan 712# 713# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html"> 714# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): 715# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight, 716# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time 717# all year round. 718# 719# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html"> 720# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09): 721# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back 722# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final! 723# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in 724# government's departments from six to seven hours. 725# 726# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 727Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S 728Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 729Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 730Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 731Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 732Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 733Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 734Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 735Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 736Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 737Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 738Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S 739Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S 740Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S 741Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - 742Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S 743Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 744Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 745Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 746Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - 747Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S 748Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - 749Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S 750# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 751Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 752 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 753 754# Kazakhstan 755# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 756# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan 757# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) 758# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. 759# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time 760# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. 761# 762# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 763Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 764 5:00 - ALMT 1957 Mar # Alma-Ata Time 765 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 766 5:00 1:00 ALMST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 767 5:00 - ALMT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 768 6:00 E-EurAsia ALM%sT 769Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 770 4:00 - AKT 1957 Mar # Aktyubinsk Time 771 5:00 RussiaAsia AK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 772 4:00 1:00 AKTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 773 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtobe Time 774 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT 775Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Aktau 776 4:00 - SHET 1957 Mar # Fort Shevchenko Time 777 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 778 4:00 1:00 AQTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s 779 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtau Time 780 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT 1995 Sep lastSun 781 4:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT 782
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779# Kirgizstan
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780# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. 781# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 782Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00 1:00 S 783Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 784Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S 785Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - 786# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 787Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 788 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 789 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 790 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence 791 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time 792 793############################################################################### 794 795# Korea (North and South) 796 797# From Guy Harris: 798# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco, 799# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know 800# at what time of day DST starts or ends. 801 802# From Shanks: 803# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 804Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D 805Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 806Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun<=14 0:00 1:00 D 807Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun<=14 0:00 0 S 808 809# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 810Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890 811 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 812 9:00 - KST 1928 813 8:30 - KST 1932 814 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 815 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10 816 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct 817 9:00 ROK K%sT 818Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890 819 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 820 9:00 - KST 1928 821 8:30 - KST 1932 822 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 823 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10 824 9:00 - KST 825 826############################################################################### 827 828# Kuwait 829# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 830Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950 831 3:00 - AST 832 833# Laos 834# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 784# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. 785# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 786Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00 1:00 S 787Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 788Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S 789Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - 790# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 791Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 792 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 793 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 794 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence 795 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time 796 797############################################################################### 798 799# Korea (North and South) 800 801# From Guy Harris: 802# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco, 803# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know 804# at what time of day DST starts or ends. 805 806# From Shanks: 807# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 808Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D 809Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 810Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun<=14 0:00 1:00 D 811Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun<=14 0:00 0 S 812 813# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 814Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890 815 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 816 9:00 - KST 1928 817 8:30 - KST 1932 818 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 819 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10 820 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct 821 9:00 ROK K%sT 822Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890 823 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 824 9:00 - KST 1928 825 8:30 - KST 1932 826 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 827 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10 828 9:00 - KST 829 830############################################################################### 831 832# Kuwait 833# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 834Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950 835 3:00 - AST 836 837# Laos 838# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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835Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
| 839Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan
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836 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 837 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 838 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 839 7:00 - ICT 840 841# Lebanon 842# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 843Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S 844Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 - 845Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S 846Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 847Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 848Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - 849Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S 850Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 - 851Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 852Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 853Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S 854Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 855Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 856Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 857Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 858Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 859Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 - 860Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 861Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 862Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 863Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - 864Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 865Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 866Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 867# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 868Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880 869 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT 870 871# Malaysia 872# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 873Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS 874Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 - 875# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 876Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880 877 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time 878 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time 879 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15 880 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2 881 7:20 - MALT 1950 882 7:30 - MALT 1982 May 883 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time 884Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar 885 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time 886 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 887 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2 888 8:00 - BORT 1982 May 889 8:00 - MYT 890 891# Maldives 892# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 893Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male 894 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time 895 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time 896 897# Mongolia 898 899# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map 900# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01) 901# both say that it has just one. 902 903# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11): 904# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm"> 905# General Information Mongolia 906# </a> (1999-09) 907# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of 908# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and 909# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus 910# eight hours." 911 912# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13): 913# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998 914# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am 915# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time 916# of implementation may have been different.... 917# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time 918# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod, 919# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij. 920 921# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15): 922# For now, we'll comment out the east zone (Choybalsan) 923# and use Shanks's and the IATA's data for the daylight-saving rules. 924# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia. 925# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone; 926# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us, 927# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd 928# is good enough for our purposes. 929 930# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 931Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 932Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 933Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S 934Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - 935Rule Mongol 1991 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 936Rule Mongol 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 937# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25; go with Shanks. 938Rule Mongol 1996 only - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 939Rule Mongol 1997 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 940# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. 941 942# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 943Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug 944 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time 945 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT 946Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug 947 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time 948 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT 949# We're not sure about this entry yet, so we'll omit it for now. 950#Zone Asia/Choybalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug 951# 8:00 - CHOT 1978 # Choybalsan Time 952# 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT 19?? 953# 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT 954 955# Nepal 956# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 957Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920 958 5:30 - IST 1986 959 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time 960 961# Oman 962# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 963Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920 964 4:00 - GST 965 966# Pakistan 967# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 968Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 969 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 970 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 971 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30 972 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time 973 5:00 - PKT # Pakistan Time 974 975# Palestine 976 977# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15): 978# 979# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now 980# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. 981# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too... 982# 983# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05 984# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no 985# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt, 986# though. 987# 988# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally 989# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from 990# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the 991# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major 992# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and 993# East Jerusalem. 994# 995# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except 996# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might 997# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware 998# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer 999# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected). 1000# 1001# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most 1002# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to 1003# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to 1004# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't 1005# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the 1006# Jordanian one). 1007# 1008# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that: 1009# 1010# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996- 1011# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------- 1012# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion 1013# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan 1014# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan 1015# 1016# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they 1017# have one). 1018 1019# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25): 1020# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go 1021# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947, 1022# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996. 1023# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since 1024# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about 1025# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 1026# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries 1027# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules 1028# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please 1029# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions. 1030 1031# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time, 1032# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg: 1033# 1034# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time 1035# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks 1036# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule, 1037# the PA has decided to implement DST in April. 1038 1039# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 1040# Daoud Kuttab writes in 1041# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html"> 1042# Holiday havoc 1043# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that 1044# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. 1045# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). 1046# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, 1047# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. 1048 1049# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. 1050# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1051Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 1052Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1053Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1054Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S 1055Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - 1056Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - 1057 1058Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S 1059Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 1060 1061# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1062Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 1063 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 1064 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 1065 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 1066 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 1067 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 1068 1069# Paracel Is 1070# no information 1071 1072# Philippines 1073# Howse writes (p 153) that until 1844 the Philippines kept American date. 1074# The rest of this data is from Shanks. 1075# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1076Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S 1077Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 - 1078Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S 1079Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 - 1080Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S 1081Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 - 1082# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1083Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 1084 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11 1085 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May 1086 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov 1087 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1088 1089# Qatar 1090# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 840 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 841 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 842 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 843 7:00 - ICT 844 845# Lebanon 846# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 847Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S 848Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 - 849Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S 850Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 851Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 852Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - 853Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S 854Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 - 855Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 856Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 857Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S 858Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 859Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 860Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 861Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 862Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 863Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 - 864Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 865Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 866Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 867Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - 868Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 869Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 870Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 871# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 872Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880 873 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT 874 875# Malaysia 876# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 877Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS 878Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 - 879# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 880Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880 881 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time 882 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time 883 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15 884 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2 885 7:20 - MALT 1950 886 7:30 - MALT 1982 May 887 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time 888Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar 889 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time 890 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 891 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2 892 8:00 - BORT 1982 May 893 8:00 - MYT 894 895# Maldives 896# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 897Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male 898 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time 899 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time 900 901# Mongolia 902 903# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map 904# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01) 905# both say that it has just one. 906 907# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11): 908# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm"> 909# General Information Mongolia 910# </a> (1999-09) 911# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of 912# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and 913# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus 914# eight hours." 915 916# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13): 917# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998 918# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am 919# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time 920# of implementation may have been different.... 921# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time 922# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod, 923# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij. 924 925# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15): 926# For now, we'll comment out the east zone (Choybalsan) 927# and use Shanks's and the IATA's data for the daylight-saving rules. 928# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia. 929# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone; 930# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us, 931# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd 932# is good enough for our purposes. 933 934# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 935Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 936Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 937Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S 938Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 - 939Rule Mongol 1991 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 940Rule Mongol 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 941# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25; go with Shanks. 942Rule Mongol 1996 only - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 943Rule Mongol 1997 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 944# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. 945 946# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 947Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug 948 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time 949 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT 950Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug 951 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time 952 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT 953# We're not sure about this entry yet, so we'll omit it for now. 954#Zone Asia/Choybalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug 955# 8:00 - CHOT 1978 # Choybalsan Time 956# 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT 19?? 957# 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT 958 959# Nepal 960# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 961Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920 962 5:30 - IST 1986 963 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time 964 965# Oman 966# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 967Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920 968 4:00 - GST 969 970# Pakistan 971# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 972Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 973 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 974 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 975 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30 976 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time 977 5:00 - PKT # Pakistan Time 978 979# Palestine 980 981# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15): 982# 983# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now 984# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. 985# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too... 986# 987# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05 988# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no 989# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt, 990# though. 991# 992# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally 993# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from 994# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the 995# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major 996# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and 997# East Jerusalem. 998# 999# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except 1000# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might 1001# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware 1002# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer 1003# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected). 1004# 1005# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most 1006# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to 1007# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to 1008# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't 1009# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the 1010# Jordanian one). 1011# 1012# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that: 1013# 1014# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996- 1015# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------- 1016# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion 1017# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan 1018# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan 1019# 1020# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they 1021# have one). 1022 1023# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25): 1024# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go 1025# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947, 1026# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996. 1027# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since 1028# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about 1029# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 1030# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries 1031# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules 1032# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please 1033# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions. 1034 1035# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time, 1036# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg: 1037# 1038# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time 1039# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks 1040# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule, 1041# the PA has decided to implement DST in April. 1042 1043# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 1044# Daoud Kuttab writes in 1045# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html"> 1046# Holiday havoc 1047# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that 1048# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. 1049# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). 1050# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, 1051# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. 1052 1053# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. 1054# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1055Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 1056Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1057Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1058Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S 1059Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - 1060Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - 1061 1062Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S 1063Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 1064 1065# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1066Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 1067 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 1068 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 1069 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 1070 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 1071 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 1072 1073# Paracel Is 1074# no information 1075 1076# Philippines 1077# Howse writes (p 153) that until 1844 the Philippines kept American date. 1078# The rest of this data is from Shanks. 1079# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1080Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S 1081Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 - 1082Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S 1083Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 - 1084Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S 1085Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 - 1086# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1087Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 1088 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11 1089 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May 1090 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov 1091 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1092 1093# Qatar 1094# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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1091Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah
| 1095Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha
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1092 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 1093 3:00 - AST 1094 1095# Saudi Arabia 1096# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1097Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950 1098 3:00 - AST 1099 1100# Singapore 1101# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1102Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880 1103 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time 1104 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time 1105 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15 1106 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2 1107 7:20 - MALT 1950 1108 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence 1109 7:30 - SGT 1982 May # Singapore Time 1110 8:00 - SGT 1111 1112# Spratly Is 1113# no information 1114 1115# Sri Lanka 1116# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 1117# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout" 1118# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24, 1119# no longer available as of 1999-08-17) 1120# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at 1121# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.'' 1122# 1123# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted 1124# by Shamindra in 1125# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net"> 1126# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26) 1127# </a>: 1128# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 1129# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. 1130 1131# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1132Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 1133 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time 1134 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5 1135 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep 1136 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 1137 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00 1138 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30 1139 6:00 - LKT 1140 1141# Syria 1142# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1143Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S 1144Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 1145Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S 1146Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1147Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 1148Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1149Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1150Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1151Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S 1152Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1153Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 1154Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 - 1155Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S 1156Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1157Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S 1158Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 - 1159Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S 1160Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 - 1161Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S 1162Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S 1163Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1164Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S 1165Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1166Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1167Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1168Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S 1169Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 1170Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 1171# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02; 1172# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02, 1173# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31; 1174# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks. 1175Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1176Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1177Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S 1178Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1179# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 1096 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 1097 3:00 - AST 1098 1099# Saudi Arabia 1100# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1101Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950 1102 3:00 - AST 1103 1104# Singapore 1105# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1106Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880 1107 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time 1108 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time 1109 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15 1110 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2 1111 7:20 - MALT 1950 1112 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence 1113 7:30 - SGT 1982 May # Singapore Time 1114 8:00 - SGT 1115 1116# Spratly Is 1117# no information 1118 1119# Sri Lanka 1120# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 1121# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout" 1122# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24, 1123# no longer available as of 1999-08-17) 1124# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at 1125# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.'' 1126# 1127# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted 1128# by Shamindra in 1129# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net"> 1130# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26) 1131# </a>: 1132# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 1133# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. 1134 1135# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1136Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 1137 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time 1138 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5 1139 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep 1140 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 1141 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00 1142 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30 1143 6:00 - LKT 1144 1145# Syria 1146# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1147Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S 1148Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 1149Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S 1150Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1151Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 1152Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1153Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1154Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1155Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S 1156Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1157Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 1158Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 - 1159Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S 1160Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1161Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S 1162Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 - 1163Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S 1164Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 - 1165Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S 1166Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S 1167Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1168Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S 1169Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1170Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1171Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1172Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S 1173Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 1174Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 1175# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02; 1176# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02, 1177# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31; 1178# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks. 1179Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1180Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1181Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S 1182Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1183# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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1180Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920
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1181 2:00 Syria EE%sT 1182 1183# Tajikistan 1184# From Shanks. 1185# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1186Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 1187 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time 1188 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1189 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s 1190 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time 1191 1192# Thailand 1193# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1194Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880 1195 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time 1196 7:00 - ICT 1197 1198# Turkmenistan 1199# From Shanks. 1200# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 1185 2:00 Syria EE%sT 1186 1187# Tajikistan 1188# From Shanks. 1189# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1190Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 1191 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time 1192 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1193 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s 1194 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time 1195 1196# Thailand 1197# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1198Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880 1199 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time 1200 7:00 - ICT 1201 1202# Turkmenistan 1203# From Shanks. 1204# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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1201Zone Asia/Ashkhabad 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashgabat
| 1205Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad
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1202 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time 1203 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 1204 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence 1205 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 1206 5:00 - TMT 1207 1208# United Arab Emirates 1209# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1210Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920 1211 4:00 - GST 1212 1213# Uzbekistan 1214# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1215Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 1216 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time 1217 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1 1218 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1 1219 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time 1220 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 1221 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 1222 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 1223 5:00 - UZT 1224Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 1225 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 1226 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1227 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 1228 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 1229 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 1230 5:00 - UZT 1231 1232# Vietnam 1233# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): 1234# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long. 1235# We'll stick with the traditional name for now. 1236# From Shanks: 1237# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1238Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 1239 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 1240 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 1241 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 1242 7:00 - ICT 1243 1244# Yemen 1245# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1246Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950 1247 3:00 - AST
| 1206 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time 1207 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 1208 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence 1209 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 1210 5:00 - TMT 1211 1212# United Arab Emirates 1213# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1214Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920 1215 4:00 - GST 1216 1217# Uzbekistan 1218# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1219Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 1220 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time 1221 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1 1222 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1 1223 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time 1224 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 1225 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 1226 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 1227 5:00 - UZT 1228Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 1229 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 1230 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1231 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 1232 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 1233 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 1234 5:00 - UZT 1235 1236# Vietnam 1237# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): 1238# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long. 1239# We'll stick with the traditional name for now. 1240# From Shanks: 1241# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1242Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 1243 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 1244 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 1245 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 1246 7:00 - ICT 1247 1248# Yemen 1249# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1250Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950 1251 3:00 - AST
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