1# @(#)asia 7.84 |
2 3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 6 |
7# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): |
8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), 11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). 12# 13# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 14# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 15# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), --- 86 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 102# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 103Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S 104Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 - 105# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 106Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 107 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 108 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 109 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence |
110 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 |
111 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 112 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 113 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 114 115# Bahrain 116# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 117Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah 118 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 132# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 133Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu 134 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct 135 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time 136 137# British Indian Ocean Territory 138# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the 139# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996. |
140# We have no information as to when standard time was introduced; 141# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which 142# then contained the Chagos Archipelago). |
143# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
144Zone Indian/Chagos 4:49:40 - LMT 1907 145 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time |
146 6:00 - IOT 147 148# Brunei 149# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 150Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan 151 7:30 - BNT 1933 152 8:00 - BNT 153 --- 31 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 185# 186# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 187# 1987 mid-April - ?? 188 189# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 190# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN 191# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 192 |
193# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): |
194# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, 195# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's 196# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. 197# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones. 198 199# From Shanks: 200# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 201Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 202Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 203Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D |
204Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D 205Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S 206Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D 207# 208# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 209# 210# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20): 211# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five --- 111 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 323 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 324# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. 325 326# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72. 327# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe. 328Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia 329 330# Georgia |
331# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): |
332# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward 333# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, 334# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! 335# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. 336# |
337# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): |
338# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia 339# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, 340# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 341# 342# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): |
343# |
344# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 345# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it 346# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours 347# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, 348# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process 349# of integration into Europe. 350 351# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] --- 29 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 381# (2000-08-16)</a>: 382# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided 383# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change, 384# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at 385# midnight on Saturday, September 16. 386 387# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 388Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 |
389 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time |
390 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug |
391 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3 |
392 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 |
393 9:00 - TLT |
394 395# India 396# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 397Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata 398 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 399 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 400 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 401 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 --- 68 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 470# First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi 471# 472# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed 473# for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the 474# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last 475# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates.... 476# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct 477# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. |
478# 479# From Roozbeh Pournader (2005-04-05): 480# The text of the Iranian law, in effect since 1925, clearly mentions 481# that the true solar year is the measure, and there is no arithmetic 482# leap year calculation involved. There has never been any serious 483# plan to change that law.... 484# 485# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-05): |
486# Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. |
487# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates, 488# stopping after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. 489# That cal-persia used Birashk's approximation, which disagrees with the solar 490# calendar predictions for the year 2025, so I corrected those dates by hand. |
491# |
492# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-03-30), writing about future 493# discrepancies between cal-persia and the Iranian calendar: 494# For 2091 solar-longitude-after yields 2091-03-20 08:40:07.7 UT for 495# the vernal equinox and that gets so close to 12:00 some local 496# Iranian time that the definition of the correct location needs to be 497# known exactly, amongst other factors. 2157 is even closer: 498# 2157-03-20 08:37:15.5 UT. But the Gregorian year 2025 should give 499# no interpretation problem whatsoever. By the way, another instant 500# in the near future where there will be a discrepancy between 501# arithmetical and astronomical Iranian calendars will be in 2058: 502# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of 503# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date 504# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical). 505# |
506# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 507Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 508Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S 509Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S 510Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S 511Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 D 512Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 513Rule Iran 1991 1995 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S --- 20 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 534Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 535Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 536Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 537Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 538Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 539Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 540Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 541Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S |
542Rule Iran 2024 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 543Rule Iran 2024 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 544Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 545Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S |
546Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 547Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 548Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 549Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 550Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 551Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 552Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 553Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S --- 4 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 558 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time 559 3:30 - IRST 1977 Nov 560 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979 561 3:30 Iran IR%sT 562 563 564# Iraq 565# |
566# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12): |
567# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in 568# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: 569# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and 570# are an hour ahead of Baghdad." 571# 572# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows: 573# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi 574# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred --- 82 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 657Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 658Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D 659Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 660Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D 661Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 662Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D 663Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 664 |
665# From Ephraim Silverberg 666# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22, 667# and 2005-02-17): |
668 669# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of 670# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. 671# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150 672# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to 673# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to 674# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a 675# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard --- 34 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 710Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S 711Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 712Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 713 714# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the 715# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 716# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: 717# |
718# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz |
719# 720# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. 721# 722# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: 723# |
724# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz |
725# 726# where YYYY is the relevant year. 727 728# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 729Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D 730Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 731Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 732Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 733Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D 734Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 735Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D 736Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S 737 738# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for 739# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the 740# years 2001-2004 as well. 741# 742# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: 743# |
744# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz |
745# 746# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates 747# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: 748# |
749# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz |
750 751# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 752Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 753Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S 754Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D 755Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S 756Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D 757Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S 758Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D 759Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S 760Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D 761Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S 762 |
763# The proposed law agreed upon by the Knesset Interior Committee on 764# 2005-02-14 is that, for 2005 and beyond, DST starts at 02:00 the 765# last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April 766# 1st itself if it falls on a Friday) and ends at 02:00 on the Saturday 767# night _before_ the fast of Yom Kippur. 768# 769# Those who can read Hebrew can view the announcement at: 770# 771# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps |
772 |
773# From Paul Eggert (2005-02-22): 774# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program 775# <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (2005-02-20) 776# along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4, 777# to generate the transitions in this list. 778# (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.) 779# The spring transitions below all correspond to the following Rule: 780# 781# Rule Zion 2005 max - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 782# 783# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support 784# "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the 785# springtime transitions explicitly. 786 787# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 788Rule Zion 2005 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 789Rule Zion 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S 790Rule Zion 2006 2010 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 791Rule Zion 2006 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 792Rule Zion 2007 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S 793Rule Zion 2008 only - Oct 5 2:00 0 S 794Rule Zion 2009 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S 795Rule Zion 2010 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S 796Rule Zion 2011 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 797Rule Zion 2011 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S 798Rule Zion 2012 2015 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 799Rule Zion 2012 only - Sep 23 2:00 0 S 800Rule Zion 2013 only - Sep 8 2:00 0 S 801Rule Zion 2014 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S 802Rule Zion 2015 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S 803Rule Zion 2016 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 804Rule Zion 2016 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S 805Rule Zion 2017 2021 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 806Rule Zion 2017 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S 807Rule Zion 2018 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S 808Rule Zion 2019 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S 809Rule Zion 2020 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S 810Rule Zion 2021 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S 811Rule Zion 2022 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 812Rule Zion 2022 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S 813Rule Zion 2023 2032 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 814Rule Zion 2023 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S 815Rule Zion 2024 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S 816Rule Zion 2025 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S 817Rule Zion 2026 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S 818Rule Zion 2027 only - Oct 10 2:00 0 S 819Rule Zion 2028 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S 820Rule Zion 2029 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S 821Rule Zion 2030 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S 822Rule Zion 2031 only - Sep 21 2:00 0 S 823Rule Zion 2032 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S 824Rule Zion 2033 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 825Rule Zion 2033 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S 826Rule Zion 2034 2037 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 827Rule Zion 2034 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 828Rule Zion 2035 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 S 829Rule Zion 2036 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S 830Rule Zion 2037 only - Sep 13 2:00 0 S 831 |
832# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 833Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 834 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 835 2:00 Zion I%sT 836 |
837 |
838 |
839############################################################################### 840 841# Japan 842 843# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. 844 |
845# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06): |
846# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had 847# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued 848# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' 849# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows: 850# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 851#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 852#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S 853#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D --- 70 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 924Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - 925Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S 926Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - 927Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S 928# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 929Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 930 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 931 |
932 |
933# Kazakhstan |
934 |
935# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): |
936# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan |
937# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) 938# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. 939# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time 940# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. |
941 |
942# From Paul Eggert (2001-10-18): 943# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses 944# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. 945# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules. 946# Also go with the following claims of Shanks: 947# 948# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. 949# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. 950# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. |
951 952# <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm"> 953# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21): 954# </a> 955# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing 956# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health 957# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity. |
958# |
959# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28): 960# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone 961# was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has 962# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone 963# closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the 964# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau, 965# Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses 966# everything else.... I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones 967# de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively. 968 |
969# 970# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 971# 972# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan 973Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 974 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 975 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 976 6:00 - ALMT 1992 |
977 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 2005 Mar 15 978 6:00 - ALMT |
979# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.) 980Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 981 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time 982 5:00 - KIZT 1981 Apr 1 983 5:00 1:00 KIZST 1981 Oct 1 984 6:00 - KIZT 1982 Apr 1 985 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991 986 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 987 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 |
988 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 2005 Mar 15 989 6:00 - QYZT |
990# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk) 991Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 992 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time 993 5:00 - AKTT 1981 Apr 1 994 5:00 1:00 AKTST 1981 Oct 1 995 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1 996 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991 997 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence |
998 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time 999 5:00 - AQTT |
1000# Mangghystau 1001# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region, 1002# so include time stamps before 1963. 1003Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 1004 4:00 - FORT 1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T 1005 5:00 - FORT 1963 1006 5:00 - SHET 1981 Oct 1 # Shevchenko Time 1007 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1 1008 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 1009 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence 1010 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time |
1011 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 1012 5:00 - AQTT |
1013# West Kazakhstan 1014Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 1015 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time 1016 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1 1017 5:00 1:00 URAST 1981 Oct 1 1018 6:00 - URAT 1982 Apr 1 1019 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00 1020 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991 1021 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence |
1022 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time 1023 5:00 - ORAT |
1024 1025# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) 1026# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. |
1027 1028# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15): 1029# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway 1030# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml> 1031# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article 1032# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC. 1033 |
1034# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1035Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S 1036Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1037Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S 1038Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - 1039# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1040Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 1041 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time --- 153 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1195# 1196# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai 1197# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov, 1198# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi 1199# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar 1200# 1201# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] 1202 |
1203# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17): |
1204# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March. 1205# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of 1206# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001. 1207# 1208# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17): 1209# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs 1210# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them. 1211 |
1212# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): 1213# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones. 1214# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says 1215# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft 1216# Windows XP as the source. Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that 1217# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST. 1218# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in 1219# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed. 1220# He also found 1221# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&> 1222# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius" 1223# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones. 1224# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT 1225# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT. 1226# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the 1227# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session." 1228# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation. 1229 |
1230# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1231Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1232Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1233# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists 1234# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00. 1235# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998. 1236Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 1237Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - --- 75 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1313 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 1314 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 1315 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30 1316 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time 1317 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time 1318 1319# Palestine 1320 |
1321# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15): |
1322# 1323# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now 1324# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. 1325# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too... 1326# 1327# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05 1328# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no 1329# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt, --- 245 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1575 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 1576 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1577 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 1578 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 1579 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 1580 5:00 - UZT 1581 1582# Vietnam |
1583# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): |
1584# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long. 1585# We'll stick with the traditional name for now. 1586# From Shanks: 1587# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1588Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 1589 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 1590 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 1591 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 1592 7:00 - ICT 1593 1594# Yemen 1595# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1596Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950 1597 3:00 - AST |