1# @(#)asia 7.67 |
2 3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 6 7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is --- 157 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 167# From Guy Harris: 168# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. 169 170# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 171# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though 172# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the 173# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China 174# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of |
175# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it. |
176# 177# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too 178# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for 179# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP): 180# 181# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 182# 1987 mid-April - ?? 183 --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 195# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 196Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 197Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 198Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D 199Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S 200Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D 201Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S 202Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D |
203# |
204# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
205# 206# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20): 207# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five 208# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official 209# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949): 210# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) |
211Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin |
212 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time |
213 8:00 - CST 1940 |
214 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May 215 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May |
216 8:00 PRC C%sT |
217# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time") |
218Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928 219 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 220 8:00 PRC C%sT |
221# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area) |
222Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking |
223 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time |
224 8:00 PRC C%sT |
225# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time") |
226Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi 227 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time 228 8:00 PRC C%sT |
229# Kunlun Time |
230Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar 231 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time 232 5:00 - KAST 1980 May 233 8:00 PRC C%sT |
234 |
235# Hong Kong (Xianggang) 236# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 237Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S 238Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 - 239Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S 240Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 - 241Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S 242Rule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 - --- 30 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 273Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 274Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 275Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D 276Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 277# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 278Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei 279 8:00 Taiwan C%sT 280 |
281# Macau (Macao, Aomen) |
282# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
283Rule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 284Rule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 285Rule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 286Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 287Rule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 288Rule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 - 289Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 290Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 291Rule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 292Rule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 293Rule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 - 294Rule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S 295Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 296Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - |
297# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
298Zone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912 299 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China |
300 8:00 PRC C%sT 301 302 303############################################################################### 304 305# Cyprus 306# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 307Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S --- 106 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 414 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT 415 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29 416 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 417 7:30 - WIT 1948 May 418 8:00 - WIT 1950 May 419 7:30 - WIT 1964 420 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1 421 7:00 - WIT |
422Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 |
423 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT 424 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9 425 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 426 8:00 - CIT 427Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 428 9:00 - EIT 1944 429 9:30 - CST 1964 430 9:00 - EIT --- 393 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 824# Kazakhstan 825# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 826# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan 827# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) 828# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. 829# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time 830# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. 831# |
832# From Paul Eggert (2001-10-18): 833# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses 834# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. 835# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules. 836# Also go with the following claims of Shanks: 837# 838# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. 839# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. 840# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. 841# 842# |
843# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
844# 845# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan |
846Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata |
847 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 848 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 849 6:00 - ALMT 1992 850 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 851# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.) 852Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 853 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time 854 5:00 - KIZT 1981 Apr 1 855 5:00 1:00 KIZST 1981 Oct 1 856 6:00 - KIZT 1982 Apr 1 857 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991 858 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 859 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 860 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 861# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk) |
862Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 |
863 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time 864 5:00 - AKTT 1981 Apr 1 865 5:00 1:00 AKTST 1981 Oct 1 866 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1 867 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991 868 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 869 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT # Aqtobe Time 870# Mangghystau 871# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region, 872# so include time stamps before 1963. 873Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 874 4:00 - FORT 1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T 875 5:00 - FORT 1963 876 5:00 - SHET 1981 Oct 1 # Shevchenko Time 877 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1 878 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 879 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence 880 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Sep lastSun # Aqtau Time 881 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 882# West Kazakhstan 883Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 884 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time 885 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1 886 5:00 1:00 URAST 1981 Oct 1 887 6:00 - URAT 1982 Apr 1 888 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00 889 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991 890 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 891 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT # Oral Time |
892 893# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) 894# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. 895# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
896Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S |
897Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 898Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S 899Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - 900# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 901Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 902 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 903 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 904 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence --- 184 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1089 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time 1090 1091# Oman 1092# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1093Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920 1094 4:00 - GST 1095 1096# Pakistan |
1097 1098# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13): 1099# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a 1100# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 1101# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was 1102# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the 1103# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on. 1104 1105# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15): 1106# Jesper Norgaard found this URL: 1107# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm 1108# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to 1109# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first 1110# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 1111# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00, 1112# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like 1113# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday 1114# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the 1115# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02. 1116 1117# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1118Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Apr Sun>=2 0:00 1:00 S 1119Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Oct 15 0:00 0 - |
1120# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1121Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 1122 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 1123 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 1124 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30 1125 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time |
1126 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time |
1127 1128# Palestine 1129 1130# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15): 1131# 1132# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now 1133# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. 1134# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too... --- 269 unchanged lines hidden --- |