| antarctica (256281) | antarctica (257697) |
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| 1# <pre> 2# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 3# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 4 5# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): 6# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see 7# <a href="http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/"> 8# COMNAP - Stations and Bases 9# </a> 10# and 11# <a href="http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm"> 12# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 13# </a> 14# for information. 15# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 16# 17# Except for the French entries, 18# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! | 1# <pre> 2# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 3# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 4 5# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): 6# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see 7# <a href="http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/"> 8# COMNAP - Stations and Bases 9# </a> 10# and 11# <a href="http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm"> 12# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 13# </a> 14# for information. 15# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 16# 17# Except for the French entries, 18# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! |
| 19# FORMAT is `zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. | 19# FORMAT is 'zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. |
| 20 | 20 |
| 21# These rules are stolen from the `southamerica' file. | 21# These rules are stolen from the 'southamerica' file. |
| 22# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 23Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - 24Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S 25Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - 26Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 27Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 28Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S 29Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - --- 193 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 223# S Korea - year-round base 224# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 225 226# New Zealand - claims 227# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 228# Scott Island (never inhabited) 229# 230# year-round base | 22# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 23Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - 24Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S 25Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - 26Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 27Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 28Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S 29Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - --- 193 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 223# S Korea - year-round base 224# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 225 226# New Zealand - claims 227# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 228# Scott Island (never inhabited) 229# 230# year-round base |
| 231# Scott, Ross Island, since 1957-01, is like Antarctica/McMurdo. | 231# Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 232# See Pacific/Auckland. |
| 232# | 233# |
| 233# These rules for New Zealand are stolen from the `australasia' file. | 234# These rules for New Zealand are stolen from the 'australasia' file. |
| 234# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 235Rule NZAQ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D 236Rule NZAQ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 237Rule NZAQ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D 238Rule NZAQ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 239Rule NZAQ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S 240Rule NZAQ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 241Rule NZAQ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 263# <a href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP"> 264# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>: 265# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 266# time as Moscow, Russia. 267# 268# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 269# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 270# what they had to say about time there: | 235# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 236Rule NZAQ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D 237Rule NZAQ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 238Rule NZAQ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D 239Rule NZAQ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 240Rule NZAQ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S 241Rule NZAQ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 242Rule NZAQ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 264# <a href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP"> 265# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>: 266# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 267# time as Moscow, Russia. 268# 269# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 270# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 271# what they had to say about time there: |
| 271# ``in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) | 272# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) |
| 272# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 273# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 274# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The | 273# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 274# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 275# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The |
| 275# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT.'' | 276# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." |
| 276# 277# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 278# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 279# in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local 280# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 281# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 282# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 283# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time --- 48 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 332# 333# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 334Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 335 -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 336 -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May 337 -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 338# 339# | 277# 278# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 279# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 280# in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local 281# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 282# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 283# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 284# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time --- 48 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 333# 334# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 335Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 336 -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 337 -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May 338 -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 339# 340# |
| 340# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12 341# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 342Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956 343 12:00 NZAQ NZ%sT | 341# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 342# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 |
| 344# | 343# |
| 345# Amundsen-Scott, South Pole, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 346# 347# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 348# Normally it wouldn't have a separate entry, since it's like the 349# larger Antarctica/McMurdo since 1970, but it's too famous to omit. 350# | |
| 351# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 352# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 353# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 354# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 355# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 356# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 357# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) 358# --- 4 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 363# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 364# One last quirk about South Pole time. 365# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 366# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 367# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 368# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 369# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 370# | 344# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 345# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 346# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 347# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 348# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 349# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 350# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) 351# --- 4 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 356# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 357# One last quirk about South Pole time. 358# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 359# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 360# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 361# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 362# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 363# |
| 371Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole | 364# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo. |