1# @(#)asia 7.68
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
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24# I found in the UCLA library.
25#
26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
28#
29# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
30# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
31# Corrections are welcome!
32# std dst
33# LMT Local Mean Time
34# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time
35# 2:00 IST IDT Israel
36# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia*
37# 4:00 GST Gulf*
38# 5:30 IST India
39# 7:00 ICT Indochina*
40# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia
41# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia
42# 8:00 CST China
43# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
44# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia
45# 9:00 JST Japan
46# 9:00 KST Korea
47# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time
48#
49# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
50
51# From Guy Harris:
52# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
53# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
54# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
55# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses.
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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
431
432# Iran
433# From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:
434# Ahmea Alavi in
435# <a href="http://www.persia.org/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt">
436# TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12)
437# </a>
438# writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day
439# of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM:
440#
441# DST start DST end
442# year SSIM Alavi SSIM Alavi
443# 1991 05-03!= 03-21 09-20!= 09-23
444# 1992 03-22!= 03-21 09-23 09-23
445# 1993 03-21 03-21 09-23 09-23
446# 1994 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
447# 1995 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
448# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-22 09-22
449# 1997 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
450# 1998 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23
451# 1999 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
452# 2000 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22
453# 2001 03-19!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23
454# 2002 03-18!= 03-21 09-18!= 09-23
455#
456# Go with Alavi starting with 1992.
457# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates.
458# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050
459# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow.
460#
461# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
462Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
463Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 -
464Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 -
465Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
466Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00s 1:00 S
467Rule Iran 1991 only - Sep 20 0:00s 0 -
468Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
469Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
470Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
471Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
472Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
473Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
474Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
475Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
476Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
477Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
478Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
479Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
480Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
481Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
482Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
483Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
484Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
485Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
486Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
487Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
488Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
489Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
490Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
491Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
492Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
493Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
494Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
495Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
496Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
497Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
498Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
499Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
500Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
501Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
502Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
503Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
504Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
505Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
506Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
507Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
508Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
509Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
510Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
511Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
512# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
513Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916
514 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time
515 3:30 - IRT 1977 Nov
516 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979
517 3:30 Iran IR%sT
518
519
520# Iraq
521#
522# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12):
523# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
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743# Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit and Minister of Interior Eli
744# Yishai to revert to standard time for a period of 48-96 _hours_
745# (sic) around the Yom Kippur fast day (September 15-16) and then go
746# *back* to DST until the end of October. The details of the proposal
747# have yet to be worked out, but the second and final readings of the
748# bill have until July 24 to pass.
749#
750# (2002-07-25):
751# Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew) article
752# to my attention:
753#
754# http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2019315,00.html
755#
756# Hence, the proposal to shorten DST was withdrawn yesterday and the timezone
757# files that have been in effect since July 2000 are still valid for all of
758# 2002.
759#
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873# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses
874# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it.
875# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules.
876# Also go with the following claims of Shanks:
877#
878# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991.
879# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00.
880# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989.
881#
882#
883# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
884#
885# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan
886Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata
887 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time
888 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991
889 6:00 - ALMT 1992
890 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT
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1149# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first
1150# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on
1151# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00,
1152# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like
1153# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday
1154# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the
1155# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02.
1156
1157# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1158Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Apr Sun>=2 0:00 1:00 S
1159Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
1160# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1161Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
1162 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
1163 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
1164 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30
1165 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
1166 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time
1167
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2
3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
6
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
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24# I found in the UCLA library.
25#
26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
28#
29# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
30# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
31# Corrections are welcome!
32# std dst
33# LMT Local Mean Time
34# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time
35# 2:00 IST IDT Israel
36# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia*
37# 4:00 GST Gulf*
38# 5:30 IST India
39# 7:00 ICT Indochina*
40# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia
41# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia
42# 8:00 CST China
43# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
44# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia
45# 9:00 JST Japan
46# 9:00 KST Korea
47# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time
48#
49# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
50
51# From Guy Harris:
52# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
53# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
54# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
55# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses.
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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
431
432# Iran
433# From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:
434# Ahmea Alavi in
435# <a href="http://www.persia.org/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt">
436# TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12)
437# </a>
438# writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day
439# of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM:
440#
441# DST start DST end
442# year SSIM Alavi SSIM Alavi
443# 1991 05-03!= 03-21 09-20!= 09-23
444# 1992 03-22!= 03-21 09-23 09-23
445# 1993 03-21 03-21 09-23 09-23
446# 1994 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
447# 1995 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
448# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-22 09-22
449# 1997 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
450# 1998 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23
451# 1999 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
452# 2000 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22
453# 2001 03-19!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23
454# 2002 03-18!= 03-21 09-18!= 09-23
455#
456# Go with Alavi starting with 1992.
457# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates.
458# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050
459# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow.
460#
461# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
462Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
463Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 -
464Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 -
465Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
466Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00s 1:00 S
467Rule Iran 1991 only - Sep 20 0:00s 0 -
468Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
469Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
470Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
471Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
472Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
473Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
474Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
475Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
476Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
477Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
478Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
479Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
480Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
481Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
482Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
483Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
484Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
485Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
486Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
487Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
488Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
489Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
490Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
491Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
492Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
493Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
494Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
495Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
496Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
497Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
498Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
499Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
500Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
501Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
502Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
503Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
504Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
505Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
506Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
507Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
508Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
509Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
510Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
511Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
512# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
513Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916
514 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time
515 3:30 - IRT 1977 Nov
516 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979
517 3:30 Iran IR%sT
518
519
520# Iraq
521#
522# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12):
523# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
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743# Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit and Minister of Interior Eli
744# Yishai to revert to standard time for a period of 48-96 _hours_
745# (sic) around the Yom Kippur fast day (September 15-16) and then go
746# *back* to DST until the end of October. The details of the proposal
747# have yet to be worked out, but the second and final readings of the
748# bill have until July 24 to pass.
749#
750# (2002-07-25):
751# Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew) article
752# to my attention:
753#
754# http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2019315,00.html
755#
756# Hence, the proposal to shorten DST was withdrawn yesterday and the timezone
757# files that have been in effect since July 2000 are still valid for all of
758# 2002.
759#
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873# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses
874# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it.
875# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules.
876# Also go with the following claims of Shanks:
877#
878# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991.
879# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00.
880# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989.
881#
882#
883# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
884#
885# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan
886Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata
887 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time
888 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991
889 6:00 - ALMT 1992
890 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT
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1149# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first
1150# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on
1151# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00,
1152# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like
1153# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday
1154# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the
1155# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02.
1156
1157# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1158Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Apr Sun>=2 0:00 1:00 S
1159Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
1160# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1161Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
1162 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
1163 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
1164 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30
1165 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
1166 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time
1167
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