1# @(#)asia 7.63
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3# $FreeBSD: head/share/zoneinfo/asia 75267 2001-04-06 16:46:52Z wollman $
| 3# $FreeBSD: head/share/zoneinfo/asia 86222 2001-11-09 19:17:59Z wollman $
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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#
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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#
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15# Gwillim Law <Gwil_Law@bridge-point.com> writes that a good source
| 15# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
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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*
| 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*
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| 42# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia
43# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia
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42# 8:00 CST China
43# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
| 44# 8:00 CST China
45# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
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| 46# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia
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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]
115Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah
116 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
117 3:00 - AST
118
119# Bangladesh
120# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
121Zone Asia/Dhaka 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]
131Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu
132 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct
133 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time
134
135# British Indian Ocean Territory
| 47# 9:00 JST Japan
48# 9:00 KST Korea
49# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time
50#
51# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
52
53# From Guy Harris:
54# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
55# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
56# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
57# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses.
58
59###############################################################################
60
61# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.
62# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
63Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S
64Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 -
65Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
66Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
67Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
68Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
69Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
70Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
71Rule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
72Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
73Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
74Rule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
75Rule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
76Rule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
77
78# Afghanistan
79# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
80Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890
81 4:00 - AFT 1945
82 4:30 - AFT
83
84# Armenia
85# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
86# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991,
87# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997.
88# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz
89# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
90# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
91# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
92# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
93# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
94Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2
95 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time
96 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
97 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence
98 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s
99 4:00 - AMT 1997
100 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT
101
102# Azerbaijan
103# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
104Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S
105Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 -
106# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
107Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
108 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time
109 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
110 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence
111 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s
112 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time
113 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997
114 4:00 Azer AZ%sT
115
116# Bahrain
117# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
118Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah
119 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
120 3:00 - AST
121
122# Bangladesh
123# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
124Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890
125 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
126 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
127 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
128 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30
129 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time
130 6:00 - BDT # Bangladesh Time
131
132# Bhutan
133# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
134Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu
135 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct
136 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time
137
138# British Indian Ocean Territory
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136# From Whitman:
| 139# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the
140# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996.
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137# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 141# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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138Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT # BIOT Time
| 142Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time
143 6:00 - IOT
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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]
201Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
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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145# Brunei
146# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
147Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan
148 7:30 - BNT 1933
149 8:00 - BNT
150
151# Burma / Myanmar
152# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
153Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon
154 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time?
155 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time
156 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3
157 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time
158
159# Cambodia
160# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
161Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
162 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
163 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
164 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
165 7:00 - ICT
166
167# China
168
169# From Guy Harris:
170# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone.
171
172# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
173# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though
174# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
175# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China
176# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
177# the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it.
178#
179# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
180# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for
181# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
182#
183# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14
184# 1987 mid-April - ??
185
186# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
187# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
188# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10
189
190# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19):
191# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1,
192# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's
193# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.
194# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones.
195
196# From Shanks:
197# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
198Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
199Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
200Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D
201Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S
202Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D
203Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S
204Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D
205# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
206Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
207 8:30 - HART 1932 Mar # Harbin Time
208 8:00 - CST 1940
209 9:00 - HART 1966 May
210 8:30 - HART 1980 May
211 8:00 PRC C%sT
212Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928
213 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949
214 8:00 PRC C%sT
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210Zone Asia/Chungking 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chongqing
| 215Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking
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211 7:00 - CHUT 1980 May # Chungking Time
212 8:00 PRC C%sT
213Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi
214 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time
215 8:00 PRC C%sT
216Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
217 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time
218 5:00 - KAST 1980 May
219 8:00 PRC C%sT
220# Hong Kong (Xianggang)
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]
| 216 7:00 - CHUT 1980 May # Chungking Time
217 8:00 PRC C%sT
218Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi
219 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time
220 8:00 PRC C%sT
221Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
222 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time
223 5:00 - KAST 1980 May
224 8:00 PRC C%sT
225# Hong Kong (Xianggang)
226# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
227Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S
228Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 -
229Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S
230Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 -
231Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S
232Rule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 -
233Rule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S
234Rule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 -
235Rule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S
236Rule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 -
237Rule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
238Rule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
239Rule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
240Rule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S
241Rule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
242# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
243Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30
244 8:00 HK HK%sT
245
246
247###############################################################################
248
249# Taiwan
250
251# Shanks writes that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it
252# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't
253# have any other information.
254
255# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
256Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
257Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
258Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D
259Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
260Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
261Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
262Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
263Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
264Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
265Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D
266Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
267# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
|
263Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896
| 268Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei
|
264 8:00 Taiwan C%sT
265
266# Macao (Macau, Aomen)
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
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
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
336# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
337# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
338# East Timor may be late for its millennium
339# </a> (1999-12-26/31):
340# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun
341# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the
342# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it
343# conflicts with their way of life.
344
345# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
346# We don't have any record of the above attempt.
347# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data.
348
349# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html">
350# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General
351# (2000-08-16)</a>:
352# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided
353# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change,
354# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at
355# midnight on Saturday, September 16.
356
357# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
358Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912
359 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
360 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
361 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3
| 269 8:00 Taiwan C%sT
270
271# Macao (Macau, Aomen)
272# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
273Rule Macao 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
274Rule Macao 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
275Rule Macao 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
276Rule Macao 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
277Rule Macao 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
278Rule Macao 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 -
279Rule Macao 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
280Rule Macao 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
281Rule Macao 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
282Rule Macao 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
283Rule Macao 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 -
284Rule Macao 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S
285Rule Macao 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
286Rule Macao 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
287# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
288Zone Asia/Macao 7:34:20 - LMT 1912
289 8:00 Macao MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China
290 8:00 PRC C%sT
291
292
293###############################################################################
294
295# Cyprus
296# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
297Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S
298Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 -
299Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S
300Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 -
301Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
302Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
303Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
304Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
305Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
306# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
307Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14
308 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep
309 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT
310# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time.
311
312# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
313# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.
314Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia
315
316# Georgia
317# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19):
318# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward
319# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,
320# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!
321# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
322#
323# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
324# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia
325# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,
326# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
327# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
328Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880
329 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time
330 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time
331 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
332 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence
333 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time
334 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun
335 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun
336 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun
337 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT
338
339# East Timor
340
341# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
342# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
343# East Timor may be late for its millennium
344# </a> (1999-12-26/31):
345# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun
346# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the
347# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it
348# conflicts with their way of life.
349
350# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
351# We don't have any record of the above attempt.
352# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data.
353
354# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html">
355# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General
356# (2000-08-16)</a>:
357# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided
358# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change,
359# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at
360# midnight on Saturday, September 16.
361
362# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
363Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912
364 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
365 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
366 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3
|
362 8:00 - TPT 2000 Sep 17 00:00
| 367 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00
|
363 9:00 - TPT
364
365# India
366# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
367Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880
368 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
369 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
370 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
371 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
372 5:30 - IST
373# The following are like Asia/Calcutta:
374# Andaman Is
375# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
376# Nicobar Is
377
378# Indonesia
| 368 9:00 - TPT
369
370# India
371# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
372Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880
373 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
374 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
375 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
376 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
377 5:30 - IST
378# The following are like Asia/Calcutta:
379# Andaman Is
380# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
381# Nicobar Is
382
383# Indonesia
|
| 384#
385# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks:
386# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime>
387# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some
388# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat
389# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7.
390#
|
379# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
380Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10
381# Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13,
382# but this must be a typo.
383 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta
384 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time
| 391# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
392Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10
393# Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13,
394# but this must be a typo.
395 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta
396 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time
|
385 7:30 - JAVT 1942 Mar 23
| 397 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23
|
386 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
| 398 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
|
387 7:30 - JAVT 1948 May
388 8:00 - JAVT 1950 May
389 7:30 - JAVT 1964
390 7:00 - JAVT
| 399 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
400 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
401 7:30 - WIT 1964
402 7:00 - WIT
403Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May
404 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT
405 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29
406 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
407 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
408 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
409 7:30 - WIT 1964
410 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1
411 7:00 - WIT
|
391Zone Asia/Ujung_Pandang 7:57:36 - LMT 1920
392 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT
| 412Zone Asia/Ujung_Pandang 7:57:36 - LMT 1920
413 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT
|
393 8:00 - BORT 1942 Feb 9 # Borneo Time
| 414 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9
|
394 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
| 415 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
|
395 8:00 - BORT
| 416 8:00 - CIT
|
396Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
| 417Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
|
397 9:00 - JAYT 1944 # Jayapura Time
| 418 9:00 - EIT 1944
|
398 9:30 - CST 1964
| 419 9:30 - CST 1964
|
399 9:00 - JAYT
| 420 9:00 - EIT
|
400
401# Iran
402# From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:
403# Ahmea Alavi in
404# <a href="http://www.persia.org/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt">
405# TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12)
406# </a>
407# writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day
408# of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM:
409#
410# DST start DST end
411# year SSIM Alavi SSIM Alavi
412# 1991 05-03!= 03-21 09-20!= 09-23
413# 1992 03-22!= 03-21 09-23 09-23
414# 1993 03-21 03-21 09-23 09-23
415# 1994 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
416# 1995 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
417# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-22 09-22
418# 1997 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
419# 1998 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23
420# 1999 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
421# 2000 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22
422# 2001 03-19!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23
423# 2002 03-18!= 03-21 09-18!= 09-23
424#
425# Go with Alavi starting with 1992.
426# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates.
427# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050
428# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow.
429#
430# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
431Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
432Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 -
433Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 -
434Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
435Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00s 1:00 S
436Rule Iran 1991 only - Sep 20 0:00s 0 -
437Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
438Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
439Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
440Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
441Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
442Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
443Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
444Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
445Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
446Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
447Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
448Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
449Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
450Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
451Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
452Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
453Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
454Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
455Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
456Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
457Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
458Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
459Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
460Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
461Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
462Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
463Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
464Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
465Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
466Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
467Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
468Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
469Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
470Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
471Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
472Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
473Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
474Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
475Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
476Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
477Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
478Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
479Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
480Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
481# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
482Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916
483 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time
484 3:30 - IRT 1977 Nov
485 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979
486 3:30 Iran IR%sT
487
488
489# Iraq
490#
491# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12):
492# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
493# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph:
494# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and
495# are an hour ahead of Baghdad."
496#
497# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows:
498# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi
499# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred
500# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone
501# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq.
502#
503# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim.
504
505# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
506Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
507Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
508Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
509Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
510Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S
511Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D
512# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo.
513# Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this.
514Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D
515Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S
516# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
517Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890
518 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time?
519 3:00 - AST 1982 May
520 3:00 Iraq A%sT
521
522
523###############################################################################
524
525# Israel
526
527# From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11):
528#
529# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three
530# different abbreviations in use:
531#
532# JST Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University]
533# IZT Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion]
534# EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else]
535#
536# Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities,
537# I ruled out JST. As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe,
538# EEST was equally unacceptable. Since "zonal" was not compatible with
539# any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go
540# and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone
541# settings in Israeli computers.
542#
543# In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India,
544# high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's
545# family is from India).
546
547# From Shanks:
548# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
549Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
550Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
551Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
552Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
553Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
554Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
555Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D
556Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
557Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD
558Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D
559Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
560Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
561Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
562Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S
563Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
564Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S
565Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D
566Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S
567Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D
568Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S
569Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D
570Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S
571Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D
572Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S
573Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
574Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S
575Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D
576Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
577Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D
578Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S
579Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D
580Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S
581Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D
582Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
583Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D
584Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S
585Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
586Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
587Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D
588Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
589
590# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il>
591# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25):
592
593# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of
594# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
595# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150
596# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to
597# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to
598# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a
599# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard
600# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard
601# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid
602# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to
603# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from
604# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time
605# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for
606# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was
607# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it
608# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all
609# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no
610# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date
611# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve
612# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date
613# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]
614# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar).
615
616# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
617Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
618Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
619Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D
620Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S
621Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D
622Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S
623Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D
624Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
625Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D
626Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S
627
628# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the
629# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by
630# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448.
631
632# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
633Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
634Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S
635Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
636Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
637
638# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
639# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998
640# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at:
641#
642# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz
643#
644# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa.
645#
646# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at:
647#
648# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz
649#
650# where YYYY is the relevant year.
651
652# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
653Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D
654Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S
655Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
656Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S
657Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D
658Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
659Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D
660Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S
661
662# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for
663# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the
664# years 2001-2004 as well.
665#
666# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at:
667#
668# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz
669#
670# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates
671# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at:
672#
673# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz
674
675# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
676Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
677Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S
678Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D
679Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S
680Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D
681Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S
682Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D
683Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S
684Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D
685Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S
686
687# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25):
688# Here are guesses for rules after 2004.
689# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all.
690# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
691Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D
692Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S
693
694# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
695Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880
696 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time?
697 2:00 Zion I%sT
698
699
700###############################################################################
701
702# Japan
703
704# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
705
706# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06):
707# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
708# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued
709# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.''
710# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows:
711# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
712#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
713#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S
714#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
715#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
716# but the only locations using it were US military bases.
717# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo.
718
719# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09):
720# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical
721# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0.
722# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996'
723# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan....
724# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST).
725# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07.
726
727# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16):
728# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan,
729# which stands for the time on E 135 degree.
730# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central
731# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard
732# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard
733# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No.
734# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is
735# standard....
736#
737# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate.
738# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor.
739
740# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki)
741# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1.
742
743# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
744Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u
745 9:00 - JST 1896
746 9:00 - CJT 1938
747 9:00 - JST
748# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
749
750# Jordan
751#
752# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
753# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
754# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight,
755# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time
756# all year round.
757#
758# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html">
759# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09):
760# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back
761# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final!
762# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in
763# government's departments from six to seven hours.
764#
765# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
766Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S
767Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
768Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
769Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
770Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
771Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
772Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
773Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
774Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
775Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
776Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
777Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S
778Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S
779Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S
780Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 -
781Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S
782Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
783Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
784Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
785Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 -
786Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S
787Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 -
788Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S
789# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
790Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
791 2:00 Jordan EE%sT
792
793# Kazakhstan
794# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
795# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
796# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk)
797# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones.
798# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time
799# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan.
800#
801# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
802Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata
803 5:00 - ALMT 1957 Mar # Alma-Ata Time
804 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
805 5:00 1:00 ALMST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
806 5:00 - ALMT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
807 6:00 E-EurAsia ALM%sT
808Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
809 4:00 - AKT 1957 Mar # Aktyubinsk Time
810 5:00 RussiaAsia AK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
811 4:00 1:00 AKTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
812 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtobe Time
813 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT
814Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Aktau
815 4:00 - SHET 1957 Mar # Fort Shevchenko Time
816 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
817 4:00 1:00 AQTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
818 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtau Time
819 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT 1995 Sep lastSun
820 4:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT
821
822# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan)
823# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks.
824# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
825Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00 1:00 S
826Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
827Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S
828Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 -
829# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
830Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
831 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time
832 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
833 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence
834 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time
835
836###############################################################################
837
838# Korea (North and South)
839
840# From Guy Harris:
841# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco,
842# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know
843# at what time of day DST starts or ends.
844
845# From Shanks:
846# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
847Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D
848Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
849Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun<=14 0:00 1:00 D
850Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun<=14 0:00 0 S
851
852# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
853Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890
854 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
855 9:00 - KST 1928
856 8:30 - KST 1932
857 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
858 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10
859 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct
860 9:00 ROK K%sT
861Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890
862 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
863 9:00 - KST 1928
864 8:30 - KST 1932
865 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
866 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10
867 9:00 - KST
868
869###############################################################################
870
871# Kuwait
872# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
873Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950
874 3:00 - AST
875
876# Laos
877# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
878Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan
879 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
880 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
881 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
882 7:00 - ICT
883
884# Lebanon
885# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
886Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S
887Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 -
888Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
889Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
890Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
891Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
892Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S
893Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
894Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
895Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
896Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S
897Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
898Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
899Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
900Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
901Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
902Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 -
903Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
904Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
905Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
906Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
907Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
908Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
909Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
910# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
911Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
912 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
913
914# Malaysia
915# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
| 421
422# Iran
423# From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales:
424# Ahmea Alavi in
425# <a href="http://www.persia.org/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt">
426# TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12)
427# </a>
428# writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day
429# of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM:
430#
431# DST start DST end
432# year SSIM Alavi SSIM Alavi
433# 1991 05-03!= 03-21 09-20!= 09-23
434# 1992 03-22!= 03-21 09-23 09-23
435# 1993 03-21 03-21 09-23 09-23
436# 1994 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
437# 1995 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
438# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-22 09-22
439# 1997 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
440# 1998 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23
441# 1999 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23
442# 2000 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22
443# 2001 03-19!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23
444# 2002 03-18!= 03-21 09-18!= 09-23
445#
446# Go with Alavi starting with 1992.
447# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates.
448# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050
449# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow.
450#
451# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
452Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
453Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 -
454Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 -
455Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
456Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00s 1:00 S
457Rule Iran 1991 only - Sep 20 0:00s 0 -
458Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
459Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
460Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
461Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
462Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
463Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
464Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
465Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
466Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
467Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
468Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
469Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
470Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
471Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
472Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
473Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
474Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
475Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
476Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
477Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
478Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
479Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
480Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
481Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
482Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
483Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
484Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
485Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
486Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
487Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
488Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
489Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
490Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
491Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
492Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
493Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
494Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
495Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
496Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
497Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
498Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S
499Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 23 0:00 0 -
500Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S
501Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
502# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
503Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916
504 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time
505 3:30 - IRT 1977 Nov
506 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979
507 3:30 Iran IR%sT
508
509
510# Iraq
511#
512# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12):
513# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
514# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph:
515# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and
516# are an hour ahead of Baghdad."
517#
518# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows:
519# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi
520# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred
521# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone
522# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq.
523#
524# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim.
525
526# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
527Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
528Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
529Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
530Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
531Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S
532Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D
533# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo.
534# Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this.
535Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D
536Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S
537# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
538Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890
539 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time?
540 3:00 - AST 1982 May
541 3:00 Iraq A%sT
542
543
544###############################################################################
545
546# Israel
547
548# From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11):
549#
550# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three
551# different abbreviations in use:
552#
553# JST Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University]
554# IZT Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion]
555# EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else]
556#
557# Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities,
558# I ruled out JST. As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe,
559# EEST was equally unacceptable. Since "zonal" was not compatible with
560# any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go
561# and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone
562# settings in Israeli computers.
563#
564# In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India,
565# high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's
566# family is from India).
567
568# From Shanks:
569# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
570Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
571Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
572Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
573Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
574Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
575Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
576Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D
577Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
578Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD
579Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D
580Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
581Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
582Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
583Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S
584Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
585Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S
586Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D
587Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S
588Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D
589Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S
590Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D
591Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S
592Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D
593Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S
594Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
595Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S
596Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D
597Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
598Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D
599Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S
600Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D
601Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S
602Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D
603Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
604Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D
605Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S
606Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
607Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
608Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D
609Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
610
611# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il>
612# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25):
613
614# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of
615# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
616# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150
617# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to
618# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to
619# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a
620# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard
621# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard
622# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid
623# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to
624# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from
625# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time
626# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for
627# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was
628# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it
629# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all
630# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no
631# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date
632# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve
633# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date
634# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]
635# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar).
636
637# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
638Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
639Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
640Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D
641Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S
642Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D
643Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S
644Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D
645Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
646Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D
647Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S
648
649# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the
650# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by
651# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448.
652
653# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
654Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
655Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S
656Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
657Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
658
659# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
660# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998
661# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at:
662#
663# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz
664#
665# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa.
666#
667# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at:
668#
669# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz
670#
671# where YYYY is the relevant year.
672
673# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
674Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D
675Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S
676Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
677Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S
678Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D
679Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
680Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D
681Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S
682
683# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for
684# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the
685# years 2001-2004 as well.
686#
687# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at:
688#
689# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz
690#
691# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates
692# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at:
693#
694# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz
695
696# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
697Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
698Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S
699Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D
700Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S
701Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D
702Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S
703Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D
704Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S
705Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D
706Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S
707
708# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25):
709# Here are guesses for rules after 2004.
710# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all.
711# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
712Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D
713Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S
714
715# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
716Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880
717 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time?
718 2:00 Zion I%sT
719
720
721###############################################################################
722
723# Japan
724
725# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
726
727# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06):
728# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
729# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued
730# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.''
731# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows:
732# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
733#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
734#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S
735#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
736#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
737# but the only locations using it were US military bases.
738# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo.
739
740# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09):
741# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical
742# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0.
743# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996'
744# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan....
745# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST).
746# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07.
747
748# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16):
749# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan,
750# which stands for the time on E 135 degree.
751# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central
752# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard
753# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard
754# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No.
755# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is
756# standard....
757#
758# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate.
759# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor.
760
761# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki)
762# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1.
763
764# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
765Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u
766 9:00 - JST 1896
767 9:00 - CJT 1938
768 9:00 - JST
769# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
770
771# Jordan
772#
773# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
774# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
775# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight,
776# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time
777# all year round.
778#
779# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html">
780# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09):
781# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back
782# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final!
783# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in
784# government's departments from six to seven hours.
785#
786# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
787Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S
788Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
789Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
790Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
791Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
792Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
793Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
794Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
795Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
796Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
797Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
798Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S
799Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S
800Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S
801Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 -
802Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S
803Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
804Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
805Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
806Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 -
807Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S
808Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 -
809Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S
810# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
811Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
812 2:00 Jordan EE%sT
813
814# Kazakhstan
815# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
816# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
817# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk)
818# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones.
819# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time
820# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan.
821#
822# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
823Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata
824 5:00 - ALMT 1957 Mar # Alma-Ata Time
825 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
826 5:00 1:00 ALMST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
827 5:00 - ALMT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
828 6:00 E-EurAsia ALM%sT
829Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
830 4:00 - AKT 1957 Mar # Aktyubinsk Time
831 5:00 RussiaAsia AK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
832 4:00 1:00 AKTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
833 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtobe Time
834 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT
835Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Aktau
836 4:00 - SHET 1957 Mar # Fort Shevchenko Time
837 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
838 4:00 1:00 AQTST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
839 4:00 - AQTT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Aqtau Time
840 5:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT 1995 Sep lastSun
841 4:00 E-EurAsia AQT%sT
842
843# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan)
844# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks.
845# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
846Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00 1:00 S
847Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
848Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S
849Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 -
850# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
851Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
852 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time
853 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
854 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence
855 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time
856
857###############################################################################
858
859# Korea (North and South)
860
861# From Guy Harris:
862# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco,
863# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know
864# at what time of day DST starts or ends.
865
866# From Shanks:
867# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
868Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D
869Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
870Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun<=14 0:00 1:00 D
871Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun<=14 0:00 0 S
872
873# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
874Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890
875 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
876 9:00 - KST 1928
877 8:30 - KST 1932
878 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
879 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10
880 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct
881 9:00 ROK K%sT
882Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890
883 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
884 9:00 - KST 1928
885 8:30 - KST 1932
886 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
887 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10
888 9:00 - KST
889
890###############################################################################
891
892# Kuwait
893# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
894Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950
895 3:00 - AST
896
897# Laos
898# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
899Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan
900 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
901 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
902 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
903 7:00 - ICT
904
905# Lebanon
906# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
907Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S
908Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 -
909Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
910Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
911Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
912Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
913Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S
914Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
915Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
916Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
917Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S
918Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
919Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
920Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
921Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
922Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
923Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 -
924Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
925Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
926Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
927Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
928Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
929Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
930Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
931# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
932Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
933 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
934
935# Malaysia
936# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
|
916Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS
| 937Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer
|
917Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 -
| 938Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 -
|
| 939#
|
918# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 940# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
|
| 941# peninsular Malaysia
|
919Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880
920 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time
921 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time
922 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15
923 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
924 7:20 - MALT 1950
925 7:30 - MALT 1982 May
926 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time
| 942Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880
943 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time
944 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time
945 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15
946 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
947 7:20 - MALT 1950
948 7:30 - MALT 1982 May
949 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time
|
| 950# Sabah & Sarawak
|
927Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar
928 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time
929 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942
930 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
931 8:00 - BORT 1982 May
932 8:00 - MYT
933
934# Maldives
935# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
936Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
937 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time
938 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time
939
940# Mongolia
941
942# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map
943# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01)
944# both say that it has just one.
945
946# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11):
947# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm">
948# General Information Mongolia
949# </a> (1999-09)
950# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of
951# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and
952# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus
953# eight hours."
954
955# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13):
956# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998
957# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am
958# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time
959# of implementation may have been different....
960# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time
961# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod,
962# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij.
963
964# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15):
| 951Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar
952 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time
953 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942
954 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
955 8:00 - BORT 1982 May
956 8:00 - MYT
957
958# Maldives
959# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
960Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
961 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time
962 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time
963
964# Mongolia
965
966# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map
967# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01)
968# both say that it has just one.
969
970# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11):
971# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm">
972# General Information Mongolia
973# </a> (1999-09)
974# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of
975# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and
976# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus
977# eight hours."
978
979# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13):
980# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998
981# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am
982# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time
983# of implementation may have been different....
984# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time
985# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod,
986# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij.
987
988# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15):
|
965# For now, we'll comment out the east zone (Choybalsan)
966# and use Shanks's and the IATA's data for the daylight-saving rules.
| |
967# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia.
968# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone;
969# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us,
970# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd
971# is good enough for our purposes.
972
| 989# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia.
990# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone;
991# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us,
992# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd
993# is good enough for our purposes.
994
|
| 995# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13):
996# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier
997# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28),
998# there are three time zones.
999#
1000# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai
1001# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov,
1002# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi
1003# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar
1004#
1005# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.]
1006
|
973# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
| 1007# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
|
974Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
975Rule Mongol 1981 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
976Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
977Rule Mongol 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 -
978Rule Mongol 1991 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
979Rule Mongol 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
980# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25; go with Shanks.
981Rule Mongol 1996 only - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
982Rule Mongol 1997 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
| 1008Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1009Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1010# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists
1011# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00.
1012# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998.
1013Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
1014Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
|
983# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST.
| 1015# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST.
|
| 1016Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr 27 2:00s 1:00 S
1017Rule Mongol 2001 only - Sep 28 2:00s 0 -
|
984
985# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
| 1018
1019# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
|
| 1020# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
|
986Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug
987 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time
988 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT
| 1021Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug
1022 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time
1023 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT
|
| 1024# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga
|
989Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug
990 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time
991 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT
| 1025Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug
1026 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time
1027 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT
|
992# We're not sure about this entry yet, so we'll omit it for now.
993#Zone Asia/Choybalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug
994# 8:00 - CHOT 1978 # Choybalsan Time
995# 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT 19??
996# 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT
| 1028# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan,
1029# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan
1030Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug
1031 7:00 - ULAT 1978
1032 8:00 - ULAT 1983 Apr
1033 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT # Choibalsan Time
|
997
998# Nepal
999# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1000Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
1001 5:30 - IST 1986
1002 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time
1003
1004# Oman
1005# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1006Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920
1007 4:00 - GST
1008
1009# Pakistan
1010# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1011Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
1012 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
1013 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
1014 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30
1015 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
1016 5:00 - PKT # Pakistan Time
1017
1018# Palestine
1019
1020# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15):
1021#
1022# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now
1023# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule.
1024# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too...
1025#
1026# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05
1027# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no
1028# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt,
1029# though.
1030#
1031# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally
1032# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from
1033# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the
1034# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major
1035# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and
1036# East Jerusalem.
1037#
1038# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except
1039# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might
1040# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware
1041# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer
1042# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected).
1043#
1044# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most
1045# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to
1046# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to
1047# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't
1048# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the
1049# Jordanian one).
1050#
1051# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that:
1052#
1053# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996-
1054# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------
1055# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion
1056# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan
1057# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan
1058#
1059# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they
1060# have one).
1061
1062# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25):
1063# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go
1064# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947,
1065# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996.
1066# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since
1067# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about
1068# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
1069# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries
1070# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules
1071# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please
1072# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions.
1073
1074# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time,
1075# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg:
1076#
1077# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time
1078# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks
1079# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule,
1080# the PA has decided to implement DST in April.
1081
1082# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
1083# Daoud Kuttab writes in
1084# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html">
1085# Holiday havoc
1086# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that
1087# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15.
1088# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source).
1089# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
1090# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
1091
1092# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
1093# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1094Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
1095Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1096Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1097Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
1098Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
1099Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
1100
1101Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S
1102Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
1103
1104# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1105Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
1106 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15
1107 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5
1108 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996
1109 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999
1110 2:00 Palestine EE%sT
1111
1112# Paracel Is
1113# no information
1114
1115# Philippines
1116# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the
1117# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to
1118# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a
1119# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>.
1120# The rest of this data is from Shanks.
1121# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1122Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S
1123Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 -
1124Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S
1125Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 -
1126Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S
1127Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
1128# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1129Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
1130 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11
1131 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May
1132 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov
1133 8:00 Phil PH%sT
1134
1135# Qatar
1136# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1137Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha
1138 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
1139 3:00 - AST
1140
1141# Saudi Arabia
1142# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1143Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950
1144 3:00 - AST
1145
1146# Singapore
1147# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1148Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880
1149 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time
1150 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time
1151 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15
1152 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
1153 7:20 - MALT 1950
1154 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence
1155 7:30 - SGT 1982 May # Singapore Time
1156 8:00 - SGT
1157
1158# Spratly Is
1159# no information
1160
1161# Sri Lanka
1162# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
1163# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout"
1164# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24,
1165# no longer available as of 1999-08-17)
1166# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at
1167# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.''
1168#
1169# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted
1170# by Shamindra in
1171# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net">
1172# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26)
1173# </a>:
1174# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996
1175# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT.
1176
1177# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1178Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880
1179 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time
1180 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5
1181 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep
1182 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00
1183 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00
1184 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30
1185 6:00 - LKT
1186
1187# Syria
1188# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1189Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
1190Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
1191Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S
1192Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1193Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
1194Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1195Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1196Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1197Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S
1198Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1199Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
1200Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 -
1201Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S
1202Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1203Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S
1204Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 -
1205Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S
1206Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 -
1207Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S
1208Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S
1209Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1210Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S
1211Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1212Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1213Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1214Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S
1215Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
1216Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
1217# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
1218# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
1219# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31;
1220# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks.
1221Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1222Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1223Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S
1224Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1225# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1226Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq
1227 2:00 Syria EE%sT
1228
1229# Tajikistan
1230# From Shanks.
1231# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1232Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1233 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time
1234 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1235 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s
1236 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time
1237
1238# Thailand
1239# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1240Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880
1241 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time
1242 7:00 - ICT
1243
1244# Turkmenistan
1245# From Shanks.
1246# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1247Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad
1248 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time
1249 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00
1250 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence
1251 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
1252 5:00 - TMT
1253
1254# United Arab Emirates
1255# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1256Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920
1257 4:00 - GST
1258
1259# Uzbekistan
1260# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1261Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1262 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time
1263 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1
1264 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1
1265 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time
1266 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
1267 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
1268 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
1269 5:00 - UZT
1270Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1271 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time
1272 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1273 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
1274 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
1275 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
1276 5:00 - UZT
1277
1278# Vietnam
1279# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
1280# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long.
1281# We'll stick with the traditional name for now.
1282# From Shanks:
1283# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1284Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
1285 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
1286 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
1287 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
1288 7:00 - ICT
1289
1290# Yemen
1291# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1292Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950
1293 3:00 - AST
| 1034
1035# Nepal
1036# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1037Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
1038 5:30 - IST 1986
1039 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time
1040
1041# Oman
1042# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1043Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920
1044 4:00 - GST
1045
1046# Pakistan
1047# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1048Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
1049 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
1050 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
1051 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30
1052 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
1053 5:00 - PKT # Pakistan Time
1054
1055# Palestine
1056
1057# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15):
1058#
1059# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now
1060# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule.
1061# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too...
1062#
1063# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05
1064# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no
1065# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt,
1066# though.
1067#
1068# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally
1069# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from
1070# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the
1071# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major
1072# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and
1073# East Jerusalem.
1074#
1075# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except
1076# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might
1077# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware
1078# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer
1079# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected).
1080#
1081# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most
1082# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to
1083# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to
1084# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't
1085# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the
1086# Jordanian one).
1087#
1088# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that:
1089#
1090# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996-
1091# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------
1092# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion
1093# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan
1094# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan
1095#
1096# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they
1097# have one).
1098
1099# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25):
1100# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go
1101# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947,
1102# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996.
1103# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since
1104# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about
1105# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
1106# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries
1107# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules
1108# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please
1109# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions.
1110
1111# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time,
1112# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg:
1113#
1114# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time
1115# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks
1116# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule,
1117# the PA has decided to implement DST in April.
1118
1119# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
1120# Daoud Kuttab writes in
1121# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html">
1122# Holiday havoc
1123# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that
1124# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15.
1125# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source).
1126# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
1127# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
1128
1129# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
1130# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1131Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
1132Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1133Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
1134Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
1135Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
1136Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
1137
1138Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S
1139Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
1140
1141# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1142Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
1143 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15
1144 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5
1145 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996
1146 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999
1147 2:00 Palestine EE%sT
1148
1149# Paracel Is
1150# no information
1151
1152# Philippines
1153# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the
1154# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to
1155# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a
1156# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>.
1157# The rest of this data is from Shanks.
1158# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1159Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S
1160Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 -
1161Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S
1162Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 -
1163Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S
1164Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
1165# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1166Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
1167 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11
1168 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May
1169 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov
1170 8:00 Phil PH%sT
1171
1172# Qatar
1173# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1174Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha
1175 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
1176 3:00 - AST
1177
1178# Saudi Arabia
1179# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1180Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950
1181 3:00 - AST
1182
1183# Singapore
1184# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1185Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880
1186 6:55:24 - SMT 1905 Jun # Singapore Mean Time
1187 7:00 - MALT 1933 # Malaya Time
1188 7:20 - MALT 1942 Feb 15
1189 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 2
1190 7:20 - MALT 1950
1191 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence
1192 7:30 - SGT 1982 May # Singapore Time
1193 8:00 - SGT
1194
1195# Spratly Is
1196# no information
1197
1198# Sri Lanka
1199# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
1200# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout"
1201# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24,
1202# no longer available as of 1999-08-17)
1203# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at
1204# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.''
1205#
1206# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted
1207# by Shamindra in
1208# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net">
1209# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26)
1210# </a>:
1211# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996
1212# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT.
1213
1214# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1215Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880
1216 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time
1217 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5
1218 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep
1219 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00
1220 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00
1221 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30
1222 6:00 - LKT
1223
1224# Syria
1225# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1226Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
1227Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
1228Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S
1229Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1230Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
1231Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1232Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1233Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1234Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S
1235Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1236Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
1237Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 -
1238Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S
1239Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1240Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S
1241Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 -
1242Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S
1243Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 -
1244Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S
1245Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S
1246Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
1247Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S
1248Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
1249Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1250Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1251Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S
1252Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
1253Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
1254# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
1255# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
1256# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31;
1257# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks.
1258Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1259Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
1260Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S
1261Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1262# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1263Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq
1264 2:00 Syria EE%sT
1265
1266# Tajikistan
1267# From Shanks.
1268# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1269Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1270 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time
1271 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1272 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s
1273 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time
1274
1275# Thailand
1276# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1277Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880
1278 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time
1279 7:00 - ICT
1280
1281# Turkmenistan
1282# From Shanks.
1283# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1284Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad
1285 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time
1286 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00
1287 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence
1288 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
1289 5:00 - TMT
1290
1291# United Arab Emirates
1292# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1293Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920
1294 4:00 - GST
1295
1296# Uzbekistan
1297# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1298Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1299 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time
1300 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1
1301 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1
1302 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time
1303 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
1304 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
1305 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
1306 5:00 - UZT
1307Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
1308 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time
1309 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
1310 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
1311 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
1312 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
1313 5:00 - UZT
1314
1315# Vietnam
1316# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
1317# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long.
1318# We'll stick with the traditional name for now.
1319# From Shanks:
1320# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1321Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
1322 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
1323 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
1324 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
1325 7:00 - ICT
1326
1327# Yemen
1328# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1329Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950
1330 3:00 - AST
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