| asia (105196) | asia (114173) |
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| 1# @(#)asia 7.68 | 1# @(#)asia 7.71 |
| 2 3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 6 7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 24# I found in the UCLA library. 25# 26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 28# 29# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 30# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 31# Corrections are welcome! | 2 3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 6 7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 24# I found in the UCLA library. 25# 26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 28# 29# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 30# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 31# Corrections are welcome! |
| 32# std dst 33# LMT Local Mean Time 34# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time 35# 2:00 IST IDT Israel 36# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* 37# 4:00 GST Gulf* 38# 5:30 IST India 39# 7:00 ICT Indochina* 40# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia 41# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia 42# 8:00 CST China 43# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* 44# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia 45# 9:00 JST Japan 46# 9:00 KST Korea 47# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time | 32# std dst 33# LMT Local Mean Time 34# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time 35# 2:00 IST IDT Israel 36# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* 37# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran 38# 4:00 GST Gulf* 39# 5:30 IST India 40# 7:00 ICT Indochina* 41# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia 42# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia 43# 8:00 CST China 44# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* 45# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia 46# 9:00 JST Japan 47# 9:00 KST Korea 48# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time |
| 48# 49# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. 50 51# From Guy Harris: 52# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as 53# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental 54# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide - 55# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses. --- 369 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 425 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 426 8:00 - CIT 427Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 428 9:00 - EIT 1944 429 9:30 - CST 1964 430 9:00 - EIT 431 432# Iran | 49# 50# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. 51 52# From Guy Harris: 53# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as 54# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental 55# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide - 56# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses. --- 369 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 426 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 427 8:00 - CIT 428Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 429 9:00 - EIT 1944 430 9:30 - CST 1964 431 9:00 - EIT 432 433# Iran |
| 433# From Paul Eggert (2000-06-12), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales: 434# Ahmea Alavi in 435# <a href="http://www.persia.org/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt"> 436# TAGHVEEM (1993-07-12) 437# </a> 438# writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day 439# of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM: | 434 435# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15): 436# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian). 437# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine: |
| 440# | 438# |
| 441# DST start DST end 442# year SSIM Alavi SSIM Alavi 443# 1991 05-03!= 03-21 09-20!= 09-23 444# 1992 03-22!= 03-21 09-23 09-23 445# 1993 03-21 03-21 09-23 09-23 446# 1994 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 447# 1995 03-21 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 448# 1996 03-21!= 03-20 09-22 09-22 449# 1997 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 450# 1998 03-21 03-21 09-21!= 09-23 451# 1999 03-22!= 03-21 09-22!= 09-23 452# 2000 03-21!= 03-20 09-21!= 09-22 453# 2001 03-19!= 03-21 09-19!= 09-23 454# 2002 03-18!= 03-21 09-18!= 09-23 | 439# Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16] 440# No. 16760/T233 H 1370/6/10 [1991-09-01] |
| 455# | 441# |
| 456# Go with Alavi starting with 1992. 457# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 19.34 to compute Persian dates. | 442# The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country 443# 444# The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14], 445# based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13] 446# of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs, 447# and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers 448# and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and 449# for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that: 450# 451# The official time of the country will should move forward one hour 452# at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return 453# to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of 454# Shahrivar. 455# 456# First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi 457# 458# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed 459# for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the 460# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last 461# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates.... 462# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct 463# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. 464 465# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-15) 466# Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. 467# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates. |
| 458# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050 459# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. 460# 461# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S | 468# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050 469# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. 470# 471# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| 462Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 463Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 - 464Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 - 465Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 466Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00s 1:00 S 467Rule Iran 1991 only - Sep 20 0:00s 0 - 468Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 469Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 470Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 471Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 472Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 473Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 474Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 475Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 476Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 477Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 478Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 479Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 480Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 481Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 482Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 483Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 484Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 485Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 486Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 487Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 488Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 489Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 490Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 491Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 492Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 493Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 494Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 495Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 496Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 497Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 498Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 499Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 500Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 501Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 502Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 503Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 504Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 505Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 506Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 507Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 508Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 S 509Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 23 0:00 0 - 510Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 S 511Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 22 0:00 0 - | 472Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 473Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S 474Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S 475Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S 476Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 D 477Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 478Rule Iran 1991 1995 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 479Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 480Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 481Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 482Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 483Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 484Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 485Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 486Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 487Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 488Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 489Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 490Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 491Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 492Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 493Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 494Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 495Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 496Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 497Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 498Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 499Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 500Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 501Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 502Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 503Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 504Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 505Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 506Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 507Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 508Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 509Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 510Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 511Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 512Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 513Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 514Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 515Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 516Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 517Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 518Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 519Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 520Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S |
| 512# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 513Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 514 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time | 521# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 522Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 523 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time |
| 515 3:30 - IRT 1977 Nov | 524 3:30 - IRST 1977 Nov |
| 516 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979 517 3:30 Iran IR%sT 518 519 520# Iraq 521# 522# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12): 523# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in --- 219 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 743# Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit and Minister of Interior Eli 744# Yishai to revert to standard time for a period of 48-96 _hours_ 745# (sic) around the Yom Kippur fast day (September 15-16) and then go 746# *back* to DST until the end of October. The details of the proposal 747# have yet to be worked out, but the second and final readings of the 748# bill have until July 24 to pass. 749# 750# (2002-07-25): | 525 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979 526 3:30 Iran IR%sT 527 528 529# Iraq 530# 531# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12): 532# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in --- 219 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 752# Minister of Justice Meir Sheetrit and Minister of Interior Eli 753# Yishai to revert to standard time for a period of 48-96 _hours_ 754# (sic) around the Yom Kippur fast day (September 15-16) and then go 755# *back* to DST until the end of October. The details of the proposal 756# have yet to be worked out, but the second and final readings of the 757# bill have until July 24 to pass. 758# 759# (2002-07-25): |
| 751# Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew) article | 760# Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew) article |
| 752# to my attention: 753# 754# http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2019315,00.html 755# 756# Hence, the proposal to shorten DST was withdrawn yesterday and the timezone 757# files that have been in effect since July 2000 are still valid for all of 758# 2002. 759# --- 113 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 873# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses 874# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. 875# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules. 876# Also go with the following claims of Shanks: 877# 878# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. 879# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. 880# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. | 761# to my attention: 762# 763# http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2019315,00.html 764# 765# Hence, the proposal to shorten DST was withdrawn yesterday and the timezone 766# files that have been in effect since July 2000 are still valid for all of 767# 2002. 768# --- 113 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 882# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses 883# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. 884# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules. 885# Also go with the following claims of Shanks: 886# 887# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. 888# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. 889# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. |
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| 883# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 884# 885# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan 886Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 887 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 888 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 889 6:00 - ALMT 1992 890 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT --- 258 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1149# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first 1150# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 1151# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00, 1152# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like 1153# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday 1154# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the 1155# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02. 1156 | 892# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 893# 894# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan 895Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 896 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 897 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 898 6:00 - ALMT 1992 899 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT --- 258 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1158# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first 1159# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 1160# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00, 1161# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like 1162# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday 1163# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the 1164# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02. 1165 |
| 1166# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): 1167# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05 1168# that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow for now. 1169 1170# From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14): 1171# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm 1172# there will be no DST in Pakistan this year: 1173# 1174# ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh 1175# Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous 1176# decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by 1177# one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy. 1178# 1179# The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather 1180# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity. 1181 1182 |
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| 1157# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S | 1183# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| 1158Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Apr Sun>=2 0:00 1:00 S 1159Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Oct 15 0:00 0 - | 1184Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S 1185Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - |
| 1160# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1161Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 1162 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 1163 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 1164 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30 1165 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time 1166 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time 1167 --- 276 unchanged lines hidden --- | 1186# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1187Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 1188 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 1189 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 1190 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30 1191 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time 1192 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time 1193 --- 276 unchanged lines hidden --- |