| asia (149590) | asia (153670) |
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| 1# @(#)asia 7.85 | 1# @(#)asia 7.89 |
| 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 (1999-03-22): 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is --- 70 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 80 4:00 - AFT 1945 81 4:30 - AFT 82 83# Armenia 84# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): 85# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991, 86# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997. 87# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz | 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 (1999-03-22): 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is --- 70 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 80 4:00 - AFT 1945 81 4:30 - AFT 82 83# Armenia 84# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): 85# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991, 86# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997. 87# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz |
| 88# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST | 88# reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST |
| 89# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that 90# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, 91# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. 92# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 93Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 94 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time 95 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 96 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence 97 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s 98 4:00 - AMT 1997 99 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 100 101# Azerbaijan | 89# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that 90# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, 91# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. 92# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 93Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 94 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time 95 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 96 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence 97 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s 98 4:00 - AMT 1997 99 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 100 101# Azerbaijan |
| 102# From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23): 103# According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997 104# Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf |
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| 102# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S | 105# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| 103Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S 104Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 - | 106Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S 107Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 - |
| 105# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 106Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 107 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 108 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 109 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 110 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 111 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 112 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 --- 230 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 343# 344# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 345# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it 346# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours 347# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, 348# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process 349# of integration into Europe. 350 | 108# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 109Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 110 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 111 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 112 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 113 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 114 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 115 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 --- 230 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 346# 347# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 348# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it 349# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours 350# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, 351# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process 352# of integration into Europe. 353 |
| 354# From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07): 355# Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on 356# [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. 357# Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT 358# +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document 359# about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, 360# because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time.... 361# I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our 362# DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month. 363 364 |
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| 351# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 352Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 353 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time 354 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 355 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 356 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 357 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 358 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 359 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 360 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 361 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27 | 365# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 366Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 367 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time 368 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 369 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 370 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 371 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 372 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 373 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 374 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 375 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27 |
| 362 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT | 376 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 2005 Mar lastSun 2:00 377 4:00 - GET |
| 363 364# East Timor 365 366# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in 367# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm"> 368# East Timor may be late for its millennium 369# </a> (1999-12-26/31): 370# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun --- 539 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 910# 911# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html"> 912# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09): 913# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back 914# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final! 915# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in 916# government's departments from six to seven hours. 917# | 378 379# East Timor 380 381# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in 382# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm"> 383# East Timor may be late for its millennium 384# </a> (1999-12-26/31): 385# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun --- 539 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 925# 926# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html"> 927# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09): 928# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back 929# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final! 930# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in 931# government's departments from six to seven hours. 932# |
| 933# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 934# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 935# |
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| 918# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 919Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S 920Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 921Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 922Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 923Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 924Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 925Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 932Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S 933Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - 934Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S 935Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 936Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 937Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 938Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - 939Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S | 936# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 937Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S 938Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 939Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 940Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 941Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 942Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 943Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 950Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S 951Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - 952Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S 953Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 954Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 955Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 956Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - 957Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S |
| 940Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - | 958Rule Jordan 1999 2002 - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - |
| 941Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S | 959Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S |
| 960Rule Jordan 2003 only - Oct 24 0:00s 0 - 961Rule Jordan 2004 only - Oct 15 0:00s 0 - 962Rule Jordan 2005 max - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - |
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| 942# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 943Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 944 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 945 946 947# Kazakhstan 948 949# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): --- 89 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1039# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) 1040# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. 1041 1042# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15): 1043# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway 1044# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml> 1045# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article 1046# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC. | 963# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 964Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 965 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 966 967 968# Kazakhstan 969 970# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): --- 89 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1060# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) 1061# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. 1062 1063# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15): 1064# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway 1065# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml> 1066# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article 1067# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC. |
| 1068# From Malik Abdugaliev (2005-09-21): 1069# Our government cancels daylight saving time 6th of August 2005. 1070# From 2005-08-12 our GMT-offset is +6, w/o any daylight saving. |
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| 1047 1048# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S | 1071 1072# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| 1049Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S 1050Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1051Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S 1052Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - | 1073Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S 1074Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1075Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S 1076Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2004 - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - |
| 1053# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1054Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 1055 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 1056 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1057 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence | 1077# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1078Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 1079 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 1080 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1081 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence |
| 1058 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time | 1082 5:00 Kyrgyz KG%sT 2005 Aug 12 # Kyrgyzstan Time 1083 6:00 - KGT |
| 1059 1060############################################################################### 1061 1062# Korea (North and South) 1063 1064# From Guy Harris: 1065# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco, 1066# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know --- 332 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1399# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html"> 1400# Holiday havoc 1401# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that 1402# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. 1403# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). 1404# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, 1405# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. 1406 | 1084 1085############################################################################### 1086 1087# Korea (North and South) 1088 1089# From Guy Harris: 1090# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco, 1091# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know --- 332 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1424# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html"> 1425# Holiday havoc 1426# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that 1427# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. 1428# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). 1429# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, 1430# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. 1431 |
| 1432# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 1433# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 1434 |
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| 1407# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. 1408# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1409Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 1410Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1411Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1412Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S 1413Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - 1414Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - 1415 1416Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S | 1435# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. 1436# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1437Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 1438Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1439Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1440Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S 1441Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - 1442Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - 1443 1444Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S |
| 1417Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - | 1445Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 1446Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 1447Rule Palestine 2005 max - Oct 4 1:00 0 - |
| 1418 1419# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1420Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 1421 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 1422 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 1423 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 1424 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 1425 2:00 Palestine EE%sT --- 186 unchanged lines hidden --- | 1448 1449# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1450Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 1451 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 1452 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 1453 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 1454 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 1455 2:00 Palestine EE%sT --- 186 unchanged lines hidden --- |