| asia (43014) | asia (43543) |
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| 1# @(#)asia 7.40 | 1# @(#)asia 7.41 |
| 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> (1996-11-22): 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is --- 25 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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* 42# 8:00 CST China | 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> (1996-11-22): 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is --- 25 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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* 42# 8:00 CST China |
| 43# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* |
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| 43# 9:00 JST Japan 44# 9:00 KST Korea 45# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time 46# 47# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. 48 49# From Guy Harris: 50# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as --- 190 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 241 8:00 HK HK%sT 1997 Jul 1 # return to China 242 8:00 PRC C%sT 243 244 245############################################################################### 246 247# Taiwan 248 | 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 --- 190 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 242 8:00 HK HK%sT 1997 Jul 1 # return to China 243 8:00 PRC C%sT 244 245 246############################################################################### 247 248# Taiwan 249 |
| 250# Shanks (1995) writes that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it 251# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't 252# have any other information. 253 |
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| 249# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 250Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 251Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 252Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D 253Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 254Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 255Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 256Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D --- 33 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 290# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 291Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S 292Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 - 293Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 294Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 - 295Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 296Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 297Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - | 254# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 255Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 256Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 257Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D 258Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 259Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 260Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 261Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D --- 33 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 295# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 296Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S 297Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 - 298Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 299Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 - 300Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 301Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 302Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - |
| 298Rule Cyprus 1979 max - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 299Rule Cyprus 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S | 303Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 304Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S |
| 300# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 301Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 | 305# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 306Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 |
| 302 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT | 307 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 308 2:00 EU EE%sT 309# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. |
| 303 304# Georgia 305# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19): 306# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward 307# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, 308# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! 309# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. 310# --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 316Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 317 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time 318 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 319 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 320 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 321 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 322 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 323 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun | 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# --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 |
| 324 5:00 - GET | 331 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 332 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT |
| 325 326# India 327# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 328Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 329 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 330 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 331 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 332 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 --- 171 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 504Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D 505Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 506Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D 507Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 508Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D 509Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 510 511# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> | 333 334# India 335# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 336Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 337 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 338 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 339 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 340 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 --- 171 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 512Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D 513Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 514Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D 515Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 516Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D 517Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 518 519# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> |
| 512# (1997-03-04 and 1998-03-16): | 520# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16 and 1998-12-28): |
| 513 514# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of 515# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. | 521 522# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of 523# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. |
| 516# Each year they decide anew what havoc to wreak on the country. However, 517# there is a "supposed" set of rules which is subject to change depending 518# on the party the Minister of Interior, the size of the coalition 519# government, the phase of the moon and the direction of the wind. Hence, 520# changes may need to be made on a semi-annual basis. One thing is entrenched 521# in law, however: that there must be at least 150 days of daylight savings 522# time annually. Ever since 1993, the change to daylight savings time is 523# on a Thursday night from midnight IST to 1 a.m IDT. The change back to 524# standard time is on a Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time 525# to 11 p.m. standard time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the 526# change back to standard time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday 527# night to avoid conflicts with the Jewish New Year. | 524# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150 525# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to 526# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to 527# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a 528# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard 529# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard 530# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid 531# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. Starting in 1999, the change to 532# daylight savings time will still be on a Friday morning but from 533# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time 534# will now also be on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST. |
| 528 529# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 530Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 531Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 532Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D 533Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S 534Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D 535Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S --- 29 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 565 566# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 567Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D 568Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 569Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 570Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 571Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D 572Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S | 535 536# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 537Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 538Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 539Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D 540Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S 541Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D 542Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S --- 29 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 572 573# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 574Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D 575Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 576Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 577Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 578Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D 579Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S |
| 580Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D 581Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S |
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| 573 | 582 |
| 574# From Member of Knesset Avraham Poraz, as quoted in Ha'aretz (1998-09-02): 575# [The 1998-09-06 transition is to] serve the interests of a small minority 576# of ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Jews who, during the [Hebrew] month of Elul, 577# recite Slihot penitential prayers in the early morning hours 578# and thus find daylight time inconvenient. | 583# Due to imminent elections in 1999, there are no dates for the year 2000 584# and beyond. There was a move to legislate the DST rules in Israel, but 585# due to the government's fall, it most likely won't be brought to the Knesset 586# for first reading before the elections and will probably be altered by the 587# newly elected government. |
| 579 | 588 |
| 580# From Paul Eggert (1998-01-12): 581# Here are guesses for rules after 1998. | 589# From Paul Eggert (1999-01-30): 590# Here are guesses for rules after 1999. |
| 582# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. 583# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S | 591# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. 592# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| 584Rule Zion 1999 max - Mar Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 D 585Rule Zion 1999 max - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S | 593Rule Zion 2000 max - Apr Fri>=1 2:00 1:00 D 594Rule Zion 2000 max - Sep Fri>=1 2:00 0 S |
| 586 587# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 588Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 589 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 590 2:00 Zion I%sT 591 592 593############################################################################### --- 10 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 604# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 605#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 606#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S 607#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 608#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 609# but the only locations using it were US military bases. 610# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo. 611 | 595 596# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 597Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 598 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 599 2:00 Zion I%sT 600 601 602############################################################################### --- 10 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 613# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 614#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 615#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S 616#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 617#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 618# but the only locations using it were US military bases. 619# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo. 620 |
| 621# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): 622# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical 623# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0. 624# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996' 625# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.... 626# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST). 627# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07. 628 629# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16): 630# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan, 631# which stands for the time on E 135 degree. 632# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central 633# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard 634# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard 635# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No. 636# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is 637# standard.... 638# 639# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate. 640# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor. 641 642# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki) 643# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1. 644 |
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| 612# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 645# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 613Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:19:04 - LMT 1896 | 646Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u 647 9:00 - JST 1896 648 9:00 - CJT 1938 |
| 614 9:00 - JST | 649 9:00 - JST |
| 615Zone Asia/Ishigaki 8:16:36 - LMT 1896 616 8:00 - CST 617# There is no information for Marcus. 618# Other Japanese possessions are probably like Asia/Tokyo. | 650# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. |
| 619 620# Jordan 621# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 622Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S 623Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 624Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 625Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 626Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - --- 385 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1012Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1013Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S 1014Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1015Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1016Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1017Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S 1018Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 1019Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - | 651 652# Jordan 653# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 654Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S 655Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 656Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 657Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 658Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - --- 385 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1044Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1045Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S 1046Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1047Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1048Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1049Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S 1050Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 1051Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - |
| 1020# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1997-03-31; (1998-02) says 1998-04-02, 1021# 1999-03-29, and 1999-09-29; ignore all these claims for now. | 1052# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1997-03-31; (1998-02) says 1998-04-02; 1053# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; ignore all these claims for now. |
| 1022Rule Syria 1994 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1023Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1024# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1025Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 1026 2:00 Syria EE%sT 1027 1028# Tajikistan 1029# From Shanks (1995), who writes ``date of change uncertain'' for 1991. --- 68 unchanged lines hidden --- | 1054Rule Syria 1994 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1055Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1056# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1057Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 1058 2:00 Syria EE%sT 1059 1060# Tajikistan 1061# From Shanks (1995), who writes ``date of change uncertain'' for 1991. --- 68 unchanged lines hidden --- |