| antarctica (30708) | antarctica (43009) |
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| 1# @(#)antarctica 7.8 | 1# @(#)antarctica 7.14 |
| 2 3# From Paul Eggert (1997-03-28): 4# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; | 2 3# From Paul Eggert (1997-03-28): 4# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; |
| 5# see <URL:http://earth.agu.org/amen/nations.html> (1996-05-24) 6# and <URL:http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm> (1996-09-05). | 5# see 6# <a href="http://earth.agu.org/amen/nations.html"> 7# Antarctic Activities of Member Nations of the Antarctic Treaty (1996-05-24) 8# </a> 9# and 10# <a href="http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm"> 11# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1996-09-05) 12# </a> 13# for information. |
| 7# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 8# 9# Except for the French entries, 10# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! 11# FORMAT is `___' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. 12 13# These rules are stolen from the `southamerica' file. 14# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 29# General Belgrano II 30# 5 others 31 32# Australia - territories 33# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 34# 35# year-round bases 36# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, since 1969 | 14# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 15# 16# Except for the French entries, 17# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! 18# FORMAT is `___' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. 19 20# These rules are stolen from the `southamerica' file. 21# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 36# General Belgrano II 37# 5 others 38 39# Australia - territories 40# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 41# 42# year-round bases 43# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, since 1969 |
| 37# Davis, Vestfold Hills, since 1957-01-13 (except 1965-01 - 1969-02) | 44# Davis, Vestfold Hills, since 1957-01-13 (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) |
| 38# Mawson, Holme Bay, since 1954-02-13 39# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 40Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - ___ 1969 41 8:00 - WST # Western (Aus) Standard Time | 45# Mawson, Holme Bay, since 1954-02-13 46# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 47Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - ___ 1969 48 8:00 - WST # Western (Aus) Standard Time |
| 42#Zone Antartica/Davis unknown | 49Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - ___ 1957 Jan 13 50 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time 51 0 - ___ 1969 Feb 52 7:00 - DAVT |
| 43Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - ___ 1954 Feb 13 44 6:00 - MAWT # Mawson Time 45# References: | 53Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - ___ 1954 Feb 13 54 6:00 - MAWT # Mawson Time 55# References: |
| 46# <URL:http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html> (1996-07-15) 47# <URL:http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html> (1996-04-19) | 56# <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html"> 57# Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 58# </a> 59# <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html"> 60# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 61# </a> 62# <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html"> 63# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 64# </a> |
| 48 49# Brazil - year-round base 50# Ferraz, King George Island, since 1983/4 51 52# Chile - 4 year-round bases 53 54# China - year-round bases 55# Great Wall, King George Island, since 1985-02-20 --- 31 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 87# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 88# 89# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 90Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - ___ 1947 91 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time 92 0 - ___ 1956 Nov 93 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time 94# Reference: | 65 66# Brazil - year-round base 67# Ferraz, King George Island, since 1983/4 68 69# Chile - 4 year-round bases 70 71# China - year-round bases 72# Great Wall, King George Island, since 1985-02-20 --- 31 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 104# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 105# 106# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 107Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - ___ 1947 108 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time 109 0 - ___ 1956 Nov 110 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time 111# Reference: |
| 95# <URL:http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/science/reports/fr/IFRTP.html> (1996-09-10) | 112# <a href="http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/science/reports/fr/IFRTP.html"> 113# Support and Development of Polar Research and Technology (1997-02-03) 114# </a> |
| 96 97 98# Germany - year-round base 99# Georg von Neumayer 100 101# India - year-round base 102# Dakshin Gangotri 103 --- 89 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 193# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-27): 194# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 195# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 196# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 197# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 198# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 199# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) 200# | 115 116 117# Germany - year-round base 118# Georg von Neumayer 119 120# India - year-round base 121# Dakshin Gangotri 122 --- 89 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 212# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-27): 213# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 214# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 215# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 216# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 217# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 218# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) 219# |
| 201# From Susan Smith <URL:http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html> 202# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300): We use the same time as McMurdo does. | 220# From Susan Smith 221# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 222# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 223# We use the same time as McMurdo does. |
| 203# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 204# One last quirk about South Pole time. 205# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 206# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 207# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 208# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 209# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 210# 211Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole | 224# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 225# One last quirk about South Pole time. 226# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 227# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 228# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 229# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 230# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 231# 232Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole |