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| 1# @(#)asia 8.14 | 1# @(#)asia 8.18 |
| 2# <pre> 3 4# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 5# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 6# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 7 8# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 9# --- 431 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 441 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 442 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 443 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3 444 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 445 9:00 - TLT 446 447# India 448# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 2# <pre> 3 4# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 5# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 6# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 7 8# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 9# --- 431 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 441 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 442 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 443 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3 444 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 445 9:00 - TLT 446 447# India 448# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 449Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata | 449Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata |
| 450 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 451 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 452 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 453 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 454 5:30 - IST | 450 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 451 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 452 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 453 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 454 5:30 - IST |
| 455# The following are like Asia/Calcutta: | 455# The following are like Asia/Kolkata: |
| 456# Andaman Is 457# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is) 458# Nicobar Is 459 460# Indonesia 461# 462# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks & Pottenger: 463# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime> --- 191 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 655# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows: 656# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi 657# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred 658# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone 659# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. 660# 661# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. 662 | 456# Andaman Is 457# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is) 458# Nicobar Is 459 460# Indonesia 461# 462# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks & Pottenger: 463# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime> --- 191 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 655# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows: 656# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi 657# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred 658# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone 659# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. 660# 661# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. 662 |
| 663# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-10): 664# The cabinet in Iraq abolished DST last week, according to the following 665# news sources (in Arabic): 666# <a href="http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html"> 667# http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html 668# </a> 669# <a href="http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10"> 670# http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10 671# </a> 672# 673# We have published a short article in English about the change: 674# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html"> 675# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html 676# </a> 677 |
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| 663# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 664Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 665Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 666Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 667Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 668Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S 669Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D 670# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. 671# Shanks & Pottenger say Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997; ignore this. 672# | 678# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 679Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 680Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 681Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 682Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 683Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S 684Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D 685# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. 686# Shanks & Pottenger say Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997; ignore this. 687# |
| 673Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D 674Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S | 688Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D 689Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S |
| 675# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 676Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 677 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? 678 3:00 - AST 1982 May 679 3:00 Iraq A%sT 680 681 682############################################################################### --- 999 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1682# at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). 1683 1684# From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: 1685# <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML> 1686# [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply 1687# kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean 1688# Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. 1689# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18): | 690# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 691Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 692 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? 693 3:00 - AST 1982 May 694 3:00 Iraq A%sT 695 696 697############################################################################### --- 999 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1697# at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). 1698 1699# From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: 1700# <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML> 1701# [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply 1702# kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean 1703# Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. 1704# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18): |
| 1690# People who live in regions under Tamil control can use TZ='Asia/Calcutta', | 1705# People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'], |
| 1691# as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. 1692 1693# From K Sethu (2006-04-25): 1694# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at 1695# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government 1696# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization 1697# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. 1698# --- 73 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1772Rule Syria 1999 2006 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1773# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18): 1774# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC] 1775# this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt. 1776Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 1777# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29): 1778# Today the AP reported "Syria will switch to summertime at midnight Thursday." 1779# http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Time-Change.php | 1706# as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. 1707 1708# From K Sethu (2006-04-25): 1709# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at 1710# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government 1711# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization 1712# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. 1713# --- 73 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1787Rule Syria 1999 2006 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1788# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18): 1789# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC] 1790# this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt. 1791Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 1792# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29): 1793# Today the AP reported "Syria will switch to summertime at midnight Thursday." 1794# http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Time-Change.php |
| 1780# For lack of better info, assume the rule changed to "last Friday in March" 1781# this year. 1782Rule Syria 2007 max - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S | 1795Rule Syria 2007 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S |
| 1783# From Jesper Norgard (2007-10-27): 1784# The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will 1785# not take place 1.st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1.st November at 24:00 or 1786# rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sence than 1787# having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the 1788# weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now 1789# it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend... 1790# --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1796# 1797# I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic): 1798# http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_print_veiw.asp?FileName=12521710520070926111247 1799# 1800# which using Google's translate tools says: 1801# Council of Ministers also approved the commencement of work on 1802# identifying the winter time as of Friday, 2/11/2007 where the 60th 1803# minute delay at midnight Thursday 1/11/2007. | 1796# From Jesper Norgard (2007-10-27): 1797# The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will 1798# not take place 1.st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1.st November at 24:00 or 1799# rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sence than 1800# having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the 1801# weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now 1802# it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend... 1803# --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1809# 1810# I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic): 1811# http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_print_veiw.asp?FileName=12521710520070926111247 1812# 1813# which using Google's translate tools says: 1814# Council of Ministers also approved the commencement of work on 1815# identifying the winter time as of Friday, 2/11/2007 where the 60th 1816# minute delay at midnight Thursday 1/11/2007. |
| 1804# 1805# From Arthur David Olson (2007-10-30): 1806# My best guess for the future is first Friday in November. 1807Rule Syria 2007 max - Nov Fri>=1 0:00 0 - | 1817Rule Syria 2007 only - Nov Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 1818 1819# From Stephen Colebourne (2008-03-17): 1820# For everyone's info, I saw an IATA time zone change for [Syria] for 1821# this month (March 2008) in the last day or so...This is the data IATA 1822# are now using: 1823# Country Time Standard --- DST Start --- --- DST End --- DST 1824# Name Zone Variation Time Date Time Date 1825# Variation 1826# Syrian Arab 1827# Republic SY +0200 2200 03APR08 2100 30SEP08 +0300 1828# 2200 02APR09 2100 30SEP09 +0300 1829# 2200 01APR10 2100 30SEP10 +0300 1830 1831# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-17): 1832# Here's a link to English-language coverage by the Syrian Arab News 1833# Agency (SANA)... 1834# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm"> 1835# http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm 1836# </a>...which reads (in part) "The Cabinet approved the suggestion of the 1837# Ministry of Electricity to begin daylight savings time on Friday April 1838# 4th, advancing clocks one hour ahead on midnight of Thursday April 3rd." 1839# Since Syria is two hours east of UTC, the 2200 and 2100 transition times 1840# shown above match up with midnight in Syria. 1841 1842# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): 1843# My buest guess at a Syrian rule is "the Friday nearest April 1"; 1844# coding that involves either using a "Mar Fri>=29" construct that old time zone 1845# compilers can't handle or having multiple Rules (a la Israel). 1846# For now, use "Apr Fri>=1", and go with IATA on a uniform Sep 30 end. 1847 1848Rule Syria 2008 max - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 1849Rule Syria 2008 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1850 |
| 1808# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1809Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq 1810 2:00 Syria EE%sT 1811 1812# Tajikistan 1813# From Shanks & Pottenger. 1814# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1815Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1853 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 1854 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 1855 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 1856 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 1857 5:00 - UZT 1858 1859# Vietnam 1860 | 1851# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1852Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq 1853 2:00 Syria EE%sT 1854 1855# Tajikistan 1856# From Shanks & Pottenger. 1857# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1858Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1896 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 1897 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 1898 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 1899 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 1900 5:00 - UZT 1901 1902# Vietnam 1903 |
| 1861# From Paul Eggert (1993-11-18): 1862# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long. 1863# We'll stick with the traditional name for now. | 1904# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): 1905# The English-language name of Vietnam's most populous city is "Ho Chi Min City"; 1906# we use Ho_Chi_Minh below to avoid a name of more than 14 characters. |
| 1864 1865# From Shanks & Pottenger: 1866# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 1907 1908# From Shanks & Pottenger: 1909# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 1867Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 | 1910Zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 |
| 1868 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 1869 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 1870 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 1871 7:00 - ICT 1872 1873# Yemen 1874# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1875Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950 1876 3:00 - AST | 1911 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 1912 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 1913 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 1914 7:00 - ICT 1915 1916# Yemen 1917# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1918Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950 1919 3:00 - AST |