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| 1# <pre> | |
| 2# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 3# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 4 5# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 6# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 7# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). 8 9# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-11): --- 17 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 27# 28# For data circa 1899, a common source is: 29# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 30# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 31# 32# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 33# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 34# | 1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 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@iana.org for general use in the future). 7 8# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-11): --- 17 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 26# 27# For data circa 1899, a common source is: 28# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 29# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 30# 31# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 32# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 33# |
| 35# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; | 34# I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table; |
| 36# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 37# Corrections are welcome! 38# std dst 39# LMT Local Mean Time 40# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time 41# 2:00 IST IDT Israel 42# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* 43# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran 44# 4:00 GST Gulf* 45# 5:30 IST India 46# 7:00 ICT Indochina* 47# 7:00 WIB west Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Barat) 48# 8:00 WITA central Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Tengah) 49# 8:00 CST China | 35# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 36# Corrections are welcome! 37# std dst 38# LMT Local Mean Time 39# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time 40# 2:00 IST IDT Israel 41# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* 42# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran 43# 4:00 GST Gulf* 44# 5:30 IST India 45# 7:00 ICT Indochina* 46# 7:00 WIB west Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Barat) 47# 8:00 WITA central Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Tengah) 48# 8:00 CST China |
| 50# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* | 49# 8:00 JWST Western Standard Time (Japan, 1896/1937)* 50# 9:00 JCST Central Standard Time (Japan, 1896/1937) |
| 51# 9:00 WIT east Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Timur) 52# 9:00 JST JDT Japan 53# 9:00 KST KDT Korea | 51# 9:00 WIT east Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Timur) 52# 9:00 JST JDT Japan 53# 9:00 KST KDT Korea |
| 54# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time | 54# 9:30 ACST Australian Central Standard Time |
| 55# | 55# |
| 56# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. | 56# See the 'europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. |
| 57 58# From Guy Harris: 59# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as 60# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental 61# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide - 62# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses. 63 64############################################################################### 65 | 57 58# From Guy Harris: 59# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as 60# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental 61# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide - 62# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses. 63 64############################################################################### 65 |
| 66# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file. | 66# These rules are stolen from the 'europe' file. |
| 67# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 68Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S 69Rule EUAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - 70Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - 71Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 72Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 73Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 74Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S --- 61 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 136 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 137 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 138 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 139 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 140 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 141 142# Bahrain 143# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 67# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 68Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S 69Rule EUAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - 70Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - 71Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 72Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 73Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 74Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S --- 61 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 136 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 137 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 138 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 139 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 140 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 141 142# Bahrain 143# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 144Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah | 144Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Manamah |
| 145 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 146 3:00 - AST 147 148# Bangladesh 149# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-05-13): 150# According to newspaper Asian Tribune (May 6, 2009) Bangladesh may introduce 151# Daylight Saving Time from June 16 to Sept 30 152# 153# Bangladesh to introduce daylight saving time likely from June 16 | 145 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 146 3:00 - AST 147 148# Bangladesh 149# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-05-13): 150# According to newspaper Asian Tribune (May 6, 2009) Bangladesh may introduce 151# Daylight Saving Time from June 16 to Sept 30 152# 153# Bangladesh to introduce daylight saving time likely from June 16 |
| 154# <a href="http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17288"> | |
| 155# http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17288 | 154# http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17288 |
| 156# </a> 157# or 158# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh02.html"> | |
| 159# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh02.html | 155# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh02.html |
| 160# </a> | |
| 161# 162# "... Bangladesh government has decided to switch daylight saving time from 163# June 164# 16 till September 30 in a bid to ensure maximum use of daylight to cope with 165# crippling power crisis. " 166# 167# The switch will remain in effect from June 16 to Sept 30 (2009) but if 168# implemented the next year, it will come in force from April 1, 2010 169 170# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-06-02): 171# They have finally decided now, but changed the start date to midnight between 172# the 19th and 20th, and they have not set the end date yet. 173# 174# Some sources: | 156# 157# "... Bangladesh government has decided to switch daylight saving time from 158# June 159# 16 till September 30 in a bid to ensure maximum use of daylight to cope with 160# crippling power crisis. " 161# 162# The switch will remain in effect from June 16 to Sept 30 (2009) but if 163# implemented the next year, it will come in force from April 1, 2010 164 165# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-06-02): 166# They have finally decided now, but changed the start date to midnight between 167# the 19th and 20th, and they have not set the end date yet. 168# 169# Some sources: |
| 175# <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601"> | |
| 176# http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601 | 170# http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601 |
| 177# </a> 178# <a href="http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2"> | |
| 179# http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2 | 171# http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2 |
| 180# </a> | |
| 181# 182# Our wrap-up: | 172# 173# Our wrap-up: |
| 183# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html"> | |
| 184# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html | 174# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html |
| 185# </a> | |
| 186 187# From A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat (2009-06-15): 188# Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start 189# time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh 190# Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). 191# 192# No DST end date has been announced yet. 193 194# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-25): 195# Bangladesh won't go back to Standard Time from October 1, 2009, 196# instead it will continue DST measure till the cabinet makes a fresh decision. 197# 198# Following report by same newspaper-"The Daily Star Friday": 199# "DST change awaits cabinet decision-Clock won't go back by 1-hr from Oct 1" | 175 176# From A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat (2009-06-15): 177# Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start 178# time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh 179# Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). 180# 181# No DST end date has been announced yet. 182 183# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-25): 184# Bangladesh won't go back to Standard Time from October 1, 2009, 185# instead it will continue DST measure till the cabinet makes a fresh decision. 186# 187# Following report by same newspaper-"The Daily Star Friday": 188# "DST change awaits cabinet decision-Clock won't go back by 1-hr from Oct 1" |
| 200# <a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=107021"> | |
| 201# http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=107021 | 189# http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=107021 |
| 202# </a> 203# or 204# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh04.html"> | |
| 205# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh04.html | 190# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh04.html |
| 206# </a> | |
| 207 208# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-13): 209# IANS (Indo-Asian News Service) now reports: 210# Bangladesh has decided that the clock advanced by an hour to make 211# maximum use of daylight hours as an energy saving measure would 212# "continue for an indefinite period." 213# 214# One of many places where it is published: | 191 192# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-13): 193# IANS (Indo-Asian News Service) now reports: 194# Bangladesh has decided that the clock advanced by an hour to make 195# maximum use of daylight hours as an energy saving measure would 196# "continue for an indefinite period." 197# 198# One of many places where it is published: |
| 215# <a href="http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/bangladesh-to-continue-indefinitely-with-advanced-time_100259987.html"> | |
| 216# http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/bangladesh-to-continue-indefinitely-with-advanced-time_100259987.html | 199# http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/bangladesh-to-continue-indefinitely-with-advanced-time_100259987.html |
| 217# </a> | |
| 218 219# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-12-24): 220# According to Bangladesh newspaper "The Daily Star," 221# Bangladesh will change its clock back to Standard Time on Dec 31, 2009. 222# 223# Clock goes back 1-hr on Dec 31 night. | 200 201# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-12-24): 202# According to Bangladesh newspaper "The Daily Star," 203# Bangladesh will change its clock back to Standard Time on Dec 31, 2009. 204# 205# Clock goes back 1-hr on Dec 31 night. |
| 224# <a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=119228"> | |
| 225# http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=119228 | 206# http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=119228 |
| 226# </a> 227# and 228# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh05.html"> | |
| 229# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh05.html | 207# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh05.html |
| 230# </a> | |
| 231# 232# "...The government yesterday decided to put the clock back by one hour 233# on December 31 midnight and the new time will continue until March 31, 234# 2010 midnight. The decision came at a cabinet meeting at the Prime 235# Minister's Office last night..." 236 237# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-03-22): 238# According to Bangladesh newspaper "The Daily Star," 239# Cabinet cancels Daylight Saving Time | 208# 209# "...The government yesterday decided to put the clock back by one hour 210# on December 31 midnight and the new time will continue until March 31, 211# 2010 midnight. The decision came at a cabinet meeting at the Prime 212# Minister's Office last night..." 213 214# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-03-22): 215# According to Bangladesh newspaper "The Daily Star," 216# Cabinet cancels Daylight Saving Time |
| 240# <a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=22817"> | |
| 241# http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=22817 | 217# http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=22817 |
| 242# </a> 243# or 244# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh06.html"> | |
| 245# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh06.html | 218# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh06.html |
| 246# </a> | |
| 247 248# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 249Rule Dhaka 2009 only - Jun 19 23:00 1:00 S 250Rule Dhaka 2009 only - Dec 31 23:59 0 - 251 252# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 253Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 254 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? --- 49 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 304# China 305 306# From Guy Harris: 307# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. 308 309# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 310# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though 311# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the | 219 220# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 221Rule Dhaka 2009 only - Jun 19 23:00 1:00 S 222Rule Dhaka 2009 only - Dec 31 23:59 0 - 223 224# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 225Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 226 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? --- 49 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 276# China 277 278# From Guy Harris: 279# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. 280 281# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 282# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though 283# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the |
| 312# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China 313# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of | 284# Peking (Beijing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China 285# has two of 'em - Peking's and ��r��mqi (named after the capital of |
| 314# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it. 315# 316# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too | 286# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it. 287# 288# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too |
| 317# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for | 289# painful to suck in another copy. So, here is what I have for |
| 318# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP): 319# 320# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 321# 1987 mid-April - ?? 322 323# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 324# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN 325# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 326 | 290# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP): 291# 292# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 293# 1987 mid-April - ?? 294 295# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 296# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN 297# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 298 |
| 327# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 328# Shanks & Pottenger write that China (except for Hong Kong and Macau) 329# has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, observing summer DST 330# from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's 331# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. 332# Go with Shanks & Pottenger for now. I made up names for the other 333# pre-1980 time zones. | 299# From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11): 300# Jim Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight 301# time - sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05 ... [says] that China began 302# observing daylight saving time in 1986. |
| 334 | 303 |
| 335# From Shanks & Pottenger: | 304# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30): 305# Shanks & Pottenger have China switching to a single time zone in 1980, but 306# this doesn't seem to be correct. They also write that China observed summer 307# DST from 1986 through 1991, which seems to match the above commentary, so 308# go with them for DST rules as follows: |
| 336# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 337Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 338Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 339Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D 340Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D 341Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S 342Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D 343 344# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20): 345# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five 346# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official 347# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949). 348# | 309# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 310Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 311Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 312Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D 313Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D 314Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S 315Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D 316 317# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20): 318# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five 319# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official 320# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949). 321# |
| 349# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-07-14): | 322# From Jesper N��rgaard Welen (2006-07-14): |
| 350# I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the 351# http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county 352# boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two 353# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border, 354# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are 355# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege 356# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6 357# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two 358# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data. 359 | 323# I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the 324# http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county 325# boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two 326# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border, 327# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are 328# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege 329# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6 330# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two 331# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data. 332 |
| 360# From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11): 361# I just now checked Google News for western news sources that talk 362# about China's single time zone, and couldn't find anything before 1986 363# talking about China being in one time zone. (That article was: Jim 364# Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight 365# time--sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05. By the way, this 366# article confirms the tz database's data claiming that China began 367# observing daylight saving time in 1986. | 333# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30): 334# Alois Treindl kindly sent me translations of the following two sources: |
| 368# | 335# |
| 369# From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11): 370# I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated 371# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't 372# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near 373# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a 374# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was 375# ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s). | 336# (1) 337# Guo Qingsheng (National Time-Service Center, CAS, Xi'an 710600, China) 338# Beijing Time at the Beginning of the PRC 339# China Historical Materials of Science and Technology 340# (Zhongguo ke ji shi liao, ������������������), Vol. 24, No. 1 (2003) 341# It gives evidence that at the beginning of the PRC, Beijing time was 342# officially apparent solar time! However, Guo also says that the 343# evidence is dubious, as the relevant institute of astronomy had not 344# been taken over by the PRC yet. It's plausible that apparent solar 345# time was announced but never implemented, and that people continued 346# to use UT+8. As the Shanghai radio station (and I presume the 347# observatory) was still under control of French missionaries, it 348# could well have ignored any such mandate. |
| 376# | 349# |
| 377# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): 378# There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone in 1949 379# rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a 380# reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with 381# Shanks & Pottenger. 382 383# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 384# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) | 350# (2) 351# Guo Qing-sheng (Shaanxi Astronomical Observatory, CAS, Xi'an 710600, China) 352# A Study on the Standard Time Changes for the Past 100 Years in China 353# [undated and unknown publication location] 354# It says several things: 355# * The Qing dynasty used local apparent solar time throughout China. 356# * The Republic of China instituted Beijing mean solar time effective 357# the official calendar book of 1914. 358# * The French Concession in Shanghai set up signal stations in 359# French docks in the 1890s, controled by Xujiahui (Zikawei) 360# Obervatory and set to local mean time. 361# * "From the end of the 19th century" it changed to UT+8. 362# * Chinese Customs (by then reduced to a tool of foreign powers) 363# eventually standardized on this time for all ports, and it 364# became used by railways as well. 365# * In 1918 the Central Observatory proposed dividing China into 366# five time zones (see below for details). This caught on 367# at first only in coastal areas observing UT+8. 368# * During WWII all of China was in theory was at UT+7. In practice 369# this was ignored in the west, and I presume was ignored in 370# Japanese-occupied territory. 371# * Japanese-occupied Manchuria was at UT+9, i.e., Japan time. 372# * The five-zone plan was resurrected after WWII and officially put into 373# place (with some modifications) in March 1948. It's not clear 374# how well it was observed in areas under Nationalist control. 375# * The People's Liberation Army used UT+8 during the civil war. 376# 377# An AP article "Shanghai Internat'l Area Little Changed" in the 378# Lewiston (ME) Daily Sun (1939-05-29), p 17, said "Even the time is 379# different - the occupied districts going by Tokyo time, an hour 380# ahead of that prevailing in the rest of Shanghai." Guess that the 381# Xujiahui Observatory was under French control and stuck with UT+8. 382# 383# In earlier versions of this file, China had many separate Zone entries, but 384# this was based on what was apparently incorrect data in Shanks & Pottenger. 385# This has now been simplified to the two entries Asia/Shanghai and 386# Asia/Urumqi, with the others being links for backward compatibility. 387# Proposed in 1918 and theoretically in effect until 1949 (although in practice 388# mainly observed in coastal areas), the five zones were: 389# 390# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) UT+8.5 391# Asia/Harbin (currently a link to Asia/Shanghai) |
| 385# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin | 392# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin |
| 386Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin 387 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time 388 8:00 - CST 1940 389 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May 390 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May 391 8:00 PRC C%sT 392# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time") | 393# 394# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time") UT+8 395# Asia/Shanghai |
| 393# most of China | 396# most of China |
| 394# Milne gives 8:05:56.7; round to nearest. 395Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:57 - LMT 1928 396 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 397 8:00 PRC C%sT 398# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area) | 397# This currently represents most other zones as well, 398# as apparently these regions have been the same since 1970. 399# Milne gives 8:05:43.2 for Xujiahui Observatory time; round to nearest. 400# Guo says Shanghai switched to UT+8 "from the end of the 19th century". 401# 402# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area) UT+7 403# Asia/Chongqing (currently a link to Asia/Shanghai) |
| 399# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan; 400# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong 401# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing, 402# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu. | 404# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan; 405# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong 406# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing, 407# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu. |
| 403Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking 404 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time 405 8:00 PRC C%sT 406# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time") | 408# 409# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time") UT+6 410# Asia/Urumqi 411# This currently represents Kunlun Time as well, 412# as apparently the two regions have been the same since 1970. |
| 407# The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai; 408# the Guangdong counties Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang, 409# Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi; 410# east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi; | 413# The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai; 414# the Guangdong counties Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang, 415# Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi; 416# east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi; |
| 411# east Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe, | 417# east Xinjiang, including ��r��mqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe, |
| 412# Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin, 413# Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami, 414# Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan. | 418# Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin, 419# Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami, 420# Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan. |
| 415Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi 416 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time 417 8:00 PRC C%sT 418# Kunlun Time | 421# 422# Kunlun Time UT+5.5 423# Asia/Kashgar (currently a link to Asia/Urumqi) |
| 419# West Tibet, including Pulan, Aheqi, Shufu, Shule; 420# West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke, 421# Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding, 422# and Yarkand. 423 424# From Luther Ma (2009-10-17): 425# Almost all (>99.9%) ethnic Chinese (properly ethnic Han) living in 426# Xinjiang use Chinese Standard Time. Some are aware of Xinjiang time, 427# but have no need of it. All planes, trains, and schools function on 428# what is called "Beijing time." When Han make an appointment in Chinese 429# they implicitly use Beijing time. 430# 431# On the other hand, ethnic Uyghurs, who make up about half the 432# population of Xinjiang, typically use "Xinjiang time" which is two 433# hours behind Beijing time, or UTC +0600. The government of the Xinjiang 434# Uyghur Autonomous Region, (XAUR, or just Xinjiang for short) as well as | 424# West Tibet, including Pulan, Aheqi, Shufu, Shule; 425# West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke, 426# Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding, 427# and Yarkand. 428 429# From Luther Ma (2009-10-17): 430# Almost all (>99.9%) ethnic Chinese (properly ethnic Han) living in 431# Xinjiang use Chinese Standard Time. Some are aware of Xinjiang time, 432# but have no need of it. All planes, trains, and schools function on 433# what is called "Beijing time." When Han make an appointment in Chinese 434# they implicitly use Beijing time. 435# 436# On the other hand, ethnic Uyghurs, who make up about half the 437# population of Xinjiang, typically use "Xinjiang time" which is two 438# hours behind Beijing time, or UTC +0600. The government of the Xinjiang 439# Uyghur Autonomous Region, (XAUR, or just Xinjiang for short) as well as |
| 435# local governments such as the Urumqi city government use both times in | 440# local governments such as the ��r��mqi city government use both times in |
| 436# publications, referring to what is popularly called Xinjiang time as | 441# publications, referring to what is popularly called Xinjiang time as |
| 437# "Urumqi time." When Uyghurs make an appointment in the Uyghur language | 442# "��r��mqi time." When Uyghurs make an appointment in the Uyghur language |
| 438# they almost invariably use Xinjiang time. 439# 440# (Their ethnic Han compatriots would typically have no clue of its 441# widespread use, however, because so extremely few of them are fluent in 442# Uyghur, comparable to the number of Anglo-Americans fluent in Navajo.) 443# 444# (...As with the rest of China there was a brief interval ending in 1990 445# or 1991 when summer time was in use. The confusion was severe, with 446# the province not having dual times but four times in use at the same 447# time. Some areas remained on standard Xinjiang time or Beijing time and 448# others moving their clocks ahead.) | 443# they almost invariably use Xinjiang time. 444# 445# (Their ethnic Han compatriots would typically have no clue of its 446# widespread use, however, because so extremely few of them are fluent in 447# Uyghur, comparable to the number of Anglo-Americans fluent in Navajo.) 448# 449# (...As with the rest of China there was a brief interval ending in 1990 450# or 1991 when summer time was in use. The confusion was severe, with 451# the province not having dual times but four times in use at the same 452# time. Some areas remained on standard Xinjiang time or Beijing time and 453# others moving their clocks ahead.) |
| 449# 450# ...an example of an official website using of Urumqi time. 451# 452# The first few lines of the Google translation of 453# <a href="http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39"> 454# http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39 455# </a> 456# (retrieved 2009-10-13) 457# > Urumqi fire seven people are missing the alleged losses of at least 458# > 500 million yuan 459# > 460# > (Reporter Dong Liu) the day before 20:20 or so (Urumqi Time 18:20), 461# > Urumqi City Department of International Plaza Luther Qiantang River 462# > burst fire. As of yesterday, 18:30, Urumqi City Fire officers and men 463# > have worked continuously for 22 hours... | |
| 464 465# From Luther Ma (2009-11-19): 466# With the risk of being redundant to previous answers these are the most common 467# English "transliterations" (w/o using non-English symbols): 468# 469# 1. Wulumuqi... 470# 2. Kashi... 471# 3. Urumqi... 472# 4. Kashgar... 473# ... | 454 455# From Luther Ma (2009-11-19): 456# With the risk of being redundant to previous answers these are the most common 457# English "transliterations" (w/o using non-English symbols): 458# 459# 1. Wulumuqi... 460# 2. Kashi... 461# 3. Urumqi... 462# 4. Kashgar... 463# ... |
| 474# 5. It seems that Uyghurs in Urumqi has been using Xinjiang since at least the | 464# 5. It seems that Uyghurs in ��r��mqi has been using Xinjiang since at least the |
| 475# 1960's. I know of one Han, now over 50, who grew up in the surrounding 476# countryside and used Xinjiang time as a child. 477# 478# 6. Likewise for Kashgar and the rest of south Xinjiang I don't know of any 479# start date for Xinjiang time. 480# 481# Without having access to local historical records, nor the ability to legally 482# publish them, I would go with October 1, 1949, when Xinjiang became the Uyghur 483# Autonomous Region under the PRC. (Before that Uyghurs, of course, would also 484# not be using Beijing time, but some local time.) 485 | 465# 1960's. I know of one Han, now over 50, who grew up in the surrounding 466# countryside and used Xinjiang time as a child. 467# 468# 6. Likewise for Kashgar and the rest of south Xinjiang I don't know of any 469# start date for Xinjiang time. 470# 471# Without having access to local historical records, nor the ability to legally 472# publish them, I would go with October 1, 1949, when Xinjiang became the Uyghur 473# Autonomous Region under the PRC. (Before that Uyghurs, of course, would also 474# not be using Beijing time, but some local time.) 475 |
| 486Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar 487 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time 488 5:00 - KAST 1980 May | 476# From David Cochrane (2014-03-26): 477# Just a confirmation that ��r��mqi time was implemented in ��r��mqi on 1 Feb 1986: 478# http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960684,00.html 479 480# From Luther Ma (2014-04-22): 481# I have interviewed numerous people of various nationalities and from 482# different localities in Xinjiang and can confirm the information in Guo's 483# report regarding Xinjiang, as well as the Time article reference by David 484# Cochrane. Whether officially recognized or not (and both are officially 485# recognized), two separate times have been in use in Xinjiang since at least 486# the Cultural Revolution: Xinjiang Time (XJT), aka ��r��mqi Time or local time; 487# and Beijing Time. There is no confusion in Xinjiang as to which name refers 488# to which time. Both are widely used in the province, although in some 489# population groups might be use one to the exclusion of the other. The only 490# problem is that computers and smart phones list ��r��mqi (or Kashgar) as 491# having the same time as Beijing. 492 493# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30): 494# In the early days of the PRC, Tibet was given its own time zone (UT+6) but 495# this was withdrawn in 1959 and never reinstated; see Tubten Kh��tsun, 496# Memories of life in Lhasa under Chinese Rule, Columbia U Press, ISBN 497# 978-0231142861 (2008), translator's introduction by Matthew Akester, p x. 498# As this is before our 1970 cutoff, Tibet doesn't need a separate zone. 499# 500# Xinjiang Time is well-documented as being officially recognized. E.g., see 501# "The Working-Calendar for The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Government" 502# <http://www.sinkiang.gov.cn/service/ourworking/> (2014-04-22). 503# Unfortunately, we have no good records of time in Xinjiang before 1986. 504# During the 20th century parts of Xinjiang were ruled by the Qing dyansty, 505# the Republic of China, various warlords, the First and Second East Turkestan 506# Republics, the Soviet Union, the Kuomintang, and the People's Republic of 507# China, and tracking down all these organizations' timekeeping rules would be 508# quite a trick. Approximate this lost history by a transition from LMT to 509# XJT at the start of 1928, the year of accession of the warlord Jin Shuren, 510# which happens to be the date given by Shanks & Pottenger (no doubt as a 511# guess) as the transition from LMT. Ignore the usage of UT+8 before 512# 1986-02-01 under the theory that the transition date to UT+8 is unknown and 513# that the sort of users who prefer Asia/Urumqi now typically ignored the 514# UT+8 mandate back then. 515 516# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 517# Beijing time, used throughout China; represented by Shanghai. 518Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:43 - LMT 1901 519 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 |
| 489 8:00 PRC C%sT | 520 8:00 PRC C%sT |
| 521# Xinjiang time, used by many in western China; represented by ��r��mqi / ��r��mchi 522# / Wulumuqi. (Please use Asia/Shanghai if you prefer Beijing time.) 523Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 524 6:00 - XJT |
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| 490 491 492# Hong Kong (Xianggang) 493 494# Milne gives 7:36:41.7; round this. 495 496# From Lee Yiu Chung (2009-10-24): 497# I found there are some mistakes for the...DST rule for Hong 498# Kong. [According] to the DST record from Hong Kong Observatory (actually, 499# it is not [an] observatory, but the official meteorological agency of HK, 500# and also serves as the official timing agency), there are some missing 501# and incorrect rules. Although the exact switch over time is missing, I 502# think 3:30 is correct. The official DST record for Hong Kong can be 503# obtained from | 525 526 527# Hong Kong (Xianggang) 528 529# Milne gives 7:36:41.7; round this. 530 531# From Lee Yiu Chung (2009-10-24): 532# I found there are some mistakes for the...DST rule for Hong 533# Kong. [According] to the DST record from Hong Kong Observatory (actually, 534# it is not [an] observatory, but the official meteorological agency of HK, 535# and also serves as the official timing agency), there are some missing 536# and incorrect rules. Although the exact switch over time is missing, I 537# think 3:30 is correct. The official DST record for Hong Kong can be 538# obtained from |
| 504# <a href="http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm"> | |
| 505# http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm | 539# http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm |
| 506# </a>. | |
| 507 508# From Arthur David Olson (2009-10-28): 509# Here are the dates given at | 540 541# From Arthur David Olson (2009-10-28): 542# Here are the dates given at |
| 510# <a href="http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm"> | |
| 511# http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm | 543# http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm |
| 512# </a> | |
| 513# as of 2009-10-28: 514# Year Period 515# 1941 1 Apr to 30 Sep 516# 1942 Whole year 517# 1943 Whole year 518# 1944 Whole year 519# 1945 Whole year 520# 1946 20 Apr to 1 Dec --- 63 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 584 8:00 HK HK%sT 1941 Dec 25 585 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 15 586 8:00 HK HK%sT 587 588############################################################################### 589 590# Taiwan 591 | 544# as of 2009-10-28: 545# Year Period 546# 1941 1 Apr to 30 Sep 547# 1942 Whole year 548# 1943 Whole year 549# 1944 Whole year 550# 1945 Whole year 551# 1946 20 Apr to 1 Dec --- 63 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 615 8:00 HK HK%sT 1941 Dec 25 616 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 15 617 8:00 HK HK%sT 618 619############################################################################### 620 621# Taiwan 622 |
| 592# Shanks & Pottenger write that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it 593# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't 594# have any other information. 595 | |
| 596# From smallufo (2010-04-03): | 623# From smallufo (2010-04-03): |
| 597# According to Taiwan's CWB, 598# <a href="http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/astronomy/cdata/summert.htm"> | 624# According to Taiwan's CWB [Central Weather Bureau], |
| 599# http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/astronomy/cdata/summert.htm | 625# http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/astronomy/cdata/summert.htm |
| 600# </a> | |
| 601# Taipei has DST in 1979 between July 1st and Sep 30. 602 | 626# Taipei has DST in 1979 between July 1st and Sep 30. 627 |
| 603# From Arthur David Olson (2010-04-07): 604# Here's Google's translation of the table at the bottom of the "summert.htm" page: 605# Decade Name Start and end date 606# Republic of China 34 years to 40 years (AD 1945-1951 years) Summer Time May 1 to September 30 607# 41 years of the Republic of China (AD 1952) Daylight Saving Time March 1 to October 31 608# Republic of China 42 years to 43 years (AD 1953-1954 years) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to October 31 609# In the 44 years to 45 years (AD 1955-1956 years) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to September 30 610# Republic of China 46 years to 48 years (AD 1957-1959) Summer Time April 1 to September 30 611# Republic of China 49 years to 50 years (AD 1960-1961) Summer Time June 1 to September 30 612# Republic of China 51 years to 62 years (AD 1962-1973 years) Stop Summer Time 613# Republic of China 63 years to 64 years (1974-1975 AD) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to September 30 614# Republic of China 65 years to 67 years (1976-1978 AD) Stop Daylight Saving Time 615# Republic of China 68 years (AD 1979) Daylight Saving Time July 1 to September 30 616# Republic of China since 69 years (AD 1980) Stop Daylight Saving Time | 628# From Yu-Cheng Chuang (2013-07-12): 629# On Dec 28, 1895, the Meiji Emperor announced Ordinance No. 167 of 630# Meiji Year 28 "The clause about standard time", mentioned that 631# Taiwan and Penghu Islands, as well as Yaeyama and Miyako Islands 632# (both in Okinawa) adopt the Western Standard Time which is based on 633# 120E. The adoption began from Jan 1, 1896. The original text can be 634# found on Wikisource: 635# http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/������������������������_(���������) 636# ... This could be the first adoption of time zone in Taiwan, because 637# during the Qing Dynasty, it seems that there was no time zone 638# declared officially. 639# 640# Later, in the beginning of World War II, on Sep 25, 1937, the Showa 641# Emperor announced Ordinance No. 529 of Showa Year 12 "The clause of 642# revision in the ordinance No. 167 of Meiji year 28 about standard 643# time", in which abolished the adoption of Western Standard Time in 644# western islands (listed above), which means the whole Japan 645# territory, including later occupations, adopt Japan Central Time 646# (UTC+9). The adoption began on Oct 1, 1937. The original text can 647# be found on Wikisource: 648# http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 649# 650# That is, the time zone of Taipei switched to UTC+9 on Oct 1, 1937. |
| 617 | 651 |
| 652# From Yu-Cheng Chuang (2014-07-02): 653# I've found more evidence about when the time zone was switched from UTC+9 654# back to UTC+8 after WW2. I believe it was on Sep 21, 1945. In a document 655# during Japanese era [1] in which the officer told the staff to change time 656# zone back to Western Standard Time (UTC+8) on Sep 21. And in another 657# history page of National Cheng Kung University [2], on Sep 21 there is a 658# note "from today, switch back to Western Standard Time". From these two 659# materials, I believe that the time zone change happened on Sep 21. And 660# today I have found another monthly journal called "The Astronomical Herald" 661# from The Astronomical Society of Japan [3] in which it mentioned the fact 662# that: 663# 664# 1. Standard Time of the Country (Japan) was adopted on Jan 1, 1888, using 665# the time at 135E (GMT+9) 666# 667# 2. Standard Time of the Country was renamed to Central Standard Time, on Jan 668# 1, 1898, and on the same day, the new territories Taiwan and Penghu islands, 669# as well as Yaeyama and Miyako islands, adopted a new time zone called 670# Western Standard Time, which is in GMT+8. 671# 672# 3. Western Standard Time was deprecated on Sep 30, 1937. From then all the 673# territories of Japan adopted the same time zone, which is Central Standard 674# Time. 675# 676# [1] Academica Historica, Taiwan: 677# http://163.29.208.22:8080/govsaleShowImage/connect_img.php?s=00101738900090036&e=00101738900090037 678# [2] Nat'l Cheng Kung University 70th Anniversary Special Site: 679# http://www.ncku.edu.tw/~ncku70/menu/001/01_01.htm 680# [3] Yukio Niimi, The Standard Time in Japan (1997), p.475: 681# http://www.asj.or.jp/geppou/archive_open/1997/pdf/19971001c.pdf 682 683# Yu-Cheng Chuang (2014-07-03): 684# I finally have found the real official gazette about changing back to 685# Western Standard Time on Sep 21 in Taiwan. It's Taiwan Governor-General 686# Bulletin No. 386 in Showa 20 years (1945), published on Sep 19, 1945. [1] ... 687# [It] abolishes Bulletin No. 207 in Showa 12 years (1937), which is a local 688# bulletin in Taiwan for that Ordinance No. 529. It also mentioned that 1am on 689# Sep 21, 1945 will be 12am on Sep 21. I think this bulletin is much more 690# official than the one I mentioned in my first mail, because it's from the 691# top-level government in Taiwan. If you're going to quote any resource, this 692# would be a good one. 693# [1] Taiwan Governor-General Gazette, No. 1018, Sep 19, 1945: 694# http://db2.th.gov.tw/db2/view/viewImg.php?imgcode=0072031018a&num=19&bgn=019&end=019&otherImg=&type=gener 695 696# From Yu-Cheng Chuang (2014-07-02): 697# In 1946, DST in Taiwan was from May 15 and ended on Sep 30. The info from 698# Central Weather Bureau website was not correct. 699# 700# Original Bulletin: 701# <http://subtpg.tpg.gov.tw/og/image2.asp?f=03502F0AKM1AF> 702# <http://subtpg.tpg.gov.tw/og/image2.asp?f=0350300AKM1B0> (cont.) 703# 704# In 1947, DST in Taiwan was expanded to Oct 31. There is a backup of that 705# telegram announcement from Taiwan Province Government: 706# 707# <http://subtpg.tpg.gov.tw/og/image2.asp?f=0360310AKZ431> 708# 709# Here is a brief translation: 710# 711# The Summer Time this year is adopted from midnight Apr 15 until Sep 20 712# midnight. To save (energy?) consumption, we're expanding Summer Time 713# adption till Oct 31 midnight. 714# 715# The Central Weather Bureau website didn't mention that, however it can 716# be found from historical government announcement database. 717 718# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-03): 719# As per Yu-Cheng Chuang, say that Taiwan was at UT+9 from 1937-10-01 720# until 1945-09-21 at 01:00, overriding Shanks & Pottenger. 721# Likewise, use Yu-Cheng Chuang's data for DST in Taiwan. 722 |
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| 618# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S | 723# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| 619Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 620Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S | 724Rule Taiwan 1946 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D 725Rule Taiwan 1946 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 726Rule Taiwan 1947 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D 727Rule Taiwan 1947 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 728Rule Taiwan 1948 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 729Rule Taiwan 1948 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S |
| 621Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D 622Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 623Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 624Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 625Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 626Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 627Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S | 730Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D 731Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 732Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 733Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 734Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 735Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 736Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S |
| 628Rule Taiwan 1979 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D 629Rule Taiwan 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S | 737Rule Taiwan 1979 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 D 738Rule Taiwan 1979 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S |
| 630 631# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 739 740# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 632Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei | 741# Taipei or Taibei or T'ai-pei 742Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 Jan 1 743 8:00 - JWST 1937 Oct 1 744 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 21 01:00 |
| 633 8:00 Taiwan C%sT 634 635# Macau (Macao, Aomen) 636# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 637Rule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 638Rule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 639Rule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 640Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S --- 52 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 693# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 694# 695# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): 696# 697# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 698# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it 699# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours 700# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, | 745 8:00 Taiwan C%sT 746 747# Macau (Macao, Aomen) 748# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 749Rule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 750Rule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 751Rule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 752Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S --- 52 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 805# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 806# 807# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): 808# 809# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 810# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it 811# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours 812# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, |
| 701# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process | 813# Mikheil Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process |
| 702# of integration into Europe. 703 704# From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07): 705# Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on 706# [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. 707# Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT 708# +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document 709# about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, 710# because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time.... 711# I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our 712# DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month. 713 | 814# of integration into Europe. 815 816# From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07): 817# Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on 818# [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. 819# Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT 820# +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document 821# about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, 822# because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time.... 823# I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our 824# DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month. 825 |
| 826# Milne says Tbilisi (Tiflis) time was 2:59:05.7; round to nearest.) |
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| 714 715# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 827 828# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 716Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 717 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time | 829Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:06 - LMT 1880 830 2:59:06 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time |
| 718 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 719 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 720 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 721 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 722 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 723 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 724 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 725 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27 726 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 2005 Mar lastSun 2:00 727 4:00 - GET 728 729# East Timor 730 731# See Indonesia for the 1945 transition. 732 | 831 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 832 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 833 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 834 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 835 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 836 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 837 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 838 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27 839 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 2005 Mar lastSun 2:00 840 4:00 - GET 841 842# East Timor 843 844# See Indonesia for the 1945 transition. 845 |
| 733# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in 734# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm"> | 846# From Jo��o Carrascal��o, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in |
| 735# East Timor may be late for its millennium | 847# East Timor may be late for its millennium |
| 736# </a> (1999-12-26/31): | 848# <http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm> (1999-12-26/31): |
| 737# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun 738# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the 739# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it 740# conflicts with their way of life. 741 742# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 743# We don't have any record of the above attempt. 744# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data. 745 | 849# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun 850# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the 851# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it 852# conflicts with their way of life. 853 854# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 855# We don't have any record of the above attempt. 856# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data. 857 |
| 746# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html"> | |
| 747# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General | 858# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General |
| 748# (2000-08-16)</a>: | 859# http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/2000/00-08-16.undh.html 860# (2000-08-16): |
| 749# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided 750# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change, 751# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at 752# midnight on Saturday, September 16. 753 754# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 755Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 756 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time --- 25 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 782# 783# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-10): 784# Here is another correction to Shanks & Pottenger. 785# JohnTWB writes that Japanese forces did not surrender control in 786# Indonesia until 1945-09-01 00:00 at the earliest (in Jakarta) and 787# other formal surrender ceremonies were September 9, 11, and 13, plus 788# September 12 for the regional surrender to Mountbatten in Singapore. 789# These would be the earliest possible times for a change. | 861# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided 862# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change, 863# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at 864# midnight on Saturday, September 16. 865 866# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 867Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 868 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time --- 25 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 894# 895# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-10): 896# Here is another correction to Shanks & Pottenger. 897# JohnTWB writes that Japanese forces did not surrender control in 898# Indonesia until 1945-09-01 00:00 at the earliest (in Jakarta) and 899# other formal surrender ceremonies were September 9, 11, and 13, plus 900# September 12 for the regional surrender to Mountbatten in Singapore. 901# These would be the earliest possible times for a change. |
| 790# Regimes horaires pour le monde entier, by Henri Le Corre, (Editions | 902# R��gimes horaires pour le monde entier, by Henri Le Corre, (��ditions |
| 791# Traditionnelles, 1987, Paris) says that Java and Madura switched 792# from JST to UTC+07:30 on 1945-09-23, and gives 1944-09-01 for Jayapura 793# (Hollandia). For now, assume all Indonesian locations other than Jayapura 794# switched on 1945-09-23. 795# 796# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-11): 797# Normally the tz database uses English-language abbreviations, but in 798# Indonesia it's typical to use Indonesian-language abbreviations even --- 34 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 833Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 834 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT 835 8:00 - WITA 1942 Feb 9 836 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 837 8:00 - WITA 838# Maluku Islands, West Papua, Papua 839Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 840 9:00 - WIT 1944 Sep 1 | 903# Traditionnelles, 1987, Paris) says that Java and Madura switched 904# from JST to UTC+07:30 on 1945-09-23, and gives 1944-09-01 for Jayapura 905# (Hollandia). For now, assume all Indonesian locations other than Jayapura 906# switched on 1945-09-23. 907# 908# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-11): 909# Normally the tz database uses English-language abbreviations, but in 910# Indonesia it's typical to use Indonesian-language abbreviations even --- 34 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 945Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 946 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT 947 8:00 - WITA 1942 Feb 9 948 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 949 8:00 - WITA 950# Maluku Islands, West Papua, Papua 951Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 952 9:00 - WIT 1944 Sep 1 |
| 841 9:30 - CST 1964 | 953 9:30 - ACST 1964 |
| 842 9:00 - WIT 843 844# Iran 845 846# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15): 847# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian). 848# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine: 849# --- 49 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 899# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of 900# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date 901# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical). 902# 903# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-03-22): 904# Several of my users have reported that Iran will not observe DST anymore: 905# http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0603193812164948.htm 906# | 954 9:00 - WIT 955 956# Iran 957 958# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15): 959# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian). 960# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine: 961# --- 49 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1011# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of 1012# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date 1013# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical). 1014# 1015# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-03-22): 1016# Several of my users have reported that Iran will not observe DST anymore: 1017# http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0603193812164948.htm 1018# |
| 907# From Reuters (2007-09-16), with a heads-up from Jesper Norgaard Welen: | 1019# From Reuters (2007-09-16), with a heads-up from Jesper N��rgaard Welen: |
| 908# ... the Guardian Council ... approved a law on Sunday to re-introduce 909# daylight saving time ... 910# http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916 911# 912# From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05): 913# This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of 914# Iran, Volume 63, Number 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24 915# [2007-10-16]. I am doing the best translation I can:... --- 74 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 990# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone 991# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. 992# 993# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. 994 995# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-10): 996# The cabinet in Iraq abolished DST last week, according to the following 997# news sources (in Arabic): | 1020# ... the Guardian Council ... approved a law on Sunday to re-introduce 1021# daylight saving time ... 1022# http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916 1023# 1024# From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05): 1025# This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of 1026# Iran, Volume 63, Number 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24 1027# [2007-10-16]. I am doing the best translation I can:... --- 74 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1102# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone 1103# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. 1104# 1105# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. 1106 1107# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-10): 1108# The cabinet in Iraq abolished DST last week, according to the following 1109# news sources (in Arabic): |
| 998# <a href="http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html"> | |
| 999# http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html | 1110# http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html |
| 1000# </a> 1001# <a href="http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10"> | |
| 1002# http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10 | 1111# http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10 |
| 1003# </a> | |
| 1004# 1005# We have published a short article in English about the change: | 1112# 1113# We have published a short article in English about the change: |
| 1006# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html"> | |
| 1007# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html | 1114# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html |
| 1008# </a> | |
| 1009 1010# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1011Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1012Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1013Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 1014Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1015Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S 1016Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D | 1115 1116# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1117Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1118Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1119Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 1120Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1121Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S 1122Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D |
| 1017# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. | 1123# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the ':01' is a typo. |
| 1018# Shanks & Pottenger say Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997; ignore this. 1019# 1020Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D 1021Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S 1022# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1023Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 1024 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? 1025 3:00 - AST 1982 May --- 227 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1253 2:00 Zion I%sT 1254 1255 1256 1257############################################################################### 1258 1259# Japan 1260 | 1124# Shanks & Pottenger say Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997; ignore this. 1125# 1126Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D 1127Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S 1128# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1129Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 1130 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? 1131 3:00 - AST 1982 May --- 227 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1359 2:00 Zion I%sT 1360 1361 1362 1363############################################################################### 1364 1365# Japan 1366 |
| 1261# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. | 1367# '9:00' and 'JST' is from Guy Harris. |
| 1262 1263# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06): 1264# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had | 1368 1369# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06): 1370# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had |
| 1265# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued 1266# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' | 1371# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but "the system was discontinued 1372# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours." |
| 1267 1268# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times 1269# <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm>: 1270# Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on 1271# [1948-05-01].... But lack of prior debate and the execution of 1272# daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated 1273# deep hatred of the concept.... The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to 1274# dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San --- 10 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1285Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1286# but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since 1287# their audience is astrologers) were US military bases. For now, assume 1288# that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what 1289# would have been the point of the 1951 poll? 1290 1291# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): 1292# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical | 1373 1374# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times 1375# <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm>: 1376# Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on 1377# [1948-05-01].... But lack of prior debate and the execution of 1378# daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated 1379# deep hatred of the concept.... The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to 1380# dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San --- 10 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1391Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1392# but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since 1393# their audience is astrologers) were US military bases. For now, assume 1394# that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what 1395# would have been the point of the 1951 poll? 1396 1397# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): 1398# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical |
| 1293# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0. | 1399# Observatory: 139 degrees 44' 40.90" E (9h 18m 58.727s), 35 degrees 39' 16.0" N. |
| 1294# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996' 1295# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.... 1296# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST). 1297# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07. 1298 1299# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16): 1300# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan, | 1400# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996' 1401# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.... 1402# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST). 1403# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07. 1404 1405# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16): 1406# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan, |
| 1301# which stands for the time on E 135 degree. | 1407# which stands for the time on 135 degrees E. |
| 1302# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central 1303# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard | 1408# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central 1409# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard |
| 1304# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard | 1410# time", which stands for the time on 120 degrees E.... But "western standard |
| 1305# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No. 1306# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is 1307# standard.... 1308# 1309# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate. 1310# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor. 1311 | 1411# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No. 1412# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is 1413# standard.... 1414# 1415# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate. 1416# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor. 1417 |
| 1312# Shanks & Pottenger claim JST in use since 1896, and that a few 1313# places (e.g. Ishigaki) use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all 1314# ordinances took effect on Jan 1. | 1418# From Yu-Cheng Chuang (2013-07-12): 1419# ...the Meiji Emperor announced Ordinance No. 167 of Meiji Year 28 "The clause 1420# about standard time" ... The adoption began from Jan 1, 1896. 1421# http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/������������������������_(���������) 1422# 1423# ...the Showa Emperor announced Ordinance No. 529 of Showa Year 12 ... which 1424# means the whole Japan territory, including later occupations, adopt Japan 1425# Central Time (UTC+9). The adoption began on Oct 1, 1937. 1426# http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/��������������������������������������������������������������������������������� |
| 1315 1316# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1317Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u | 1427 1428# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1429Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u |
| 1318 9:00 - JST 1896 1319 9:00 - CJT 1938 | 1430 9:00 - JST 1896 Jan 1 1431 9:00 - JCST 1937 Oct 1 |
| 1320 9:00 Japan J%sT 1321# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. 1322 1323# Jordan 1324# | 1432 9:00 Japan J%sT 1433# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. 1434 1435# Jordan 1436# |
| 1325# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html"> 1326# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): | 1437# From <http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html> 1438# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): |
| 1327# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight, 1328# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time 1329# all year round. 1330# | 1439# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight, 1440# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time 1441# all year round. 1442# |
| 1331# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html"> 1332# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09): | 1443# From <http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html> 1444# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09): |
| 1333# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back 1334# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final! 1335# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in 1336# government's departments from six to seven hours. 1337# 1338# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 1339# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 1340# 1341# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): 1342# For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year 1343# about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year. 1344# 1345# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-10-01), after a heads-up from Hilal Malawi: 1346# http://www.petranews.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Sep/05/4000.htm 1347# "Jordan will switch to winter time on Friday, October 27". 1348# 1349 1350# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-02): 1351# This single one might be good enough, (2009-03-24, Arabic): | 1445# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back 1446# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final! 1447# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in 1448# government's departments from six to seven hours. 1449# 1450# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 1451# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 1452# 1453# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): 1454# For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year 1455# about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year. 1456# 1457# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-10-01), after a heads-up from Hilal Malawi: 1458# http://www.petranews.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Sep/05/4000.htm 1459# "Jordan will switch to winter time on Friday, October 27". 1460# 1461 1462# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-02): 1463# This single one might be good enough, (2009-03-24, Arabic): |
| 1352# <a href="http://petra.gov.jo/Artical.aspx?Lng=2&Section=8&Artical=95279"> | |
| 1353# http://petra.gov.jo/Artical.aspx?Lng=2&Section=8&Artical=95279 | 1464# http://petra.gov.jo/Artical.aspx?Lng=2&Section=8&Artical=95279 |
| 1354# </a> | |
| 1355# 1356# Google's translation: 1357# 1358# > The Council of Ministers decided in 2002 to adopt the principle of timely 1359# > submission of the summer at 60 minutes as of midnight on the last Thursday 1360# > of the month of March of each year. 1361# 1362# So - this means the midnight between Thursday and Friday since 2002. --- 74 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1437# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. 1438# Go with Shanks & Pottenger, who have them always using RussiaAsia rules. 1439# Also go with the following claims of Shanks & Pottenger: 1440# 1441# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. 1442# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. 1443# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. 1444 | 1465# 1466# Google's translation: 1467# 1468# > The Council of Ministers decided in 2002 to adopt the principle of timely 1469# > submission of the summer at 60 minutes as of midnight on the last Thursday 1470# > of the month of March of each year. 1471# 1472# So - this means the midnight between Thursday and Friday since 2002. --- 74 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1547# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. 1548# Go with Shanks & Pottenger, who have them always using RussiaAsia rules. 1549# Also go with the following claims of Shanks & Pottenger: 1550# 1551# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. 1552# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. 1553# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. 1554 |
| 1445# <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm"> 1446# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21): 1447# </a> | 1555# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 1556# <http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm> (2005-03-21): |
| 1448# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing 1449# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health 1450# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity. 1451# 1452# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28): 1453# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone 1454# was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has 1455# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone --- 97 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1553 1554# From Shanks & Pottenger: 1555# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1556Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D 1557Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1558Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1559Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1560 | 1557# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing 1558# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health 1559# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity. 1560# 1561# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28): 1562# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone 1563# was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has 1564# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone --- 97 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1662 1663# From Shanks & Pottenger: 1664# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1665Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D 1666Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1667Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1668Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1669 |
| 1670# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-01): 1671# The following entries are from Shanks & Pottenger, except that I 1672# guessed that time zone abbreviations through 1945 followed the same 1673# rules as discussed under Taiwan, with nominal switches from JST to KST 1674# when the respective cities were taken over by the Allies after WWII. 1675 |
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| 1561# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1562Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890 1563 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec | 1676# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1677Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890 1678 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec |
| 1564 9:00 - KST 1928 | 1679 9:00 - JCST 1928 |
| 1565 8:30 - KST 1932 | 1680 8:30 - KST 1932 |
| 1681 9:00 - JCST 1937 Oct 1 1682 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 8 |
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| 1566 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 1567 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10 1568 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct 1569 9:00 ROK K%sT 1570Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890 1571 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec | 1683 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 1684 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10 1685 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct 1686 9:00 ROK K%sT 1687Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890 1688 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec |
| 1572 9:00 - KST 1928 | 1689 9:00 - JCST 1928 |
| 1573 8:30 - KST 1932 | 1690 8:30 - KST 1932 |
| 1691 9:00 - JCST 1937 Oct 1 1692 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 24 |
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| 1574 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 1575 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10 1576 9:00 - KST 1577 1578############################################################################### 1579 1580# Kuwait 1581# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 1693 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 1694 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10 1695 9:00 - KST 1696 1697############################################################################### 1698 1699# Kuwait 1700# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 1582# From the Arab Times (2007-03-14): 1583# The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has approved a proposal forwarded 1584# by MP Ahmad Baqer on implementing the daylight saving time (DST) in 1585# Kuwait starting from April until the end of Sept this year, reports Al-Anba. 1586# <http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/kuwait/Viewdet.asp?ID=9950>. 1587# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29): 1588# We don't know the details, or whether the approval means it'll happen, 1589# so for now we assume no DST. | |
| 1590Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950 1591 3:00 - AST 1592 1593# Laos 1594# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1595Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan 1596 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 1597 7:00 - ICT 1912 May --- 64 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1662# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1663Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male 1664 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time 1665 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time 1666 1667# Mongolia 1668 1669# Shanks & Pottenger say that Mongolia has three time zones, but | 1701Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950 1702 3:00 - AST 1703 1704# Laos 1705# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1706Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan 1707 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 1708 7:00 - ICT 1912 May --- 64 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1773# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1774Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male 1775 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time 1776 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time 1777 1778# Mongolia 1779 1780# Shanks & Pottenger say that Mongolia has three time zones, but |
| 1670# usno1995 and the CIA map Standard Time Zones of the World (2005-03) 1671# both say that it has just one. | 1781# The USNO (1995-12-21) and the CIA map Standard Time Zones of the World 1782# (2005-03) both say that it has just one. |
| 1672 1673# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11): | 1783 1784# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11): |
| 1674# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm"> | |
| 1675# General Information Mongolia | 1785# General Information Mongolia |
| 1676# </a> (1999-09) | 1786# <http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm> (1999-09) |
| 1677# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of | 1787# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of |
| 1678# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and | 1788# Bayan-��lgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and |
| 1679# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus 1680# eight hours." 1681 1682# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13): 1683# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998 1684# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am 1685# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time 1686# of implementation may have been different.... 1687# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time 1688# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod, | 1789# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus 1790# eight hours." 1791 1792# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13): 1793# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998 1794# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am 1795# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time 1796# of implementation may have been different.... 1797# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time 1798# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod, |
| 1689# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij. | 1799# S��khbaatar, and possibly Khentii. |
| 1690 1691# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15): 1692# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia. 1693# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone; 1694# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us, 1695# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd 1696# is good enough for our purposes. 1697 1698# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13): 1699# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier 1700# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28), 1701# there are three time zones. 1702# | 1800 1801# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15): 1802# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia. 1803# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone; 1804# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us, 1805# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd 1806# is good enough for our purposes. 1807 1808# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13): 1809# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier 1810# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28), 1811# there are three time zones. 1812# |
| 1703# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai 1704# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov, 1705# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi 1706# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar | 1813# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-��lgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai 1814# Provinces [at 8:00]: Kh��vsg��l, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, T��v, 1815# Bayankhongor, ��v��rkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, ��mn��govi 1816# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, S��khbaatar |
| 1707# 1708# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] 1709 1710# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17): 1711# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March. 1712# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of 1713# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001. 1714# 1715# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17): 1716# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs 1717# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them. 1718 1719# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): 1720# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones. 1721# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says 1722# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft | 1817# 1818# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] 1819 1820# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17): 1821# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March. 1822# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of 1823# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001. 1824# 1825# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17): 1826# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs 1827# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them. 1828 1829# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): 1830# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones. 1831# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says 1832# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft |
| 1723# Windows XP as the source. Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that | 1833# Windows XP as the source. Risto Nyk��nen (2005-05-16) reports that |
| 1724# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST. 1725# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in 1726# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed. 1727# He also found 1728# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&> 1729# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius" 1730# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones. 1731# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT | 1834# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST. 1835# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in 1836# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed. 1837# He also found 1838# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&> 1839# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius" 1840# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones. 1841# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT |
| 1732# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT. | 1842# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but S��khbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT. |
| 1733# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the 1734# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session." 1735# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation. 1736 1737# From Ganbold Ts. (2007-02-26): 1738# Parliament of Mongolia has just changed the daylight-saving rule in February. 1739# They decided not to adopt daylight-saving time.... 1740# http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742 1741 1742# From Deborah Goldsmith (2008-03-30): 1743# We received a bug report claiming that the tz database UTC offset for 1744# Asia/Choibalsan (GMT+09:00) is incorrect, and that it should be GMT 1745# +08:00 instead. Different sources appear to disagree with the tz 1746# database on this, e.g.: 1747# | 1843# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the 1844# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session." 1845# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation. 1846 1847# From Ganbold Ts. (2007-02-26): 1848# Parliament of Mongolia has just changed the daylight-saving rule in February. 1849# They decided not to adopt daylight-saving time.... 1850# http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742 1851 1852# From Deborah Goldsmith (2008-03-30): 1853# We received a bug report claiming that the tz database UTC offset for 1854# Asia/Choibalsan (GMT+09:00) is incorrect, and that it should be GMT 1855# +08:00 instead. Different sources appear to disagree with the tz 1856# database on this, e.g.: 1857# |
| 1748# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026"> | |
| 1749# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026 | 1858# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026 |
| 1750# </a> 1751# <a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx"> | |
| 1752# http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx | 1859# http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx |
| 1753# </a> | |
| 1754# 1755# both say GMT+08:00. 1756 1757# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-31): 1758# eznis airways, which operates several domestic flights, has a flight 1759# schedule here: | 1860# 1861# both say GMT+08:00. 1862 1863# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-31): 1864# eznis airways, which operates several domestic flights, has a flight 1865# schedule here: |
| 1760# <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112"> | |
| 1761# http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112 | 1866# http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112 |
| 1762# </a> | |
| 1763# (click the English flag for English) 1764# | 1867# (click the English flag for English) 1868# |
| 1765# There it appears that flights between Choibalsan and Ulaanbatar arrive | 1869# There it appears that flights between Choibalsan and Ulaanbaatar arrive |
| 1766# about 1:35 - 1:50 hours later in local clock time, no matter the | 1870# about 1:35 - 1:50 hours later in local clock time, no matter the |
| 1767# direction, while Ulaanbaatar-Khvod takes 2 hours in the Eastern 1768# direction and 3:35 back, which indicates that Ulaanbatar and Khvod are | 1871# direction, while Ulaanbaatar-Khovd takes 2 hours in the Eastern 1872# direction and 3:35 back, which indicates that Ulaanbaatar and Khovd are |
| 1769# in different time zones (like we know about), while Choibalsan and | 1873# in different time zones (like we know about), while Choibalsan and |
| 1770# Ulaanbatar are in the same time zone (correction needed). | 1874# Ulaanbaatar are in the same time zone (correction needed). |
| 1771 1772# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): 1773# Assume that Choibalsan is indeed offset by 8:00. 1774# XXX--in the absence of better information, assume that transition 1775# was at the start of 2008-03-31 (the day of Steffen Thorsen's report); 1776# this is almost surely wrong. 1777 1778# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1779Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1780Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1781# Shanks & Pottenger and IATA SSIM say 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, 1782# but McDow says the 2001 switches occurred at 02:00. Also, IATA SSIM 1783# (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks & Pottenger through 1998. 1784# 1785# Shanks & Pottenger say that the Sept. 1984 through Sept. 1990 switches | 1875 1876# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): 1877# Assume that Choibalsan is indeed offset by 8:00. 1878# XXX--in the absence of better information, assume that transition 1879# was at the start of 2008-03-31 (the day of Steffen Thorsen's report); 1880# this is almost surely wrong. 1881 1882# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1883Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1884Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1885# Shanks & Pottenger and IATA SSIM say 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, 1886# but McDow says the 2001 switches occurred at 02:00. Also, IATA SSIM 1887# (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks & Pottenger through 1998. 1888# 1889# Shanks & Pottenger say that the Sept. 1984 through Sept. 1990 switches |
| 1786# in Choibalsan (more precisely, in Dornod and Sukhbaatar) took place | 1890# in Choibalsan (more precisely, in Dornod and S��khbaatar) took place |
| 1787# at 02:00 standard time, not at 00:00 local time as in the rest of 1788# the country. That would be odd, and possibly is a result of their 1789# correction of 02:00 (in the previous edition) not being done correctly 1790# in the latest edition; so ignore it for now. 1791 1792Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 1793Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1794# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1832# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13): 1833# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a 1834# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 1835# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was 1836# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the 1837# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on. 1838 1839# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15): | 1891# at 02:00 standard time, not at 00:00 local time as in the rest of 1892# the country. That would be odd, and possibly is a result of their 1893# correction of 02:00 (in the previous edition) not being done correctly 1894# in the latest edition; so ignore it for now. 1895 1896Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 1897Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1898# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1936# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13): 1937# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a 1938# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 1939# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was 1940# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the 1941# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on. 1942 1943# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15): |
| 1840# Jesper Norgaard found this URL: | 1944# Jesper N��rgaard found this URL: |
| 1841# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm 1842# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to 1843# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first 1844# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 1845# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00, 1846# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like 1847# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday 1848# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the --- 20 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1869# Here is an article that Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time 1870# on June 1, 2008 for 3 months. 1871# 1872# "... The federal cabinet on Wednesday announced a new conservation plan to help 1873# reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at 9pm and 1874# moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months. 1875# ...." 1876# | 1945# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm 1946# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to 1947# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first 1948# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 1949# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00, 1950# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like 1951# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday 1952# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the --- 20 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1973# Here is an article that Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time 1974# on June 1, 2008 for 3 months. 1975# 1976# "... The federal cabinet on Wednesday announced a new conservation plan to help 1977# reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at 9pm and 1978# moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months. 1979# ...." 1980# |
| 1877# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html"> | |
| 1878# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html | 1981# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html |
| 1879# </a> 1880# OR 1881# <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4"> | |
| 1882# http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4 | 1982# http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4 |
| 1883# </a> | |
| 1884 1885# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): 1886# XXX--midnight transitions is a guess; 2008 only is a guess. 1887 1888# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): 1889# Pakistan government has decided to keep the watches one-hour advanced | 1983 1984# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): 1985# XXX--midnight transitions is a guess; 2008 only is a guess. 1986 1987# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): 1988# Pakistan government has decided to keep the watches one-hour advanced |
| 1890# for another 2 months--plan to return to Standard Time on October 31 | 1989# for another 2 months - plan to return to Standard Time on October 31 |
| 1891# instead of August 31. 1892# | 1990# instead of August 31. 1991# |
| 1893# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html"> | |
| 1894# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html | 1992# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html |
| 1895# </a> 1896# OR 1897# <a href="http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html"> | |
| 1898# http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html | 1993# http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html |
| 1899# </a> | |
| 1900 1901# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-04-08): 1902# Based on previous media reports that "... proposed plan to 1903# advance clocks by one hour from May 1 will cause disturbance 1904# to the working schedules rather than bringing discipline in 1905# official working." | 1994 1995# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-04-08): 1996# Based on previous media reports that "... proposed plan to 1997# advance clocks by one hour from May 1 will cause disturbance 1998# to the working schedules rather than bringing discipline in 1999# official working." |
| 1906# <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=171280"> | |
| 1907# http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=171280 | 2000# http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=171280 |
| 1908# </a> | |
| 1909# 1910# recent news that instead of May 2009 - Pakistan plan to 1911# introduce DST from April 15, 2009 1912# 1913# FYI: Associated Press Of Pakistan 1914# April 08, 2009 1915# Cabinet okays proposal to advance clocks by one hour from April 15 | 2001# 2002# recent news that instead of May 2009 - Pakistan plan to 2003# introduce DST from April 15, 2009 2004# 2005# FYI: Associated Press Of Pakistan 2006# April 08, 2009 2007# Cabinet okays proposal to advance clocks by one hour from April 15 |
| 1916# <a href="http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73043&Itemid=1"> | |
| 1917# http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73043&Itemid=1 | 2008# http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73043&Itemid=1 |
| 1918# </a> 1919# 1920# or 1921# 1922# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan05.html"> | |
| 1923# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan05.html | 2009# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan05.html |
| 1924# </a> | |
| 1925# 1926# .... 1927# The Federal Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal to 1928# advance clocks in the country by one hour from April 15 to 1929# conserve energy" 1930 1931# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-09-17): 1932# "The News International," Pakistan reports that: "The Federal 1933# Government has decided to restore the previous time by moving the 1934# clocks backward by one hour from October 1. A formal announcement to 1935# this effect will be made after the Prime Minister grants approval in 1936# this regard." | 2010# 2011# .... 2012# The Federal Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal to 2013# advance clocks in the country by one hour from April 15 to 2014# conserve energy" 2015 2016# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-09-17): 2017# "The News International," Pakistan reports that: "The Federal 2018# Government has decided to restore the previous time by moving the 2019# clocks backward by one hour from October 1. A formal announcement to 2020# this effect will be made after the Prime Minister grants approval in 2021# this regard." |
| 1937# <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87168"> | |
| 1938# http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87168 | 2022# http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87168 |
| 1939# </a> | |
| 1940 1941# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-28): 1942# According to Associated Press Of Pakistan, it is confirmed that 1943# Pakistan clocks across the country would be turned back by an hour from October 1944# 1, 2009. 1945# 1946# "Clocks to go back one hour from 1 Oct" | 2023 2024# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-28): 2025# According to Associated Press Of Pakistan, it is confirmed that 2026# Pakistan clocks across the country would be turned back by an hour from October 2027# 1, 2009. 2028# 2029# "Clocks to go back one hour from 1 Oct" |
| 1947# <a href="http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86715&Itemid=2"> | |
| 1948# http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86715&Itemid=2 | 2030# http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86715&Itemid=2 |
| 1949# </a> 1950# or 1951# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan07.htm"> | |
| 1952# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan07.htm | 2031# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan07.htm |
| 1953# </a> | |
| 1954 1955# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-09-29): 1956# Alexander Krivenyshev wrote: 1957# > According to Associated Press Of Pakistan, it is confirmed that 1958# > Pakistan clocks across the country would be turned back by an hour from October 1959# > 1, 2009. 1960# 1961# Now they seem to have changed their mind, November 1 is the new date: | 2032 2033# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-09-29): 2034# Alexander Krivenyshev wrote: 2035# > According to Associated Press Of Pakistan, it is confirmed that 2036# > Pakistan clocks across the country would be turned back by an hour from October 2037# > 1, 2009. 2038# 2039# Now they seem to have changed their mind, November 1 is the new date: |
| 1962# <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24742"> | |
| 1963# http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24742 | 2040# http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24742 |
| 1964# </a> | |
| 1965# "The country's clocks will be reversed by one hour on November 1. 1966# Officials of Federal Ministry for Interior told this to Geo News on 1967# Monday." 1968# 1969# And more importantly, it seems that these dates will be kept every year: 1970# "It has now been decided that clocks will be wound forward by one hour 1971# on April 15 and reversed by an hour on November 1 every year without 1972# obtaining prior approval, the officials added." 1973# 1974# We have confirmed this year's end date with both with the Ministry of 1975# Water and Power and the Pakistan Electric Power Company: | 2041# "The country's clocks will be reversed by one hour on November 1. 2042# Officials of Federal Ministry for Interior told this to Geo News on 2043# Monday." 2044# 2045# And more importantly, it seems that these dates will be kept every year: 2046# "It has now been decided that clocks will be wound forward by one hour 2047# on April 15 and reversed by an hour on November 1 every year without 2048# obtaining prior approval, the officials added." 2049# 2050# We have confirmed this year's end date with both with the Ministry of 2051# Water and Power and the Pakistan Electric Power Company: |
| 1976# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/pakistan-ends-dst09.html"> | |
| 1977# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/pakistan-ends-dst09.html | 2052# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/pakistan-ends-dst09.html |
| 1978# </a> | |
| 1979 | 2053 |
| 1980# From Christoph Goehre (2009-10-01): | 2054# From Christoph G��hre (2009-10-01): |
| 1981# [T]he German Consulate General in Karachi reported me today that Pakistan 1982# will go back to standard time on 1st of November. 1983 1984# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-26): 1985# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 1986# > On Thursday (2010-03-25) it was announced that DST would start in 1987# > Pakistan on 2010-04-01. 1988# > 1989# > Then today, the president said that they might have to revert the 1990# > decision if it is not supported by the parliament. So at the time 1991# > being, it seems unclear if DST will be actually observed or not - but 1992# > April 1 could be a more likely date than April 15. 1993# Now, it seems that the decision to not observe DST in final: 1994# 1995# "Govt Withdraws Plan To Advance Clocks" | 2055# [T]he German Consulate General in Karachi reported me today that Pakistan 2056# will go back to standard time on 1st of November. 2057 2058# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-26): 2059# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2060# > On Thursday (2010-03-25) it was announced that DST would start in 2061# > Pakistan on 2010-04-01. 2062# > 2063# > Then today, the president said that they might have to revert the 2064# > decision if it is not supported by the parliament. So at the time 2065# > being, it seems unclear if DST will be actually observed or not - but 2066# > April 1 could be a more likely date than April 15. 2067# Now, it seems that the decision to not observe DST in final: 2068# 2069# "Govt Withdraws Plan To Advance Clocks" |
| 1996# <a href="http://www.apakistannews.com/govt-withdraws-plan-to-advance-clocks-172041"> | |
| 1997# http://www.apakistannews.com/govt-withdraws-plan-to-advance-clocks-172041 | 2070# http://www.apakistannews.com/govt-withdraws-plan-to-advance-clocks-172041 |
| 1998# </a> | |
| 1999# 2000# "People laud PM's announcement to end DST" | 2071# 2072# "People laud PM's announcement to end DST" |
| 2001# <a href="http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99374&Itemid=2"> | |
| 2002# http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99374&Itemid=2 | 2073# http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99374&Itemid=2 |
| 2003# </a> | |
| 2004 2005# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2006Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S 2007Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - 2008Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 2009Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 2010Rule Pakistan 2009 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S 2011Rule Pakistan 2009 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - --- 65 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2077# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg: 2078# 2079# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time 2080# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks 2081# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule, 2082# the PA has decided to implement DST in April. 2083 2084# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): | 2074 2075# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2076Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S 2077Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - 2078Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 2079Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 2080Rule Pakistan 2009 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S 2081Rule Pakistan 2009 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - --- 65 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2147# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg: 2148# 2149# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time 2150# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks 2151# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule, 2152# the PA has decided to implement DST in April. 2153 2154# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): |
| 2085# Daoud Kuttab writes in 2086# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html"> 2087# Holiday havoc 2088# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that | 2155# Daoud Kuttab writes in Holiday havoc 2156# <http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html> 2157# (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that |
| 2089# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. 2090# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). 2091# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, 2092# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. 2093 2094# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 2095# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 2096 2097# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): 2098# A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of 2099# the Ramadan. Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think 2100# there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks | 2158# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. 2159# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). 2160# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, 2161# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. 2162 2163# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 2164# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 2165 2166# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): 2167# A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of 2168# the Ramadan. Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think 2169# there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks |
| 2101# earlier--the same goes for Jordan. | 2170# earlier - the same goes for Jordan. |
| 2102 2103# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 2104# I was informed by a user in Bethlehem that in Bethlehem it started the 2105# same day as Israel, and after checking with other users in the area, I 2106# was informed that they started DST one day after Israel. I was not 2107# able to find any authoritative sources at the time, nor details if 2108# Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as 2109# the West Bank. 2110 2111# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-26): 2112# according to the Palestine News Network (2006-09-19): 2113# http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=596&Itemid=5 2114# > The Council of Ministers announced that this year its winter schedule 2115# > will begin early, as of midnight Thursday. It is also time to turn 2116# > back the clocks for winter. Friday will begin an hour late this week. 2117# I guess it is likely that next year's date will be moved as well, 2118# because of the Ramadan. 2119 | 2171 2172# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 2173# I was informed by a user in Bethlehem that in Bethlehem it started the 2174# same day as Israel, and after checking with other users in the area, I 2175# was informed that they started DST one day after Israel. I was not 2176# able to find any authoritative sources at the time, nor details if 2177# Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as 2178# the West Bank. 2179 2180# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-26): 2181# according to the Palestine News Network (2006-09-19): 2182# http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=596&Itemid=5 2183# > The Council of Ministers announced that this year its winter schedule 2184# > will begin early, as of midnight Thursday. It is also time to turn 2185# > back the clocks for winter. Friday will begin an hour late this week. 2186# I guess it is likely that next year's date will be moved as well, 2187# because of the Ramadan. 2188 |
| 2120# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2007-09-18): | 2189# From Jesper N��rgaard Welen (2007-09-18): |
| 2121# According to Steffen Thorsen's web site the Gaza Strip and the rest of the 2122# Palestinian territories left DST early on 13.th. of September at 2:00. 2123 2124# From Paul Eggert (2007-09-20): 2125# My understanding is that Gaza and the West Bank disagree even over when 2126# the weekend is (Thursday+Friday versus Friday+Saturday), so I'd be a bit 2127# surprised if they agreed about DST. But for now, assume they agree. 2128# For lack of better information, predict that future changes will be 2129# the 2nd Thursday of September at 02:00. 2130 2131# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): 2132# Here is an article, that Mideast running on different clocks at Ramadan. 2133# 2134# Gaza Strip (as Egypt) ended DST at midnight Thursday (Aug 28, 2008), while 2135# the West Bank will end Daylight Saving Time at midnight Sunday (Aug 31, 2008). 2136# | 2190# According to Steffen Thorsen's web site the Gaza Strip and the rest of the 2191# Palestinian territories left DST early on 13.th. of September at 2:00. 2192 2193# From Paul Eggert (2007-09-20): 2194# My understanding is that Gaza and the West Bank disagree even over when 2195# the weekend is (Thursday+Friday versus Friday+Saturday), so I'd be a bit 2196# surprised if they agreed about DST. But for now, assume they agree. 2197# For lack of better information, predict that future changes will be 2198# the 2nd Thursday of September at 02:00. 2199 2200# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): 2201# Here is an article, that Mideast running on different clocks at Ramadan. 2202# 2203# Gaza Strip (as Egypt) ended DST at midnight Thursday (Aug 28, 2008), while 2204# the West Bank will end Daylight Saving Time at midnight Sunday (Aug 31, 2008). 2205# |
| 2137# <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001"> | |
| 2138# http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001 | 2206# http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001 |
| 2139# </a> 2140# <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087"> | |
| 2141# http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087 | 2207# http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087 |
| 2142# </a> 2143# or 2144# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html"> | |
| 2145# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html | 2208# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html |
| 2146# </a> | |
| 2147 2148# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-26): 2149# According to the Palestine News Network (arabic.pnn.ps), Palestinian 2150# government decided to start Daylight Time on Thursday night March 2151# 26 and continue until the night of 27 September 2009. 2152# 2153# (in Arabic) | 2209 2210# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-26): 2211# According to the Palestine News Network (arabic.pnn.ps), Palestinian 2212# government decided to start Daylight Time on Thursday night March 2213# 26 and continue until the night of 27 September 2009. 2214# 2215# (in Arabic) |
| 2154# <a href="http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50850"> | |
| 2155# http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50850 | 2216# http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50850 |
| 2156# </a> | |
| 2157# | 2217# |
| 2158# or | |
| 2159# (English translation) | 2218# (English translation) |
| 2160# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank01.html"> | |
| 2161# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank01.html | 2219# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank01.html |
| 2162# </a> | |
| 2163 2164# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-08-31): 2165# Palestine's Council of Ministers announced that they will revert back to 2166# winter time on Friday, 2009-09-04. 2167# 2168# One news source: | 2220 2221# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-08-31): 2222# Palestine's Council of Ministers announced that they will revert back to 2223# winter time on Friday, 2009-09-04. 2224# 2225# One news source: |
| 2169# <a href="http://www.safa.ps/ara/?action=showdetail&seid=4158"> | |
| 2170# http://www.safa.ps/ara/?action=showdetail&seid=4158 | 2226# http://www.safa.ps/ara/?action=showdetail&seid=4158 |
| 2171# </a> | |
| 2172# (Palestinian press agency, Arabic), 2173# Google translate: "Decided that the Palestinian government in Ramallah 2174# headed by Salam Fayyad, the start of work in time for the winter of 2175# 2009, starting on Friday approved the fourth delay Sept. clock sixty 2176# minutes per hour as of Friday morning." 2177# 2178# We are not sure if Gaza will do the same, last year they had a different 2179# end date, we will keep this page updated: | 2227# (Palestinian press agency, Arabic), 2228# Google translate: "Decided that the Palestinian government in Ramallah 2229# headed by Salam Fayyad, the start of work in time for the winter of 2230# 2009, starting on Friday approved the fourth delay Sept. clock sixty 2231# minutes per hour as of Friday morning." 2232# 2233# We are not sure if Gaza will do the same, last year they had a different 2234# end date, we will keep this page updated: |
| 2180# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-dst-2009.html"> | |
| 2181# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-dst-2009.html | 2235# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-dst-2009.html |
| 2182# </a> | |
| 2183 2184# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-02): 2185# Seems that Gaza Strip will go back to Winter Time same date as West Bank. 2186# 2187# According to Palestinian Ministry Of Interior, West Bank and Gaza Strip plan 2188# to change time back to Standard time on September 4, 2009. 2189# 2190# "Winter time unite the West Bank and Gaza" 2191# (from Palestinian National Authority): | 2236 2237# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-02): 2238# Seems that Gaza Strip will go back to Winter Time same date as West Bank. 2239# 2240# According to Palestinian Ministry Of Interior, West Bank and Gaza Strip plan 2241# to change time back to Standard time on September 4, 2009. 2242# 2243# "Winter time unite the West Bank and Gaza" 2244# (from Palestinian National Authority): |
| 2192# <a href="http://www.moi.gov.ps/en/?page=633167343250594025&nid=11505 | |
| 2193# http://www.moi.gov.ps/en/?page=633167343250594025&nid=11505 | 2245# http://www.moi.gov.ps/en/?page=633167343250594025&nid=11505 |
| 2194# </a> 2195# or 2196# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip02.html> | |
| 2197# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip02.html | 2246# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip02.html |
| 2198# </a> | |
| 2199 2200# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-03-19): 2201# According to Voice of Palestine DST will last for 191 days, from March 2202# 26, 2010 till "the last Sunday before the tenth day of Tishri 2203# (October), each year" (October 03, 2010?) 2204# | 2247 2248# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-03-19): 2249# According to Voice of Palestine DST will last for 191 days, from March 2250# 26, 2010 till "the last Sunday before the tenth day of Tishri 2251# (October), each year" (October 03, 2010?) 2252# |
| 2205# <a href="http://palvoice.org/forums/showthread.php?t=245697"> | |
| 2206# http://palvoice.org/forums/showthread.php?t=245697 | 2253# http://palvoice.org/forums/showthread.php?t=245697 |
| 2207# </a> | |
| 2208# (in Arabic) | 2254# (in Arabic) |
| 2209# or 2210# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank03.html"> | |
| 2211# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank03.html | 2255# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank03.html |
| 2212# </a> | |
| 2213 2214# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-24): 2215# ...Ma'an News Agency reports that Hamas cabinet has decided it will 2216# start one day later, at 12:01am. Not sure if they really mean 12:01am or 2217# noon though: 2218# | 2256 2257# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-24): 2258# ...Ma'an News Agency reports that Hamas cabinet has decided it will 2259# start one day later, at 12:01am. Not sure if they really mean 12:01am or 2260# noon though: 2261# |
| 2219# <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=271178"> | |
| 2220# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=271178 | 2262# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=271178 |
| 2221# </a> | |
| 2222# (Ma'an News Agency) 2223# "At 12:01am Friday, clocks in Israel and the West Bank will change to 2224# 1:01am, while Gaza clocks will change at 12:01am Saturday morning." 2225 2226# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-08-11): 2227# According to several sources, including | 2263# (Ma'an News Agency) 2264# "At 12:01am Friday, clocks in Israel and the West Bank will change to 2265# 1:01am, while Gaza clocks will change at 12:01am Saturday morning." 2266 2267# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-08-11): 2268# According to several sources, including |
| 2228# <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306795"> | |
| 2229# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306795 | 2269# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306795 |
| 2230# </a> | |
| 2231# the clocks were set back one hour at 2010-08-11 00:00:00 local time in 2232# Gaza and the West Bank. 2233# Some more background info: | 2270# the clocks were set back one hour at 2010-08-11 00:00:00 local time in 2271# Gaza and the West Bank. 2272# Some more background info: |
| 2234# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-end-dst-2010.html"> | |
| 2235# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-end-dst-2010.html | 2273# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-end-dst-2010.html |
| 2236# </a> | |
| 2237 2238# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-08-26): 2239# Gaza and the West Bank did go back to standard time in the beginning of 2240# August, and will now enter daylight saving time again on 2011-08-30 2241# 00:00 (so two periods of DST in 2011). The pause was because of 2242# Ramadan. 2243# | 2274 2275# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-08-26): 2276# Gaza and the West Bank did go back to standard time in the beginning of 2277# August, and will now enter daylight saving time again on 2011-08-30 2278# 00:00 (so two periods of DST in 2011). The pause was because of 2279# Ramadan. 2280# |
| 2244# <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416217"> | |
| 2245# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416217 | 2281# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416217 |
| 2246# </a> | |
| 2247# Additional info: | 2282# Additional info: |
| 2248# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/palestine-dst-2011.html"> | |
| 2249# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/palestine-dst-2011.html | 2283# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/palestine-dst-2011.html |
| 2250# </a> | |
| 2251 2252# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-08-27): 2253# According to the article in The Jerusalem Post: 2254# "...Earlier this month, the Palestinian government in the West Bank decided to 2255# move to standard time for 30 days, during Ramadan. The Palestinians in the 2256# Gaza Strip accepted the change and also moved their clocks one hour back. 2257# The Hamas government said on Saturday that it won't observe summertime after 2258# the Muslim feast of Id al-Fitr, which begins on Tuesday..." 2259# ... | 2284 2285# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-08-27): 2286# According to the article in The Jerusalem Post: 2287# "...Earlier this month, the Palestinian government in the West Bank decided to 2288# move to standard time for 30 days, during Ramadan. The Palestinians in the 2289# Gaza Strip accepted the change and also moved their clocks one hour back. 2290# The Hamas government said on Saturday that it won't observe summertime after 2291# the Muslim feast of Id al-Fitr, which begins on Tuesday..." 2292# ... |
| 2260# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235650"> | |
| 2261# http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235650 | 2293# http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235650 |
| 2262# </a> 2263# or 2264# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip05.html"> | |
| 2265# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip05.html | 2294# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip05.html |
| 2266# </a> 2267# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. | 2295# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the 'africa' file. |
| 2268 2269# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-09-30): 2270# West Bank did end Daylight Saving Time this morning/midnight (2011-09-30 2271# 00:00). 2272# So West Bank and Gaza now have the same time again. 2273# 2274# Many sources, including: | 2296 2297# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-09-30): 2298# West Bank did end Daylight Saving Time this morning/midnight (2011-09-30 2299# 00:00). 2300# So West Bank and Gaza now have the same time again. 2301# 2302# Many sources, including: |
| 2275# <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=424808"> | |
| 2276# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=424808 | 2303# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=424808 |
| 2277# </a> | |
| 2278 2279# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-26): 2280# Palestinian news sources tell that both Gaza and West Bank will start DST 2281# on Friday (Thursday midnight, 2012-03-29 24:00). 2282# Some of many sources in Arabic: | 2304 2305# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-26): 2306# Palestinian news sources tell that both Gaza and West Bank will start DST 2307# on Friday (Thursday midnight, 2012-03-29 24:00). 2308# Some of many sources in Arabic: |
| 2283# <a href="http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=122638"> | |
| 2284# http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=122638 | 2309# http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=122638 |
| 2285# </a> | |
| 2286# | 2310# |
| 2287# <a href="http://safa.ps/details/news/74352/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9.html"> | |
| 2288# http://safa.ps/details/news/74352/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9.html | 2311# http://safa.ps/details/news/74352/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9.html |
| 2289# </a> | |
| 2290# 2291# Our brief summary: | 2312# 2313# Our brief summary: |
| 2292# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-west-bank-dst-2012.html"> | |
| 2293# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-west-bank-dst-2012.html | 2314# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-west-bank-dst-2012.html |
| 2294# </a> | |
| 2295 2296# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-26): 2297# The following news sources tells that Palestine will "start daylight saving 2298# time from midnight on Friday, March 29, 2013" (translated). 2299# [These are in Arabic and are for Gaza and for Ramallah, respectively.] 2300# http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=154120 2301# http://safa.ps/details/news/99844/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-29-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A.html 2302 --- 62 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2365 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 2366 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 2367 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2368 2369# Paracel Is 2370# no information 2371 2372# Philippines | 2315 2316# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-26): 2317# The following news sources tells that Palestine will "start daylight saving 2318# time from midnight on Friday, March 29, 2013" (translated). 2319# [These are in Arabic and are for Gaza and for Ramallah, respectively.] 2320# http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=154120 2321# http://safa.ps/details/news/99844/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-29-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A.html 2322 --- 62 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2385 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 2386 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 2387 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2388 2389# Paracel Is 2390# no information 2391 2392# Philippines |
| 2373# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the | 2393# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claver��a, governor-general of the |
| 2374# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to | 2394# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to |
| 2375# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a 2376# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>. | 2395# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01; see R.H. van Gent's 2396# History of the International Date Line 2397# <http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines.htm>. |
| 2377# The rest of the data are from Shanks & Pottenger. 2378 2379# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): 2380# Tomorrow's Manila Standard reports that the Philippines Department of 2381# Trade and Industry is considering adopting DST this June when the 2382# rainy season begins. See 2383# <http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics02_april26_2006>. 2384# For now, we'll ignore this, since it's not definite and we lack details. 2385# | 2398# The rest of the data are from Shanks & Pottenger. 2399 2400# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): 2401# Tomorrow's Manila Standard reports that the Philippines Department of 2402# Trade and Industry is considering adopting DST this June when the 2403# rainy season begins. See 2404# <http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics02_april26_2006>. 2405# For now, we'll ignore this, since it's not definite and we lack details. 2406# |
| 2386# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-26): | 2407# From Jesper N��rgaard Welen (2006-04-26): |
| 2387# ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990: 2388# http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/ 2389# [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires, 2390# but no details] 2391 2392# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2393Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S 2394Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 - --- 10 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2405 2406# Qatar 2407# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2408Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha 2409 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 2410 3:00 - AST 2411 2412# Saudi Arabia | 2408# ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990: 2409# http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/ 2410# [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires, 2411# but no details] 2412 2413# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2414Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S 2415Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 - --- 10 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2426 2427# Qatar 2428# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2429Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha 2430 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 2431 3:00 - AST 2432 2433# Saudi Arabia |
| 2434# 2435# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-15): 2436# Time in Saudi Arabia and other countries in the Arabian peninsula was not 2437# standardized until relatively recently; we don't know when, and possibly it 2438# has never been made official. Richard P Hunt, in "Islam city yielding to 2439# modern times", New York Times (1961-04-09), p 20, wrote that only airlines 2440# observed standard time, and that people in Jeddah mostly observed quasi-solar 2441# time, doing so by setting their watches at sunrise to 6 o'clock (or to 12 2442# o'clock for "Arab" time). 2443# 2444# The TZ database cannot represent quasi-solar time; airline time is the best 2445# we can do. The 1946 foreign air news digest of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics 2446# Board (OCLC 42299995) reported that the "... Arabian Government, inaugurated 2447# a weekly Dhahran-Cairo service, via the Saudi Arabian cities of Riyadh and 2448# Jidda, on March 14, 1947". Shanks & Pottenger guessed 1950; go with the 2449# earlier date. 2450# 2451# Shanks & Pottenger also state that until 1968-05-01 Saudi Arabia had two 2452# time zones; the other zone, at UTC+4, was in the far eastern part of 2453# the country. Ignore this, as it's before our 1970 cutoff. 2454# |
|
| 2413# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 2455# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 2414Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950 | 2456Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1947 Mar 14 |
| 2415 3:00 - AST 2416 2417# Singapore 2418# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) 2419# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. 2420# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2421Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 2422 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2437# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2438# Milne says "Madras mean time use from May 1, 1898. Prior to this Colombo 2439# mean time, 5h. 4m. 21.9s. F., was used." But 5:04:21.9 differs considerably 2440# from Colombo's meridian 5:19:24, so for now ignore Milne and stick with 2441# Shanks and Pottenger. 2442 2443# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 2444# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout" | 2457 3:00 - AST 2458 2459# Singapore 2460# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) 2461# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. 2462# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2463Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 2464 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2479# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2480# Milne says "Madras mean time use from May 1, 1898. Prior to this Colombo 2481# mean time, 5h. 4m. 21.9s. F., was used." But 5:04:21.9 differs considerably 2482# from Colombo's meridian 5:19:24, so for now ignore Milne and stick with 2483# Shanks and Pottenger. 2484 2485# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 2486# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout" |
| 2445# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24, | 2487# (<http://www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html>, 1996-05-24, |
| 2446# no longer available as of 1999-08-17) | 2488# no longer available as of 1999-08-17) |
| 2447# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at 2448# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.'' | 2489# reported "the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at 2490# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) 'in the light of the present power crisis'." |
| 2449# 2450# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted | 2491# 2492# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted |
| 2451# by Shamindra in 2452# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net"> 2453# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26) 2454# </a>: | 2493# by Shamindra in Daily News - Hot News Section 2494# <news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> (1996-10-26): |
| 2455# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 2456# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. 2457 | 2495# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 2496# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. 2497 |
| 2458# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-14), quoting Sri Lanka News Online | 2498# From Jesper N��rgaard Welen (2006-04-14), quoting Sri Lanka News Online |
| 2459# <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13): 2460# 0030 hrs on April 15, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006 +30 minutes) 2461# at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). 2462 2463# From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: 2464# <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML> 2465# [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply 2466# kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean 2467# Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. 2468# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18): 2469# People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'], 2470# as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. 2471 2472# From K Sethu (2006-04-25): 2473# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at 2474# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government 2475# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization 2476# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. 2477# | 2499# <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13): 2500# 0030 hrs on April 15, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006 +30 minutes) 2501# at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). 2502 2503# From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: 2504# <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML> 2505# [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply 2506# kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean 2507# Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. 2508# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18): 2509# People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'], 2510# as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. 2511 2512# From K Sethu (2006-04-25): 2513# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at 2514# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government 2515# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization 2516# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. 2517# |
| 2478# I recollect before the recent change the government annoucemments | 2518# I recollect before the recent change the government announcements |
| 2479# mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka 2480# Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation. 2481# 2482# If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News 2483# Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they 2484# use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news 2485# item.... 2486# 2487# Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and | 2519# mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka 2520# Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation. 2521# 2522# If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News 2523# Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they 2524# use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news 2525# item.... 2526# 2527# Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and |
| 2488# adminsitrators. In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the | 2528# administrators. In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the |
| 2489# nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well 2490# known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are 2491# slt.lk and sltnet.lk). 2492# 2493# But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation 2494# (that we have not known so far) then it is better that it be used for 2495# all computers. 2496 --- 55 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2552# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18): 2553# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC] 2554# this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt. 2555Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 2556# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29): 2557# Today the AP reported "Syria will switch to summertime at midnight Thursday." 2558# http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Time-Change.php 2559Rule Syria 2007 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S | 2529# nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well 2530# known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are 2531# slt.lk and sltnet.lk). 2532# 2533# But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation 2534# (that we have not known so far) then it is better that it be used for 2535# all computers. 2536 --- 55 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2592# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18): 2593# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC] 2594# this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt. 2595Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 2596# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29): 2597# Today the AP reported "Syria will switch to summertime at midnight Thursday." 2598# http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Time-Change.php 2599Rule Syria 2007 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S |
| 2560# From Jesper Norgard (2007-10-27): | 2600# From Jesper N��rgaard (2007-10-27): |
| 2561# The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will 2562# not take place 1st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1st November at 24:00 or 2563# rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sense than 2564# having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the 2565# weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now 2566# it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend... 2567# 2568# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-27): | 2601# The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will 2602# not take place 1st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1st November at 24:00 or 2603# rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sense than 2604# having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the 2605# weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now 2606# it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend... 2607# 2608# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-27): |
| 2569# Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote: | 2609# Jesper N��rgaard Welen wrote: |
| 2570# 2571# > "Winter local time in Syria will be observed at midnight of Thursday 1 2572# > November 2007, and the clock will be put back 1 hour." 2573# 2574# I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic): 2575# http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_print_veiw.asp?FileName=12521710520070926111247 2576# 2577# which using Google's translate tools says: --- 12 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2590# Syrian Arab 2591# Republic SY +0200 2200 03APR08 2100 30SEP08 +0300 2592# 2200 02APR09 2100 30SEP09 +0300 2593# 2200 01APR10 2100 30SEP10 +0300 2594 2595# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-17): 2596# Here's a link to English-language coverage by the Syrian Arab News 2597# Agency (SANA)... | 2610# 2611# > "Winter local time in Syria will be observed at midnight of Thursday 1 2612# > November 2007, and the clock will be put back 1 hour." 2613# 2614# I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic): 2615# http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_print_veiw.asp?FileName=12521710520070926111247 2616# 2617# which using Google's translate tools says: --- 12 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2630# Syrian Arab 2631# Republic SY +0200 2200 03APR08 2100 30SEP08 +0300 2632# 2200 02APR09 2100 30SEP09 +0300 2633# 2200 01APR10 2100 30SEP10 +0300 2634 2635# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-17): 2636# Here's a link to English-language coverage by the Syrian Arab News 2637# Agency (SANA)... |
| 2598# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm"> | |
| 2599# http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm | 2638# http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm |
| 2600# </a>...which reads (in part) "The Cabinet approved the suggestion of the | 2639# ...which reads (in part) "The Cabinet approved the suggestion of the |
| 2601# Ministry of Electricity to begin daylight savings time on Friday April 2602# 4th, advancing clocks one hour ahead on midnight of Thursday April 3rd." 2603# Since Syria is two hours east of UTC, the 2200 and 2100 transition times 2604# shown above match up with midnight in Syria. 2605 2606# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): | 2640# Ministry of Electricity to begin daylight savings time on Friday April 2641# 4th, advancing clocks one hour ahead on midnight of Thursday April 3rd." 2642# Since Syria is two hours east of UTC, the 2200 and 2100 transition times 2643# shown above match up with midnight in Syria. 2644 2645# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): |
| 2607# My buest guess at a Syrian rule is "the Friday nearest April 1"; | 2646# My best guess at a Syrian rule is "the Friday nearest April 1"; |
| 2608# coding that involves either using a "Mar Fri>=29" construct that old time zone 2609# compilers can't handle or having multiple Rules (a la Israel). 2610# For now, use "Apr Fri>=1", and go with IATA on a uniform Sep 30 end. 2611 2612# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-10-07): 2613# Syria has now officially decided to end DST on 2008-11-01 this year, 2614# according to the following article in the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). 2615# 2616# The article is in Arabic, and seems to tell that they will go back to 2617# winter time on 2008-11-01 at 00:00 local daylight time (delaying/setting 2618# clocks back 60 minutes). 2619# | 2647# coding that involves either using a "Mar Fri>=29" construct that old time zone 2648# compilers can't handle or having multiple Rules (a la Israel). 2649# For now, use "Apr Fri>=1", and go with IATA on a uniform Sep 30 end. 2650 2651# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-10-07): 2652# Syria has now officially decided to end DST on 2008-11-01 this year, 2653# according to the following article in the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). 2654# 2655# The article is in Arabic, and seems to tell that they will go back to 2656# winter time on 2008-11-01 at 00:00 local daylight time (delaying/setting 2657# clocks back 60 minutes). 2658# |
| 2620# <a href="http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm"> | |
| 2621# http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm | 2659# http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm |
| 2622# </a> | |
| 2623 2624# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-19): 2625# Syria will start DST on 2009-03-27 00:00 this year according to many sources, 2626# two examples: 2627# | 2660 2661# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-19): 2662# Syria will start DST on 2009-03-27 00:00 this year according to many sources, 2663# two examples: 2664# |
| 2628# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2009/03/17/217563.htm"> | |
| 2629# http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2009/03/17/217563.htm | 2665# http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2009/03/17/217563.htm |
| 2630# </a> | |
| 2631# (English, Syrian Arab News # Agency) | 2666# (English, Syrian Arab News # Agency) |
| 2632# <a href="http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=94459258720090318012209"> | |
| 2633# http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=94459258720090318012209 | 2667# http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=94459258720090318012209 |
| 2634# </a> | |
| 2635# (Arabic, gov-site) 2636# 2637# We have not found any sources saying anything about when DST ends this year. 2638# 2639# Our summary | 2668# (Arabic, gov-site) 2669# 2670# We have not found any sources saying anything about when DST ends this year. 2671# 2672# Our summary |
| 2640# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-starts-march-27-2009.html"> | |
| 2641# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-starts-march-27-2009.html | 2673# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-starts-march-27-2009.html |
| 2642# </a> | |
| 2643 2644# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-27): 2645# The Syrian Arab News Network on 2009-09-29 reported that Syria will 2646# revert back to winter (standard) time on midnight between Thursday 2647# 2009-10-29 and Friday 2009-10-30: | 2674 2675# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-27): 2676# The Syrian Arab News Network on 2009-09-29 reported that Syria will 2677# revert back to winter (standard) time on midnight between Thursday 2678# 2009-10-29 and Friday 2009-10-30: |
| 2648# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2009/09/29/247012.htm"> | |
| 2649# http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2009/09/29/247012.htm (Arabic) | 2679# http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2009/09/29/247012.htm (Arabic) |
| 2650# </a> | |
| 2651 2652# From Arthur David Olson (2009-10-28): 2653# We'll see if future DST switching times turn out to be end of the last 2654# Thursday of the month or the start of the last Friday of the month or 2655# something else. For now, use the start of the last Friday. 2656 2657# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-17): 2658# The "Syrian News Station" reported on 2010-03-16 that the Council of 2659# Ministers has decided that Syria will start DST on midnight Thursday 2660# 2010-04-01: (midnight between Thursday and Friday): | 2680 2681# From Arthur David Olson (2009-10-28): 2682# We'll see if future DST switching times turn out to be end of the last 2683# Thursday of the month or the start of the last Friday of the month or 2684# something else. For now, use the start of the last Friday. 2685 2686# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-17): 2687# The "Syrian News Station" reported on 2010-03-16 that the Council of 2688# Ministers has decided that Syria will start DST on midnight Thursday 2689# 2010-04-01: (midnight between Thursday and Friday): |
| 2661# <a href="http://sns.sy/sns/?path=news/read/11421"> | |
| 2662# http://sns.sy/sns/?path=news/read/11421 (Arabic) | 2690# http://sns.sy/sns/?path=news/read/11421 (Arabic) |
| 2663# </a> | |
| 2664 2665# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-26): 2666# Today, Syria's government announced that they will start DST early on Friday 2667# (00:00). This is a bit earlier than the past two years. 2668# 2669# From Syrian Arab News Agency, in Arabic: | 2691 2692# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-26): 2693# Today, Syria's government announced that they will start DST early on Friday 2694# (00:00). This is a bit earlier than the past two years. 2695# 2696# From Syrian Arab News Agency, in Arabic: |
| 2670# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2012/03/26/408215.htm"> | |
| 2671# http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2012/03/26/408215.htm | 2697# http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2012/03/26/408215.htm |
| 2672# </a> | |
| 2673# 2674# Our brief summary: | 2698# 2699# Our brief summary: |
| 2675# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html"> | |
| 2676# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html | 2700# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html |
| 2677# </a> | |
| 2678 2679# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-27): 2680# Assume last Friday in March going forward XXX. 2681 2682Rule Syria 2008 only - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 2683Rule Syria 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 2684Rule Syria 2009 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2685Rule Syria 2010 2011 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S --- 39 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2725Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 2726 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time 2727 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1 2728 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1 2729 6:00 - TAST 1982 Apr 1 # Tashkent Time 2730 5:00 RussiaAsia SAM%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 2731 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 2732 5:00 - UZT | 2701 2702# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-27): 2703# Assume last Friday in March going forward XXX. 2704 2705Rule Syria 2008 only - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 2706Rule Syria 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 2707Rule Syria 2009 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2708Rule Syria 2010 2011 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S --- 39 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 2748Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 2749 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time 2750 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1 2751 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1 2752 6:00 - TAST 1982 Apr 1 # Tashkent Time 2753 5:00 RussiaAsia SAM%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 2754 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 2755 5:00 - UZT |
| 2733Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 | 2756# Milne says Tashkent was 4:37:10.8; round to nearest. 2757Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:11 - LMT 1924 May 2 |
| 2734 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 2735 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 2736 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 2737 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 2738 5:00 - UZT 2739 2740# Vietnam 2741 2742# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2743# Milne gives 7:16:56 for the meridian of Saigon in 1899, as being 2744# used in Lower Laos, Cambodia, and Annam. But this is quite a ways 2745# from Saigon's location. For now, ignore this and stick with Shanks 2746# and Pottenger. 2747 2748# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): | 2758 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 2759 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 2760 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 2761 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 2762 5:00 - UZT 2763 2764# Vietnam 2765 2766# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2767# Milne gives 7:16:56 for the meridian of Saigon in 1899, as being 2768# used in Lower Laos, Cambodia, and Annam. But this is quite a ways 2769# from Saigon's location. For now, ignore this and stick with Shanks 2770# and Pottenger. 2771 2772# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): |
| 2749# The English-language name of Vietnam's most populous city is "Ho Chi Min City"; 2750# we use Ho_Chi_Minh below to avoid a name of more than 14 characters. | 2773# The English-language name of Vietnam's most populous city is "Ho Chi Minh 2774# City"; use Ho_Chi_Minh below to avoid a name of more than 14 characters. |
| 2751 2752# From Shanks & Pottenger: 2753# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2754Zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 2755 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 2756 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 2757 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 2758 7:00 - ICT 2759 2760# Yemen 2761 2762# Milne says 2:59:54 was the meridian of the saluting battery at Aden, 2763# and that Yemen was at 1:55:56, the meridian of the Hagia Sophia. 2764 2765# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2766Zone Asia/Aden 2:59:54 - LMT 1950 2767 3:00 - AST | 2775 2776# From Shanks & Pottenger: 2777# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2778Zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 2779 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 2780 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 2781 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 2782 7:00 - ICT 2783 2784# Yemen 2785 2786# Milne says 2:59:54 was the meridian of the saluting battery at Aden, 2787# and that Yemen was at 1:55:56, the meridian of the Hagia Sophia. 2788 2789# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2790Zone Asia/Aden 2:59:54 - LMT 1950 2791 3:00 - AST |