| antarctica (7858:a7c341f30747) | antarctica (8462:60e3cdbe8cdf) |
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| 1# 2# DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 3# 4# This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 5# under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 6# published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this 7# particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 8# by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. --- 25 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 34# <a href="http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm"> 35# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 36# </a> 37# for information. 38# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 39# 40# Except for the French entries, 41# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! | 1# 2# DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 3# 4# This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it 5# under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as 6# published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this 7# particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided 8# by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. --- 25 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 34# <a href="http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm"> 35# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 36# </a> 37# for information. 38# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 39# 40# Except for the French entries, 41# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! |
| 42# FORMAT is `zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. | 42# FORMAT is 'zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. |
| 43 | 43 |
| 44# These rules are stolen from the `southamerica' file. | 44# These rules are stolen from the 'southamerica' file. |
| 45# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 46Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - 47Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S 48Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - 49Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 50Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 51Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S 52Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - --- 193 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 246# S Korea - year-round base 247# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 248 249# New Zealand - claims 250# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 251# Scott Island (never inhabited) 252# 253# year-round base | 45# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 46Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - 47Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S 48Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - 49Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 50Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 51Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S 52Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - --- 193 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 246# S Korea - year-round base 247# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 248 249# New Zealand - claims 250# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 251# Scott Island (never inhabited) 252# 253# year-round base |
| 254# Scott, Ross Island, since 1957-01, is like Antarctica/McMurdo. | 254# Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 255# See Pacific/Auckland. |
| 255# | 256# |
| 256# These rules for New Zealand are stolen from the `australasia' file. | 257# These rules for New Zealand are stolen from the 'australasia' file. |
| 257# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 258Rule NZAQ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D 259Rule NZAQ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 260Rule NZAQ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D 261Rule NZAQ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 262Rule NZAQ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S 263Rule NZAQ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 264Rule NZAQ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 286# <a href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP"> 287# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>: 288# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 289# time as Moscow, Russia. 290# 291# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 292# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 293# what they had to say about time there: | 258# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 259Rule NZAQ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D 260Rule NZAQ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 261Rule NZAQ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D 262Rule NZAQ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 263Rule NZAQ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S 264Rule NZAQ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 265Rule NZAQ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 287# <a href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP"> 288# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>: 289# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 290# time as Moscow, Russia. 291# 292# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 293# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 294# what they had to say about time there: |
| 294# ``in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) | 295# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) |
| 295# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 296# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 297# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The | 296# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 297# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 298# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The |
| 298# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT.'' | 299# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." |
| 299# 300# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 301# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 302# in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local 303# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 304# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 305# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 306# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time --- 48 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 355# 356# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 357Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 358 -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 359 -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May 360 -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 361# 362# | 300# 301# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 302# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 303# in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local 304# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 305# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 306# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 307# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time --- 48 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 356# 357# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 358Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 359 -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 360 -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May 361 -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 362# 363# |
| 363# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12 364# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 365Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956 366 12:00 NZAQ NZ%sT | 364# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 365# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 |
| 367# | 366# |
| 368# Amundsen-Scott, South Pole, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 369# 370# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 371# Normally it wouldn't have a separate entry, since it's like the 372# larger Antarctica/McMurdo since 1970, but it's too famous to omit. 373# | |
| 374# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 375# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 376# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 377# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 378# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 379# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 380# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) 381# --- 4 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 386# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 387# One last quirk about South Pole time. 388# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 389# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 390# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 391# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 392# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 393# | 367# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 368# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 369# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 370# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 371# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 372# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 373# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) 374# --- 4 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 379# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 380# One last quirk about South Pole time. 381# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 382# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 383# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 384# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 385# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 386# |
| 394Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole | 387# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo. |