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1153761Swollman# <pre> 2197597Sedwin# @(#)asia 8.41 3192886Sedwin# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 4192886Sedwin# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 564499Swollman 62742Swollman# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 72742Swollman# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 82742Swollman# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 92742Swollman 10158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 112742Swollman# 122742Swollman# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 13158421Swollman# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 14158421Swollman# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 152742Swollman# 1686222Swollman# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 1720094Swollman# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 1820094Swollman# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 1920094Swollman# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 2020094Swollman# of the IATA's data after 1990. 2120094Swollman# 22158421Swollman# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for 23158421Swollman# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. 2420094Swollman# 252742Swollman# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 262742Swollman# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 272742Swollman# I found in the UCLA library. 282742Swollman# 292742Swollman# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 3058787Sru# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 312742Swollman# 322742Swollman# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 332742Swollman# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 342742Swollman# Corrections are welcome! 35114173Swollman# std dst 36114173Swollman# LMT Local Mean Time 37114173Swollman# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time 38114173Swollman# 2:00 IST IDT Israel 39114173Swollman# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* 40114173Swollman# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran 41114173Swollman# 4:00 GST Gulf* 42114173Swollman# 5:30 IST India 43114173Swollman# 7:00 ICT Indochina* 44114173Swollman# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia 45114173Swollman# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia 46114173Swollman# 8:00 CST China 47114173Swollman# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* 48114173Swollman# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia 49149590Swollman# 9:00 JST JDT Japan 50149590Swollman# 9:00 KST KDT Korea 51114173Swollman# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time 522742Swollman# 539908Swollman# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. 542742Swollman 552742Swollman# From Guy Harris: 562742Swollman# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as 572742Swollman# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental 582742Swollman# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide - 592742Swollman# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses. 602742Swollman 612742Swollman############################################################################### 622742Swollman 6320094Swollman# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file. 642742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 6520094SwollmanRule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S 66158421SwollmanRule EUAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - 6720094SwollmanRule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - 6820094SwollmanRule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 6920094SwollmanRule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 7020094SwollmanRule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 7120094SwollmanRule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 7220094SwollmanRule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 7320094SwollmanRule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 7420094SwollmanRule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 7520094SwollmanRule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S 7620094SwollmanRule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - 7720094SwollmanRule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 7820094SwollmanRule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 7920094SwollmanRule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - 802742Swollman 812742Swollman# Afghanistan 822742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 832742SwollmanZone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890 8419878Swollman 4:00 - AFT 1945 852742Swollman 4:30 - AFT 862742Swollman 872742Swollman# Armenia 88158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 89158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger have Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) 90158421Swollman# in spring 1991, then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then 91158421Swollman# readopting Russian DST in 1997. Go with Shanks & Pottenger, even 92158421Swollman# when they disagree with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz 93153670Swollman# reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST 9443014Swollman# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that 9543014Swollman# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, 9643014Swollman# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. 972742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 982742SwollmanZone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 9919878Swollman 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time 10019878Swollman 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 10119878Swollman 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence 10258787Sru 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s 10343014Swollman 4:00 - AMT 1997 10475267Swollman 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1052742Swollman 1062742Swollman# Azerbaijan 107153670Swollman# From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23): 108153670Swollman# According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997 109153670Swollman# Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf 11043014Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 111153670SwollmanRule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S 112153670SwollmanRule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 - 1132742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1142742SwollmanZone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 11519878Swollman 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 11619878Swollman 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 11719878Swollman 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 118149514Swollman 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 11920094Swollman 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 12043014Swollman 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 12143014Swollman 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 1222742Swollman 1232742Swollman# Bahrain 1242742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 12567578SwollmanZone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah 1262742Swollman 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 1272742Swollman 3:00 - AST 1282742Swollman 1292742Swollman# Bangladesh 130193785Sedwin# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-05-13): 131193785Sedwin# According to newspaper Asian Tribune (May 6, 2009) Bangladesh may introduce 132193785Sedwin# Daylight Saving Time from June 16 to Sept 30 133193785Sedwin# 134193785Sedwin# Bangladesh to introduce daylight saving time likely from June 16 135193785Sedwin# <a href="http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17288"> 136193785Sedwin# http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17288 137193785Sedwin# </a> 138193785Sedwin# or 139193785Sedwin# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh02.html"> 140193785Sedwin# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh02.html 141193785Sedwin# </a> 142193785Sedwin# 143193785Sedwin# "... Bangladesh government has decided to switch daylight saving time from 144193785Sedwin# June 145193785Sedwin# 16 till September 30 in a bid to ensure maximum use of daylight to cope with 146193785Sedwin# crippling power crisis. " 147193785Sedwin# 148193785Sedwin# The switch will remain in effect from June 16 to Sept 30 (2009) but if 149193785Sedwin# implemented the next year, it will come in force from April 1, 2010 150193785Sedwin 151193785Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-06-02): 152193785Sedwin# They have finally decided now, but changed the start date to midnight between 153193785Sedwin# the 19th and 20th, and they have not set the end date yet. 154193785Sedwin# 155193785Sedwin# Some sources: 156193785Sedwin# <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601"> 157193785Sedwin# http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601 158193785Sedwin# </a> 159193785Sedwin# <a href="http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2"> 160193785Sedwin# http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2 161193785Sedwin# </a> 162193785Sedwin# 163193785Sedwin# Our wrap-up: 164193785Sedwin# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html"> 165193785Sedwin# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html 166193785Sedwin# </a> 167193785Sedwin 168194485Sedwin# From A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat (2009-06-15): 169194485Sedwin# Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start 170194485Sedwin# time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh 171194485Sedwin# Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). 172194485Sedwin# 173194485Sedwin# No DST end date has been announced yet. 174193785Sedwin 175196581Sedwin# From Arthur David Olson (2009-07-11): 176196581Sedwin# Arbitrarily end DST at the end of 2009 so that a POSIX-sytle time zone string 177196581Sedwin# can appear in the Dhaka binary file and for the benefit of old glibc 178196581Sedwin# reimplementations of the time zone software that mishandle permanent DST. 179196581Sedwin# A change will be required once the end date is known. 180196581Sedwin 1812742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 18275267SwollmanZone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 18319878Swollman 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 18419878Swollman 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 1852742Swollman 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 18619878Swollman 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 18719878Swollman 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time 188194485Sedwin 6:00 - BDT 2009 Jun 19 23:00 # Bangladesh Time 189196581Sedwin 6:00 1:00 BDST 2010 190196581Sedwin 6:00 - BDT 1912742Swollman 1922742Swollman# Bhutan 1932742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 19467578SwollmanZone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu 1952742Swollman 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct 19619878Swollman 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time 1972742Swollman 1982742Swollman# British Indian Ocean Territory 19986222Swollman# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the 20086222Swollman# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996. 201149514Swollman# We have no information as to when standard time was introduced; 202149514Swollman# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which 203149514Swollman# then contained the Chagos Archipelago). 2042742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 205149514SwollmanZone Indian/Chagos 4:49:40 - LMT 1907 206149514Swollman 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time 20786222Swollman 6:00 - IOT 2082742Swollman 2092742Swollman# Brunei 2102742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2112742SwollmanZone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan 2122742Swollman 7:30 - BNT 1933 2132742Swollman 8:00 - BNT 2142742Swollman 21514343Swollman# Burma / Myanmar 2162742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 21717200SwollmanZone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon 21819878Swollman 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time? 21919878Swollman 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time 2202742Swollman 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3 22119878Swollman 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time 2222742Swollman 2232742Swollman# Cambodia 2242742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2252742SwollmanZone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 22619878Swollman 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 2272742Swollman 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 2282742Swollman 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 2292742Swollman 7:00 - ICT 2302742Swollman 23143014Swollman# China 2322742Swollman 2332742Swollman# From Guy Harris: 2342742Swollman# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. 2352742Swollman 23619878Swollman# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 23719878Swollman# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though 2382742Swollman# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the 2392742Swollman# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China 2402742Swollman# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of 24193799Swollman# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it. 2422742Swollman# 2432742Swollman# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too 2442742Swollman# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for 2452742Swollman# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP): 2462742Swollman# 2472742Swollman# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 2482742Swollman# 1987 mid-April - ?? 2492742Swollman 25019878Swollman# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 2512742Swollman# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN 2522742Swollman# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 2532742Swollman 254158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 255158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger write that China (except for Hong Kong and Macau) 256158421Swollman# has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, observing summer DST 257158421Swollman# from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's 2582742Swollman# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. 259158421Swollman# Go with Shanks & Pottenger for now. I made up names for the other 260158421Swollman# pre-1980 time zones. 2612742Swollman 262158421Swollman# From Shanks & Pottenger: 2632742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2642742SwollmanRule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 2652742SwollmanRule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 2662742SwollmanRule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D 2672742SwollmanRule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D 26814343SwollmanRule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S 26914343SwollmanRule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D 270163302Sru 27193799Swollman# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20): 27293799Swollman# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five 27393799Swollman# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official 274163302Sru# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949). 275169811Swollman# 276163302Sru# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-07-14): 277163302Sru# I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the 278163302Sru# http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county 279163302Sru# boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two 280163302Sru# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border, 281163302Sru# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are 282163302Sru# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege 283163302Sru# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6 284163302Sru# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two 285163302Sru# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data. 286163302Sru 287181421Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11): 288181421Sedwin# I just now checked Google News for western news sources that talk 289181421Sedwin# about China's single time zone, and couldn't find anything before 1986 290181421Sedwin# talking about China being in one time zone. (That article was: Jim 291181421Sedwin# Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight 292181421Sedwin# time--sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05. By the way, this 293181421Sedwin# article confirms the tz database's data claiming that China began 294181421Sedwin# observing daylight saving time in 1986. 295181421Sedwin# 296181421Sedwin# From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11): 297181421Sedwin# I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated 298181421Sedwin# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't 299181421Sedwin# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near 300181421Sedwin# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a 301181421Sedwin# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was 302181421Sedwin# ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s). 303181421Sedwin# 304181421Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): 305181421Sedwin# There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone in 1949 306181421Sedwin# rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a 307181421Sedwin# reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with 308181421Sedwin# Shanks & Pottenger. 309163302Sru 310163302Sru# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 31193799Swollman# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) 312163302Sru# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin 31367578SwollmanZone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin 31493799Swollman 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time 31514343Swollman 8:00 - CST 1940 31693799Swollman 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May 31793799Swollman 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May 31814343Swollman 8:00 PRC C%sT 31993799Swollman# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time") 320163302Sru# most of China 3212742SwollmanZone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928 3222742Swollman 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 3232742Swollman 8:00 PRC C%sT 32493799Swollman# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area) 325163302Sru# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan; 326163302Sru# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong 327163302Sru# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing, 328163302Sru# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu. 32986222SwollmanZone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking 33093799Swollman 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time 33114343Swollman 8:00 PRC C%sT 33293799Swollman# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time") 333163302Sru# The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai; 334163302Sru# the Guangdong counties Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang, 335163302Sru# Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi; 336163302Sru# east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi; 337163302Sru# east Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe, 338163302Sru# Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin, 339163302Sru# Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami, 340163302Sru# Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan. 34167578SwollmanZone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi 34219878Swollman 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time 34314343Swollman 8:00 PRC C%sT 34493799Swollman# Kunlun Time 345163302Sru# West Tibet, including Pulan, Aheqi, Shufu, Shule; 346163302Sru# West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke, 347163302Sru# Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding, 348163302Sru# and Yarkand. 34967578SwollmanZone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar 35019878Swollman 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time 35119878Swollman 5:00 - KAST 1980 May 35214343Swollman 8:00 PRC C%sT 35393799Swollman 35467578Swollman# Hong Kong (Xianggang) 3552742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3562742SwollmanRule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S 3572742SwollmanRule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 - 3582742SwollmanRule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S 3592742SwollmanRule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 - 3602742SwollmanRule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S 3612742SwollmanRule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 - 3622742SwollmanRule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S 3632742SwollmanRule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 - 3642742SwollmanRule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S 3652742SwollmanRule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 - 3662742SwollmanRule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 3672742SwollmanRule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 3682742SwollmanRule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 3692742SwollmanRule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S 3702742SwollmanRule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 3712742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3722742SwollmanZone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 37358787Sru 8:00 HK HK%sT 3742742Swollman 37530711Swollman 37630711Swollman############################################################################### 37730711Swollman 37843014Swollman# Taiwan 37930711Swollman 380158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger write that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it 38143543Swollman# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't 38243543Swollman# have any other information. 38343543Swollman 38430711Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 38530711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 38630711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 38730711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D 38830711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 38930711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 39030711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 39130711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 39230711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 39330711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 39430711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D 39530711SwollmanRule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 39630711Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 39786222SwollmanZone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei 39830711Swollman 8:00 Taiwan C%sT 39930711Swollman 40093799Swollman# Macau (Macao, Aomen) 4012742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 40293799SwollmanRule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 40393799SwollmanRule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 40493799SwollmanRule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 40593799SwollmanRule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 40693799SwollmanRule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 40793799SwollmanRule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 - 40893799SwollmanRule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 40993799SwollmanRule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 41093799SwollmanRule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 41193799SwollmanRule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 41293799SwollmanRule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 - 41393799SwollmanRule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S 41493799SwollmanRule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 41593799SwollmanRule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 4162742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 41793799SwollmanZone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912 41893799Swollman 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China 41919878Swollman 8:00 PRC C%sT 4202742Swollman 4212742Swollman 4222742Swollman############################################################################### 4232742Swollman 4242742Swollman# Cyprus 4252742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 42619878SwollmanRule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S 4272742SwollmanRule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 - 42819878SwollmanRule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 4292742SwollmanRule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 - 43019878SwollmanRule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 4312742SwollmanRule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 4322742SwollmanRule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 43343543SwollmanRule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 43443543SwollmanRule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 4352742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 4362742SwollmanZone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 43743543Swollman 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 43858787Sru 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 43943543Swollman# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. 4402742Swollman 44167578Swollman# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72. 44267578Swollman# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe. 44367578SwollmanLink Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia 44467578Swollman 4452742Swollman# Georgia 446149514Swollman# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): 4479908Swollman# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward 4489908Swollman# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, 4499908Swollman# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! 45014343Swollman# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. 45114343Swollman# 452149514Swollman# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): 45320094Swollman# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia 45420094Swollman# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, 45520094Swollman# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 456136638Swollman# 457136638Swollman# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): 458149514Swollman# 459136638Swollman# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 460136638Swollman# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it 461136638Swollman# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours 462136638Swollman# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, 463136638Swollman# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process 464136638Swollman# of integration into Europe. 465136638Swollman 466153670Swollman# From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07): 467153670Swollman# Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on 468153670Swollman# [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. 469153670Swollman# Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT 470153670Swollman# +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document 471153670Swollman# about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, 472153670Swollman# because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time.... 473153670Swollman# I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our 474153670Swollman# DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month. 475153670Swollman 476153670Swollman 4772742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 4782742SwollmanZone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 47919878Swollman 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time 48019878Swollman 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 48119878Swollman 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 48219878Swollman 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 48320094Swollman 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 48420094Swollman 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 48520094Swollman 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 48643543Swollman 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 487136638Swollman 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27 488153670Swollman 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 2005 Mar lastSun 2:00 489153670Swollman 4:00 - GET 4902742Swollman 49158787Sru# East Timor 49275267Swollman 493169811Swollman# See Indonesia for the 1945 transition. 494169811Swollman 49575267Swollman# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in 49675267Swollman# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm"> 49775267Swollman# East Timor may be late for its millennium 49875267Swollman# </a> (1999-12-26/31): 49975267Swollman# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun 50075267Swollman# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the 50175267Swollman# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it 50275267Swollman# conflicts with their way of life. 50375267Swollman 50475267Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 50575267Swollman# We don't have any record of the above attempt. 50675267Swollman# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data. 50775267Swollman 50875267Swollman# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html"> 50975267Swollman# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General 51075267Swollman# (2000-08-16)</a>: 51175267Swollman# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided 51275267Swollman# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change, 51375267Swollman# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at 51475267Swollman# midnight on Saturday, September 16. 51575267Swollman 51658787Sru# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 51758787SruZone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 518149514Swollman 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 519169811Swollman 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 520149514Swollman 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3 52186222Swollman 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 522149514Swollman 9:00 - TLT 52358787Sru 5242742Swollman# India 5252742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 526177591SedwinZone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata 52719878Swollman 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 52819878Swollman 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 5292742Swollman 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 5302742Swollman 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 5312742Swollman 5:30 - IST 532177591Sedwin# The following are like Asia/Kolkata: 5332742Swollman# Andaman Is 5342742Swollman# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is) 5352742Swollman# Nicobar Is 5362742Swollman 5372742Swollman# Indonesia 53886222Swollman# 539158421Swollman# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks & Pottenger: 54086222Swollman# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime> 54186222Swollman# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some 54286222Swollman# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat 54386222Swollman# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7. 54486222Swollman# 545169811Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-10): 546169811Swollman# Here is another correction to Shanks & Pottenger. 547169811Swollman# JohnTWB writes that Japanese forces did not surrender control in 548169811Swollman# Indonesia until 1945-09-01 00:00 at the earliest (in Jakarta) and 549169811Swollman# other formal surrender ceremonies were September 9, 11, and 13, plus 550169811Swollman# September 12 for the regional surrender to Mountbatten in Singapore. 551169811Swollman# These would be the earliest possible times for a change. 552169811Swollman# Regimes horaires pour le monde entier, by Henri Le Corre, (Editions 553169811Swollman# Traditionnelles, 1987, Paris) says that Java and Madura switched 554169811Swollman# from JST to UTC+07:30 on 1945-09-23, and gives 1944-09-01 for Jayapura 555169811Swollman# (Hollandia). For now, assume all Indonesian locations other than Jayapura 556169811Swollman# switched on 1945-09-23. 557169811Swollman# 5582742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 5592742SwollmanZone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10 560158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger say the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13, 56158787Sru# but this must be a typo. 56258787Sru 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta 56319878Swollman 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time 56486222Swollman 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23 565169811Swollman 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 56686222Swollman 7:30 - WIT 1948 May 56786222Swollman 8:00 - WIT 1950 May 56886222Swollman 7:30 - WIT 1964 56986222Swollman 7:00 - WIT 57086222SwollmanZone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May 57186222Swollman 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT 57286222Swollman 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29 573169811Swollman 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 57486222Swollman 7:30 - WIT 1948 May 57586222Swollman 8:00 - WIT 1950 May 57686222Swollman 7:30 - WIT 1964 57786222Swollman 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1 57886222Swollman 7:00 - WIT 57993799SwollmanZone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 58019878Swollman 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT 58186222Swollman 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9 582169811Swollman 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 58386222Swollman 8:00 - CIT 5842742SwollmanZone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 585169811Swollman 9:00 - EIT 1944 Sep 1 5862742Swollman 9:30 - CST 1964 58786222Swollman 9:00 - EIT 5882742Swollman 5892742Swollman# Iran 590114173Swollman 591114173Swollman# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15): 592114173Swollman# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian). 593114173Swollman# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine: 59421217Swollman# 595114173Swollman# Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16] 596114173Swollman# No. 16760/T233 H 1370/6/10 [1991-09-01] 59721217Swollman# 598114173Swollman# The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country 599114173Swollman# 600114173Swollman# The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14], 601114173Swollman# based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13] 602114173Swollman# of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs, 603114173Swollman# and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers 604114173Swollman# and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and 605114173Swollman# for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that: 606114173Swollman# 607114173Swollman# The official time of the country will should move forward one hour 608114173Swollman# at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return 609114173Swollman# to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of 610114173Swollman# Shahrivar. 611114173Swollman# 612114173Swollman# First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi 613114173Swollman# 614114173Swollman# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed 615114173Swollman# for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the 616114173Swollman# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last 617114173Swollman# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates.... 618114173Swollman# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct 619114173Swollman# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. 620149514Swollman# 621149514Swollman# From Roozbeh Pournader (2005-04-05): 622149514Swollman# The text of the Iranian law, in effect since 1925, clearly mentions 623149514Swollman# that the true solar year is the measure, and there is no arithmetic 624149514Swollman# leap year calculation involved. There has never been any serious 625149514Swollman# plan to change that law.... 626149514Swollman# 627158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 628158421Swollman# Go with Shanks & Pottenger before Sept. 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. 629149514Swollman# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates, 630149514Swollman# stopping after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. 631149514Swollman# That cal-persia used Birashk's approximation, which disagrees with the solar 632149514Swollman# calendar predictions for the year 2025, so I corrected those dates by hand. 63321217Swollman# 634149514Swollman# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-03-30), writing about future 635149514Swollman# discrepancies between cal-persia and the Iranian calendar: 636149514Swollman# For 2091 solar-longitude-after yields 2091-03-20 08:40:07.7 UT for 637149514Swollman# the vernal equinox and that gets so close to 12:00 some local 638149514Swollman# Iranian time that the definition of the correct location needs to be 639149514Swollman# known exactly, amongst other factors. 2157 is even closer: 640149514Swollman# 2157-03-20 08:37:15.5 UT. But the Gregorian year 2025 should give 641149514Swollman# no interpretation problem whatsoever. By the way, another instant 642149514Swollman# in the near future where there will be a discrepancy between 643149514Swollman# arithmetical and astronomical Iranian calendars will be in 2058: 644149514Swollman# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of 645149514Swollman# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date 646149514Swollman# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical). 647149514Swollman# 648158421Swollman# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-03-22): 649158421Swollman# Several of my users have reported that Iran will not observe DST anymore: 650158421Swollman# http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0603193812164948.htm 651158421Swollman# 652172479Sedwin# From Reuters (2007-09-16), with a heads-up from Jesper Norgaard Welen: 653172479Sedwin# ... the Guardian Council ... approved a law on Sunday to re-introduce 654172479Sedwin# daylight saving time ... 655172479Sedwin# http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916 656172479Sedwin# 657174242Sedwin# From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05): 658174242Sedwin# This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of 659174242Sedwin# Iran, Volume 63, Number 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24 660174242Sedwin# [2007-10-16]. I am doing the best translation I can:... 661174242Sedwin# The official time of the country will be moved forward for one hour 662174242Sedwin# on the 24 hours of the first day of the month of Farvardin and will 663174242Sedwin# be changed back to its previous state on the 24 hours of the 664174242Sedwin# thirtieth day of Shahrivar. 665174242Sedwin# 6662742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 667114173SwollmanRule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 668114173SwollmanRule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S 669114173SwollmanRule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S 670114173SwollmanRule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S 671114173SwollmanRule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 D 672114173SwollmanRule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 673114173SwollmanRule Iran 1991 1995 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 674114173SwollmanRule Iran 1996 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 675114173SwollmanRule Iran 1996 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 676114173SwollmanRule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 677114173SwollmanRule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 678114173SwollmanRule Iran 2000 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 679114173SwollmanRule Iran 2000 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 680114173SwollmanRule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 681114173SwollmanRule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 682114173SwollmanRule Iran 2004 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 683114173SwollmanRule Iran 2004 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 684158421SwollmanRule Iran 2005 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 685158421SwollmanRule Iran 2005 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 686172479SedwinRule Iran 2008 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 687172479SedwinRule Iran 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 688172479SedwinRule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 689172479SedwinRule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 690172479SedwinRule Iran 2012 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 691172479SedwinRule Iran 2012 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 692172479SedwinRule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 693172479SedwinRule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 694172479SedwinRule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 695172479SedwinRule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 696172479SedwinRule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 697172479SedwinRule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 698172479SedwinRule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 699172479SedwinRule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 700172479SedwinRule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 701172479SedwinRule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 702172479SedwinRule Iran 2024 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 703172479SedwinRule Iran 2024 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 704172479SedwinRule Iran 2025 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 705172479SedwinRule Iran 2025 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 706172479SedwinRule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 707172479SedwinRule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 708172479SedwinRule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 709172479SedwinRule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 710172479SedwinRule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 711172479SedwinRule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 712172479SedwinRule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 713172479SedwinRule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 714172479SedwinRule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 715172479SedwinRule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 7162742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 7172742SwollmanZone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 71819878Swollman 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time 719114173Swollman 3:30 - IRST 1977 Nov 72019878Swollman 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979 72119878Swollman 3:30 Iran IR%sT 7222742Swollman 72364499Swollman 7242742Swollman# Iraq 72564499Swollman# 726149514Swollman# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12): 72764499Swollman# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in 72875267Swollman# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: 72964499Swollman# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and 73064499Swollman# are an hour ahead of Baghdad." 73164499Swollman# 73264499Swollman# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows: 73364499Swollman# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi 73464499Swollman# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred 73564499Swollman# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone 73664499Swollman# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. 73764499Swollman# 73864499Swollman# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. 73964499Swollman 740177591Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-10): 741177591Sedwin# The cabinet in Iraq abolished DST last week, according to the following 742177591Sedwin# news sources (in Arabic): 743177591Sedwin# <a href="http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html"> 744177591Sedwin# http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html 745177591Sedwin# </a> 746177591Sedwin# <a href="http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10"> 747177591Sedwin# http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10 748177591Sedwin# </a> 749177591Sedwin# 750177591Sedwin# We have published a short article in English about the change: 751177591Sedwin# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html"> 752177591Sedwin# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html 753177591Sedwin# </a> 754177591Sedwin 7552742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 7562742SwollmanRule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 7572742SwollmanRule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 7582742SwollmanRule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 7592742SwollmanRule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 76020094SwollmanRule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S 76120094SwollmanRule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D 76220094Swollman# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. 763158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger say Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997; ignore this. 764169811Swollman# 765177591SedwinRule Iraq 1991 2007 - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D 766177591SedwinRule Iraq 1991 2007 - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S 7672742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 7682742SwollmanZone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 76919878Swollman 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? 7702742Swollman 3:00 - AST 1982 May 7712742Swollman 3:00 Iraq A%sT 7722742Swollman 7732742Swollman 7742742Swollman############################################################################### 7752742Swollman 7762742Swollman# Israel 7772742Swollman 77875267Swollman# From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11): 77975267Swollman# 78075267Swollman# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three 78175267Swollman# different abbreviations in use: 78275267Swollman# 78375267Swollman# JST Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University] 78475267Swollman# IZT Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion] 78575267Swollman# EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else] 78675267Swollman# 78775267Swollman# Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities, 78875267Swollman# I ruled out JST. As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe, 78975267Swollman# EEST was equally unacceptable. Since "zonal" was not compatible with 79075267Swollman# any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go 79175267Swollman# and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone 79275267Swollman# settings in Israeli computers. 79375267Swollman# 79475267Swollman# In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India, 79575267Swollman# high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's 79675267Swollman# family is from India). 7972742Swollman 798158421Swollman# From Shanks & Pottenger: 7992742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 8002742SwollmanRule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 8012742SwollmanRule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 8022742SwollmanRule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 8032742SwollmanRule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 8042742SwollmanRule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 8052742SwollmanRule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 8062742SwollmanRule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D 8072742SwollmanRule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 8082742SwollmanRule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD 8092742SwollmanRule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D 8102742SwollmanRule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 8112742SwollmanRule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 8122742SwollmanRule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 8132742SwollmanRule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S 8142742SwollmanRule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 8152742SwollmanRule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S 8162742SwollmanRule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D 8172742SwollmanRule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S 8182742SwollmanRule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D 8192742SwollmanRule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S 8202742SwollmanRule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D 8212742SwollmanRule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S 8222742SwollmanRule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D 8232742SwollmanRule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S 8242742SwollmanRule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 8252742SwollmanRule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S 8262742SwollmanRule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D 8272742SwollmanRule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 8282742SwollmanRule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D 8292742SwollmanRule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S 8302742SwollmanRule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D 8312742SwollmanRule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S 8322742SwollmanRule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 8332742SwollmanRule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 8342742SwollmanRule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D 8352742SwollmanRule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 8362742SwollmanRule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D 8372742SwollmanRule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 8382742SwollmanRule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D 8392742SwollmanRule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 8402742Swollman 841149514Swollman# From Ephraim Silverberg 842149514Swollman# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22, 843149514Swollman# and 2005-02-17): 84430711Swollman 8452742Swollman# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of 8462742Swollman# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. 84743543Swollman# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150 84843543Swollman# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to 84943543Swollman# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to 85043543Swollman# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a 85143543Swollman# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard 85243543Swollman# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard 85343543Swollman# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid 85464499Swollman# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to 85564499Swollman# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from 85643543Swollman# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time 85764499Swollman# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for 85864499Swollman# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was 85964499Swollman# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it 86064499Swollman# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all 86164499Swollman# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no 86264499Swollman# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date 86364499Swollman# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve 86464499Swollman# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date 86564499Swollman# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] 86664499Swollman# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar). 8672742Swollman 8682742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 8692742SwollmanRule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 87019878SwollmanRule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 8712742SwollmanRule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D 87219878SwollmanRule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S 8732742SwollmanRule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D 87419878SwollmanRule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S 8752742SwollmanRule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D 87619878SwollmanRule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 8772742SwollmanRule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D 87819878SwollmanRule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 8792742Swollman 88014343Swollman# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the 88114343Swollman# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by 88230711Swollman# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448. 8832742Swollman 88475267Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 88519878SwollmanRule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 88619878SwollmanRule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S 88719878SwollmanRule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 88819878SwollmanRule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 8892742Swollman 89030711Swollman# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the 89130711Swollman# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 89243014Swollman# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: 89314343Swollman# 894149514Swollman# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz 89514343Swollman# 89643014Swollman# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. 89730711Swollman# 89858787Sru# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: 89943014Swollman# 900149514Swollman# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz 90143014Swollman# 90258787Sru# where YYYY is the relevant year. 9039908Swollman 90414343Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 90530711SwollmanRule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D 90619878SwollmanRule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 90730711SwollmanRule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 90830711SwollmanRule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 90930711SwollmanRule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D 91043014SwollmanRule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 91143543SwollmanRule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D 91243543SwollmanRule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S 91314343Swollman 91464499Swollman# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for 91564499Swollman# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the 91664499Swollman# years 2001-2004 as well. 91758787Sru# 91864499Swollman# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: 91958787Sru# 920149514Swollman# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz 92164499Swollman# 92264499Swollman# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates 92364499Swollman# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: 92464499Swollman# 925149514Swollman# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz 92643014Swollman 92758787Sru# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 92858787SruRule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 92964499SwollmanRule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S 93064499SwollmanRule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D 93164499SwollmanRule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S 93264499SwollmanRule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D 93364499SwollmanRule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S 93464499SwollmanRule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D 93564499SwollmanRule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S 93664499SwollmanRule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D 93764499SwollmanRule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S 93858787Sru 939149514Swollman# The proposed law agreed upon by the Knesset Interior Committee on 940149514Swollman# 2005-02-14 is that, for 2005 and beyond, DST starts at 02:00 the 941149514Swollman# last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April 942149514Swollman# 1st itself if it falls on a Friday) and ends at 02:00 on the Saturday 943149514Swollman# night _before_ the fast of Yom Kippur. 944149514Swollman# 945149514Swollman# Those who can read Hebrew can view the announcement at: 946149514Swollman# 947149514Swollman# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps 94830711Swollman 949149514Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2005-02-22): 950149514Swollman# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program 951149514Swollman# <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (2005-02-20) 952149514Swollman# along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4, 953149514Swollman# to generate the transitions in this list. 954149514Swollman# (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.) 955149514Swollman# The spring transitions below all correspond to the following Rule: 956149514Swollman# 957149514Swollman# Rule Zion 2005 max - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 958149514Swollman# 959149514Swollman# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support 960149514Swollman# "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the 961149514Swollman# springtime transitions explicitly. 962149514Swollman 963149514Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 964149514SwollmanRule Zion 2005 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 965149514SwollmanRule Zion 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S 966149514SwollmanRule Zion 2006 2010 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 967149514SwollmanRule Zion 2006 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 968149514SwollmanRule Zion 2007 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S 969149514SwollmanRule Zion 2008 only - Oct 5 2:00 0 S 970149514SwollmanRule Zion 2009 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S 971149514SwollmanRule Zion 2010 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S 972149514SwollmanRule Zion 2011 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 973149514SwollmanRule Zion 2011 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S 974149514SwollmanRule Zion 2012 2015 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 975149514SwollmanRule Zion 2012 only - Sep 23 2:00 0 S 976149514SwollmanRule Zion 2013 only - Sep 8 2:00 0 S 977149514SwollmanRule Zion 2014 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S 978149514SwollmanRule Zion 2015 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S 979149514SwollmanRule Zion 2016 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 980149514SwollmanRule Zion 2016 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S 981149514SwollmanRule Zion 2017 2021 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 982149514SwollmanRule Zion 2017 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S 983149514SwollmanRule Zion 2018 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S 984149514SwollmanRule Zion 2019 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S 985149514SwollmanRule Zion 2020 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S 986149514SwollmanRule Zion 2021 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S 987149514SwollmanRule Zion 2022 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 988149514SwollmanRule Zion 2022 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S 989149514SwollmanRule Zion 2023 2032 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 990149514SwollmanRule Zion 2023 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S 991149514SwollmanRule Zion 2024 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S 992149514SwollmanRule Zion 2025 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S 993149514SwollmanRule Zion 2026 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S 994149514SwollmanRule Zion 2027 only - Oct 10 2:00 0 S 995149514SwollmanRule Zion 2028 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S 996149514SwollmanRule Zion 2029 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S 997149514SwollmanRule Zion 2030 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S 998149514SwollmanRule Zion 2031 only - Sep 21 2:00 0 S 999149514SwollmanRule Zion 2032 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S 1000149514SwollmanRule Zion 2033 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 1001149514SwollmanRule Zion 2033 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S 1002149514SwollmanRule Zion 2034 2037 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 1003149514SwollmanRule Zion 2034 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1004149514SwollmanRule Zion 2035 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 S 1005149514SwollmanRule Zion 2036 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S 1006149514SwollmanRule Zion 2037 only - Sep 13 2:00 0 S 1007149514Swollman 10082742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 100914343SwollmanZone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 101019878Swollman 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 10112742Swollman 2:00 Zion I%sT 10122742Swollman 10132742Swollman 1014105196Swollman 10152742Swollman############################################################################### 10162742Swollman 10172742Swollman# Japan 10182742Swollman 10192742Swollman# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. 10202742Swollman 1021149514Swollman# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06): 10229908Swollman# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had 10239908Swollman# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued 10249908Swollman# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' 1025149590Swollman 1026149590Swollman# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times 1027149590Swollman# <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm>: 1028149590Swollman# Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on 1029149590Swollman# [1948-05-01].... But lack of prior debate and the execution of 1030149590Swollman# daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated 1031149590Swollman# deep hatred of the concept.... The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to 1032149590Swollman# dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San 1033149590Swollman# Francisco Peace Treaty was signed. (A government poll in 1951 showed 53% 1034149590Swollman# of the Japanese wanted to scrap daylight-saving time, as opposed to 30% who 1035149590Swollman# wanted to keep it.) 1036149590Swollman 1037158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1038158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger write that DST in Japan during those years was as follows: 10399908Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1040149590SwollmanRule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1041149590SwollmanRule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S 1042149590SwollmanRule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1043149590SwollmanRule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1044149590Swollman# but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since 1045158421Swollman# their audience is astrologers) were US military bases. For now, assume 1046149590Swollman# that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what 1047149590Swollman# would have been the point of the 1951 poll? 10482742Swollman 104943543Swollman# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): 105043543Swollman# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical 105143543Swollman# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0. 105243543Swollman# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996' 105343543Swollman# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.... 105443543Swollman# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST). 105543543Swollman# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07. 105643543Swollman 105743543Swollman# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16): 105843543Swollman# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan, 105943543Swollman# which stands for the time on E 135 degree. 106043543Swollman# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central 106143543Swollman# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard 106243543Swollman# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard 106343543Swollman# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No. 106443543Swollman# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is 106543543Swollman# standard.... 106643543Swollman# 106743543Swollman# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate. 106843543Swollman# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor. 106943543Swollman 1070158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger claim JST in use since 1896, and that a few 1071158421Swollman# places (e.g. Ishigaki) use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all 1072158421Swollman# ordinances took effect on Jan 1. 107343543Swollman 10742742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 107543543SwollmanZone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u 107643543Swollman 9:00 - JST 1896 107743543Swollman 9:00 - CJT 1938 1078149590Swollman 9:00 Japan J%sT 107943543Swollman# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. 10802742Swollman 10812742Swollman# Jordan 108258787Sru# 108358787Sru# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html"> 108458787Sru# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): 108558787Sru# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight, 108658787Sru# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time 108758787Sru# all year round. 108858787Sru# 108958787Sru# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html"> 109058787Sru# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09): 109158787Sru# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back 109258787Sru# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final! 109358787Sru# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in 109458787Sru# government's departments from six to seven hours. 109558787Sru# 1096153670Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 1097153670Swollman# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 1098153670Swollman# 1099158421Swollman# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): 1100158421Swollman# For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year 1101158421Swollman# about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year. 1102158421Swollman# 1103163302Sru# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-10-01), after a heads-up from Hilal Malawi: 1104163302Sru# http://www.petranews.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Sep/05/4000.htm 1105163302Sru# "Jordan will switch to winter time on Friday, October 27". 1106163302Sru# 1107190991Sedwin 1108190991Sedwin# From Phil Pizzey (2009-04-02): 1109190991Sedwin# ...I think I may have spotted an error in the timezone data for 1110190991Sedwin# Jordan. 1111190991Sedwin# The current (2009d) asia file shows Jordan going to daylight 1112190991Sedwin# saving 1113190991Sedwin# time on the last Thursday in March. 1114190991Sedwin# 1115190991Sedwin# Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S 1116190991Sedwin# 1117190991Sedwin# However timeanddate.com, which I usually find reliable, shows Jordan 1118190991Sedwin# going to daylight saving time on the last Friday in March since 2002. 1119190991Sedwin# Please see 1120190991Sedwin# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=11"> 1121190991Sedwin# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=11 1122190991Sedwin# </a> 1123190991Sedwin 1124190991Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-02): 1125190991Sedwin# This single one might be good enough, (2009-03-24, Arabic): 1126190991Sedwin# <a href="http://petra.gov.jo/Artical.aspx?Lng=2&Section=8&Artical=95279"> 1127190991Sedwin# http://petra.gov.jo/Artical.aspx?Lng=2&Section=8&Artical=95279 1128190991Sedwin# </a> 1129190991Sedwin# 1130190991Sedwin# Google's translation: 1131190991Sedwin# 1132190991Sedwin# > The Council of Ministers decided in 2002 to adopt the principle of timely 1133190991Sedwin# > submission of the summer at 60 minutes as of midnight on the last Thursday 1134190991Sedwin# > of the month of March of each year. 1135190991Sedwin# 1136190991Sedwin# So - this means the midnight between Thursday and Friday since 2002. 1137190991Sedwin 1138190991Sedwin# From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-06): 1139190991Sedwin# We still have Jordan switching to DST on Thursdays in 2000 and 2001. 1140190991Sedwin 11412742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 114275267SwollmanRule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S 114375267SwollmanRule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 114475267SwollmanRule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 114575267SwollmanRule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 114675267SwollmanRule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 114775267SwollmanRule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 114875267SwollmanRule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 114975267SwollmanRule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 115075267SwollmanRule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 115175267SwollmanRule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 115275267SwollmanRule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 115375267SwollmanRule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S 115475267SwollmanRule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S 115575267SwollmanRule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S 115675267SwollmanRule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - 115775267SwollmanRule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S 115875267SwollmanRule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 115975267SwollmanRule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 116075267SwollmanRule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 116175267SwollmanRule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - 116258787SruRule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S 1163190991SedwinRule Jordan 1999 2002 - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - 1164190991SedwinRule Jordan 2000 2001 - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S 1165192886SedwinRule Jordan 2002 max - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S 1166153670SwollmanRule Jordan 2003 only - Oct 24 0:00s 0 - 1167153670SwollmanRule Jordan 2004 only - Oct 15 0:00s 0 - 1168163302SruRule Jordan 2005 only - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - 1169163302SruRule Jordan 2006 max - Oct lastFri 0:00s 0 - 11702742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 11712742SwollmanZone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 117219878Swollman 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 11732742Swollman 1174149514Swollman 11752742Swollman# Kazakhstan 1176149514Swollman 117720094Swollman# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 1178149514Swollman# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan 117920094Swollman# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) 118020094Swollman# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. 118120094Swollman# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time 118220094Swollman# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. 1183149514Swollman 1184158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 118593799Swollman# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses 118693799Swollman# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. 1187158421Swollman# Go with Shanks & Pottenger, who have them always using RussiaAsia rules. 1188158421Swollman# Also go with the following claims of Shanks & Pottenger: 118993799Swollman# 119093799Swollman# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. 119193799Swollman# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. 119293799Swollman# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. 1193149514Swollman 1194149514Swollman# <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm"> 1195149514Swollman# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21): 1196149514Swollman# </a> 1197149514Swollman# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing 1198149514Swollman# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health 1199149514Swollman# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity. 120093799Swollman# 1201149514Swollman# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28): 1202149514Swollman# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone 1203149514Swollman# was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has 1204149514Swollman# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone 1205149514Swollman# closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the 1206149514Swollman# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau, 1207149514Swollman# Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses 1208149514Swollman# everything else.... I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones 1209149514Swollman# de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively. 1210149514Swollman 1211114173Swollman# 12122742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 121393799Swollman# 121493799Swollman# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan 121543014SwollmanZone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 121693799Swollman 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 121793799Swollman 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 121893799Swollman 6:00 - ALMT 1992 1219149514Swollman 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 2005 Mar 15 1220149514Swollman 6:00 - ALMT 122193799Swollman# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.) 122293799SwollmanZone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 122393799Swollman 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time 122493799Swollman 5:00 - KIZT 1981 Apr 1 122593799Swollman 5:00 1:00 KIZST 1981 Oct 1 122693799Swollman 6:00 - KIZT 1982 Apr 1 122793799Swollman 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991 122893799Swollman 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 122993799Swollman 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 1230149514Swollman 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 2005 Mar 15 1231149514Swollman 6:00 - QYZT 123293799Swollman# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk) 123320094SwollmanZone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 123493799Swollman 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time 123593799Swollman 5:00 - AKTT 1981 Apr 1 123693799Swollman 5:00 1:00 AKTST 1981 Oct 1 123793799Swollman 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1 123893799Swollman 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991 123993799Swollman 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 1240149514Swollman 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time 1241149514Swollman 5:00 - AQTT 124293799Swollman# Mangghystau 124393799Swollman# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region, 124493799Swollman# so include time stamps before 1963. 124593799SwollmanZone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 124693799Swollman 4:00 - FORT 1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T 124793799Swollman 5:00 - FORT 1963 124893799Swollman 5:00 - SHET 1981 Oct 1 # Shevchenko Time 124993799Swollman 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1 125093799Swollman 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 125193799Swollman 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence 1252121098Swollman 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time 1253149514Swollman 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 1254149514Swollman 5:00 - AQTT 125593799Swollman# West Kazakhstan 125693799SwollmanZone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 125793799Swollman 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time 125893799Swollman 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1 125993799Swollman 5:00 1:00 URAST 1981 Oct 1 126093799Swollman 6:00 - URAT 1982 Apr 1 126193799Swollman 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00 126293799Swollman 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991 126393799Swollman 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 1264149514Swollman 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time 1265149514Swollman 5:00 - ORAT 12662742Swollman 126767578Swollman# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) 1268158421Swollman# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks & Pottenger. 1269149514Swollman 1270149514Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15): 1271149514Swollman# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway 1272149514Swollman# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml> 1273149514Swollman# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article 1274149514Swollman# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC. 1275153670Swollman# From Malik Abdugaliev (2005-09-21): 1276153670Swollman# Our government cancels daylight saving time 6th of August 2005. 1277153670Swollman# From 2005-08-12 our GMT-offset is +6, w/o any daylight saving. 1278149514Swollman 127920094Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1280153670SwollmanRule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S 1281153670SwollmanRule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1282153670SwollmanRule Kyrgyz 1997 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S 1283153670SwollmanRule Kyrgyz 1997 2004 - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - 12849908Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 12859908SwollmanZone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 128643014Swollman 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 128719878Swollman 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 128858787Sru 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence 1289153670Swollman 5:00 Kyrgyz KG%sT 2005 Aug 12 # Kyrgyzstan Time 1290153670Swollman 6:00 - KGT 12919908Swollman 12922742Swollman############################################################################### 12932742Swollman 129443014Swollman# Korea (North and South) 12952742Swollman 1296163302Sru# From Annie I. Bang (2006-07-10) in 1297163302Sru# <http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/07/10/200607100012.asp>: 1298163302Sru# The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy has already 1299163302Sru# commissioned a research project [to reintroduce DST] and has said 1300163302Sru# the system may begin as early as 2008.... Korea ran a daylight 1301163302Sru# saving program from 1949-61 but stopped it during the 1950-53 Korean War. 13022742Swollman 1303158421Swollman# From Shanks & Pottenger: 13042742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 13052742SwollmanRule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D 13062742SwollmanRule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1307158421SwollmanRule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1308158421SwollmanRule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 13092742Swollman 13102742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 13112742SwollmanZone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890 13122742Swollman 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 13132742Swollman 9:00 - KST 1928 13142742Swollman 8:30 - KST 1932 13152742Swollman 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 13162742Swollman 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10 13172742Swollman 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct 13182742Swollman 9:00 ROK K%sT 13192742SwollmanZone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890 13202742Swollman 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 13212742Swollman 9:00 - KST 1928 13222742Swollman 8:30 - KST 1932 13232742Swollman 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 13242742Swollman 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10 13252742Swollman 9:00 - KST 13262742Swollman 13272742Swollman############################################################################### 13282742Swollman 13292742Swollman# Kuwait 13302742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1331169811Swollman# From the Arab Times (2007-03-14): 1332169811Swollman# The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has approved a proposal forwarded 1333169811Swollman# by MP Ahmad Baqer on implementing the daylight saving time (DST) in 1334169811Swollman# Kuwait starting from April until the end of Sept this year, reports Al-Anba. 1335169811Swollman# <http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/kuwait/Viewdet.asp?ID=9950>. 1336169811Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29): 1337169811Swollman# We don't know the details, or whether the approval means it'll happen, 1338169811Swollman# so for now we assume no DST. 13392742SwollmanZone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950 13402742Swollman 3:00 - AST 13412742Swollman 13422742Swollman# Laos 13432742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 134467578SwollmanZone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan 134519878Swollman 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 13462742Swollman 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 13472742Swollman 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 13482742Swollman 7:00 - ICT 13492742Swollman 13502742Swollman# Lebanon 13512742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 135219878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S 13532742SwollmanRule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 - 135419878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S 13552742SwollmanRule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 135619878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 13572742SwollmanRule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - 135819878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S 13592742SwollmanRule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 - 136019878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 13612742SwollmanRule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 136219878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S 13632742SwollmanRule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 136419878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 136519878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 13662742SwollmanRule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 136719878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 136820094SwollmanRule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 - 136919878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 137019878SwollmanRule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 137120094SwollmanRule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 137220094SwollmanRule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - 137320094SwollmanRule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 137458787SruRule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 137558787SruRule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 13762742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 13772742SwollmanZone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880 137819878Swollman 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT 13792742Swollman 13802742Swollman# Malaysia 138119878Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 138286222SwollmanRule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer 138319878SwollmanRule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 - 138486222Swollman# 1385136638Swollman# peninsular Malaysia 1386136638Swollman# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) 1387136638Swollman# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. 13882742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1389136638SwollmanZone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 1390136638Swollman 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. 1391136638Swollman 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time 1392136638Swollman 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 1393136638Swollman 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 1394136638Swollman 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 1395136638Swollman 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 1396136638Swollman 7:30 - MALT 1982 Jan 1 139719878Swollman 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time 139886222Swollman# Sabah & Sarawak 1399158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1400158421Swollman# The data here are mostly from Shanks & Pottenger, but the 1942, 1945 and 1982 1401136638Swollman# transition dates are from Mok Ly Yng. 1402136638Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 140319878SwollmanZone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar 140419878Swollman 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time 1405136638Swollman 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 Feb 16 1406136638Swollman 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 1407136638Swollman 8:00 - BORT 1982 Jan 1 140819878Swollman 8:00 - MYT 14092742Swollman 14102742Swollman# Maldives 14112742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 141219878SwollmanZone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male 141319878Swollman 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time 141419878Swollman 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time 14152742Swollman 14162742Swollman# Mongolia 141758787Sru 1418158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger say that Mongolia has three time zones, but 1419158421Swollman# usno1995 and the CIA map Standard Time Zones of the World (2005-03) 142017200Swollman# both say that it has just one. 142158787Sru 142258787Sru# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11): 142358787Sru# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm"> 142458787Sru# General Information Mongolia 142558787Sru# </a> (1999-09) 142658787Sru# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of 142758787Sru# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and 142858787Sru# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus 142958787Sru# eight hours." 143058787Sru 143158787Sru# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13): 143258787Sru# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998 143358787Sru# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am 143458787Sru# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time 143558787Sru# of implementation may have been different.... 143658787Sru# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time 143758787Sru# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod, 143858787Sru# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij. 143958787Sru 144058787Sru# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15): 144158787Sru# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia. 144258787Sru# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone; 144358787Sru# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us, 144458787Sru# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd 144558787Sru# is good enough for our purposes. 144658787Sru 144786222Swollman# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13): 144886222Swollman# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier 144986222Swollman# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28), 145086222Swollman# there are three time zones. 145186222Swollman# 145286222Swollman# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai 145386222Swollman# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov, 145486222Swollman# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi 145586222Swollman# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar 145686222Swollman# 145786222Swollman# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] 145886222Swollman 1459149514Swollman# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17): 1460136638Swollman# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March. 1461136638Swollman# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of 1462136638Swollman# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001. 1463136638Swollman# 1464136638Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17): 1465136638Swollman# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs 1466136638Swollman# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them. 1467136638Swollman 1468149514Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): 1469149514Swollman# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones. 1470149514Swollman# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says 1471149514Swollman# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft 1472149514Swollman# Windows XP as the source. Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that 1473149514Swollman# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST. 1474149514Swollman# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in 1475149514Swollman# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed. 1476149514Swollman# He also found 1477149514Swollman# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&> 1478149514Swollman# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius" 1479149514Swollman# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones. 1480149514Swollman# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT 1481149514Swollman# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT. 1482149514Swollman# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the 1483149514Swollman# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session." 1484149514Swollman# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation. 1485149514Swollman 1486169811Swollman# From Ganbold Ts. (2007-02-26): 1487169811Swollman# Parliament of Mongolia has just changed the daylight-saving rule in February. 1488169811Swollman# They decided not to adopt daylight-saving time.... 1489169811Swollman# http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742 1490169811Swollman 1491181418Sedwin# From Deborah Goldsmith (2008-03-30): 1492181418Sedwin# We received a bug report claiming that the tz database UTC offset for 1493181418Sedwin# Asia/Choibalsan (GMT+09:00) is incorrect, and that it should be GMT 1494181418Sedwin# +08:00 instead. Different sources appear to disagree with the tz 1495181418Sedwin# database on this, e.g.: 1496181418Sedwin# 1497181418Sedwin# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026"> 1498181418Sedwin# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026 1499181418Sedwin# </a> 1500181418Sedwin# <a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx"> 1501181418Sedwin# http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx 1502181418Sedwin# </a> 1503181418Sedwin# 1504181418Sedwin# both say GMT+08:00. 1505181418Sedwin 1506181418Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-31): 1507181418Sedwin# eznis airways, which operates several domestic flights, has a flight 1508181418Sedwin# schedule here: 1509181424Sedwin# <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112"> 1510181418Sedwin# http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112 1511181418Sedwin# </a> 1512181418Sedwin# (click the English flag for English) 1513181418Sedwin# 1514181418Sedwin# There it appears that flights between Choibalsan and Ulaanbatar arrive 1515181418Sedwin# about 1:35 - 1:50 hours later in local clock time, no matter the 1516181418Sedwin# direction, while Ulaanbaatar-Khvod takes 2 hours in the Eastern 1517181418Sedwin# direction and 3:35 back, which indicates that Ulaanbatar and Khvod are 1518181418Sedwin# in different time zones (like we know about), while Choibalsan and 1519181418Sedwin# Ulaanbatar are in the same time zone (correction needed). 1520181418Sedwin 1521181418Sedwin# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): 1522181418Sedwin# Assume that Choibalsan is indeed offset by 8:00. 1523181418Sedwin# XXX--in the absence of better information, assume that transition 1524181418Sedwin# was at the start of 2008-03-31 (the day of Steffen Thorsen's report); 1525181418Sedwin# this is almost surely wrong. 1526181418Sedwin 15272742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 152886222SwollmanRule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 152986222SwollmanRule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1530158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger and IATA SSIM say 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, 1531158421Swollman# but McDow says the 2001 switches occurred at 02:00. Also, IATA SSIM 1532158421Swollman# (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks & Pottenger through 1998. 1533158421Swollman# 1534158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger say that the Sept. 1984 through Sept. 1990 switches 1535158421Swollman# in Choibalsan (more precisely, in Dornod and Sukhbaatar) took place 1536158421Swollman# at 02:00 standard time, not at 00:00 local time as in the rest of 1537158421Swollman# the country. That would be odd, and possibly is a result of their 1538158421Swollman# correction of 02:00 (in the previous edition) not being done correctly 1539158421Swollman# in the latest edition; so ignore it for now. 1540158421Swollman 1541158421SwollmanRule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 1542158421SwollmanRule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 154358787Sru# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. 1544136638SwollmanRule Mongol 2001 only - Apr lastSat 2:00 1:00 S 1545169811SwollmanRule Mongol 2001 2006 - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 - 1546169811SwollmanRule Mongol 2002 2006 - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S 154758787Sru 15482742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 154986222Swollman# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta 155058787SruZone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug 155158787Sru 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time 155258787Sru 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT 155386222Swollman# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga 155458787SruZone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug 155558787Sru 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time 155619878Swollman 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT 155786222Swollman# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan, 155886222Swollman# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan 155986222SwollmanZone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug 156086222Swollman 7:00 - ULAT 1978 156186222Swollman 8:00 - ULAT 1983 Apr 1562181418Sedwin 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT 2008 Mar 31 # Choibalsan Time 1563181418Sedwin 8:00 Mongol CHO%sT 15642742Swollman 15652742Swollman# Nepal 15662742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1567187588SedwinZone Asia/Kathmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920 15682742Swollman 5:30 - IST 1986 156919878Swollman 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time 15702742Swollman 15712742Swollman# Oman 15722742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 15732742SwollmanZone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920 15742742Swollman 4:00 - GST 15752742Swollman 15762742Swollman# Pakistan 157793799Swollman 157893799Swollman# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13): 157993799Swollman# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a 158093799Swollman# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 158193799Swollman# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was 158293799Swollman# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the 158393799Swollman# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on. 158493799Swollman 158593799Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15): 158693799Swollman# Jesper Norgaard found this URL: 158793799Swollman# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm 158893799Swollman# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to 158993799Swollman# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first 159093799Swollman# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 159193799Swollman# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00, 159293799Swollman# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like 159393799Swollman# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday 159493799Swollman# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the 159593799Swollman# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02. 159693799Swollman 1597114173Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): 1598114173Swollman# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05 1599114173Swollman# that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow for now. 1600114173Swollman 1601114173Swollman# From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14): 1602114173Swollman# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm 1603114173Swollman# there will be no DST in Pakistan this year: 1604114173Swollman# 1605114173Swollman# ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh 1606114173Swollman# Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous 1607114173Swollman# decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by 1608114173Swollman# one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy. 1609114173Swollman# 1610114173Swollman# The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather 1611114173Swollman# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity. 1612114173Swollman 1613181418Sedwin# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-15): 1614181418Sedwin# 1615181418Sedwin# Here is an article that Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time 1616181418Sedwin# on June 1, 2008 for 3 months. 1617181418Sedwin# 1618181418Sedwin# "... The federal cabinet on Wednesday announced a new conservation plan to help 1619181418Sedwin# reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at 9pm and 1620181418Sedwin# moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months. 1621181418Sedwin# ...." 1622181418Sedwin# 1623181418Sedwin# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html"> 1624181418Sedwin# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html 1625181418Sedwin# </a> 1626181418Sedwin# OR 1627181418Sedwin# <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4"> 1628181418Sedwin# http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4 1629181418Sedwin# </a> 1630114173Swollman 1631181418Sedwin# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): 1632181418Sedwin# XXX--midnight transitions is a guess; 2008 only is a guess. 1633181418Sedwin 1634183066Sedwin# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): 1635183066Sedwin# Pakistan government has decided to keep the watches one-hour advanced 1636183066Sedwin# for another 2 months--plan to return to Standard Time on October 31 1637183066Sedwin# instead of August 31. 1638183066Sedwin# 1639183066Sedwin# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html"> 1640183066Sedwin# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html 1641183066Sedwin# </a> 1642183066Sedwin# OR 1643183066Sedwin# <a href="http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html"> 1644183066Sedwin# http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html 1645183066Sedwin# </a> 1646183066Sedwin 1647191052Sedwin# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-04-08): 1648191052Sedwin# Based on previous media reports that "... proposed plan to 1649191052Sedwin# advance clocks by one hour from May 1 will cause disturbance 1650191052Sedwin# to the working schedules rather than bringing discipline in 1651191052Sedwin# official working." 1652191052Sedwin# <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=171280"> 1653191052Sedwin# http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=171280 1654191052Sedwin# </a> 1655191052Sedwin# 1656191052Sedwin# recent news that instead of May 2009 - Pakistan plan to 1657191052Sedwin# introduce DST from April 15, 2009 1658191052Sedwin# 1659191052Sedwin# FYI: Associated Press Of Pakistan 1660191052Sedwin# April 08, 2009 1661191052Sedwin# Cabinet okays proposal to advance clocks by one hour from April 15 1662191052Sedwin# <a href="http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73043&Itemid=1"> 1663191052Sedwin# http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73043&Itemid=1 1664191052Sedwin# </a> 1665191052Sedwin# 1666191052Sedwin# or 1667191052Sedwin# 1668191052Sedwin# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan05.html"> 1669191052Sedwin# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan05.html 1670191052Sedwin# </a> 1671191052Sedwin# 1672191052Sedwin# .... 1673191052Sedwin# The Federal Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal to 1674191052Sedwin# advance clocks in the country by one hour from April 15 to 1675191052Sedwin# conserve energy" 1676191052Sedwin 1677197597Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-09-17): 1678197597Sedwin# "The News International," Pakistan reports that: "The Federal 1679197597Sedwin# Government has decided to restore the previous time by moving the 1680197597Sedwin# clocks backward by one hour from October 1. A formal announcement to 1681197597Sedwin# this effect will be made after the Prime Minister grants approval in 1682197597Sedwin# this regard." 1683197597Sedwin# <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87168"> 1684197597Sedwin# http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87168 1685197597Sedwin# </a> 1686191052Sedwin 168793799Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1688114173SwollmanRule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S 1689114173SwollmanRule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - 1690181418SedwinRule Pakistan 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 1691183066SedwinRule Pakistan 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 1692191052SedwinRule Pakistan 2009 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S 1693197597SedwinRule Pakistan 2009 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 16942742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 16952742SwollmanZone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 16962742Swollman 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 16972742Swollman 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 16982742Swollman 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30 169919878Swollman 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time 170093799Swollman 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time 17012742Swollman 17022742Swollman# Palestine 170343014Swollman 1704149514Swollman# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15): 170543014Swollman# 170643014Swollman# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now 170743014Swollman# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. 170843014Swollman# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too... 170943014Swollman# 171043014Swollman# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05 171143014Swollman# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no 171243014Swollman# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt, 171343014Swollman# though. 171443014Swollman# 171543014Swollman# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally 171643014Swollman# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from 171743014Swollman# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the 171843014Swollman# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major 171943014Swollman# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and 172043014Swollman# East Jerusalem. 172143014Swollman# 172243014Swollman# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except 172343014Swollman# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might 172443014Swollman# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware 172543014Swollman# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer 172643014Swollman# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected). 172743014Swollman# 172843014Swollman# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most 172943014Swollman# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to 173043014Swollman# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to 173143014Swollman# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't 173243014Swollman# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the 173343014Swollman# Jordanian one). 173443014Swollman# 173543014Swollman# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that: 173643014Swollman# 173743014Swollman# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996- 173843014Swollman# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------- 173943014Swollman# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion 174043014Swollman# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan 174143014Swollman# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan 174243014Swollman# 174343014Swollman# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they 174443014Swollman# have one). 174543014Swollman 1746158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1747158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger write that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but go 174843014Swollman# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947, 174943014Swollman# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996. 175043014Swollman# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since 175143014Swollman# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about 175243014Swollman# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 175343014Swollman# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries 175443014Swollman# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules 175543014Swollman# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please 175643014Swollman# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions. 175743014Swollman 175843014Swollman# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time, 175943014Swollman# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg: 176043014Swollman# 176143014Swollman# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time 176243014Swollman# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks 176343014Swollman# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule, 176443014Swollman# the PA has decided to implement DST in April. 176543014Swollman 176658787Sru# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 176758787Sru# Daoud Kuttab writes in 176858787Sru# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html"> 176958787Sru# Holiday havoc 177058787Sru# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that 177158787Sru# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. 177258787Sru# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). 177358787Sru# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, 177458787Sru# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. 177558787Sru 1776153670Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 1777153670Swollman# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 1778153670Swollman 1779158421Swollman# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): 1780158421Swollman# A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of 1781158421Swollman# the Ramadan. Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think 1782158421Swollman# there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks 1783158421Swollman# earlier--the same goes for Jordan. 1784158421Swollman 1785163302Sru# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 1786163302Sru# I was informed by a user in Bethlehem that in Bethlehem it started the 1787163302Sru# same day as Israel, and after checking with other users in the area, I 1788163302Sru# was informed that they started DST one day after Israel. I was not 1789163302Sru# able to find any authoritative sources at the time, nor details if 1790163302Sru# Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as 1791163302Sru# the West Bank. 1792163302Sru 1793163302Sru# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-26): 1794163302Sru# according to the Palestine News Network (2006-09-19): 1795163302Sru# http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=596&Itemid=5 1796163302Sru# > The Council of Ministers announced that this year its winter schedule 1797163302Sru# > will begin early, as of midnight Thursday. It is also time to turn 1798163302Sru# > back the clocks for winter. Friday will begin an hour late this week. 1799163302Sru# I guess it is likely that next year's date will be moved as well, 1800163302Sru# because of the Ramadan. 1801163302Sru 1802172479Sedwin# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2007-09-18): 1803172479Sedwin# According to Steffen Thorsen's web site the Gaza Strip and the rest of the 1804172479Sedwin# Palestinian territories left DST early on 13.th. of September at 2:00. 1805172479Sedwin 1806172479Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2007-09-20): 1807172479Sedwin# My understanding is that Gaza and the West Bank disagree even over when 1808172479Sedwin# the weekend is (Thursday+Friday versus Friday+Saturday), so I'd be a bit 1809172479Sedwin# surprised if they agreed about DST. But for now, assume they agree. 1810172479Sedwin# For lack of better information, predict that future changes will be 1811172479Sedwin# the 2nd Thursday of September at 02:00. 1812172479Sedwin 1813183066Sedwin# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): 1814183066Sedwin# Here is an article, that Mideast running on different clocks at Ramadan. 1815183066Sedwin# 1816183066Sedwin# Gaza Strip (as Egypt) ended DST at midnight Thursday (Aug 28, 2008), while 1817183066Sedwin# the West Bank will end Daylight Saving Time at midnight Sunday (Aug 31, 2008). 1818183066Sedwin# 1819183066Sedwin# <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001"> 1820183066Sedwin# http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001 1821183066Sedwin# </a> 1822183066Sedwin# <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087"> 1823183066Sedwin# http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087 1824183066Sedwin# </a> 1825183066Sedwin# or 1826183066Sedwin# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html"> 1827183066Sedwin# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html 1828183066Sedwin# </a> 1829183066Sedwin 1830190991Sedwin# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-26): 1831190991Sedwin# According to the Palestine News Network (arabic.pnn.ps), Palestinian 1832190991Sedwin# government decided to start Daylight Time on Thursday night March 1833190991Sedwin# 26 and continue until the night of 27 September 2009. 1834190991Sedwin# 1835190991Sedwin# (in Arabic) 1836190991Sedwin# <a href="http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50850"> 1837190991Sedwin# http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50850 1838190991Sedwin# </a> 1839190991Sedwin# 1840190991Sedwin# or 1841190991Sedwin# (English translation) 1842190991Sedwin# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank01.html"> 1843190991Sedwin# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank01.html 1844190991Sedwin# </a> 1845190991Sedwin 1846197000Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-08-31): 1847197000Sedwin# Palestine's Council of Ministers announced that they will revert back to 1848197000Sedwin# winter time on Friday, 2009-09-04. 1849197000Sedwin# 1850197000Sedwin# One news source: 1851197000Sedwin# <a href="http://www.safa.ps/ara/?action=showdetail&seid=4158"> 1852197000Sedwin# http://www.safa.ps/ara/?action=showdetail&seid=4158 1853197000Sedwin# </a> 1854197000Sedwin# (Palestinian press agency, Arabic), 1855197000Sedwin# Google translate: "Decided that the Palestinian government in Ramallah 1856197000Sedwin# headed by Salam Fayyad, the start of work in time for the winter of 1857197000Sedwin# 2009, starting on Friday approved the fourth delay Sept. clock sixty 1858197000Sedwin# minutes per hour as of Friday morning." 1859197000Sedwin# 1860197000Sedwin# We are not sure if Gaza will do the same, last year they had a different 1861197000Sedwin# end date, we will keep this page updated: 1862197000Sedwin# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-dst-2009.html"> 1863197000Sedwin# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-dst-2009.html 1864197000Sedwin# </a> 1865197000Sedwin 1866197000Sedwin# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-02): 1867197000Sedwin# Seems that Gaza Strip will go back to Winter Time same date as West Bank. 1868197000Sedwin# 1869197000Sedwin# According to Palestinian Ministry Of Interior, West Bank and Gaza Strip plan 1870197000Sedwin# to change time back to Standard time on September 4, 2009. 1871197000Sedwin# 1872197000Sedwin# "Winter time unite the West Bank and Gaza" 1873197000Sedwin# (from Palestinian National Authority): 1874197000Sedwin# <a href="http://www.moi.gov.ps/en/?page=633167343250594025&nid=11505 1875197000Sedwin# http://www.moi.gov.ps/en/?page=633167343250594025&nid=11505 1876197000Sedwin# </a> 1877197000Sedwin# or 1878197000Sedwin# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip02.html> 1879197000Sedwin# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip02.html 1880197000Sedwin# </a> 1881197000Sedwin 188258787Sru# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. 18832742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 188419878SwollmanRule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 188517200SwollmanRule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 188619878SwollmanRule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 188720094SwollmanRule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S 188817200SwollmanRule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - 188920094SwollmanRule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - 189058787Sru 1891163302SruRule Palestine 1999 2005 - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S 1892153670SwollmanRule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 1893153670SwollmanRule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 1894163302SruRule Palestine 2005 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - 1895190991SedwinRule Palestine 2006 2008 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1896163302SruRule Palestine 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 1897183066SedwinRule Palestine 2007 only - Sep Thu>=8 2:00 0 - 1898190991SedwinRule Palestine 2008 only - Aug lastFri 2:00 0 - 1899190991SedwinRule Palestine 2009 max - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 1900197000SedwinRule Palestine 2009 max - Sep Fri>=1 2:00 0 - 190158787Sru 19022742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 19032742SwollmanZone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 190443014Swollman 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 190543014Swollman 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 190643014Swollman 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 190758787Sru 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 190858787Sru 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 19092742Swollman 191014343Swollman# Paracel Is 191114343Swollman# no information 191214343Swollman 19132742Swollman# Philippines 191475267Swollman# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the 191575267Swollman# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to 191675267Swollman# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a 191775267Swollman# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>. 1918158421Swollman# The rest of the data are from Shanks & Pottenger. 1919158421Swollman 1920158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): 1921158421Swollman# Tomorrow's Manila Standard reports that the Philippines Department of 1922158421Swollman# Trade and Industry is considering adopting DST this June when the 1923158421Swollman# rainy season begins. See 1924158421Swollman# <http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics02_april26_2006>. 1925158421Swollman# For now, we'll ignore this, since it's not definite and we lack details. 1926158421Swollman# 1927158421Swollman# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-26): 1928158421Swollman# ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990: 1929158421Swollman# http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/ 1930158421Swollman# [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires, 1931158421Swollman# but no details] 1932158421Swollman 19332742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 193419878SwollmanRule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S 193519878SwollmanRule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 - 193619878SwollmanRule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S 193719878SwollmanRule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 - 193819878SwollmanRule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S 193919878SwollmanRule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 - 19402742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 194175267SwollmanZone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 19422742Swollman 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11 194319878Swollman 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May 19442742Swollman 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov 194519878Swollman 8:00 Phil PH%sT 19462742Swollman 19472742Swollman# Qatar 19482742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 194967578SwollmanZone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha 19502742Swollman 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 19512742Swollman 3:00 - AST 19522742Swollman 19532742Swollman# Saudi Arabia 19542742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 19552742SwollmanZone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950 19562742Swollman 3:00 - AST 19572742Swollman 19582742Swollman# Singapore 1959136638Swollman# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) 1960136638Swollman# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. 19612742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1962136638SwollmanZone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 1963136638Swollman 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. 1964136638Swollman 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time 1965136638Swollman 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 1966136638Swollman 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 1967136638Swollman 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 1968136638Swollman 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 196919878Swollman 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence 1970136638Swollman 7:30 - SGT 1982 Jan 1 # Singapore Time 19712742Swollman 8:00 - SGT 19722742Swollman 197314343Swollman# Spratly Is 197414343Swollman# no information 197514343Swollman 19762742Swollman# Sri Lanka 197719878Swollman# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 197858787Sru# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout" 197958787Sru# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24, 198058787Sru# no longer available as of 1999-08-17) 198119878Swollman# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at 198219878Swollman# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.'' 198330711Swollman# 198430711Swollman# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted 198543014Swollman# by Shamindra in 198643014Swollman# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net"> 198743014Swollman# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26) 198843014Swollman# </a>: 198930711Swollman# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 199030711Swollman# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. 199119878Swollman 1992158421Swollman# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-14), quoting Sri Lanka News Online 1993158421Swollman# <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13): 1994158421Swollman# 0030 hrs on April 15, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006 +30 minutes) 1995158421Swollman# at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). 1996158421Swollman 1997158421Swollman# From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: 1998158421Swollman# <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML> 1999158421Swollman# [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply 2000158421Swollman# kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean 2001158421Swollman# Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. 2002158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18): 2003177591Sedwin# People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'], 2004158421Swollman# as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. 2005158421Swollman 2006158421Swollman# From K Sethu (2006-04-25): 2007158421Swollman# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at 2008158421Swollman# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government 2009158421Swollman# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization 2010158421Swollman# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. 2011158421Swollman# 2012158421Swollman# I recollect before the recent change the government annoucemments 2013158421Swollman# mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka 2014158421Swollman# Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation. 2015158421Swollman# 2016158421Swollman# If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News 2017158421Swollman# Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they 2018158421Swollman# use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news 2019158421Swollman# item.... 2020158421Swollman# 2021158421Swollman# Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and 2022158421Swollman# adminsitrators. In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the 2023158421Swollman# nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well 2024158421Swollman# known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are 2025158421Swollman# slt.lk and sltnet.lk). 2026158421Swollman# 2027158421Swollman# But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation 2028158421Swollman# (that we have not known so far) then it is better that it be used for 2029158421Swollman# all computers. 2030158421Swollman 2031158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): 2032158421Swollman# One possibility is that we wait for a bit for the dust to settle down 2033158421Swollman# and then see what people actually say in practice. 2034158421Swollman 20352742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 20362742SwollmanZone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 203743014Swollman 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time 20382742Swollman 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5 20392742Swollman 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep 20402742Swollman 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 204119878Swollman 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00 204230711Swollman 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30 2043158421Swollman 6:00 - LKT 2006 Apr 15 0:30 2044158421Swollman 5:30 - IST 20452742Swollman 20462742Swollman# Syria 20472742Swollman# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 204819878SwollmanRule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S 20492742SwollmanRule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 205019878SwollmanRule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S 20512742SwollmanRule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 205219878SwollmanRule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 20532742SwollmanRule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 20542742SwollmanRule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 20552742SwollmanRule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 205619878SwollmanRule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S 20572742SwollmanRule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 205819878SwollmanRule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 20592742SwollmanRule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 - 206019878SwollmanRule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S 20612742SwollmanRule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 206219878SwollmanRule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S 20632742SwollmanRule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 - 206419878SwollmanRule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S 20652742SwollmanRule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 - 206619878SwollmanRule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S 206719878SwollmanRule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S 20682742SwollmanRule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 206920094SwollmanRule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S 207020094SwollmanRule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 207120094SwollmanRule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 207220094SwollmanRule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 207320094SwollmanRule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S 207420094SwollmanRule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 207520094SwollmanRule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 207658787Sru# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02; 207758787Sru# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02, 207858787Sru# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31; 2079163302Sru# (2006) says 2006-03-31 and 2006-09-22; 2080163302Sru# for now ignore all these claims and go with Shanks & Pottenger, 2081163302Sru# except for the 2006-09-22 claim (which seems right for Ramadan). 208258787SruRule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 2083163302SruRule Syria 1994 2005 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 208458787SruRule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S 2085169811SwollmanRule Syria 1999 2006 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 2086163302Sru# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18): 2087163302Sru# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC] 2088163302Sru# this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt. 2089163302SruRule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 2090169811Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29): 2091169811Swollman# Today the AP reported "Syria will switch to summertime at midnight Thursday." 2092169811Swollman# http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Time-Change.php 2093177591SedwinRule Syria 2007 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2094173319Sedwin# From Jesper Norgard (2007-10-27): 2095173319Sedwin# The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will 2096173319Sedwin# not take place 1.st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1.st November at 24:00 or 2097173319Sedwin# rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sence than 2098173319Sedwin# having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the 2099173319Sedwin# weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now 2100173319Sedwin# it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend... 2101173319Sedwin# 2102173319Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-27): 2103173319Sedwin# Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote: 2104173319Sedwin# 2105173319Sedwin# > "Winter local time in Syria will be observed at midnight of Thursday 1 2106173319Sedwin# > November 2007, and the clock will be put back 1 hour." 2107173319Sedwin# 2108173319Sedwin# I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic): 2109173319Sedwin# http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_print_veiw.asp?FileName=12521710520070926111247 2110173319Sedwin# 2111173319Sedwin# which using Google's translate tools says: 2112173319Sedwin# Council of Ministers also approved the commencement of work on 2113173319Sedwin# identifying the winter time as of Friday, 2/11/2007 where the 60th 2114173319Sedwin# minute delay at midnight Thursday 1/11/2007. 2115177591SedwinRule Syria 2007 only - Nov Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 2116177591Sedwin 2117177591Sedwin# From Stephen Colebourne (2008-03-17): 2118177591Sedwin# For everyone's info, I saw an IATA time zone change for [Syria] for 2119177591Sedwin# this month (March 2008) in the last day or so...This is the data IATA 2120177591Sedwin# are now using: 2121177591Sedwin# Country Time Standard --- DST Start --- --- DST End --- DST 2122177591Sedwin# Name Zone Variation Time Date Time Date 2123177591Sedwin# Variation 2124177591Sedwin# Syrian Arab 2125177591Sedwin# Republic SY +0200 2200 03APR08 2100 30SEP08 +0300 2126177591Sedwin# 2200 02APR09 2100 30SEP09 +0300 2127177591Sedwin# 2200 01APR10 2100 30SEP10 +0300 2128177591Sedwin 2129177591Sedwin# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-17): 2130177591Sedwin# Here's a link to English-language coverage by the Syrian Arab News 2131177591Sedwin# Agency (SANA)... 2132177591Sedwin# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm"> 2133177591Sedwin# http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm 2134177591Sedwin# </a>...which reads (in part) "The Cabinet approved the suggestion of the 2135177591Sedwin# Ministry of Electricity to begin daylight savings time on Friday April 2136177591Sedwin# 4th, advancing clocks one hour ahead on midnight of Thursday April 3rd." 2137177591Sedwin# Since Syria is two hours east of UTC, the 2200 and 2100 transition times 2138177591Sedwin# shown above match up with midnight in Syria. 2139177591Sedwin 2140177591Sedwin# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): 2141177591Sedwin# My buest guess at a Syrian rule is "the Friday nearest April 1"; 2142177591Sedwin# coding that involves either using a "Mar Fri>=29" construct that old time zone 2143177591Sedwin# compilers can't handle or having multiple Rules (a la Israel). 2144177591Sedwin# For now, use "Apr Fri>=1", and go with IATA on a uniform Sep 30 end. 2145177591Sedwin 2146183864Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-10-07): 2147183864Sedwin# Syria has now officially decided to end DST on 2008-11-01 this year, 2148183864Sedwin# according to the following article in the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). 2149183864Sedwin# 2150183864Sedwin# The article is in Arabic, and seems to tell that they will go back to 2151183864Sedwin# winter time on 2008-11-01 at 00:00 local daylight time (delaying/setting 2152183864Sedwin# clocks back 60 minutes). 2153183864Sedwin# 2154183864Sedwin# <a href="http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm"> 2155183864Sedwin# http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm 2156183864Sedwin# </a> 2157183864Sedwin 2158190372Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-19): 2159190372Sedwin# Syria will start DST on 2009-03-27 00:00 this year according to many sources, 2160190372Sedwin# two examples: 2161190372Sedwin# 2162190372Sedwin# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2009/03/17/217563.htm"> 2163190372Sedwin# http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2009/03/17/217563.htm 2164190372Sedwin# </a> 2165190372Sedwin# (English, Syrian Arab News # Agency) 2166190372Sedwin# <a href="http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=94459258720090318012209"> 2167190372Sedwin# http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=94459258720090318012209 2168190372Sedwin# </a> 2169190372Sedwin# (Arabic, gov-site) 2170190372Sedwin# 2171190372Sedwin# We have not found any sources saying anything about when DST ends this year. 2172190372Sedwin# 2173190372Sedwin# Our summary 2174190372Sedwin# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-starts-march-27-2009.html"> 2175190372Sedwin# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-starts-march-27-2009.html 2176190372Sedwin# </a> 2177190372Sedwin 2178190372SedwinRule Syria 2008 only - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 2179183864SedwinRule Syria 2008 max - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 2180190372SedwinRule Syria 2009 max - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2181177591Sedwin 21822742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 218367578SwollmanZone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq 218419878Swollman 2:00 Syria EE%sT 21852742Swollman 21862742Swollman# Tajikistan 2187158421Swollman# From Shanks & Pottenger. 21882742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 21892742SwollmanZone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 219043014Swollman 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time 219119878Swollman 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 219258787Sru 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s 219319878Swollman 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time 21942742Swollman 21952742Swollman# Thailand 21962742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 21972742SwollmanZone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880 219819878Swollman 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time 21992742Swollman 7:00 - ICT 22002742Swollman 22012742Swollman# Turkmenistan 2202158421Swollman# From Shanks & Pottenger. 22032742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 220467578SwollmanZone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad 220543014Swollman 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time 220658787Sru 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 220758787Sru 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence 2208158421Swollman 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 220943014Swollman 5:00 - TMT 22102742Swollman 22112742Swollman# United Arab Emirates 22122742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 22132742SwollmanZone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920 22142742Swollman 4:00 - GST 22152742Swollman 22162742Swollman# Uzbekistan 22172742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 221843014SwollmanZone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 221943014Swollman 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time 222043014Swollman 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1 222143014Swollman 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1 2222158421Swollman 6:00 - TAST 1982 Apr 1 # Tashkent Time 2223158421Swollman 5:00 RussiaAsia SAM%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 222458787Sru 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 222543014Swollman 5:00 - UZT 22262742SwollmanZone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 222743014Swollman 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 2228158421Swollman 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 222958787Sru 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 223058787Sru 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 223143014Swollman 5:00 - UZT 22322742Swollman 22332742Swollman# Vietnam 2234158421Swollman 2235177591Sedwin# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): 2236177591Sedwin# The English-language name of Vietnam's most populous city is "Ho Chi Min City"; 2237177591Sedwin# we use Ho_Chi_Minh below to avoid a name of more than 14 characters. 2238158421Swollman 2239158421Swollman# From Shanks & Pottenger: 22402742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2241177591SedwinZone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 224219878Swollman 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 22432742Swollman 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 22442742Swollman 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 22452742Swollman 7:00 - ICT 22462742Swollman 22472742Swollman# Yemen 22482742Swollman# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 22492742SwollmanZone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950 22502742Swollman 3:00 - AST 2251