From: Sascha Wildner Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:03:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Update zoneinfo database. X-Git-Tag: v2.0.1~6594 X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/~tuxillo/dragonfly.git/commitdiff_plain/bc95ec937c9357af5de9935c3bbda37e2dfdb9cc?ds=sidebyside Update zoneinfo database. africa: 7.36 -> 7.37 antarctica: 7.23 -> 7.24 asia: 7.75 -> 7.82 australasia: 7.69 -> 7.71 backward: 7.26 -> 7.27 etcetera: 7.11 -> 7.12 europe: 7.88 -> 7.92 northamerica: 7.69 -> 7.74 southamerica: 7.52 -> 7.59 --- diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/africa b/share/zoneinfo/africa index e8223f78f5..689c2c414c 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/africa +++ b/share/zoneinfo/africa @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)africa 7.36 +# @(#)africa 7.37 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to @@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - +Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959 diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/antarctica b/share/zoneinfo/antarctica index b5c12cbaee..ad47860bd6 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/antarctica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/antarctica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)antarctica 7.23 +# @(#)antarctica 7.24 # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see @@ -90,19 +90,19 @@ Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 # # Brazil - year-round base -# Ferraz, King George Island, since 1983/4 +# Comandante Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 # Chile - year-round bases and towns # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 -# Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 -# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 -# Prat, -6230-05941 -# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), King George Island, since 1984-04-09 +# Presidente Eduadro Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 +# General Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 +# Capitan Arturo Prat, -6230-05941 +# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 # These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. # China - year-round bases -# Great Wall, King George Island, since 1985-02-20 -# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, since 1989-02-26 +# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 +# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 # France - year-round bases # @@ -145,14 +145,14 @@ Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947 # Germany - year-round base -# Georg von Neumayer +# Georg von Neumayer, -7039-00815 # India - year-round base -# Dakshin Gangotri +# Dakshin Gangotri, -7005+01200 # Japan - year-round bases -# Dome Fuji -# Syowa +# Dome Fuji, -7719+03942 +# Syowa, -690022+0393524 # # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): # In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. [See] @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29 # # S Korea - year-round base -# King Sejong, King George Island, since 1988 +# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 # New Zealand - claims # Balleny Islands (never inhabited) @@ -202,7 +202,8 @@ Rule NZAQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S # Russia - year-round bases # Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 # Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 -# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 +# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, +# year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 # Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, # year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 @@ -234,8 +235,8 @@ Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time # S Africa - year-round bases -# Marion Island -# Sanae +# Marion Island, -4653+03752 +# Sanae, -7141-00250 # UK # diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/asia b/share/zoneinfo/asia index 4417134dac..024cb37e57 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/asia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.75 +# @(#)asia 7.82 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence - 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s + 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 4:00 Azer AZ%sT @@ -137,8 +137,12 @@ Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu # British Indian Ocean Territory # Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the # 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996. +# We have no information as to when standard time was introduced; +# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which +# then contained the Chagos Archipelago). # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time +Zone Indian/Chagos 4:49:40 - LMT 1907 + 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time 6:00 - IOT # Brunei @@ -337,7 +341,7 @@ Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia # President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. # # From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): -# +# # Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet # republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it # is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours @@ -472,12 +476,33 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov # Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates.... # I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct # here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. - -# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-15) +# +# From Roozbeh Pournader (2005-04-05): +# The text of the Iranian law, in effect since 1925, clearly mentions +# that the true solar year is the measure, and there is no arithmetic +# leap year calculation involved. There has never been any serious +# plan to change that law.... +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-05): # Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. -# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates. -# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050 -# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. +# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates, +# stopping after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. +# That cal-persia used Birashk's approximation, which disagrees with the solar +# calendar predictions for the year 2025, so I corrected those dates by hand. +# +# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-03-30), writing about future +# discrepancies between cal-persia and the Iranian calendar: +# For 2091 solar-longitude-after yields 2091-03-20 08:40:07.7 UT for +# the vernal equinox and that gets so close to 12:00 some local +# Iranian time that the definition of the correct location needs to be +# known exactly, amongst other factors. 2157 is even closer: +# 2157-03-20 08:37:15.5 UT. But the Gregorian year 2025 should give +# no interpretation problem whatsoever. By the way, another instant +# in the near future where there will be a discrepancy between +# arithmetical and astronomical Iranian calendars will be in 2058: +# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of +# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date +# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical). # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D @@ -515,10 +540,10 @@ Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S +Rule Iran 2024 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Iran 2024 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S +Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D @@ -639,7 +664,8 @@ Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # From Ephraim Silverberg -# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25): +# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22, +# and 2005-02-17): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. @@ -690,13 +716,13 @@ Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 # (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz # # The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. # # The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz # # where YYYY is the relevant year. @@ -716,12 +742,12 @@ Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S # # The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz # # The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates # for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: # -# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D @@ -735,32 +761,80 @@ Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S -# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25): -# Here are guesses for rules after 2004. -# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S +# The proposed law agreed upon by the Knesset Interior Committee on +# 2005-02-14 is that, for 2005 and beyond, DST starts at 02:00 the +# last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April +# 1st itself if it falls on a Friday) and ends at 02:00 on the Saturday +# night _before_ the fast of Yom Kippur. +# +# Those who can read Hebrew can view the announcement at: +# +# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-02-22): +# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program +# (2005-02-20) +# along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4, +# to generate the transitions in this list. +# (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.) +# The spring transitions below all correspond to the following Rule: +# +# Rule Zion 2005 max - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +# +# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support +# "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the +# springtime transitions explicitly. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Zion 2005 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2006 2010 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2006 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2007 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2008 only - Oct 5 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2009 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2010 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2011 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2011 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2012 2015 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2012 only - Sep 23 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2013 only - Sep 8 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2014 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2015 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2016 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2016 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2017 2021 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2017 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2018 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2019 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2020 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2021 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2022 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2022 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2023 2032 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2023 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2024 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2025 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2026 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2027 only - Oct 10 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2028 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2029 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2030 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2031 only - Sep 21 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2032 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2033 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2033 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2034 2037 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Zion 2034 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2035 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2036 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S +Rule Zion 2037 only - Sep 13 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 2:00 Zion I%sT -# From Ephraim Silverberg (2003-03-23): -# -# Minister of Interior Poraz has announced that he will respect the law -# passed in July 2000 (proposed at the time jointly by himself and -# then-MK David Azulai [Shas]) fixing the dates for 2000-2004. Hence, -# the dates for 2003 and 2004 remain unchanged.... -# -# As far as 2005 and beyond, no dates have been set. However, the -# minister has mentioned that he wishes to propose to move Israel's -# timezone in 2005 from GMT+2 to GMT+3 and upon that have DST during -# the summer months (i.e. GMT+4). However, no legislation in this -# direction is expected until the latter part of 2004 which is a long -# time off in terms of Israeli politics. - ############################################################################### @@ -874,6 +948,13 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. # - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. # +# +# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21): +# +# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing +# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health +# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity. +# # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # @@ -882,7 +963,8 @@ Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 6:00 - ALMT 1992 - 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT + 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 2005 Mar 15 + 6:00 - ALMT # Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.) Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time @@ -892,7 +974,8 @@ Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 - 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT + 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 2005 Mar 15 + 6:00 - QYZT # Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk) Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time @@ -901,7 +984,8 @@ Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence - 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT # Aqtobe Time + 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time + 5:00 - AQTT # Mangghystau # Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region, # so include time stamps before 1963. @@ -913,7 +997,8 @@ Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time - 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT + 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 + 4:00 - AQTT # West Kazakhstan Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time @@ -923,7 +1008,8 @@ Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence - 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT # Oral Time + 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time + 4:00 - ORAT # Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) # Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/australasia b/share/zoneinfo/australasia index d8a8e36d53..41c7368852 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/australasia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.69 +# @(#)australasia 7.71 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -199,9 +199,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua -10:00 Cook CK%sT # Cocos -# From USNO (1989): +# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978. +# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time +Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 + 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time # Fiji # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -381,11 +383,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa -# W Samoa +# Samoa Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time - -11:00 - WST # W Samoa Time + -11:00 - WST # Samoa Time # Solomon Is # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea @@ -434,6 +436,17 @@ Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST # uninhabited # Midway +# +# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): +# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, +# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3] +# reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly +# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting +# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone +# designations that I've never seen before:.... +# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun. +# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A " +# Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 @@ -1336,3 +1349,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not # an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the # correct date is ambiguous. + +# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen +# (2005-03-20): +# +# The American Practical Navigator (2002) +# +# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in +# international waters; it ignores the international date line. diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/backward b/share/zoneinfo/backward index 6e118c2726..9fbab94d79 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/backward +++ b/share/zoneinfo/backward @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)backward 7.26 +# @(#)backward 7.27 # This file provides links between current names for time zones # and their old names. Many names changed in late 1993. @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Link America/Argentina/Jujuy America/Jujuy Link America/Indiana/Knox America/Knox_IN Link America/Argentina/Mendoza America/Mendoza Link America/Rio_Branco America/Porto_Acre -Link America/Cordoba America/Rosario +Link America/Argentina/Cordoba America/Rosario Link America/St_Thomas America/Virgin Link Asia/Ashgabat Asia/Ashkhabad Link Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Link Australia/Hobart Australia/Tasmania Link Australia/Melbourne Australia/Victoria Link Australia/Perth Australia/West Link Australia/Broken_Hill Australia/Yancowinna -Link America/Porto_Acre Brazil/Acre +Link America/Rio_Branco Brazil/Acre Link America/Noronha Brazil/DeNoronha Link America/Sao_Paulo Brazil/East Link America/Manaus Brazil/West @@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ Link Europe/Dublin Eire Link Europe/Chisinau Europe/Tiraspol Link Europe/London GB Link Europe/London GB-Eire -Link Etc/GMT+0 GMT+0 -Link Etc/GMT-0 GMT-0 -Link Etc/GMT0 GMT0 -Link Etc/Greenwich Greenwich +Link Etc/GMT GMT+0 +Link Etc/GMT GMT-0 +Link Etc/GMT GMT0 +Link Etc/GMT Greenwich Link Asia/Hong_Kong Hongkong Link Atlantic/Reykjavik Iceland Link Asia/Tehran Iran @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Link Africa/Tripoli Libya Link America/Tijuana Mexico/BajaNorte Link America/Mazatlan Mexico/BajaSur Link America/Mexico_City Mexico/General -Link America/Shiprock Navajo +Link America/Denver Navajo Link Pacific/Auckland NZ Link Pacific/Chatham NZ-CHAT Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Samoa @@ -95,6 +95,6 @@ Link America/Denver US/Mountain Link America/Los_Angeles US/Pacific Link Pacific/Pago_Pago US/Samoa Link Etc/UTC UTC -Link Etc/Universal Universal +Link Etc/UTC Universal Link Europe/Moscow W-SU -Link Etc/Zulu Zulu +Link Etc/UTC Zulu diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/etcetera b/share/zoneinfo/etcetera index f87a76ea48..431206ec3d 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/etcetera +++ b/share/zoneinfo/etcetera @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ -# @(#)etcetera 7.11 +# @(#)etcetera 7.12 # These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that # people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l" # to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the -# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, so there's little -# need now for the entries that are not on UTC. +# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, and the only practical +# need now for the entries that are not on UTC are for ships at sea +# that cannot use POSIX TZ settings. Zone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT Zone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/europe b/share/zoneinfo/europe index eeb114f881..3bf1b1ab02 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/europe +++ b/share/zoneinfo/europe @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)europe 7.88 +# @(#)europe 7.92 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to @@ -255,6 +255,35 @@ # "Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time." # -- James Joyce, Ulysses +# From Joseph S. Myers (2005-01-26): +# Irish laws are available online at www.irishstatutebook.ie. These include +# various relating to legal time, for example: +# +# ZZA13Y1923.html ZZA12Y1924.html ZZA8Y1925.html ZZSIV20PG1267.html +# +# ZZSI71Y1947.html ZZSI128Y1948.html ZZSI23Y1949.html ZZSI41Y1950.html +# ZZSI27Y1951.html ZZSI73Y1952.html +# +# ZZSI11Y1961.html ZZSI232Y1961.html ZZSI182Y1962.html +# ZZSI167Y1963.html ZZSI257Y1964.html ZZSI198Y1967.html +# ZZA23Y1968.html ZZA17Y1971.html +# +# ZZSI67Y1981.html ZZSI212Y1982.html ZZSI45Y1986.html +# ZZSI264Y1988.html ZZSI52Y1990.html ZZSI371Y1992.html +# ZZSI395Y1994.html ZZSI484Y1997.html ZZSI506Y2001.html +# +# [These are all relative to the root, e.g., the first is +# .] +# +# (These are those I found, but there could be more. In any case these +# should allow various updates to the comments in the europe file to cover +# the laws applicable in Ireland.) +# +# (Note that the time in the Republic of Ireland since 1968 has been defined +# in terms of standard time being GMT+1 with a period of winter time when it +# is GMT, rather than standard time being GMT with a period of summer time +# being GMT+1.) + # From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28): # Clive Feather (, 1997-03-31) # reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time @@ -708,7 +737,7 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880 # see Serbia and Montenegro # Cyprus -# See the `asia' file. +# Please see the `asia' file for Asia/Nicosia. # Czech Republic # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -754,6 +783,11 @@ Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn 0:00 - WET 1981 0:00 EU WE%sT # +# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-31): +# During World War II, Germany maintained secret manned weather stations in +# East Greenland and Franz Josef Land, but we don't know their time zones. +# My source for this is Wilhelm Dege's book mentioned under Svalbard. +# # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): # Greenland joined the EU as part of Denmark, obtained home rule on 1979-05-01, # and left the EU on 1985-02-01. It therefore should have been using EU @@ -1055,6 +1089,11 @@ Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT +# Georgia +# Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. +# Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) +# is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part. + # Gibraltar # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 @@ -1611,7 +1650,7 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-01): # # Actually, Jan Mayen was never occupied by Germany during World War II, -# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Olso was +# so it must have diverged from Oslo time during the war, as Oslo was # keeping Berlin time. # # says that the meteorologists @@ -1628,7 +1667,7 @@ Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 # says that the Germans were # expelled on 1942-05-14. However, small parties of Germans did return, # and according to Wilhelm Dege's book "War North of 80" (1954) -# +# # the German armed forces at the Svalbard weather station code-named # Haudegen did not surrender to the Allies until September 1945. # diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica index 6e755b04b3..64e4409345 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -# @(#)northamerica 7.69 +# @(#)northamerica 7.74 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). @@ -24,12 +24,16 @@ # His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00, # and the most of the country soon followed suit. -# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): +# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): +# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. +# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). + +# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): # A good source for time zone historical data in the US is # Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). # Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. -# It is the source for the US and Puerto Rico entries below. +# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US and Puerto Rico entries below. # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): # Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin @@ -48,7 +52,8 @@ # to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make # them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. # -# -- Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947), XIX, Sunday +# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, +# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday # # For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see # Robert Garland's @@ -208,6 +213,13 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, # Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia +# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): +# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington +# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... +# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time +# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their +# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -215,7 +227,7 @@ Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 @@ -241,7 +253,7 @@ Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 @@ -250,7 +262,7 @@ Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 -6:00 US C%sT # Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. -Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 02:00 -6:00 US C%sT @@ -269,7 +281,7 @@ Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 @@ -289,7 +301,7 @@ Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 -8:00 US P%sT @@ -355,10 +367,26 @@ Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 -10:00 US HA%sT +# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. +# # Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) # switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, # and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. -# These switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. +# +# From David Flater (2004-11-09): +# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska +# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which +# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 +# possibly until 1983: +# +# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: +# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important +# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was +# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it +# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard +# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, +# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with +# three votes for and one against." # Hawaii # @@ -400,7 +428,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1900 Jan 1 12:00 # Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. # Go with the Arizona State Library instead. -Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 00:01 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 00:01 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 00:01 @@ -422,9 +450,9 @@ Link America/Denver America/Shiprock # Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, # Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties) and eastern Oregon # switched four weeks late in 1974. -# +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 @@ -468,7 +496,7 @@ Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 @@ -488,7 +516,7 @@ Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 @@ -509,7 +537,7 @@ Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 @@ -518,7 +546,7 @@ Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # # Switzerland County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1972. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 @@ -535,7 +563,7 @@ Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 @@ -572,7 +600,7 @@ Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville # Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158. # # -Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 -6:00 - CST 1968 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 @@ -681,7 +709,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST ################################################################################ -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the US is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). @@ -738,7 +766,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST # T: de Terre-Neuve # Y: du Yukon Yukon # -# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): # Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. # Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks. @@ -1404,7 +1432,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # Shanks reports that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. # Shanks says the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. # Shanks reports no DST during summer 1931. -# Shanks reports a transition at 1032-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. +# Shanks reports a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. # Shanks does not report transitions for Baja in 1945 or 1948. # Shanks reports southern Mexico transitions on 1981-12-01, not 12-23. # Shanks says Quintana Roo switched to -6:00 on 1982-12-02, and to -5:00 @@ -1731,6 +1759,15 @@ Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:20 - LMT 1890 # San Jose # to DST--and one more hour on 1999-04-04--when the announcers will have # returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) +# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): +# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. +# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-28): +# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html +# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras +# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return +# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". +# For now, let's assume that it's a one-year temporary measure. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S @@ -1759,8 +1796,9 @@ Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D -Rule Cuba 1998 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S +Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 2000 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D +Rule Cuba 2005 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 @@ -1840,6 +1878,26 @@ Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 -6:00 Guat C%sT # Haiti +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): +# Risto O. Nykanen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. +# I searched for confirmation, and I found a +# press release +# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), +# . Translated from French, it says: +# +# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general +# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior +# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the +# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next +# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. +# +# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform +# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour +# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in +# October 2005. +# +# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D @@ -1847,6 +1905,8 @@ Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S # Shanks says AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. Go with IATA. Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S +Rule Haiti 2005 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Haiti 2005 only - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT @@ -1898,11 +1958,28 @@ Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Olveston # Nicaragua seems to be back at -6:00 but I have not been able to find when # they changed from -5:00. # +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): +# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started +# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of +# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet +# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". +# Some background information is available on the President's official site: +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm +# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2005/Decreto%2023-2005%20Se%20adelanta%20en%20una%20hora%20en%20todo%20el%20territorio%20nacional%20apartir%20de%20las%2024horas%20del%2009%20de%20Abril.pdf +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-12): +# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's +# assume that it is daylight saving and that they'll switch back on the +# 2nd Sunday in September. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S Rule Nic 1992 only - Jan 1 4:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1992 only - Sep 24 0:00 0 S +Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Nic 2005 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? @@ -1910,7 +1987,7 @@ Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1993 Jan 1 4:00 -5:00 - EST 1998 Dec - -6:00 - CST + -6:00 Nic C%sT # Panama # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/southamerica b/share/zoneinfo/southamerica index 13bd5270e8..6f3b081294 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/southamerica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/southamerica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)southamerica 7.52 +# @(#)southamerica 7.59 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to @@ -186,6 +186,20 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # contains a contradiction. I would give more credence to the Saturday/Sunday # date than the "three days earlier" phrase, and conclude that Tierra del # Fuego set its clocks back at 2004-05-30 00:00. +# +# From Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-05): +# The previous law 7210 which changed the province of Mendoza's time zone +# back in May have been modified slightly in a new law 7277, which set the +# new end date to 2004-09-26 (original date was 2004-10-17). +# http://www.gobernac.mendoza.gov.ar/boletin/pdf/20040924-27244-normas.pdf +# +# From Mariano Absatz (2004-10-05): +# San Juan changed from UTC-03:00 to UTC-04:00 at midnight between +# Sunday, May 30th and Monday, May 31st. It changed back to UTC-03:00 +# at midnight between Saturday, July 24th and Sunday, July 25th.... +# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000329.html +# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000426.html +# http://www.sanjuan.gov.ar/prensa/archivo/000441.html # Unless otherwise specified, data are from Shanks through 1992, from # the IATA otherwise. As noted below, Shanks says that @@ -261,8 +275,8 @@ Zone America/Argentina/San_Juan -4:34:04 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -4:00 - WART 1991 May 7 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 - -3:00 - ART 2004 Jun 1 - -4:00 - WART 2004 Oct 17 + -3:00 - ART 2004 May 31 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Jul 25 -3:00 - ART # # Jujuy (JY) @@ -306,7 +320,7 @@ Zone America/Argentina/Mendoza -4:35:16 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1999 Oct 3 -4:00 Arg AR%sT 2000 Mar 3 -3:00 - ART 2004 May 23 - -4:00 - WART 2004 Oct 17 + -4:00 - WART 2004 Sep 26 -3:00 - ART # # Chubut (CH) @@ -420,6 +434,11 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890 # the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the Constitution # (maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)... +# From Rodrigo Severo (2004-10-04): +# It's just the biannual change made necessary by the much hyped, supposedly +# modern Brazilian eletronic voting machines which, apparently, can't deal +# with a time change between the first and the second rounds of the elections. + # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-10): # The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from # @@ -556,11 +575,15 @@ Rule Brazil 2001 max - Feb Sun>=15 0:00 0 - Rule Brazil 2002 only - Nov 3 0:00 1:00 S # Decree 4,844 (2003-09-24; corrected 2003-09-26) repeals DST in BA, MT, TO. # -Rule Brazil 2003 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Brazil 2003 only - Oct 19 0:00 1:00 S +# Decree 5,223 (2004-10-01) reestablishes DST in MT. +# +Rule Brazil 2004 only - Nov 2 0:00 1:00 S # The latest ruleset listed above says that the following states observe DST: -# DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP. +# DF, ES, GO, MG, MS, MT, PR, RJ, RS, SC, SP. # -# For dates after mid-2004, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses +Rule Brazil 2005 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S +# For dates after mid-2005, the above rules with TO="max" are guesses # and are quite possibly wrong, but are more likely than no DST at all. @@ -648,7 +671,8 @@ Zone America/Campo_Grande -3:38:28 - LMT 1914 # Mato Grosso (MT) Zone America/Cuiaba -3:44:20 - LMT 1914 -4:00 Brazil AM%sT 2003 Sep 24 - -4:00 - AMT + -4:00 - AMT 2004 Oct 1 + -4:00 Brazil AM%sT # # west Para (PA), Rondonia (RO) # West Para includes Altamira, Oribidos, Prainha, Oriximina, and Santarem. @@ -918,9 +942,16 @@ Rule Para 1998 2001 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - # A decree was issued in Paraguay (no. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the # dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in # April. -Rule Para 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - -Rule Para 2002 max - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S - +Rule Para 2002 2004 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - +Rule Para 2002 2003 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +# +# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-01-02): +# There are several sources that claim that Paraguay made +# a timezone rule change in autumn 2004. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-01-05): +# Decree 1,867 (2004-03-05) +Rule Para 2004 max - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Para 2005 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890 @@ -933,7 +964,7 @@ Zone America/Asuncion -3:50:40 - LMT 1890 # # # From Evelyn C. Leeper via Mark Brader (2003-10-26): -# When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over +# When we were in Peru in 1985-1986, they apparently switched over # sometime between December 29 and January 3 while we were on the Amazon. # # From Paul Eggert (2003-11-02): @@ -1029,6 +1060,15 @@ Rule Uruguay 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Uruguay 1990 1991 - Oct Sun>=21 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1992 only - Oct 18 0:00 1:00 S Rule Uruguay 1993 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 - +# From Eduardo Cota (2004-09-20): +# The uruguayan government has decreed a change in the local time.... +# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/decretos/2004091502.htm +Rule Uruguay 2004 only - Sep 19 0:00 1:00 S +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-03-11): +# Uruguay's DST was scheduled to end on Sunday, 2005-03-13, but in order to +# save energy ... it was postponed two weeks.... +# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/noticias/2005/03/2005031005.htm +Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Mar 27 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28 -3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT