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See the GNU General Public License 13 # version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that 14 # accompanied this code). 15 # 16 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version 17 # 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 18 # Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. 19 # 20 # Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA 21 # or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any 22 # questions. 23 # 24 # <pre> 25 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 26 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 27 28 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 29 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 30 # tz@iana.org for general use in the future). 31 32 # From Paul Eggert (2013-08-11): 33 # 34 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 35 # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 36 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 37 # 38 # Gwillim Law writes that a good source 39 # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 40 # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 41 # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 42 # of the IATA's data after 1990. 43 # 44 # Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for 45 # entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. 46 # 47 # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 48 # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 49 # I found in the UCLA library. 50 # 51 # For data circa 1899, a common source is: 52 # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 53 # <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 54 # 55 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 56 # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 57 # 58 # I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 59 # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 60 # Corrections are welcome! 61 # std dst 62 # LMT Local Mean Time 63 # 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time 64 # 2:00 IST IDT Israel 65 # 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* 66 # 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran 67 # 4:00 GST Gulf* 68 # 5:30 IST India 69 # 7:00 ICT Indochina* 70 # 7:00 WIB west Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Barat) 71 # 8:00 WITA central Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Tengah) 72 # 8:00 CST China 73 # 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* 74 # 9:00 WIT east Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Timur) 75 # 9:00 JST JDT Japan 76 # 9:00 KST KDT Korea 77 # 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time 78 # 79 # See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. 80 81 # From Guy Harris: 82 # Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as 83 # additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental 84 # Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide - 85 # Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses. 86 87 ############################################################################### 88 89 # These rules are stolen from the `europe' file. 90 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 91 Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S 92 Rule EUAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 - 93 Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - 94 Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 95 Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 96 Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 97 Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 98 Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 99 Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 100 Rule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 101 Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S 102 Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - 103 Rule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 104 Rule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 105 Rule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - 106 107 # Afghanistan 108 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 109 Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890 110 4:00 - AFT 1945 111 4:30 - AFT 112 113 # Armenia 114 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 115 # Shanks & Pottenger have Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) 116 # in spring 1991, then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then 117 # readopting Russian DST in 1997. Go with Shanks & Pottenger, even 118 # when they disagree with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz 119 # reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST 120 # in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that 121 # Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, 122 # but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. 123 124 # From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15): 125 # While Russia abandoned DST in 2011, Armenia may choose to 126 # follow Russia's "old" rules. 127 128 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2012-02-10): 129 # According to News Armenia, on Feb 9, 2012, 130 # http://newsarmenia.ru/society/20120209/42609695.html 131 # 132 # The Armenia National Assembly adopted final reading of Amendments to the 133 # Law "On procedure of calculation time on the territory of the Republic of 134 # Armenia" according to which Armenia [is] abolishing Daylight Saving Time. 135 # or 136 # (brief) 137 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_armenia03.html 138 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 139 Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 140 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time 141 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 142 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence 143 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s 144 4:00 - AMT 1997 145 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 2012 Mar 25 2:00s 146 4:00 - AMT 147 148 # Azerbaijan 149 # From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23): 150 # According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997 151 # Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf 152 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 153 Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S 154 Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 - 155 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 156 Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 157 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 158 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 159 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 160 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00 161 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 162 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 163 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 164 165 # Bahrain 166 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 167 Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah 168 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 169 3:00 - AST 170 171 # Bangladesh 172 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-05-13): 173 # According to newspaper Asian Tribune (May 6, 2009) Bangladesh may introduce 174 # Daylight Saving Time from June 16 to Sept 30 175 # 176 # Bangladesh to introduce daylight saving time likely from June 16 177 # <a href="http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17288"> 178 # http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17288 179 # </a> 180 # or 181 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh02.html"> 182 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh02.html 183 # </a> 184 # 185 # "... Bangladesh government has decided to switch daylight saving time from 186 # June 187 # 16 till September 30 in a bid to ensure maximum use of daylight to cope with 188 # crippling power crisis. " 189 # 190 # The switch will remain in effect from June 16 to Sept 30 (2009) but if 191 # implemented the next year, it will come in force from April 1, 2010 192 193 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-06-02): 194 # They have finally decided now, but changed the start date to midnight between 195 # the 19th and 20th, and they have not set the end date yet. 196 # 197 # Some sources: 198 # <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601"> 199 # http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601 200 # </a> 201 # <a href="http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2"> 202 # http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2 203 # </a> 204 # 205 # Our wrap-up: 206 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html"> 207 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html 208 # </a> 209 210 # From A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat (2009-06-15): 211 # Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start 212 # time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh 213 # Telecommunication Regulatory Commission). 214 # 215 # No DST end date has been announced yet. 216 217 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-25): 218 # Bangladesh won't go back to Standard Time from October 1, 2009, 219 # instead it will continue DST measure till the cabinet makes a fresh decision. 220 # 221 # Following report by same newspaper-"The Daily Star Friday": 222 # "DST change awaits cabinet decision-Clock won't go back by 1-hr from Oct 1" 223 # <a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=107021"> 224 # http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=107021 225 # </a> 226 # or 227 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh04.html"> 228 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh04.html 229 # </a> 230 231 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-13): 232 # IANS (Indo-Asian News Service) now reports: 233 # Bangladesh has decided that the clock advanced by an hour to make 234 # maximum use of daylight hours as an energy saving measure would 235 # "continue for an indefinite period." 236 # 237 # One of many places where it is published: 238 # <a href="http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/bangladesh-to-continue-indefinitely-with-advanced-time_100259987.html"> 239 # http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/bangladesh-to-continue-indefinitely-with-advanced-time_100259987.html 240 # </a> 241 242 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-12-24): 243 # According to Bangladesh newspaper "The Daily Star," 244 # Bangladesh will change its clock back to Standard Time on Dec 31, 2009. 245 # 246 # Clock goes back 1-hr on Dec 31 night. 247 # <a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=119228"> 248 # http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=119228 249 # </a> 250 # and 251 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh05.html"> 252 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh05.html 253 # </a> 254 # 255 # "...The government yesterday decided to put the clock back by one hour 256 # on December 31 midnight and the new time will continue until March 31, 257 # 2010 midnight. The decision came at a cabinet meeting at the Prime 258 # Minister's Office last night..." 259 260 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-03-22): 261 # According to Bangladesh newspaper "The Daily Star," 262 # Cabinet cancels Daylight Saving Time 263 # <a href="http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=22817"> 264 # http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=22817 265 # </a> 266 # or 267 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh06.html"> 268 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh06.html 269 # </a> 270 271 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 272 Rule Dhaka 2009 only - Jun 19 23:00 1:00 S 273 Rule Dhaka 2009 only - Dec 31 23:59 0 - 274 275 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 276 Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 277 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 278 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 279 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 280 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 281 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time 282 6:00 - BDT 2009 283 6:00 Dhaka BD%sT 284 285 # Bhutan 286 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 287 Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu 288 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct 289 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time 290 291 # British Indian Ocean Territory 292 # Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the 293 # 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996. 294 # We have no information as to when standard time was introduced; 295 # assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which 296 # then contained the Chagos Archipelago). 297 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 298 Zone Indian/Chagos 4:49:40 - LMT 1907 299 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time 300 6:00 - IOT 301 302 # Brunei 303 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 304 Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan 305 7:30 - BNT 1933 306 8:00 - BNT 307 308 # Burma / Myanmar 309 310 # Milne says 6:24:40 was the meridian of the time ball observatory at Rangoon. 311 312 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 313 Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon 314 6:24:40 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time? 315 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time 316 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3 317 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time 318 319 # Cambodia 320 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 321 Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 322 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 323 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 324 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 325 7:00 - ICT 326 327 # China 328 329 # From Guy Harris: 330 # People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. 331 332 # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 333 # No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though 334 # China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the 335 # Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China 336 # has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of 337 # the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it. 338 # 339 # . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too 340 # painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for 341 # DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP): 342 # 343 # 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 344 # 1987 mid-April - ?? 345 346 # From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 347 # CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN 348 # CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 349 350 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 351 # Shanks & Pottenger write that China (except for Hong Kong and Macau) 352 # has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, observing summer DST 353 # from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's 354 # note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. 355 # Go with Shanks & Pottenger for now. I made up names for the other 356 # pre-1980 time zones. 357 358 # From Shanks & Pottenger: 359 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 360 Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 361 Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 362 Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D 363 Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D 364 Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S 365 Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D 366 367 # From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20): 368 # BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five 369 # historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official 370 # Chinese names for these locales (before 1949). 371 # 372 # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-07-14): 373 # I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the 374 # http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county 375 # boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two 376 # counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border, 377 # counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are 378 # therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege 379 # county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6 380 # (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two 381 # counties are mistakes in the astro.com data. 382 383 # From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11): 384 # I just now checked Google News for western news sources that talk 385 # about China's single time zone, and couldn't find anything before 1986 386 # talking about China being in one time zone. (That article was: Jim 387 # Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight 388 # time--sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05. By the way, this 389 # article confirms the tz database's data claiming that China began 390 # observing daylight saving time in 1986. 391 # 392 # From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11): 393 # I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated 394 # separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't 395 # implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near 396 # Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a 397 # "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was 398 # ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s). 399 # 400 # From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): 401 # There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone in 1949 402 # rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a 403 # reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with 404 # Shanks & Pottenger. 405 406 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 407 # Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) 408 # Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin 409 Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin 410 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time 411 8:00 - CST 1940 412 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May 413 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May 414 8:00 PRC C%sT 415 # Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time") 416 # most of China 417 # Milne gives 8:05:56.7; round to nearest. 418 Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:57 - LMT 1928 419 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 420 8:00 PRC C%sT 421 # Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area) 422 # Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan; 423 # most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong 424 # counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing, 425 # Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu. 426 Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking 427 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time 428 8:00 PRC C%sT 429 # Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time") 430 # The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai; 431 # the Guangdong counties Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang, 432 # Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi; 433 # east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi; 434 # east Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe, 435 # Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin, 436 # Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami, 437 # Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan. 438 Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi 439 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time 440 8:00 PRC C%sT 441 # Kunlun Time 442 # West Tibet, including Pulan, Aheqi, Shufu, Shule; 443 # West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke, 444 # Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding, 445 # and Yarkand. 446 447 # From Luther Ma (2009-10-17): 448 # Almost all (>99.9%) ethnic Chinese (properly ethnic Han) living in 449 # Xinjiang use Chinese Standard Time. Some are aware of Xinjiang time, 450 # but have no need of it. All planes, trains, and schools function on 451 # what is called "Beijing time." When Han make an appointment in Chinese 452 # they implicitly use Beijing time. 453 # 454 # On the other hand, ethnic Uyghurs, who make up about half the 455 # population of Xinjiang, typically use "Xinjiang time" which is two 456 # hours behind Beijing time, or UTC +0600. The government of the Xinjiang 457 # Uyghur Autonomous Region, (XAUR, or just Xinjiang for short) as well as 458 # local governments such as the Urumqi city government use both times in 459 # publications, referring to what is popularly called Xinjiang time as 460 # "Urumqi time." When Uyghurs make an appointment in the Uyghur language 461 # they almost invariably use Xinjiang time. 462 # 463 # (Their ethnic Han compatriots would typically have no clue of its 464 # widespread use, however, because so extremely few of them are fluent in 465 # Uyghur, comparable to the number of Anglo-Americans fluent in Navajo.) 466 # 467 # (...As with the rest of China there was a brief interval ending in 1990 468 # or 1991 when summer time was in use. The confusion was severe, with 469 # the province not having dual times but four times in use at the same 470 # time. Some areas remained on standard Xinjiang time or Beijing time and 471 # others moving their clocks ahead.) 472 # 473 # ...an example of an official website using of Urumqi time. 474 # 475 # The first few lines of the Google translation of 476 # <a href="http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39"> 477 # http://www.fjysgl.gov.cn/show.aspx?id=2379&cid=39 478 # </a> 479 # (retrieved 2009-10-13) 480 # > Urumqi fire seven people are missing the alleged losses of at least 481 # > 500 million yuan 482 # > 483 # > (Reporter Dong Liu) the day before 20:20 or so (Urumqi Time 18:20), 484 # > Urumqi City Department of International Plaza Luther Qiantang River 485 # > burst fire. As of yesterday, 18:30, Urumqi City Fire officers and men 486 # > have worked continuously for 22 hours... 487 488 # From Luther Ma (2009-11-19): 489 # With the risk of being redundant to previous answers these are the most common 490 # English "transliterations" (w/o using non-English symbols): 491 # 492 # 1. Wulumuqi... 493 # 2. Kashi... 494 # 3. Urumqi... 495 # 4. Kashgar... 496 # ... 497 # 5. It seems that Uyghurs in Urumqi has been using Xinjiang since at least the 498 # 1960's. I know of one Han, now over 50, who grew up in the surrounding 499 # countryside and used Xinjiang time as a child. 500 # 501 # 6. Likewise for Kashgar and the rest of south Xinjiang I don't know of any 502 # start date for Xinjiang time. 503 # 504 # Without having access to local historical records, nor the ability to legally 505 # publish them, I would go with October 1, 1949, when Xinjiang became the Uyghur 506 # Autonomous Region under the PRC. (Before that Uyghurs, of course, would also 507 # not be using Beijing time, but some local time.) 508 509 Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar 510 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time 511 5:00 - KAST 1980 May 512 8:00 PRC C%sT 513 514 515 # Hong Kong (Xianggang) 516 517 # Milne gives 7:36:41.7; round this. 518 519 # From Lee Yiu Chung (2009-10-24): 520 # I found there are some mistakes for the...DST rule for Hong 521 # Kong. [According] to the DST record from Hong Kong Observatory (actually, 522 # it is not [an] observatory, but the official meteorological agency of HK, 523 # and also serves as the official timing agency), there are some missing 524 # and incorrect rules. Although the exact switch over time is missing, I 525 # think 3:30 is correct. The official DST record for Hong Kong can be 526 # obtained from 527 # <a href="http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm"> 528 # http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm 529 # </a>. 530 531 # From Arthur David Olson (2009-10-28): 532 # Here are the dates given at 533 # <a href="http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm"> 534 # http://www.hko.gov.hk/gts/time/Summertime.htm 535 # </a> 536 # as of 2009-10-28: 537 # Year Period 538 # 1941 1 Apr to 30 Sep 539 # 1942 Whole year 540 # 1943 Whole year 541 # 1944 Whole year 542 # 1945 Whole year 543 # 1946 20 Apr to 1 Dec 544 # 1947 13 Apr to 30 Dec 545 # 1948 2 May to 31 Oct 546 # 1949 3 Apr to 30 Oct 547 # 1950 2 Apr to 29 Oct 548 # 1951 1 Apr to 28 Oct 549 # 1952 6 Apr to 25 Oct 550 # 1953 5 Apr to 1 Nov 551 # 1954 21 Mar to 31 Oct 552 # 1955 20 Mar to 6 Nov 553 # 1956 18 Mar to 4 Nov 554 # 1957 24 Mar to 3 Nov 555 # 1958 23 Mar to 2 Nov 556 # 1959 22 Mar to 1 Nov 557 # 1960 20 Mar to 6 Nov 558 # 1961 19 Mar to 5 Nov 559 # 1962 18 Mar to 4 Nov 560 # 1963 24 Mar to 3 Nov 561 # 1964 22 Mar to 1 Nov 562 # 1965 18 Apr to 17 Oct 563 # 1966 17 Apr to 16 Oct 564 # 1967 16 Apr to 22 Oct 565 # 1968 21 Apr to 20 Oct 566 # 1969 20 Apr to 19 Oct 567 # 1970 19 Apr to 18 Oct 568 # 1971 18 Apr to 17 Oct 569 # 1972 16 Apr to 22 Oct 570 # 1973 22 Apr to 21 Oct 571 # 1973/74 30 Dec 73 to 20 Oct 74 572 # 1975 20 Apr to 19 Oct 573 # 1976 18 Apr to 17 Oct 574 # 1977 Nil 575 # 1978 Nil 576 # 1979 13 May to 21 Oct 577 # 1980 to Now Nil 578 # The page does not give start or end times of day. 579 # The page does not give a start date for 1942. 580 # The page does not givw an end date for 1945. 581 # The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began on 1941-12-25. 582 # The Japanese surrender of Hong Kong was signed 1945-09-15. 583 # For lack of anything better, use start of those days as the transition times. 584 585 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 586 Rule HK 1941 only - Apr 1 3:30 1:00 S 587 Rule HK 1941 only - Sep 30 3:30 0 - 588 Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S 589 Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 - 590 Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S 591 Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 - 592 Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S 593 Rule HK 1948 1951 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 - 594 Rule HK 1952 only - Oct 25 3:30 0 - 595 Rule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S 596 Rule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 - 597 Rule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S 598 Rule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 - 599 Rule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 600 Rule HK 1965 1976 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 601 Rule HK 1965 1976 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 602 Rule HK 1973 only - Dec 30 3:30 1:00 S 603 Rule HK 1979 only - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S 604 Rule HK 1979 only - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 605 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 606 Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:42 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 607 8:00 HK HK%sT 1941 Dec 25 608 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 15 609 8:00 HK HK%sT 610 611 ############################################################################### 612 613 # Taiwan 614 615 # Shanks & Pottenger write that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it 616 # was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't 617 # have any other information. 618 619 # From smallufo (2010-04-03): 620 # According to Taiwan's CWB, 621 # <a href="http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/astronomy/cdata/summert.htm"> 622 # http://www.cwb.gov.tw/V6/astronomy/cdata/summert.htm 623 # </a> 624 # Taipei has DST in 1979 between July 1st and Sep 30. 625 626 # From Arthur David Olson (2010-04-07): 627 # Here's Google's translation of the table at the bottom of the "summert.htm" page: 628 # Decade Name Start and end date 629 # Republic of China 34 years to 40 years (AD 1945-1951 years) Summer Time May 1 to September 30 630 # 41 years of the Republic of China (AD 1952) Daylight Saving Time March 1 to October 31 631 # Republic of China 42 years to 43 years (AD 1953-1954 years) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to October 31 632 # In the 44 years to 45 years (AD 1955-1956 years) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to September 30 633 # Republic of China 46 years to 48 years (AD 1957-1959) Summer Time April 1 to September 30 634 # Republic of China 49 years to 50 years (AD 1960-1961) Summer Time June 1 to September 30 635 # Republic of China 51 years to 62 years (AD 1962-1973 years) Stop Summer Time 636 # Republic of China 63 years to 64 years (1974-1975 AD) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to September 30 637 # Republic of China 65 years to 67 years (1976-1978 AD) Stop Daylight Saving Time 638 # Republic of China 68 years (AD 1979) Daylight Saving Time July 1 to September 30 639 # Republic of China since 69 years (AD 1980) Stop Daylight Saving Time 640 641 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 642 Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 643 Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 644 Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D 645 Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 646 Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 647 Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 648 Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 649 Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 650 Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 651 Rule Taiwan 1979 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D 652 Rule Taiwan 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 653 654 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 655 Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei 656 8:00 Taiwan C%sT 657 658 # Macau (Macao, Aomen) 659 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 660 Rule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 661 Rule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 662 Rule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 663 Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 664 Rule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 665 Rule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 - 666 Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 667 Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 668 Rule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 669 Rule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 670 Rule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 - 671 Rule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S 672 Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 673 Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 674 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 675 Zone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912 676 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China 677 8:00 PRC C%sT 678 679 680 ############################################################################### 681 682 # Cyprus 683 # 684 # Milne says the Eastern Telegraph Company used 2:14:00. Stick with LMT. 685 # 686 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 687 Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S 688 Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 - 689 Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 690 Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 - 691 Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 692 Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 693 Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 694 Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 695 Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 696 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 697 Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 698 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 699 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 700 # IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. 701 702 # Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72. 703 # However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe. 704 Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia 705 706 # Georgia 707 # From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): 708 # Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward 709 # an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, 710 # an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! 711 # We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. 712 # 713 # From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): 714 # Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia 715 # will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, 716 # President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 717 # 718 # From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): 719 # 720 # Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 721 # republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it 722 # is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours 723 # ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, 724 # Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process 725 # of integration into Europe. 726 727 # From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07): 728 # Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on 729 # [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years. 730 # Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT 731 # +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document 732 # about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document, 733 # because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time.... 734 # I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our 735 # DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month. 736 737 738 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 739 Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 740 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time 741 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 742 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 743 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 744 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 745 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 746 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 747 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 748 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27 749 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 2005 Mar lastSun 2:00 750 4:00 - GET 751 752 # East Timor 753 754 # See Indonesia for the 1945 transition. 755 756 # From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in 757 # <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm"> 758 # East Timor may be late for its millennium 759 # </a> (1999-12-26/31): 760 # Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun 761 # rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the 762 # Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it 763 # conflicts with their way of life. 764 765 # From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 766 # We don't have any record of the above attempt. 767 # Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data. 768 769 # <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html"> 770 # From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General 771 # (2000-08-16)</a>: 772 # The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided 773 # today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change, 774 # which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at 775 # midnight on Saturday, September 16. 776 777 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 778 Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 779 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 780 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 781 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3 782 8:00 - WITA 2000 Sep 17 00:00 783 9:00 - TLT 784 785 # India 786 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 787 Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata 788 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 789 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 790 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 791 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 792 5:30 - IST 793 # The following are like Asia/Kolkata: 794 # Andaman Is 795 # Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is) 796 # Nicobar Is 797 798 # Indonesia 799 # 800 # From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks & Pottenger: 801 # <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime> 802 # says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some 803 # time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat 804 # and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7. 805 # 806 # From Paul Eggert (2007-03-10): 807 # Here is another correction to Shanks & Pottenger. 808 # JohnTWB writes that Japanese forces did not surrender control in 809 # Indonesia until 1945-09-01 00:00 at the earliest (in Jakarta) and 810 # other formal surrender ceremonies were September 9, 11, and 13, plus 811 # September 12 for the regional surrender to Mountbatten in Singapore. 812 # These would be the earliest possible times for a change. 813 # Regimes horaires pour le monde entier, by Henri Le Corre, (Editions 814 # Traditionnelles, 1987, Paris) says that Java and Madura switched 815 # from JST to UTC+07:30 on 1945-09-23, and gives 1944-09-01 for Jayapura 816 # (Hollandia). For now, assume all Indonesian locations other than Jayapura 817 # switched on 1945-09-23. 818 # 819 # From Paul Eggert (2013-08-11): 820 # Normally the tz database uses English-language abbreviations, but in 821 # Indonesia it's typical to use Indonesian-language abbreviations even 822 # when writing in English. For example, see the English-language 823 # summary published by the Time and Frequency Laboratory of the 824 # Research Center for Calibration, Instrumentation and Metrology, 825 # Indonesia, <http://time.kim.lipi.go.id/time-eng.php> (2006-09-29). 826 # The abbreviations are: 827 # 828 # WIB - UTC+7 - Waktu Indonesia Barat (Indonesia western time) 829 # WITA - UTC+8 - Waktu Indonesia Tengah (Indonesia central time) 830 # WIT - UTC+9 - Waktu Indonesia Timur (Indonesia eastern time) 831 # 832 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 833 # Java, Sumatra 834 Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10 835 # Shanks & Pottenger say the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13, 836 # but this must be a typo. 837 7:07:12 - BMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Batavia 838 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time 839 7:30 - WIB 1942 Mar 23 840 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 841 7:30 - WIB 1948 May 842 8:00 - WIB 1950 May 843 7:30 - WIB 1964 844 7:00 - WIB 845 # west and central Borneo 846 Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May 847 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT 848 7:30 - WIB 1942 Jan 29 849 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 850 7:30 - WIB 1948 May 851 8:00 - WIB 1950 May 852 7:30 - WIB 1964 853 8:00 - WITA 1988 Jan 1 854 7:00 - WIB 855 # Sulawesi, Lesser Sundas, east and south Borneo 856 Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 857 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT 858 8:00 - WITA 1942 Feb 9 859 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23 860 8:00 - WITA 861 # Maluku Islands, West Papua, Papua 862 Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 863 9:00 - WIT 1944 Sep 1 864 9:30 - CST 1964 865 9:00 - WIT 866 867 # Iran 868 869 # From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15): 870 # This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian). 871 # The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine: 872 # 873 # Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16] 874 # No. 16760/T233 H 1370/6/10 [1991-09-01] 875 # 876 # The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country 877 # 878 # The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14], 879 # based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13] 880 # of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs, 881 # and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers 882 # and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and 883 # for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that: 884 # 885 # The official time of the country will should move forward one hour 886 # at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return 887 # to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of 888 # Shahrivar. 889 # 890 # First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi 891 # 892 # From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed 893 # for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the 894 # date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last 895 # Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates.... 896 # I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct 897 # here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. 898 # 899 # From Roozbeh Pournader (2005-04-05): 900 # The text of the Iranian law, in effect since 1925, clearly mentions 901 # that the true solar year is the measure, and there is no arithmetic 902 # leap year calculation involved. There has never been any serious 903 # plan to change that law.... 904 # 905 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 906 # Go with Shanks & Pottenger before Sept. 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. 907 # I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates, 908 # stopping after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. 909 # That cal-persia used Birashk's approximation, which disagrees with the solar 910 # calendar predictions for the year 2025, so I corrected those dates by hand. 911 # 912 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-03-30), writing about future 913 # discrepancies between cal-persia and the Iranian calendar: 914 # For 2091 solar-longitude-after yields 2091-03-20 08:40:07.7 UT for 915 # the vernal equinox and that gets so close to 12:00 some local 916 # Iranian time that the definition of the correct location needs to be 917 # known exactly, amongst other factors. 2157 is even closer: 918 # 2157-03-20 08:37:15.5 UT. But the Gregorian year 2025 should give 919 # no interpretation problem whatsoever. By the way, another instant 920 # in the near future where there will be a discrepancy between 921 # arithmetical and astronomical Iranian calendars will be in 2058: 922 # vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of 923 # Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date 924 # 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical). 925 # 926 # From Steffen Thorsen (2006-03-22): 927 # Several of my users have reported that Iran will not observe DST anymore: 928 # http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0603193812164948.htm 929 # 930 # From Reuters (2007-09-16), with a heads-up from Jesper Norgaard Welen: 931 # ... the Guardian Council ... approved a law on Sunday to re-introduce 932 # daylight saving time ... 933 # http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916 934 # 935 # From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05): 936 # This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of 937 # Iran, Volume 63, Number 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24 938 # [2007-10-16]. I am doing the best translation I can:... 939 # The official time of the country will be moved forward for one hour 940 # on the 24 hours of the first day of the month of Farvardin and will 941 # be changed back to its previous state on the 24 hours of the 942 # thirtieth day of Shahrivar. 943 # 944 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 945 Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 946 Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S 947 Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S 948 Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S 949 Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 D 950 Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 951 Rule Iran 1991 1995 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 952 Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 953 Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 954 Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 955 Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 956 Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 957 Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 958 Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 959 Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 960 Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 961 Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 962 Rule Iran 2005 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 963 Rule Iran 2005 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 964 Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 965 Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 966 Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 967 Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 968 Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 969 Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 970 Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 971 Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 972 Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 973 Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 974 Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 975 Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 976 Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 977 Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 978 Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 979 Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 980 Rule Iran 2024 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 981 Rule Iran 2024 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 982 Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 983 Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 984 Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 985 Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 986 Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 987 Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 988 Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 989 Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 990 Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 991 Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 992 Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 993 Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 994 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 995 Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 996 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time 997 3:30 - IRST 1977 Nov 998 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979 999 3:30 Iran IR%sT 1000 1001 1002 # Iraq 1003 # 1004 # From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12): 1005 # An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in 1006 # the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: 1007 # "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and 1008 # are an hour ahead of Baghdad." 1009 # 1010 # But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows: 1011 # In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi 1012 # Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred 1013 # to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone 1014 # in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. 1015 # 1016 # So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. 1017 1018 # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-10): 1019 # The cabinet in Iraq abolished DST last week, according to the following 1020 # news sources (in Arabic): 1021 # <a href="http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html"> 1022 # http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html 1023 # </a> 1024 # <a href="http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10"> 1025 # http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10 1026 # </a> 1027 # 1028 # We have published a short article in English about the change: 1029 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html"> 1030 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html 1031 # </a> 1032 1033 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1034 Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1035 Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1036 Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 1037 Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1038 Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S 1039 Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D 1040 # IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. 1041 # Shanks & Pottenger say Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997; ignore this. 1042 # 1043 Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D 1044 Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S 1045 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1046 Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 1047 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? 1048 3:00 - AST 1982 May 1049 3:00 Iraq A%sT 1050 1051 1052 ############################################################################### 1053 1054 # Israel 1055 1056 # From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11): 1057 # 1058 # I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three 1059 # different abbreviations in use: 1060 # 1061 # JST Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University] 1062 # IZT Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion] 1063 # EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else] 1064 # 1065 # Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities, 1066 # I ruled out JST. As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe, 1067 # EEST was equally unacceptable. Since "zonal" was not compatible with 1068 # any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go 1069 # and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone 1070 # settings in Israeli computers. 1071 # 1072 # In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India, 1073 # high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's 1074 # family is from India). 1075 1076 # From Shanks & Pottenger: 1077 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1078 Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1079 Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 1080 Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 1081 Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1082 Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 1083 Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 1084 Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D 1085 Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 1086 Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD 1087 Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D 1088 Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 1089 Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1090 Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 1091 Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S 1092 Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1093 Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S 1094 Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D 1095 Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S 1096 Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D 1097 Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S 1098 Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D 1099 Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S 1100 Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D 1101 Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S 1102 Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 1103 Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S 1104 Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D 1105 Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 1106 Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D 1107 Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S 1108 Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D 1109 Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S 1110 Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 1111 Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1112 Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D 1113 Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 1114 Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D 1115 Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1116 1117 # From Avigdor Finkelstein (2014-03-05): 1118 # I check the Parliament (Knesset) records and there it's stated that the 1119 # [1988] transition should take place on Saturday night, when the Sabbath 1120 # ends and changes to Sunday. 1121 Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 1122 Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1123 1124 # From Ephraim Silverberg 1125 # (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22, 1126 # and 2005-02-17): 1127 1128 # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of 1129 # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. 1130 # One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150 1131 # days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to 1132 # daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to 1133 # 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a 1134 # Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard 1135 # time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard 1136 # time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid 1137 # conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to 1138 # daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from 1139 # 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time 1140 # was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for 1141 # 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was 1142 # similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it 1143 # will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all 1144 # changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no 1145 # rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date 1146 # (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve 1147 # of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date 1148 # (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] 1149 # (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar). 1150 1151 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1152 Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1153 Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1154 Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D 1155 Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S 1156 Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D 1157 Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S 1158 Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D 1159 Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 1160 Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D 1161 Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1162 1163 # The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the 1164 # Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by 1165 # calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448. 1166 1167 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1168 Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1169 Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S 1170 Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 1171 Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1172 1173 # The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the 1174 # time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 1175 # (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: 1176 # 1177 # ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz 1178 # 1179 # The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. 1180 # 1181 # The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: 1182 # 1183 # ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz 1184 # 1185 # where YYYY is the relevant year. 1186 1187 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1188 Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D 1189 Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1190 Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 1191 Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1192 Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D 1193 Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 1194 Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D 1195 Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S 1196 1197 # The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for 1198 # the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the 1199 # years 2001-2004 as well. 1200 # 1201 # The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: 1202 # 1203 # ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz 1204 # 1205 # The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates 1206 # for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: 1207 # 1208 # ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz 1209 1210 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1211 Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1212 Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S 1213 Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D 1214 Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S 1215 Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D 1216 Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S 1217 Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D 1218 Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S 1219 Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D 1220 Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S 1221 1222 # The proposed law agreed upon by the Knesset Interior Committee on 1223 # 2005-02-14 is that, for 2005 and beyond, DST starts at 02:00 the 1224 # last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April 1225 # 1st itself if it falls on a Friday) and ends at 02:00 on the Saturday 1226 # night _before_ the fast of Yom Kippur. 1227 # 1228 # Those who can read Hebrew can view the announcement at: 1229 # 1230 # ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps 1231 1232 # From Paul Eggert (2012-10-26): 1233 # I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program 1234 # <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (2005-02-20) 1235 # along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4, 1236 # to generate the transitions from 2005 through 2012. 1237 # (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.) 1238 # The spring transitions all correspond to the following Rule: 1239 # 1240 # Rule Zion 2005 2012 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 1241 # 1242 # but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support 1243 # "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the 1244 # springtime transitions explicitly. 1245 1246 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1247 Rule Zion 2005 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 1248 Rule Zion 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S 1249 Rule Zion 2006 2010 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 1250 Rule Zion 2006 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 1251 Rule Zion 2007 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S 1252 Rule Zion 2008 only - Oct 5 2:00 0 S 1253 Rule Zion 2009 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S 1254 Rule Zion 2010 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S 1255 Rule Zion 2011 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 1256 Rule Zion 2011 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S 1257 Rule Zion 2012 only - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D 1258 Rule Zion 2012 only - Sep 23 2:00 0 S 1259 1260 # From Ephraim Silverberg (2013-06-27): 1261 # On June 23, 2013, the Israeli government approved changes to the 1262 # Time Decree Law. The next day, the changes passed the First Reading 1263 # in the Knesset. The law is expected to pass the Second and Third 1264 # (final) Readings by the beginning of September 2013. 1265 # 1266 # As of 2013, DST starts at 02:00 on the Friday before the last Sunday 1267 # in March. DST ends at 02:00 on the last Sunday of October. 1268 1269 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1270 Rule Zion 2013 max - Mar Fri>=23 2:00 1:00 D 1271 Rule Zion 2013 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1272 1273 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1274 Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:54 - LMT 1880 1275 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 1276 2:00 Zion I%sT 1277 1278 1279 1280 ############################################################################### 1281 1282 # Japan 1283 1284 # `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. 1285 1286 # From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06): 1287 # Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had 1288 # daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued 1289 # because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' 1290 1291 # From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times 1292 # <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm>: 1293 # Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on 1294 # [1948-05-01].... But lack of prior debate and the execution of 1295 # daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated 1296 # deep hatred of the concept.... The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to 1297 # dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San 1298 # Francisco Peace Treaty was signed. (A government poll in 1951 showed 53% 1299 # of the Japanese wanted to scrap daylight-saving time, as opposed to 30% who 1300 # wanted to keep it.) 1301 1302 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1303 # Shanks & Pottenger write that DST in Japan during those years was as follows: 1304 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1305 Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1306 Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S 1307 Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1308 Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1309 # but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since 1310 # their audience is astrologers) were US military bases. For now, assume 1311 # that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what 1312 # would have been the point of the 1951 poll? 1313 1314 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): 1315 # 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical 1316 # Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0. 1317 # This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996' 1318 # edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.... 1319 # JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST). 1320 # The law is enacted on 1886-07-07. 1321 1322 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16): 1323 # The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan, 1324 # which stands for the time on E 135 degree. 1325 # In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central 1326 # standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard 1327 # time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard 1328 # time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No. 1329 # 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is 1330 # standard.... 1331 # 1332 # I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate. 1333 # In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor. 1334 1335 # Shanks & Pottenger claim JST in use since 1896, and that a few 1336 # places (e.g. Ishigaki) use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all 1337 # ordinances took effect on Jan 1. 1338 1339 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1340 Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u 1341 9:00 - JST 1896 1342 9:00 - CJT 1938 1343 9:00 Japan J%sT 1344 # Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. 1345 1346 # Jordan 1347 # 1348 # From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html"> 1349 # Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): 1350 # Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight, 1351 # in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time 1352 # all year round. 1353 # 1354 # From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html"> 1355 # Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09): 1356 # Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back 1357 # by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final! 1358 # The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in 1359 # government's departments from six to seven hours. 1360 # 1361 # From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 1362 # Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 1363 # 1364 # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): 1365 # For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year 1366 # about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year. 1367 # 1368 # From Steffen Thorsen (2006-10-01), after a heads-up from Hilal Malawi: 1369 # http://www.petranews.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Sep/05/4000.htm 1370 # "Jordan will switch to winter time on Friday, October 27". 1371 # 1372 1373 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-02): 1374 # This single one might be good enough, (2009-03-24, Arabic): 1375 # <a href="http://petra.gov.jo/Artical.aspx?Lng=2&Section=8&Artical=95279"> 1376 # http://petra.gov.jo/Artical.aspx?Lng=2&Section=8&Artical=95279 1377 # </a> 1378 # 1379 # Google's translation: 1380 # 1381 # > The Council of Ministers decided in 2002 to adopt the principle of timely 1382 # > submission of the summer at 60 minutes as of midnight on the last Thursday 1383 # > of the month of March of each year. 1384 # 1385 # So - this means the midnight between Thursday and Friday since 2002. 1386 1387 # From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-06): 1388 # We still have Jordan switching to DST on Thursdays in 2000 and 2001. 1389 1390 # From Steffen Thorsen (2012-10-25): 1391 # Yesterday the government in Jordan announced that they will not 1392 # switch back to standard time this winter, so the will stay on DST 1393 # until about the same time next year (at least). 1394 # http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=88950 1395 1396 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-12-11): 1397 # Jordan Times and other sources say that Jordan is going back to 1398 # UTC+2 on 2013-12-19 at midnight: 1399 # http://jordantimes.com/govt-decides-to-switch-back-to-wintertime 1400 # Official, in Arabic: 1401 # http://www.petra.gov.jo/public_news/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Menu_ID=&Site_Id=2&lang=1&NewsID=133230&CatID=14 1402 # ... Our background/permalink about it 1403 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/jordan-reverses-dst-decision.html 1404 # ... 1405 # http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?lang=2&site_id=1&NewsID=133313&Type=P 1406 # ... says midnight for the coming one and 1:00 for the ones in the future 1407 # (and they will use DST again next year, using the normal schedule). 1408 1409 # From Paul Eggert (2013-12-11): 1410 # As Steffen suggested, consider the past 21-month experiment to be DST. 1411 1412 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1413 Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S 1414 Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1415 Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1416 Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 1417 Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1418 Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 1419 Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 1420 Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1421 Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1422 Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 1423 Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 1424 Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S 1425 Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S 1426 Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S 1427 Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - 1428 Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S 1429 Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 1430 Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 1431 Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 1432 Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - 1433 Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S 1434 Rule Jordan 1999 2002 - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - 1435 Rule Jordan 2000 2001 - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S 1436 Rule Jordan 2002 2012 - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S 1437 Rule Jordan 2003 only - Oct 24 0:00s 0 - 1438 Rule Jordan 2004 only - Oct 15 0:00s 0 - 1439 Rule Jordan 2005 only - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 - 1440 Rule Jordan 2006 2011 - Oct lastFri 0:00s 0 - 1441 Rule Jordan 2013 only - Dec 20 0:00 0 - 1442 Rule Jordan 2014 max - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S 1443 Rule Jordan 2014 max - Oct lastFri 0:00s 0 - 1444 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1445 Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 1446 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1447 1448 1449 # Kazakhstan 1450 1451 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 1452 # Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan 1453 # stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) 1454 # and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. 1455 # Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time 1456 # IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. 1457 1458 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1459 # German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses 1460 # RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. 1461 # Go with Shanks & Pottenger, who have them always using RussiaAsia rules. 1462 # Also go with the following claims of Shanks & Pottenger: 1463 # 1464 # - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. 1465 # - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. 1466 # - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. 1467 1468 # <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm"> 1469 # From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21): 1470 # </a> 1471 # The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing 1472 # daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health 1473 # complications coupled with a decrease in productivity. 1474 # 1475 # From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28): 1476 # ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone 1477 # was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has 1478 # two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone 1479 # closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the 1480 # same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau, 1481 # Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses 1482 # everything else.... I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones 1483 # de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively. 1484 1485 # 1486 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1487 # 1488 # Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan 1489 Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 1490 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 1491 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 1492 6:00 - ALMT 1992 1493 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 2005 Mar 15 1494 6:00 - ALMT 1495 # Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.) 1496 Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 1497 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time 1498 5:00 - KIZT 1981 Apr 1 1499 5:00 1:00 KIZST 1981 Oct 1 1500 6:00 - KIZT 1982 Apr 1 1501 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991 1502 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 1503 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 1504 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 2005 Mar 15 1505 6:00 - QYZT 1506 # Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk) 1507 Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 1508 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time 1509 5:00 - AKTT 1981 Apr 1 1510 5:00 1:00 AKTST 1981 Oct 1 1511 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1 1512 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991 1513 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 1514 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time 1515 5:00 - AQTT 1516 # Mangghystau 1517 # Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region, 1518 # so include time stamps before 1963. 1519 Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 1520 4:00 - FORT 1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T 1521 5:00 - FORT 1963 1522 5:00 - SHET 1981 Oct 1 # Shevchenko Time 1523 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1 1524 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 1525 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence 1526 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time 1527 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 1528 5:00 - AQTT 1529 # West Kazakhstan 1530 Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 1531 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time 1532 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1 1533 5:00 1:00 URAST 1981 Oct 1 1534 6:00 - URAT 1982 Apr 1 1535 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00 1536 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991 1537 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 1538 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time 1539 5:00 - ORAT 1540 1541 # Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) 1542 # Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks & Pottenger. 1543 1544 # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15): 1545 # According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway 1546 # <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml> 1547 # Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article 1548 # to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC. 1549 # From Malik Abdugaliev (2005-09-21): 1550 # Our government cancels daylight saving time 6th of August 2005. 1551 # From 2005-08-12 our GMT-offset is +6, w/o any daylight saving. 1552 1553 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1554 Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S 1555 Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1556 Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S 1557 Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2004 - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - 1558 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1559 Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 1560 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 1561 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1562 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence 1563 5:00 Kyrgyz KG%sT 2005 Aug 12 # Kyrgyzstan Time 1564 6:00 - KGT 1565 1566 ############################################################################### 1567 1568 # Korea (North and South) 1569 1570 # From Annie I. Bang (2006-07-10) in 1571 # <http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/07/10/200607100012.asp>: 1572 # The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy has already 1573 # commissioned a research project [to reintroduce DST] and has said 1574 # the system may begin as early as 2008.... Korea ran a daylight 1575 # saving program from 1949-61 but stopped it during the 1950-53 Korean War. 1576 1577 # From Shanks & Pottenger: 1578 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1579 Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D 1580 Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1581 Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1582 Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1583 1584 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1585 Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890 1586 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 1587 9:00 - KST 1928 1588 8:30 - KST 1932 1589 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 1590 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10 1591 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct 1592 9:00 ROK K%sT 1593 Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890 1594 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 1595 9:00 - KST 1928 1596 8:30 - KST 1932 1597 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 1598 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10 1599 9:00 - KST 1600 1601 ############################################################################### 1602 1603 # Kuwait 1604 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1605 # From the Arab Times (2007-03-14): 1606 # The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has approved a proposal forwarded 1607 # by MP Ahmad Baqer on implementing the daylight saving time (DST) in 1608 # Kuwait starting from April until the end of Sept this year, reports Al-Anba. 1609 # <http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/kuwait/Viewdet.asp?ID=9950>. 1610 # From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29): 1611 # We don't know the details, or whether the approval means it'll happen, 1612 # so for now we assume no DST. 1613 Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950 1614 3:00 - AST 1615 1616 # Laos 1617 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1618 Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan 1619 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 1620 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 1621 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 1622 7:00 - ICT 1623 1624 # Lebanon 1625 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1626 Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S 1627 Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 - 1628 Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S 1629 Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 1630 Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 1631 Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - 1632 Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S 1633 Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 - 1634 Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1635 Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1636 Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S 1637 Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1638 Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1639 Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 1640 Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 1641 Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1642 Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 - 1643 Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 1644 Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 1645 Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1646 Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - 1647 Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 1648 Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1649 Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 1650 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1651 Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880 1652 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT 1653 1654 # Malaysia 1655 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1656 Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer 1657 Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 - 1658 # 1659 # peninsular Malaysia 1660 # The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) 1661 # <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. 1662 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1663 Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 1664 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. 1665 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time 1666 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 1667 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 1668 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 1669 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 1670 7:30 - MALT 1982 Jan 1 1671 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time 1672 # Sabah & Sarawak 1673 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1674 # The data here are mostly from Shanks & Pottenger, but the 1942, 1945 and 1982 1675 # transition dates are from Mok Ly Yng. 1676 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1677 Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar 1678 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time 1679 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 Feb 16 1680 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 1681 8:00 - BORT 1982 Jan 1 1682 8:00 - MYT 1683 1684 # Maldives 1685 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1686 Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male 1687 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time 1688 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time 1689 1690 # Mongolia 1691 1692 # Shanks & Pottenger say that Mongolia has three time zones, but 1693 # usno1995 and the CIA map Standard Time Zones of the World (2005-03) 1694 # both say that it has just one. 1695 1696 # From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11): 1697 # <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm"> 1698 # General Information Mongolia 1699 # </a> (1999-09) 1700 # "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of 1701 # Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and 1702 # the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus 1703 # eight hours." 1704 1705 # From Rives McDow (1999-12-13): 1706 # Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998 1707 # being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am 1708 # unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time 1709 # of implementation may have been different.... 1710 # Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time 1711 # zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod, 1712 # Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij. 1713 1714 # From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15): 1715 # Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia. 1716 # We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone; 1717 # the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us, 1718 # and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd 1719 # is good enough for our purposes. 1720 1721 # From Rives McDow (2001-05-13): 1722 # In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier 1723 # (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28), 1724 # there are three time zones. 1725 # 1726 # Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai 1727 # Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov, 1728 # Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi 1729 # Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar 1730 # 1731 # [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] 1732 1733 # From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17): 1734 # Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March. 1735 # It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of 1736 # September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001. 1737 # 1738 # From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17): 1739 # For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs 1740 # Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them. 1741 1742 # From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): 1743 # We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones. 1744 # Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says 1745 # there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft 1746 # Windows XP as the source. Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that 1747 # travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST. 1748 # Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in 1749 # Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed. 1750 # He also found 1751 # <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&> 1752 # which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius" 1753 # (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones. 1754 # The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT 1755 # and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT. 1756 # The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the 1757 # parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session." 1758 # For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation. 1759 1760 # From Ganbold Ts. (2007-02-26): 1761 # Parliament of Mongolia has just changed the daylight-saving rule in February. 1762 # They decided not to adopt daylight-saving time.... 1763 # http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742 1764 1765 # From Deborah Goldsmith (2008-03-30): 1766 # We received a bug report claiming that the tz database UTC offset for 1767 # Asia/Choibalsan (GMT+09:00) is incorrect, and that it should be GMT 1768 # +08:00 instead. Different sources appear to disagree with the tz 1769 # database on this, e.g.: 1770 # 1771 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026"> 1772 # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026 1773 # </a> 1774 # <a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx"> 1775 # http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx 1776 # </a> 1777 # 1778 # both say GMT+08:00. 1779 1780 # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-31): 1781 # eznis airways, which operates several domestic flights, has a flight 1782 # schedule here: 1783 # <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112"> 1784 # http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112 1785 # </a> 1786 # (click the English flag for English) 1787 # 1788 # There it appears that flights between Choibalsan and Ulaanbatar arrive 1789 # about 1:35 - 1:50 hours later in local clock time, no matter the 1790 # direction, while Ulaanbaatar-Khvod takes 2 hours in the Eastern 1791 # direction and 3:35 back, which indicates that Ulaanbatar and Khvod are 1792 # in different time zones (like we know about), while Choibalsan and 1793 # Ulaanbatar are in the same time zone (correction needed). 1794 1795 # From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): 1796 # Assume that Choibalsan is indeed offset by 8:00. 1797 # XXX--in the absence of better information, assume that transition 1798 # was at the start of 2008-03-31 (the day of Steffen Thorsen's report); 1799 # this is almost surely wrong. 1800 1801 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1802 Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1803 Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1804 # Shanks & Pottenger and IATA SSIM say 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, 1805 # but McDow says the 2001 switches occurred at 02:00. Also, IATA SSIM 1806 # (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks & Pottenger through 1998. 1807 # 1808 # Shanks & Pottenger say that the Sept. 1984 through Sept. 1990 switches 1809 # in Choibalsan (more precisely, in Dornod and Sukhbaatar) took place 1810 # at 02:00 standard time, not at 00:00 local time as in the rest of 1811 # the country. That would be odd, and possibly is a result of their 1812 # correction of 02:00 (in the previous edition) not being done correctly 1813 # in the latest edition; so ignore it for now. 1814 1815 Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 1816 Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1817 # IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. 1818 Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr lastSat 2:00 1:00 S 1819 Rule Mongol 2001 2006 - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 - 1820 Rule Mongol 2002 2006 - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S 1821 1822 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1823 # Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta 1824 Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug 1825 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time 1826 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT 1827 # Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga 1828 Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug 1829 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time 1830 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT 1831 # Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan, 1832 # Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan 1833 Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug 1834 7:00 - ULAT 1978 1835 8:00 - ULAT 1983 Apr 1836 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT 2008 Mar 31 # Choibalsan Time 1837 8:00 Mongol CHO%sT 1838 1839 # Nepal 1840 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1841 Zone Asia/Kathmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920 1842 5:30 - IST 1986 1843 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time 1844 1845 # Oman 1846 1847 # Milne says 3:54:24 was the meridian of the Muscat Tidal Observatory. 1848 1849 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1850 Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:24 - LMT 1920 1851 4:00 - GST 1852 1853 # Pakistan 1854 1855 # From Rives McDow (2002-03-13): 1856 # I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a 1857 # TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 1858 # and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was 1859 # told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the 1860 # 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on. 1861 1862 # From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15): 1863 # Jesper Norgaard found this URL: 1864 # http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm 1865 # (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to 1866 # advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first 1867 # Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 1868 # 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00, 1869 # but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like 1870 # it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday 1871 # and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the 1872 # transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02. 1873 1874 # From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): 1875 # DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05 1876 # that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow for now. 1877 1878 # From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14): 1879 # According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm 1880 # there will be no DST in Pakistan this year: 1881 # 1882 # ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh 1883 # Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous 1884 # decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by 1885 # one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy. 1886 # 1887 # The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather 1888 # shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity. 1889 1890 # From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-15): 1891 # 1892 # Here is an article that Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time 1893 # on June 1, 2008 for 3 months. 1894 # 1895 # "... The federal cabinet on Wednesday announced a new conservation plan to help 1896 # reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at 9pm and 1897 # moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months. 1898 # ...." 1899 # 1900 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html"> 1901 # http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html 1902 # </a> 1903 # OR 1904 # <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4"> 1905 # http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4 1906 # </a> 1907 1908 # From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): 1909 # XXX--midnight transitions is a guess; 2008 only is a guess. 1910 1911 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): 1912 # Pakistan government has decided to keep the watches one-hour advanced 1913 # for another 2 months--plan to return to Standard Time on October 31 1914 # instead of August 31. 1915 # 1916 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html"> 1917 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html 1918 # </a> 1919 # OR 1920 # <a href="http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html"> 1921 # http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html 1922 # </a> 1923 1924 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-04-08): 1925 # Based on previous media reports that "... proposed plan to 1926 # advance clocks by one hour from May 1 will cause disturbance 1927 # to the working schedules rather than bringing discipline in 1928 # official working." 1929 # <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=171280"> 1930 # http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=171280 1931 # </a> 1932 # 1933 # recent news that instead of May 2009 - Pakistan plan to 1934 # introduce DST from April 15, 2009 1935 # 1936 # FYI: Associated Press Of Pakistan 1937 # April 08, 2009 1938 # Cabinet okays proposal to advance clocks by one hour from April 15 1939 # <a href="http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73043&Itemid=1"> 1940 # http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73043&Itemid=1 1941 # </a> 1942 # 1943 # or 1944 # 1945 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan05.html"> 1946 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan05.html 1947 # </a> 1948 # 1949 # .... 1950 # The Federal Cabinet on Wednesday approved the proposal to 1951 # advance clocks in the country by one hour from April 15 to 1952 # conserve energy" 1953 1954 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-09-17): 1955 # "The News International," Pakistan reports that: "The Federal 1956 # Government has decided to restore the previous time by moving the 1957 # clocks backward by one hour from October 1. A formal announcement to 1958 # this effect will be made after the Prime Minister grants approval in 1959 # this regard." 1960 # <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87168"> 1961 # http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=87168 1962 # </a> 1963 1964 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-28): 1965 # According to Associated Press Of Pakistan, it is confirmed that 1966 # Pakistan clocks across the country would be turned back by an hour from October 1967 # 1, 2009. 1968 # 1969 # "Clocks to go back one hour from 1 Oct" 1970 # <a href="http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86715&Itemid=2"> 1971 # http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=86715&Itemid=2 1972 # </a> 1973 # or 1974 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan07.htm"> 1975 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan07.htm 1976 # </a> 1977 1978 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-09-29): 1979 # Alexander Krivenyshev wrote: 1980 # > According to Associated Press Of Pakistan, it is confirmed that 1981 # > Pakistan clocks across the country would be turned back by an hour from October 1982 # > 1, 2009. 1983 # 1984 # Now they seem to have changed their mind, November 1 is the new date: 1985 # <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24742"> 1986 # http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=24742 1987 # </a> 1988 # "The country's clocks will be reversed by one hour on November 1. 1989 # Officials of Federal Ministry for Interior told this to Geo News on 1990 # Monday." 1991 # 1992 # And more importantly, it seems that these dates will be kept every year: 1993 # "It has now been decided that clocks will be wound forward by one hour 1994 # on April 15 and reversed by an hour on November 1 every year without 1995 # obtaining prior approval, the officials added." 1996 # 1997 # We have confirmed this year's end date with both with the Ministry of 1998 # Water and Power and the Pakistan Electric Power Company: 1999 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/pakistan-ends-dst09.html"> 2000 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/pakistan-ends-dst09.html 2001 # </a> 2002 2003 # From Christoph Goehre (2009-10-01): 2004 # [T]he German Consulate General in Karachi reported me today that Pakistan 2005 # will go back to standard time on 1st of November. 2006 2007 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-26): 2008 # Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2009 # > On Thursday (2010-03-25) it was announced that DST would start in 2010 # > Pakistan on 2010-04-01. 2011 # > 2012 # > Then today, the president said that they might have to revert the 2013 # > decision if it is not supported by the parliament. So at the time 2014 # > being, it seems unclear if DST will be actually observed or not - but 2015 # > April 1 could be a more likely date than April 15. 2016 # Now, it seems that the decision to not observe DST in final: 2017 # 2018 # "Govt Withdraws Plan To Advance Clocks" 2019 # <a href="http://www.apakistannews.com/govt-withdraws-plan-to-advance-clocks-172041"> 2020 # http://www.apakistannews.com/govt-withdraws-plan-to-advance-clocks-172041 2021 # </a> 2022 # 2023 # "People laud PM's announcement to end DST" 2024 # <a href="http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99374&Itemid=2"> 2025 # http://www.app.com.pk/en_/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99374&Itemid=2 2026 # </a> 2027 2028 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2029 Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S 2030 Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - 2031 Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 2032 Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 2033 Rule Pakistan 2009 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S 2034 Rule Pakistan 2009 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 2035 2036 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2037 Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 2038 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 2039 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 2040 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30 2041 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time 2042 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time 2043 2044 # Palestine 2045 2046 # From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15): 2047 # 2048 # From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now 2049 # known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. 2050 # Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too... 2051 # 2052 # The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05 2053 # (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no 2054 # time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt, 2055 # though. 2056 # 2057 # The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally 2058 # annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from 2059 # the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the 2060 # Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major 2061 # towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and 2062 # East Jerusalem. 2063 # 2064 # Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except 2065 # for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might 2066 # have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware 2067 # of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer 2068 # time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected). 2069 # 2070 # The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most 2071 # towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to 2072 # demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to 2073 # summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't 2074 # know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the 2075 # Jordanian one). 2076 # 2077 # To summarize, the table should probably look something like that: 2078 # 2079 # Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996- 2080 # ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------- 2081 # Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion 2082 # West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan 2083 # Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan 2084 # 2085 # I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they 2086 # have one). 2087 2088 # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2089 # Shanks & Pottenger write that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but go 2090 # with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947, 2091 # and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996. 2092 # We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since 2093 # the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about 2094 # occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 2095 # However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries 2096 # for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules 2097 # to Palestine's rules. 2098 2099 # From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time, 2100 # forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg: 2101 # 2102 # Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time 2103 # last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks 2104 # one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule, 2105 # the PA has decided to implement DST in April. 2106 2107 # From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 2108 # Daoud Kuttab writes in 2109 # <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html"> 2110 # Holiday havoc 2111 # </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that 2112 # the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. 2113 # I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). 2114 # For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, 2115 # and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. 2116 2117 # From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22): 2118 # Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com. 2119 2120 # From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23): 2121 # A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of 2122 # the Ramadan. Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think 2123 # there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks 2124 # earlier--the same goes for Jordan. 2125 2126 # From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 2127 # I was informed by a user in Bethlehem that in Bethlehem it started the 2128 # same day as Israel, and after checking with other users in the area, I 2129 # was informed that they started DST one day after Israel. I was not 2130 # able to find any authoritative sources at the time, nor details if 2131 # Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as 2132 # the West Bank. 2133 2134 # From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-26): 2135 # according to the Palestine News Network (2006-09-19): 2136 # http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=596&Itemid=5 2137 # > The Council of Ministers announced that this year its winter schedule 2138 # > will begin early, as of midnight Thursday. It is also time to turn 2139 # > back the clocks for winter. Friday will begin an hour late this week. 2140 # I guess it is likely that next year's date will be moved as well, 2141 # because of the Ramadan. 2142 2143 # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2007-09-18): 2144 # According to Steffen Thorsen's web site the Gaza Strip and the rest of the 2145 # Palestinian territories left DST early on 13.th. of September at 2:00. 2146 2147 # From Paul Eggert (2007-09-20): 2148 # My understanding is that Gaza and the West Bank disagree even over when 2149 # the weekend is (Thursday+Friday versus Friday+Saturday), so I'd be a bit 2150 # surprised if they agreed about DST. But for now, assume they agree. 2151 # For lack of better information, predict that future changes will be 2152 # the 2nd Thursday of September at 02:00. 2153 2154 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): 2155 # Here is an article, that Mideast running on different clocks at Ramadan. 2156 # 2157 # Gaza Strip (as Egypt) ended DST at midnight Thursday (Aug 28, 2008), while 2158 # the West Bank will end Daylight Saving Time at midnight Sunday (Aug 31, 2008). 2159 # 2160 # <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001"> 2161 # http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001 2162 # </a> 2163 # <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087"> 2164 # http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087 2165 # </a> 2166 # or 2167 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html"> 2168 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html 2169 # </a> 2170 2171 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-26): 2172 # According to the Palestine News Network (arabic.pnn.ps), Palestinian 2173 # government decided to start Daylight Time on Thursday night March 2174 # 26 and continue until the night of 27 September 2009. 2175 # 2176 # (in Arabic) 2177 # <a href="http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50850"> 2178 # http://arabic.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50850 2179 # </a> 2180 # 2181 # or 2182 # (English translation) 2183 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank01.html"> 2184 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank01.html 2185 # </a> 2186 2187 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-08-31): 2188 # Palestine's Council of Ministers announced that they will revert back to 2189 # winter time on Friday, 2009-09-04. 2190 # 2191 # One news source: 2192 # <a href="http://www.safa.ps/ara/?action=showdetail&seid=4158"> 2193 # http://www.safa.ps/ara/?action=showdetail&seid=4158 2194 # </a> 2195 # (Palestinian press agency, Arabic), 2196 # Google translate: "Decided that the Palestinian government in Ramallah 2197 # headed by Salam Fayyad, the start of work in time for the winter of 2198 # 2009, starting on Friday approved the fourth delay Sept. clock sixty 2199 # minutes per hour as of Friday morning." 2200 # 2201 # We are not sure if Gaza will do the same, last year they had a different 2202 # end date, we will keep this page updated: 2203 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-dst-2009.html"> 2204 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-dst-2009.html 2205 # </a> 2206 2207 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-02): 2208 # Seems that Gaza Strip will go back to Winter Time same date as West Bank. 2209 # 2210 # According to Palestinian Ministry Of Interior, West Bank and Gaza Strip plan 2211 # to change time back to Standard time on September 4, 2009. 2212 # 2213 # "Winter time unite the West Bank and Gaza" 2214 # (from Palestinian National Authority): 2215 # <a href="http://www.moi.gov.ps/en/?page=633167343250594025&nid=11505 2216 # http://www.moi.gov.ps/en/?page=633167343250594025&nid=11505 2217 # </a> 2218 # or 2219 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip02.html> 2220 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip02.html 2221 # </a> 2222 2223 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-03-19): 2224 # According to Voice of Palestine DST will last for 191 days, from March 2225 # 26, 2010 till "the last Sunday before the tenth day of Tishri 2226 # (October), each year" (October 03, 2010?) 2227 # 2228 # <a href="http://palvoice.org/forums/showthread.php?t=245697"> 2229 # http://palvoice.org/forums/showthread.php?t=245697 2230 # </a> 2231 # (in Arabic) 2232 # or 2233 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank03.html"> 2234 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_westbank03.html 2235 # </a> 2236 2237 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-24): 2238 # ...Ma'an News Agency reports that Hamas cabinet has decided it will 2239 # start one day later, at 12:01am. Not sure if they really mean 12:01am or 2240 # noon though: 2241 # 2242 # <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=271178"> 2243 # http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=271178 2244 # </a> 2245 # (Ma'an News Agency) 2246 # "At 12:01am Friday, clocks in Israel and the West Bank will change to 2247 # 1:01am, while Gaza clocks will change at 12:01am Saturday morning." 2248 2249 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-08-11): 2250 # According to several sources, including 2251 # <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306795"> 2252 # http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306795 2253 # </a> 2254 # the clocks were set back one hour at 2010-08-11 00:00:00 local time in 2255 # Gaza and the West Bank. 2256 # Some more background info: 2257 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-end-dst-2010.html"> 2258 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-end-dst-2010.html 2259 # </a> 2260 2261 # From Steffen Thorsen (2011-08-26): 2262 # Gaza and the West Bank did go back to standard time in the beginning of 2263 # August, and will now enter daylight saving time again on 2011-08-30 2264 # 00:00 (so two periods of DST in 2011). The pause was because of 2265 # Ramadan. 2266 # 2267 # <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416217"> 2268 # http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416217 2269 # </a> 2270 # Additional info: 2271 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/palestine-dst-2011.html"> 2272 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/palestine-dst-2011.html 2273 # </a> 2274 2275 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-08-27): 2276 # According to the article in The Jerusalem Post: 2277 # "...Earlier this month, the Palestinian government in the West Bank decided to 2278 # move to standard time for 30 days, during Ramadan. The Palestinians in the 2279 # Gaza Strip accepted the change and also moved their clocks one hour back. 2280 # The Hamas government said on Saturday that it won't observe summertime after 2281 # the Muslim feast of Id al-Fitr, which begins on Tuesday..." 2282 # ... 2283 # <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235650"> 2284 # http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235650 2285 # </a> 2286 # or 2287 # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip05.html"> 2288 # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip05.html 2289 # </a> 2290 # The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. 2291 2292 # From Steffen Thorsen (2011-09-30): 2293 # West Bank did end Daylight Saving Time this morning/midnight (2011-09-30 2294 # 00:00). 2295 # So West Bank and Gaza now have the same time again. 2296 # 2297 # Many sources, including: 2298 # <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=424808"> 2299 # http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=424808 2300 # </a> 2301 2302 # From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-26): 2303 # Palestinian news sources tell that both Gaza and West Bank will start DST 2304 # on Friday (Thursday midnight, 2012-03-29 24:00). 2305 # Some of many sources in Arabic: 2306 # <a href="http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=122638"> 2307 # http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=122638 2308 # </a> 2309 # 2310 # <a href="http://safa.ps/details/news/74352/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9.html"> 2311 # http://safa.ps/details/news/74352/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9.html 2312 # </a> 2313 # 2314 # Our brief summary: 2315 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-west-bank-dst-2012.html"> 2316 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-west-bank-dst-2012.html 2317 # </a> 2318 2319 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-26): 2320 # The following news sources tells that Palestine will "start daylight saving 2321 # time from midnight on Friday, March 29, 2013" (translated). 2322 # [These are in Arabic and are for Gaza and for Ramallah, respectively.] 2323 # http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=154120 2324 # http://safa.ps/details/news/99844/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%84%D9%87-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-29-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A.html 2325 2326 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-24): 2327 # The Gaza and West Bank are ending DST Thursday at midnight 2328 # (2013-09-27 00:00:00) (one hour earlier than last year...). 2329 # This source in English, says "that winter time will go into effect 2330 # at midnight on Thursday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip": 2331 # http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23246 2332 # official source...: 2333 # http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/ar/Views/ViewDetails.aspx?pid=1252 2334 2335 # From Paul Eggert (2013-09-24): 2336 # For future dates, guess the last Thursday in March at 24:00 through 2337 # the first Friday on or after September 21 at 00:00. This is consistent with 2338 # the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs, 2339 # which are for Gaza and Hebron respectively: 2340 # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=702 2341 # http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=2364 2342 2343 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2344 Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 2345 Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 2346 Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 2347 Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S 2348 Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - 2349 Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - 2350 2351 Rule Palestine 1999 2005 - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S 2352 Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 2353 Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 2354 Rule Palestine 2005 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - 2355 Rule Palestine 2006 2007 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 2356 Rule Palestine 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 2357 Rule Palestine 2007 only - Sep Thu>=8 2:00 0 - 2358 Rule Palestine 2008 2009 - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2359 Rule Palestine 2008 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - 2360 Rule Palestine 2009 only - Sep Fri>=1 1:00 0 - 2361 Rule Palestine 2010 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 2362 Rule Palestine 2010 only - Aug 11 0:00 0 - 2363 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Apr 1 0:01 1:00 S 2364 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - 2365 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 30 0:00 1:00 S 2366 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 2367 Rule Palestine 2012 max - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S 2368 Rule Palestine 2012 only - Sep 21 1:00 0 - 2369 Rule Palestine 2013 max - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 - 2370 2371 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2372 Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 2373 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 2374 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 2375 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 2376 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 2377 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2008 Aug 29 0:00 2378 2:00 - EET 2008 Sep 2379 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2010 2380 2:00 - EET 2010 Mar 27 0:01 2381 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2011 Aug 1 2382 2:00 - EET 2012 2383 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2384 2385 Zone Asia/Hebron 2:20:23 - LMT 1900 Oct 2386 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 2387 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 2388 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 2389 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 2390 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2391 2392 # Paracel Is 2393 # no information 2394 2395 # Philippines 2396 # On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the 2397 # Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to 2398 # be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a 2399 # transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>. 2400 # The rest of the data are from Shanks & Pottenger. 2401 2402 # From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): 2403 # Tomorrow's Manila Standard reports that the Philippines Department of 2404 # Trade and Industry is considering adopting DST this June when the 2405 # rainy season begins. See 2406 # <http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics02_april26_2006>. 2407 # For now, we'll ignore this, since it's not definite and we lack details. 2408 # 2409 # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-26): 2410 # ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990: 2411 # http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/ 2412 # [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires, 2413 # but no details] 2414 2415 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2416 Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S 2417 Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 - 2418 Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S 2419 Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 - 2420 Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S 2421 Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 - 2422 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2423 Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 2424 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11 2425 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May 2426 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov 2427 8:00 Phil PH%sT 2428 2429 # Qatar 2430 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2431 Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha 2432 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 2433 3:00 - AST 2434 2435 # Saudi Arabia 2436 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2437 Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950 2438 3:00 - AST 2439 2440 # Singapore 2441 # The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) 2442 # <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. 2443 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2444 Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 2445 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. 2446 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time 2447 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 2448 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 2449 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 2450 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 2451 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence 2452 7:30 - SGT 1982 Jan 1 # Singapore Time 2453 8:00 - SGT 2454 2455 # Spratly Is 2456 # no information 2457 2458 # Sri Lanka 2459 2460 # From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2461 # Milne says "Madras mean time use from May 1, 1898. Prior to this Colombo 2462 # mean time, 5h. 4m. 21.9s. F., was used." But 5:04:21.9 differs considerably 2463 # from Colombo's meridian 5:19:24, so for now ignore Milne and stick with 2464 # Shanks and Pottenger. 2465 2466 # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 2467 # "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout" 2468 # (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24, 2469 # no longer available as of 1999-08-17) 2470 # reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at 2471 # midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.'' 2472 # 2473 # From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted 2474 # by Shamindra in 2475 # <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net"> 2476 # Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26) 2477 # </a>: 2478 # With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 2479 # Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. 2480 2481 # From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-14), quoting Sri Lanka News Online 2482 # <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13): 2483 # 0030 hrs on April 15, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006 +30 minutes) 2484 # at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). 2485 2486 # From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: 2487 # <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML> 2488 # [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply 2489 # kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean 2490 # Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. 2491 # From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18): 2492 # People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'], 2493 # as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. 2494 2495 # From K Sethu (2006-04-25): 2496 # I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at 2497 # the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government 2498 # twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization 2499 # agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. 2500 # 2501 # I recollect before the recent change the government annoucemments 2502 # mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka 2503 # Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation. 2504 # 2505 # If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News 2506 # Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they 2507 # use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news 2508 # item.... 2509 # 2510 # Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and 2511 # adminsitrators. In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the 2512 # nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well 2513 # known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are 2514 # slt.lk and sltnet.lk). 2515 # 2516 # But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation 2517 # (that we have not known so far) then it is better that it be used for 2518 # all computers. 2519 2520 # From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): 2521 # One possibility is that we wait for a bit for the dust to settle down 2522 # and then see what people actually say in practice. 2523 2524 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2525 Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 2526 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time 2527 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5 2528 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep 2529 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 2530 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00 2531 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30 2532 6:00 - LKT 2006 Apr 15 0:30 2533 5:30 - IST 2534 2535 # Syria 2536 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2537 Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S 2538 Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 2539 Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S 2540 Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2541 Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 2542 Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 2543 Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2544 Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 2545 Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S 2546 Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2547 Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 2548 Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 - 2549 Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S 2550 Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2551 Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S 2552 Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 - 2553 Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S 2554 Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 - 2555 Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S 2556 Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S 2557 Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2558 Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S 2559 Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 2560 Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 2561 Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 2562 Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S 2563 Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 2564 Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 2565 # IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02; 2566 # (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02, 2567 # 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31; 2568 # (2006) says 2006-03-31 and 2006-09-22; 2569 # for now ignore all these claims and go with Shanks & Pottenger, 2570 # except for the 2006-09-22 claim (which seems right for Ramadan). 2571 Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 2572 Rule Syria 1994 2005 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 2573 Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S 2574 Rule Syria 1999 2006 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 2575 # From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18): 2576 # According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC] 2577 # this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt. 2578 Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 2579 # From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29): 2580 # Today the AP reported "Syria will switch to summertime at midnight Thursday." 2581 # http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Time-Change.php 2582 Rule Syria 2007 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2583 # From Jesper Norgard (2007-10-27): 2584 # The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will 2585 # not take place 1st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1st November at 24:00 or 2586 # rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sense than 2587 # having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the 2588 # weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now 2589 # it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend... 2590 # 2591 # From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-27): 2592 # Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote: 2593 # 2594 # > "Winter local time in Syria will be observed at midnight of Thursday 1 2595 # > November 2007, and the clock will be put back 1 hour." 2596 # 2597 # I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic): 2598 # http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_print_veiw.asp?FileName=12521710520070926111247 2599 # 2600 # which using Google's translate tools says: 2601 # Council of Ministers also approved the commencement of work on 2602 # identifying the winter time as of Friday, 2/11/2007 where the 60th 2603 # minute delay at midnight Thursday 1/11/2007. 2604 Rule Syria 2007 only - Nov Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 2605 2606 # From Stephen Colebourne (2008-03-17): 2607 # For everyone's info, I saw an IATA time zone change for [Syria] for 2608 # this month (March 2008) in the last day or so...This is the data IATA 2609 # are now using: 2610 # Country Time Standard --- DST Start --- --- DST End --- DST 2611 # Name Zone Variation Time Date Time Date 2612 # Variation 2613 # Syrian Arab 2614 # Republic SY +0200 2200 03APR08 2100 30SEP08 +0300 2615 # 2200 02APR09 2100 30SEP09 +0300 2616 # 2200 01APR10 2100 30SEP10 +0300 2617 2618 # From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-17): 2619 # Here's a link to English-language coverage by the Syrian Arab News 2620 # Agency (SANA)... 2621 # <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm"> 2622 # http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm 2623 # </a>...which reads (in part) "The Cabinet approved the suggestion of the 2624 # Ministry of Electricity to begin daylight savings time on Friday April 2625 # 4th, advancing clocks one hour ahead on midnight of Thursday April 3rd." 2626 # Since Syria is two hours east of UTC, the 2200 and 2100 transition times 2627 # shown above match up with midnight in Syria. 2628 2629 # From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): 2630 # My buest guess at a Syrian rule is "the Friday nearest April 1"; 2631 # coding that involves either using a "Mar Fri>=29" construct that old time zone 2632 # compilers can't handle or having multiple Rules (a la Israel). 2633 # For now, use "Apr Fri>=1", and go with IATA on a uniform Sep 30 end. 2634 2635 # From Steffen Thorsen (2008-10-07): 2636 # Syria has now officially decided to end DST on 2008-11-01 this year, 2637 # according to the following article in the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA). 2638 # 2639 # The article is in Arabic, and seems to tell that they will go back to 2640 # winter time on 2008-11-01 at 00:00 local daylight time (delaying/setting 2641 # clocks back 60 minutes). 2642 # 2643 # <a href="http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm"> 2644 # http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm 2645 # </a> 2646 2647 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-19): 2648 # Syria will start DST on 2009-03-27 00:00 this year according to many sources, 2649 # two examples: 2650 # 2651 # <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2009/03/17/217563.htm"> 2652 # http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2009/03/17/217563.htm 2653 # </a> 2654 # (English, Syrian Arab News # Agency) 2655 # <a href="http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=94459258720090318012209"> 2656 # http://thawra.alwehda.gov.sy/_View_news2.asp?FileName=94459258720090318012209 2657 # </a> 2658 # (Arabic, gov-site) 2659 # 2660 # We have not found any sources saying anything about when DST ends this year. 2661 # 2662 # Our summary 2663 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-starts-march-27-2009.html"> 2664 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-starts-march-27-2009.html 2665 # </a> 2666 2667 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-27): 2668 # The Syrian Arab News Network on 2009-09-29 reported that Syria will 2669 # revert back to winter (standard) time on midnight between Thursday 2670 # 2009-10-29 and Friday 2009-10-30: 2671 # <a href="http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2009/09/29/247012.htm"> 2672 # http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2009/09/29/247012.htm (Arabic) 2673 # </a> 2674 2675 # From Arthur David Olson (2009-10-28): 2676 # We'll see if future DST switching times turn out to be end of the last 2677 # Thursday of the month or the start of the last Friday of the month or 2678 # something else. For now, use the start of the last Friday. 2679 2680 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-17): 2681 # The "Syrian News Station" reported on 2010-03-16 that the Council of 2682 # Ministers has decided that Syria will start DST on midnight Thursday 2683 # 2010-04-01: (midnight between Thursday and Friday): 2684 # <a href="http://sns.sy/sns/?path=news/read/11421"> 2685 # http://sns.sy/sns/?path=news/read/11421 (Arabic) 2686 # </a> 2687 2688 # From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-26): 2689 # Today, Syria's government announced that they will start DST early on Friday 2690 # (00:00). This is a bit earlier than the past two years. 2691 # 2692 # From Syrian Arab News Agency, in Arabic: 2693 # <a href="http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2012/03/26/408215.htm"> 2694 # http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2012/03/26/408215.htm 2695 # </a> 2696 # 2697 # Our brief summary: 2698 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html"> 2699 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html 2700 # </a> 2701 2702 # From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-27): 2703 # Assume last Friday in March going forward XXX. 2704 2705 Rule Syria 2008 only - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 2706 Rule Syria 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 2707 Rule Syria 2009 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2708 Rule Syria 2010 2011 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 2709 Rule Syria 2012 max - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2710 Rule Syria 2009 max - Oct lastFri 0:00 0 - 2711 2712 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2713 Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq 2714 2:00 Syria EE%sT 2715 2716 # Tajikistan 2717 # From Shanks & Pottenger. 2718 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2719 Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 2720 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time 2721 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 2722 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s 2723 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time 2724 2725 # Thailand 2726 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2727 Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880 2728 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time 2729 7:00 - ICT 2730 2731 # Turkmenistan 2732 # From Shanks & Pottenger. 2733 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2734 Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad 2735 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time 2736 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 2737 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence 2738 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 2739 5:00 - TMT 2740 2741 # United Arab Emirates 2742 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2743 Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920 2744 4:00 - GST 2745 2746 # Uzbekistan 2747 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2748 Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 2749 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time 2750 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1 2751 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1 2752 6:00 - TAST 1982 Apr 1 # Tashkent Time 2753 5:00 RussiaAsia SAM%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 2754 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 2755 5:00 - UZT 2756 Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 2757 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 2758 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 2759 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 2760 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 2761 5:00 - UZT 2762 2763 # Vietnam 2764 2765 # From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2766 # Milne gives 7:16:56 for the meridian of Saigon in 1899, as being 2767 # used in Lower Laos, Cambodia, and Annam. But this is quite a ways 2768 # from Saigon's location. For now, ignore this and stick with Shanks 2769 # and Pottenger. 2770 2771 # From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18): 2772 # The English-language name of Vietnam's most populous city is "Ho Chi Min City"; 2773 # we use Ho_Chi_Minh below to avoid a name of more than 14 characters. 2774 2775 # From Shanks & Pottenger: 2776 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2777 Zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 2778 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 2779 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 2780 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 2781 7:00 - ICT 2782 2783 # Yemen 2784 2785 # Milne says 2:59:54 was the meridian of the saluting battery at Aden, 2786 # and that Yemen was at 1:55:56, the meridian of the Hagia Sophia. 2787 2788 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2789 Zone Asia/Aden 2:59:54 - LMT 1950 2790 3:00 - AST