777 Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 778 Rule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 779 Rule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 - 780 Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 781 Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 782 Rule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 783 Rule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 784 Rule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 - 785 Rule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S 786 Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 787 Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 788 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 789 Zone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 790 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China 791 8:00 PRC C%sT 792 793 794 ############################################################################### 795 796 # Cyprus 797 # 798 # Milne says the Eastern Telegraph Company used 2:14:00. Stick with LMT. 799 # 800 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 801 Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S 802 Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 - 803 Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 804 Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 - 805 Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 806 Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 807 Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 808 Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 809 Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 810 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 811 Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 812 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 813 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 814 # IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. 815 816 # Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72. 817 # However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe. 818 Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia 819 820 # Georgia 821 # From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): 822 # Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward 823 # an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, 824 # an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! 825 # We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. 826 # 827 # From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): 828 # Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia 829 # will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, 830 # President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 831 # 832 # From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): 833 # 834 # Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 2550 # http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=154120 2551 # 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 2552 2553 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-24): 2554 # The Gaza and West Bank are ending DST Thursday at midnight 2555 # (2013-09-27 00:00:00) (one hour earlier than last year...). 2556 # This source in English, says "that winter time will go into effect 2557 # at midnight on Thursday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip": 2558 # http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23246 2559 # official source...: 2560 # http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/ar/Views/ViewDetails.aspx?pid=1252 2561 2562 # From Steffen Thorsen (2015-03-03): 2563 # Sources such as http://www.alquds.com/news/article/view/id/548257 2564 # and http://www.raya.ps/ar/news/890705.html say Palestine areas will 2565 # start DST on 2015-03-28 00:00 which is one day later than expected. 2566 # 2567 # From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03): 2568 # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014 2569 # says that the fall 2014 transition was Oct 23 at 24:00. 2570 # For future dates, guess the last Friday in March at 24:00 through 2571 # the first Friday on or after October 21 at 00:00. This is consistent with 2572 # the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs: 2573 # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza 2574 # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron 2575 2576 # From Hannah Kreitem (2016-03-09): 2577 # http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/WebSite/ar/ViewDetails?ID=31728 2578 # [Google translation]: "The Council also decided to start daylight 2579 # saving in Palestine as of one o'clock on Saturday morning, 2580 # 2016-03-26, to provide the clock 60 minutes ahead." 2581 # 2582 # From Paul Eggert (2016-03-12): 2583 # Predict spring transitions on March's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on. 2584 # Leave fall predictions alone for now. 2585 2586 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2587 Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 2588 Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 2589 Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 2590 Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S 2591 Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - 2592 Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - 2593 2594 Rule Palestine 1999 2005 - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S 2595 Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 2596 Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 2597 Rule Palestine 2005 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - 2598 Rule Palestine 2006 2007 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 2599 Rule Palestine 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 2600 Rule Palestine 2007 only - Sep Thu>=8 2:00 0 - 2601 Rule Palestine 2008 2009 - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2602 Rule Palestine 2008 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - 2603 Rule Palestine 2009 only - Sep Fri>=1 1:00 0 - 2604 Rule Palestine 2010 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 2605 Rule Palestine 2010 only - Aug 11 0:00 0 - 2606 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Apr 1 0:01 1:00 S 2607 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - 2608 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 30 0:00 1:00 S 2609 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 2610 Rule Palestine 2012 2014 - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S 2611 Rule Palestine 2012 only - Sep 21 1:00 0 - 2612 Rule Palestine 2013 only - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 - 2613 Rule Palestine 2014 max - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 - 2614 Rule Palestine 2015 only - Mar lastFri 24:00 1:00 S 2615 Rule Palestine 2016 max - Mar lastSat 1:00 1:00 S 2616 2617 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2618 Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 2619 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 2620 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 2621 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 2622 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 2623 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2008 Aug 29 0:00 2624 2:00 - EET 2008 Sep 2625 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2010 2626 2:00 - EET 2010 Mar 27 0:01 2627 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2011 Aug 1 2628 2:00 - EET 2012 2629 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2630 2631 Zone Asia/Hebron 2:20:23 - LMT 1900 Oct 2632 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 2633 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 2634 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 2635 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 2745 # From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted 2746 # by Shamindra in Daily News - Hot News Section 2747 # <news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> (1996-10-26): 2748 # With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 2749 # Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. 2750 2751 # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-04-14), quoting Sri Lanka News Online 2752 # <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13): 2753 # 0030 hrs on April 15, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006 +30 minutes) 2754 # at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). 2755 2756 # From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: 2757 # http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML 2758 # [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply 2759 # kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean 2760 # Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. 2761 # From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18): 2762 # People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'], 2763 # as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. 2764 2765 # From K Sethu (2006-04-25): 2766 # I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at 2767 # the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government 2768 # twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization 2769 # agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard. 2770 # 2771 # I recollect before the recent change the government announcements 2772 # mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka 2773 # Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation. 2774 # 2775 # If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News 2776 # Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they 2777 # use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news 2778 # item.... 2779 # 2780 # Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and 2781 # administrators. In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the 2782 # nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well 2783 # known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are 2784 # slt.lk and sltnet.lk). 2785 # 2786 # But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation 2787 # (that we have not known so far) then it is better that it be used for 2788 # all computers. 2789 2790 # From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): 2791 # One possibility is that we wait for a bit for the dust to settle down 2792 # and then see what people actually say in practice. 2793 2794 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2795 Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 2796 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time 2797 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5 2798 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep 2799 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 2800 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00 2801 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30 2802 6:00 - LKT 2006 Apr 15 0:30 2803 5:30 - IST 2804 2805 # Syria 2806 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2807 Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S 2808 Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 2809 Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S 2810 Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2811 Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 2812 Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 2813 Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2814 Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 2815 Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S 2816 Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2817 Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 2818 Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 - 2819 Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S 2820 Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2821 Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S 2822 Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 - 2823 Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S | 777 Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 778 Rule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 779 Rule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 - 780 Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 781 Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 782 Rule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 783 Rule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 784 Rule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 - 785 Rule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S 786 Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 787 Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 788 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 789 Zone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 790 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China 791 8:00 PRC C%sT 792 793 794 ############################################################################### 795 796 # Cyprus 797 798 # Milne says the Eastern Telegraph Company used 2:14:00. Stick with LMT. 799 # IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. 800 801 # From Paul Eggert (2016-09-09): 802 # Yesterday's Cyprus Mail reports that Northern Cyprus followed Turkey's 803 # lead and switched from +02/+03 to +03 year-round. 804 # http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/09/08/two-time-zones-cyprus-turkey-will-not-turn-clocks-back-next-month/ 805 # 806 # From Even Scharning (2016-10-31): 807 # Looks like the time zone split in Cyprus went through last night. 808 # http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/10/30/cyprus-new-division-two-time-zones-now-reality/ 809 810 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 811 Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S 812 Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 - 813 Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 814 Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 - 815 Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 816 Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 817 Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 818 Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 819 Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 820 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 821 Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 822 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 823 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 824 Zone Asia/Famagusta 2:15:48 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 825 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 826 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 2016 Sep 8 827 3:00 - +03 828 829 # Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72. 830 # However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe. 831 Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia 832 833 # Georgia 834 # From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19): 835 # Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward 836 # an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, 837 # an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! 838 # We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. 839 # 840 # From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): 841 # Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia 842 # will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, 843 # President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 844 # 845 # From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): 846 # 847 # Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 2563 # http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=154120 2564 # 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 2565 2566 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-09-24): 2567 # The Gaza and West Bank are ending DST Thursday at midnight 2568 # (2013-09-27 00:00:00) (one hour earlier than last year...). 2569 # This source in English, says "that winter time will go into effect 2570 # at midnight on Thursday in the West Bank and Gaza Strip": 2571 # http://english.wafa.ps/index.php?action=detail&id=23246 2572 # official source...: 2573 # http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/ar/Views/ViewDetails.aspx?pid=1252 2574 2575 # From Steffen Thorsen (2015-03-03): 2576 # Sources such as http://www.alquds.com/news/article/view/id/548257 2577 # and http://www.raya.ps/ar/news/890705.html say Palestine areas will 2578 # start DST on 2015-03-28 00:00 which is one day later than expected. 2579 # 2580 # From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03): 2581 # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014 2582 # says that the fall 2014 transition was Oct 23 at 24:00. 2583 2584 # From Hannah Kreitem (2016-03-09): 2585 # http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/WebSite/ar/ViewDetails?ID=31728 2586 # [Google translation]: "The Council also decided to start daylight 2587 # saving in Palestine as of one o'clock on Saturday morning, 2588 # 2016-03-26, to provide the clock 60 minutes ahead." 2589 # 2590 # From Paul Eggert (2016-03-12): 2591 # Predict spring transitions on March's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on. 2592 2593 # From Sharef Mustafa (2016-10-19): 2594 # [T]he Palestinian cabinet decision (Mar 8th 2016) published on 2595 # http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/WebSite/Upload/Decree/GOV_17/16032016134830.pdf 2596 # states that summer time will end on Oct 29th at 01:00. 2597 # 2598 # From Tim Parenti (2016-10-19): 2599 # Predict fall transitions on October's last Saturday at 01:00 from now on. 2600 # This is consistent with the 2016 transition as well as our spring 2601 # predictions. 2602 # 2603 # From Paul Eggert (2016-10-19): 2604 # It's also consistent with predictions in the following URLs today: 2605 # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza 2606 # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron 2607 2608 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2609 Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 2610 Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 2611 Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 2612 Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S 2613 Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - 2614 Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - 2615 2616 Rule Palestine 1999 2005 - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S 2617 Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 2618 Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 2619 Rule Palestine 2005 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - 2620 Rule Palestine 2006 2007 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 2621 Rule Palestine 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - 2622 Rule Palestine 2007 only - Sep Thu>=8 2:00 0 - 2623 Rule Palestine 2008 2009 - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S 2624 Rule Palestine 2008 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 - 2625 Rule Palestine 2009 only - Sep Fri>=1 1:00 0 - 2626 Rule Palestine 2010 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 2627 Rule Palestine 2010 only - Aug 11 0:00 0 - 2628 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Apr 1 0:01 1:00 S 2629 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 - 2630 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 30 0:00 1:00 S 2631 Rule Palestine 2011 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 2632 Rule Palestine 2012 2014 - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S 2633 Rule Palestine 2012 only - Sep 21 1:00 0 - 2634 Rule Palestine 2013 only - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 - 2635 Rule Palestine 2014 2015 - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 - 2636 Rule Palestine 2015 only - Mar lastFri 24:00 1:00 S 2637 Rule Palestine 2016 max - Mar lastSat 1:00 1:00 S 2638 Rule Palestine 2016 max - Oct lastSat 1:00 0 - 2639 2640 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2641 Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 2642 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 2643 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 2644 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 2645 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 2646 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2008 Aug 29 0:00 2647 2:00 - EET 2008 Sep 2648 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2010 2649 2:00 - EET 2010 Mar 27 0:01 2650 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2011 Aug 1 2651 2:00 - EET 2012 2652 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 2653 2654 Zone Asia/Hebron 2:20:23 - LMT 1900 Oct 2655 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 2656 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 2657 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 2658 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 2768 # From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted 2769 # by Shamindra in Daily News - Hot News Section 2770 # <news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> (1996-10-26): 2771 # With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 2772 # Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. 2773 2774 # From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-04-14), quoting Sri Lanka News Online 2775 # <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13): 2776 # 0030 hrs on April 15, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006 +30 minutes) 2777 # at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006). 2778 2779 # From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in: 2780 # http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML 2781 # [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply 2782 # kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean 2783 # Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India. 2784 # From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18): 2785 # People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'], 2786 # as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970. 2787 2788 # From Sadika Sumanapala (2016-10-19): 2789 # According to http://www.sltime.org (maintained by Measurement Units, 2790 # Standards & Services Department, Sri Lanka) abbreviation for Sri Lanka 2791 # standard time is SLST. 2792 # 2793 # From Paul Eggert (2016-10-18): 2794 # "SLST" seems to be reasonably recent and rarely-used outside time 2795 # zone nerd sources. I searched Google News and found three uses of 2796 # it in the International Business Times of India in February and 2797 # March of this year when discussing cricket match times, but nothing 2798 # since then (though there has been a lot of cricket) and nothing in 2799 # other English-language news sources. Our old abbreviation "LKT" is 2800 # even worse. For now, let's use a numeric abbreviation; we can 2801 # switch to "SLST" if it catches on. 2802 2803 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2804 Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 2805 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time 2806 5:30 - +0530 1942 Jan 5 2807 5:30 0:30 +0530/+06 1942 Sep 2808 5:30 1:00 +0530/+0630 1945 Oct 16 2:00 2809 5:30 - +0530 1996 May 25 0:00 2810 6:30 - +0630 1996 Oct 26 0:30 2811 6:00 - +06 2006 Apr 15 0:30 2812 5:30 - +0530 2813 2814 # Syria 2815 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2816 Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S 2817 Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 2818 Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S 2819 Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2820 Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 2821 Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 2822 Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2823 Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 2824 Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S 2825 Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2826 Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 2827 Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 - 2828 Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S 2829 Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 2830 Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S 2831 Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 - 2832 Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S |