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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 # tzdb data for Antarctica and environs 25 26 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 27 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 28 29 # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): 30 # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see 31 # COMNAP - Stations and Bases 32 # http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/ 33 # and 34 # Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 35 # http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm 36 # for information. 37 # Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 38 39 # FORMAT is '-00' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. 40 41 # Argentina - year-round bases 42 # Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 43 # Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 44 # Esperanza, Hope Bay, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 45 # Marambio, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 46 # Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 47 # San Martín, Barry I, -6808-06706, since 1951-03-21 48 # (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) 49 50 # Australia - territories 51 # Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 52 # previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered 53 # Margaret Turner reports 54 # https://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html 55 # (1999-09-30) that they're UT +05, with no DST; 56 # presumably this is when they have visitors. 57 # 58 # year-round bases 59 # Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 60 # Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 61 # (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) 62 # Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 63 64 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): 65 # Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: 66 # Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 67 # Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 68 # Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 69 # The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). 70 # 71 # Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) 72 # http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 73 # 74 # We have more background information here: 75 # https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html 76 77 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 78 # We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ... 79 # 80 # - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. 81 # The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but 82 # has not been decided yet. 83 # 84 # - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 85 # 20:00 UTC. 86 # 87 # - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. 88 # 89 # Background: 90 # https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html 91 92 # From Steffen Thorsen (2016-10-28): 93 # Australian Antarctica Division informed us that Casey changed time 94 # zone to UTC+11 in "the morning of 22nd October 2016". 95 96 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 97 Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - -00 1969 98 8:00 - +08 2009 Oct 18 2:00 99 11:00 - +11 2010 Mar 5 2:00 100 8:00 - +08 2011 Oct 28 2:00 101 11:00 - +11 2012 Feb 21 17:00u 102 8:00 - +08 2016 Oct 22 103 11:00 - +11 2018 Mar 11 4:00 104 8:00 - +08 105 Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - -00 1957 Jan 13 106 7:00 - +07 1964 Nov 107 0 - -00 1969 Feb 108 7:00 - +07 2009 Oct 18 2:00 109 5:00 - +05 2010 Mar 10 20:00u 110 7:00 - +07 2011 Oct 28 2:00 111 5:00 - +05 2012 Feb 21 20:00u 112 7:00 - +07 113 Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - -00 1954 Feb 13 114 6:00 - +06 2009 Oct 18 2:00 115 5:00 - +05 116 # References: 117 # Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 118 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html 119 # Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 120 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html 121 # Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 122 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html 123 124 # Belgium - year-round base 125 # Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 126 127 # Brazil - year-round base 128 # Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 129 130 # Bulgaria - year-round base 131 # St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988 132 133 # Chile - year-round bases and towns 134 # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 135 # Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 136 # O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 137 # Prat, -6230-05941 138 # Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 139 # These locations employ Region of Magallanes time; use 140 # TZ='America/Punta_Arenas'. 141 142 # China - year-round bases 143 # Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 144 # Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 145 146 # France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy") 147 # 148 # From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): 149 # Time data entries are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP 150 # (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). 151 # She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adélie bases 152 # don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adélie supplies came 153 # from Tasmania. 154 # 155 # French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 156 # 157 # Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964; 158 # sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+; 159 # see Indian/Reunion. 160 # 161 # Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 162 # Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; 163 # whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 164 # 165 # St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited 166 # fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 167 # 168 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 169 Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - -00 1950 # Port-aux-Français 170 5:00 - +05 171 # 172 # year-round base in the main continent 173 # Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 174 # <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) 175 # 176 # Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 177 # It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 178 # 179 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 180 Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - -00 1947 181 10:00 - +10 1952 Jan 14 182 0 - -00 1956 Nov 183 10:00 - +10 184 185 # France & Italy - year-round base 186 # Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005 187 188 # Germany - year-round base 189 # Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009 190 191 # India - year-round bases 192 # Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012 193 # Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989 194 195 # Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy") 196 # Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986 197 198 # Japan - year-round bases 199 # Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957 200 # 201 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 202 # In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 203 # 204 # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 205 # was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 206 # station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 207 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 208 Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - -00 1957 Jan 29 209 3:00 - +03 210 # See: 211 # NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 212 # http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html 213 214 # S Korea - year-round base 215 # Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 216 # King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 217 218 # New Zealand - claims 219 # Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 220 # Scott Island (never inhabited) 221 # 222 # year-round base 223 # Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 224 # See Pacific/Auckland. 225 226 # Norway - territories 227 # Bouvet (never inhabited) 228 # 229 # claims 230 # Peter I Island (never inhabited) 231 # 232 # year-round base 233 # Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 234 # 235 # From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): 236 # I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. 237 # In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: 238 # GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March 239 # GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October 240 # GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 241 # GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 242 # The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely 243 # correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. 244 # 245 # From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): 246 # The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tz 2014b or later, so as 247 # suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate 248 # with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. 249 # 250 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 251 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 +01 252 Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 +02 253 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 +01 254 #Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 +00 255 # Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. 256 Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 +00 257 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 258 Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - -00 2005 Feb 12 259 0:00 Troll %s 260 261 # Poland - year-round base 262 # Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 263 264 # Romania - year-bound base 265 # Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 266 267 # Russia - year-round bases 268 # Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 269 # Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 270 # Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, 271 # year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 272 # Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, 273 # year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 274 275 # Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 276 # From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): 277 # http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP 278 # Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 279 # time as Moscow, Russia. 280 # 281 # From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 282 # I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 283 # what they had to say about time there: 284 # "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) 285 # time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 286 # 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 287 # of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The 288 # natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." 289 # 290 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 291 # This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 292 # in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local 293 # time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 294 # changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 295 # solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 296 # happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time 297 # it is at Vostok. But we'll guess +06. 298 # 299 Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - -00 1957 Dec 16 300 6:00 - +06 301 302 # S Africa - year-round bases 303 # Marion Island, -4653+03752 304 # SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997 305 306 # Ukraine - year-round base 307 # Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954 308 309 # United Kingdom 310 # 311 # British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 312 # South Orkney Islands 313 # scientific station from 1903 314 # whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 315 # South Shetland Islands 316 # 317 # year-round bases 318 # Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 319 # Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, 320 # scientific station 1943/1967, 321 # previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, 322 # and a garrison was deployed briefly 323 # Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 324 # Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated 325 # so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. 326 # Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 327 # 328 # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) 329 # <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. 330 # 331 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 332 Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - -00 1976 Dec 1 333 -3:00 - -03 334 335 # Uruguay - year round base 336 # Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 337 338 # USA - year-round bases 339 # 340 # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) 341 # See 'southamerica' for Antarctica/Palmer, since it uses South American DST. 342 # 343 # McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 344 # Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 345 # 346 # From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 347 # Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 348 # stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 349 # but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 350 # as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 351 # which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 352 # at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.) 353 # 354 # From Susan Smith 355 # http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 356 # (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 357 # We use the same time as McMurdo does. 358 # And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 359 # One last quirk about South Pole time. 360 # All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 361 # Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 362 # makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 363 # we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 364 # Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 365 # 366 # See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo.