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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 # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): 29 # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see 30 # <a href="http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/"> 31 # COMNAP - Stations and Bases 32 # </a> 33 # and 34 # <a href="http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm"> 35 # Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 36 # </a> 37 # for information. 38 # Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 39 # 40 # Except for the French entries, 41 # I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! 42 # FORMAT is 'zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. 43 44 # These rules are stolen from the 'southamerica' file. 45 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 46 Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - 47 Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S 48 Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - 49 Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 50 Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 51 Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S 52 Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - 53 Rule ChileAQ 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 54 Rule ChileAQ 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 55 Rule ChileAQ 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 - 56 Rule ChileAQ 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 57 Rule ChileAQ 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S 58 Rule ChileAQ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 59 Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 - 60 Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S 61 Rule ChileAQ 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 62 Rule ChileAQ 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 63 Rule ChileAQ 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - 64 Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 65 Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S 66 Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - 67 Rule ChileAQ 1999 2010 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 68 Rule ChileAQ 2000 2007 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 69 # N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time, 70 # which is used below in specifying the transition. 71 Rule ChileAQ 2008 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - 72 Rule ChileAQ 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 73 Rule ChileAQ 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 - 74 Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 - 75 Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S 76 Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 - 77 Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S 78 79 # Argentina - year-round bases 80 # Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 81 # Esperanza, San Martin Land, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 82 # Jubany, Potter Peninsula, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 83 # Marambio, Seymour I, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 84 # Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 85 # San Martin, Debenham I, -6807-06708, since 1951-03-21 86 # (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) 87 88 # Australia - territories 89 # Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 90 # previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered 91 # <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html"> 92 # Margaret Turner reports 93 # </a> (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST; 94 # presumably this is when they have visitors. 95 # 96 # year-round bases 97 # Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 98 # Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 99 # (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) 100 # Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 101 102 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): 103 # Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: 104 # Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 105 # Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 106 # Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 107 # The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). 108 # 109 # Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) 110 # <a href="http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079"> 111 # http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 112 # </a> 113 # 114 # We have more background information here: 115 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html"> 116 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html 117 # </a> 118 119 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 120 # We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ... 121 # 122 # - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. 123 # The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but 124 # has not been decided yet. 125 # 126 # - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 127 # 20:00 UTC. 128 # 129 # - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. 130 # 131 # Background: 132 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html"> 133 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html 134 # </a> 135 136 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 137 Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - zzz 1969 138 8:00 - WST 2009 Oct 18 2:00 139 # Western (Aus) Standard Time 140 11:00 - CAST 2010 Mar 5 2:00 141 # Casey Time 142 8:00 - WST 2011 Oct 28 2:00 143 11:00 - CAST 2012 Feb 21 17:00u 144 8:00 - WST 145 Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 13 146 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time 147 0 - zzz 1969 Feb 148 7:00 - DAVT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 149 5:00 - DAVT 2010 Mar 10 20:00u 150 7:00 - DAVT 2011 Oct 28 2:00 151 5:00 - DAVT 2012 Feb 21 20:00u 152 7:00 - DAVT 153 Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 154 6:00 - MAWT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 155 # Mawson Time 156 5:00 - MAWT 157 # References: 158 # <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html"> 159 # Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 160 # </a> 161 # <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html"> 162 # Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 163 # </a> 164 # <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html"> 165 # Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 166 # </a> 167 168 # Brazil - year-round base 169 # Comandante Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 170 171 # Chile - year-round bases and towns 172 # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 173 # Presidente Eduadro Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 174 # General Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 175 # Capitan Arturo Prat, -6230-05941 176 # Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 177 # These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. 178 179 # China - year-round bases 180 # Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 181 # Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 182 183 # France - year-round bases 184 # 185 # From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): 186 # Time data are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP 187 # (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). 188 # She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adelie bases 189 # don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adelie supplies came 190 # from Tasmania. 191 # 192 # French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 193 # 194 # Martin-de-Vivies Base, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 195 # Alfred-Faure Base, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964 196 # Port-aux-Francais, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; 197 # whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 198 # 199 # St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited 200 # fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 201 # 202 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 203 Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - zzz 1950 # Port-aux-Francais 204 5:00 - TFT # ISO code TF Time 205 # 206 # year-round base in the main continent 207 # Dumont-d'Urville, Ile des Petrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 208 # 209 # Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 210 # It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 211 # 212 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 213 Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947 214 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time 215 0 - zzz 1956 Nov 216 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time 217 # Reference: 218 # <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station"> 219 # Dumont d'Urville Station (2005-12-05) 220 # </a> 221 222 # Germany - year-round base 223 # Georg von Neumayer, -7039-00815 224 225 # India - year-round base 226 # Dakshin Gangotri, -7005+01200 227 228 # Japan - year-round bases 229 # Dome Fuji, -7719+03942 230 # Syowa, -690022+0393524 231 # 232 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 233 # In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 234 # 235 # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 236 # was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 237 # station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 238 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 239 Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29 240 3:00 - SYOT # Syowa Time 241 # See: 242 # <a href="http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html"> 243 # NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 244 # </a> 245 246 # S Korea - year-round base 247 # King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 248 249 # New Zealand - claims 250 # Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 251 # Scott Island (never inhabited) 252 # 253 # year-round base 254 # Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 255 # See Pacific/Auckland. 256 257 # Norway - territories 258 # Bouvet (never inhabited) 259 # 260 # claims 261 # Peter I Island (never inhabited) 262 # 263 # year-round base 264 # Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 265 # 266 # From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): 267 # I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. 268 # In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: 269 # GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March 270 # GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October 271 # GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 272 # GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 273 # The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely 274 # correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. 275 # 276 # From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): 277 # The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tzcode 2014b or later, so as 278 # suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate 279 # with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. 280 # 281 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 282 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 CET 283 Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 CEST 284 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 CET 285 #Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 UTC 286 # Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. 287 Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 UTC 288 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 289 Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - zzz 2005 Feb 12 290 0:00 Troll %s 291 292 # Poland - year-round base 293 # Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 294 295 # Russia - year-round bases 296 # Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 297 # Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 298 # Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, 299 # year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 300 # Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, 301 # year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 302 303 # Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 304 # <a href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP"> 305 # From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>: 306 # Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 307 # time as Moscow, Russia. 308 # 309 # From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 310 # I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 311 # what they had to say about time there: 312 # "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) 313 # time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 314 # 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 315 # of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The 316 # natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." 317 # 318 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 319 # This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 320 # in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local 321 # time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 322 # changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 323 # solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 324 # happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time 325 # it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6. 326 # 327 Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 328 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time 329 330 # S Africa - year-round bases 331 # Marion Island, -4653+03752 332 # Sanae, -7141-00250 333 334 # UK 335 # 336 # British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 337 # South Orkney Islands 338 # scientific station from 1903 339 # whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 340 # South Shetland Islands 341 # 342 # year-round bases 343 # Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 344 # Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, 345 # scientific station 1943/1967, 346 # previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, 347 # and a garrison was deployed briefly 348 # Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 349 # Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated 350 # so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. 351 # Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 352 # 353 # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) 354 # <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. 355 # 356 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 357 Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 358 -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time 359 360 # Uruguay - year round base 361 # Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 362 363 # USA - year-round bases 364 # 365 # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) 366 # 367 # From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06): 368 # It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us 369 # and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line.... 370 # I verified with someone who was there that since 1980, 371 # Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War, 372 # Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina. 373 # 374 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 375 Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 376 -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 377 -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May 378 -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 379 # 380 # 381 # McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 382 # Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 383 # 384 # From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 385 # Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 386 # stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 387 # but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 388 # as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 389 # which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 390 # at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) 391 # 392 # From Susan Smith 393 # http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 394 # (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 395 # We use the same time as McMurdo does. 396 # And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 397 # One last quirk about South Pole time. 398 # All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 399 # Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 400 # makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 401 # we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 402 # Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 403 # 404 # See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo.