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# DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
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# Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
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# CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
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# have any questions.
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# <pre>
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# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
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# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
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# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
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# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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#
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# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
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# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
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# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
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#
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# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
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# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
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# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
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# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
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# of the IATA's data after 1990.
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# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
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# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
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#
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# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
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# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
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# I found in the UCLA library.
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#
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# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
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# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
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#
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# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
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# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
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# Corrections are welcome!
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#	     std  dst
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#	     LMT	Local Mean Time
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#	2:00 EET  EEST	Eastern European Time
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#	2:00 IST  IDT	Israel
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#	3:00 AST  ADT	Arabia*
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#	3:30 IRST IRDT	Iran
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#	4:00 GST	Gulf*
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#	5:30 IST	India
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#	7:00 ICT	Indochina*
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#	7:00 WIT	west Indonesia
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#	8:00 CIT	central Indonesia
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#	8:00 CST	China
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#	9:00 CJT	Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
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#	9:00 EIT	east Indonesia
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#	9:00 JST  JDT	Japan
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#	9:00 KST  KDT	Korea
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#	9:30 CST	(Australian) Central Standard Time
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# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
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# From Guy Harris:
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# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
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# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
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# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
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# Worldwide Edition).  The names for time zones are guesses.
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# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	EUAsia	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 1:00u	1:00	S
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Rule	EUAsia	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00u	0	-
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Rule E-EurAsia	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 0:00	1:00	S
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Rule E-EurAsia	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
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Rule E-EurAsia	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 0:00	0	-
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Rule RussiaAsia	1981	1984	-	Apr	1	 0:00	1:00	S
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Rule RussiaAsia	1981	1983	-	Oct	1	 0:00	0	-
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Rule RussiaAsia	1984	1991	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
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Rule RussiaAsia	1985	1991	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
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Rule RussiaAsia	1992	only	-	Mar	lastSat	23:00	1:00	S
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Rule RussiaAsia	1992	only	-	Sep	lastSat	23:00	0	-
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Rule RussiaAsia	1993	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S
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Rule RussiaAsia	1993	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
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Rule RussiaAsia	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
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# Afghanistan
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Asia/Kabul	4:36:48 -	LMT	1890
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# Armenia
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# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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# Shanks & Pottenger have Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST)
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# readopting Russian DST in 1997.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger, even
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# when they disagree with others.  Edgar Der-Danieliantz
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# reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
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# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995.  IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
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# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
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# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Asia/Yerevan	2:58:00 -	LMT	1924 May  2
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			3:00	-	YERT	1957 Mar    # Yerevan Time
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			4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
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			3:00	1:00	YERST	1991 Sep 23 # independence
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			3:00 RussiaAsia	AM%sT	1995 Sep 24 2:00s
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# Azerbaijan
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# From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23):
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# According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997
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# Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Asia/Baku	3:19:24 -	LMT	1924 May  2
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			3:00	-	BAKT	1957 Mar    # Baku Time
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			4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
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			3:00	1:00	BAKST	1991 Aug 30 # independence
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			3:00 RussiaAsia	AZ%sT	1992 Sep lastSat 23:00
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			4:00	-	AZT	1996 # Azerbaijan time
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# Bahrain
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Zone	Asia/Bahrain	3:22:20 -	LMT	1920		# Al Manamah
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# Bangladesh
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Zone	Asia/Dhaka	6:01:40 -	LMT	1890
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			5:53:20	-	HMT	1941 Oct    # Howrah Mean Time?
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			6:30	-	BURT	1942 May 15 # Burma Time
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			6:30	-	BURT	1951 Sep 30
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			6:00	-	DACT	1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time
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# Bhutan
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Zone	Asia/Thimphu	5:58:36 -	LMT	1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu
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# British Indian Ocean Territory
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# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the
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# 1997 and later maps say 6:00.  Assume the switch occurred in 1996.
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# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which
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# then contained the Chagos Archipelago).
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Indian/Chagos	4:49:40	-	LMT	1907
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			5:00	-	IOT	1996 # BIOT Time
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# Brunei
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Zone	Asia/Brunei	7:39:40 -	LMT	1926 Mar   # Bandar Seri Begawan
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			7:30	-	BNT	1933
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# Burma / Myanmar
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			6:30	-	MMT		   # Myanmar Time
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# Cambodia
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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# China
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# From Guy Harris:
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# People's Republic of China.  Yes, they really have only one time zone.
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# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
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# No they don't.  See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52.  Even though
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# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
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# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized.  Since that date, China
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# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
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# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region).  I don't know about DST for it.
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#
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# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
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# painful to suck in another copy..  So, here is what I have for
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# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
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#
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#     1986 May 4 - Sept 14
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#     1987 mid-April - ??
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# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
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# CHINA               8 H  AHEAD OF UTC  ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
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# CHINA               9 H  AHEAD OF UTC  APR 17 - SEP 10
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# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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# Shanks & Pottenger write that China (except for Hong Kong and Macau)
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# has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, observing summer DST
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# from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's
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# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.
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# Go with Shanks & Pottenger for now.  I made up names for the other
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# pre-1980 time zones.
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# From Shanks & Pottenger:
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	Shang	1940	only	-	Jun	 3	0:00	1:00	D
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Rule	Shang	1940	1941	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	S
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Rule	Shang	1941	only	-	Mar	16	0:00	1:00	D
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Rule	PRC	1986	only	-	May	 4	0:00	1:00	D
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Rule	PRC	1986	1991	-	Sep	Sun>=11	0:00	0	S
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# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20):
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# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five
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# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites.  And yes, there are official
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# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949).
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#
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# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-07-14):
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# I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the
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# http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county
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# boundaries summarized below]....  A few other exceptions were two
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# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border,
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# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are
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# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege
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# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6
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# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two
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# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data.
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# From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11):
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# I just now checked Google News for western news sources that talk
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# about China's single time zone, and couldn't find anything before 1986
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# talking about China being in one time zone.  (That article was: Jim
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# Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight
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# time--sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05.  By the way, this
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# article confirms the tz database's data claiming that China began
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# observing daylight saving time in 1986.
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#
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# From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11):
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# I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated 
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# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't 
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# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near 
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# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a 
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# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was 
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# ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s).
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#
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# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
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# There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone in 1949
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# rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a
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# reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with
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# Shanks & Pottenger.
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
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# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin
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Zone	Asia/Harbin	8:26:44	-	LMT	1928 # or Haerbin
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			8:30	-	CHAT	1932 Mar # Changbai Time
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# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time")
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# most of China
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# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area)
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# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan;
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# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong
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# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing,
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# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu.
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Zone	Asia/Chongqing	7:06:20	-	LMT	1928 # or Chungking
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# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time")
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# The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai;
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# the Guangdong counties  Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang,
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# Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi;
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# east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi;
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# east Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe,
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# Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin,
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# Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami,
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# Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan.
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Zone	Asia/Urumqi	5:50:20	-	LMT	1928 # or Urumchi
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# Kunlun Time
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# West Tibet, including Pulan, Aheqi, Shufu, Shule;
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# West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke,
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# Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding,
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# and Yarkand.
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# Hong Kong (Xianggang)
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	HK	1946	only	-	Dec	1	3:30	0	-
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Rule	HK	1948	only	-	May	2	3:30	1:00	S
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Rule	HK	1948	1952	-	Oct	lastSun	3:30	0	-
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Rule	HK	1953	only	-	Nov	1	3:30	0	-
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Rule	HK	1954	1964	-	Mar	Sun>=18	3:30	1:00	S
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Rule	HK	1954	only	-	Oct	31	3:30	0	-
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Rule	HK	1955	1964	-	Nov	Sun>=1	3:30	0	-
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Rule	HK	1965	1977	-	Apr	Sun>=16	3:30	1:00	S
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Rule	HK	1965	1977	-	Oct	Sun>=16	3:30	0	-
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Asia/Hong_Kong	7:36:36 -	LMT	1904 Oct 30
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# Taiwan
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# Shanks & Pottenger write that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it
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# was still controlled by Japan.  This is hard to believe, but we don't
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# have any other information.
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	Taiwan	1952	only	-	Mar	1	0:00	1:00	D
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Rule	Taiwan	1952	1954	-	Nov	1	0:00	0	S
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Rule	Taiwan	1953	1959	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	D
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Rule	Taiwan	1955	1961	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	S
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Rule	Taiwan	1960	1961	-	Jun	1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   359
Rule	Taiwan	1974	1975	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   360
Rule	Taiwan	1974	1975	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   361
Rule	Taiwan	1980	only	-	Jun	30	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   362
Rule	Taiwan	1980	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   363
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   364
Zone	Asia/Taipei	8:06:00 -	LMT	1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   365
			8:00	Taiwan	C%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   366
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   367
# Macau (Macao, Aomen)
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   368
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   369
Rule	Macau	1961	1962	-	Mar	Sun>=16	3:30	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   370
Rule	Macau	1961	1964	-	Nov	Sun>=1	3:30	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   371
Rule	Macau	1963	only	-	Mar	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   372
Rule	Macau	1964	only	-	Mar	Sun>=16	3:30	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   373
Rule	Macau	1965	only	-	Mar	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   374
Rule	Macau	1965	only	-	Oct	31	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   375
Rule	Macau	1966	1971	-	Apr	Sun>=16	3:30	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   376
Rule	Macau	1966	1971	-	Oct	Sun>=16	3:30	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   377
Rule	Macau	1972	1974	-	Apr	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   378
Rule	Macau	1972	1973	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   379
Rule	Macau	1974	1977	-	Oct	Sun>=15	3:30	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   380
Rule	Macau	1975	1977	-	Apr	Sun>=15	3:30	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   381
Rule	Macau	1978	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   382
Rule	Macau	1978	1980	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   383
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   384
Zone	Asia/Macau	7:34:20 -	LMT	1912
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   385
			8:00	Macau	MO%sT	1999 Dec 20 # return to China
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   386
			8:00	PRC	C%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   387
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   388
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
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   389
###############################################################################
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   390
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   391
# Cyprus
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   392
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   393
Rule	Cyprus	1975	only	-	Apr	13	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   394
Rule	Cyprus	1975	only	-	Oct	12	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   395
Rule	Cyprus	1976	only	-	May	15	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   396
Rule	Cyprus	1976	only	-	Oct	11	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   397
Rule	Cyprus	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   398
Rule	Cyprus	1977	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   399
Rule	Cyprus	1978	only	-	Oct	2	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   400
Rule	Cyprus	1979	1997	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   401
Rule	Cyprus	1981	1998	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   402
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   403
Zone	Asia/Nicosia	2:13:28 -	LMT	1921 Nov 14
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   404
			2:00	Cyprus	EE%sT	1998 Sep
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   405
			2:00	EUAsia	EE%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   406
# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   407
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   408
# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   409
# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   410
Link	Asia/Nicosia	Europe/Nicosia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   411
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   412
# Georgia
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   413
# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   414
# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   415
# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   416
# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   417
# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   418
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   419
# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   420
# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   421
# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   422
# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   423
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   424
# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   425
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   426
# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday...  The former Soviet
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   427
# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow.  As a result it
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   428
# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   429
# ahead.  The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   430
# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   431
# of integration into Europe.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   432
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   433
# From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   434
# Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   435
# [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   436
# Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   437
# +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   438
# about it.  As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   439
# because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   440
# I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   441
# DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   442
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   443
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   444
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   445
Zone	Asia/Tbilisi	2:59:16 -	LMT	1880
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   446
			2:59:16	-	TBMT	1924 May  2 # Tbilisi Mean Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   447
			3:00	-	TBIT	1957 Mar    # Tbilisi Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   448
			4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   449
			3:00	1:00	TBIST	1991 Apr  9 # independence
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   450
			3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT	1992 # Georgia Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   451
			3:00 E-EurAsia	GE%sT	1994 Sep lastSun
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   452
			4:00 E-EurAsia	GE%sT	1996 Oct lastSun
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   453
			4:00	1:00	GEST	1997 Mar lastSun
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   454
			4:00 E-EurAsia	GE%sT	2004 Jun 27
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   455
			3:00 RussiaAsia	GE%sT	2005 Mar lastSun 2:00
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   456
			4:00	-	GET
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   457
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   458
# East Timor
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   459
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   460
# See Indonesia for the 1945 transition.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   461
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   462
# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   463
# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   464
# East Timor may be late for its millennium
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   465
# </a> (1999-12-26/31):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   466
# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   467
# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   468
# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   469
# conflicts with their way of life.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   470
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   471
# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   472
# We don't have any record of the above attempt.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   473
# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   474
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   475
# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   476
# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   477
# (2000-08-16)</a>:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   478
# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   479
# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour.  The time change,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   480
# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   481
# midnight on Saturday, September 16.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   482
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   483
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   484
Zone	Asia/Dili	8:22:20 -	LMT	1912
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   485
			8:00	-	TLT	1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   486
			9:00	-	JST	1945 Sep 23
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   487
			9:00	-	TLT	1976 May  3
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   488
			8:00	-	CIT	2000 Sep 17 00:00
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   489
			9:00	-	TLT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   490
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   491
# India
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   492
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1316
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   493
Zone	Asia/Kolkata	5:53:28 -	LMT	1880	# Kolkata
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   494
			5:53:20	-	HMT	1941 Oct    # Howrah Mean Time?
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   495
			6:30	-	BURT	1942 May 15 # Burma Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   496
			5:30	-	IST	1942 Sep
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   497
			5:30	1:00	IST	1945 Oct 15
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   498
			5:30	-	IST
1316
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   499
# The following are like Asia/Kolkata:
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   500
#	Andaman Is
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   501
#	Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   502
#	Nicobar Is
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   503
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   504
# Indonesia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   505
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   506
# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks & Pottenger:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   507
# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime>
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   508
# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01.  Looking at some
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   509
# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   510
# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   511
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   512
# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-10):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   513
# Here is another correction to Shanks & Pottenger.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   514
# JohnTWB writes that Japanese forces did not surrender control in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   515
# Indonesia until 1945-09-01 00:00 at the earliest (in Jakarta) and
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   516
# other formal surrender ceremonies were September 9, 11, and 13, plus
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   517
# September 12 for the regional surrender to Mountbatten in Singapore.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   518
# These would be the earliest possible times for a change.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   519
# Regimes horaires pour le monde entier, by Henri Le Corre, (Editions
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   520
# Traditionnelles, 1987, Paris) says that Java and Madura switched
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   521
# from JST to UTC+07:30 on 1945-09-23, and gives 1944-09-01 for Jayapura
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   522
# (Hollandia).  For now, assume all Indonesian locations other than Jayapura
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   523
# switched on 1945-09-23.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   524
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   525
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   526
Zone Asia/Jakarta	7:07:12 -	LMT	1867 Aug 10
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   527
# Shanks & Pottenger say the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   528
# but this must be a typo.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   529
			7:07:12	-	JMT	1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   530
			7:20	-	JAVT	1932 Nov	 # Java Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   531
			7:30	-	WIT	1942 Mar 23
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   532
			9:00	-	JST	1945 Sep 23
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   533
			7:30	-	WIT	1948 May
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   534
			8:00	-	WIT	1950 May
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   535
			7:30	-	WIT	1964
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   536
			7:00	-	WIT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   537
Zone Asia/Pontianak	7:17:20	-	LMT	1908 May
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   538
			7:17:20	-	PMT	1932 Nov    # Pontianak MT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   539
			7:30	-	WIT	1942 Jan 29
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   540
			9:00	-	JST	1945 Sep 23
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   541
			7:30	-	WIT	1948 May
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   542
			8:00	-	WIT	1950 May
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   543
			7:30	-	WIT	1964
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   544
			8:00	-	CIT	1988 Jan  1
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   545
			7:00	-	WIT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   546
Zone Asia/Makassar	7:57:36 -	LMT	1920
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   547
			7:57:36	-	MMT	1932 Nov    # Macassar MT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   548
			8:00	-	CIT	1942 Feb  9
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   549
			9:00	-	JST	1945 Sep 23
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   550
			8:00	-	CIT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   551
Zone Asia/Jayapura	9:22:48 -	LMT	1932 Nov
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   552
			9:00	-	EIT	1944 Sep  1
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   553
			9:30	-	CST	1964
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   554
			9:00	-	EIT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   555
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   556
# Iran
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   557
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   558
# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   559
# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian).
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   560
# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   561
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   562
#	Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   563
#	No. 16760/T233 H				1370/6/10 [1991-09-01]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   564
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   565
#	The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   566
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   567
#	The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14],
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   568
#	based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   569
#	of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   570
#	and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   571
#	and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   572
#	for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   573
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   574
#	The official time of the country will should move forward one hour
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   575
#	at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   576
#	to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   577
#	Shahrivar.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   578
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   579
#	First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   580
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   581
# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   582
# for at least the last 5 years.  Before that, for a few years, the
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   583
# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   584
# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates....
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   585
# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   586
# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   587
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   588
# From Roozbeh Pournader (2005-04-05):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   589
# The text of the Iranian law, in effect since 1925, clearly mentions
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   590
# that the true solar year is the measure, and there is no arithmetic
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   591
# leap year calculation involved.  There has never been any serious
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   592
# plan to change that law....
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   593
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   594
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   595
# Go with Shanks & Pottenger before Sept. 1991, and with Pournader thereafter.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   596
# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   597
# stopping after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   598
# That cal-persia used Birashk's approximation, which disagrees with the solar
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   599
# calendar predictions for the year 2025, so I corrected those dates by hand.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   600
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   601
# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-03-30), writing about future
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   602
# discrepancies between cal-persia and the Iranian calendar:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   603
# For 2091 solar-longitude-after yields 2091-03-20 08:40:07.7 UT for
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   604
# the vernal equinox and that gets so close to 12:00 some local
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   605
# Iranian time that the definition of the correct location needs to be
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   606
# known exactly, amongst other factors.  2157 is even closer:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   607
# 2157-03-20 08:37:15.5 UT.  But the Gregorian year 2025 should give
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   608
# no interpretation problem whatsoever.  By the way, another instant
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   609
# in the near future where there will be a discrepancy between
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   610
# arithmetical and astronomical Iranian calendars will be in 2058:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   611
# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT.  The Java version of
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   612
# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   613
# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical).
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   614
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   615
# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-03-22):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   616
# Several of my users have reported that Iran will not observe DST anymore:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   617
# http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0603193812164948.htm
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   618
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   619
# From Reuters (2007-09-16), with a heads-up from Jesper Norgaard Welen:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   620
# ... the Guardian Council ... approved a law on Sunday to re-introduce
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   621
# daylight saving time ...
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   622
# http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   623
#
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   624
# From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   625
# This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   626
# Iran, Volume 63, Number 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   627
# [2007-10-16]. I am doing the best translation I can:...
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   628
# The official time of the country will be moved forward for one hour
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   629
# on the 24 hours of the first day of the month of Farvardin and will
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   630
# be changed back to its previous state on the 24 hours of the
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   631
# thirtieth day of Shahrivar.
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   632
#
2
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   633
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   634
Rule	Iran	1978	1980	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   635
Rule	Iran	1978	only	-	Oct	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   636
Rule	Iran	1979	only	-	Sep	19	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   637
Rule	Iran	1980	only	-	Sep	23	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   638
Rule	Iran	1991	only	-	May	 3	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   639
Rule	Iran	1992	1995	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   640
Rule	Iran	1991	1995	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   641
Rule	Iran	1996	only	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   642
Rule	Iran	1996	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   643
Rule	Iran	1997	1999	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   644
Rule	Iran	1997	1999	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   645
Rule	Iran	2000	only	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   646
Rule	Iran	2000	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   647
Rule	Iran	2001	2003	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   648
Rule	Iran	2001	2003	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   649
Rule	Iran	2004	only	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   650
Rule	Iran	2004	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   651
Rule	Iran	2005	only	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   652
Rule	Iran	2005	only	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   653
Rule	Iran	2008	only	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   654
Rule	Iran	2008	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   655
Rule	Iran	2009	2011	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   656
Rule	Iran	2009	2011	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   657
Rule	Iran	2012	only	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   658
Rule	Iran	2012	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   659
Rule	Iran	2013	2015	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   660
Rule	Iran	2013	2015	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   661
Rule	Iran	2016	only	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   662
Rule	Iran	2016	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   663
Rule	Iran	2017	2019	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   664
Rule	Iran	2017	2019	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   665
Rule	Iran	2020	only	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   666
Rule	Iran	2020	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   667
Rule	Iran	2021	2023	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   668
Rule	Iran	2021	2023	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   669
Rule	Iran	2024	only	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   670
Rule	Iran	2024	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   671
Rule	Iran	2025	2027	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   672
Rule	Iran	2025	2027	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   673
Rule	Iran	2028	2029	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   674
Rule	Iran	2028	2029	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   675
Rule	Iran	2030	2031	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   676
Rule	Iran	2030	2031	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   677
Rule	Iran	2032	2033	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   678
Rule	Iran	2032	2033	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   679
Rule	Iran	2034	2035	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   680
Rule	Iran	2034	2035	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   681
Rule	Iran	2036	2037	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   682
Rule	Iran	2036	2037	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   683
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   684
Zone	Asia/Tehran	3:25:44	-	LMT	1916
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   685
			3:25:44	-	TMT	1946	# Tehran Mean Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   686
			3:30	-	IRST	1977 Nov
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   687
			4:00	Iran	IR%sT	1979
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   688
			3:30	Iran	IR%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   689
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   690
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   691
# Iraq
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   692
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   693
# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   694
# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   695
# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   696
# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   697
# are an hour ahead of Baghdad."
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   698
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   699
# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   700
# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   701
# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time.  They referred
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   702
# to daylight saving as Saddam time.  But, as of today, the time zone
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   703
# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   704
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   705
# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   706
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   707
# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-10):
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   708
# The cabinet in Iraq abolished DST last week, according to the following
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   709
# news sources (in Arabic):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   710
# <a href="http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html">
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   711
# http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   712
# </a>
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   713
# <a href="http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10">
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   714
# http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   715
# </a>
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   716
#
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   717
# We have published a short article in English about the change:
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   718
# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html">
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   719
# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   720
# </a>
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   721
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   722
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   723
Rule	Iraq	1982	only	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   724
Rule	Iraq	1982	1984	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   725
Rule	Iraq	1983	only	-	Mar	31	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   726
Rule	Iraq	1984	1985	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   727
Rule	Iraq	1985	1990	-	Sep	lastSun	1:00s	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   728
Rule	Iraq	1986	1990	-	Mar	lastSun	1:00s	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   729
# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   730
# Shanks & Pottenger say Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997; ignore this.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   731
#
1316
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   732
Rule	Iraq	1991	2007	-	Apr	 1	3:00s	1:00	D
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
   733
Rule	Iraq	1991	2007	-	Oct	 1	3:00s	0	S
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   734
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   735
Zone	Asia/Baghdad	2:57:40	-	LMT	1890
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   736
			2:57:36	-	BMT	1918	    # Baghdad Mean Time?
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   737
			3:00	-	AST	1982 May
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   738
			3:00	Iraq	A%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   739
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   740
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   741
###############################################################################
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   742
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   743
# Israel
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   744
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   745
# From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   746
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   747
# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988.  Until then there were three
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   748
# different abbreviations in use:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   749
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   750
# JST  Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   751
# IZT  Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   752
# EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   753
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   754
# Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   755
# I ruled out JST.  As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   756
# EEST was equally unacceptable.  Since "zonal" was not compatible with
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   757
# any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   758
# and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   759
# settings in Israeli computers.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   760
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   761
# In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   762
# high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   763
# family is from India).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   764
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   765
# From Shanks & Pottenger:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   766
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   767
Rule	Zion	1940	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   768
Rule	Zion	1942	1944	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   769
Rule	Zion	1943	only	-	Apr	 1	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   770
Rule	Zion	1944	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   771
Rule	Zion	1945	only	-	Apr	16	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   772
Rule	Zion	1945	only	-	Nov	 1	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   773
Rule	Zion	1946	only	-	Apr	16	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   774
Rule	Zion	1946	only	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   775
Rule	Zion	1948	only	-	May	23	0:00	2:00	DD
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   776
Rule	Zion	1948	only	-	Sep	 1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   777
Rule	Zion	1948	1949	-	Nov	 1	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   778
Rule	Zion	1949	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   779
Rule	Zion	1950	only	-	Apr	16	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   780
Rule	Zion	1950	only	-	Sep	15	3:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   781
Rule	Zion	1951	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   782
Rule	Zion	1951	only	-	Nov	11	3:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   783
Rule	Zion	1952	only	-	Apr	20	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   784
Rule	Zion	1952	only	-	Oct	19	3:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   785
Rule	Zion	1953	only	-	Apr	12	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   786
Rule	Zion	1953	only	-	Sep	13	3:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   787
Rule	Zion	1954	only	-	Jun	13	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   788
Rule	Zion	1954	only	-	Sep	12	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   789
Rule	Zion	1955	only	-	Jun	11	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   790
Rule	Zion	1955	only	-	Sep	11	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   791
Rule	Zion	1956	only	-	Jun	 3	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   792
Rule	Zion	1956	only	-	Sep	30	3:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   793
Rule	Zion	1957	only	-	Apr	29	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   794
Rule	Zion	1957	only	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   795
Rule	Zion	1974	only	-	Jul	 7	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   796
Rule	Zion	1974	only	-	Oct	13	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   797
Rule	Zion	1975	only	-	Apr	20	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   798
Rule	Zion	1975	only	-	Aug	31	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   799
Rule	Zion	1985	only	-	Apr	14	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   800
Rule	Zion	1985	only	-	Sep	15	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   801
Rule	Zion	1986	only	-	May	18	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   802
Rule	Zion	1986	only	-	Sep	 7	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   803
Rule	Zion	1987	only	-	Apr	15	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   804
Rule	Zion	1987	only	-	Sep	13	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   805
Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Apr	 9	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   806
Rule	Zion	1988	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   807
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   808
# From Ephraim Silverberg
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   809
# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   810
# and 2005-02-17):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   811
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   812
# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   813
# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   814
# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   815
# days of daylight savings time annually.  From 1993-1998, the change to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   816
# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   817
# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   818
# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   819
# time.  1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   820
# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   821
# conflicts with the Jewish New Year.  In 1999, the change to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   822
# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   823
# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   824
# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   825
# 1999 only.  In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   826
# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   827
# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST.  Starting in 2001, all
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   828
# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   829
# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   830
# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   831
# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   832
# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   833
# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   834
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   835
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   836
Rule	Zion	1989	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   837
Rule	Zion	1989	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   838
Rule	Zion	1990	only	-	Mar	25	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   839
Rule	Zion	1990	only	-	Aug	26	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   840
Rule	Zion	1991	only	-	Mar	24	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   841
Rule	Zion	1991	only	-	Sep	 1	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   842
Rule	Zion	1992	only	-	Mar	29	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   843
Rule	Zion	1992	only	-	Sep	 6	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   844
Rule	Zion	1993	only	-	Apr	 2	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   845
Rule	Zion	1993	only	-	Sep	 5	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   846
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   847
# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   848
# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel.  The spokeswoman can be reached by
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   849
# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   850
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   851
# Rule	NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   852
Rule	Zion	1994	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   853
Rule	Zion	1994	only	-	Aug	28	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   854
Rule	Zion	1995	only	-	Mar	31	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   855
Rule	Zion	1995	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   856
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   857
# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   858
# time, Haim Ramon.  The official announcement regarding 1996-1998
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   859
# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   860
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   861
#   ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   862
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   863
# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   864
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   865
# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   866
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   867
#   ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   868
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   869
#       where YYYY is the relevant year.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   870
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   871
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   872
Rule	Zion	1996	only	-	Mar	15	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   873
Rule	Zion	1996	only	-	Sep	16	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   874
Rule	Zion	1997	only	-	Mar	21	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   875
Rule	Zion	1997	only	-	Sep	14	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   876
Rule	Zion	1998	only	-	Mar	20	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   877
Rule	Zion	1998	only	-	Sep	 6	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   878
Rule	Zion	1999	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   879
Rule	Zion	1999	only	-	Sep	 3	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   880
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   881
# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   882
# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   883
# years 2001-2004 as well.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   884
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   885
# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   886
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   887
#	ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   888
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   889
# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   890
# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   891
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   892
#	ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   893
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   894
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   895
Rule	Zion	2000	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   896
Rule	Zion	2000	only	-	Oct	 6	1:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   897
Rule	Zion	2001	only	-	Apr	 9	1:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   898
Rule	Zion	2001	only	-	Sep	24	1:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   899
Rule	Zion	2002	only	-	Mar	29	1:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   900
Rule	Zion	2002	only	-	Oct	 7	1:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   901
Rule	Zion	2003	only	-	Mar	28	1:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   902
Rule	Zion	2003	only	-	Oct	 3	1:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   903
Rule	Zion	2004	only	-	Apr	 7	1:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   904
Rule	Zion	2004	only	-	Sep	22	1:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   905
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   906
# The proposed law agreed upon by the Knesset Interior Committee on
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   907
# 2005-02-14 is that, for 2005 and beyond, DST starts at 02:00 the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   908
# last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   909
# 1st itself if it falls on a Friday) and ends at 02:00 on the Saturday
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   910
# night _before_ the fast of Yom Kippur.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   911
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   912
# Those who can read Hebrew can view the announcement at:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   913
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   914
#	ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   915
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   916
# From Paul Eggert (2005-02-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   917
# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   918
# <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (2005-02-20)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   919
# along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   920
# to generate the transitions in this list.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   921
# (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   922
# The spring transitions below all correspond to the following Rule:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   923
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   924
# Rule	Zion	2005	max	-	Mar	Fri>=26	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   925
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   926
# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   927
# "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   928
# springtime transitions explicitly.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   929
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   930
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   931
Rule	Zion	2005	only	-	Apr	 1	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   932
Rule	Zion	2005	only	-	Oct	 9	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   933
Rule	Zion	2006	2010	-	Mar	Fri>=26	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   934
Rule	Zion	2006	only	-	Oct	 1	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   935
Rule	Zion	2007	only	-	Sep	16	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   936
Rule	Zion	2008	only	-	Oct	 5	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   937
Rule	Zion	2009	only	-	Sep	27	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   938
Rule	Zion	2010	only	-	Sep	12	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   939
Rule	Zion	2011	only	-	Apr	 1	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   940
Rule	Zion	2011	only	-	Oct	 2	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   941
Rule	Zion	2012	2015	-	Mar	Fri>=26	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   942
Rule	Zion	2012	only	-	Sep	23	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   943
Rule	Zion	2013	only	-	Sep	 8	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   944
Rule	Zion	2014	only	-	Sep	28	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   945
Rule	Zion	2015	only	-	Sep	20	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   946
Rule	Zion	2016	only	-	Apr	 1	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   947
Rule	Zion	2016	only	-	Oct	 9	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   948
Rule	Zion	2017	2021	-	Mar	Fri>=26	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   949
Rule	Zion	2017	only	-	Sep	24	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   950
Rule	Zion	2018	only	-	Sep	16	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   951
Rule	Zion	2019	only	-	Oct	 6	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   952
Rule	Zion	2020	only	-	Sep	27	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   953
Rule	Zion	2021	only	-	Sep	12	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   954
Rule	Zion	2022	only	-	Apr	 1	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   955
Rule	Zion	2022	only	-	Oct	 2	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   956
Rule	Zion	2023	2032	-	Mar	Fri>=26	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   957
Rule	Zion	2023	only	-	Sep	24	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   958
Rule	Zion	2024	only	-	Oct	 6	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   959
Rule	Zion	2025	only	-	Sep	28	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   960
Rule	Zion	2026	only	-	Sep	20	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   961
Rule	Zion	2027	only	-	Oct	10	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   962
Rule	Zion	2028	only	-	Sep	24	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   963
Rule	Zion	2029	only	-	Sep	16	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   964
Rule	Zion	2030	only	-	Oct	 6	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   965
Rule	Zion	2031	only	-	Sep	21	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   966
Rule	Zion	2032	only	-	Sep	12	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   967
Rule	Zion	2033	only	-	Apr	 1	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   968
Rule	Zion	2033	only	-	Oct	 2	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   969
Rule	Zion	2034	2037	-	Mar	Fri>=26	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   970
Rule	Zion	2034	only	-	Sep	17	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   971
Rule	Zion	2035	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   972
Rule	Zion	2036	only	-	Sep	28	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   973
Rule	Zion	2037	only	-	Sep	13	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   974
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   975
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   976
Zone	Asia/Jerusalem	2:20:56 -	LMT	1880
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   977
			2:20:40	-	JMT	1918	# Jerusalem Mean Time?
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   978
			2:00	Zion	I%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   979
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   980
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   981
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   982
###############################################################################
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   983
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   984
# Japan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   985
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   986
# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   987
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   988
# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   989
# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   990
# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   991
# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.''
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   992
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   993
# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   994
# <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm>:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   995
# Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   996
# [1948-05-01]....  But lack of prior debate and the execution of
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   997
# daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   998
# deep hatred of the concept....  The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   999
# dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1000
# Francisco Peace Treaty was signed.  (A government poll in 1951 showed 53%
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1001
# of the Japanese wanted to scrap daylight-saving time, as opposed to 30% who
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1002
# wanted to keep it.)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1003
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1004
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1005
# Shanks & Pottenger write that DST in Japan during those years was as follows:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1006
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1007
Rule	Japan	1948	only	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1008
Rule	Japan	1948	1951	-	Sep	Sat>=8	2:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1009
Rule	Japan	1949	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1010
Rule	Japan	1950	1951	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1011
# but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1012
# their audience is astrologers) were US military bases.  For now, assume
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1013
# that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1014
# would have been the point of the 1951 poll?
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1015
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1016
# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1017
# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1018
# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1019
# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996'
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1020
# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1021
# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1022
# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1023
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1024
# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1025
# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1026
# which stands for the time on E 135 degree.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1027
# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1028
# standard time".  And the same ordinance also established "western standard
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1029
# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree....  But "western standard
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1030
# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937).  In the ordinance No.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1031
# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1032
# standard....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1033
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1034
# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1035
# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1036
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1037
# Shanks & Pottenger claim JST in use since 1896, and that a few
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1038
# places (e.g. Ishigaki) use +0800; go with Suzuki.  Guess that all
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1039
# ordinances took effect on Jan 1.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1040
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1041
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1042
Zone	Asia/Tokyo	9:18:59	-	LMT	1887 Dec 31 15:00u
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1043
			9:00	-	JST	1896
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1044
			9:00	-	CJT	1938
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1045
			9:00	Japan	J%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1046
# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1047
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1048
# Jordan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1049
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1050
# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1051
# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1052
# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1053
# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1054
# all year round.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1055
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1056
# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1057
# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1058
# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1059
# by one hour.  This is the latest government decision and it's final!
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1060
# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1061
# government's departments from six to seven hours.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1062
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1063
# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1064
# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1065
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1066
# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1067
# For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1068
# about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1069
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1070
# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-10-01), after a heads-up from Hilal Malawi:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1071
# http://www.petranews.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Sep/05/4000.htm
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1072
# "Jordan will switch to winter time on Friday, October 27".
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1073
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1074
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1075
Rule	Jordan	1973	only	-	Jun	6	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1076
Rule	Jordan	1973	1975	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1077
Rule	Jordan	1974	1977	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1078
Rule	Jordan	1976	only	-	Nov	1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1079
Rule	Jordan	1977	only	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1080
Rule	Jordan	1978	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1081
Rule	Jordan	1978	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1082
Rule	Jordan	1985	only	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1083
Rule	Jordan	1985	only	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1084
Rule	Jordan	1986	1988	-	Apr	Fri>=1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1085
Rule	Jordan	1986	1990	-	Oct	Fri>=1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1086
Rule	Jordan	1989	only	-	May	8	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1087
Rule	Jordan	1990	only	-	Apr	27	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1088
Rule	Jordan	1991	only	-	Apr	17	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1089
Rule	Jordan	1991	only	-	Sep	27	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1090
Rule	Jordan	1992	only	-	Apr	10	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1091
Rule	Jordan	1992	1993	-	Oct	Fri>=1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1092
Rule	Jordan	1993	1998	-	Apr	Fri>=1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1093
Rule	Jordan	1994	only	-	Sep	Fri>=15	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1094
Rule	Jordan	1995	1998	-	Sep	Fri>=15	0:00s	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1095
Rule	Jordan	1999	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00s	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1096
Rule	Jordan	1999	2002	-	Sep	lastThu	0:00s	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1097
Rule	Jordan	2000	max	-	Mar	lastThu	0:00s	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1098
Rule	Jordan	2003	only	-	Oct	24	0:00s	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1099
Rule	Jordan	2004	only	-	Oct	15	0:00s	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1100
Rule	Jordan	2005	only	-	Sep	lastFri	0:00s	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1101
Rule	Jordan	2006	max	-	Oct	lastFri	0:00s	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1102
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1103
Zone	Asia/Amman	2:23:44 -	LMT	1931
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1104
			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1105
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1106
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1107
# Kazakhstan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1108
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1109
# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1110
# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1111
# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1112
# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1113
# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1114
# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1115
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1116
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1117
# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1118
# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1119
# Go with Shanks & Pottenger, who have them always using RussiaAsia rules.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1120
# Also go with the following claims of Shanks & Pottenger:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1121
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1122
# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1123
# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1124
# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1125
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1126
# <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1127
# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1128
# </a>
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1129
# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1130
# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1131
# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1132
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1133
# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1134
# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1135
# was "blended" with the Central zone.  Therefore, Kazakhstan now has
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1136
# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour.  The zone
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1137
# closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1138
# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1139
# Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan.  The other zone encompasses
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1140
# everything else....  I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1141
# de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1142
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1143
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1144
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1145
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1146
# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1147
Zone	Asia/Almaty	5:07:48 -	LMT	1924 May  2 # or Alma-Ata
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1148
			5:00	-	ALMT	1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1149
			6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT	1991
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1150
			6:00	-	ALMT	1992
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1151
			6:00 RussiaAsia	ALM%sT	2005 Mar 15
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1152
			6:00	-	ALMT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1153
# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1154
Zone	Asia/Qyzylorda	4:21:52 -	LMT	1924 May  2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1155
			4:00	-	KIZT	1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1156
			5:00	-	KIZT	1981 Apr  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1157
			5:00	1:00	KIZST	1981 Oct  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1158
			6:00	-	KIZT	1982 Apr  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1159
			5:00 RussiaAsia	KIZ%sT	1991
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1160
			5:00	-	KIZT	1991 Dec 16 # independence
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1161
			5:00	-	QYZT	1992 Jan 19 2:00
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1162
			6:00 RussiaAsia	QYZ%sT	2005 Mar 15
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1163
			6:00	-	QYZT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1164
# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1165
Zone	Asia/Aqtobe	3:48:40	-	LMT	1924 May  2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1166
			4:00	-	AKTT	1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1167
			5:00	-	AKTT	1981 Apr  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1168
			5:00	1:00	AKTST	1981 Oct  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1169
			6:00	-	AKTT	1982 Apr  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1170
			5:00 RussiaAsia	AKT%sT	1991
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1171
			5:00	-	AKTT	1991 Dec 16 # independence
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1172
			5:00 RussiaAsia	AQT%sT	2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1173
			5:00	-	AQTT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1174
# Mangghystau
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1175
# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1176
# so include time stamps before 1963.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1177
Zone	Asia/Aqtau	3:21:04	-	LMT	1924 May  2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1178
			4:00	-	FORT	1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1179
			5:00	-	FORT	1963
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1180
			5:00	-	SHET	1981 Oct  1 # Shevchenko Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1181
			6:00	-	SHET	1982 Apr  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1182
			5:00 RussiaAsia	SHE%sT	1991
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1183
			5:00	-	SHET	1991 Dec 16 # independence
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1184
			5:00 RussiaAsia	AQT%sT	1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1185
			4:00 RussiaAsia	AQT%sT	2005 Mar 15
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1186
			5:00	-	AQTT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1187
# West Kazakhstan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1188
Zone	Asia/Oral	3:25:24	-	LMT	1924 May  2 # or Ural'sk
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1189
			4:00	-	URAT	1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1190
			5:00	-	URAT	1981 Apr  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1191
			5:00	1:00	URAST	1981 Oct  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1192
			6:00	-	URAT	1982 Apr  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1193
			5:00 RussiaAsia	URA%sT	1989 Mar 26 2:00
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1194
			4:00 RussiaAsia	URA%sT	1991
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1195
			4:00	-	URAT	1991 Dec 16 # independence
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1196
			4:00 RussiaAsia	ORA%sT	2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1197
			5:00	-	ORAT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1198
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1199
# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1200
# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks & Pottenger.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1201
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1202
# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1203
# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1204
# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml>
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1205
# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system.  I take the article
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1206
# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1207
# From Malik Abdugaliev (2005-09-21):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1208
# Our government cancels daylight saving time 6th of August 2005.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1209
# From 2005-08-12 our GMT-offset is +6, w/o any daylight saving.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1210
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1211
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1212
Rule	Kyrgyz	1992	1996	-	Apr	Sun>=7	0:00s	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1213
Rule	Kyrgyz	1992	1996	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1214
Rule	Kyrgyz	1997	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:30	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1215
Rule	Kyrgyz	1997	2004	-	Oct	lastSun	2:30	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1216
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1217
Zone	Asia/Bishkek	4:58:24 -	LMT	1924 May  2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1218
			5:00	-	FRUT	1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1219
			6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1220
			5:00	1:00	FRUST	1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1221
			5:00	Kyrgyz	KG%sT	2005 Aug 12    # Kyrgyzstan Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1222
			6:00	-	KGT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1223
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1224
###############################################################################
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1225
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1226
# Korea (North and South)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1227
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1228
# From Annie I. Bang (2006-07-10) in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1229
# <http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/07/10/200607100012.asp>:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1230
# The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy has already
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1231
# commissioned a research project [to reintroduce DST] and has said
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1232
# the system may begin as early as 2008....  Korea ran a daylight
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1233
# saving program from 1949-61 but stopped it during the 1950-53 Korean War.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1234
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1235
# From Shanks & Pottenger:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1236
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1237
Rule	ROK	1960	only	-	May	15	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1238
Rule	ROK	1960	only	-	Sep	13	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1239
Rule	ROK	1987	1988	-	May	Sun>=8	0:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1240
Rule	ROK	1987	1988	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1241
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1242
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1243
Zone	Asia/Seoul	8:27:52	-	LMT	1890
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1244
			8:30	-	KST	1904 Dec
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1245
			9:00	-	KST	1928
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1246
			8:30	-	KST	1932
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1247
			9:00	-	KST	1954 Mar 21
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1248
			8:00	ROK	K%sT	1961 Aug 10
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1249
			8:30	-	KST	1968 Oct
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1250
			9:00	ROK	K%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1251
Zone	Asia/Pyongyang	8:23:00 -	LMT	1890
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1252
			8:30	-	KST	1904 Dec
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1253
			9:00	-	KST	1928
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1254
			8:30	-	KST	1932
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1255
			9:00	-	KST	1954 Mar 21
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1256
			8:00	-	KST	1961 Aug 10
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1257
			9:00	-	KST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1258
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1259
###############################################################################
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1260
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1261
# Kuwait
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1262
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1263
# From the Arab Times (2007-03-14):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1264
# The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has approved a proposal forwarded
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1265
# by MP Ahmad Baqer on implementing the daylight saving time (DST) in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1266
# Kuwait starting from April until the end of Sept this year, reports Al-Anba.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1267
# <http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/kuwait/Viewdet.asp?ID=9950>.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1268
# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1269
# We don't know the details, or whether the approval means it'll happen,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1270
# so for now we assume no DST.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1271
Zone	Asia/Kuwait	3:11:56 -	LMT	1950
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1272
			3:00	-	AST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1273
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1274
# Laos
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1275
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1276
Zone	Asia/Vientiane	6:50:24 -	LMT	1906 Jun  9 # or Viangchan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1277
			7:06:20	-	SMT	1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1278
			7:00	-	ICT	1912 May
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1279
			8:00	-	ICT	1931 May
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1280
			7:00	-	ICT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1281
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1282
# Lebanon
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1283
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1284
Rule	Lebanon	1920	only	-	Mar	28	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1285
Rule	Lebanon	1920	only	-	Oct	25	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1286
Rule	Lebanon	1921	only	-	Apr	3	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1287
Rule	Lebanon	1921	only	-	Oct	3	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1288
Rule	Lebanon	1922	only	-	Mar	26	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1289
Rule	Lebanon	1922	only	-	Oct	8	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1290
Rule	Lebanon	1923	only	-	Apr	22	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1291
Rule	Lebanon	1923	only	-	Sep	16	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1292
Rule	Lebanon	1957	1961	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1293
Rule	Lebanon	1957	1961	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1294
Rule	Lebanon	1972	only	-	Jun	22	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1295
Rule	Lebanon	1972	1977	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1296
Rule	Lebanon	1973	1977	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1297
Rule	Lebanon	1978	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1298
Rule	Lebanon	1978	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1299
Rule	Lebanon	1984	1987	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1300
Rule	Lebanon	1984	1991	-	Oct	16	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1301
Rule	Lebanon	1988	only	-	Jun	1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1302
Rule	Lebanon	1989	only	-	May	10	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1303
Rule	Lebanon	1990	1992	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1304
Rule	Lebanon	1992	only	-	Oct	4	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1305
Rule	Lebanon	1993	max	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1306
Rule	Lebanon	1993	1998	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1307
Rule	Lebanon	1999	max	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1308
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1309
Zone	Asia/Beirut	2:22:00 -	LMT	1880
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1310
			2:00	Lebanon	EE%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1311
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1312
# Malaysia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1313
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1314
Rule	NBorneo	1935	1941	-	Sep	14	0:00	0:20	TS # one-Third Summer
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1315
Rule	NBorneo	1935	1941	-	Dec	14	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1316
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1317
# peninsular Malaysia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1318
# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1319
# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1320
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1321
Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur	6:46:46 -	LMT	1901 Jan  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1322
			6:55:25	-	SMT	1905 Jun  1 # Singapore M.T.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1323
			7:00	-	MALT	1933 Jan  1 # Malaya Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1324
			7:00	0:20	MALST	1936 Jan  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1325
			7:20	-	MALT	1941 Sep  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1326
			7:30	-	MALT	1942 Feb 16
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1327
			9:00	-	JST	1945 Sep 12
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1328
			7:30	-	MALT	1982 Jan  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1329
			8:00	-	MYT	# Malaysia Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1330
# Sabah & Sarawak
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1331
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1332
# The data here are mostly from Shanks & Pottenger, but the 1942, 1945 and 1982
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1333
# transition dates are from Mok Ly Yng.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1334
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1335
Zone Asia/Kuching	7:21:20	-	LMT	1926 Mar
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1336
			7:30	-	BORT	1933	# Borneo Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1337
			8:00	NBorneo	BOR%sT	1942 Feb 16
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1338
			9:00	-	JST	1945 Sep 12
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1339
			8:00	-	BORT	1982 Jan  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1340
			8:00	-	MYT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1341
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1342
# Maldives
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1343
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1344
Zone	Indian/Maldives	4:54:00 -	LMT	1880	# Male
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1345
			4:54:00	-	MMT	1960	# Male Mean Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1346
			5:00	-	MVT		# Maldives Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1347
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1348
# Mongolia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1349
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1350
# Shanks & Pottenger say that Mongolia has three time zones, but
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1351
# usno1995 and the CIA map Standard Time Zones of the World (2005-03)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1352
# both say that it has just one.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1353
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1354
# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1355
# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1356
# General Information Mongolia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1357
# </a> (1999-09)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1358
# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1359
# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1360
# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1361
# eight hours."
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1362
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1363
# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1364
# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1365
# being the last year it was implemented.  The dates of implementation I am
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1366
# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1367
# of implementation may have been different....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1368
# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1369
# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1370
# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1371
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1372
# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1373
# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1374
# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone;
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1375
# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1376
# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1377
# is good enough for our purposes.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1378
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1379
# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1380
# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1381
# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28),
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1382
# there are three time zones.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1383
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1384
# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1385
# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1386
#	Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1387
# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1388
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1389
# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1390
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1391
# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1392
# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1393
# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1394
# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1395
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1396
# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1397
# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1398
# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1399
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1400
# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1401
# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1402
# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1403
# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1404
# Windows XP as the source.  Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1405
# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1406
# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1407
# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1408
# He also found
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1409
# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&>
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1410
# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius"
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1411
# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1412
# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1413
# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1414
# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1415
# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session."
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1416
# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1417
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1418
# From Ganbold Ts. (2007-02-26):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1419
# Parliament of Mongolia has just changed the daylight-saving rule in February.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1420
# They decided not to adopt daylight-saving time....
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1421
# http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1422
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1423
# From Deborah Goldsmith (2008-03-30):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1424
# We received a bug report claiming that the tz database UTC offset for
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1425
# Asia/Choibalsan (GMT+09:00) is incorrect, and that it should be GMT
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1426
# +08:00 instead. Different sources appear to disagree with the tz
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1427
# database on this, e.g.:
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1428
#
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1429
# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026">
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1430
# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1431
# </a>
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1432
# <a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx">
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1433
# http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1434
# </a>
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1435
#
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1436
# both say GMT+08:00.
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1437
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1438
# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-31):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1439
# eznis airways, which operates several domestic flights, has a flight
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1440
# schedule here:
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1441
# <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112">
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1442
# http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1443
# </a>
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1444
# (click the English flag for English)
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1445
#
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1446
# There it appears that flights between Choibalsan and Ulaanbatar arrive
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1447
# about 1:35 - 1:50 hours later in local clock time, no matter the
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1448
# direction, while Ulaanbaatar-Khvod takes 2 hours in the Eastern
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1449
# direction and 3:35 back, which indicates that Ulaanbatar and Khvod are
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1450
# in different time zones (like we know about), while Choibalsan and
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1451
# Ulaanbatar are in the same time zone (correction needed).
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1452
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1453
# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1454
# Assume that Choibalsan is indeed offset by 8:00.
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1455
# XXX--in the absence of better information, assume that transition
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1456
# was at the start of 2008-03-31 (the day of Steffen Thorsen's report);
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1457
# this is almost surely wrong.
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1458
2
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1459
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1460
Rule	Mongol	1983	1984	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1461
Rule	Mongol	1983	only	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1462
# Shanks & Pottenger and IATA SSIM say 1990s switches occurred at 00:00,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1463
# but McDow says the 2001 switches occurred at 02:00.  Also, IATA SSIM
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1464
# (1996-09) says 1996-10-25.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger through 1998.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1465
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1466
# Shanks & Pottenger say that the Sept. 1984 through Sept. 1990 switches
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1467
# in Choibalsan (more precisely, in Dornod and Sukhbaatar) took place
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1468
# at 02:00 standard time, not at 00:00 local time as in the rest of
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1469
# the country.  That would be odd, and possibly is a result of their
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1470
# correction of 02:00 (in the previous edition) not being done correctly
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1471
# in the latest edition; so ignore it for now.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1472
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1473
Rule	Mongol	1985	1998	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00	1:00	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1474
Rule	Mongol	1984	1998	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1475
# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1476
Rule	Mongol	2001	only	-	Apr	lastSat	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1477
Rule	Mongol	2001	2006	-	Sep	lastSat	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1478
Rule	Mongol	2002	2006	-	Mar	lastSat	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1479
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1480
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1481
# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1482
Zone	Asia/Hovd	6:06:36 -	LMT	1905 Aug
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1483
			6:00	-	HOVT	1978	# Hovd Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1484
			7:00	Mongol	HOV%sT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1485
# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1486
Zone	Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 -	LMT	1905 Aug
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1487
			7:00	-	ULAT	1978	# Ulaanbaatar Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1488
			8:00	Mongol	ULA%sT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1489
# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1490
# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1491
Zone	Asia/Choibalsan	7:38:00 -	LMT	1905 Aug
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1492
			7:00	-	ULAT	1978
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1493
			8:00	-	ULAT	1983 Apr
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1494
			9:00	Mongol	CHO%sT	2008 Mar 31 # Choibalsan Time
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1495
			8:00	Mongol	CHO%sT
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1496
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1497
# Nepal
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1498
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1499
Zone	Asia/Katmandu	5:41:16 -	LMT	1920
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1500
			5:30	-	IST	1986
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1501
			5:45	-	NPT	# Nepal Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1502
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1503
# Oman
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1504
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1505
Zone	Asia/Muscat	3:54:20 -	LMT	1920
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1506
			4:00	-	GST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1507
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1508
# Pakistan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1509
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1510
# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1511
# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1512
# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1513
# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002.  This is what I was
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1514
# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1515
# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1516
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1517
# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1518
# Jesper Norgaard found this URL:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1519
# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1520
# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1521
# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1522
# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1523
# 15th October each year".  This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1524
# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1525
# it's not on a trial basis.  Also, the "between the first Saturday
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1526
# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1527
# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1528
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1529
# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1530
# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1531
# that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight.  Go with McDow for now.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1532
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1533
# From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1534
# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1535
# there will be no DST in Pakistan this year:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1536
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1537
# ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1538
# Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1539
# decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1540
# one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1541
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1542
# The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1543
# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1544
1316
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1545
# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-15):
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1546
# 
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1547
# Here is an article that Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time 
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1548
# on June 1, 2008 for 3 months.
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1549
# 
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1550
# "... The federal cabinet on Wednesday announced a new conservation plan to help 
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1551
# reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at 9pm and 
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1552
# moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months. 
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1553
# ...."
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1554
# 
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1555
# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html">
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1556
# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1557
# </a>
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1558
# OR
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1559
# <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4">
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1560
# http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1561
# </a>
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1562
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1563
# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19):
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1564
# XXX--midnight transitions is a guess; 2008 only is a guess.
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1565
1831
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1566
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28):
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1567
# Pakistan government has decided to keep the watches one-hour advanced
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1568
# for another 2 months--plan to return to Standard Time on October 31
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1569
# instead of August 31.
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1570
#
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1571
# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html">
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1572
# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1573
# </a>
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1574
# OR
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1575
# <a href="http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html">
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1576
# http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1577
# </a>
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1578
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1579
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1580
Rule Pakistan	2002	only	-	Apr	Sun>=2	0:01	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1581
Rule Pakistan	2002	only	-	Oct	Sun>=2	0:01	0	-
1316
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1582
Rule Pakistan	2008	only	-	Jun	1	0:00	1:00	S
1831
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1583
Rule Pakistan	2008	only	-	Nov	1	0:00	0	-
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1584
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1585
Zone	Asia/Karachi	4:28:12 -	LMT	1907
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1586
			5:30	-	IST	1942 Sep
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1587
			5:30	1:00	IST	1945 Oct 15
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1588
			5:30	-	IST	1951 Sep 30
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1589
			5:00	-	KART	1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1590
			5:00 Pakistan	PK%sT	# Pakistan Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1591
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1592
# Palestine
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1593
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1594
# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1595
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1596
# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1597
# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1598
# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1599
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1600
# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1601
# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1602
# time zone was affected then).  It was never formally annexed to Egypt,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1603
# though.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1604
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1605
# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1606
# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1607
# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1608
# Trans-Jordan").  So the rules for Jordan for that time apply.  Major
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1609
# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1610
# East Jerusalem.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1611
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1612
# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1613
# for East Jerusalem).  They were on Israel time since then; there might
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1614
# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1615
# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1616
# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1617
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1618
# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1619
# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995.  I know that in order to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1620
# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1621
# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1622
# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1623
# Jordanian one).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1624
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1625
# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1626
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1627
# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1628
# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1629
# Israel      | Zion      | Zion      | Zion      | Zion
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1630
# West bank   | Zion      | Jordan    | Zion      | Jordan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1631
# Gaza        | Zion      | Egypt     | Zion      | Jordan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1632
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1633
# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1634
# have one).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1635
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1636
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1637
# Shanks & Pottenger write that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but go
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1638
# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1639
# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1640
# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1641
# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1642
# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1643
# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1644
# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1645
# to Palestine's rules.  If you have more info about this, please
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1646
# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1647
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1648
# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1649
# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1650
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1651
# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1652
# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1653
# one-hour forward at this time.  As a sign of independence from Israeli rule,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1654
# the PA has decided to implement DST in April.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1655
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1656
# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1657
# Daoud Kuttab writes in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1658
# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1659
# Holiday havoc
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1660
# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1661
# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1662
# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1663
# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1664
# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1665
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1666
# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1667
# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1668
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1669
# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1670
# A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1671
# the Ramadan.  Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1672
# there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1673
# earlier--the same goes for Jordan.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1674
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1675
# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1676
# I was informed by a user in Bethlehem that in Bethlehem it started the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1677
# same day as Israel, and after checking with other users in the area, I
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1678
# was informed that they started DST one day after Israel.  I was not
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1679
# able to find any authoritative sources at the time, nor details if
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1680
# Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1681
# the West Bank.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1682
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1683
# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-26):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1684
# according to the Palestine News Network (2006-09-19):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1685
# http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=596&Itemid=5
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1686
# > The Council of Ministers announced that this year its winter schedule
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1687
# > will begin early, as of midnight Thursday.  It is also time to turn
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1688
# > back the clocks for winter.  Friday will begin an hour late this week.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1689
# I guess it is likely that next year's date will be moved as well,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1690
# because of the Ramadan.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1691
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1692
# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2007-09-18):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1693
# According to Steffen Thorsen's web site the Gaza Strip and the rest of the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1694
# Palestinian territories left DST early on 13.th. of September at 2:00.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1695
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1696
# From Paul Eggert (2007-09-20):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1697
# My understanding is that Gaza and the West Bank disagree even over when
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1698
# the weekend is (Thursday+Friday versus Friday+Saturday), so I'd be a bit
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1699
# surprised if they agreed about DST.  But for now, assume they agree.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1700
# For lack of better information, predict that future changes will be
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1701
# the 2nd Thursday of September at 02:00.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1702
1831
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1703
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28):
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1704
# Here is an article, that Mideast running on different clocks at Ramadan.
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1705
#
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1706
# Gaza Strip (as Egypt) ended DST at midnight Thursday (Aug 28, 2008), while
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1707
# the West Bank will end Daylight Saving Time at midnight Sunday (Aug 31, 2008).
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1708
#
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1709
# <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001">
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1710
# http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1711
# </a>
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1712
# <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087">
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1713
# http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1714
# </a>
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1715
# or
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1716
# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html">
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1717
# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1718
# </a>
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1719
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1720
# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1721
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1722
Rule EgyptAsia	1957	only	-	May	10	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1723
Rule EgyptAsia	1957	1958	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1724
Rule EgyptAsia	1958	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1725
Rule EgyptAsia	1959	1967	-	May	 1	1:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1726
Rule EgyptAsia	1959	1965	-	Sep	30	3:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1727
Rule EgyptAsia	1966	only	-	Oct	 1	3:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1728
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1729
Rule Palestine	1999	2005	-	Apr	Fri>=15	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1730
Rule Palestine	1999	2003	-	Oct	Fri>=15	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1731
Rule Palestine	2004	only	-	Oct	 1	1:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1732
Rule Palestine	2005	only	-	Oct	 4	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1733
Rule Palestine	2006	max	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1734
Rule Palestine	2006	only	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	-
1831
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1735
Rule Palestine	2007	only	-	Sep	Thu>=8	2:00	0	-
c9effd4226ea 6756569: (tz) Support tzdata2008g
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1736
Rule Palestine	2008	max	-	Aug	lastThu	2:00	0	-
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1737
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1738
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1739
Zone	Asia/Gaza	2:17:52	-	LMT	1900 Oct
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1740
			2:00	Zion	EET	1948 May 15
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1741
			2:00 EgyptAsia	EE%sT	1967 Jun  5
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1742
			2:00	Zion	I%sT	1996
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1743
			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT	1999
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1744
			2:00 Palestine	EE%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1745
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1746
# Paracel Is
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1747
# no information
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1748
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1749
# Philippines
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1750
# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1751
# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1752
# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01.  Robert H. van Gent has a
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1753
# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1754
# The rest of the data are from Shanks & Pottenger.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1755
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1756
# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1757
# Tomorrow's Manila Standard reports that the Philippines Department of
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1758
# Trade and Industry is considering adopting DST this June when the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1759
# rainy season begins.  See
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1760
# <http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics02_april26_2006>.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1761
# For now, we'll ignore this, since it's not definite and we lack details.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1762
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1763
# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-26):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1764
# ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1765
# http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1766
# [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1767
# but no details]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1768
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1769
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1770
Rule	Phil	1936	only	-	Nov	1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1771
Rule	Phil	1937	only	-	Feb	1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1772
Rule	Phil	1954	only	-	Apr	12	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1773
Rule	Phil	1954	only	-	Jul	1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1774
Rule	Phil	1978	only	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1775
Rule	Phil	1978	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1776
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1777
Zone	Asia/Manila	-15:56:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1778
			8:04:00 -	LMT	1899 May 11
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1779
			8:00	Phil	PH%sT	1942 May
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1780
			9:00	-	JST	1944 Nov
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1781
			8:00	Phil	PH%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1782
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1783
# Qatar
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1784
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1785
Zone	Asia/Qatar	3:26:08 -	LMT	1920	# Al Dawhah / Doha
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1786
			4:00	-	GST	1972 Jun
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1787
			3:00	-	AST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1788
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1789
# Saudi Arabia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1790
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1791
Zone	Asia/Riyadh	3:06:52 -	LMT	1950
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1792
			3:00	-	AST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1793
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1794
# Singapore
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1795
# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1796
# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1797
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1798
Zone	Asia/Singapore	6:55:25 -	LMT	1901 Jan  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1799
			6:55:25	-	SMT	1905 Jun  1 # Singapore M.T.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1800
			7:00	-	MALT	1933 Jan  1 # Malaya Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1801
			7:00	0:20	MALST	1936 Jan  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1802
			7:20	-	MALT	1941 Sep  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1803
			7:30	-	MALT	1942 Feb 16
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1804
			9:00	-	JST	1945 Sep 12
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1805
			7:30	-	MALT	1965 Aug  9 # independence
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1806
			7:30	-	SGT	1982 Jan  1 # Singapore Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1807
			8:00	-	SGT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1808
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1809
# Spratly Is
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1810
# no information
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1811
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1812
# Sri Lanka
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1813
# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1814
# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout"
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1815
# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1816
# no longer available as of 1999-08-17)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1817
# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1818
# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.''
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1819
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1820
# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1821
# by Shamindra in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1822
# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1823
# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1824
# </a>:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1825
# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1826
# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1827
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1828
# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-14), quoting Sri Lanka News Online
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1829
# <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1830
# 0030 hrs on April 15, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006 +30 minutes)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1831
# at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1832
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1833
# From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1834
# <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML>
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1835
# [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1836
# kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1837
# Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1838
# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18):
1316
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1839
# People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'],
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1840
# as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1841
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1842
# From K Sethu (2006-04-25):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1843
# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1844
# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1845
# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1846
# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1847
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1848
# I recollect before the recent change the government annoucemments
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1849
# mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1850
# Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1851
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1852
# If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1853
# Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1854
# use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1855
# item....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1856
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1857
# Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1858
# adminsitrators.  In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1859
# nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1860
# known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1861
# slt.lk and sltnet.lk).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1862
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1863
# But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1864
# (that we have not known so far) then  it is better that it be used for
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1865
# all computers.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1866
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1867
# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1868
# One possibility is that we wait for a bit for the dust to settle down
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1869
# and then see what people actually say in practice.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1870
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1871
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1872
Zone	Asia/Colombo	5:19:24 -	LMT	1880
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1873
			5:19:32	-	MMT	1906	# Moratuwa Mean Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1874
			5:30	-	IST	1942 Jan  5
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1875
			5:30	0:30	IHST	1942 Sep
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1876
			5:30	1:00	IST	1945 Oct 16 2:00
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1877
			5:30	-	IST	1996 May 25 0:00
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1878
			6:30	-	LKT	1996 Oct 26 0:30
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1879
			6:00	-	LKT	2006 Apr 15 0:30
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1880
			5:30	-	IST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1881
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1882
# Syria
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1883
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1884
Rule	Syria	1920	1923	-	Apr	Sun>=15	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1885
Rule	Syria	1920	1923	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1886
Rule	Syria	1962	only	-	Apr	29	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1887
Rule	Syria	1962	only	-	Oct	1	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1888
Rule	Syria	1963	1965	-	May	1	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1889
Rule	Syria	1963	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1890
Rule	Syria	1964	only	-	Oct	1	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1891
Rule	Syria	1965	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1892
Rule	Syria	1966	only	-	Apr	24	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1893
Rule	Syria	1966	1976	-	Oct	1	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1894
Rule	Syria	1967	1978	-	May	1	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1895
Rule	Syria	1977	1978	-	Sep	1	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1896
Rule	Syria	1983	1984	-	Apr	9	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1897
Rule	Syria	1983	1984	-	Oct	1	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1898
Rule	Syria	1986	only	-	Feb	16	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1899
Rule	Syria	1986	only	-	Oct	9	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1900
Rule	Syria	1987	only	-	Mar	1	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1901
Rule	Syria	1987	1988	-	Oct	31	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1902
Rule	Syria	1988	only	-	Mar	15	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1903
Rule	Syria	1989	only	-	Mar	31	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1904
Rule	Syria	1989	only	-	Oct	1	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1905
Rule	Syria	1990	only	-	Apr	1	2:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1906
Rule	Syria	1990	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1907
Rule	Syria	1991	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1908
Rule	Syria	1991	1992	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1909
Rule	Syria	1992	only	-	Apr	 8	0:00	1:00	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1910
Rule	Syria	1993	only	-	Mar	26	0:00	1:00	S
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parents:
diff changeset
  1911
Rule	Syria	1993	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	0	-
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parents:
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  1912
# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
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parents:
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  1913
# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
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parents:
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  1914
# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31;
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parents:
diff changeset
  1915
# (2006) says 2006-03-31 and 2006-09-22;
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1916
# for now ignore all these claims and go with Shanks & Pottenger,
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parents:
diff changeset
  1917
# except for the 2006-09-22 claim (which seems right for Ramadan).
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parents:
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  1918
Rule	Syria	1994	1996	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
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parents:
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  1919
Rule	Syria	1994	2005	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	-
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parents:
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  1920
Rule	Syria	1997	1998	-	Mar	lastMon	0:00	1:00	S
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parents:
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  1921
Rule	Syria	1999	2006	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1922
# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18):
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parents:
diff changeset
  1923
# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC]
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parents:
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  1924
# this year [only]....  This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt.
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parents:
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  1925
Rule	Syria	2006	only	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	-
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parents:
diff changeset
  1926
# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29):
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parents:
diff changeset
  1927
# Today the AP reported "Syria will switch to summertime at midnight Thursday."
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parents:
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  1928
# http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Time-Change.php
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1929
Rule	Syria	2007	only	-	Mar	lastFri	0:00	1:00	S
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1930
# From Jesper Norgard (2007-10-27):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1931
# The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will
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parents: 2
diff changeset
  1932
# not take place 1.st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1.st November at 24:00 or
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1933
# rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sence than
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1934
# having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1935
# weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1936
# it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend...
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1937
# 
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1938
# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-27):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1939
# Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote:
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1940
# 
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1941
# > "Winter local time in Syria will be observed at midnight of Thursday 1
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1942
# > November 2007, and the clock will be put back 1 hour."
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1943
# 
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peytoia
parents: 2
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  1944
# I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1945
# http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_print_veiw.asp?FileName=12521710520070926111247
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1946
# 
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1947
# which using Google's translate tools says:
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1948
# Council of Ministers also approved the commencement of work on 
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1949
# identifying the winter time as of Friday, 2/11/2007 where the 60th 
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1950
# minute delay at midnight Thursday 1/11/2007.
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1951
Rule	Syria	2007	only	-	Nov	 Fri>=1	0:00	0	-
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1952
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1953
# From Stephen Colebourne (2008-03-17):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1954
# For everyone's info, I saw an IATA time zone change for [Syria] for
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1955
# this month (March 2008) in the last day or so...This is the data IATA
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1956
# are now using:
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1957
# Country     Time Standard   --- DST Start ---   --- DST End ---  DST
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1958
# Name        Zone Variation   Time    Date        Time    Date
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1959
# Variation
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1960
# Syrian Arab
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1961
# Republic    SY    +0200      2200  03APR08       2100  30SEP08   +0300
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1962
#                              2200  02APR09       2100  30SEP09   +0300
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1963
#                              2200  01APR10       2100  30SEP10   +0300
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1964
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1965
# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-17):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1966
# Here's a link to English-language coverage by the Syrian Arab News
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1967
# Agency (SANA)...
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1968
# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm">
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1969
# http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1970
# </a>...which reads (in part) "The Cabinet approved the suggestion of the
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1971
# Ministry of Electricity to begin daylight savings time on Friday April
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1972
# 4th, advancing clocks one hour ahead on midnight of Thursday April 3rd."
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1973
# Since Syria is two hours east of UTC, the 2200 and 2100 transition times
20fc6d4d57ae 6730743: (tz) Support tzdata2008e
peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1974
# shown above match up with midnight in Syria.
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1975
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1976
# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1977
# My buest guess at a Syrian rule is "the Friday nearest April 1";
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1978
# coding that involves either using a "Mar Fri>=29" construct that old time zone
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1979
# compilers can't handle  or having multiple Rules (a la Israel).
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1980
# For now, use "Apr Fri>=1", and go with IATA on a uniform Sep 30 end.
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1981
1833
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1982
# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-10-07):
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1983
# Syria has now officially decided to end DST on 2008-11-01 this year,
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1984
# according to the following article in the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1985
#
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parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1986
# The article is in Arabic, and seems to tell that they will go back to
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1987
# winter time on 2008-11-01 at 00:00 local daylight time (delaying/setting
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1988
# clocks back 60 minutes).
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1989
#
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1990
# <a href="http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm">
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1991
# http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1992
# </a>
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1993
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1994
Rule	Syria	2008	max	-	Apr	Fri>=1	0:00	1:00	S
1833
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peytoia
parents: 1831
diff changeset
  1995
Rule	Syria	2008	max	-	Nov	1	0:00	0	-
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1996
2
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parents:
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  1997
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents:
diff changeset
  1998
Zone	Asia/Damascus	2:25:12 -	LMT	1920	# Dimashq
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1999
			2:00	Syria	EE%sT
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parents:
diff changeset
  2000
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parents:
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  2001
# Tajikistan
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2002
# From Shanks & Pottenger.
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parents:
diff changeset
  2003
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2004
Zone	Asia/Dushanbe	4:35:12 -	LMT	1924 May  2
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2005
			5:00	-	DUST	1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2006
			6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2007
			5:00	1:00	DUSST	1991 Sep  9 2:00s
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2008
			5:00	-	TJT		    # Tajikistan Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2009
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2010
# Thailand
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2011
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2012
Zone	Asia/Bangkok	6:42:04	-	LMT	1880
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2013
			6:42:04	-	BMT	1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2014
			7:00	-	ICT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2015
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2016
# Turkmenistan
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2017
# From Shanks & Pottenger.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2018
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2019
Zone	Asia/Ashgabat	3:53:32 -	LMT	1924 May  2 # or Ashkhabad
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2020
			4:00	-	ASHT	1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2021
			5:00 RussiaAsia	ASH%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2022
			4:00 RussiaAsia	ASH%sT	1991 Oct 27 # independence
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2023
			4:00 RussiaAsia	TM%sT	1992 Jan 19 2:00
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2024
			5:00	-	TMT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2025
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2026
# United Arab Emirates
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2027
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2028
Zone	Asia/Dubai	3:41:12 -	LMT	1920
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2029
			4:00	-	GST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2030
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2031
# Uzbekistan
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2032
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2033
Zone	Asia/Samarkand	4:27:12 -	LMT	1924 May  2
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2034
			4:00	-	SAMT	1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2035
			5:00	-	SAMT	1981 Apr  1
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2036
			5:00	1:00	SAMST	1981 Oct  1
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2037
			6:00	-	TAST	1982 Apr  1 # Tashkent Time
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2038
			5:00 RussiaAsia	SAM%sT	1991 Sep  1 # independence
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2039
			5:00 RussiaAsia	UZ%sT	1992
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2040
			5:00	-	UZT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2041
Zone	Asia/Tashkent	4:37:12 -	LMT	1924 May  2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2042
			5:00	-	TAST	1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2043
			6:00 RussiaAsia	TAS%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2044
			5:00 RussiaAsia	TAS%sT	1991 Sep  1 # independence
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2045
			5:00 RussiaAsia	UZ%sT	1992
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2046
			5:00	-	UZT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2047
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2048
# Vietnam
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2049
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  2050
# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  2051
# The English-language name of Vietnam's most populous city is "Ho Chi Min City";
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  2052
# we use Ho_Chi_Minh below to avoid a name of more than 14 characters.
2
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2053
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2054
# From Shanks & Pottenger:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2055
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  2056
Zone	Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh	7:06:40 -	LMT	1906 Jun  9
2
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2057
			7:06:20	-	SMT	1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2058
			7:00	-	ICT	1912 May
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2059
			8:00	-	ICT	1931 May
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2060
			7:00	-	ICT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2061
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2062
# Yemen
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2063
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2064
Zone	Asia/Aden	3:00:48	-	LMT	1950
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  2065
			3:00	-	AST