--- a/make/data/tzdata/asia Tue Nov 07 23:18:16 2017 +0100
+++ b/make/data/tzdata/asia Thu Nov 09 14:38:54 2017 +0530
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
#
# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
-# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
+# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
#
# For Russian data circa 1919, a source is:
# Byalokoz EL. New Counting of Time in Russia since July 1, 1919.
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@
Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
-Rule RussiaAsia 1985 2011 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
-Rule RussiaAsia 1996 2011 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule RussiaAsia 1985 2010 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule RussiaAsia 1996 2010 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
# Afghanistan
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -132,13 +132,17 @@
# or
# (brief)
# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_armenia03.html
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Armenia 2011 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Armenia 2011 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2
3:00 - +03 1957 Mar
4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
3:00 RussiaAsia +03/+04 1995 Sep 24 2:00s
4:00 - +04 1997
- 4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia +04/+05 2011
+ 4:00 Armenia +04/+05
# Azerbaijan
@@ -150,7 +154,7 @@
# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-03-17):
# ... the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers has cancelled switching to
# daylight saving time....
-# http://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/94137.html
+# https://www.azernews.az/azerbaijan/94137.html
# http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/Azerbaijani-Cabinet-of-Ministers-cancels-daylight-saving-time.html
# http://en.apa.az/xeber_azerbaijan_abolishes_daylight_savings_ti_240862.html
@@ -191,11 +195,11 @@
# the 19th and 20th, and they have not set the end date yet.
#
# Some sources:
-# http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601
+# https://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601
# http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2
#
# Our wrap-up:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html
# From A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat (2009-06-15):
# Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start
@@ -281,9 +285,15 @@
# Milne says 6:24:40 was the meridian of the time ball observatory at Rangoon.
+# From Paul Eggert (2017-04-20):
+# Page 27 of Reed & Low (cited for Asia/Kolkata) says "Rangoon local time is
+# used upon the railways and telegraphs of Burma, and is 6h. 24m. 47s. ahead
+# of Greenwich." This refers to the period before Burma's transition to +0630,
+# a transition for which Shanks is the only source.
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Yangon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Rangoon
- 6:24:40 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time?
+Zone Asia/Yangon 6:24:47 - LMT 1880 # or Rangoon
+ 6:24:47 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon local time
6:30 - +0630 1942 May
9:00 - +09 1945 May 3
6:30 - +0630
@@ -340,7 +350,7 @@
#
# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-07-14):
# I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the
-# http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county
+# https://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county
# boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two
# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border,
# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are
@@ -492,7 +502,7 @@
# From David Cochrane (2014-03-26):
# Just a confirmation that Ürümqi time was implemented in Ürümqi on 1 Feb 1986:
-# http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960684,00.html
+# https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960684,00.html
# From Luther Ma (2014-04-22):
# I have interviewed numerous people of various nationalities and from
@@ -649,7 +659,7 @@
# (both in Okinawa) adopt the Western Standard Time which is based on
# 120E. The adoption began from Jan 1, 1896. The original text can be
# found on Wikisource:
-# http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/標準時ニ關スル件_(公布時)
+# https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/標準時ニ關スル件_(公布時)
# ... This could be the first adoption of time zone in Taiwan, because
# during the Qing Dynasty, it seems that there was no time zone
# declared officially.
@@ -662,7 +672,7 @@
# territory, including later occupations, adopt Japan Central Time
# (UTC+9). The adoption began on Oct 1, 1937. The original text can
# be found on Wikisource:
-# http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/明治二十八年勅令第百六十七號標準時ニ關スル件中改正ノ件
+# https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/明治二十八年勅令第百六十七號標準時ニ關スル件中改正ノ件
#
# That is, the time zone of Taipei switched to UTC+9 on Oct 1, 1937.
@@ -798,6 +808,12 @@
# Looks like the time zone split in Cyprus went through last night.
# http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/10/30/cyprus-new-division-two-time-zones-now-reality/
+# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18):
+# Northern Cyprus will reinstate winter time on October 29, thus
+# staying in sync with the rest of Cyprus. See: Anastasiou A.
+# Cyprus to remain united in time. Cyprus Mail 2017-10-17.
+# https://cyprus-mail.com/2017/10/17/cyprus-remain-united-time/
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 -
@@ -815,7 +831,8 @@
Zone Asia/Famagusta 2:15:48 - LMT 1921 Nov 14
2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep
2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 2016 Sep 8
- 3:00 - +03
+ 3:00 - +03 2017 Oct 29 1:00u
+ 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT
# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.
@@ -875,7 +892,7 @@
# From João Carrascalão, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
# East Timor may be late for its millennium
-# <http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm> (1999-12-26/31):
+# <https://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm> (1999-12-26/31):
# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun
# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the
# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it
@@ -903,21 +920,62 @@
# India
# From Ian P. Beacock, in "A brief history of (modern) time", The Atlantic
-# http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-creation-of-modern-time/421419/
+# https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-creation-of-modern-time/421419/
# (2015-12-22):
# In January 1906, several thousand cotton-mill workers rioted on the
# outskirts of Bombay.... They were protesting the proposed abolition of
# local time in favor of Indian Standard Time.... Journalists called this
# dispute the "Battle of the Clocks." It lasted nearly half a century.
+# From Paul Eggert (2017-04-20):
+# Good luck trying to nail down old timekeeping records in India.
+# "... in the nineteenth century ... Madras Observatory took its magnetic
+# measurements on Göttingen time, its meteorological measurements on Madras
+# (local) time, dropped its time ball on Greenwich (ocean navigator's) time,
+# and distributed civil (local time)." -- Bartky IR. Selling the true time:
+# 19th-century timekeeping in america. Stanford U Press (2000), 247 note 19.
+# "A more potent cause of resistance to the general adoption of the present
+# standard time lies in the fact that it is Madras time. The citizen of
+# Bombay, proud of being 'primus in Indis' and of Calcutta, equally proud of
+# his city being the Capital of India, and - for a part of the year - the Seat
+# of the Supreme Government, alike look down on Madras, and refuse to change
+# the time they are using, for that of what they regard as a benighted
+# Presidency; while Madras, having for long given the standard time to the
+# rest of India, would resist the adoption of any other Indian standard in its
+# place." -- Oldham RD. On Time in India: a suggestion for its improvement.
+# Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (April 1899), 49-55.
+#
+# "In 1870 ... Madras time - 'now used by the telegraph and regulated from the
+# only government observatory' - was suggested as a standard railway time,
+# first to be adopted on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway (GIPR)....
+# Calcutta, Bombay, and Karachi, were to be allowed to continue with their
+# local time for civil purposes." - Prasad R. Tracks of Change: Railways and
+# Everyday Life in Colonial India. Cambridge University Press (2016), 145.
+#
+# Reed S, Low F. The Indian Year Book 1936-37. Bennett, Coleman, pp 27-8.
+# https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.282212
+# This lists +052110 as Madras local time used in railways, and says that on
+# 1906-01-01 railways and telegraphs in India switched to +0530. Some
+# municipalities retained their former time, and the time in Calcutta
+# continued to depend on whether you were at the railway station or at
+# government offices. Government time was at +055320 (according to Shanks) or
+# at +0554 (according to the Indian Year Book). Railway time is more
+# appropriate for our purposes, as it was better documented, it is what we do
+# elsewhere (e.g., Europe/London before 1880), and after 1906 it was
+# consistent in the region now identified by Asia/Kolkata. So, use railway
+# time for 1870-1941. Shanks is our only (and dubious) source for the
+# 1941-1945 data.
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata
- 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
- 6:30 - +0630 1942 May 15
+Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1854 Jun 28 # Kolkata
+ 5:53:20 - HMT 1870 # Howrah Mean Time?
+ 5:21:10 - MMT 1906 Jan 1 # Madras local time
+ 5:30 - IST 1941 Oct
+ 5:30 1:00 +0630 1942 May 15
5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
5:30 1:00 +0630 1945 Oct 15
5:30 - IST
-# The following are like Asia/Kolkata:
+# Since 1970 the following are like Asia/Kolkata:
# Andaman Is
# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
# Nicobar Is
@@ -1059,7 +1117,7 @@
# From Reuters (2007-09-16), with a heads-up from Jesper Nørgaard Welen:
# ... the Guardian Council ... approved a law on Sunday to re-introduce
# daylight saving time ...
-# http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916
+# https://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916
#
# From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05):
# This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of
@@ -1158,7 +1216,7 @@
# http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10
#
# We have published a short article in English about the change:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
@@ -1466,12 +1524,12 @@
# From Yu-Cheng Chuang (2013-07-12):
# ...the Meiji Emperor announced Ordinance No. 167 of Meiji Year 28 "The clause
# about standard time" ... The adoption began from Jan 1, 1896.
-# http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/標準時ニ關スル件_(公布時)
+# https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/標準時ニ關スル件_(公布時)
#
# ...the Showa Emperor announced Ordinance No. 529 of Showa Year 12 ... which
# means the whole Japan territory, including later occupations, adopt Japan
# Central Time (UTC+9). The adoption began on Oct 1, 1937.
-# http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/明治二十八年勅令第百六十七號標準時ニ關スル件中改正ノ件
+# https://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/明治二十八年勅令第百六十七號標準時ニ關スル件中改正ノ件
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u
@@ -1533,7 +1591,7 @@
# Official, in Arabic:
# http://www.petra.gov.jo/public_news/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?Menu_ID=&Site_Id=2&lang=1&NewsID=133230&CatID=14
# ... Our background/permalink about it
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/jordan-reverses-dst-decision.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/jordan-reverses-dst-decision.html
# ...
# http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?lang=2&site_id=1&NewsID=133313&Type=P
# ... says midnight for the coming one and 1:00 for the ones in the future
@@ -1891,9 +1949,9 @@
# between 1987 and 1988 ...
# From Sanghyuk Jung (2014-10-29):
-# http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021830.html
+# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021830.html
# According to the Korean Wikipedia
-# http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/한국_표준시
+# https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/한국_표준시
# [oldid=12896437 2014-09-04 08:03 UTC]
# DST in Republic of Korea was as follows.... And I checked old
# newspapers in Korean, all articles correspond with data in Wikipedia.
@@ -2115,7 +2173,7 @@
# +08:00 instead. Different sources appear to disagree with the tz
# database on this, e.g.:
#
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026
# http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx
#
# both say GMT+08:00.
@@ -2245,7 +2303,7 @@
# help reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at
# 9pm and moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months. ...."
#
-# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html
+# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html
# http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4
# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19):
@@ -2311,7 +2369,7 @@
#
# We have confirmed this year's end date with both with the Ministry of
# Water and Power and the Pakistan Electric Power Company:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/pakistan-ends-dst09.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/pakistan-ends-dst09.html
# From Christoph Göhre (2009-10-01):
# [T]he German Consulate General in Karachi reported me today that Pakistan
@@ -2493,7 +2551,7 @@
#
# We are not sure if Gaza will do the same, last year they had a different
# end date, we will keep this page updated:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-dst-2009.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-dst-2009.html
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-02):
# Seems that Gaza Strip will go back to Winter Time same date as West Bank.
@@ -2531,7 +2589,7 @@
# the clocks were set back one hour at 2010-08-11 00:00:00 local time in
# Gaza and the West Bank.
# Some more background info:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-end-dst-2010.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-end-dst-2010.html
# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-08-26):
# Gaza and the West Bank did go back to standard time in the beginning of
@@ -2541,7 +2599,7 @@
#
# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=416217
# Additional info:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/palestine-dst-2011.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/palestine-dst-2011.html
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-08-27):
# According to the article in The Jerusalem Post:
@@ -2551,7 +2609,7 @@
# The Hamas government said on Saturday that it won't observe summertime after
# the Muslim feast of Id al-Fitr, which begins on Tuesday..."
# ...
-# http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235650
+# https://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235650
# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip05.html
# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the 'africa' file.
@@ -2572,7 +2630,7 @@
# http://safa.ps/details/news/74352/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9.html
#
# Our brief summary:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-west-bank-dst-2012.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-west-bank-dst-2012.html
# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-26):
# The following news sources tells that Palestine will "start daylight saving
@@ -2592,11 +2650,11 @@
# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-03-03):
# Sources such as http://www.alquds.com/news/article/view/id/548257
-# and http://www.raya.ps/ar/news/890705.html say Palestine areas will
+# and https://www.raya.ps/ar/news/890705.html say Palestine areas will
# start DST on 2015-03-28 00:00 which is one day later than expected.
#
# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014
# says that the fall 2014 transition was Oct 23 at 24:00.
# From Hannah Kreitem (2016-03-09):
@@ -2620,8 +2678,8 @@
#
# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-19):
# It's also consistent with predictions in the following URLs today:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
@@ -2684,7 +2742,7 @@
# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to
# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01; see R.H. van Gent's
# History of the International Date Line
-# http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines.htm
+# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_philippines.htm
# The rest of the data entries are from Shanks & Pottenger.
# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-04-26):
@@ -2948,7 +3006,7 @@
# We have not found any sources saying anything about when DST ends this year.
#
# Our summary
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-starts-march-27-2009.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-starts-march-27-2009.html
# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-27):
# The Syrian Arab News Network on 2009-09-29 reported that Syria will
@@ -2975,7 +3033,7 @@
# http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2012/03/26/408215.htm
#
# Our brief summary:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html
# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-27):
# Assume last Friday in March going forward XXX.
@@ -3058,7 +3116,7 @@
# is quoted verbatim in:
# http://www.thoigian.com.vn/?mPage=P80D01
# is translated by Brian Inglis in:
-# http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021654.html
+# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021654.html
# and is the basis for the information below.
#
# The 1906 transition was effective July 1 and standardized Indochina to