--- /dev/null
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+# Makefile--
+# Makefile for the timezone library
+
+# IDENTIFICATION
+# $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/timezone/Makefile,v 1.1 2004/04/30 04:09:23 momjian Exp $
+#
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+subdir = src/port/tz
+top_builddir = ../../..
+include $(top_builddir)/src/Makefile.global
+
+OBJS= asctime.o difftime.o localtime.o pgtz.o
+ZICOBJS= zic.o ialloc.o scheck.o localtime.o asctime.o pgtz.o ../path.o
+
+TZDATA := africa antarctica asia australasia europe northamerica southamerica pacificnew etcetera factory backward systemv solar87 solar88 solar89
+TZDATAFILES := $(TZDATA:%=data/%)
+
+all: SUBSYS.o zic
+
+SUBSYS.o: $(OBJS)
+ $(LD) $(LDREL) $(LDOUT) SUBSYS.o $(OBJS)
+
+
+zic: $(ZICOBJS)
+
+install: zic
+ zic -d $(datadir)/timezone $(TZDATAFILES)
+
+clean distclean maintainer-clean:
+ rm -f SUBSYS.o $(OBJS) $(ZICOBJS)
--- /dev/null
+This is a PostgreSQL adapted version of the timezone library
+from:
+ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz
+
+
+The interface is used when USE_PGTZ is defined at the top level. This
+will cause the following functions to be redefined:
+ localtime pg_localtime
+ gmtime pg_gmtime
+ asctime pg_asctime
+ ctime pg_ctime
+ difftime pg_difftime
+ mktime pg_mktime
+ tzset pg_tzset
+
+and the TIMEZONE_GLOBAL define in c.h is redefined to pg_timezone.
+
--- /dev/null
+/*\r
+** This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of\r
+** 1996-06-05 by Arthur David Olson (arthur_david_olson@nih.gov).\r
+*/\r
+\r
+#ifndef lint\r
+#ifndef NOID\r
+static char elsieid[] = "@(#)asctime.c 7.9";\r
+#endif /* !defined NOID */\r
+#endif /* !defined lint */\r
+\r
+/*LINTLIBRARY*/\r
+\r
+#include "private.h"\r
+#include "tzfile.h"\r
+\r
+/*\r
+** A la ISO/IEC 9945-1, ANSI/IEEE Std 1003.1, Second Edition, 1996-07-12.\r
+*/\r
+\r
+char *\r
+asctime_r(timeptr, buf)\r
+register const struct tm * timeptr;\r
+char * buf;\r
+{\r
+ static const char wday_name[][3] = {\r
+ "Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"\r
+ };\r
+ static const char mon_name[][3] = {\r
+ "Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun",\r
+ "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"\r
+ };\r
+ register const char * wn;\r
+ register const char * mn;\r
+\r
+ if (timeptr->tm_wday < 0 || timeptr->tm_wday >= DAYSPERWEEK)\r
+ wn = "???";\r
+ else wn = wday_name[timeptr->tm_wday];\r
+ if (timeptr->tm_mon < 0 || timeptr->tm_mon >= MONSPERYEAR)\r
+ mn = "???";\r
+ else mn = mon_name[timeptr->tm_mon];\r
+ /*\r
+ ** The X3J11-suggested format is\r
+ ** "%.3s %.3s%3d %02.2d:%02.2d:%02.2d %d\n"\r
+ ** Since the .2 in 02.2d is ignored, we drop it.\r
+ */\r
+ (void) sprintf(buf, "%.3s %.3s%3d %02d:%02d:%02d %d\n",\r
+ wn, mn,\r
+ timeptr->tm_mday, timeptr->tm_hour,\r
+ timeptr->tm_min, timeptr->tm_sec,\r
+ TM_YEAR_BASE + timeptr->tm_year);\r
+ return buf;\r
+}\r
+\r
+/*\r
+** A la X3J11, with core dump avoidance.\r
+*/\r
+\r
+char *\r
+asctime(timeptr)\r
+register const struct tm * timeptr;\r
+{\r
+ /*\r
+ ** Big enough for something such as\r
+ ** ??? ???-2147483648 -2147483648:-2147483648:-2147483648 -2147483648\n\r
+ ** (two three-character abbreviations, five strings denoting integers,\r
+ ** three explicit spaces, two explicit colons, a newline,\r
+ ** and a trailing ASCII nul).\r
+ */\r
+ static char result[3 * 2 + 5 * INT_STRLEN_MAXIMUM(int) +\r
+ 3 + 2 + 1 + 1];\r
+\r
+ return asctime_r(timeptr, result);\r
+}\r
--- /dev/null
+# @(#)africa 7.36
+
+# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
+# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
+# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
+
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22):
+#
+# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
+# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
+# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
+#
+# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
+# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
+# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
+# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
+# of the IATA's data after 1990.
+#
+# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990,
+# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
+#
+# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
+# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
+# I found in the UCLA library.
+#
+# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
+#
+# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT
+# for +0:00 through +3:00, respectively,
+# but Mark R V Murray <markm@grondar.za> reports that
+# `SAST' is the official abbreviation for +2:00 in the country of South Africa,
+# `CAT' is commonly used for +2:00 in countries north of South Africa, and
+# `WAT' is probably the best name for +1:00, as the common phrase for
+# the area that includes Nigeria is ``West Africa''.
+# He has heard of ``Western Sahara Time'' for +0:00 but can find no reference.
+#
+# To make things confusing, `WAT' seems to have been used for -1:00 long ago;
+# I'd guess that this was because people needed _some_ name for -1:00,
+# and at the time, far west Africa was the only major land area in -1:00.
+# This usage is now obsolete, as the last use of -1:00 on the African
+# mainland seems to have been 1976 in Western Sahara.
+#
+# To summarize, the following abbreviations seem to have some currency:
+# -1:00 WAT West Africa Time (no longer used)
+# 0:00 GMT Greenwich Mean Time
+# 2:00 CAT Central Africa Time
+# 2:00 SAST South Africa Standard Time
+# and Murray suggests the following abbreviation:
+# 1:00 WAT West Africa Time
+# I realize that this leads to `WAT' being used for both -1:00 and 1:00
+# for times before 1976, but this is the best I can think of
+# until we get more information.
+#
+# I invented the following abbreviations; corrections are welcome!
+# 2:00 WAST West Africa Summer Time
+# 2:30 BEAT British East Africa Time (no longer used)
+# 2:44:45 BEAUT British East Africa Unified Time (no longer used)
+# 3:00 CAST Central Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
+# 3:00 SAST South Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
+# 3:00 EAT East Africa Time
+# 4:00 EAST East Africa Summer Time (no longer used)
+
+# Algeria
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Algeria 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1916 1919 - Oct Sun<=7 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Algeria 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Algeria 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1921 only - Jun 21 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Algeria 1939 only - Sep 11 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1939 only - Nov 19 1:00 0 -
+Rule Algeria 1944 1945 - Apr Mon<=7 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1944 only - Oct 8 2:00 0 -
+Rule Algeria 1945 only - Sep 16 1:00 0 -
+Rule Algeria 1971 only - Apr 25 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1971 only - Sep 26 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Algeria 1977 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1977 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 -
+Rule Algeria 1978 only - Mar 24 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1978 only - Sep 22 3:00 0 -
+Rule Algeria 1980 only - Apr 25 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Algeria 1980 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 -
+# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Algiers 0:12:12 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01
+ 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
+ 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1940 Feb 25 2:00
+ 1:00 Algeria CE%sT 1946 Oct 7
+ 0:00 - WET 1956 Jan 29
+ 1:00 - CET 1963 Apr 14
+ 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1977 Oct 21
+ 1:00 Algeria CE%sT 1979 Oct 26
+ 0:00 Algeria WE%sT 1981 May
+ 1:00 - CET
+
+# Angola
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892
+ 0:52:04 - AOT 1911 May 26 # Angola Time
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Benin
+# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; go with Shanks.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Porto-Novo 0:10:28 - LMT 1912
+ 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Botswana
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Gaborone 1:43:40 - LMT 1885
+ 2:00 - CAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00
+ 2:00 1:00 CAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00
+ 2:00 - CAT
+
+# Burkina Faso
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Ouagadougou -0:06:04 - LMT 1912
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Burundi
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Bujumbura 1:57:28 - LMT 1890
+ 2:00 - CAT
+
+# Cameroon
+# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Douala 0:38:48 - LMT 1912
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Cape Verde
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Atlantic/Cape_Verde -1:34:04 - LMT 1907 # Praia
+ -2:00 - CVT 1942 Sep
+ -2:00 1:00 CVST 1945 Oct 15
+ -2:00 - CVT 1975 Nov 25 2:00
+ -1:00 - CVT
+
+# Central African Republic
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Bangui 1:14:20 - LMT 1912
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Chad
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Ndjamena 1:00:12 - LMT 1912
+ 1:00 - WAT 1979 Oct 14
+ 1:00 1:00 WAST 1980 Mar 8
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Comoros
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Comoro 2:53:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# Democratic Republic of Congo
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Kinshasa 1:01:12 - LMT 1897 Nov 9
+ 1:00 - WAT
+Zone Africa/Lubumbashi 1:49:52 - LMT 1897 Nov 9
+ 2:00 - CAT
+
+# Republic of the Congo
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Brazzaville 1:01:08 - LMT 1912
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Cote D'Ivoire
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Abidjan -0:16:08 - LMT 1912
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Djibouti
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Djibouti 2:52:36 - LMT 1911 Jul
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Egypt
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Egypt 1940 only - Jul 15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1940 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Egypt 1941 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1941 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
+Rule Egypt 1942 1944 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1942 only - Oct 27 0:00 0 -
+Rule Egypt 1943 1945 - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Egypt 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Egypt 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1959 1981 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
+Rule Egypt 1966 1994 - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
+Rule Egypt 1982 only - Jul 25 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1983 only - Jul 12 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1984 1988 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1989 only - May 6 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1990 1994 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
+# IATA (after 1990) says transitions are at 0:00.
+# Go with IATA starting in 1995, except correct 1995 entry from 09-30 to 09-29.
+Rule Egypt 1995 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 1995 max - Sep lastThu 23:00s 0 -
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:00 - LMT 1900 Oct
+ 2:00 Egypt EE%sT
+
+# Equatorial Guinea
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Malabo 0:35:08 - LMT 1912
+ 0:00 - GMT 1963 Dec 15
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Eritrea
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Asmera 2:35:32 - LMT 1870
+ 2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmera Mean Time
+ 2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# Ethiopia
+# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-05):
+# Shanks writes that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time zones between
+# 1870 and 1890, and that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in 1890.
+# We'll guess that 38E50 is for Adis Dera.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870
+ 2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# Gabon
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Libreville 0:37:48 - LMT 1912
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Gambia
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Banjul -1:06:36 - LMT 1912
+ -1:06:36 - BMT 1935 # Banjul Mean Time
+ -1:00 - WAT 1964
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Ghana
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+# Whitman says DST was observed from 1931 to ``the present''; go with Shanks.
+Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Sep 1 0:00 0:20 GHST
+Rule Ghana 1936 1942 - Dec 31 0:00 0 GMT
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1918
+ 0:00 Ghana %s
+
+# Guinea
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Conakry -0:54:52 - LMT 1912
+ 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26
+ -1:00 - WAT 1960
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Guinea-Bissau
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Bissau -1:02:20 - LMT 1911 May 26
+ -1:00 - WAT 1975
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Kenya
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Nairobi 2:27:16 - LMT 1928 Jul
+ 3:00 - EAT 1930
+ 2:30 - BEAT 1940
+ 2:44:45 - BEAUT 1960
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# Lesotho
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar
+ 2:00 - SAST 1943 Sep 19 2:00
+ 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00
+ 2:00 - SAST
+
+# Liberia
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (2001-07-17):
+# In 1972 Liberia was the last country to switch
+# from a UTC offset that was not a multiple of 15 or 20 minutes.
+# Howse reports that it was in honor of their president's birthday.
+# Shanks reports the date as May 1, whereas Howse reports Jan; go with Shanks.
+# For Liberia before 1972, Shanks reports -0:44, whereas Howse and Whitman
+# each report -0:44:30; go with the more precise figure.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Monrovia -0:43:08 - LMT 1882
+ -0:43:08 - MMT 1919 Mar # Monrovia Mean Time
+ -0:44:30 - LRT 1972 May # Liberia Time
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Libya
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Libya 1951 only - Oct 14 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Libya 1952 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Libya 1953 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Libya 1954 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Libya 1955 only - Sep 30 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Libya 1956 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Libya 1982 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Libya 1982 1985 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Libya 1985 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Libya 1986 only - Apr 4 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Libya 1986 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
+Rule Libya 1987 1989 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Libya 1987 1990 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920
+ 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1959
+ 2:00 - EET 1982
+ 1:00 Libya CE%sT 1990 May 4
+# The following entries are all from Shanks;
+# the IATA SSIM data contain some obvious errors.
+ 2:00 - EET 1996 Sep 30
+ 1:00 - CET 1997 Apr 4
+ 1:00 1:00 CEST 1997 Oct 4
+ 2:00 - EET
+
+# Madagascar
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 - LMT 1911 Jul
+ 3:00 - EAT 1954 Feb 27 23:00s
+ 3:00 1:00 EAST 1954 May 29 23:00s
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# Malawi
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Blantyre 2:20:00 - LMT 1903 Mar
+ 2:00 - CAT
+
+# Mali
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912
+ 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26
+ -1:00 - WAT 1960 Jun 20
+ 0:00 - GMT
+# no longer different from Bamako, but too famous to omit
+Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Mauritania
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Nouakchott -1:03:48 - LMT 1912
+ 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26
+ -1:00 - WAT 1960 Nov 28
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Mauritius
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
+ 4:00 - MUT # Mauritius Time
+# Agalega Is, Rodriguez
+# no information; probably like Indian/Mauritius
+
+# Mayotte
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# Morocco
+# See the `europe' file for Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta).
+# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Morocco 1939 only - Sep 12 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1939 only - Nov 19 0:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 1940 only - Feb 25 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1945 only - Nov 18 0:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 1950 only - Jun 11 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1950 only - Oct 29 0:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 1967 only - Jun 3 12:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1967 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 1974 only - Jun 24 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1974 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 1976 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1976 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 1977 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 1978 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 1978 only - Aug 4 0:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
+ 0:00 Morocco WE%sT 1984 Mar 16
+ 1:00 - CET 1986
+ 0:00 - WET
+# Western Sahara
+Zone Africa/El_Aaiun -0:52:48 - LMT 1934 Jan
+ -1:00 - WAT 1976 Apr 14
+ 0:00 - WET
+
+# Mozambique
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Maputo 2:10:20 - LMT 1903 Mar
+ 2:00 - CAT
+
+# Namibia
+# The 1994-04-03 transition is from Shanks.
+# Shanks reports no DST after 1998-04; go with IATA.
+# RULE NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Namibia 1994 max - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Namibia 1995 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Windhoek 1:08:24 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
+ 1:30 - SWAT 1903 Mar # SW Africa Time
+ 2:00 - SAST 1942 Sep 20 2:00
+ 2:00 1:00 SAST 1943 Mar 21 2:00
+ 2:00 - SAST 1990 Mar 21 # independence
+ 2:00 - CAT 1994 Apr 3
+ 1:00 Namibia WA%sT
+
+# Niger
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912
+ -1:00 - WAT 1934 Feb 26
+ 0:00 - GMT 1960
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Nigeria
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Lagos 0:13:36 - LMT 1919 Sep
+ 1:00 - WAT
+
+# Reunion
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
+ 4:00 - RET # Reunion Time
+#
+# Scattered Islands (Iles Eparses) administered from Reunion are as follows.
+# The following information about them is taken from
+# Iles Eparses (www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm, 1997-07-22, in French;
+# no longer available as of 1999-08-17).
+# We have no info about their time zone histories.
+#
+# Bassas da India - uninhabited
+# Europa Island - inhabited from 1905 to 1910 by two families
+# Glorioso Is - inhabited until at least 1958
+# Juan de Nova - uninhabited
+# Tromelin - inhabited until at least 1958
+
+# Rwanda
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Kigali 2:00:16 - LMT 1935 Jun
+ 2:00 - CAT
+
+# St Helena
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown
+ -0:22:48 - JMT 1951 # Jamestown Mean Time
+ 0:00 - GMT
+# The other parts of the St Helena territory are similar:
+# Tristan da Cunha: on GMT, say Whitman and the CIA
+# Ascension: on GMT, says usno1995 and the CIA
+# Gough (scientific station since 1955; sealers wintered previously):
+# on GMT, says the CIA
+# Inaccessible, Nightingale: no information, but probably GMT
+
+# Sao Tome and Principe
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Sao_Tome 0:26:56 - LMT 1884
+ -0:36:32 - LMT 1912 # Lisbon Mean Time
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Senegal
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Dakar -1:09:44 - LMT 1912
+ -1:00 - WAT 1941 Jun
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Seychelles
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1906 Jun # Victoria
+ 4:00 - SCT # Seychelles Time
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30):
+# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the
+# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory
+# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know
+# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now.
+# Possibly the islands were uninhabited.
+
+# Sierra Leone
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+# Whitman gives Mar 31 - Aug 31 for 1931 on; go with Shanks.
+Rule SL 1935 1942 - Jun 1 0:00 0:40 SLST
+Rule SL 1935 1942 - Oct 1 0:00 0 WAT
+Rule SL 1957 1962 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 SLST
+Rule SL 1957 1962 - Sep 1 0:00 0 GMT
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Freetown -0:53:00 - LMT 1882
+ -0:53:00 - FMT 1913 Jun # Freetown Mean Time
+ -1:00 SL %s 1957
+ 0:00 SL %s
+
+# Somalia
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Mogadishu 3:01:28 - LMT 1893 Nov
+ 3:00 - EAT 1931
+ 2:30 - BEAT 1957
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# South Africa
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule SA 1942 1943 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 -
+Rule SA 1943 1944 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 - LMT 1892 Feb 8
+ 1:30 - SAST 1903 Mar
+ 2:00 SA SAST
+# Marion and Prince Edward Is
+# scientific station since 1947
+# no information
+
+# Sudan
+#
+# From <a href="http://www.sunanews.net/sn13jane.html">
+# Sudan News Agency (2000-01-13)
+# </a>, also reported by Michael De Beukelaer-Dossche via Steffen Thorsen:
+# Clocks will be moved ahead for 60 minutes all over the Sudan as of noon
+# Saturday.... This was announced Thursday by Caretaker State Minister for
+# Manpower Abdul-Rahman Nur-Eddin.
+#
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Sudan 1970 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Sudan 1970 1985 - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
+Rule Sudan 1971 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Sudan 1972 1985 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Khartoum 2:10:08 - LMT 1931
+ 2:00 Sudan CA%sT 2000 Jan 15 12:00
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# Swaziland
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Mbabane 2:04:24 - LMT 1903 Mar
+ 2:00 - SAST
+
+# Tanzania
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931
+ 3:00 - EAT 1948
+ 2:44:45 - BEAUT 1961
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# Togo
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893
+ 0:00 - GMT
+
+# Tunisia
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1940 only - Feb 25 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Mar 9 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Apr 17 2:00 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Apr 25 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1944 1945 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1944 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1945 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Apr 30 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1977 only - Sep 24 0:00s 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1978 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00s 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1988 1990 - Sep lastSun 0:00s 0 -
+Rule Tunisia 1989 only - Mar 26 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Tunisia 1990 only - May 1 0:00s 1:00 S
+# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's more precise 0:09:21.
+# Shanks says the 1911 switch occurred on Mar 9; go with Howse's Mar 11.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Tunis 0:40:44 - LMT 1881 May 12
+ 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time
+ 1:00 Tunisia CE%sT
+
+# Uganda
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Kampala 2:09:40 - LMT 1928 Jul
+ 3:00 - EAT 1930
+ 2:30 - BEAT 1948
+ 2:44:45 - BEAUT 1957
+ 3:00 - EAT
+
+# Zambia
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Lusaka 1:53:08 - LMT 1903 Mar
+ 2:00 - CAT
+
+# Zimbabwe
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Africa/Harare 2:04:12 - LMT 1903 Mar
+ 2:00 - CAT
--- /dev/null
+# @(#)antarctica 7.23
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15):
+# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see
+# <a href="http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/">
+# COMNAP - Stations and Bases
+# </a>
+# and
+# <a href="http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm">
+# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23)
+# </a>
+# for information.
+# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information.
+#
+# Except for the French entries,
+# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome!
+# FORMAT is `zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited.
+
+# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule RussAQ 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule RussAQ 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule RussAQ 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule RussAQ 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule RussAQ 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
+Rule RussAQ 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
+Rule RussAQ 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule RussAQ 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule RussAQ 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+
+# These rules are stolen from the `southamerica' file.
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 -
+Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule ArgAQ 1974 1976 - Oct Sun<=7 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule ArgAQ 1975 1977 - Apr Sun<=7 0:00 0 -
+Rule ChileAQ 1966 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule ChileAQ 1967 1998 - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 -
+Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 0:00 0 -
+Rule ChileAQ 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule ChileAQ 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 0:00 0 -
+
+
+# Argentina - year-round bases
+# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05
+# Esperanza, San Martin Land, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17
+# Jubany, Potter Peninsula, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01
+# Marambio, Seymour I, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29
+# Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22
+# San Martin, Debenham I, -6807-06708, since 1951-03-21
+# (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21)
+
+# Australia - territories
+# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited)
+# previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered
+# <a href="http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html">
+# Margaret Turner reports
+# </a> (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST;
+# presumably this is when they have visitors.
+#
+# year-round bases
+# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969
+# Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13
+# (except 1964-11 - 1969-02)
+# Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - zzz 1969
+ 8:00 - WST # Western (Aus) Standard Time
+Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 13
+ 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time
+ 0 - zzz 1969 Feb
+ 7:00 - DAVT
+Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13
+ 6:00 - MAWT # Mawson Time
+# References:
+# <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html">
+# Casey Weather (1998-02-26)
+# </a>
+# <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html">
+# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26)
+# </a>
+# <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html">
+# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25)
+# </a>
+
+# Brazil - year-round base
+# Ferraz, King George Island, since 1983/4
+
+# Chile - year-round bases and towns
+# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994
+# Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07
+# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02
+# Prat, -6230-05941
+# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), King George Island, since 1984-04-09
+# These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'.
+
+# China - year-round bases
+# Great Wall, King George Island, since 1985-02-20
+# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, since 1989-02-26
+
+# France - year-round bases
+#
+# From Antoine Leca <Antoine.Leca@Renault.FR> (1997-01-20):
+# Time data are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP
+# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology).
+# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adelie bases
+# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adelie supplies came
+# from Tasmania.
+#
+# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants
+#
+# Martin-de-Vivies Base, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950
+# Alfred-Faure Base, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964
+# Port-aux-Francais, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951;
+# whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956
+#
+# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited
+# fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931
+#
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - zzz 1950 # Port-aux-Francais
+ 5:00 - TFT # ISO code TF Time
+#
+# year-round base in the main continent
+# Dumont-d'Urville, Ile des Petrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11
+#
+# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947.
+# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14.
+#
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947
+ 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time
+ 0 - zzz 1956 Nov
+ 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time
+# Reference:
+# <a href="http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/science/reports/fr/IFRTP.html">
+# Support and Development of Polar Research and Technology (1997-02-03)
+# </a>
+
+
+# Germany - year-round base
+# Georg von Neumayer
+
+# India - year-round base
+# Dakshin Gangotri
+
+# Japan - year-round bases
+# Dome Fuji
+# Syowa
+#
+# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06):
+# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. [See]
+# <a href="http://www.crl.go.jp/uk/uk201/basyo.htm">[reference in Japanese]</a>
+# and information from KAMO Hiroyasu <wd@ics.nara-wu.ac.jp>.
+#
+# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan,
+# was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main
+# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29
+ 3:00 - SYOT # Syowa Time
+# See:
+# <a href="http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html">
+# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17)
+# </a>
+
+# S Korea - year-round base
+# King Sejong, King George Island, since 1988
+
+# New Zealand - claims
+# Balleny Islands (never inhabited)
+# Scott Island (never inhabited)
+#
+# year-round base
+# Scott, Ross Island, since 1957-01, is like Antarctica/McMurdo.
+#
+# These rules for New Zealand are stolen from the `australasia' file.
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule NZAQ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule NZAQ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule NZAQ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule NZAQ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule NZAQ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S
+Rule NZAQ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
+Rule NZAQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S
+
+# Norway - territories
+# Bouvet (never inhabited)
+#
+# claims
+# Peter I Island (never inhabited)
+
+# Poland - year-round base
+# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977
+
+# Russia - year-round bases
+# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22
+# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02
+# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01
+# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150,
+# year-round from 1960/61 to 1992
+
+# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11
+# <a href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP">
+# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>:
+# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same
+# time as Moscow, Russia.
+#
+# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08):
+# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is
+# what they had to say about time there:
+# ``in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo)
+# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was
+# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead
+# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The
+# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT.''
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04):
+# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it
+# in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local
+# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this
+# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean
+# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks
+# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time
+# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6.
+#
+Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16
+ 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time
+
+# S Africa - year-round bases
+# Marion Island
+# Sanae
+
+# UK
+#
+# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims
+# South Orkney Islands
+# scientific station from 1903
+# whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926
+# South Shetland Islands
+#
+# year-round bases
+# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983
+# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931,
+# scientific station 1943/1967,
+# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident,
+# and a garrison was deployed briefly
+# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06
+# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated
+# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location.
+# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22)
+# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year.
+#
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1
+ -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time
+
+# Uruguay - year round base
+# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107
+
+# USA - year-round bases
+#
+# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
+#
+# From Ethan Dicks <erd@mcmsun5.mcmurdo.gov> (1996-10-06):
+# It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
+# and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
+# I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
+# Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
+# Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
+#
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965
+ -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
+ -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May
+ -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT
+#
+#
+# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956
+ 12:00 NZAQ NZ%sT
+#
+# Amundsen-Scott, South Pole, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
+# Normally it wouldn't have a separate entry, since it's like the
+# larger Antarctica/McMurdo since 1970, but it's too famous to omit.
+#
+# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-27):
+# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station,
+# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station,
+# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12
+# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound,
+# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year
+# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.)
+#
+# From Susan Smith
+# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html
+# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available):
+# We use the same time as McMurdo does.
+# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does....
+# One last quirk about South Pole time.
+# All the electric clocks are usually wrong.
+# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something
+# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days,
+# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so.
+# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!!
+#
+Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole
--- /dev/null
+# @(#)asia 7.73
+
+# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
+# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
+# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
+
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22):
+#
+# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
+# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
+# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
+#
+# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
+# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
+# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
+# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
+# of the IATA's data after 1990.
+#
+# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990,
+# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
+#
+# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
+# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
+# I found in the UCLA library.
+#
+# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
+#
+# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
+# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
+# Corrections are welcome!
+# std dst
+# LMT Local Mean Time
+# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time
+# 2:00 IST IDT Israel
+# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia*
+# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran
+# 4:00 GST Gulf*
+# 5:30 IST India
+# 7:00 ICT Indochina*
+# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia
+# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia
+# 8:00 CST China
+# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
+# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia
+# 9:00 JST Japan
+# 9:00 KST Korea
+# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time
+#
+# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
+
+# From Guy Harris:
+# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
+# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
+# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
+# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses.
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S
+Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 -
+Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
+Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
+Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
+Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
+Rule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+
+# Afghanistan
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890
+ 4:00 - AFT 1945
+ 4:30 - AFT
+
+# Armenia
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
+# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991,
+# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997.
+# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz
+# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
+# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
+# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
+# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+ 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence
+ 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s
+ 4:00 - AMT 1997
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT
+
+# Azerbaijan
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+ 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence
+ 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s
+ 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time
+ 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997
+ 4:00 Azer AZ%sT
+
+# Bahrain
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah
+ 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
+ 3:00 - AST
+
+# Bangladesh
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890
+ 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
+ 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
+ 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
+ 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30
+ 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time
+ 6:00 - BDT # Bangladesh Time
+
+# Bhutan
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu
+ 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct
+ 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time
+
+# British Indian Ocean Territory
+# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the
+# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time
+ 6:00 - IOT
+
+# Brunei
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan
+ 7:30 - BNT 1933
+ 8:00 - BNT
+
+# Burma / Myanmar
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon
+ 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time?
+ 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time
+ 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3
+ 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time
+
+# Cambodia
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
+ 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
+ 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
+ 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
+ 7:00 - ICT
+
+# China
+
+# From Guy Harris:
+# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone.
+
+# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
+# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though
+# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
+# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China
+# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
+# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it.
+#
+# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
+# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for
+# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
+#
+# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14
+# 1987 mid-April - ??
+
+# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
+# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
+# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10
+
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19):
+# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1,
+# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's
+# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.
+# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones.
+
+# From Shanks:
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S
+Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D
+#
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+#
+# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20):
+# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five
+# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official
+# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949):
+# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
+Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
+ 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time
+ 8:00 - CST 1940
+ 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May
+ 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May
+ 8:00 PRC C%sT
+# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time")
+Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928
+ 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949
+ 8:00 PRC C%sT
+# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area)
+Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking
+ 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time
+ 8:00 PRC C%sT
+# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time")
+Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi
+ 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time
+ 8:00 PRC C%sT
+# Kunlun Time
+Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
+ 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time
+ 5:00 - KAST 1980 May
+ 8:00 PRC C%sT
+
+# Hong Kong (Xianggang)
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 -
+Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 -
+Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 -
+Rule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 -
+Rule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 -
+Rule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
+Rule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
+Rule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30
+ 8:00 HK HK%sT
+
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Taiwan
+
+# Shanks writes that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it
+# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't
+# have any other information.
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei
+ 8:00 Taiwan C%sT
+
+# Macau (Macao, Aomen)
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
+Rule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 -
+Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
+Rule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
+Rule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 -
+Rule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S
+Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912
+ 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China
+ 8:00 PRC C%sT
+
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Cyprus
+# 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 -
+Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 -
+Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
+Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
+Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
+Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14
+ 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep
+ 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT
+# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time.
+
+# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
+# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.
+Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia
+
+# Georgia
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19):
+# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward
+# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,
+# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!
+# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
+#
+# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
+# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia
+# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,
+# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880
+ 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time
+ 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+ 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence
+ 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time
+ 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun
+ 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun
+ 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun
+ 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT
+
+# East Timor
+
+# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
+# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
+# East Timor may be late for its millennium
+# </a> (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
+# conflicts with their way of life.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
+# We don't have any record of the above attempt.
+# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data.
+
+# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html">
+# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General
+# (2000-08-16)</a>:
+# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided
+# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change,
+# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at
+# midnight on Saturday, September 16.
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912
+ 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
+ 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
+ 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3
+ 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00
+ 9:00 - TPT
+
+# India
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880
+ 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
+ 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
+ 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
+ 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
+ 5:30 - IST
+# The following are like Asia/Calcutta:
+# Andaman Is
+# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
+# Nicobar Is
+
+# Indonesia
+#
+# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks:
+# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime>
+# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some
+# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat
+# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7.
+#
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10
+# Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13,
+# but this must be a typo.
+ 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta
+ 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time
+ 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23
+ 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
+ 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
+ 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
+ 7:30 - WIT 1964
+ 7:00 - WIT
+Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May
+ 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT
+ 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29
+ 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
+ 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
+ 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
+ 7:30 - WIT 1964
+ 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1
+ 7:00 - WIT
+Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920
+ 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT
+ 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9
+ 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug
+ 8:00 - CIT
+Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
+ 9:00 - EIT 1944
+ 9:30 - CST 1964
+ 9:00 - EIT
+
+# Iran
+
+# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15):
+# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian).
+# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine:
+#
+# Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16]
+# No. 16760/T233 H 1370/6/10 [1991-09-01]
+#
+# The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country
+#
+# The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14],
+# based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13]
+# of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs,
+# and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers
+# and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and
+# for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that:
+#
+# The official time of the country will should move forward one hour
+# at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return
+# to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of
+# Shahrivar.
+#
+# First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi
+#
+# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed
+# for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the
+# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last
+# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates....
+# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct
+# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-15)
+# Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter.
+# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates.
+# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050
+# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow.
+#
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 1991 1995 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916
+ 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time
+ 3:30 - IRST 1977 Nov
+ 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979
+ 3:30 Iran IR%sT
+
+
+# Iraq
+#
+# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12):
+# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
+# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph:
+# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and
+# are an hour ahead of Baghdad."
+#
+# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows:
+# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi
+# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred
+# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone
+# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq.
+#
+# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim.
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S
+Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D
+# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo.
+# Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this.
+Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D
+Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890
+ 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time?
+ 3:00 - AST 1982 May
+ 3:00 Iraq A%sT
+
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Israel
+
+# From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11):
+#
+# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three
+# different abbreviations in use:
+#
+# JST Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University]
+# IZT Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion]
+# EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else]
+#
+# Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities,
+# I ruled out JST. As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe,
+# EEST was equally unacceptable. Since "zonal" was not compatible with
+# any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go
+# and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone
+# settings in Israeli computers.
+#
+# In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India,
+# high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's
+# family is from India).
+
+# From Shanks:
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD
+Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
+
+# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il>
+# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25):
+
+# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of
+# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
+# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150
+# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to
+# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to
+# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a
+# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard
+# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard
+# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid
+# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to
+# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from
+# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time
+# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for
+# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was
+# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it
+# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all
+# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no
+# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date
+# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve
+# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date
+# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]
+# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar).
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S
+
+# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the
+# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by
+# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448.
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
+
+# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
+# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998
+# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at:
+#
+# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz
+#
+# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa.
+#
+# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at:
+#
+# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz
+#
+# where YYYY is the relevant year.
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S
+
+# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for
+# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the
+# years 2001-2004 as well.
+#
+# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at:
+#
+# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz
+#
+# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates
+# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at:
+#
+# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S
+Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25):
+# Here are guesses for rules after 2004.
+# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all.
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D
+Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880
+ 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time?
+ 2:00 Zion I%sT
+
+# From Ephraim Silverberg (2003-03-23):
+#
+# Minister of Interior Poraz has announced that he will respect the law
+# passed in July 2000 (proposed at the time jointly by himself and
+# then-MK David Azulai [Shas]) fixing the dates for 2000-2004. Hence,
+# the dates for 2003 and 2004 remain unchanged....
+#
+# As far as 2005 and beyond, no dates have been set. However, the
+# minister has mentioned that he wishes to propose to move Israel's
+# timezone in 2005 from GMT+2 to GMT+3 and upon that have DST during
+# the summer months (i.e. GMT+4). However, no legislation in this
+# direction is expected until the latter part of 2004 which is a long
+# time off in terms of Israeli politics.
+
+
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Japan
+
+# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
+
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06):
+# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
+# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued
+# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.''
+# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows:
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
+#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S
+#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
+#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
+# but the only locations using it were US military bases.
+# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo.
+
+# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09):
+# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical
+# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0.
+# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996'
+# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan....
+# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST).
+# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07.
+
+# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16):
+# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan,
+# which stands for the time on E 135 degree.
+# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central
+# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard
+# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard
+# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No.
+# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is
+# standard....
+#
+# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate.
+# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor.
+
+# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki)
+# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1.
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u
+ 9:00 - JST 1896
+ 9:00 - CJT 1938
+ 9:00 - JST
+# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
+
+# Jordan
+#
+# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
+# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
+# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight,
+# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time
+# all year round.
+#
+# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html">
+# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09):
+# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back
+# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final!
+# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in
+# government's departments from six to seven hours.
+#
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 -
+Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 -
+Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
+ 2:00 Jordan EE%sT
+
+# Kazakhstan
+# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
+# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
+# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk)
+# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones.
+# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time
+# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-10-18):
+# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses
+# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it.
+# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules.
+# Also go with the following claims of Shanks:
+#
+# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991.
+# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00.
+# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989.
+#
+#
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+#
+# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan
+Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata
+ 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time
+ 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991
+ 6:00 - ALMT 1992
+ 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT
+# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.)
+Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time
+ 5:00 - KIZT 1981 Apr 1
+ 5:00 1:00 KIZST 1981 Oct 1
+ 6:00 - KIZT 1982 Apr 1
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991
+ 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
+ 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
+ 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT
+# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk)
+Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time
+ 5:00 - AKTT 1981 Apr 1
+ 5:00 1:00 AKTST 1981 Oct 1
+ 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991
+ 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT # Aqtobe Time
+# Mangghystau
+# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region,
+# so include time stamps before 1963.
+Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 4:00 - FORT 1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T
+ 5:00 - FORT 1963
+ 5:00 - SHET 1981 Oct 1 # Shevchenko Time
+ 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991
+ 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT
+# West Kazakhstan
+Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk
+ 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time
+ 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1
+ 5:00 1:00 URAST 1981 Oct 1
+ 6:00 - URAT 1982 Apr 1
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991
+ 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT # Oral Time
+
+# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan)
+# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks.
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
+Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S
+Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time
+ 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+ 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence
+ 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Korea (North and South)
+
+# From Guy Harris:
+# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco,
+# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know
+# at what time of day DST starts or ends.
+
+# From Shanks:
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
+Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun<=14 0:00 1:00 D
+Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun<=14 0:00 0 S
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890
+ 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
+ 9:00 - KST 1928
+ 8:30 - KST 1932
+ 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
+ 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10
+ 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct
+ 9:00 ROK K%sT
+Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890
+ 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
+ 9:00 - KST 1928
+ 8:30 - KST 1932
+ 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
+ 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10
+ 9:00 - KST
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Kuwait
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950
+ 3:00 - AST
+
+# Laos
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan
+ 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
+ 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
+ 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
+ 7:00 - ICT
+
+# Lebanon
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
+Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
+ 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
+
+# Malaysia
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer
+Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 -
+#
+# peninsular Malaysia
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-11-01):
+# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
+# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
+# Before 1901, Penang, Malacca and Singapore each had their own time zone;
+# assume Kuala Lumpur used Malaccan time.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880
+ 6:49:00 - MMT 1901 Jan 1 # Malacca Mean Time
+ 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
+ 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time
+ 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936
+ 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1
+ 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16
+ 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
+ 7:30 - MALT 1982 Jan 1
+ 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time
+# Sabah & Sarawak
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-11-01):
+# The data here are mostly from Shanks, but the 1942, 1945 and 1982
+# transition dates are from Mok Ly Yng.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar
+ 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time
+ 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 Feb 16
+ 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
+ 8:00 - BORT 1982 Jan 1
+ 8:00 - MYT
+
+# Maldives
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
+ 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time
+ 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time
+
+# Mongolia
+
+# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map
+# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01)
+# both say that it has just one.
+
+# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11):
+# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm">
+# General Information Mongolia
+# </a> (1999-09)
+# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of
+# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and
+# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus
+# eight hours."
+
+# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13):
+# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998
+# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am
+# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time
+# of implementation may have been different....
+# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time
+# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod,
+# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15):
+# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia.
+# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone;
+# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us,
+# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd
+# is good enough for our purposes.
+
+# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13):
+# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier
+# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28),
+# there are three time zones.
+#
+# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai
+# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov,
+# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi
+# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar
+#
+# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.]
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists
+# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00.
+# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998.
+Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST.
+Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr 27 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Mongol 2001 only - Sep 28 2:00s 0 -
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
+Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug
+ 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time
+ 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT
+# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga
+Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug
+ 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time
+ 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT
+# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan,
+# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan
+Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug
+ 7:00 - ULAT 1978
+ 8:00 - ULAT 1983 Apr
+ 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT # Choibalsan Time
+
+# Nepal
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
+ 5:30 - IST 1986
+ 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time
+
+# Oman
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920
+ 4:00 - GST
+
+# Pakistan
+
+# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13):
+# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a
+# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002
+# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was
+# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the
+# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15):
+# Jesper Norgaard found this URL:
+# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm
+# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to
+# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first
+# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on
+# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00,
+# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like
+# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday
+# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the
+# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09):
+# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05
+# that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow for now.
+
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14):
+# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm
+# there will be no DST in Pakistan this year:
+#
+# ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh
+# Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous
+# decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by
+# one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy.
+#
+# The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather
+# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity.
+
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S
+Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
+ 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
+ 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
+ 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30
+ 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
+ 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time
+
+# Palestine
+
+# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15):
+#
+# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now
+# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule.
+# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too...
+#
+# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05
+# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no
+# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt,
+# though.
+#
+# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally
+# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from
+# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the
+# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major
+# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and
+# East Jerusalem.
+#
+# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except
+# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might
+# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware
+# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer
+# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected).
+#
+# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most
+# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to
+# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to
+# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't
+# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the
+# Jordanian one).
+#
+# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that:
+#
+# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996-
+# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------
+# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion
+# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan
+# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan
+#
+# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they
+# have one).
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25):
+# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go
+# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947,
+# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996.
+# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since
+# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about
+# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
+# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries
+# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules
+# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please
+# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions.
+
+# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time,
+# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg:
+#
+# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time
+# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks
+# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule,
+# the PA has decided to implement DST in April.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
+# Daoud Kuttab writes in
+# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html">
+# Holiday havoc
+# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that
+# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15.
+# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source).
+# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
+# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
+
+# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
+Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
+
+Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
+ 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15
+ 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5
+ 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996
+ 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999
+ 2:00 Palestine EE%sT
+
+# Paracel Is
+# no information
+
+# Philippines
+# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the
+# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to
+# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a
+# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>.
+# The rest of this data is from Shanks.
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
+ 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11
+ 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May
+ 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov
+ 8:00 Phil PH%sT
+
+# Qatar
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha
+ 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
+ 3:00 - AST
+
+# Saudi Arabia
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950
+ 3:00 - AST
+
+# Singapore
+# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
+# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1880
+ 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
+ 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time
+ 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936
+ 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1
+ 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16
+ 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
+ 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence
+ 7:30 - SGT 1982 Jan 1 # Singapore Time
+ 8:00 - SGT
+
+# Spratly Is
+# no information
+
+# Sri Lanka
+# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
+# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout"
+# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24,
+# no longer available as of 1999-08-17)
+# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at
+# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.''
+#
+# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted
+# by Shamindra in
+# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net">
+# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26)
+# </a>:
+# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996
+# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT.
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880
+ 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time
+ 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5
+ 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep
+ 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00
+ 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00
+ 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30
+ 6:00 - LKT
+
+# Syria
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
+# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
+# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
+# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31;
+# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks.
+Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq
+ 2:00 Syria EE%sT
+
+# Tajikistan
+# From Shanks.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time
+ 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+ 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s
+ 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time
+
+# Thailand
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880
+ 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time
+ 7:00 - ICT
+
+# Turkmenistan
+# From Shanks.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad
+ 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence
+ 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
+ 5:00 - TMT
+
+# United Arab Emirates
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920
+ 4:00 - GST
+
+# Uzbekistan
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time
+ 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1
+ 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1
+ 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
+ 5:00 - UZT
+Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
+ 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time
+ 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
+ 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993
+ 5:00 - UZT
+
+# Vietnam
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
+# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long.
+# We'll stick with the traditional name for now.
+# From Shanks:
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
+ 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
+ 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
+ 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
+ 7:00 - ICT
+
+# Yemen
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950
+ 3:00 - AST
--- /dev/null
+# @(#)australasia 7.69
+# This file also includes Pacific islands.
+
+# Notes are at the end of this file
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Australia
+
+# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc.
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Aus 1917 only - Jan 1 0:01 1:00 -
+Rule Aus 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 0 -
+Rule Aus 1942 only - Jan 1 2:00 1:00 -
+Rule Aus 1942 only - Mar 29 2:00 0 -
+Rule Aus 1942 only - Sep 27 2:00 1:00 -
+Rule Aus 1943 1944 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
+Rule Aus 1943 only - Oct 3 2:00 1:00 -
+# Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which
+# says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944. Ignore Whitman's claim that
+# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944.
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+# Northern Territory
+Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
+ 9:00 - CST 1899 May
+ 9:30 Aus CST
+# Western Australia
+Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec
+ 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul
+ 8:00 - WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s
+ 8:00 1:00 WST 1975 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s
+ 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s
+ 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s
+ 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s
+ 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s
+ 8:00 - WST
+# Queensland
+#
+# From Alex Livingston <alex@agsm.unsw.edu.au> (1996-11-01):
+# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
+# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
+# Queensland ceased to.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
+# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman,
+# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped.
+# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria,
+# so use Lindeman.
+#
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AQ 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AQ 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Holiday 1992 1993 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule Holiday 1993 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895
+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971
+ 10:00 AQ EST
+Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895
+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971
+ 10:00 AQ EST 1992 Jul
+ 10:00 Holiday EST
+
+# South Australia
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule AS 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AS 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AS 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AS 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 1990 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 1991 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 1992 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 1993 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 1994 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
+ 9:00 - CST 1899 May
+ 9:30 Aus CST 1971
+ 9:30 AS CST
+
+# Tasmania
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AT 1991 1999 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AT 1991 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AT 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep
+ 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00
+ 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb
+ 10:00 Aus EST 1967
+ 10:00 AT EST
+
+# Victoria
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AV 1988 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AV 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AV 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AV 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971
+ 10:00 AV EST
+
+# New South Wales
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule AN 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AN 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AN 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AN 1982 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AN 1983 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AN 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AN 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971
+ 10:00 AN EST
+Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 - LMT 1895 Feb
+ 10:00 - EST 1896 Aug 23
+ 9:00 - CST 1899 May
+ 9:30 Aus CST 1971
+ 9:30 AN CST 2000
+ 9:30 AS CST
+
+# Lord Howe Island
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule LH 1981 1984 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
+Rule LH 1982 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
+Rule LH 1985 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
+Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
+Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 0:30 -
+Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
+Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
+Rule LH 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
+Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
+Rule LH 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
+Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
+ 10:00 - EST 1981 Mar
+ 10:30 LH LHST
+
+# Australian miscellany
+#
+# Ashmore Is, Cartier
+# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers
+# like Australia/Perth, says Turner
+#
+# Coral Sea Is
+# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists
+# no information
+#
+# Macquarie
+# permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948;
+# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917
+# like Australia/Hobart, says Turner
+
+# Christmas
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
+ 7:00 - CXT # Christmas Island Time
+
+# Cook Is
+# From Shanks:
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS
+Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua
+ -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time
+ -10:00 Cook CK%sT
+
+# Cocos
+# From USNO (1989):
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time
+
+# Fiji
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
+ 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
+
+# French Polynesia
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea
+ -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time
+Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct
+ -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time
+Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete
+ -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time
+# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
+# it is uninhabited.
+
+# Guam
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
+ 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana
+ 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam
+ 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
+
+# Kiribati
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki
+ 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time
+Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901
+ -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time
+ -11:00 - PHOT 1995
+ 13:00 - PHOT
+Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901
+ -10:40 - LINT 1979 Oct # Line Is Time
+ -10:00 - LINT 1995
+ 14:00 - LINT
+
+# N Mariana Is
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
+ 9:43:00 - LMT 1901
+ 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time
+ 10:00 - MPT 2000 Dec 23
+ 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
+
+# Marshall Is
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901
+ 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time
+ 12:00 - MHT
+Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901
+ 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct
+ -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time
+ 12:00 - MHT
+
+# Micronesia
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Yap 9:12:32 - LMT 1901 # Colonia
+ 9:00 - YAPT 1969 Oct # Yap Time
+ 10:00 - YAPT
+Zone Pacific/Truk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901
+ 10:00 - TRUT # Truk Time
+Zone Pacific/Ponape 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia
+ 11:00 - PONT # Ponape Time
+Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901
+ 11:00 - KOST 1969 Oct # Kosrae Time
+ 12:00 - KOST 1999
+ 11:00 - KOST
+
+# Nauru
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe
+ 11:30 - NRT 1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time
+ 9:00 - JST 1944 Aug 15
+ 11:30 - NRT 1979 May
+ 12:00 - NRT
+
+# New Caledonia
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 -
+Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 S
+# Shanks says the following was at 2:00; go with IATA.
+Rule NC 1997 only - Mar 2 2:00s 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13
+ 11:00 NC NC%sT
+
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# New Zealand
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule NZ 1928 only - Mar 4 2:00 0 M
+Rule NZ 1928 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 S
+Rule NZ 1929 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 M
+Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 M
+Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 S
+Rule NZ 1946 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S
+# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no
+# convenient notation for this so we must duplicate the Rule lines.
+Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule Chatham 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D
+Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S
+Rule Chatham 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:45s 0 S
+Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule Chatham 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D
+Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
+Rule Chatham 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S
+Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule Chatham 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:45s 1:00 D
+Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D
+Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S
+Rule Chatham 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2
+ 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1
+ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT
+Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1957 Jan 1
+ 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT
+
+
+# Auckland Is
+# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
+# and scientific personnel have wintered
+
+# Campbell I
+# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
+# scientific station operated 1941/1995;
+# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
+# was probably like Pacific/Auckland
+
+###############################################################################
+
+
+# Niue
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi
+ -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time
+ -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1
+ -11:00 - NUT
+
+# Norfolk
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston
+ 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
+ 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time
+
+# Palau (Belau)
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror
+ 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time
+
+# Papua New Guinea
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880
+ 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
+ 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time
+
+# Pitcairn
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown
+ -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 00:00
+ -8:00 - PST # Pitcairn Standard Time
+
+# American Samoa
+Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
+ -11:22:48 - LMT 1911
+ -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time
+ -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
+ -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
+ -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
+
+# W Samoa
+Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
+ -11:26:56 - LMT 1911
+ -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time
+ -11:00 - WST # W Samoa Time
+
+# Solomon Is
+# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara
+ 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time
+
+# Tokelau Is
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901
+ -10:00 - TKT # Tokelau Time
+
+# Tonga
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901
+ 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time
+ 13:00 - TOT 1999
+ 13:00 Tonga TO%sT
+
+# Tuvalu
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901
+ 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time
+
+
+# US minor outlying islands
+
+# Howland, Baker
+# uninhabited since World War II
+# no information; was probably like Pacific/Pago_Pago
+
+# Jarvis
+# uninhabited since 1958
+# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
+
+# Johnston
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST
+
+# Kingman
+# uninhabited
+
+# Midway
+Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901
+ -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3
+ -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2
+ -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
+ -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
+ -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
+
+# Palmyra
+# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
+
+# Wake
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901
+ 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time
+
+
+# Vanuatu
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 -
+Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 -
+Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila
+ 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time
+
+# Wallis and Futuna
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
+ 12:00 - WFT # Wallis & Futuna Time
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# NOTES
+
+# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
+# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
+# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
+
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29):
+# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
+# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
+# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
+#
+# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
+# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
+# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
+# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
+# of the IATA's data after 1990.
+#
+# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990,
+# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
+#
+# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
+# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
+# I found in the UCLA library.
+#
+# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
+#
+# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
+# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
+# Corrections are welcome!
+# std dst
+# LMT Local Mean Time
+# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia
+# 9:00 JST Japan
+# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia
+# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia
+# 10:00 ChST Chamorro
+# 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe*
+# 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945
+# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present
+# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham*
+# -11:00 SST Samoa
+# -10:00 HST Hawaii
+# - 8:00 PST Pitcairn*
+#
+# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii.
+# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is.
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Australia
+
+# <a href="http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html">
+# Australia's Daylight Saving Times
+# </a>, by Margaret Turner, summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
+
+# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
+# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time.
+# It is called `summer' time. Now by a happy coincidence, `summer'
+# and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the
+# abbreviation does _not_ change...
+# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least
+# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the
+# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses
+# the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight
+# time'.
+# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian
+# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time'
+# or `Eastern Summer Time'. (Note, though, that as I say in the
+# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.) Announcers
+# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases
+# prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times;
+# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
+# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is:
+# CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30
+# WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00
+# EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-05), summarizing a long discussion about "EST"
+# versus "AEST" etc.:
+#
+# I see the following points of dispute:
+#
+# * How important are unique time zone abbreviations?
+#
+# Here I tend to agree with the point (most recently made by Chris
+# Newman) that unique abbreviations should not be essential for proper
+# operation of software. We have other instances of ambiguity
+# (e.g. "IST" denoting both "Israel Standard Time" and "Indian
+# Standard Time"), and they are not likely to go away any time soon.
+# In the old days, some software mistakenly relied on unique
+# abbreviations, but this is becoming less true with time, and I don't
+# think it's that important to cater to such software these days.
+#
+# On the other hand, there is another motivation for unambiguous
+# abbreviations: it cuts down on human confusion. This is
+# particularly true for Australia, where "EST" can mean one thing for
+# time T and a different thing for time T plus 1 second.
+#
+# * Does the relevant legislation indicate which abbreviations should be used?
+#
+# Here I tend to think that things are a mess, just as they are in
+# many other countries. We Americans are currently disagreeing about
+# which abbreviation to use for the newly legislated Chamorro Standard
+# Time, for example.
+#
+# Personally, I would prefer to use common practice; I would like to
+# refer to legislation only for examples of common practice, or as a
+# tiebreaker.
+#
+# * Do Australians more often use "Eastern Daylight Time" or "Eastern
+# Summer Time"? Do they typically prefix the time zone names with
+# the word "Australian"?
+#
+# My own impression is that both "Daylight Time" and "Summer Time" are
+# common and are widely understood, but that "Summer Time" is more
+# popular; and that the leading "A" is also common but is omitted more
+# often than not. I just used AltaVista advanced search and got the
+# following count of page hits:
+#
+# 1,103 "Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au
+# 971 "Australian Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au
+# 613 "Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au
+# 127 "Australian Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au
+#
+# Here "Summer" seems quite a bit more popular than "Daylight",
+# particularly when we know the time zone is Australian and not US,
+# say. The "Australian" prefix seems to be popular for Eastern Summer
+# Time, but unpopular for Eastern Daylight Time.
+#
+# For abbreviations, tools like AltaVista are less useful because of
+# ambiguity. Many hits are not really time zones, unfortunately, and
+# many hits denote US time zones and not Australian ones. But here
+# are the hit counts anyway:
+#
+# 161,304 "EST" and domain:au
+# 25,156 "EDT" and domain:au
+# 18,263 "AEST" and domain:au
+# 10,416 "AEDT" and domain:au
+#
+# 14,538 "CST" and domain:au
+# 5,728 "CDT" and domain:au
+# 176 "ACST" and domain:au
+# 29 "ACDT" and domain:au
+#
+# 7,539 "WST" and domain:au
+# 68 "AWST" and domain:au
+#
+# This data suggest that Australians tend to omit the "A" prefix in
+# practice. The situation for "ST" versus "DT" is less clear, given
+# the ambiguities involved.
+#
+# * How do Australians feel about the abbreviations in the tz database?
+#
+# If you just count Australians on this list, I count 2 in favor and 3
+# against. One of the "against" votes (David Keegel) counseled delay,
+# saying that both AEST/AEDT and EST/EST are widely used and
+# understood in Australia.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
+# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand.
+# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper
+# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
+# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
+# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time.
+# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
+
+# From Eric Ulevik <eau@zip.com.au> (1998-01-05):
+#
+# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
+# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
+# relevant entries in this database.
+#
+# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill):
+# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html">
+# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04)
+# </a>
+# ACT
+# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html">
+# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972
+# </a>
+# SA
+# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html">
+# Standard Time Act, 1898
+# </a>
+
+# Northern Territory
+
+# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
+# # [ Nov 1990 ]
+# # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
+# ...
+# Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST
+
+# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
+# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
+# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
+
+# Western Australia
+
+# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
+# # [ Nov 1990 ]
+# # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
+# # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
+# # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
+# # before reaching parliament.
+# ...
+# Zone Australia/West 8:00 AW %sST
+# ...
+# Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+# Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W
+# Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+# Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W
+
+# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
+# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
+# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving.
+
+# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02):
+# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney
+# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at
+# work at 9.00am.)
+# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
+# everybody again.
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
+# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
+# it matches what was used in the past.
+
+# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm">
+# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
+# </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
+# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia.
+
+# Queensland
+# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
+# # [ Dec 1990 ]
+# ...
+# Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST
+# ...
+# Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+# Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E
+# Rule AQ 1989 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+# Rule AQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E
+
+# From Bradley White (1989-12-24):
+# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from
+# October 1989).
+
+# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
+# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
+# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
+# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
+
+# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
+# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact
+# end on Sunday, 3 March. I don't know at what hour, though. (It surprised
+# me.)
+
+# From Bradley White (1992-03-08):
+# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted
+# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ...
+# ...
+# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S
+# ...
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
+# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
+
+# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
+# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
+# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with
+# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the
+# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being
+# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the
+# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are
+# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western
+# Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
+# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The
+# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
+# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
+# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
+# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and
+# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an
+# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone
+# calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
+# This is confirmed by the section entitled
+# "What's the deal with time zones???" in
+# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>,
+# which says a few other things:
+#
+# * Border Village, SA also is 45 minutes ahead of Perth.
+# * The locals call this time zone "central W.A. Time" (presumably "CWAT").
+# * The locals also call Western Australia time "Perth time".
+#
+# It's not clear from context whether everyone in Western Australia
+# knows of this naming convention, or whether it's just the people in
+# this subregion.
+
+# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
+# The rules from version 7.1 follow.
+# There are lots of differences between these rules and
+# the Shepherd et al. rules. Since the Shepherd et al. rules
+# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on
+# current DST ending dates, no worries.
+#
+# Rule Oz 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
+# Rule Oz 1986 max - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 -
+# Rule Oz 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 -
+# Rule Oz 1973 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
+# Rule Oz 1987 max - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 -
+# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 Oz EST
+# Zone Australia/South 9:30 Oz CST
+# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 Oz EST 1985 Oct lastSun 2:00
+# 10:00 1:00 EST 1986 Mar Sun<=21 3:00
+# 10:00 Oz EST
+
+# From Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# I believe that the current start date for DST is "lastSun" in Oct...
+# that changed Oct 89. That is, we're back to the
+# original rule, and that rule currently applies in all the states
+# that have dst, incl Qld. (Certainly it was true in Vic).
+# The file I'm including says that happened in 1988, I think
+# that's incorrect, but I'm not 100% certain.
+
+# South Australia
+
+# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
+# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
+# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
+# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
+
+# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]
+# # [ Nov 1990 ]
+# ...
+# Zone Australia/South 9:30 AS %sST
+# ...
+# Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+# Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C
+# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 C
+# Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C
+
+# From Bradley White (1992-03-11):
+# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide
+# contained the following exchange: "Due to the Adelaide Festival,
+# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks."
+
+# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13):
+# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that)
+# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even
+# numbered year (from 1990). That's when the Adelaide Festival
+# is on...
+
+# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000):
+# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
+# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
+# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
+
+# From Bradley White (1994-04-11):
+# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
+# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
+# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
+
+# From John Warburton <jwarb@SACBH.com.au> (1994-10-07):
+# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
+# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
+# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
+
+# Tasmania
+
+# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
+# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
+# # [ Nov 1990 ]
+
+# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10):
+# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
+# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
+# (but nothing new about that).
+
+# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04):
+# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the
+# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard,
+# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria
+# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000
+# instead of the first Sunday in October.
+
+# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules:
+# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300
+
+# Victoria
+
+# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
+# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
+# # [ Nov 1990 ]
+
+# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29):
+# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an
+# interesting story about daylight savings time. Dr. John Heilbron was
+# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar
+# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located
+# in Melbourne, Australia.
+#
+# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which
+# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day
+# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's
+# fallen WWI soldiers. And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time,
+# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the
+# expected time.
+#
+# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had
+# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of
+# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?). Perhaps
+# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more.
+#
+# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html
+# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au
+
+# New South Wales
+
+# From Arthur David Olson:
+# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
+# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz),
+# who notes:
+# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
+# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time''
+# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common
+# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the
+# legislation. This is very important to understand.
+# I have researched New South Wales time only...
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
+# The Information Service of the Australian National Standards Commission
+# <a href="http://www.nsc.gov.au/InfoServ/Ileaflet/il27.htm">
+# Daylight Saving
+# </a> page (1995-04) has an excellent overall history of Australian DST.
+# The Community Relations Division of the NSW Attorney General's Department
+# publishes a history of daylight saving in NSW. See:
+# <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2">
+# Lawlink NSW: Daylight Saving in New South Wales
+# </a>
+
+# From Eric Ulevik <eau@ozemail.com.au> (1999-05-26):
+# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
+# October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore,
+# <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html">
+# Two months more daylight saving
+# </a>
+# Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).]
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
+# See the following official NSW source:
+# <a href="http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ">
+# Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
+# </a>
+#
+# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of
+# daylight saving next year. See:
+# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm">
+# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
+# </a> (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
+#
+# Victoria will following NSW. See:
+# <a href="http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm">
+# Vic to extend daylight saving
+# </a> (1999-07-28).
+#
+# However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See:
+# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm">
+# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request
+# </a> (1999-07-19).
+#
+# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See:
+# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm">
+# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics
+# </a> (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying
+# ``Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time
+# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very
+# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of
+# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night.
+# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules.''
+#
+# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000. See:
+# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm">
+# Broken Hill to be behind the times
+# </a> (1999-07-21).
+
+# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian
+# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken
+# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
+
+# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
+# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
+# towns to use Queensland time.
+
+# Yancowinna
+
+# From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
+# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
+
+# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
+# # [ Dec 1990 ]
+# ...
+# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the
+# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings
+# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government
+# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have
+# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
+# # presently available.
+# Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST
+# ...
+# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+# Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C
+# [followed by other Rules]
+
+# Lord Howe Island
+
+# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen.. pauline@Aus ]
+# [ Dec 1990 ]
+# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
+# hour ahead of NSW time.
+
+# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27):
+# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same
+# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27). For your information the
+# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is
+# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time
+# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour
+# instead of only 30 minutes. Dependant on the wishes of residents
+# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing
+# arrangements. The starting date for summer time on the Island will
+# however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
+
+# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
+# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
+# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
+# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
+# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
+# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-02-09):
+# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks through 1989, and Lonergan thereafter.
+# For times we use Lonergan.
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# New Zealand
+
+# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
+# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
+# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for
+# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start).
+# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office.
+
+# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
+# # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
+# # or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
+# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Geofft@Aus.. Auckland N.Z. ]
+# # [ Nov 1990 ]
+# ...
+# Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+# Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
+# Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S
+# Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 S
+# ...
+# Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand
+# Zone NZ-CHAT 12:45 - NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
+# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989
+# rather than the October 1 value.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
+# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand.
+# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight
+# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
+# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
+# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-05-26):
+# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history,
+# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references.
+# Use these sources in preference to Shanks.
+#
+# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with
+# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham
+# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland.
+
+###############################################################################
+
+
+# Fiji
+
+# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
+# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time
+# instead of the American system (which was one day behind).
+
+# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
+# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01
+# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28. Each year the DST period will
+# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
+# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time. Go with McDow.
+
+# From the BBC World Service (1998-10-31 11:32 UTC):
+# The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
+# improve productivity and reduce road accidents. But correspondents say it
+# also hopes the move will boost Fiji's ability to compete with other pacific
+# islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new
+# millenium.
+
+# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
+# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
+
+# Johnston
+
+# Johnston data is from usno1995.
+
+
+# Kiribati
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
+# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati
+# ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995''
+# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
+
+
+# Kwajalein
+
+# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
+# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday,
+# 1993-08-20. Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
+# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
+# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
+
+
+# N Mariana Is, Guam
+
+# Howse writes (p 153) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
+# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones
+# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
+# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
+# see Asia/Manila.
+
+# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UTC+10 the official standard time,
+# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time". There is no official abbreviation,
+# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
+# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
+
+
+# Micronesia
+
+# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16),
+# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk"
+# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.''
+#
+# Shanks writes that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11 on 1978-10-01;
+# ignore this for now.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
+# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in
+# <a href="http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html">
+# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information
+# </a> (1999-01-26)
+# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11.
+# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now.
+
+
+# Midway
+
+# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
+# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
+# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
+# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
+# Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
+# your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956
+# we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to
+# air at 6am your time.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
+# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
+# started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years
+# in Midway, but we have no record of it.
+
+
+# Pitcairn
+
+# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
+# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
+# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows.
+#
+# The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
+# Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
+# as Pitcairn Standard Time.
+#
+# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
+# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
+# somehow in light of this proclamation.
+
+# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
+# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
+# ... at midnight.
+
+# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
+# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
+# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in
+# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
+
+
+# Samoa
+
+# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald)
+# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
+# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
+# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that
+# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.''
+
+
+# Tonga
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
+# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting
+# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.''
+# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
+
+# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle
+# <a href="http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm">
+# How Tonga became `The Land where Time Begins'
+# </a>:
+
+# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST
+# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT. When New Zealand adjusted its
+# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its
+# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of
+# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13 degrees
+# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).
+#
+# Because His Majesty King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince
+# Tungi, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time
+# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change.
+#
+# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer
+# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40
+# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40
+# minutes we have lost?"
+#
+# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
+# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
+# to say your prayers in the morning."
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-08-12):
+# Shanks says the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
+
+# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
+# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millenium
+# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
+# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
+# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
+# Government.
+
+# From Steffen Thorsen [straen@thorsen.priv.no] (1999-09-09):
+# * Tonga will introduce DST in November
+#
+# I was given this link by John Letts <johnletts@earthlink.net>:
+# <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm">
+# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
+# </a>
+#
+# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November
+# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead
+# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
+# (12 + 1 hour DST).
+
+# From Arthur David Olson [arthur_david_olson@nih.gov] (1999-09-20):
+# According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>
+# http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html
+# </a>:
+# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000
+# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the
+# third Saturday of April. Under the system approved by Privy Council on
+# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and
+# set back an hour on the closing date."
+# Alas, no indication of the time of day.
+
+# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
+# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
+# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
+
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
+# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
+# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
+# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
+# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
+# text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
+# (Original URL was: http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm )
+
+# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
+# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
+
+# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
+# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
+# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday
+# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
+# hour to 1:00am.
+
+# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05):
+# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't.
+
+
+# Wake
+
+# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
+# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
+#
+# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] -- ... The time was all the
+# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
+# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we
+# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
+# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
+# impossible.
+#
+# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
+# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# The International Date Line
+
+# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
+#
+# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
+# convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
+# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
+# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
+#
+# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
+# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
+# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
+# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati. Even that line
+# has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
+# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
+# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.
+#
+# An Anglo-French Conference on Time-Keeping at Sea (June, 1917) agreed that
+# legal time on the high seas would be zone time, i.e., the standard time at
+# the nearest meridian that is a multiple of fifteen degrees. The date is
+# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
+# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not
+# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
+# correct date is ambiguous.
--- /dev/null
+# @(#)backward 7.24
+
+# This file provides links between current names for time zones
+# and their old names. Many names changed in late 1993.
+
+Link America/Adak America/Atka
+Link America/Tijuana America/Ensenada
+Link America/Indianapolis America/Fort_Wayne
+Link America/Indiana/Knox America/Knox_IN
+Link America/Rio_Branco America/Porto_Acre
+Link America/Cordoba America/Rosario
+Link America/St_Thomas America/Virgin
+Link Asia/Ashgabat Asia/Ashkhabad
+Link Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking
+Link Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dacca
+Link Asia/Macau Asia/Macao
+Link Asia/Makassar Asia/Ujung_Pandang
+Link Asia/Jerusalem Asia/Tel_Aviv
+Link Asia/Thimphu Asia/Thimbu
+Link Asia/Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulan_Bator
+Link Australia/Sydney Australia/ACT
+Link Australia/Sydney Australia/Canberra
+Link Australia/Lord_Howe Australia/LHI
+Link Australia/Sydney Australia/NSW
+Link Australia/Darwin Australia/North
+Link Australia/Brisbane Australia/Queensland
+Link Australia/Adelaide Australia/South
+Link Australia/Hobart Australia/Tasmania
+Link Australia/Melbourne Australia/Victoria
+Link Australia/Perth Australia/West
+Link Australia/Broken_Hill Australia/Yancowinna
+Link America/Porto_Acre Brazil/Acre
+Link America/Noronha Brazil/DeNoronha
+Link America/Sao_Paulo Brazil/East
+Link America/Manaus Brazil/West
+Link America/Halifax Canada/Atlantic
+Link America/Winnipeg Canada/Central
+Link America/Regina Canada/East-Saskatchewan
+Link America/Toronto Canada/Eastern
+Link America/Edmonton Canada/Mountain
+Link America/St_Johns Canada/Newfoundland
+Link America/Vancouver Canada/Pacific
+Link America/Regina Canada/Saskatchewan
+Link America/Whitehorse Canada/Yukon
+Link America/Santiago Chile/Continental
+Link Pacific/Easter Chile/EasterIsland
+Link America/Havana Cuba
+Link Africa/Cairo Egypt
+Link Europe/Dublin Eire
+Link Europe/Chisinau Europe/Tiraspol
+Link Europe/London GB
+Link Europe/London GB-Eire
+Link Etc/GMT+0 GMT+0
+Link Etc/GMT-0 GMT-0
+Link Etc/GMT0 GMT0
+Link Etc/Greenwich Greenwich
+Link Asia/Hong_Kong Hongkong
+Link Atlantic/Reykjavik Iceland
+Link Asia/Tehran Iran
+Link Asia/Jerusalem Israel
+Link America/Jamaica Jamaica
+Link Asia/Tokyo Japan
+Link Pacific/Kwajalein Kwajalein
+Link Africa/Tripoli Libya
+Link America/Tijuana Mexico/BajaNorte
+Link America/Mazatlan Mexico/BajaSur
+Link America/Mexico_City Mexico/General
+Link America/Denver Navajo
+Link Pacific/Auckland NZ
+Link Pacific/Chatham NZ-CHAT
+Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Samoa
+Link Europe/Warsaw Poland
+Link Europe/Lisbon Portugal
+Link Asia/Shanghai PRC
+Link Asia/Taipei ROC
+Link Asia/Seoul ROK
+Link Asia/Singapore Singapore
+Link Europe/Istanbul Turkey
+Link Etc/UCT UCT
+Link America/Anchorage US/Alaska
+Link America/Adak US/Aleutian
+Link America/Phoenix US/Arizona
+Link America/Chicago US/Central
+Link America/Indianapolis US/East-Indiana
+Link America/New_York US/Eastern
+Link Pacific/Honolulu US/Hawaii
+Link America/Indiana/Knox US/Indiana-Starke
+Link America/Detroit US/Michigan
+Link America/Denver US/Mountain
+Link America/Los_Angeles US/Pacific
+Link Pacific/Pago_Pago US/Samoa
+Link Etc/UTC UTC
+Link Etc/Universal Universal
+Link Europe/Moscow W-SU
+Link Etc/Zulu Zulu
--- /dev/null
+# @(#)etcetera 7.11
+
+# These entries are mostly present for historical reasons, so that
+# people in areas not otherwise covered by the tz files could "zic -l"
+# to a time zone that was right for their area. These days, the
+# tz files cover almost all the inhabited world, so there's little
+# need now for the entries that are not on UTC.
+
+Zone Etc/GMT 0 - GMT
+Zone Etc/UTC 0 - UTC
+Zone Etc/UCT 0 - UCT
+
+# The following link uses older naming conventions,
+# but it belongs here, not in the file `backward',
+# as functions like gmtime load the "GMT" file to handle leap seconds properly.
+# We want this to work even on installations that omit the other older names.
+Link Etc/GMT GMT
+
+Link Etc/UTC Etc/Universal
+Link Etc/UTC Etc/Zulu
+
+Link Etc/GMT Etc/Greenwich
+Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT-0
+Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT+0
+Link Etc/GMT Etc/GMT0
+
+# We use POSIX-style signs in the Zone names and the output abbreviations,
+# even though this is the opposite of what many people expect.
+# POSIX has positive signs west of Greenwich, but many people expect
+# positive signs east of Greenwich. For example, TZ='Etc/GMT+4' uses
+# the abbreviation "GMT+4" and corresponds to 4 hours behind UTC
+# (i.e. west of Greenwich) even though many people would expect it to
+# mean 4 hours ahead of UTC (i.e. east of Greenwich).
+#
+# In the draft 5 of POSIX 1003.1-200x, the angle bracket notation
+# (which is not yet supported by the tz code) allows for
+# TZ='<GMT-4>+4'; if you want time zone abbreviations conforming to
+# ISO 8601 you can use TZ='<-0400>+4'. Thus the commonly-expected
+# offset is kept within the angle bracket (and is used for display)
+# while the POSIX sign is kept outside the angle bracket (and is used
+# for calculation).
+#
+# Do not use a TZ setting like TZ='GMT+4', which is four hours behind
+# GMT but uses the completely misleading abbreviation "GMT".
+
+# Earlier incarnations of this package were not POSIX-compliant,
+# and had lines such as
+# Zone GMT-12 -12 - GMT-1200
+# We did not want things to change quietly if someone accustomed to the old
+# way does a
+# zic -l GMT-12
+# so we moved the names into the Etc subdirectory.
+
+Zone Etc/GMT-14 14 - GMT-14 # 14 hours ahead of GMT
+Zone Etc/GMT-13 13 - GMT-13
+Zone Etc/GMT-12 12 - GMT-12
+Zone Etc/GMT-11 11 - GMT-11
+Zone Etc/GMT-10 10 - GMT-10
+Zone Etc/GMT-9 9 - GMT-9
+Zone Etc/GMT-8 8 - GMT-8
+Zone Etc/GMT-7 7 - GMT-7
+Zone Etc/GMT-6 6 - GMT-6
+Zone Etc/GMT-5 5 - GMT-5
+Zone Etc/GMT-4 4 - GMT-4
+Zone Etc/GMT-3 3 - GMT-3
+Zone Etc/GMT-2 2 - GMT-2
+Zone Etc/GMT-1 1 - GMT-1
+Zone Etc/GMT+1 -1 - GMT+1
+Zone Etc/GMT+2 -2 - GMT+2
+Zone Etc/GMT+3 -3 - GMT+3
+Zone Etc/GMT+4 -4 - GMT+4
+Zone Etc/GMT+5 -5 - GMT+5
+Zone Etc/GMT+6 -6 - GMT+6
+Zone Etc/GMT+7 -7 - GMT+7
+Zone Etc/GMT+8 -8 - GMT+8
+Zone Etc/GMT+9 -9 - GMT+9
+Zone Etc/GMT+10 -10 - GMT+10
+Zone Etc/GMT+11 -11 - GMT+11
+Zone Etc/GMT+12 -12 - GMT+12
--- /dev/null
+# @(#)europe 7.86
+
+# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
+# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
+# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
+
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29):
+# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
+# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
+# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
+#
+# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
+# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
+# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
+# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
+# of the IATA's data after 1990.
+#
+# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1991,
+# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
+#
+# Other sources occasionally used include:
+#
+# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
+# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated),
+# which I found in the UCLA library.
+#
+# <a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf">
+# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition
+# </a> (1914-03)
+#
+# Brazil's Departamento Servico da Hora (DSH),
+# <a href="http://pcdsh01.on.br/HISTHV.htm">
+# History of Summer Time
+# </a> (1998-09-21, in Portuguese)
+
+#
+# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
+# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
+# Corrections are welcome!
+# std dst 2dst
+# LMT Local Mean Time
+# -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic
+# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland*
+# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland*
+# 0:00 GMT BST BDST Greenwich, British Summer
+# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer
+# 0:00 WET WEST WEMT Western Europe
+# 0:19:32.13 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)*
+# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)*
+# 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe
+# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)*
+# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe
+# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow
+#
+# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain,
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
+
+# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-12-04),
+# The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy,
+# Luxembourg, the Netherlands.
+# Plus, from 1 Jan 73: Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom.
+# Plus, from 1 Jan 81: Greece.
+# Plus, from 1 Jan 86: Spain, Portugal.
+# Plus, from 1 Jan 95: Austria, Finland, Sweden. (Norway negotiated terms for
+# entry but in a referendum on 28 Nov 94 the people voted No by 52.2% to 47.8%
+# on a turnout of 88.6%. This was almost the same result as Norway's previous
+# referendum in 1972, they are the only country to have said No twice.
+# Referendums in the other three countries voted Yes.)
+# ...
+# Estonia ... uses EU dates but not at 01:00 GMT, they use midnight GMT.
+# I don't think they know yet what they will do from 1996 onwards.
+# ...
+# There shouldn't be any [current members who are not using EU rules].
+# A Directive has the force of law, member states are obliged to enact
+# national law to implement it. The only contentious issue was the
+# different end date for the UK and Ireland, and this was always allowed
+# in the Directive.
+
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Britain (United Kingdom) and Ireland (Eire)
+
+# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-07-06):
+#
+# On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about
+# historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo
+# and a sketch map showing some of the sightlines involved. One paragraph
+# of the text said:
+#
+# `An old stone obelisk marking a forgotten terrestrial meridian stands
+# beside the river at Kew. In the 18th century, before time and longitude
+# was standardised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, scholars observed
+# this stone and the movement of stars from Kew Observatory nearby. They
+# made their calculations and set the time for the Horse Guards and Parliament,
+# but now the stone is obscured by scrubwood and can only be seen by walking
+# along the towpath within a few yards of it.'
+#
+# I have a one inch to one mile map of London and my estimate of the stone's
+# position is 51 deg. 28' 30" N, 0 deg. 18' 45" W. The longitude should
+# be within about +-2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761.
+#
+# [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.]
+
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18):
+#
+# Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time.
+# The railways cared most about the inconsistencies of local mean time,
+# and it was they who forced a uniform time on the country.
+# The original idea was credited to Dr. William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828)
+# and was popularized by Abraham Follett Osler (1808-1903).
+# The first railway to adopt London time was the Great Western Railway
+# in November 1840; other railways followed suit, and by 1847 most
+# (though not all) railways used London time. On 1847-09-22 the
+# Railway Clearing House, an industry standards body, recommended that GMT be
+# adopted at all stations as soon as the General Post Office permitted it.
+# The transition occurred on 12-01 for the L&NW, the Caledonian,
+# and presumably other railways; the January 1848 Bradshaw's lists many
+# railways as using GMT. By 1855 the vast majority of public
+# clocks in Britain were set to GMT (though some, like the great clock
+# on Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, were fitted with two minute hands,
+# one for local time and one for GMT). The last major holdout was the legal
+# system, which stubbornly stuck to local time for many years, leading
+# to oddities like polls opening at 08:13 and closing at 16:13.
+# The legal system finally switched to GMT when the Statutes (Definition
+# of Time) Act took effect; it received the Royal Assent on 1880-08-02.
+#
+# In the tables below, we condense this complicated story into a single
+# transition date for London, namely 1847-12-01. We don't know as much
+# about Dublin, so we use 1880-08-02, the legal transition time.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-09-27):
+# Summer Time was first seriously proposed by William Willett (1857-1915),
+# a London builder and member of the Royal Astronomical Society
+# who circulated a pamphlet ``The Waste of Daylight'' (1907)
+# that proposed advancing clocks 20 minutes on each of four Sundays in April,
+# and retarding them by the same amount on four Sundays in September.
+# A bill was drafted in 1909 and introduced in Parliament several times,
+# but it met with ridicule and opposition, especially from farming interests.
+# Later editions of the pamphlet proposed one-hour summer time, and
+# it was eventually adopted as a wartime measure in 1916.
+# See: Summer Time Arrives Early, The Times (2000-05-18).
+# A monument to Willett was unveiled on 1927-05-21, in an open space in
+# a 45-acre wood near Chislehurst, Kent that was purchased by popular
+# subscription and open to the public. On the south face of the monolith,
+# designed by G. W. Miller, is the the William Willett Memorial Sundial,
+# which is permanently set to Summer Time.
+
+# From Winston Churchill (1934-04-28):
+# It is one of the paradoxes of history that we should owe the boon of
+# summer time, which gives every year to the people of this country
+# between 160 and 170 hours more daylight leisure, to a war which
+# plunged Europe into darkness for four years, and shook the
+# foundations of civilization throughout the world.
+# -- <a href="http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh114willett.htm">
+# "A Silent Toast to William Willett", Pictorial Weekly
+# </a>
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
+# The OED Supplement says that the English originally said ``Daylight Saving''
+# when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this
+# term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the
+# proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using ``Summer''.
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19):
+#
+# A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's
+# known as "British" Summer Time in all parts of the United Kingdom.
+
+# Date: 4 Jan 89 08:57:25 GMT (Wed)
+# From: Jonathan Leffler <nih-csl!uunet!mcvax!sphinx.co.uk!john>
+# [British Summer Time] is fixed annually by Act of Parliament.
+# If you can predict what Parliament will do, you should be in
+# politics making a fortune, not computing.
+
+# From Chris Carrier <72157.3334@CompuServe.COM> (1996-06-14):
+# I remember reading in various wartime issues of the London Times the
+# acronym BDST for British Double Summer Time. Look for the published
+# time of sunrise and sunset in The Times, when BDST was in effect, and
+# if you find a zone reference it will say, "All times B.D.S.T."
+
+# From Joseph S. Myers (1999-09-02):
+# ... some military cables (WO 219/4100 - this is a copy from the
+# main SHAEF archives held in the US National Archives, SHAEF/5252/8/516)
+# agree that the usage is BDST (this appears in a message dated 17 Feb 1945).
+
+# From Joseph S. Myers (2000-10-03):
+# On 18th April 1941, Sir Stephen Tallents of the BBC wrote to Sir
+# Alexander Maxwell of the Home Office asking whether there was any
+# official designation; the reply of the 21st was that there wasn't
+# but he couldn't think of anything better than the "Double British
+# Summer Time" that the BBC had been using informally.
+# http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/bbc-19410418.png
+# http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/ho-19410421.png
+
+# From Sir Alexander Maxwell in the above-mentioned letter (1941-04-21):
+# [N]o official designation has as far as I know been adopted for the time
+# which is to be introduced in May....
+# I cannot think of anything better than "Double British Summer Time"
+# which could not be said to run counter to any official description.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
+# Howse writes (p 157) `DBST' too, but `BDST' seems to have been common
+# and follows the more usual convention of putting the location name first,
+# so we use `BDST'.
+
+# Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-04-19) described at length
+# the history of summer time legislation in the United Kingdom.
+# Since 1998 Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> has been updating
+# and extending this list, which can be found in
+# <a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/">
+# History of legal time in Britain
+# </a>
+
+# From Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> (1998-01-06):
+#
+# The legal time in the UK outside of summer time is definitely GMT, not UTC;
+# see Lord Tanlaw's speech
+# <a href="http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/ld199697/ldhansrd/pdvn/lds97/text/70611-20.htm#70611-20_head0">
+# (Lords Hansard 11 June 1997 columns 964 to 976)
+# </a>.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-18):
+#
+# For lack of other data, we'll follow Shanks for Eire in 1940-1948.
+#
+# Given Ilieve and Myers's data, the following claims by Shanks are incorrect:
+# * Wales did not switch from GMT to daylight saving time until
+# 1921 Apr 3, when they began to conform with the rest of Great Britain.
+# Actually, Wales was identical after 1880.
+# * Eire had two transitions on 1916 Oct 1.
+# It actually just had one transition.
+# * Northern Ireland used single daylight saving time throughout WW II.
+# Actually, it conformed to Britain.
+# * GB-Eire changed standard time to 1 hour ahead of GMT on 1968-02-18.
+# Actually, that date saw the usual switch to summer time.
+# Standard time was not changed until 1968-10-27 (the clocks didn't change).
+#
+# Here is another incorrect claim by Shanks:
+# * Jersey, Guernsey, and the Isle of Man did not switch from GMT
+# to daylight saving time until 1921 Apr 3, when they began to
+# conform with Great Britain.
+# S.R.&O. 1916, No. 382 and HO 45/10811/312364 (quoted above) say otherwise.
+#
+# The following claim by Shanks is possible though doubtful;
+# we'll ignore it for now.
+# * Dublin's 1971-10-31 switch was at 02:00, even though London's was 03:00.
+#
+#
+# Whitman says Dublin Mean Time was -0:25:21, which is more precise than Shanks.
+# Perhaps this was Dunsink Observatory Time, as Dunsink Observatory
+# (8 km NW of Dublin's center) seemingly was to Dublin as Greenwich was
+# to London. For example:
+#
+# "Timeball on the ballast office is down. Dunsink time."
+# -- James Joyce, Ulysses
+
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-28):
+# Clive Feather (<news:859845706.26043.0@office.demon.net>, 1997-03-31)
+# reports that Folkestone (Cheriton) Shuttle Terminal uses Concession Time
+# (CT), equivalent to French civil time.
+# Julian Hill (<news:36118128.5A14@virgin.net>, 1998-09-30) reports that
+# trains between Dollands Moor (the freight facility next door)
+# and Frethun run in CT.
+# My admittedly uninformed guess is that the terminal has two authorities,
+# the French concession operators and the British civil authorities,
+# and that the time depends on who you're talking to.
+# If, say, the British police were called to the station for some reason,
+# I would expect the official police report to use GMT/BST and not CET/CEST.
+# This is a borderline case, but for now let's stick to GMT/BST.
+
+# From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02):
+# The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94,
+# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC.
+# Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate
+# regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of
+# Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is
+# "Irish Summer Time", abbreviated to "IST".
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+# Summer Time Act, 1916
+Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - May 21 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1916 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 GMT
+# S.R.&O. 1917, No. 358
+Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 GMT
+# S.R.&O. 1918, No. 274
+Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Mar 24 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1918 only - Sep 30 2:00s 0 GMT
+# S.R.&O. 1919, No. 297
+Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Mar 30 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1919 only - Sep 29 2:00s 0 GMT
+# S.R.&O. 1920, No. 458
+Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Mar 28 2:00s 1:00 BST
+# S.R.&O. 1920, No. 1844
+Rule GB-Eire 1920 only - Oct 25 2:00s 0 GMT
+# S.R.&O. 1921, No. 363
+Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1921 only - Oct 3 2:00s 0 GMT
+# S.R.&O. 1922, No. 264
+Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1922 only - Oct 8 2:00s 0 GMT
+# The Summer Time Act, 1922
+Rule GB-Eire 1923 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1923 1924 - Sep Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT
+Rule GB-Eire 1924 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1925 1926 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+# The Summer Time Act, 1925
+Rule GB-Eire 1925 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT
+Rule GB-Eire 1927 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1928 1929 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1930 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1931 1932 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1933 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1934 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1935 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1936 1937 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1938 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+# S.R.&O. 1939, No. 1379
+Rule GB-Eire 1939 only - Nov Sun>=16 2:00s 0 GMT
+# S.R.&O. 1940, No. 172 and No. 1883
+Rule GB-Eire 1940 only - Feb Sun>=23 2:00s 1:00 BST
+# S.R.&O. 1941, No. 476
+Rule GB-Eire 1941 only - May Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST
+Rule GB-Eire 1941 1943 - Aug Sun>=9 1:00s 1:00 BST
+# S.R.&O. 1942, No. 506
+Rule GB-Eire 1942 1944 - Apr Sun>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST
+# S.R.&O. 1944, No. 932
+Rule GB-Eire 1944 only - Sep Sun>=16 1:00s 1:00 BST
+# S.R.&O. 1945, No. 312
+Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Apr Mon>=2 1:00s 2:00 BDST
+Rule GB-Eire 1945 only - Jul Sun>=9 1:00s 1:00 BST
+# S.R.&O. 1945, No. 1208
+Rule GB-Eire 1945 1946 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT
+Rule GB-Eire 1946 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+# The Summer Time Act, 1947
+Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Mar 16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Apr 13 1:00s 2:00 BDST
+Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Aug 10 1:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1947 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 GMT
+# Summer Time Order, 1948 (S.I. 1948/495)
+Rule GB-Eire 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1948 only - Oct 31 2:00s 0 GMT
+# Summer Time Order, 1949 (S.I. 1949/373)
+Rule GB-Eire 1949 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1949 only - Oct 30 2:00s 0 GMT
+# Summer Time Order, 1950 (S.I. 1950/518)
+# Summer Time Order, 1951 (S.I. 1951/430)
+# Summer Time Order, 1952 (S.I. 1952/451)
+Rule GB-Eire 1950 1952 - Apr Sun>=14 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1950 1952 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00s 0 GMT
+# revert to the rules of the Summer Time Act, 1925
+Rule GB-Eire 1953 only - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1953 1960 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 GMT
+Rule GB-Eire 1954 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1955 1956 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1957 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1958 1959 - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1960 only - Apr Sun>=9 2:00s 1:00 BST
+# Summer Time Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/71)
+# Summer Time (1962) Order, 1961 (S.I. 1961/2465)
+# Summer Time Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/81)
+Rule GB-Eire 1961 1963 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1961 1968 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT
+# Summer Time (1964) Order, 1963 (S.I. 1963/2101)
+# Summer Time Order, 1964 (S.I. 1964/1201)
+# Summer Time Order, 1967 (S.I. 1967/1148)
+Rule GB-Eire 1964 1967 - Mar Sun>=19 2:00s 1:00 BST
+# Summer Time Order, 1968 (S.I. 1968/117)
+Rule GB-Eire 1968 only - Feb 18 2:00s 1:00 BST
+# The British Standard Time Act, 1968
+# (no summer time)
+# The Summer Time Act, 1972
+Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 2:00s 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1972 1980 - Oct Sun>=23 2:00s 0 GMT
+# Summer Time Order, 1980 (S.I. 1980/1089)
+# Summer Time Order, 1982 (S.I. 1982/1673)
+# Summer Time Order, 1986 (S.I. 1986/223)
+# Summer Time Order, 1988 (S.I. 1988/931)
+Rule GB-Eire 1981 1995 - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 BST
+Rule GB-Eire 1981 1989 - Oct Sun>=23 1:00u 0 GMT
+# Summer Time Order, 1989 (S.I. 1989/985)
+# Summer Time Order, 1992 (S.I. 1992/1729)
+# Summer Time Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/2798)
+Rule GB-Eire 1990 1995 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00u 0 GMT
+# Summer Time Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2982)
+# See EU for rules starting in 1996.
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1
+ 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27
+ 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u
+ 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996
+ 0:00 EU GMT/BST
+Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2
+ -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 # Dublin/Dunsink MT
+ -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s # Irish Summer Time
+ 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27
+ 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u
+ 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996
+ 0:00 EU GMT/BST
+Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:00 - LMT 1880 Aug 2
+ -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00
+ -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s
+ 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1921 Dec 6 # independence
+ 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1940 Feb 25 2:00
+ 0:00 1:00 IST 1946 Oct 6 2:00
+ 0:00 - GMT 1947 Mar 16 2:00
+ 0:00 1:00 IST 1947 Nov 2 2:00
+ 0:00 - GMT 1948 Apr 18 2:00
+ 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1968 Oct 27
+ 1:00 - IST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u
+ 0:00 GB-Eire GMT/IST 1996
+ 0:00 EU GMT/IST
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# Continental Europe
+
+# EU rules are for the European Union, previously known as the EC, EEC,
+# Common Market, etc.
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule EU 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00u 1:00 S
+Rule EU 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 -
+Rule EU 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00u 0 -
+Rule EU 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 -
+Rule EU 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S
+Rule EU 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 -
+# The most recent directive covers the years starting in 2002. See:
+# <a href="http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0084.html"
+# Directive 2000/84/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
+# of 19 January 2001 on summer-time arrangements.
+# </a>
+
+# W-Eur differs from EU only in that W-Eur uses standard time.
+Rule W-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 S
+Rule W-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -
+Rule W-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 1:00s 0 -
+Rule W-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 -
+Rule W-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 S
+Rule W-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 -
+
+# Older C-Eur rules are for convenience in the tables.
+# From 1977 on, C-Eur differs from EU only in that C-Eur uses standard time.
+Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Apr 30 23:00 1:00 S
+Rule C-Eur 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 -
+Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule C-Eur 1917 1918 - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 -
+Rule C-Eur 1940 only - Apr 1 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule C-Eur 1942 only - Nov 2 2:00s 0 -
+Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule C-Eur 1943 only - Oct 4 2:00s 0 -
+Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S
+# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 7; go with Shanks.
+Rule C-Eur 1944 only - Oct 2 2:00s 0 -
+Rule C-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule C-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule C-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule C-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule C-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule C-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+
+# E-Eur differs from EU only in that E-Eur switches at midnight local time.
+Rule E-Eur 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule E-Eur 1977 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
+Rule E-Eur 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule E-Eur 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
+Rule E-Eur 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule E-Eur 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Russia 1917 only - Jul 1 23:00 1:00 MST # Moscow Summer Time
+Rule Russia 1917 only - Dec 28 0:00 0 MMT # Moscow Mean Time
+Rule Russia 1918 only - May 31 22:00 2:00 MDST # Moscow Double Summer Time
+Rule Russia 1918 only - Sep 16 1:00 1:00 MST
+Rule Russia 1919 only - May 31 23:00 2:00 MDST
+Rule Russia 1919 only - Jul 1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Russia 1919 only - Aug 16 0:00 0 -
+Rule Russia 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S
+Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 M # Midsummer
+Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Russia 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+# Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24):
+Rule Russia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Russia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+# Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in
+# Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14):
+Rule Russia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Russia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+#
+Rule Russia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
+Rule Russia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
+Rule Russia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Russia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Russia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+
+# These are for backward compatibility with older versions.
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone WET 0:00 EU WE%sT
+Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT
+Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT
+Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT
+
+# Previous editions of this database used abbreviations like MET DST
+# for Central European Summer Time, but this didn't agree with common usage.
+
+# From Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@unrza3.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de> (1996-07-12):
+# The official German names ... are
+#
+# Mitteleuropaeische Zeit (MEZ) = UTC+01:00
+# Mitteleuropaeische Sommerzeit (MESZ) = UTC+02:00
+#
+# as defined in the German Time Act (Gesetz ueber die Zeitbestimmung (ZeitG),
+# 1978-07-25, Bundesgesetzblatt, Jahrgang 1978, Teil I, S. 1110-1111)....
+# I wrote ... to the German Federal Physical-Technical Institution
+#
+# Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
+# Laboratorium 4.41 "Zeiteinheit"
+# Postfach 3345
+# D-38023 Braunschweig
+# phone: +49 531 592-0
+#
+# ... I received today an answer letter from Dr. Peter Hetzel, head of the PTB
+# department for time and frequency transmission. He explained that the
+# PTB translates MEZ and MESZ into English as
+#
+# Central European Time (CET) = UTC+01:00
+# Central European Summer Time (CEST) = UTC+02:00
+
+
+# Albania
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Albania 1940 only - Jun 16 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1943 only - Apr 10 3:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1974 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1974 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1975 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1975 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1976 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1976 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1977 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1977 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1978 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1978 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1979 only - May 5 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1979 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1980 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1980 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1981 only - Apr 26 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1981 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1982 only - May 2 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1982 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1983 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Albania 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
+Rule Albania 1984 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Tirane 1:19:20 - LMT 1914
+ 1:00 - CET 1940 Jun 16
+ 1:00 Albania CE%sT 1984 Jul
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+
+# Andorra
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Andorra 0:06:04 - LMT 1901
+ 0:00 - WET 1946 Sep 30
+ 1:00 - CET 1985 Mar 31 2:00
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+
+# Austria
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-28): Shanks gives 1918-06-16 and
+# 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and
+# Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged"
+# date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition
+# Shanks gives 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, and guess 02:00
+# for 1945-04-12.
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Austria 1920 only - Sep 13 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Austria 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Austria 1946 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1920
+ 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00s
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s
+ 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Apr 12 2:00s
+ 1:00 - CET 1946
+ 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1981
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+
+# Belarus
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Minsk 1:50:16 - LMT 1880
+ 1:50 - MMT 1924 May 2 # Minsk Mean Time
+ 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21
+ 3:00 - MSK 1941 Jun 28
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Jul 3
+ 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990
+ 3:00 - MSK 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+ 2:00 1:00 EEST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s
+ 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 29 0:00s
+ 2:00 1:00 EEST 1992 Sep 27 0:00s
+ 2:00 Russia EE%sT
+
+# Belgium
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (1997-07-02):
+# Entries from 1918 through 1991 are taken from:
+# Annuaire de L'Observatoire Royal de Belgique,
+# Avenue Circulaire, 3, B-1180 BRUXELLES, CLVIIe annee, 1991
+# (Imprimerie HAYEZ, s.p.r.l., Rue Fin, 4, 1080 BRUXELLES, MCMXC),
+# pp 8-9.
+# LMT before 1892 was 0:17:30, according to the official journal of Belgium:
+# Moniteur Belge, Samedi 30 Avril 1892, N.121.
+# Thanks to Pascal Delmoitie <pascal@belnet.be> for these references.
+# The 1918 rules are listed for completeness; they apply to unoccupied Belgium.
+# Assume Brussels switched to WET in 1918 when the armistice took effect.
+#
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Belgium 1918 only - Mar 9 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1918 1919 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Belgium 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Belgium 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Belgium 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1922 1927 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
+Rule Belgium 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S
+# DSH writes that a royal decree of 1926-02-22 specified the Sun following 3rd
+# Sat in Apr (except if it's Easter, in which case it's one Sunday earlier),
+# to Sun following 1st Sat in Oct, and that a royal decree of 1928-09-15
+# changed the transition times to 02:00 GMT.
+Rule Belgium 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1928 1938 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Belgium 1929 only - Apr 21 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1930 only - Apr 13 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1931 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1932 only - Apr 3 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1933 only - Mar 26 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1934 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1935 only - Mar 31 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1936 only - Apr 19 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1937 only - Apr 4 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1938 only - Mar 27 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1939 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1939 only - Nov 19 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Belgium 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1944 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Belgium 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Belgium 1946 only - May 19 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Belgium 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880
+ 0:17:30 - BMT 1892 May 1 12:00 # Brussels MT
+ 0:00 - WET 1914 Nov 8
+ 1:00 - CET 1916 May 1 0:00
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Nov 11 11:00u
+ 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 20 2:00s
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 3
+ 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+
+# Bosnia and Herzegovina
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
+
+# Bulgaria
+#
+# From Plamen Simenov <P.Simeonov@cnsys.bg> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
+# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says:
+# EET --> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ...
+# EETDST --> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October
+#
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Bulg 1979 only - Mar 31 23:00 1:00 S
+Rule Bulg 1979 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 -
+Rule Bulg 1980 1982 - Apr Sat<=7 23:00 1:00 S
+Rule Bulg 1980 only - Sep 29 1:00 0 -
+Rule Bulg 1981 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880
+ 1:56:56 - IMT 1894 Nov 30 # Istanbul MT?
+ 2:00 - EET 1942 Nov 2 3:00
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 3:00
+ 2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00
+ 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 2:00
+ 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991
+ 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT
+
+# Croatia
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
+
+# Czech Republic
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Czech 1945 only - Apr 8 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Czech 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Czech 1946 only - May 6 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Czech 1946 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Czech 1947 only - Apr 20 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Czech 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Czech 1949 only - Apr 9 2:00s 1:00 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Prague 0:57:44 - LMT 1850
+ 0:57:44 - PMT 1891 Oct # Prague Mean Time
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 17 2:00s
+ 1:00 Czech CE%sT 1979
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+
+# Denmark, Faeroe Islands, and Greenland
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S
+Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 -
+Rule Denmark 1940 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Denmark 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Denmark 1945 only - Aug 15 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Denmark 1946 only - May 1 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Denmark 1946 only - Sep 1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 -
+# Whitman also gives 1949 Apr 9 to 1949 Oct 1, and disagrees in minor ways
+# about many of the above dates; go with Shanks.
+#
+# For 1894, Shanks says Jan, Whitman Apr; go with Whitman.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890
+ 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Apr # Copenhagen Mean Time
+ 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
+ 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908 Jan 11 # Torshavn
+ 0:00 - WET 1981
+ 0:00 EU WE%sT
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
+# Greenland joined the EU as part of Denmark, obtained home rule on 1979-05-01,
+# and left the EU on 1985-02-01. It therefore should have been using EU
+# rules at least through 1984. Shanks says Scoresbysund and Godthab
+# used C-Eur rules after 1980, but IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says they use EU
+# rules since at least 1991. Assume EU rules since 1980.
+
+# From Gwillin Law (2001-06-06), citing
+# <http://www.statkart.no/efs/efshefter/2001/efs5-2001.pdf> (2001-03-15),
+# and with translations corrected by Steffen Thorsen:
+#
+# Greenland has four local times, and the relation to UTC
+# is according to the following time line:
+#
+# The military zone near Thule UTC-4
+# Standard Greenland time UTC-3
+# Scoresbysund UTC-1
+# Danmarkshavn UTC
+#
+# In the military area near Thule and in Danmarkshavn DST will not be
+# introduced.
+
+# From Rives McDow (2001-11-01):
+#
+# I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at
+# the time to clarify the situation in Thule. Unfortunately, I have
+# not heard back from them regarding my recent letter. [But I have
+# info from earlier correspondence.]
+#
+# According to the center, a very small local time zone around Thule
+# Air Base keeps the time according to UTC-4, implementing daylight
+# savings using North America rules, changing the time at 02:00 local time....
+#
+# The east coast of Greenland north of the community of Scoresbysund
+# uses UTC in the same way as in Iceland, year round, with no dst.
+# There are just a few stations on this coast, including the
+# Danmarkshavn ICAO weather station mentioned in your September 29th
+# email. The other stations are two sledge patrol stations in
+# Mestersvig and Daneborg, the air force base at Station Nord, and the
+# DPC research station at Zackenberg.
+#
+# Scoresbysund and two small villages nearby keep time UTC-1 and use
+# the same daylight savings time period as in West Greenland (Godthab).
+#
+# The rest of Greenland, including Godthab (this area, although it
+# includes central Greenland, is known as west Greenland), keeps time
+# UTC-3, with daylight savings methods according to European rules.
+#
+# It is common procedure to use UTC 0 in the wilderness of East and
+# North Greenland, because it is mainly Icelandic aircraft operators
+# maintaining traffic in these areas. However, the official status of
+# this area is that it sticks with Godthab time. This area might be
+# considered a dual time zone in some respects because of this.
+
+# From Rives McDow (2001-11-19):
+# I heard back from someone stationed at Thule; the time change took place
+# there at 2:00 AM.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-11-19):
+# The 1997 CIA map shows Danmarkshavn on GMT; the 1995 map as like Godthab.
+# For lack of better info, assume they were like Godthab before 1996.
+# startkart.no says Thule does not observe DST, but this is clearly an error,
+# so go with Shanks for all Thule transitions.
+#
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Thule 1991 1992 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
+Rule Thule 1993 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Thule 1993 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
+#
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone America/Danmarkshavn -1:14:40 - LMT 1916 Jul 28
+ -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
+ -3:00 EU WG%sT 1996
+ 0:00 - GMT
+Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Ittoqqortoormiit
+ -2:00 - CGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
+ -2:00 C-Eur CG%sT 1981 Mar 29
+ -1:00 EU EG%sT
+Zone America/Godthab -3:26:56 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Nuuk
+ -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
+ -3:00 EU WG%sT
+Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base
+ -4:00 Thule A%sT
+
+# Estonia
+# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (1994-10-15):
+# A relative in Tallinn confirms the accuracy of the data for 1989 onwards
+# [through 1994] and gives the legal authority for it,
+# a regulation of the Government of Estonia, No. 111 of 1989....
+#
+# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1996-10-28):
+# [IATA SSIM (1992/1996) claims that the Baltic republics switch at 01:00s,
+# but a relative confirms that Estonia still switches at 02:00s, writing:]
+# ``I do not [know] exactly but there are some little different
+# (confusing) rules for International Air and Railway Transport Schedules
+# conversion in Sunday connected with end of summer time in Estonia....
+# A discussion is running about the summer time efficiency and effect on
+# human physiology. It seems that Estonia maybe will not change to
+# summer time next spring.''
+
+# From Peter Ilieve <peter@aldie.co.uk> (1998-11-04), heavily edited:
+# <a href="http://trip.rk.ee/cgi-bin/thw?${BASE}=akt&${OOHTML}=rtd&TA=1998&TO=1&AN=1390">
+# The 1998-09-22 Estonian time law
+# </a>
+# refers to the Eighth Directive and cites the association agreement between
+# the EU and Estonia, ratified by the Estonian law (RT II 1995, 22--27, 120).
+#
+# I also asked [my relative] whether they use any standard abbreviation
+# for their standard and summer times. He says no, they use "suveaeg"
+# (summer time) and "talveaeg" (winter time).
+
+# From <a href="http://www.baltictimes.com/">The Baltic Times</a> (1999-09-09)
+# via Steffen Thorsen:
+# This year will mark the last time Estonia shifts to summer time,
+# a council of the ruling coalition announced Sept. 6....
+# But what this could mean for Estonia's chances of joining the European
+# Union are still unclear. In 1994, the EU declared summer time compulsory
+# for all member states until 2001. Brussels has yet to decide what to do
+# after that.
+
+# From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29):
+# Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation
+# no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all
+# the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01.
+
+# From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21):
+# The Estonian government has changed once again timezone politics.
+# Now we are using again EU rules.
+#
+# From Urmet Jaanes (2002-03-28):
+# The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21.
+
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880
+ 1:39:00 - TMT 1918 Feb # Tallinn Mean Time
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1919 Jul
+ 1:39:00 - TMT 1921 May
+ 2:00 - EET 1940 Aug 6
+ 3:00 - MSK 1941 Sep 15
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Sep 22
+ 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s
+ 2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s
+ 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Nov 1
+ 2:00 - EET 2002 Feb 21
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT
+
+# Finland
+#
+# From Hannu Strang <chs@apu.fi> (25 Sep 1994 06:03:37 UTC):
+# Well, here in Helsinki we're just changing from summer time to regular one,
+# and it's supposed to change at 4am...
+#
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (25 Sep 1994):
+# Shanks says Finland has switched at 02:00 standard time since 1981.
+# Go with Strang instead.
+#
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Finland 1942 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Finland 1942 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Helsinki 1:39:52 - LMT 1878 May 31
+ 1:39:52 - HMT 1921 May # Helsinki Mean Time
+ 2:00 Finland EE%sT 1981 Mar 29 2:00
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT
+
+# France
+
+# From Ciro Discepolo (2000-12-20):
+#
+# Henri Le Corre, Regimes Horaires pour le monde entier, Editions
+# Traditionnelles - Paris 2 books, 1993
+#
+# Gabriel, Traite de l'heure dans le monde, Guy Tredaniel editeur,
+# Paris, 1991
+#
+# Francoise Gauquelin, Problemes de l'heure resolus en astrologie,
+# Guy tredaniel, Paris 1987
+
+
+#
+# Shanks seems to use `24:00' ambiguously; we resolve it with Whitman.
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule France 1916 only - Jun 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1916 1919 - Oct Sun>=1 23:00s 0 -
+Rule France 1917 only - Mar 24 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1918 only - Mar 9 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1920 only - Oct 23 23:00s 0 -
+Rule France 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1921 only - Oct 25 23:00s 0 -
+Rule France 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S
+# DSH writes that a law of 1923-05-24 specified 3rd Sat in Apr at 23:00 to 1st
+# Sat in Oct at 24:00; and that in 1930, because of Easter, the transitions
+# were Apr 12 and Oct 5. Go with Shanks.
+Rule France 1922 1938 - Oct Sat>=1 23:00s 0 -
+Rule France 1923 only - May 26 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1925 only - Apr 4 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1930 only - Apr 12 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1931 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1932 only - Apr 2 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1933 only - Mar 25 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1934 only - Apr 7 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1935 only - Mar 30 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1936 only - Apr 18 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1937 only - Apr 3 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1938 only - Mar 26 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1939 only - Apr 15 23:00s 1:00 S
+Rule France 1939 only - Nov 18 23:00s 0 -
+Rule France 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 S
+# The French rules for 1941-1944 were not used in Paris, but Shanks writes
+# that they were used in Monaco and in many French locations.
+# Le Corre writes that the upper limit of the free zone was Arneguy, Orthez,
+# Mont-de-Marsan, Bazas, Langon, Lamotte-Montravel, Marouil, La
+# Rochefoucault, Champagne-Mouton, La Roche-Posay, La Haye-Decartes,
+# Loches, Montrichard, Vierzon, Bourges, Moulins, Digoin,
+# Paray-le-Monial, Montceau-les-Mines, Chalons-sur-Saone, Arbois,
+# Dole, Morez, St-Claude, and Collognes (Haute-Savioe).
+Rule France 1941 only - May 5 0:00 2:00 M # Midsummer
+# Shanks says this transition occurred at Oct 6 1:00,
+# but go with Denis.Excoffier@ens.fr (1997-12-12),
+# who quotes the Ephemerides Astronomiques for 1998 from Bureau des Longitudes
+# as saying 5/10/41 22hUT.
+Rule France 1941 only - Oct 6 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule France 1942 only - Mar 9 0:00 2:00 M
+Rule France 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 1:00 S
+Rule France 1943 only - Mar 29 2:00 2:00 M
+Rule France 1943 only - Oct 4 3:00 1:00 S
+Rule France 1944 only - Apr 3 2:00 2:00 M
+Rule France 1944 only - Oct 8 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule France 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00 2:00 M
+Rule France 1945 only - Sep 16 3:00 0 -
+# Shanks gives Mar 28 2:00 and Sep 26 3:00;
+# go with Excoffier's 28/3/76 0hUT and 25/9/76 23hUT.
+Rule France 1976 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 S
+Rule France 1976 only - Sep 26 1:00 0 -
+# Shanks gives 0:09 for Paris Mean Time, and Whitman gives 0:09:05,
+# but Howse quotes the actual French legislation as saying 0:09:21.
+# Go with Howse. Howse writes that the time in France was officially based
+# on PMT-0:09:21 until 1978-08-09, when the time base finally switched to UTC.
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar 15 0:01
+ 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Paris MT
+# Shanks gives 1940 Jun 14 0:00; go with Excoffier and Le Corre.
+ 0:00 France WE%sT 1940 Jun 14 23:00
+# Le Corre says Paris stuck with occupied-France time after the liberation;
+# go with Shanks.
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 25
+ 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00
+ 1:00 France CE%sT 1977
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+
+# Germany
+
+# From Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> (1998-09-29):
+# The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische
+# Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916.
+# [See tz-link.htm for the URL.]
+
+# From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23):
+# In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by <a
+# href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/">
+# General [Nikolai] Bersarin</a>.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08):
+# <a href="http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf">
+# says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.
+# However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so
+# this was equivalent to CEMT (GMT+3), not GMT+4.
+
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Germany 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Germany 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 M # Midsummer
+Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S
+Rule Germany 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Germany 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Germany 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Germany 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 M
+Rule Germany 1947 only - Jun 29 3:00 1:00 S
+Rule Germany 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Germany 1949 only - Apr 10 2:00s 1:00 S
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
+ 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+
+# Gibraltar
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Gibraltar -0:21:24 - LMT 1880 Aug 2
+ 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1957 Apr 14 2:00
+ 1:00 - CET 1982
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+
+# Greece
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+# Whitman gives 1932 Jul 5 - Nov 1; go with Shanks.
+Rule Greece 1932 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Greece 1932 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 -
+# Whitman gives 1941 Apr 25 - ?; go with Shanks.
+Rule Greece 1941 only - Apr 7 0:00 1:00 S
+# Whitman gives 1942 Feb 2 - ?; go with Shanks.
+Rule Greece 1942 only - Nov 2 3:00 0 -
+Rule Greece 1943 only - Mar 30 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Greece 1943 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
+# Whitman gives 1944 Oct 3 - Oct 31; go with Shanks.
+Rule Greece 1952 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Greece 1952 only - Nov 2 0:00 0 -
+Rule Greece 1975 only - Apr 12 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Greece 1975 only - Nov 26 0:00s 0 -
+Rule Greece 1976 only - Apr 11 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Greece 1976 only - Oct 10 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Greece 1977 1978 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Greece 1977 only - Sep 26 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Greece 1978 only - Sep 24 4:00 0 -
+Rule Greece 1979 only - Apr 1 9:00 1:00 S
+Rule Greece 1979 only - Sep 29 2:00 0 -
+Rule Greece 1980 only - Apr 1 0:00&nb
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