1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): 5# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see 6# COMNAP - Stations and Bases 7# http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/ 8# and 9# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 10# http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm 11# for information. 12# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 13 14# FORMAT is '-00' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. 15 16# Argentina - year-round bases 17# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 18# Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 19# Esperanza, Hope Bay, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 20# Marambio, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 21# Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 22# San Martín, Barry I, -6808-06706, since 1951-03-21 23# (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) 24 25# Australia - territories 26# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 27# previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered 28# Margaret Turner reports 29# http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html 30# (1999-09-30) that they're UT +05, with no DST; 31# presumably this is when they have visitors. 32# 33# year-round bases 34# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 35# Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 36# (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) 37# Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 38 39# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): 40# Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: 41# Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 42# Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 43# Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 44# The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). 45# 46# Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) 47# http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 48# 49# We have more background information here: 50# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html 51 52# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 53# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ... 54# 55# - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. 56# The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but 57# has not been decided yet. 58# 59# - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 60# 20:00 UTC. 61# 62# - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. 63# 64# Background: 65# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html 66 67# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-10-28): 68# Australian Antarctica Division informed us that Casey changed time 69# zone to UTC+11 in "the morning of 22nd October 2016". 70 71# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 72Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - -00 1969 73 8:00 - +08 2009 Oct 18 2:00 74 11:00 - +11 2010 Mar 5 2:00 75 8:00 - +08 2011 Oct 28 2:00 76 11:00 - +11 2012 Feb 21 17:00u 77 8:00 - +08 2016 Oct 22 78 11:00 - +11 79Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - -00 1957 Jan 13 80 7:00 - +07 1964 Nov 81 0 - -00 1969 Feb 82 7:00 - +07 2009 Oct 18 2:00 83 5:00 - +05 2010 Mar 10 20:00u 84 7:00 - +07 2011 Oct 28 2:00 85 5:00 - +05 2012 Feb 21 20:00u 86 7:00 - +07 87Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - -00 1954 Feb 13 88 6:00 - +06 2009 Oct 18 2:00 89 5:00 - +05 90# References: 91# Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 92# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html 93# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 94# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html 95# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 96# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html 97 98# Belgium - year-round base 99# Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 100 101# Brazil - year-round base 102# Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 103 104# Bulgaria - year-round base 105# St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988 106 107# Chile - year-round bases and towns 108# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 109# Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 110# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 111# Prat, -6230-05941 112# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 113# These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. 114 115# China - year-round bases 116# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 117# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 118 119# France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy") 120# 121# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): 122# Time data entries are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP 123# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). 124# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adélie bases 125# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adélie supplies came 126# from Tasmania. 127# 128# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 129# 130# Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964; 131# sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+; 132# see Indian/Reunion. 133# 134# Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 135# Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; 136# whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 137# 138# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited 139# fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 140# 141# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 142Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - -00 1950 # Port-aux-Français 143 5:00 - +05 144# 145# year-round base in the main continent 146# Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 147# <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) 148# 149# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 150# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 151# 152# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 153Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - -00 1947 154 10:00 - +10 1952 Jan 14 155 0 - -00 1956 Nov 156 10:00 - +10 157 158# France & Italy - year-round base 159# Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005 160 161# Germany - year-round base 162# Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009 163 164# India - year-round bases 165# Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012 166# Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989 167 168# Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy") 169# Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986 170 171# Japan - year-round bases 172# Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957 173# 174# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 175# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 176# 177# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 178# was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 179# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 180# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 181Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - -00 1957 Jan 29 182 3:00 - +03 183# See: 184# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 185# http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html 186 187# S Korea - year-round base 188# Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 189# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 190 191# New Zealand - claims 192# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 193# Scott Island (never inhabited) 194# 195# year-round base 196# Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 197# See Pacific/Auckland. 198 199# Norway - territories 200# Bouvet (never inhabited) 201# 202# claims 203# Peter I Island (never inhabited) 204# 205# year-round base 206# Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 207# 208# From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): 209# I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. 210# In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: 211# GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March 212# GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October 213# GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 214# GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 215# The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely 216# correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. 217# 218# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): 219# The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tz 2014b or later, so as 220# suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate 221# with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. 222# 223# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 224#Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 +01 225Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 +02 226#Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 +01 227#Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 +00 228# Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. 229Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 +00 230# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 231Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - -00 2005 Feb 12 232 0:00 Troll %s 233 234# Poland - year-round base 235# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 236 237# Romania - year-bound base 238# Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 239 240# Russia - year-round bases 241# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 242# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 243# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, 244# year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 245# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, 246# year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 247 248# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 249# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): 250# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP 251# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 252# time as Moscow, Russia. 253# 254# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 255# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 256# what they had to say about time there: 257# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) 258# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 259# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 260# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The 261# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." 262# 263# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 264# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 265# in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local 266# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 267# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 268# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 269# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time 270# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess +06. 271# 272Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - -00 1957 Dec 16 273 6:00 - +06 274 275# S Africa - year-round bases 276# Marion Island, -4653+03752 277# SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997 278 279# Ukraine - year-round base 280# Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954 281 282# United Kingdom 283# 284# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 285# South Orkney Islands 286# scientific station from 1903 287# whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 288# South Shetland Islands 289# 290# year-round bases 291# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 292# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, 293# scientific station 1943/1967, 294# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, 295# and a garrison was deployed briefly 296# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 297# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated 298# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. 299# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 300# 301# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) 302# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. 303# 304# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 305Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - -00 1976 Dec 1 306 -3:00 - -03 307 308# Uruguay - year round base 309# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 310 311# USA - year-round bases 312# 313# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) 314# See 'southamerica' for Antarctica/Palmer, since it uses South American DST. 315# 316# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 317# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 318# 319# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 320# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 321# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 322# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 323# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 324# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 325# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.) 326# 327# From Susan Smith 328# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 329# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 330# We use the same time as McMurdo does. 331# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 332# One last quirk about South Pole time. 333# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 334# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 335# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 336# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 337# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 338# 339# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo. 340