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