1# tzdb data for Antarctica and environs 2 3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 5 6# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): 7# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see 8# COMNAP - Stations and Bases 9# http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/ 10# and 11# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 12# http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm 13# for information. 14# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 15 16# FORMAT is '-00' and STDOFF 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# https://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html 32# (1999-09-30) that they're UT +05, 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# https://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# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html 68 69# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-10-28): 70# Australian Antarctica Division informed us that Casey changed time 71# zone to UTC+11 in "the morning of 22nd October 2016". 72 73# From Steffen Thorsen (2020-10-02, as corrected): 74# Based on information we have received from the Australian Antarctic 75# Division, Casey station and Macquarie Island station will move to Tasmanian 76# daylight savings time on Sunday 4 October. This will take effect from 0001 77# hrs on Sunday 4 October 2020 and will mean Casey and Macquarie Island will 78# be on the same time zone as Hobart. Some past dates too for this 3 hour 79# time change back and forth between UTC+8 and UTC+11 for Casey: 80# - 2018 Oct 7 4:00 - 2019 Mar 17 3:00 - 2019 Oct 4 3:00 - 2020 Mar 8 3:00 81# and now - 2020 Oct 4 0:01 82 83# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 84Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - -00 1969 85 8:00 - +08 2009 Oct 18 2:00 86 11:00 - +11 2010 Mar 5 2:00 87 8:00 - +08 2011 Oct 28 2:00 88 11:00 - +11 2012 Feb 21 17:00u 89 8:00 - +08 2016 Oct 22 90 11:00 - +11 2018 Mar 11 4:00 91 8:00 - +08 2018 Oct 7 4:00 92 11:00 - +11 2019 Mar 17 3:00 93 8:00 - +08 2019 Oct 4 3:00 94 11:00 - +11 2020 Mar 8 3:00 95 8:00 - +08 2020 Oct 4 0:01 96 11:00 - +11 97Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - -00 1957 Jan 13 98 7:00 - +07 1964 Nov 99 0 - -00 1969 Feb 100 7:00 - +07 2009 Oct 18 2:00 101 5:00 - +05 2010 Mar 10 20:00u 102 7:00 - +07 2011 Oct 28 2:00 103 5:00 - +05 2012 Feb 21 20:00u 104 7:00 - +07 105Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - -00 1954 Feb 13 106 6:00 - +06 2009 Oct 18 2:00 107 5:00 - +05 108# References: 109# Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 110# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html 111# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 112# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html 113# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 114# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html 115 116# Belgium - year-round base 117# Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 118 119# Brazil - year-round base 120# Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 121 122# Bulgaria - year-round base 123# St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988 124 125# Chile - year-round bases and towns 126# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 127# Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 128# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 129# Prat, -6230-05941 130# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 131# These locations employ Region of Magallanes time; use 132# TZ='America/Punta_Arenas'. 133 134# China - year-round bases 135# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 136# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 137 138# France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy") 139# 140# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): 141# Time data entries are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP 142# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). 143# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adélie bases 144# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adélie supplies came 145# from Tasmania. 146# 147# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 148# 149# Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964; 150# sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+; 151# see Indian/Reunion. 152# 153# Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 154# Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; 155# whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 156# 157# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited 158# fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 159# 160# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 161Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - -00 1950 # Port-aux-Français 162 5:00 - +05 163# 164# year-round base in the main continent 165# Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 166# <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) 167# 168# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 169# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 170# 171# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 172Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - -00 1947 173 10:00 - +10 1952 Jan 14 174 0 - -00 1956 Nov 175 10:00 - +10 176 177# France & Italy - year-round base 178# Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005 179 180# Germany - year-round base 181# Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009 182 183# India - year-round bases 184# Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012 185# Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989 186 187# Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy") 188# Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986 189 190# Japan - year-round bases 191# Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957 192# 193# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 194# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 195# 196# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 197# was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 198# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 199# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 200Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - -00 1957 Jan 29 201 3:00 - +03 202# See: 203# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 204# http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html 205 206# S Korea - year-round base 207# Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 208# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 209 210# New Zealand - claims 211# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 212# Scott Island (never inhabited) 213# 214# year-round base 215# Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 216# See Pacific/Auckland. 217 218# Norway - territories 219# Bouvet (never inhabited) 220# 221# claims 222# Peter I Island (never inhabited) 223# 224# year-round base 225# Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 226# 227# From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): 228# I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. 229# In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: 230# GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March 231# GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October 232# GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 233# GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 234# The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely 235# correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. 236# 237# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): 238# The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tz 2014b or later, so as 239# suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate 240# with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. 241# 242# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 243#Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 +01 244Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 +02 245#Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 +01 246#Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 +00 247# Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. 248Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 +00 249# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 250Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - -00 2005 Feb 12 251 0:00 Troll %s 252 253# Poland - year-round base 254# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 255 256# Romania - year-bound base 257# Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 258 259# Russia - year-round bases 260# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 261# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 262# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, 263# year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 264# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, 265# year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 266 267# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 268# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): 269# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP 270# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 271# time as Moscow, Russia. 272# 273# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 274# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 275# what they had to say about time there: 276# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) 277# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 278# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 279# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The 280# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." 281# 282# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 283# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 284# in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local 285# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 286# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 287# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 288# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time 289# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess +06. 290# 291Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - -00 1957 Dec 16 292 6:00 - +06 293 294# S Africa - year-round bases 295# Marion Island, -4653+03752 296# SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997 297 298# Ukraine - year-round base 299# Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954 300 301# United Kingdom 302# 303# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 304# South Orkney Islands 305# scientific station from 1903 306# whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 307# South Shetland Islands 308# 309# year-round bases 310# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 311# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, 312# scientific station 1943/1967, 313# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, 314# and a garrison was deployed briefly 315# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 316# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated 317# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. 318# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 319# 320# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) 321# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. 322# 323# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 324Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - -00 1976 Dec 1 325 -3:00 - -03 326 327# Uruguay - year round base 328# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 329 330# USA - year-round bases 331# 332# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) 333# See 'southamerica' for Antarctica/Palmer, since it uses South American DST. 334# 335# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 336# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 337# 338# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 339# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 340# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 341# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 342# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 343# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 344# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.) 345# 346# From Susan Smith 347# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 348# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 349# We use the same time as McMurdo does. 350# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 351# One last quirk about South Pole time. 352# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 353# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 354# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 355# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 356# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 357# 358# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo. 359