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# These rules are stolen from the 'southamerica' file. 19# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 20Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - 21Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S 22Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - 23Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 24Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 25Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S 26Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - 27Rule ChileAQ 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 28Rule ChileAQ 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 29Rule ChileAQ 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 - 30Rule ChileAQ 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 31Rule ChileAQ 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S 32Rule ChileAQ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 33Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 - 34Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S 35Rule ChileAQ 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 36Rule ChileAQ 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 37Rule ChileAQ 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - 38Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 39Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S 40Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - 41Rule ChileAQ 1999 2010 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 42Rule ChileAQ 2000 2007 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 43# N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time, 44# which is used below in specifying the transition. 45Rule ChileAQ 2008 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - 46Rule ChileAQ 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 47Rule ChileAQ 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 - 48Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 - 49Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S 50Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 - 51Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S 52 53# Argentina - year-round bases 54# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 55# Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 56# Esperanza, Hope Bay, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 57# Marambio, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 58# Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 59# San Martín, Barry I, -6808-06706, since 1951-03-21 60# (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) 61 62# Australia - territories 63# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 64# previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered 65# Margaret Turner reports 66# <http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html> 67# (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST; 68# presumably this is when they have visitors. 69# 70# year-round bases 71# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 72# Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 73# (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) 74# Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 75 76# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): 77# Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: 78# Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 79# Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 80# Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 81# The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). 82# 83# Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) 84# http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 85# 86# We have more background information here: 87# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html 88 89# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 90# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ... 91# 92# - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. 93# The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but 94# has not been decided yet. 95# 96# - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 97# 20:00 UTC. 98# 99# - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. 100# 101# Background: 102# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html 103 104# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 105Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - zzz 1969 106 8:00 - AWST 2009 Oct 18 2:00 107 # Australian Western Std Time 108 11:00 - CAST 2010 Mar 5 2:00 109 # Casey Time 110 8:00 - AWST 2011 Oct 28 2:00 111 11:00 - CAST 2012 Feb 21 17:00u 112 8:00 - AWST 113Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 13 114 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time 115 0 - zzz 1969 Feb 116 7:00 - DAVT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 117 5:00 - DAVT 2010 Mar 10 20:00u 118 7:00 - DAVT 2011 Oct 28 2:00 119 5:00 - DAVT 2012 Feb 21 20:00u 120 7:00 - DAVT 121Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 122 6:00 - MAWT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 123 # Mawson Time 124 5:00 - MAWT 125# References: 126# Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 127# <http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html> 128# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 129# <http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html> 130# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 131# <http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html> 132 133# Belgium - year-round base 134# Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 135 136# Brazil - year-round base 137# Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 138 139# Bulgaria - year-round base 140# St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988 141 142# Chile - year-round bases and towns 143# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 144# Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 145# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 146# Prat, -6230-05941 147# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 148# These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. 149 150# China - year-round bases 151# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 152# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 153 154# France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy") 155# 156# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): 157# Time data are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP 158# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). 159# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adélie bases 160# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adélie supplies came 161# from Tasmania. 162# 163# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 164# 165# Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964; 166# sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+; 167# see Indian/Reunion. 168# 169# Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 170# Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; 171# whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 172# 173# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited 174# fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 175# 176# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 177Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - zzz 1950 # Port-aux-Français 178 5:00 - TFT # ISO code TF Time 179# 180# year-round base in the main continent 181# Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 182# <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) 183# 184# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 185# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 186# 187# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 188Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947 189 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time 190 0 - zzz 1956 Nov 191 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time 192 193# France & Italy - year-round base 194# Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005 195 196# Germany - year-round base 197# Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009 198 199# India - year-round bases 200# Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012 201# Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989 202 203# Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy") 204# Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986 205 206# Japan - year-round bases 207# Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957 208# 209# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 210# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 211# 212# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 213# was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 214# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 215# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 216Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29 217 3:00 - SYOT # Syowa Time 218# See: 219# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 220# <http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html> 221 222# S Korea - year-round base 223# Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 224# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 225 226# New Zealand - claims 227# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 228# Scott Island (never inhabited) 229# 230# year-round base 231# Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 232# See Pacific/Auckland. 233 234# Norway - territories 235# Bouvet (never inhabited) 236# 237# claims 238# Peter I Island (never inhabited) 239# 240# year-round base 241# Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 242# 243# From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): 244# I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. 245# In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: 246# GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March 247# GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October 248# GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 249# GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 250# The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely 251# correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. 252# 253# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): 254# The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tzcode 2014b or later, so as 255# suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate 256# with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. 257# 258# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 259#Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 CET 260Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 CEST 261#Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 CET 262#Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 UTC 263# Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. 264Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 UTC 265# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 266Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - zzz 2005 Feb 12 267 0:00 Troll %s 268 269# Poland - year-round base 270# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 271 272# Romania - year-bound base 273# Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 274 275# Russia - year-round bases 276# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 277# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 278# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, 279# year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 280# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, 281# year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 282 283# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 284# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15) 285# <http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP>: 286# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 287# time as Moscow, Russia. 288# 289# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 290# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 291# what they had to say about time there: 292# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) 293# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 294# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 295# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The 296# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." 297# 298# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 299# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 300# in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local 301# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 302# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 303# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 304# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time 305# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6. 306# 307Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 308 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time 309 310# S Africa - year-round bases 311# Marion Island, -4653+03752 312# SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997 313 314# Ukraine - year-round base 315# Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954 316 317# United Kingdom 318# 319# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 320# South Orkney Islands 321# scientific station from 1903 322# whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 323# South Shetland Islands 324# 325# year-round bases 326# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 327# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, 328# scientific station 1943/1967, 329# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, 330# and a garrison was deployed briefly 331# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 332# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated 333# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. 334# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 335# 336# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) 337# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. 338# 339# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 340Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 341 -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time 342 343# Uruguay - year round base 344# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 345 346# USA - year-round bases 347# 348# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) 349# 350# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06): 351# It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us 352# and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line.... 353# I verified with someone who was there that since 1980, 354# Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War, 355# Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina. 356# 357# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 358Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 359 -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 360 -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May 361 -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 362# 363# 364# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 365# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 366# 367# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 368# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 369# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 370# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 371# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 372# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 373# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.) 374# 375# From Susan Smith 376# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 377# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 378# We use the same time as McMurdo does. 379# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 380# One last quirk about South Pole time. 381# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 382# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 383# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 384# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 385# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 386# 387# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo. 388