1# Zones that go back beyond the scope of the tz database 2 3# This file is in the public domain. 4 5# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know 6# better, go ahead and edit it (and please send any changes to 7# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 8# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 9 10# When proposing changes to this file, please use 'git format-patch' 11# format, either by attaching the resulting .patch file to your email, 12# or by using 'git send-email'. This will help maintainers save time. 13 14 15# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): 16 17# This file contains data outside the normal scope of the tz database, 18# in that its zones do not differ from normal tz zones after 1970. 19# Links in this file point to zones in this file, superseding links in 20# the file 'backward'. 21 22# Although zones in this file may be of some use for analyzing 23# pre-1970 timestamps, they are less reliable, cover only a tiny 24# sliver of the pre-1970 era, and cannot feasibly be improved to cover 25# most of the era. Because the zones are out of normal scope for the 26# database, less effort is put into maintaining this file. Many of 27# the zones were formerly in other source files, but were removed or 28# replaced by links as their data entries were questionable and/or they 29# differed from other zones only in pre-1970 timestamps. 30 31# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 32# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 33# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 34# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 35 36# This file is not intended to be compiled standalone, as it 37# assumes rules from other files. In the tz distribution, use 38# 'make PACKRATDATA=backzone zones' to compile and install this file. 39 40 41# From Paul Eggert (2020-04-15): 42# The following remarks should be incorporated into this table sometime. 43# Patches in 'git format-patch' format would be welcome. 44# 45# From Phake Nick (2020-04-15): 46# ... the historical timezone data for those China zones seems to be 47# incorrect. The transition to GMT+8 date given there for these zones 48# were 1980 which also contradict the file description that they do 49# not disagree with normal zone after 1970. According to sources that 50# have also been cited in the asia file, except Xinjiang and Tibet, 51# they should have adopted the Beijing Time from around 1949/1950 52# depends on exactly when each of those cities were taken over by the 53# communist army. And they should also follow the DST setting of 54# Asia/Shanghai after that point of time. In addition, 55# http://gaz.ncl.edu.tw/detail.jsp?sysid=E1091792 the document from 56# Chongqing Nationalist government say in year 1945 all of China 57# should adopt summer time due to the war (not sure whether it 58# continued after WWII ends)(Probably only enforced in area under 59# their rule at the time?) The Asia/Harbin's 1932 and 1940 entry 60# should also be incorrect. As per sources recorded at 61# https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/%E6%BA%80%E5%B7%9E%E5%9B%BD%E3%81%AE%E6%A8%99%E6%BA%96%E6%99%82 62# , in 1932 Harbin should have adopted UTC+8:00 instead of data 63# currently listed in the tz database according to official 64# announcement from Manchuko. And they should have adopted GMT+9 in 65# 1937 January 1st according to official announcement at the time 66# being cited on the webpage. 67 68 69# Zones are sorted by zone name. Each zone is preceded by the 70# name of the country that the zone is in, along with any other 71# commentary and rules associated with the entry. 72# If the zone overrides links in the main data, it 73# is followed by the corresponding Link lines. 74# If the zone overrides main-data links only when building with 75# PACKRATLIST=zone.tab, it is followed by a commented-out Link line 76# that starts with "#PACKRATLIST zone.tab". 77# 78# As explained in the zic man page, the zone columns are: 79# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 80# and the rule columns are: 81# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 82 83 84# Ghana 85 86# From P Chan (2020-11-20): 87# Interpretation Amendment Ordinance, 1915 (No.24 of 1915) [1915-11-02] 88# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1915, p 69-71 89# https://books.google.com/books?id=ErA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA70 90# This Ordinance added "'Time' shall mean Greenwich Mean Time" to the 91# Interpretation Ordinance, 1876. 92# 93# Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919) [1919-11-24] 94# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1919, p 75-76 95# https://books.google.com/books?id=MbA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA75 96# This Ordinance removed the previous definition of time and introduced DST. 97# 98# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 214) 99# The Laws of the Gold Coast (including Togoland Under British Mandate) 100# Vol. II (1937), p 2328 101# https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7M-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2328 102# Revised edition of the 1919 Ordinance. 103# 104# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1940 (No. 9 of 1940) [1940-04-06] 105# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 106# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1940, p 22 107# https://books.google.com/books?id=1ao-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA22 108# This Ordinance changed the forward transition from September to May. 109# 110# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment) Regulations, 1942 111# (Regulations No. 6 of 1942) [1942-01-31, commenced on 1942-02-08] 112# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 113# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 48 114# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA48 115# These regulations advanced the [standard] time by thirty minutes. 116# 117# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2)) Regulations, 118# 1942 (Regulations No. 28 of 1942) [1942-04-25] 119# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 120# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 87 121# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87 122# These regulations abolished DST and changed the time to GMT+0:30. 123# 124# Defence (Revocation) (No.4) Regulations, 1945 (Regulations No. 45 of 125# 1945) [1945-10-24, commenced on 1946-01-06] 126# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 127# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 256 128# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA256 129# These regulations revoked the previous two sets of Regulations. 130# 131# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1945 (No. 18 of 1945) [1946-01-06] 132# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 133# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 69 134# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA69 135# This Ordinance abolished DST. 136# 137# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950 (No. 26 of 1950) [1950-07-22] 138# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: 139# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1950, p 35 140# https://books.google.com/books?id=e60-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA35 141# This Ordinance restored DST but with thirty minutes offset. 142# 143# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 264) 144# The Laws of the Gold Coast, Vol. V (1954), p 380 145# https://books.google.com/books?id=Mqc-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA380 146# Revised edition of the Time Determination Ordinance. 147# 148# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 21 of 1956) [1956-08-29] 149# Annual Volume of the Ordinances of the Gold Coast Enacted During the 150# Year 1956, p 83 151# https://books.google.com/books?id=VLE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA83 152# This Ordinance abolished DST. 153 154Rule Ghana 1919 only - Nov 24 0:00 0:20 +0020 155Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT 156Rule Ghana 1920 1939 - Sep 1 2:00 0:20 +0020 157Rule Ghana 1940 1941 - May 1 2:00 0:20 +0020 158Rule Ghana 1950 1955 - Sep 1 2:00 0:30 +0030 159Rule Ghana 1951 1956 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT 160 161Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1915 Nov 2 162 0:00 Ghana %s 1942 Feb 8 163 0:30 - +0030 1946 Jan 6 164 0:00 Ghana %s 165 166# Ethiopia 167# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-31): 168# Like the Swahili of Kenya and Tanzania, many Ethiopians keep a 169# 12-hour clock starting at our 06:00, so their "8 o'clock" is our 170# 02:00 or 14:00. Keep this in mind when you ask the time in Amharic. 171# 172# Shanks & Pottenger write that Ethiopia had six narrowly spaced time 173# zones between 1870 and 1890, that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in 174# 1890, and that they switched to 3:00 on 1936-05-05. Perhaps 38E50 175# was for Adis Dera. Quite likely the Shanks data entries are wrong 176# anyway. 177Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa 2:34:48 - LMT 1870 178 2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT 179 3:00 - EAT 180 181# Eritrea 182Zone Africa/Asmara 2:35:32 - LMT 1870 183 2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmara Mean Time 184 2:35:20 - ADMT 1936 May 5 # Adis Dera MT 185 3:00 - EAT 186Link Africa/Asmara Africa/Asmera 187 188# Mali (southern) 189Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912 190 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 191 -1:00 - -01 1960 Jun 20 192 0:00 - GMT 193#PACKRATLIST zone.tab Link Africa/Bamako Africa/Timbuktu 194 195# Central African Republic 196Zone Africa/Bangui 1:14:20 - LMT 1912 197 1:00 - WAT 198 199# The Gambia 200# From P Chan (2020-12-09): 201# Standard time of GMT-1 was adopted on 1933-04-01. On 1942-02-01, GMT was 202# adopted as a war time measure. This was made permanent in 1946. 203# 204# Interpretation Ordinance, 1914 (No. 12 of 1914) [1914-09-29] 205# Interpretation Ordinance, 1933 (No. 10 of 1933) [1933-03-31] 206# Notice No. 5 of 1942, Colony of the Gambia Government Gazette, Vol. LIX, 207# No.2, 1942-01-15, p 2 208# Interpretation (Amendment) Ordinance, 1946 (No. 3 of 1946) [1946-07-15] 209Zone Africa/Banjul -1:06:36 - LMT 1912 210 -1:06:36 - BMT 1933 Apr 1 # Banjul Mean Time 211 -1:00 - -01 1942 Feb 1 0:00 212 0:00 - GMT 213 214# Malawi 215# From P Chan (2020-12-09): 216# In 1911, Zomba mean time was adopted as the legal time of Nyasaland. In 217# 1914, Zomba mean time switched from GMT+2:21:10 to GMT+2:21. On 1925-07-01, 218# GMT+2 was adopted. 219# 220# Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, 1911 (No. 12 of 1911) 221# [1911-07-24] 222# Notice No. 124 of 1914, 1914-06-30, The Nyasaland Government Gazette, Vol. 223# XXI, No. 8, 1914-06-30, p 122 224# Interpretation and General Clauses (Amendment) Ordinance, 1925 (No. 3 of 225# 1925) [1925-04-02] 226Zone Africa/Blantyre 2:20:00 - LMT 1911 Jul 24 227 2:21:10 - ZMT 1914 Jun 30 # Zomba Mean Time 228 2:21 - ZMT 1925 Jul 1 229 2:00 - CAT 230 231# Republic of the Congo 232Zone Africa/Brazzaville 1:01:08 - LMT 1912 233 1:00 - WAT 234 235# Burundi 236Zone Africa/Bujumbura 1:57:28 - LMT 1890 237 2:00 - CAT 238 239# Guinea 240Zone Africa/Conakry -0:54:52 - LMT 1912 241 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 242 -1:00 - -01 1960 243 0:00 - GMT 244 245# Senegal 246Zone Africa/Dakar -1:09:44 - LMT 1912 247 -1:00 - -01 1941 Jun 248 0:00 - GMT 249 250# Tanzania 251Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 - LMT 1931 252 3:00 - EAT 1948 253 2:45 - +0245 1961 254 3:00 - EAT 255 256# Djibouti 257Zone Africa/Djibouti 2:52:36 - LMT 1911 Jul 258 3:00 - EAT 259 260# Cameroon 261# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 262Zone Africa/Douala 0:38:48 - LMT 1912 263 1:00 - WAT 264# Sierra Leone 265# From P Chan (2020-12-09): 266# Standard time of GMT-1 was adopted on 1913-07-01. Twenty minutes of DST was 267# introduce[d] in 1932 and was suspended in 1939. In 1941, GMT was adopted by 268# Defence Regulations. This was made permanent in 1946. 269# 270# Government Notice No. 121 of 1913, 1913-06-06, Sierra Leone Royal Gazette, 271# Vol. XLIV, No. 1384, 1913-06-14, p 347 272# Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1932 (No. 34 of 1932) [1932-12-01] 273# Alteration of Time (Amendment) Ordinance, 1938 (No. 25 of 1938) [1938-11-24] 274# Defence Regulations (No. 9), 1939 (Regulations No. 9 of 1939), 1939-09-05 275# Defence Regulations (No. 11), 1939 (Regulations No. 11 of 1939), 1939-09-27 276# Defence (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations, 1941 (Public Notice No. 157 of 277# 1941), 1914-12-04 278# Alteration of Time (Amendment) Ordinance, 1946 (No. 2 of 1946) [1946-02-07] 279 280# From Tim Parenti (2021-03-02), per P Chan (2021-02-25): 281# For Sierra Leone in 1957-1962, the standard time was defined in the 282# Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1932 (as amended in 1946, renamed to Local Time 283# Ordinance in 1960 and Local Time Act in 1961). It was unamended throughout 284# that period. See references to "Time" in the Alphabetical Index of the 285# Legislation in force on the 31st day of December, 286# 1957: https://books.google.com/books?id=lvQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA49 287# 1958: https://books.google.com/books?id=4fQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA50 288# 1959: https://books.google.com/books?id=p_U-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA55 289# 1960: https://books.google.com/books?id=JPY-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA37 290# 1961: https://books.google.com/books?id=7vY-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA41 291# 1962: https://books.google.com/books?id=W_c-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA44 292# 1963: https://books.google.com/books?id=9vk-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA47 293# 294# Although Shanks & Pottenger had DST from Jun 1 00:00 to Sep 1 00:00 in this 295# period, many contemporaneous almanacs agree that it wasn't used: 296# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-February/029866.html 297# Go with the above. 298 299Rule SL 1932 only - Dec 1 0:00 0:20 -0040 300Rule SL 1933 1938 - Mar 31 24:00 0 -01 301Rule SL 1933 1939 - Aug 31 24:00 0:20 -0040 302Rule SL 1939 only - May 31 24:00 0 -01 303 304Zone Africa/Freetown -0:53:00 - LMT 1882 305 -0:53:00 - FMT 1913 Jul 1 # Freetown MT 306 -1:00 SL %s 1939 Sep 5 307 -1:00 - -01 1941 Dec 6 24:00 308 0:00 - GMT 309 310# Botswana 311# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 312# Milne says they were regulated by the Cape Town Signal in 1899; 313# assume they switched to 2:00 when Cape Town did. 314Zone Africa/Gaborone 1:43:40 - LMT 1885 315 1:30 - SAST 1903 Mar 316 2:00 - CAT 1943 Sep 19 2:00 317 2:00 1:00 CAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00 318 2:00 - CAT 319 320# Zimbabwe 321Zone Africa/Harare 2:04:12 - LMT 1903 Mar 322 2:00 - CAT 323 324# Uganda 325Zone Africa/Kampala 2:09:40 - LMT 1928 Jul 326 3:00 - EAT 1930 327 2:30 - +0230 1948 328 2:45 - +0245 1957 329 3:00 - EAT 330 331# Rwanda 332Zone Africa/Kigali 2:00:16 - LMT 1935 Jun 333 2:00 - CAT 334 335# Democratic Republic of the Congo (west) 336Zone Africa/Kinshasa 1:01:12 - LMT 1897 Nov 9 337 1:00 - WAT 338 339# Gabon 340Zone Africa/Libreville 0:37:48 - LMT 1912 341 1:00 - WAT 342 343# Togo 344Zone Africa/Lome 0:04:52 - LMT 1893 345 0:00 - GMT 346 347# Angola 348# 349# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2018-02-16): 350# For timestamps before independence, see commentary for Europe/Lisbon. 351# 352Zone Africa/Luanda 0:52:56 - LMT 1892 353 0:52:04 - LMT 1911 Dec 31 23:00u # Luanda MT? 354 1:00 - WAT 355 356# Democratic Republic of the Congo (east) 357# 358# From Alois Treindl (2022-02-28): 359# My main source for its time zone history is 360# Henri le Corre, Régimes horaires pour l'Europe et l'Afrique. 361# Shanks follows le Corre. As does Françoise Schneider-Gauquelin in her book 362# Problèmes de l'heure résolus pour le monde entier. 363# 364Zone Africa/Lubumbashi 1:49:52 - LMT 1897 Nov 9 365 1:00 - WAT 1920 Apr 25 366 2:00 - CAT 367 368# Zambia 369Zone Africa/Lusaka 1:53:08 - LMT 1903 Mar 370 2:00 - CAT 371 372# Equatorial Guinea 373# 374# Although Shanks says that Malabo switched from UT +00 to +01 on 1963-12-15, 375# a Google Books search says that London Calling, Issues 432-465 (1948), p 19, 376# says that Spanish Guinea was at +01 back then. The Shanks data entries 377# are most likely wrong, but we have nothing better; use them here for now. 378# 379Zone Africa/Malabo 0:35:08 - LMT 1912 380 0:00 - GMT 1963 Dec 15 381 1:00 - WAT 382 383# Lesotho 384Zone Africa/Maseru 1:50:00 - LMT 1903 Mar 385 2:00 - SAST 1943 Sep 19 2:00 386 2:00 1:00 SAST 1944 Mar 19 2:00 387 2:00 - SAST 388 389# Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) 390Zone Africa/Mbabane 2:04:24 - LMT 1903 Mar 391 2:00 - SAST 392 393# Somalia 394Zone Africa/Mogadishu 3:01:28 - LMT 1893 Nov 395 3:00 - EAT 1931 396 2:30 - +0230 1957 397 3:00 - EAT 398 399# Niger 400Zone Africa/Niamey 0:08:28 - LMT 1912 401 -1:00 - -01 1934 Feb 26 402 0:00 - GMT 1960 403 1:00 - WAT 404 405# Mauritania 406Zone Africa/Nouakchott -1:03:48 - LMT 1912 407 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 408 -1:00 - -01 1960 Nov 28 409 0:00 - GMT 410 411# Burkina Faso 412Zone Africa/Ouagadougou -0:06:04 - LMT 1912 413 0:00 - GMT 414 415# Benin 416# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934; 417# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 418Zone Africa/Porto-Novo 0:10:28 - LMT 1912 Jan 1 419 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 420 1:00 - WAT 421 422# Mali (northern) 423Zone Africa/Timbuktu -0:12:04 - LMT 1912 424 0:00 - GMT 425 426# Anguilla 427Zone America/Anguilla -4:12:16 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 428 -4:00 - AST 429 430# Antigua and Barbuda 431Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 432 -5:00 - EST 1951 433 -4:00 - AST 434 435# Chubut, Argentina 436# The name "Comodoro Rivadavia" exceeds the 14-byte POSIX limit. 437Zone America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia -4:30:00 - LMT 1894 Oct 31 438 -4:16:48 - CMT 1920 May 439 -4:00 - -04 1930 Dec 440 -4:00 Arg -04/-03 1969 Oct 5 441 -3:00 Arg -03/-02 1991 Mar 3 442 -4:00 - -04 1991 Oct 20 443 -3:00 Arg -03/-02 1999 Oct 3 444 -4:00 Arg -04/-03 2000 Mar 3 445 -3:00 - -03 2004 Jun 1 446 -4:00 - -04 2004 Jun 20 447 -3:00 - -03 448 449# Aruba 450Zone America/Aruba -4:40:24 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad 451 -4:30 - -0430 1965 452 -4:00 - AST 453 454# Atikokan, Ontario 455 456# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): 457# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star 458# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, 459# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. 460# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) 461# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html 462# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. 463# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report 464# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. 465# 466# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 467# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and 468# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes 469# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in 470# violation of the official Ontario rules. 471# 472# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 473# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the 474# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: 475# 476# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. 477# This means they spend about half the time on central time and 478# the other half on eastern time. 479# 480# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. 481# 482# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern 483# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he 484# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." 485# 486# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang 487# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." 488 489# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: 490# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory 491# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he 492# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current 493# time keeping since 1952, at least. 494 495# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): 496# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River 497# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from 498# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan 499# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time 500# ended. This matches the old (less populous) America/Coral_Harbour 501# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move 502# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. 503 504Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 505 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 506 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 507 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 508 -5:00 - EST 509#PACKRATLIST zone.tab Link America/Atikokan America/Coral_Harbour 510 511# Quebec east of Natashquan 512 513# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-09): 514# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 515# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 516# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp 517# says that Quebec east of the -63 meridian is supposed to observe 518# AST, but residents as far east as Natashquan use EST/EDT, and 519# residents east of Natashquan use AST. 520# The Quebec department of justice writes in 521# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" 522# https://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/en/department/ministre/functions-and-responsabilities/legal-time-in-quebec/the-situation-in-minganie-and-basse-cote-nord/ 523# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon 524# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. 525# This common practice was codified into law as of 2007; see Legal Time Act, 526# CQLR c T-5.1 <http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/T-5.1>. 527# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to 528# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. 529 530Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 531 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 532 -4:00 - AST 533 534# Cayman Is 535Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown 536 -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 537 -5:00 - EST 538 539# United States 540# 541# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-18): 542# America/Chillicothe would be tricky, as it was a city of two-timers: 543# "To prevent a constant mixup at Chillicothe, caused by the courthouse 544# clock running on central time and the city running on 'daylight saving' 545# time, a third hand was added to the dial of the courthouse clock." 546# -- Ohio news in brief. The Cedarville Herald. 1920-05-21;43(21):1 (col. 5) 547# https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarville_herald/794 548 549# Canada 550Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 - LMT 1884 551 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1946 552 -5:00 - EST 553 554# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): 555# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia 556# that do not currently observe daylight saving: 557# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) 558# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District 559# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) 560 561# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time 562# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the 563# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. 564# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 565# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. 566# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UT-7 for 93 years. 567# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. 568 569# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains 570# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months 571# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just 572# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing 573# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the 574# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010. 575# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 576 577# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: 578# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) 579# Exact date unknown 580# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) 581# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. 582# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) 583# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. 584# note 1: 585# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, 586# Creston did not change its clocks. 587# note 2: 588# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, 589# Creston did not oblige. 590# note 3: 591# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time 592# (UTC-7) forever. 593# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. 594# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html 595 596# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. 597# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying 598# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before 599# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this 600# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough 601# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. 602 603# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. 604 605Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 606 -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 607 -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 608 -7:00 - MST 609 610# Curaçao 611# Milne gives 4:35:46.9 for Curaçao mean time; round to nearest. 612# 613# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 614# Shanks & Pottenger say that The Bottom and Philipsburg have been at 615# -4:00 since standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that 616# Kralendijk and Rincon used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from 617# 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01. The former is dubious, since S&P also say 618# Saba Island has been like Curaçao. 619# This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. 620# 621# By July 2007 Curaçao and St Maarten are planned to become 622# associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba; 623# Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the 624# Netherlands as Kingdom Islands. This won't affect their time zones 625# though, as far as we know. 626# 627Zone America/Curacao -4:35:47 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad 628 -4:30 - -0430 1965 629 -4:00 - AST 630Link America/Curacao America/Kralendijk 631Link America/Curacao America/Lower_Princes 632 633# Dominica 634Zone America/Dominica -4:05:36 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Roseau 635 -4:00 - AST 636 637# Baja California 638# See 'northamerica' for why this entry is here rather than there. 639Zone America/Ensenada -7:46:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:13:32 640 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 641 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 16 642 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 643 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 644 -8:00 - PST 1996 645 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 646 647# Grenada 648Zone America/Grenada -4:07:00 - LMT 1911 Jul # St George's 649 -4:00 - AST 650 651# Guadeloupe 652Zone America/Guadeloupe -4:06:08 - LMT 1911 Jun 8 # Pointe-à-Pitre 653 -4:00 - AST 654 655 656# Canada 657# 658# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24): 659# Since 1970 most of Quebec has been like Toronto; see 660# America/Toronto. However, earlier versions of the tz database 661# mistakenly relied on data from Shanks & Pottenger saying that Quebec 662# differed from Ontario after 1970, and the following rules and zone 663# were created for most of Quebec from the incorrect Shanks & 664# Pottenger data. The post-1970 entries have been corrected, but the 665# pre-1970 entries are unchecked and probably have errors. 666# 667Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D 668Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S 669Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D 670Rule Mont 1919 only - Oct 25 2:30 0 S 671Rule Mont 1920 only - May 2 2:30 1:00 D 672Rule Mont 1920 1922 - Oct Sun>=1 2:30 0 S 673Rule Mont 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 674Rule Mont 1922 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 675Rule Mont 1924 only - May 17 2:00 1:00 D 676Rule Mont 1924 1926 - Sep lastSun 2:30 0 S 677Rule Mont 1925 1926 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 678Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Apr lastSat 24:00 1:00 D 679Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Sep lastSat 24:00 0 S 680Rule Mont 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 681Rule Mont 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 682Rule Mont 1946 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 683Rule Mont 1945 1948 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 684Rule Mont 1949 1950 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 685Rule Mont 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 686Rule Mont 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 687Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884 688 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1918 689 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 690 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 691 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 692 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1974 693 -5:00 Canada E%sT 694 695# Montserrat 696# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 697# In 1995 volcanic eruptions forced evacuation of Plymouth, the capital. 698# world.gazetteer.com says Cork Hill is the most populous location now. 699Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Cork Hill 700 -4:00 - AST 701 702# The Bahamas 703# 704# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. 705# 706# From P Chan (2020-11-27, corrected on 2020-12-02): 707# There were two periods of DST observed in 1942-1945: 1942-05-01 708# midnight to 1944-12-31 midnight and 1945-02-01 to 1945-10-17 midnight. 709# "midnight" should mean 24:00 from the context. 710# 711# War Time Order 1942 [1942-05-01] and War Time (No. 2) Order 1942 [1942-09-29] 712# Appendix to the Statutes of 7 George VI. and the Year 1942. p 34, 43 713# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA34 714# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA43 715# 716# War Time Order 1943 [1943-03-31] and War Time Order 1944 [1943-12-29] 717# Appendix to the Statutes of 8 George VI. and the Year 1943. p 9-10, 28-29 718# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA9 719# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA28 720# 721# War Time Order 1945 [1945-01-31] and the Order which revoke War Time Order 722# 1945 [1945-10-16] Appendix to the Statutes of 9 George VI. and the Year 723# 1945. p 160, 247-248 724# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA160 725# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA247 726# 727# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): 728# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST 729# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... 730# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 731 732Rule Bahamas 1942 only - May 1 24:00 1:00 W 733Rule Bahamas 1944 only - Dec 31 24:00 0 S 734Rule Bahamas 1945 only - Feb 1 0:00 1:00 W 735Rule Bahamas 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 736Rule Bahamas 1945 only - Oct 17 24:00 0 S 737Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 738Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 739 740Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 741 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 742 -5:00 US E%sT 743 744# Canada 745# From Chris Walton (2022-10-15): 746# I would also like to see America/Nipigon and America/Rainy_River converted 747# into link entries because I have zero faith in the current Shanks based data. 748# From Paul Eggert (2022-10-15): 749# These are now links in the primary data. Also see America/Thunder_Bay. 750Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 751 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 752 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 753 -5:00 Canada E%sT 754 755# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 756# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 757# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 758# 759# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 760# 761# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 762# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 763# 764# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 765# 766# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 767# 768# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 769# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 770# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 771# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 772# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 773# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 774# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 775# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 776# the current state of affairs. 777 778# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 779# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): 780# http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html 781# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 782# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 783# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 784# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 785 786# From Chris Walton (2022-11-06): 787# The implication is that Pangnirtung and Qikiqtarjuaq have observed Eastern 788# Time as far back as 1984 (and likely even further back than that). 789# It is possible that these communities never actually observed Atlantic 790# Time, but that would be difficult to prove. 791# From Paul Eggert (2022-11-06): 792# This is in 'backzone' as we have no good evidence that Pangnirtung differs 793# from America/Iqaluit since 1970. A Google Books snippet view of 794# volume 2, page 186 of "Pilot of Arctic Canada", published 1959 by 795# the Canadian Hydrographic Service, suggests (though does not state) 796# that Pangnirtung observed EST then. 797# 798# aka Panniqtuuq 799Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - -00 1921 # trading post est. 800 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 801 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 802 -5:00 Canada E%sT 803 804# United States 805# 806# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-18): 807# America/Palm_Springs would be tricky, as it kept two sets of clocks 808# in 1946/7. See the following notes. 809# 810# From Steve Allen (2018-01-19): 811# The shadow of Mt. San Jacinto brings darkness very early in the winter 812# months. In 1946 the chamber of commerce decided to put the clocks of Palm 813# Springs forward by an hour in the winter. 814# https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2017/12/27/palm-springs-struggle-daylight-savings-time-and-idea-sun-time/984416001/ 815# Desert Sun, Number 18, 1 November 1946 816# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19461101 817# has proposal for meeting on front page and page 21. 818# Desert Sun, Number 19, 5 November 1946 819# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19461105 820# reports that Sun Time won at the meeting on front page and page 5. 821# Desert Sun, Number 37, 7 January 1947 822# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19470107.2.12 823# front page reports request to abandon Sun Time and page 7 notes a "class war". 824# Desert Sun, Number 38, 10 January 1947 825# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19470110 826# front page reports on end. 827 828# Trinidad and Tobago 829Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 830 -4:00 - AST 831Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Marigot 832Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Barthelemy 833 834# Canada 835# From Chris Walton (2022-10-15): 836# I would also like to see America/Nipigon and America/Rainy_River converted 837# into link entries because I have zero faith in the current Shanks based data. 838# From Paul Eggert (2022-10-15): 839# These are now links in the primary data. Also see America/Thunder_Bay. 840Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 841 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 842 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 843 -6:00 Canada C%sT 844 845# Argentina 846# This entry was intended for the following areas, but has been superseded by 847# more detailed zones. 848# Santa Fe (SF), Entre Ríos (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC), 849# Formosa (FM), La Pampa (LP), Chubut (CH) 850Zone America/Rosario -4:02:40 - LMT 1894 Nov 851 -4:16:44 - CMT 1920 May 852 -4:00 - -04 1930 Dec 853 -4:00 Arg -04/-03 1969 Oct 5 854 -3:00 Arg -03/-02 1991 Jul 855 -3:00 - -03 1999 Oct 3 0:00 856 -4:00 Arg -04/-03 2000 Mar 3 0:00 857 -3:00 - -03 858 859# St Kitts-Nevis 860Zone America/St_Kitts -4:10:52 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 # Basseterre 861 -4:00 - AST 862 863# St Lucia 864Zone America/St_Lucia -4:04:00 - LMT 1890 # Castries 865 -4:04:00 - CMT 1912 # Castries Mean Time 866 -4:00 - AST 867 868# US Virgin Is 869Zone America/St_Thomas -4:19:44 - LMT 1911 Jul # Charlotte Amalie 870 -4:00 - AST 871Link America/St_Thomas America/Virgin 872 873# St Vincent and the Grenadines 874Zone America/St_Vincent -4:04:56 - LMT 1890 # Kingstown 875 -4:04:56 - KMT 1912 # Kingstown Mean Time 876 -4:00 - AST 877 878# Canada 879# 880# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 881# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and 882# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in 883# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, 884# Saskatchewan, for one year." 885# 886# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, 887# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): 888# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight 889# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur 890# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central 891# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to 892# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight 893# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so 894# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World 895# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer 896# months for the remainder of the war years. 897# 898# From Jeffery Nichols (2020-02-06): 899# According to the [Shanks] atlas, those western Ontario zones are huge, 900# covering most of Ontario northwest of Sault Ste Marie and Timmins. 901# The zones seem to include towns bigger than the ones they're named after, 902# like Dryden in America/Rainy_River and Wawa (and maybe Attawapiskat) in 903# America/Nipigon. I assume it's too much trouble to change the name of the 904# zone (like when you found out that America/Glace_Bay includes Sydney, Nova 905# Scotia).... 906# 907# From Chris Walton (2022-10-15): 908# The TZ database currently shows that Thunder Bay has observed daylight 909# saving every year from 1970 onwards with the exception of 1973. 910# Back in July I raised some doubts on this mailing list about the 1973 data. 911# I now have more proof that it is wrong. 912# [attached Chronicle-Journal front pages, 1973-04-28 and 1973-10-27] 913# 914# From Paul Eggert (2022-10-15): 915# This is now a link in the primary data. The following entry is 916# from Shanks & Pottenger, with corrections as noted above. 917# 918Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 919 -6:00 - CST 1910 920 -5:00 - EST 1942 921 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 922 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 923 -5:00 Canada E%sT 924 925# British Virgin Is 926Zone America/Tortola -4:18:28 - LMT 1911 Jul # Road Town 927 -4:00 - AST 928 929# Yellowknife, Northwest Territories 930Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 931 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 932 -7:00 Canada M%sT 933 934# Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 935# <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) 936# 937# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 938# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 939# 940Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - -00 1947 941 10:00 - +10 1952 Jan 14 942 0 - -00 1956 Nov 943 10:00 - +10 944 945# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12 946Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - -00 1956 947 12:00 NZ NZ%sT 948Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole 949 950# Syowa, Antarctica 951# 952# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 953# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 954# 955# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 956# was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 957# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 958# See: 959# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 960# http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html 961Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - -00 1957 Jan 29 962 3:00 - +03 963 964# Yemen 965# Milne says 2:59:54 was the meridian of the saluting battery at Aden, 966# and that Yemen was at 1:55:56, the meridian of the Hagia Sophia. 967Zone Asia/Aden 2:59:54 - LMT 1950 968 3:00 - +03 969 970# Bahrain 971# 972# From Paul Eggert (2020-07-23): 973# Most of this data comes from: 974# Stewart A. Why Gulf Standard Time is far from standard: the fascinating story 975# behind the time zone's invention. The National (Abu Dhabi). 2020-07-22. 976# https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/why-gulf-standard-time-is-far-from-standard-the-fascinating-story-behind-the-time-zone-s-invention-1.1052589 977# Stewart writes that before 1941 some companies in Bahrain were at +0330 and 978# others at +0323. Reginald George Alban, a British political agent based in 979# Manama, worked to standardize this, and from 1941-07-20 Bahrain was at 980# +0330. However, BOAC asked that clocks be moved to gain more light at day's 981# end, so Bahrain switched to +04 on 1944-01-01. 982# 983# Re the 1941 transition, Stewart privately sent me this citation: 984# "File 16/53 Enquiries Re: Calculation of Local Time", British Library: India 985# Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/2/1564, in Qatar Digital Library 986# https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x00012b 987# It says there was no real standard in Bahrain before 1941-07-20. 988# +0330 was used by steamers of the British India Co, by Petroleum Concessions 989# and by Cable & Wireless; +0323 was used by the Eastern Bank Ltd, BOAC, and 990# Bahrein Petroleum (Bapco), and California Arabian Standard Oil Co (Casoc) 991# adopted DST effective 1941-05-24. Alban suggested adopting DST, R.B. Coomb 992# of C&W countersuggested +0330, and although C.A. Rodstrom of Casoc (formerly 993# of Bapco) stated that Bahrain had formerly used +0330 before Bapco arrived 994# but Bapco switched to +0323 because of "constant confusion", the consensus 995# was +0330. The government adopted +0330 in 1941-07-20 and companies seem to 996# have switched by 08-01. No time of day was given for the 1940s transitions. 997Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1941 Jul 20 # Manamah 998 3:30 - +0330 1944 Jan 1 999 4:00 - +04 1972 Jun 1000 3:00 - +03 1001 1002# Brunei 1003Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan 1004 7:30 - +0730 1933 1005 8:00 - +08 1006 1007# India 1008# 1009# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06): 1010# The 1876 Report of the Secretary of the [US] Navy, p 305 says that Madras 1011# civil time was 5:20:57.3. 1012# 1013# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-21): 1014# In tomorrow's The Hindu, Nitya Menon reports that India had two civil time 1015# zones starting in 1884, one in Bombay and one in Calcutta, and that railways 1016# used a third time zone based on Madras time (80° 18' 30" E). Also, 1017# in 1881 Bombay briefly switched to Madras time, but switched back. See: 1018# http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/madras-375-when-madras-clocked-the-time/article6339393.ece 1019#Zone Asia/Chennai [not enough info to complete] 1020 1021# China 1022# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area) 1023# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan; 1024# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong 1025# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing, 1026# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu. 1027Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking 1028 7:00 - +07 1980 May 1029 8:00 PRC C%sT 1030Link Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking 1031 1032# Vietnam 1033# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13): 1034# See Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh for the source for this data. 1035# Trần's book says the 1954-55 transition to 07:00 in Hanoi was in 1036# October 1954, with exact date and time unspecified. 1037Zone Asia/Hanoi 7:03:24 - LMT 1906 Jul 1 1038 7:06:30 - PLMT 1911 May 1 1039 7:00 - +07 1942 Dec 31 23:00 1040 8:00 - +08 1945 Mar 14 23:00 1041 9:00 - +09 1945 Sep 2 1042 7:00 - +07 1947 Apr 1 1043 8:00 - +08 1954 Oct 1044 7:00 - +07 1045 1046# China 1047# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) 1048# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin 1049Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin 1050 8:30 - +0830 1932 Mar 1051 8:00 - CST 1940 1052 9:00 - +09 1966 May 1053 8:30 - +0830 1980 May 1054 8:00 PRC C%sT 1055 1056# far west China 1057Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar 1058 5:30 - +0530 1940 1059 5:00 - +05 1980 May 1060 8:00 PRC C%sT 1061 1062# peninsular Malaysia 1063# taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) 1064# https://web.archive.org/web/20190822231045/http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~mathelmr/teaching/timezone.html 1065# This agrees with Singapore since 1905-06-01. 1066Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 1067 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. 1068 7:00 - +07 1933 Jan 1 1069 7:00 0:20 +0720 1936 Jan 1 1070 7:20 - +0720 1941 Sep 1 1071 7:30 - +0730 1942 Feb 16 1072 9:00 - +09 1945 Sep 12 1073 7:30 - +0730 1981 Dec 31 16:00u 1074 8:00 - +08 1075 1076# Kuwait 1077Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950 1078 3:00 - +03 1079 1080 1081# Oman 1082# Milne says 3:54:24 was the meridian of the Muscat Tidal Observatory. 1083Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:24 - LMT 1920 1084 4:00 - +04 1085 1086# India 1087# From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01), per Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a 1088# heads-up from Stephen Colebourne: 1089# According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-24), Portuguese India switched to 1090# UT +05 on 1912-01-01 (see Europe/Lisbon). 1091#Zone Asia/Panaji [not enough info to complete] 1092 1093# Cambodia 1094 1095# From an adoptive daughter of the late Cambodian ruler Prince Sihanouk, 1096# via Alois Treindl (2019-08-08): 1097# 1098# King Sihanouk said that, during the Japanese occupation, starting with 1099# what historians refer to as "le coup de force du 9 mars 1945", Cambodia, 1100# like the entire French Indochina, used Tokyo time zone. After Japan 1101# surrendered, 2 September 1945, Cambodia fell under French rule again and 1102# adopted Hanoi time zone again. 1103# 1104# However, on 7 January 1946, Sihanouk and Tioulong managed to obtain a 1105# status of "internal autonomy" from the government of Charles de Gaulle. 1106# Although many fields remained under the administration of the French 1107# (customs, taxes, justice, defence, foreign affairs, etc.), the Cambodian 1108# administration was responsible for religious matters and traditional 1109# celebrations, which included our calendar and time. The time zone was GMT 1110# + 7 and _no_ DST was applied. 1111# 1112# After Sihanouk and Tioulong achieved full independence, on 9 November 1953, 1113# GMT + 7 was maintained. 1114 1115# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-26): 1116# See Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh for the source for most of rest of this data. 1117 1118Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jul 1 1119 7:06:30 - PLMT 1911 May 1 1120 7:00 - +07 1942 Dec 31 23:00 1121 8:00 - +08 1945 Mar 14 23:00 1122 9:00 - +09 1945 Sep 2 1123 7:00 - +07 1124 1125# Israel 1126Zone Asia/Tel_Aviv 2:19:04 - LMT 1880 1127 2:21 - JMT 1918 1128 2:00 Zion I%sT 1129 1130# Laos 1131# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-11): 1132# See Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh for the source for most of this data. 1133# Trần's book says that Laos reverted to UT +07 on 1955-04-15. 1134# Also, guess that Laos reverted to +07 on 1945-09-02, when Vietnam did; 1135# this is probably wrong but it's better than guessing no transition. 1136Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jul 1 1137 7:06:30 - PLMT 1911 May 1 1138 7:00 - +07 1942 Dec 31 23:00 1139 8:00 - +08 1945 Mar 14 23:00 1140 9:00 - +09 1945 Sep 2 1141 7:00 - +07 1947 Apr 1 1142 8:00 - +08 1955 Apr 15 1143 7:00 - +07 1144 1145# Jan Mayen 1146# From Whitman: 1147Zone Atlantic/Jan_Mayen -1:00 - -01 1148 1149# Iceland 1150# 1151# From Adam David (1993-11-06): 1152# The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT. 1153# 1154# (1993-12-05): 1155# This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of 1156# Iceland Almanak. 1157# 1158# From January 1st, 1908 the whole of Iceland was standardised at 1 hour 1159# behind GMT. Previously, local mean solar time was used in different parts 1160# of Iceland, the almanak had been based on Reykjavík mean solar time which 1161# was 1 hour and 28 minutes behind GMT. 1162# 1163# "first day of winter" referred to [below] means the first day of the 26 weeks 1164# of winter, according to the old icelandic calendar that dates back to the 1165# time the norsemen first settled Iceland. The first day of winter is always 1166# Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars. 1167# 1168# (1993-12-10): 1169# I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the 1170# beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus 1171# to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question. 1172# the winter begins on the Saturday next before St. Luke's day 1173# (old style), or on St. Luke's day, if a Saturday. 1174# St. Luke's day ought to be traceable from ecclesiastical sources. "old style" 1175# might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it 1176# might mean something else (???). 1177# 1178# From Paul Eggert (2014-11-22): 1179# The information below is taken from the 1988 Almanak; see 1180# http://www.almanak.hi.is/klukkan.html 1181# 1182Rule Iceland 1917 1919 - Feb 19 23:00 1:00 - 1183Rule Iceland 1917 only - Oct 21 1:00 0 - 1184Rule Iceland 1918 1919 - Nov 16 1:00 0 - 1185Rule Iceland 1921 only - Mar 19 23:00 1:00 - 1186Rule Iceland 1921 only - Jun 23 1:00 0 - 1187Rule Iceland 1939 only - Apr 29 23:00 1:00 - 1188Rule Iceland 1939 only - Oct 29 2:00 0 - 1189Rule Iceland 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 - 1190Rule Iceland 1940 1941 - Nov Sun>=2 1:00s 0 - 1191Rule Iceland 1941 1942 - Mar Sun>=2 1:00s 1:00 - 1192# 1943-1946 - first Sunday in March until first Sunday in winter 1193Rule Iceland 1943 1946 - Mar Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 - 1194Rule Iceland 1942 1948 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - 1195# 1947-1967 - first Sunday in April until first Sunday in winter 1196Rule Iceland 1947 1967 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 - 1197# 1949 and 1967 Oct transitions delayed by 1 week 1198Rule Iceland 1949 only - Oct 30 1:00s 0 - 1199Rule Iceland 1950 1966 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - 1200Rule Iceland 1967 only - Oct 29 1:00s 0 - 1201 1202Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:28 - LMT 1908 1203 -1:00 Iceland -01/+00 1968 Apr 7 1:00s 1204 0:00 - GMT 1205Link Atlantic/Reykjavik Iceland 1206 1207# St Helena 1208Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown 1209 -0:22:48 - JMT 1951 # Jamestown Mean Time 1210 0:00 - GMT 1211 1212# King Island 1213Zone Australia/Currie 9:35:28 - LMT 1895 Sep 1214 10:00 AT AE%sT 1919 Oct 24 1215 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1968 Oct 15 1216 10:00 AT AE%sT 1217 1218 1219# Netherlands 1220 1221# Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940, 1222# but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time. 1223 1224# However, Robert H. van Gent writes (2001-04-01): 1225# Howse's statement is only correct up to 1909. From 1909-05-01 (00:00:00 1226# Amsterdam mean time) onwards, the whole of the Netherlands (including 1227# the Dutch railways) was required by law to observe Amsterdam mean time 1228# (19 minutes 32.13 seconds ahead of GMT). This had already been the 1229# common practice (except for the railways) for many decades but it was 1230# not until 1909 when the Dutch government finally defined this by law. 1231# On 1937-07-01 this was changed to 20 minutes (exactly) ahead of GMT and 1232# was generally known as Dutch Time ("Nederlandse Tijd"). 1233# 1234# (2001-04-08): 1235# 1892-05-01 was the date when the Dutch railways were by law required to 1236# observe GMT while the remainder of the Netherlands adhered to the common 1237# practice of following Amsterdam mean time. 1238# 1239# (2001-04-09): 1240# In 1835 the authorities of the province of North Holland requested the 1241# municipal authorities of the towns and cities in the province to observe 1242# Amsterdam mean time but I do not know in how many cases this request was 1243# actually followed. 1244# 1245# From 1852 onwards the Dutch telegraph offices were by law required to 1246# observe Amsterdam mean time. As the time signals from the observatory of 1247# Leiden were also distributed by the telegraph system, I assume that most 1248# places linked up with the telegraph (and railway) system automatically 1249# adopted Amsterdam mean time. 1250# 1251# Although the early Dutch railway companies initially observed a variety 1252# of times, most of them had adopted Amsterdam mean time by 1858 but it 1253# was not until 1866 when they were all required by law to observe 1254# Amsterdam mean time. 1255 1256# The data entries before 1945 are taken from 1257# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/wettijd/wettijd.htm 1258 1259# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-09): 1260# I invented the abbreviations AMT for Amsterdam Mean Time and NST for 1261# Netherlands Summer Time, used in the Netherlands from 1835 to 1937. 1262 1263Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time 1264Rule Neth 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 AMT # Amsterdam Mean Time 1265Rule Neth 1917 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 NST 1266Rule Neth 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 AMT 1267Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST 1268Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep lastMon 2:00s 0 AMT 1269Rule Neth 1922 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST 1270Rule Neth 1922 1936 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 AMT 1271Rule Neth 1923 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST 1272Rule Neth 1924 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST 1273Rule Neth 1925 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST 1274# From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week 1275# in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend. 1276Rule Neth 1926 1931 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST 1277Rule Neth 1932 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST 1278Rule Neth 1933 1936 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST 1279Rule Neth 1937 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST 1280Rule Neth 1937 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S 1281Rule Neth 1937 1939 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 - 1282Rule Neth 1938 1939 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 S 1283Rule Neth 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S 1284Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - 1285 #STDOFF 0:19:32.13 1286Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 1287 0:19:32 Neth %s 1937 Jul 1 1288 0:20 Neth +0020/+0120 1940 May 16 0:00 1289 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1290 1:00 Neth CE%sT 1977 1291 1:00 EU CE%sT 1292 1293 1294# Northern Ireland 1295Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 1296 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 1297 # DMT = Dublin/Dunsink MT 1298 -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s 1299 # IST = Irish Summer Time 1300 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1301 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 1302 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 1303 0:00 EU GMT/BST 1304 1305 1306# Denmark 1307 1308# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-04-26): 1309# the law [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01.... 1310# The page https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1893/83 1311# confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29. 1312# 1313# The EU [actually, EEC and Euratom] treaty with effect from 1973: 1314# https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1972/21100 1315# 1316# This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes 1317# in subsequent decrees with the law 1318# https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1974/223 1319# 1320# It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980. I have 1321# not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST 1322# changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to 1323# 1980-09-28 at 02:00. If this is true, this differs slightly from 1324# the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00. We don't know 1325# when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only 1326# confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981: 1327# The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning 1328# working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which 1329# was suspended on that night): 1330# https://web.archive.org/web/20140104053304/https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=60267 1331 1332# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-06-11): 1333# The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between 1334# Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two. 1335 1336# From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11): 1337# Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not 1338# wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980. 1339 1340Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S 1341Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 - 1342Rule Denmark 1940 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 1343Rule Denmark 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S 1344Rule Denmark 1945 only - Aug 15 2:00s 0 - 1345Rule Denmark 1946 only - May 1 2:00s 1:00 S 1346Rule Denmark 1946 only - Sep 1 2:00s 0 - 1347Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S 1348Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 - 1349Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S 1350Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 - 1351# 1352Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890 1353 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Jan 1 # Copenhagen MT 1354 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s 1355 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1356 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980 1357 1:00 EU CE%sT 1358 1359# Guernsey 1360# Data from Joseph S. Myers 1361# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019883.html 1362# References to be added 1363# LMT is for Town Church, St. Peter Port, 49° 27' 17" N, 2° 32' 10" W. 1364Zone Europe/Guernsey -0:10:09 - LMT 1913 Jun 18 1365 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1940 Jul 2 1366 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 1367 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1368 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 1369 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 1370 0:00 EU GMT/BST 1371 1372# Isle of Man 1373# 1374# From Lester Caine (2013-09-04): 1375# The Isle of Man legislation is now on-line at 1376# <https://www.legislation.gov.im>, starting with the original Statutory 1377# Time Act in 1883 and including additional confirmation of some of 1378# the dates of the 'Summer Time' orders originating at 1379# Westminster. There is a little uncertainty as to the starting date 1380# of the first summer time in 1916 which may have been announced a 1381# couple of days late. There is still a substantial number of 1382# documents to work through, but it is thought that every GB change 1383# was also implemented on the island. 1384# 1385# AT4 of 1883 - The Statutory Time et cetera Act 1883 - 1386# LMT Location - 54.1508N -4.4814E - Tynwald Hill ( Manx parliament ) 1387Zone Europe/Isle_of_Man -0:17:55 - LMT 1883 Mar 30 0:00s 1388 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1389 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 1390 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 1391 0:00 EU GMT/BST 1392 1393# Jersey 1394# Data from Joseph S. Myers 1395# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019883.html 1396# References to be added 1397# LMT is for Parish Church, St. Helier, 49° 11' 0.57" N, 2° 6' 24.33" W. 1398Zone Europe/Jersey -0:08:26 - LMT 1898 Jun 11 16:00u 1399 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1940 Jul 2 1400 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 1401 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1402 1:00 - BST 1971 Oct 31 2:00u 1403 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 1404 0:00 EU GMT/BST 1405 1406# Slovenia 1407Zone Europe/Ljubljana 0:58:04 - LMT 1884 1408 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 1409 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 1410 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 1411 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1412 1:00 EU CE%sT 1413 1414 1415# Luxembourg 1416 1417# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; 1418# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1419Rule Lux 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S 1420Rule Lux 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - 1421Rule Lux 1917 only - Apr 28 23:00 1:00 S 1422Rule Lux 1917 only - Sep 17 1:00 0 - 1423Rule Lux 1918 only - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S 1424Rule Lux 1918 only - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 - 1425Rule Lux 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00 1:00 S 1426Rule Lux 1919 only - Oct 5 3:00 0 - 1427Rule Lux 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S 1428Rule Lux 1920 only - Oct 24 2:00 0 - 1429Rule Lux 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00 1:00 S 1430Rule Lux 1921 only - Oct 26 2:00 0 - 1431Rule Lux 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00 1:00 S 1432Rule Lux 1922 only - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - 1433Rule Lux 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00 1:00 S 1434Rule Lux 1923 only - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 - 1435Rule Lux 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00 1:00 S 1436Rule Lux 1924 1928 - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - 1437Rule Lux 1925 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S 1438Rule Lux 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00 1:00 S 1439Rule Lux 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00 1:00 S 1440Rule Lux 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00 1:00 S 1441Rule Lux 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00 1:00 S 1442 1443Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 1904 Jun 1444 1:00 Lux CE%sT 1918 Nov 25 1445 0:00 Lux WE%sT 1929 Oct 6 2:00s 1446 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 14 3:00 1447 1:00 C-Eur WE%sT 1944 Sep 18 3:00 1448 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977 1449 1:00 EU CE%sT 1450 1451# Monaco 1452# 1453# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-12): 1454# In the "Journal de Monaco" of 1892-05-24, online at 1455# https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/b1c67c12c5af11b41ea888fb048e4fe8.pdf 1456# we read: ... 1457# [In virtue of a Sovereign Ordinance of the May 13 of the current [year], 1458# legal time in the Principality will be set to, from the date of June 1, 1459# 1892 onwards, to the meridian of Paris, as in France.] 1460# In the "Journal de Monaco" of 1911-03-28, online at 1461# https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/de74ffb7db53d4f599059fe8f0ed482a.pdf 1462# we read an ordinance of 1911-03-16: ... 1463# [Legal time in the Principality will be set, from the date of promulgation 1464# of the present ordinance, to legal time in France.... Consequently, legal 1465# time will be retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds.] 1466# 1467Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1892 Jun 1 1468 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 29 # Paris Mean Time 1469 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 1470 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 1471 1:00 EU CE%sT 1472 1473 1474# Norway 1475 1476# http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks & 1477# Pottenger. 1478Rule Norway 1916 only - May 22 1:00 1:00 S 1479Rule Norway 1916 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 1480Rule Norway 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S 1481Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - 1482Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S 1483Rule Norway 1959 1965 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 1484Rule Norway 1965 only - Apr 25 2:00s 1:00 S 1485 1486Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 1487 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1940 Aug 10 23:00 1488 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 1489 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1980 1490 1:00 EU CE%sT 1491Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen 1492#PACKRATLIST zone.tab Link Europe/Oslo Atlantic/Jan_Mayen 1493 1494# Bosnia and Herzegovina 1495Zone Europe/Sarajevo 1:13:40 - LMT 1884 1496 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 1497 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 1498 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 1499 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1500 1:00 EU CE%sT 1501 1502# North Macedonia 1503Zone Europe/Skopje 1:25:44 - LMT 1884 1504 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 1505 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 1506 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 1507 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1508 1:00 EU CE%sT 1509 1510 1511# Sweden 1512 1513# From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks & Pottenger: 1514# 1515# The law "Svensk författningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879: 1516# From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all 1517# places in the country is "the mean solar time for the meridian at 1518# three degrees, or twelve minutes of time, to the west of the 1519# meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated 1878-05-31. 1520# 1521# The observatory at that time had the meridian 18° 03' 30" 1522# eastern longitude = 01:12:14 in time. Less 12 minutes gives the 1523# national standard time as 01:00:14 ahead of GMT.... 1524# 1525# About the beginning of CET in Sweden. The lawtext ("Svensk 1526# författningssamling 1899, no 44") states, that "from the beginning 1527# of 1900... ... the same as the mean solar time for the meridian at 1528# the distance of one hour of time from the meridian of the English 1529# observatory at Greenwich, or at 12 minutes 14 seconds to the west 1530# from the meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated 1531# 1899-06-16. In short: At 1900-01-01 00:00:00 the new standard time 1532# in Sweden is 01:00:00 ahead of GMT. 1533# 1534# 1916: The lawtext ("Svensk författningssamling 1916, no 124") states 1535# that "1916-05-15 is considered to begin one hour earlier". It is 1536# pretty obvious that at 05-14 23:00 the clocks are set to 05-15 00:00.... 1537# Further the law says, that "1916-09-30 is considered to end one hour later". 1538# 1539# The laws regulating [DST] are available on the site of the Swedish 1540# Parliament beginning with 1985 - the laws regulating 1980/1984 are 1541# not available on the site (to my knowledge they are only available 1542# in Swedish): <http://www.riksdagen.se/english/work/sfst.asp> (type 1543# "sommartid" without the quotes in the field "Fritext" and then click 1544# the Sök-button). 1545# 1546# (2001-05-13): 1547# 1548# I have now found a newspaper stating that at 1916-10-01 01:00 1549# summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show 1550# 1916-10-01 00:00 standard time. The article also reports that some 1551# people thought the switch to standard time would take place already 1552# at 1916-10-01 00:00 summer time, but they had to wait for another 1553# hour before the event took place. 1554# 1555# Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left. 1556 1557# An extra-special abbreviation style is SET for Swedish Time (svensk 1558# normaltid) 1879-1899, 3° west of the Stockholm Observatory. 1559 1560Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 1561 1:00:14 - SET 1900 Jan 1 # Swedish Time 1562 1:00 - CET 1916 May 14 23:00 1563 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Oct 1 1:00 1564 1:00 - CET 1980 1565 1:00 EU CE%sT 1566 1567 1568# Moldova / Transnistria 1569Zone Europe/Tiraspol 1:58:32 - LMT 1880 1570 1:55 - CMT 1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT 1571 1:44:24 - BMT 1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT 1572 2:00 Romania EE%sT 1940 Aug 15 1573 2:00 1:00 EEST 1941 Jul 17 1574 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Aug 24 1575 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00 1576 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 1577 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1578 1579# Ukraine 1580# 1581# Although Shanks & Pottenger say Transcarpathia used CET 1990/1991, 1582# this unreliable source contradicts contemporaneous government resolutions 1583# (see the commentary for Ukraine in the 'europe' file) 1584# so for now this dubious zone is in 'backzone'. 1585# "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, but 1586# "Uzhgorod" was a common English spelling when this dubious zone was 1587# added to TZDB in 1999. 1588Zone Europe/Uzhgorod 1:29:12 - LMT 1890 Oct 1589 1:00 - CET 1940 1590 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct 1591 1:00 1:00 CEST 1944 Oct 26 1592 1:00 - CET 1945 Jun 29 1593 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 1594 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 1595 1:00 - CET 1991 Mar 31 3:00 1596 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 20 1597 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1996 May 13 1598 2:00 EU EE%sT 1599 1600# Liechtenstein 1601 1602# From Paul Eggert (2022-07-21): 1603# Shanks & Pottenger say Vaduz is like Zurich starting June 1894. 1604 1605# From Alois Treindl (2019-07-04): 1606# I was able to access the online archive of the Vaduz paper Vaterland ... 1607# I could confirm from the paper that Liechtenstein did in fact follow 1608# the same DST in 1941 and 1942 as Switzerland did. 1609 1610Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun 1611 1:00 Swiss CE%sT 1981 1612 1:00 EU CE%sT 1613 1614# Croatia 1615Zone Europe/Zagreb 1:03:52 - LMT 1884 1616 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 1617 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s 1618 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s 1619 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1620 1:00 EU CE%sT 1621 1622# Ukraine 1623 1624# Although Shanks & Pottenger say Zaporizhzhia and eastern Lugansk 1625# observed DST 1990/1991, this unreliable source contradicts contemporaneous 1626# government resolutions (see the commentary for Ukraine in the 'europe' file) 1627# so for now this dubious zone is in 'backzone'. 1628# "Zaporizhzhia" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but 1629# "Zaporozhye" was a common English spelling when this dubious zone was 1630# added to TZDB in 1999. 1631Zone Europe/Zaporozhye 2:20:40 - LMT 1880 1632 2:20 - +0220 1924 May 2 1633 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 1634 3:00 - MSK 1941 Aug 25 1635 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Oct 25 1636 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00 1637 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1992 Mar 20 1638 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1996 May 13 1639 2:00 EU EE%sT 1640 1641# Madagascar 1642Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 - LMT 1911 Jul 1643 3:00 - EAT 1954 Feb 27 23:00s 1644 3:00 1:00 EAST 1954 May 29 23:00s 1645 3:00 - EAT 1646 1647# Christmas 1648Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 1649 7:00 - +07 1650 1651# Cocos (Keeling) Is 1652# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978. 1653# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900. 1654Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 1655 6:30 - +0630 1656 1657# Comoros 1658Zone Indian/Comoro 2:53:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro 1659 3:00 - EAT 1660 1661# Kerguelen 1662Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - -00 1950 # Port-aux-Français 1663 5:00 - +05 1664 1665# Seychelles 1666# 1667# From P Chan (2020-11-27): 1668# Standard Time was adopted on 1907-01-01. 1669# 1670# Standard Time Ordinance (Chapter 237) 1671# The Laws of Seychelles in Force on the 31st December, 1971, Vol. 6, p 571 1672# https://books.google.com/books?id=efE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA571 1673# 1674# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-05): 1675# A footnote on https://books.google.com/books?id=DYdDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1689 1676# confirms that Ordinance No. 9 of 1906 "was brought into force on the 1st 1677# January, 1907." 1678 1679Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1907 Jan 1 # Victoria 1680 4:00 - +04 1681# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 1682# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the 1683# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory 1684# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know 1685# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now. 1686# Possibly the islands were uninhabited. 1687 1688 1689# Mayotte 1690Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou 1691 3:00 - EAT 1692 1693# Réunion 1694Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis 1695 4:00 - +04 1696# 1697# Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses) administered from Réunion are as follows. 1698# The following information about them is taken from 1699# Îles Éparses (<http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm>, 1997-07-22, 1700# in French; no longer available as of 1999-08-17). 1701# We have no info about their time zone histories. 1702# 1703# Bassas da India - uninhabited 1704# Europa Island - inhabited from 1905 to 1910 by two families 1705# Glorioso Is - inhabited until at least 1958 1706# Juan de Nova - uninhabited 1707# Tromelin - inhabited until at least 1958 1708 1709# Micronesia 1710# Also see Pacific/Pohnpei and commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'. 1711# 1712# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18): 1713# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16), 1714# "I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that 'Truk' 1715# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10." 1716# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UT +10 to +11 1717# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now. 1718Zone Pacific/Chuuk -13:52:52 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 1719 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 1720 10:00 - +10 1914 Oct 1721 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1 1722 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1 1723 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug 1724 10:00 - +10 1725Link Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Truk 1726Link Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Yap 1727 1728# Phoenix Islands, Kiribati 1729# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-27): 1730# Enderbury was inhabited 1860/1880s to mine guano, and 1938-03-06/1942-02-09 1731# for aviation (ostensibly commercial, but military uses foreseen). 1732# The 19th-century dates are approximate. See Pacific/Kanton for 1733# the currently inhabited representative for this timezone. 1734Zone Pacific/Enderbury 0 - -00 1860 1735 -11:24:20 - LMT 1885 1736 0 - -00 1938 Mar 6 1737 -12:00 - -12 1942 Feb 9 1738 0 - -00 1739 1740# Tuvalu 1741Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 1742 12:00 - +12 1743 1744# Johnston 1745Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST 1746 1747# Marshall Is 1748Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901 1749 11:00 - +11 1914 Oct 1750 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1 1751 11:00 - +11 1937 1752 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1 1753 9:00 - +09 1944 Jan 30 1754 11:00 - +11 1969 Oct 1755 12:00 - +12 1756 1757# Midway 1758# 1759# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): 1760# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, 1761# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3] 1762# reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly 1763# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting 1764# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone 1765# designations that I've never seen before:.... 1766# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun. 1767# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A " 1768# 1769Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 1770 -11:00 - -11 1956 Jun 3 1771 -11:00 1:00 -10 1956 Sep 2 1772 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 1773 1774# Micronesia 1775# Also see Pacific/Chuuk and commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'. 1776Zone Pacific/Pohnpei -13:27:08 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 # Kolonia 1777 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 1778 11:00 - +11 1914 Oct 1779 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1 1780 11:00 - +11 1937 1781 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1 1782 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug 1783 11:00 - +11 1784Link Pacific/Pohnpei Pacific/Ponape 1785 1786# N Mariana Is 1787# 1788# From Paul Eggert (2022-08-16): 1789# Although Shanks & Pottenger say Saipan used +09 and then switched 1790# to Guam time in October 1969, this is surely wrong. 1791# Saipan used Guam time in the late 1950s; see page 4 of the minutes on the 1792# conference of the 12th Saipan Legislature and the Select Committee on 1793# Saipan Mission, 5th Guam Legislature (1959-09-11): 1794# http://www.nmhcouncil.org/nmhc_archives/U.S.%20Navy%20Civil%20Affairs%20Files%201944-1962/1959/1959%2009%2017%20letter,%20minutes%20of%20conference,%20Borja.pdf 1795# For now, assume Saipan switched to Guam time after the Battle of Saipan. 1796# 1797Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 1798 9:43:00 - LMT 1901 1799 9:00 - +09 1944 Jul 9 1800 10:00 Guam G%sT 2000 Dec 23 1801 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time 1802 1803 1804# Wake 1805 1806# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, 1807# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02): 1808# 1809# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ... The time was all the 1810# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the 1811# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we 1812# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time 1813# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost 1814# impossible. 1815# 1816# https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/andrsonv.htm 1817 1818# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): 1819# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now. 1820 1821# Also see commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'. 1822Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 1823 12:00 - +12 1824 1825 1826# Wallis and Futuna 1827Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 1828 12:00 - +12 1829 1830 1831# From Paul Eggert (2024-05-22): 1832# The following zones pretend that standard time extends backward 1833# indefinitely into the past, and so are ahistorical. 1834# In current TZDB these entries are links to geographical locations 1835# that agree with the ahistorical zones since 1970. 1836# These are in numeric rather than alphabetic order. 1837 1838# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1839Zone HST -10:00 - HST 1840Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT 1841Zone MST -7:00 - MST 1842Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT 1843Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT 1844Zone EST -5:00 - EST 1845Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT 1846Zone WET 0:00 EU WE%sT 1847Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1848Zone MET 1:00 C-Eur ME%sT 1849Zone EET 2:00 EU EE%sT 1850 1851# Local Variables: 1852# coding: utf-8 1853# End: 1854