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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
11# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
12
13# This file contains data outside the normal scope of the tz database,
14# in that its zones do not differ from normal tz zones after 1970.
15# Links in this file point to zones in this file, superseding links in
16# the file 'backward'.
17
18# Although zones in this file may be of some use for analyzing
19# pre-1970 timestamps, they are less reliable, cover only a tiny
20# sliver of the pre-1970 era, and cannot feasibly be improved to cover
21# most of the era.  Because the zones are out of normal scope for the
22# database, less effort is put into maintaining this file.  Many of
23# the zones were formerly in other source files, but were removed or
24# replaced by links as their data entries were questionable and/or they
25# differed from other zones only in pre-1970 timestamps.
26
27# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
28# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
29# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
30# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
31
32# This file is not intended to be compiled standalone, as it
33# assumes rules from other files.  In the tz distribution, use
34# 'make PACKRATDATA=backzone zones' to compile and install this file.
35
36
37# From Paul Eggert (2020-04-15):
38# The following remarks should be incorporated into this table sometime.
39# Patches in 'git format-patch' format would be welcome.
40#
41# From Phake Nick (2020-04-15):
42# ... the historical timezone data for those China zones seems to be
43# incorrect.  The transition to GMT+8 date given there for these zones
44# were 1980 which also contradict the file description that they do
45# not disagree with normal zone after 1970.  According to sources that
46# have also been cited in the asia file, except Xinjiang and Tibet,
47# they should have adopted the Beijing Time from around 1949/1950
48# depends on exactly when each of those cities were taken over by the
49# communist army.  And they should also follow the DST setting of
50# Asia/Shanghai after that point of time.  In addition,
51# http://gaz.ncl.edu.tw/detail.jsp?sysid=E1091792 the document from
52# Chongqing Nationalist government say in year 1945 all of China
53# should adopt summer time due to the war (not sure whether it
54# continued after WWII ends)(Probably only enforced in area under
55# their rule at the time?)  The Asia/Harbin's 1932 and 1940 entry
56# should also be incorrect.  As per sources recorded at
57# 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
58# , in 1932 Harbin should have adopted UTC+8:00 instead of data
59# currently listed in the tz database according to official
60# announcement from Manchuko.  And they should have adopted GMT+9 in
61# 1937 January 1st according to official announcement at the time
62# being cited on the webpage.
63
64
65# Zones are sorted by zone name.  Each zone is preceded by the
66# name of the country that the zone is in, along with any other
67# commentary and rules associated with the entry.
68# If the zone overrides links in the main data, it
69# is followed by the corresponding Link lines.
70# If the zone overrides main-data links only when building with
71# PACKRATLIST=zone.tab, it is followed by a commented-out Link line
72# that starts with "#PACKRATLIST zone.tab".
73#
74# As explained in the zic man page, the zone columns are:
75# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
76# and the rule columns are:
77# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
78
79
80# Ghana
81
82# From P Chan (2020-11-20):
83# Interpretation Amendment Ordinance, 1915 (No.24 of 1915) [1915-11-02]
84# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1915, p 69-71
85# https://books.google.com/books?id=ErA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA70
86# This Ordinance added "'Time' shall mean Greenwich Mean Time" to the
87# Interpretation Ordinance, 1876.
88#
89# Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919) [1919-11-24]
90# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1919, p 75-76
91# https://books.google.com/books?id=MbA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA75
92# This Ordinance removed the previous definition of time and introduced DST.
93#
94# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 214)
95# The Laws of the Gold Coast (including Togoland Under British Mandate)
96# Vol. II (1937), p 2328
97# https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7M-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2328
98# Revised edition of the 1919 Ordinance.
99#
100# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1940 (No. 9 of 1940) [1940-04-06]
101# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
102# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1940, p 22
103# https://books.google.com/books?id=1ao-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA22
104# This Ordinance changed the forward transition from September to May.
105#
106# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment) Regulations, 1942
107# (Regulations No. 6 of 1942) [1942-01-31, commenced on 1942-02-08]
108# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
109# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 48
110# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA48
111# These regulations advanced the [standard] time by thirty minutes.
112#
113# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2)) Regulations,
114# 1942 (Regulations No. 28 of 1942) [1942-04-25]
115# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
116# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 87
117# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87
118# These regulations abolished DST and changed the time to GMT+0:30.
119#
120# Defence (Revocation) (No.4) Regulations, 1945 (Regulations No. 45 of
121# 1945) [1945-10-24, commenced on 1946-01-06]
122# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
123# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 256
124# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA256
125# These regulations revoked the previous two sets of Regulations.
126#
127# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1945 (No. 18 of 1945) [1946-01-06]
128# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
129# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 69
130# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA69
131# This Ordinance abolished DST.
132#
133# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950 (No. 26 of 1950) [1950-07-22]
134# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:
135# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1950, p 35
136# https://books.google.com/books?id=e60-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA35
137# This Ordinance restored DST but with thirty minutes offset.
138#
139# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 264)
140# The Laws of the Gold Coast, Vol. V (1954), p 380
141# https://books.google.com/books?id=Mqc-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA380
142# Revised edition of the Time Determination Ordinance.
143#
144# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 21 of 1956) [1956-08-29]
145# Annual Volume of the Ordinances of the Gold Coast Enacted During the
146# Year 1956, p 83
147# https://books.google.com/books?id=VLE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA83
148# This Ordinance abolished DST.
149
150Rule	Ghana	1919	only	-	Nov	24	0:00	0:20	+0020
151Rule	Ghana	1920	1942	-	Jan	 1	2:00	0	GMT
152Rule	Ghana	1920	1939	-	Sep	 1	2:00	0:20	+0020
153Rule	Ghana	1940	1941	-	May	 1	2:00	0:20	+0020
154Rule	Ghana	1950	1955	-	Sep	 1	2:00	0:30	+0030
155Rule	Ghana	1951	1956	-	Jan	 1	2:00	0	GMT
156
157Zone	Africa/Accra	-0:00:52 -	LMT	1915 Nov  2
158			 0:00	Ghana	%s	1942 Feb  8
159			 0:30	-	+0030	1946 Jan  6
160			 0:00	Ghana	%s
161
162# Ethiopia
163# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-31):
164# Like the Swahili of Kenya and Tanzania, many Ethiopians keep a
165# 12-hour clock starting at our 06:00, so their "8 o'clock" is our
166# 02:00 or 14:00.  Keep this in mind when you ask the time in Amharic.
167#
168# Shanks & Pottenger write that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time
169# zones between 1870 and 1890, that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in
170# 1890, and that they switched to 3:00 on 1936-05-05.  Perhaps 38E50
171# was for Adis Dera.  Quite likely the Shanks data entries are wrong
172# anyway.
173Zone Africa/Addis_Ababa	2:34:48 -	LMT	1870
174			2:35:20	-	ADMT	1936 May  5 # Adis Dera MT
175			3:00	-	EAT
176
177# Eritrea
178Zone	Africa/Asmara	2:35:32 -	LMT	1870
179			2:35:32	-	AMT	1890        # Asmara Mean Time
180			2:35:20	-	ADMT	1936 May  5 # Adis Dera MT
181			3:00	-	EAT
182Link Africa/Asmara Africa/Asmera
183
184# Mali (southern)
185Zone	Africa/Bamako	-0:32:00 -	LMT	1912
186			 0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26
187			-1:00	-	-01	1960 Jun 20
188			 0:00	-	GMT
189#PACKRATLIST zone.tab Link Africa/Bamako Africa/Timbuktu
190
191# Central African Republic
192Zone	Africa/Bangui	1:14:20	-	LMT	1912
193			1:00	-	WAT
194
195# The Gambia
196# From P Chan (2020-12-09):
197# Standard time of GMT-1 was adopted on 1933-04-01.  On 1942-02-01, GMT was
198# adopted as a war time measure.  This was made permanent in 1946.
199#
200# Interpretation Ordinance, 1914 (No. 12 of 1914) [1914-09-29]
201# Interpretation Ordinance, 1933 (No. 10 of 1933) [1933-03-31]
202# Notice No. 5 of 1942, Colony of the Gambia Government Gazette, Vol. LIX,
203# No.2, 1942-01-15, p 2
204# Interpretation (Amendment) Ordinance, 1946 (No. 3 of 1946) [1946-07-15]
205Zone	Africa/Banjul	-1:06:36 -	LMT	1912
206			-1:06:36 -	BMT	1933 Apr  1 # Banjul Mean Time
207			-1:00	-	-01	1942 Feb  1  0:00
208			 0:00	-	GMT
209
210# Malawi
211# From P Chan (2020-12-09):
212# In 1911, Zomba mean time was adopted as the legal time of Nyasaland.  In
213# 1914, Zomba mean time switched from GMT+2:21:10 to GMT+2:21. On 1925-07-01,
214# GMT+2 was adopted.
215#
216# Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, 1911 (No. 12 of 1911)
217# [1911-07-24]
218# Notice No. 124 of 1914, 1914-06-30, The Nyasaland Government Gazette, Vol.
219# XXI, No. 8, 1914-06-30, p 122
220# Interpretation and General Clauses (Amendment) Ordinance, 1925 (No. 3 of
221# 1925) [1925-04-02]
222Zone	Africa/Blantyre	2:20:00 -	LMT	1911 Jul 24
223			2:21:10	-	ZMT	1914 Jun 30 # Zomba Mean Time
224			2:21	-	ZMT	1925 Jul  1
225			2:00	-	CAT
226
227# Republic of the Congo
228Zone Africa/Brazzaville	1:01:08 -	LMT	1912
229			1:00	-	WAT
230
231# Burundi
232Zone Africa/Bujumbura	1:57:28	-	LMT	1890
233			2:00	-	CAT
234
235# Guinea
236Zone	Africa/Conakry	-0:54:52 -	LMT	1912
237			 0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26
238			-1:00	-	-01	1960
239			 0:00	-	GMT
240
241# Senegal
242Zone	Africa/Dakar	-1:09:44 -	LMT	1912
243			-1:00	-	-01	1941 Jun
244			 0:00	-	GMT
245
246# Tanzania
247Zone Africa/Dar_es_Salaam 2:37:08 -	LMT	1931
248			3:00	-	EAT	1948
249			2:45	-	+0245	1961
250			3:00	-	EAT
251
252# Djibouti
253Zone	Africa/Djibouti	2:52:36 -	LMT	1911 Jul
254			3:00	-	EAT
255
256# Cameroon
257# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1920; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
258Zone	Africa/Douala	0:38:48	-	LMT	1912
259			1:00	-	WAT
260# Sierra Leone
261# From P Chan (2020-12-09):
262# Standard time of GMT-1 was adopted on 1913-07-01.  Twenty minutes of DST was
263# introduce[d] in 1932 and was suspended in 1939.  In 1941, GMT was adopted by
264# Defence Regulations.  This was made permanent in 1946.
265#
266# Government Notice No. 121 of 1913, 1913-06-06, Sierra Leone Royal Gazette,
267# Vol. XLIV, No. 1384, 1913-06-14, p 347
268# Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1932 (No. 34 of 1932) [1932-12-01]
269# Alteration of Time (Amendment) Ordinance, 1938 (No. 25 of 1938) [1938-11-24]
270# Defence Regulations (No. 9), 1939 (Regulations No. 9 of 1939), 1939-09-05
271# Defence Regulations (No. 11), 1939 (Regulations No. 11 of 1939), 1939-09-27
272# Defence (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations, 1941 (Public Notice No. 157 of
273# 1941), 1914-12-04
274# Alteration of Time (Amendment) Ordinance, 1946 (No. 2 of 1946) [1946-02-07]
275
276# From Tim Parenti (2021-03-02), per P Chan (2021-02-25):
277# For Sierra Leone in 1957-1962, the standard time was defined in the
278# Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1932 (as amended in 1946, renamed to Local Time
279# Ordinance in 1960 and Local Time Act in 1961). It was unamended throughout
280# that period.  See references to "Time" in the Alphabetical Index of the
281# Legislation in force on the 31st day of December,
282#   1957: https://books.google.com/books?id=lvQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA49
283#   1958: https://books.google.com/books?id=4fQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA50
284#   1959: https://books.google.com/books?id=p_U-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA55
285#   1960: https://books.google.com/books?id=JPY-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA37
286#   1961: https://books.google.com/books?id=7vY-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA41
287#   1962: https://books.google.com/books?id=W_c-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA44
288#   1963: https://books.google.com/books?id=9vk-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA47
289#
290# Although Shanks & Pottenger had DST from Jun 1 00:00 to Sep 1 00:00 in this
291# period, many contemporaneous almanacs agree that it wasn't used:
292# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-February/029866.html
293# Go with the above.
294
295Rule	SL	1932	only	-	Dec	 1	 0:00	0:20	-0040
296Rule	SL	1933	1938	-	Mar	31	24:00	0	-01
297Rule	SL	1933	1939	-	Aug	31	24:00	0:20	-0040
298Rule	SL	1939	only	-	May	31	24:00	0	-01
299
300Zone	Africa/Freetown	-0:53:00 -	LMT	1882
301			-0:53:00 -	FMT	1913 Jul  1 # Freetown MT
302			-1:00	SL	%s	1939 Sep  5
303			-1:00	-	-01	1941 Dec  6 24:00
304			 0:00	SL	GMT/+01
305
306# Botswana
307# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
308# Milne says they were regulated by the Cape Town Signal in 1899;
309# assume they switched to 2:00 when Cape Town did.
310Zone	Africa/Gaborone	1:43:40 -	LMT	1885
311			1:30	-	SAST	1903 Mar
312			2:00	-	CAT	1943 Sep 19  2:00
313			2:00	1:00	CAST	1944 Mar 19  2:00
314			2:00	-	CAT
315
316# Zimbabwe
317Zone	Africa/Harare	2:04:12 -	LMT	1903 Mar
318			2:00	-	CAT
319
320# Uganda
321Zone	Africa/Kampala	2:09:40 -	LMT	1928 Jul
322			3:00	-	EAT	1930
323			2:30	-	+0230	1948
324			2:45	-	+0245	1957
325			3:00	-	EAT
326
327# Rwanda
328Zone	Africa/Kigali	2:00:16 -	LMT	1935 Jun
329			2:00	-	CAT
330
331# Democratic Republic of the Congo (west)
332Zone Africa/Kinshasa	1:01:12 -	LMT	1897 Nov  9
333			1:00	-	WAT
334
335# Gabon
336Zone Africa/Libreville	0:37:48 -	LMT	1912
337			1:00	-	WAT
338
339# Togo
340Zone	Africa/Lome	0:04:52 -	LMT	1893
341			0:00	-	GMT
342
343# Angola
344#
345# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-16):
346# Shanks gives 1911-05-26 for the transition to WAT,
347# evidently confusing the date of the Portuguese decree
348# (see Europe/Lisbon) with the date that it took effect.
349#
350Zone	Africa/Luanda	0:52:56	-	LMT	1892
351			0:52:04	-	LMT	1911 Dec 31 23:00u # Luanda MT?
352			1:00	-	WAT
353
354# Democratic Republic of the Congo (east)
355#
356# From Alois Treindl (2022-02-28):
357# My main source for its time zone history is
358# Henri le Corre, Régimes horaires pour l'Europe et l'Afrique.
359# Shanks follows le Corre.  As does Françoise Schneider-Gauquelin in her book
360# Problèmes de l'heure résolus pour le monde entier.
361#
362Zone Africa/Lubumbashi	1:49:52 -	LMT	1897 Nov  9
363			1:00	-	WAT	1920 Apr 25
364			2:00	-	CAT
365
366# Zambia
367Zone	Africa/Lusaka	1:53:08 -	LMT	1903 Mar
368			2:00	-	CAT
369
370# Equatorial Guinea
371#
372# Although Shanks says that Malabo switched from UT +00 to +01 on 1963-12-15,
373# a Google Books search says that London Calling, Issues 432-465 (1948), p 19,
374# says that Spanish Guinea was at +01 back then.  The Shanks data entries
375# are most likely wrong, but we have nothing better; use them here for now.
376#
377Zone	Africa/Malabo	0:35:08 -	LMT	1912
378			0:00	-	GMT	1963 Dec 15
379			1:00	-	WAT
380
381# Lesotho
382Zone	Africa/Maseru	1:50:00 -	LMT	1903 Mar
383			2:00	-	SAST	1943 Sep 19  2:00
384			2:00	1:00	SAST	1944 Mar 19  2:00
385			2:00	-	SAST
386
387# Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
388Zone	Africa/Mbabane	2:04:24 -	LMT	1903 Mar
389			2:00	-	SAST
390
391# Somalia
392Zone Africa/Mogadishu	3:01:28 -	LMT	1893 Nov
393			3:00	-	EAT	1931
394			2:30	-	+0230	1957
395			3:00	-	EAT
396
397# Niger
398Zone	Africa/Niamey	 0:08:28 -	LMT	1912
399			-1:00	-	-01	1934 Feb 26
400			 0:00	-	GMT	1960
401			 1:00	-	WAT
402
403# Mauritania
404Zone Africa/Nouakchott	-1:03:48 -	LMT	1912
405			 0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26
406			-1:00	-	-01	1960 Nov 28
407			 0:00	-	GMT
408
409# Burkina Faso
410Zone Africa/Ouagadougou	-0:06:04 -	LMT	1912
411			 0:00	-	GMT
412
413# Benin
414# Whitman says they switched to 1:00 in 1946, not 1934;
415# go with Shanks & Pottenger.
416Zone Africa/Porto-Novo	0:10:28	-	LMT	1912 Jan  1
417			0:00	-	GMT	1934 Feb 26
418			1:00	-	WAT
419
420# Mali (northern)
421Zone	Africa/Timbuktu	-0:12:04 -	LMT	1912
422			 0:00	-	GMT
423
424# Anguilla
425Zone America/Anguilla	-4:12:16 -	LMT	1912 Mar  2
426			-4:00	-	AST
427
428# Antigua and Barbuda
429Zone	America/Antigua	-4:07:12 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
430			-5:00	-	EST	1951
431			-4:00	-	AST
432
433# Chubut, Argentina
434# The name "Comodoro Rivadavia" exceeds the 14-byte POSIX limit.
435Zone America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia -4:30:00 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
436			-4:16:48 -	CMT	1920 May
437			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
438			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
439			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Mar  3
440			-4:00	-	-04	1991 Oct 20
441			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1999 Oct  3
442			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3
443			-3:00	-	-03	2004 Jun  1
444			-4:00	-	-04	2004 Jun 20
445			-3:00	-	-03
446
447# Aruba
448Zone	America/Aruba	-4:40:24 -	LMT	1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad
449			-4:30	-	-0430	1965
450			-4:00	-	AST
451
452# Atikokan, Ontario
453
454# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17):
455# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star
456# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST,
457# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT.
458# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9)
459# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html
460# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT.
461# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report
462# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice.
463#
464# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
465# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and
466# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes
467# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in
468# violation of the official Ontario rules.
469#
470# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
471# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the
472# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said:
473#
474#	The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round.
475#	This means they spend about half the time on central time and
476#	the other half on eastern time.
477#
478#	For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said.
479#
480#	"The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern
481#	Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he
482#	said.  "I don't see any changes happening here."
483#
484# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang
485# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice."
486
487# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton:
488# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory
489# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he
490# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current
491# time keeping since 1952, at least.
492
493# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17):
494# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River
495# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from
496# McKinnon sounds more authoritative.  For now, assume that Atikokan
497# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time
498# ended.  This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour
499# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move
500# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file.
501
502Zone America/Atikokan	-6:06:28 -	LMT	1895
503			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1940 Sep 29
504			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
505			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1945 Sep 30  2:00
506			-5:00	-	EST
507#PACKRATLIST zone.tab Link America/Atikokan America/Coral_Harbour
508
509# Quebec east of Natashquan
510
511# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-09):
512# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map
513# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998)
514# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp
515# says that Quebec east of the -63 meridian is supposed to observe
516# AST, but residents as far east as Natashquan use EST/EDT, and
517# residents east of Natashquan use AST.
518# The Quebec department of justice writes in
519# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord"
520# https://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/en/department/ministre/functions-and-responsabilities/legal-time-in-quebec/the-situation-in-minganie-and-basse-cote-nord/
521# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon
522# observes Atlantic standard time all year round.
523# This common practice was codified into law as of 2007; see Legal Time Act,
524# CQLR c T-5.1 <http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/T-5.1>.
525# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to
526# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT.
527
528Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 -	LMT	1884
529			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1970
530			-4:00	-	AST
531
532# Cayman Is
533Zone	America/Cayman	-5:25:32 -	LMT	1890     # Georgetown
534			-5:07:10 -	KMT	1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
535			-5:00	-	EST
536
537# United States
538#
539# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-18):
540# America/Chillicothe would be tricky, as it was a city of two-timers:
541# "To prevent a constant mixup at Chillicothe, caused by the courthouse
542#  clock running on central time and the city running on 'daylight saving'
543#  time, a third hand was added to the dial of the courthouse clock."
544# -- Ohio news in brief. The Cedarville Herald. 1920-05-21;43(21):1 (col. 5)
545# https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarville_herald/794
546
547# Canada
548Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 -	LMT	1884
549			-5:00	NT_YK	E%sT	1946
550			-5:00	-	EST
551
552# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01):
553# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia
554# that do not currently observe daylight saving:
555# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area)
556# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District
557# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John)
558
559# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time
560# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the
561# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009.
562# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260
563# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918.
564# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UT-7 for 93 years.
565# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972.
566
567# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains
568# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain.  I e-mailed Tammy a few months
569# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess.  She said it was just
570# as plausible as any other date (in June).  She also said that after writing
571# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the
572# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010.
573# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56
574
575# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history:
576# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7)
577# Exact date unknown
578# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8)
579# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess.
580# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7)
581# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess.
582# note 1:
583# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada,
584# Creston did not change its clocks.
585# note 2:
586# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change,
587# Creston did not oblige.
588# note 3:
589# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time
590# (UTC-7) forever.
591# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council.
592# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html
593
594# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada.
595# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying
596# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before
597# the change.  It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this
598# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough
599# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules.
600
601# The transition dates (and times) are guesses.
602
603Zone America/Creston	-7:46:04 -	LMT	1884
604			-7:00	-	MST	1916 Oct 1
605			-8:00	-	PST	1918 Jun 2
606			-7:00	-	MST
607
608# Curaçao
609# Milne gives 4:35:46.9 for Curaçao mean time; round to nearest.
610#
611# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
612# Shanks & Pottenger say that The Bottom and Philipsburg have been at
613# -4:00 since standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that
614# Kralendijk and Rincon used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from
615# 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01.  The former is dubious, since S&P also say
616# Saba Island has been like Curaçao.
617# This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though.
618#
619# By July 2007 Curaçao and St Maarten are planned to become
620# associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba;
621# Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the
622# Netherlands as Kingdom Islands.  This won't affect their time zones
623# though, as far as we know.
624#
625Zone	America/Curacao	-4:35:47 -	LMT	1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad
626			-4:30	-	-0430	1965
627			-4:00	-	AST
628Link	America/Curacao	America/Kralendijk
629Link	America/Curacao	America/Lower_Princes
630
631# Dominica
632Zone America/Dominica	-4:05:36 -	LMT	1911 Jul  1  0:01 # Roseau
633			-4:00	-	AST
634
635# Baja California
636# See 'northamerica' for why this entry is here rather than there.
637Zone America/Ensenada	-7:46:28 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:13:32
638			-8:00	-	PST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
639			-7:00	-	MST	1930 Nov 16
640			-8:00	-	PST	1942 Apr
641			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
642			-8:00	-	PST	1996
643			-8:00	Mexico	P%sT
644
645# Grenada
646Zone	America/Grenada	-4:07:00 -	LMT	1911 Jul # St George's
647			-4:00	-	AST
648
649# Guadeloupe
650Zone America/Guadeloupe	-4:06:08 -	LMT	1911 Jun  8 # Pointe-à-Pitre
651			-4:00	 -	AST
652
653
654# Canada
655#
656# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24):
657# Since 1970 most of Quebec has been like Toronto; see
658# America/Toronto.  However, earlier versions of the tz database
659# mistakenly relied on data from Shanks & Pottenger saying that Quebec
660# differed from Ontario after 1970, and the following rules and zone
661# were created for most of Quebec from the incorrect Shanks &
662# Pottenger data.  The post-1970 entries have been corrected, but the
663# pre-1970 entries are unchecked and probably have errors.
664#
665Rule	Mont	1917	only	-	Mar	25	2:00	1:00	D
666Rule	Mont	1917	only	-	Apr	24	0:00	0	S
667Rule	Mont	1919	only	-	Mar	31	2:30	1:00	D
668Rule	Mont	1919	only	-	Oct	25	2:30	0	S
669Rule	Mont	1920	only	-	May	 2	2:30	1:00	D
670Rule	Mont	1920	1922	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:30	0	S
671Rule	Mont	1921	only	-	May	 1	2:00	1:00	D
672Rule	Mont	1922	only	-	Apr	30	2:00	1:00	D
673Rule	Mont	1924	only	-	May	17	2:00	1:00	D
674Rule	Mont	1924	1926	-	Sep	lastSun	2:30	0	S
675Rule	Mont	1925	1926	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
676Rule	Mont	1927	1937	-	Apr	lastSat	24:00	1:00	D
677Rule	Mont	1927	1937	-	Sep	lastSat	24:00	0	S
678Rule	Mont	1938	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
679Rule	Mont	1938	1939	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
680Rule	Mont	1946	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
681Rule	Mont	1945	1948	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
682Rule	Mont	1949	1950	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
683Rule	Mont	1951	1956	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
684Rule	Mont	1957	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
685Zone America/Montreal	-4:54:16 -	LMT	1884
686			-5:00	Mont	E%sT	1918
687			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1919
688			-5:00	Mont	E%sT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
689			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1946
690			-5:00	Mont	E%sT	1974
691			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
692
693# Montserrat
694# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
695# In 1995 volcanic eruptions forced evacuation of Plymouth, the capital.
696# world.gazetteer.com says Cork Hill is the most populous location now.
697Zone America/Montserrat	-4:08:52 -	LMT	1911 Jul  1  0:01 # Cork Hill
698			-4:00	-	AST
699
700# The Bahamas
701#
702# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that.
703#
704# From P Chan (2020-11-27, corrected on 2020-12-02):
705# There were two periods of DST observed in 1942-1945: 1942-05-01
706# midnight to 1944-12-31 midnight and 1945-02-01 to 1945-10-17 midnight.
707# "midnight" should mean 24:00 from the context.
708#
709# War Time Order 1942 [1942-05-01] and War Time (No. 2) Order 1942  [1942-09-29]
710# Appendix to the Statutes of 7 George VI. and the Year 1942. p 34, 43
711# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA34
712# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA43
713#
714# War Time Order 1943 [1943-03-31] and War Time Order 1944 [1943-12-29]
715# Appendix to the Statutes of 8 George VI. and the Year 1943. p 9-10, 28-29
716# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA9
717# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA28
718#
719# War Time Order 1945 [1945-01-31] and the Order which revoke War Time Order
720# 1945 [1945-10-16] Appendix to the Statutes of 9 George VI. and the Year
721# 1945. p 160, 247-248
722# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA160
723# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA247
724#
725# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07):
726# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST
727# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007....
728# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412
729
730Rule	Bahamas	1942	only	-	May	 1	24:00	1:00	W
731Rule	Bahamas	1944	only	-	Dec	31	24:00	0	S
732Rule	Bahamas	1945	only	-	Feb	 1	0:00	1:00	W
733Rule	Bahamas	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
734Rule	Bahamas	1945	only	-	Oct	17	24:00	0	S
735Rule	Bahamas	1964	1975	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
736Rule	Bahamas	1964	1975	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
737
738Zone	America/Nassau	-5:09:30 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
739			-5:00	Bahamas	E%sT	1976
740			-5:00	US	E%sT
741
742# United States
743#
744# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-18):
745# America/Palm_Springs would be tricky, as it kept two sets of clocks
746# in 1946/7.  See the following notes.
747#
748# From Steve Allen (2018-01-19):
749# The shadow of Mt. San Jacinto brings darkness very early in the winter
750# months.  In 1946 the chamber of commerce decided to put the clocks of Palm
751# Springs forward by an hour in the winter.
752# https://www.desertsun.com/story/life/2017/12/27/palm-springs-struggle-daylight-savings-time-and-idea-sun-time/984416001/
753# Desert Sun, Number 18, 1 November 1946
754# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19461101
755# has proposal for meeting on front page and page 21.
756# Desert Sun, Number 19, 5 November 1946
757# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19461105
758# reports that Sun Time won at the meeting on front page and page 5.
759# Desert Sun, Number 37, 7 January 1947
760# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19470107.2.12
761# front page reports request to abandon Sun Time and page 7 notes a "class war".
762# Desert Sun, Number 38, 10 January 1947
763# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19470110
764# front page reports on end.
765
766# Trinidad and Tobago
767Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
768			-4:00	-	AST
769Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Marigot
770Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Barthelemy
771
772# Argentina
773# This entry was intended for the following areas, but has been superseded by
774# more detailed zones.
775# Santa Fe (SF), Entre Ríos (ER), Corrientes (CN), Misiones (MN), Chaco (CC),
776# Formosa (FM), La Pampa (LP), Chubut (CH)
777Zone America/Rosario	-4:02:40 -	LMT	1894 Nov
778			-4:16:44 -	CMT	1920 May
779			-4:00	-	-04	1930 Dec
780			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	1969 Oct  5
781			-3:00	Arg	-03/-02	1991 Jul
782			-3:00	-	-03	1999 Oct  3  0:00
783			-4:00	Arg	-04/-03	2000 Mar  3  0:00
784			-3:00	-	-03
785
786# St Kitts-Nevis
787Zone America/St_Kitts	-4:10:52 -	LMT	1912 Mar  2 # Basseterre
788			-4:00	-	AST
789
790# St Lucia
791Zone America/St_Lucia	-4:04:00 -	LMT	1890 # Castries
792			-4:04:00 -	CMT	1912 # Castries Mean Time
793			-4:00	-	AST
794
795# US Virgin Is
796Zone America/St_Thomas	-4:19:44 -	LMT	1911 Jul # Charlotte Amalie
797			-4:00	-	AST
798Link America/St_Thomas America/Virgin
799
800# St Vincent and the Grenadines
801Zone America/St_Vincent	-4:04:56 -	LMT	1890 # Kingstown
802			-4:04:56 -	KMT	1912 # Kingstown Mean Time
803			-4:00	-	AST
804
805# British Virgin Is
806Zone America/Tortola	-4:18:28 -	LMT	1911 Jul # Road Town
807			-4:00	-	AST
808
809# Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11
810# <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05)
811#
812# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947.
813# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14.
814#
815Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 -	-00	1947
816			10:00	-	+10	1952 Jan 14
817			0	-	-00	1956 Nov
818			10:00	-	+10
819
820# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12
821Zone Antarctica/McMurdo	0	-	-00	1956
822			12:00	NZ	NZ%sT
823Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole
824
825# Syowa, Antarctica
826#
827# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06):
828# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time.
829#
830# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan,
831# was established on 1957-01-29.  Since Syowa station is still the main
832# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location.
833# See:
834# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17)
835# http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html
836Zone Antarctica/Syowa	0	-	-00	1957 Jan 29
837			3:00	-	+03
838
839# Vostok, Antarctica
840#
841# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11
842# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15):
843# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP
844# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same
845# time as Moscow, Russia.
846#
847# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08):
848# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is
849# what they had to say about time there:
850# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo)
851# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was
852# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead
853# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The
854# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT."
855#
856# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04):
857# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it
858# in person.  He said that some Antarctic locations set their local
859# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this
860# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean
861# solar noon.  So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks
862# happened to be during their visit.  So we still don't really know what time
863# it is at Vostok.  But we'll guess +06.
864#
865Zone Antarctica/Vostok	0	-	-00	1957 Dec 16
866			6:00	-	+06
867
868# Yemen
869# Milne says 2:59:54 was the meridian of the saluting battery at Aden,
870# and that Yemen was at 1:55:56, the meridian of the Hagia Sophia.
871Zone	Asia/Aden	2:59:54	-	LMT	1950
872			3:00	-	+03
873
874# Bahrain
875#
876# From Paul Eggert (2020-07-23):
877# Most of this data comes from:
878# Stewart A. Why Gulf Standard Time is far from standard: the fascinating story
879# behind the time zone's invention. The National (Abu Dhabi). 2020-07-22.
880# 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
881# Stewart writes that before 1941 some companies in Bahrain were at +0330 and
882# others at +0323.  Reginald George Alban, a British political agent based in
883# Manama, worked to standardize this, and from 1941-07-20 Bahrain was at
884# +0330.  However, BOAC asked that clocks be moved to gain more light at day's
885# end, so Bahrain switched to +04 on 1944-01-01.
886#
887# Re the 1941 transition, Stewart privately sent me this citation:
888# "File 16/53 Enquiries Re: Calculation of Local Time", British Library: India
889# Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/2/1564, in Qatar Digital Library
890# https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100000000282.0x00012b
891# It says there was no real standard in Bahrain before 1941-07-20.
892# +0330 was used by steamers of the British India Co, by Petroleum Concessions
893# and by Cable & Wireless; +0323 was used by the Eastern Bank Ltd, BOAC, and
894# Bahrein Petroleum (Bapco), and California Arabian Standard Oil Co (Casoc)
895# adopted DST effective 1941-05-24.  Alban suggested adopting DST, R.B. Coomb
896# of C&W countersuggested +0330, and although C.A. Rodstrom of Casoc (formerly
897# of Bapco) stated that Bahrain had formerly used +0330 before Bapco arrived
898# but Bapco switched to +0323 because of "constant confusion", the consensus
899# was +0330.  The government adopted +0330 in 1941-07-20 and companies seem to
900# have switched by 08-01.  No time of day was given for the 1940s transitions.
901Zone	Asia/Bahrain	3:22:20 -	LMT	1941 Jul 20  # Manamah
902			3:30	-	+0330	1944 Jan  1
903			4:00	-	+04	1972 Jun
904			3:00	-	+03
905
906# Brunei
907Zone	Asia/Brunei	7:39:40 -	LMT	1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan
908			7:30	-	+0730	1933
909			8:00	-	+08
910
911# India
912#
913# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06):
914# The 1876 Report of the Secretary of the [US] Navy, p 305 says that Madras
915# civil time was 5:20:57.3.
916#
917# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-21):
918# In tomorrow's The Hindu, Nitya Menon reports that India had two civil time
919# zones starting in 1884, one in Bombay and one in Calcutta, and that railways
920# used a third time zone based on Madras time (80° 18' 30" E).  Also,
921# in 1881 Bombay briefly switched to Madras time, but switched back.  See:
922# http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/madras-375-when-madras-clocked-the-time/article6339393.ece
923#Zone	  Asia/Chennai  [not enough info to complete]
924
925# China
926# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area)
927# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan;
928# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong
929# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing,
930# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu.
931Zone	Asia/Chongqing	7:06:20	-	LMT	1928     # or Chungking
932			7:00	-	+07	1980 May
933			8:00	PRC	C%sT
934Link Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking
935
936# Vietnam
937# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
938# See Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh for the source for this data.
939# Trần's book says the 1954-55 transition to 07:00 in Hanoi was in
940# October 1954, with exact date and time unspecified.
941Zone	Asia/Hanoi	7:03:24 -	LMT	1906 Jul  1
942			7:06:30	-	PLMT	1911 May  1
943			7:00	-	+07	1942 Dec 31 23:00
944			8:00	-	+08	1945 Mar 14 23:00
945			9:00	-	+09	1945 Sep  2
946			7:00	-	+07	1947 Apr  1
947			8:00	-	+08	1954 Oct
948			7:00	-	+07
949
950# China
951# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
952# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin
953Zone	Asia/Harbin	8:26:44	-	LMT	1928     # or Haerbin
954			8:30	-	+0830	1932 Mar
955			8:00	-	CST	1940
956			9:00	-	+09	1966 May
957			8:30	-	+0830	1980 May
958			8:00	PRC	C%sT
959
960# far west China
961Zone	Asia/Kashgar	5:03:56	-	LMT	1928     # or Kashi or Kaxgar
962			5:30	-	+0530	1940
963			5:00	-	+05	1980 May
964			8:00	PRC	C%sT
965
966# peninsular Malaysia
967# taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
968# https://web.archive.org/web/20190822231045/http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~mathelmr/teaching/timezone.html
969# This agrees with Singapore since 1905-06-01.
970Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur	6:46:46 -	LMT	1901 Jan  1
971			6:55:25	-	SMT	1905 Jun  1 # Singapore M.T.
972			7:00	-	+07	1933 Jan  1
973			7:00	0:20	+0720	1936 Jan  1
974			7:20	-	+0720	1941 Sep  1
975			7:30	-	+0730	1942 Feb 16
976			9:00	-	+09	1945 Sep 12
977			7:30	-	+0730	1982 Jan  1
978			8:00	-	+08
979
980# Kuwait
981Zone	Asia/Kuwait	3:11:56 -	LMT	1950
982			3:00	-	+03
983
984
985# Oman
986# Milne says 3:54:24 was the meridian of the Muscat Tidal Observatory.
987Zone	Asia/Muscat	3:54:24 -	LMT	1920
988			4:00	-	+04
989
990# India
991# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-11), after a heads-up from Stephen Colebourne:
992# According to a Portuguese decree (1911-05-26)
993# https://dre.pt/pdf1sdip/1911/05/12500/23132313.pdf
994# Portuguese India switched to UT +05 on 1912-01-01.
995#Zone	Asia/Panaji	[not enough info to complete]
996
997# Cambodia
998
999# From an adoptive daughter of the late Cambodian ruler Prince Sihanouk,
1000# via Alois Treindl (2019-08-08):
1001#
1002# King Sihanouk said that, during the Japanese occupation, starting with
1003# what historians refer to as "le coup de force du 9 mars 1945", Cambodia,
1004# like the entire French Indochina, used Tokyo time zone. After Japan
1005# surrendered, 2 September 1945, Cambodia fell under French rule again and
1006# adopted Hanoi time zone again.
1007#
1008# However, on 7 January 1946, Sihanouk and Tioulong managed to obtain a
1009# status of "internal autonomy" from the government of Charles de Gaulle.
1010# Although many fields remained under the administration of the French
1011# (customs, taxes, justice, defence, foreign affairs, etc.), the Cambodian
1012# administration was responsible for religious matters and traditional
1013# celebrations, which included our calendar and time.  The time zone was GMT
1014# + 7 and _no_ DST was applied.
1015#
1016# After Sihanouk and Tioulong achieved full independence, on 9 November 1953,
1017# GMT + 7 was maintained.
1018
1019# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-26):
1020# See Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh for the source for most of rest of this data.
1021
1022Zone	Asia/Phnom_Penh	6:59:40 -	LMT	1906 Jul  1
1023			7:06:30	-	PLMT	1911 May  1
1024			7:00	-	+07	1942 Dec 31 23:00
1025			8:00	-	+08	1945 Mar 14 23:00
1026			9:00	-	+09	1945 Sep  2
1027			7:00	-	+07
1028
1029# Israel
1030Zone	Asia/Tel_Aviv	2:19:04 -	LMT	1880
1031			2:21	-	JMT	1918
1032			2:00	Zion	I%sT
1033
1034# Laos
1035# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-11):
1036# See Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh for the source for most of this data.
1037# Trần's book says that Laos reverted to UT +07 on 1955-04-15.
1038# Also, guess that Laos reverted to +07 on 1945-09-02, when Vietnam did;
1039# this is probably wrong but it's better than guessing no transition.
1040Zone	Asia/Vientiane	6:50:24 -	LMT	1906 Jul  1
1041			7:06:30	-	PLMT	1911 May  1
1042			7:00	-	+07	1942 Dec 31 23:00
1043			8:00	-	+08	1945 Mar 14 23:00
1044			9:00	-	+09	1945 Sep  2
1045			7:00	-	+07	1947 Apr  1
1046			8:00	-	+08	1955 Apr 15
1047			7:00	-	+07
1048
1049# Jan Mayen
1050# From Whitman:
1051Zone Atlantic/Jan_Mayen	-1:00	-	-01
1052
1053# Iceland
1054#
1055# From Adam David (1993-11-06):
1056# The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT.
1057#
1058# (1993-12-05):
1059# This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of
1060# Iceland Almanak.
1061#
1062# From January 1st, 1908 the whole of Iceland was standardised at 1 hour
1063# behind GMT. Previously, local mean solar time was used in different parts
1064# of Iceland, the almanak had been based on Reykjavík mean solar time which
1065# was 1 hour and 28 minutes behind GMT.
1066#
1067# "first day of winter" referred to [below] means the first day of the 26 weeks
1068# of winter, according to the old icelandic calendar that dates back to the
1069# time the norsemen first settled Iceland.  The first day of winter is always
1070# Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars.
1071#
1072# (1993-12-10):
1073# I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the
1074# beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus
1075# to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question.
1076#	the winter begins on the Saturday next before St. Luke's day
1077#	(old style), or on St. Luke's day, if a Saturday.
1078# St. Luke's day ought to be traceable from ecclesiastical sources. "old style"
1079# might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it
1080# might mean something else (???).
1081#
1082# From Paul Eggert (2014-11-22):
1083# The information below is taken from the 1988 Almanak; see
1084# http://www.almanak.hi.is/klukkan.html
1085#
1086Rule	Iceland	1917	1919	-	Feb	19	23:00	1:00	-
1087Rule	Iceland	1917	only	-	Oct	21	 1:00	0	-
1088Rule	Iceland	1918	1919	-	Nov	16	 1:00	0	-
1089Rule	Iceland	1921	only	-	Mar	19	23:00	1:00	-
1090Rule	Iceland	1921	only	-	Jun	23	 1:00	0	-
1091Rule	Iceland	1939	only	-	Apr	29	23:00	1:00	-
1092Rule	Iceland	1939	only	-	Oct	29	 2:00	0	-
1093Rule	Iceland	1940	only	-	Feb	25	 2:00	1:00	-
1094Rule	Iceland	1940	1941	-	Nov	Sun>=2	 1:00s	0	-
1095Rule	Iceland	1941	1942	-	Mar	Sun>=2	 1:00s	1:00	-
1096# 1943-1946 - first Sunday in March until first Sunday in winter
1097Rule	Iceland	1943	1946	-	Mar	Sun>=1	 1:00s	1:00	-
1098Rule	Iceland	1942	1948	-	Oct	Sun>=22	 1:00s	0	-
1099# 1947-1967 - first Sunday in April until first Sunday in winter
1100Rule	Iceland	1947	1967	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 1:00s	1:00	-
1101# 1949 and 1967 Oct transitions delayed by 1 week
1102Rule	Iceland	1949	only	-	Oct	30	 1:00s	0	-
1103Rule	Iceland	1950	1966	-	Oct	Sun>=22	 1:00s	0	-
1104Rule	Iceland	1967	only	-	Oct	29	 1:00s	0	-
1105
1106Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik	-1:28	-	LMT	1908
1107			-1:00	Iceland	-01/+00	1968 Apr  7  1:00s
1108			 0:00	-	GMT
1109Link Atlantic/Reykjavik Iceland
1110
1111# St Helena
1112Zone Atlantic/St_Helena	-0:22:48 -	LMT	1890 # Jamestown
1113			-0:22:48 -	JMT	1951 # Jamestown Mean Time
1114			 0:00	-	GMT
1115
1116# King Island
1117Zone Australia/Currie	9:35:28	-	LMT	1895 Sep
1118			10:00	AT	AE%sT	1919 Oct 24
1119			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1968 Oct 15
1120			10:00	AT	AE%sT
1121
1122
1123# Netherlands
1124
1125# Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940,
1126# but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time.
1127
1128# However, Robert H. van Gent writes (2001-04-01):
1129# Howse's statement is only correct up to 1909. From 1909-05-01 (00:00:00
1130# Amsterdam mean time) onwards, the whole of the Netherlands (including
1131# the Dutch railways) was required by law to observe Amsterdam mean time
1132# (19 minutes 32.13 seconds ahead of GMT). This had already been the
1133# common practice (except for the railways) for many decades but it was
1134# not until 1909 when the Dutch government finally defined this by law.
1135# On 1937-07-01 this was changed to 20 minutes (exactly) ahead of GMT and
1136# was generally known as Dutch Time ("Nederlandse Tijd").
1137#
1138# (2001-04-08):
1139# 1892-05-01 was the date when the Dutch railways were by law required to
1140# observe GMT while the remainder of the Netherlands adhered to the common
1141# practice of following Amsterdam mean time.
1142#
1143# (2001-04-09):
1144# In 1835 the authorities of the province of North Holland requested the
1145# municipal authorities of the towns and cities in the province to observe
1146# Amsterdam mean time but I do not know in how many cases this request was
1147# actually followed.
1148#
1149# From 1852 onwards the Dutch telegraph offices were by law required to
1150# observe Amsterdam mean time. As the time signals from the observatory of
1151# Leiden were also distributed by the telegraph system, I assume that most
1152# places linked up with the telegraph (and railway) system automatically
1153# adopted Amsterdam mean time.
1154#
1155# Although the early Dutch railway companies initially observed a variety
1156# of times, most of them had adopted Amsterdam mean time by 1858 but it
1157# was not until 1866 when they were all required by law to observe
1158# Amsterdam mean time.
1159
1160# The data entries before 1945 are taken from
1161# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/wettijd/wettijd.htm
1162
1163# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-09):
1164# I invented the abbreviations AMT for Amsterdam Mean Time and NST for
1165# Netherlands Summer Time, used in the Netherlands from 1835 to 1937.
1166
1167Rule	Neth	1916	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	NST	# Netherlands Summer Time
1168Rule	Neth	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	AMT	# Amsterdam Mean Time
1169Rule	Neth	1917	only	-	Apr	16	2:00s	1:00	NST
1170Rule	Neth	1917	only	-	Sep	17	2:00s	0	AMT
1171Rule	Neth	1918	1921	-	Apr	Mon>=1	2:00s	1:00	NST
1172Rule	Neth	1918	1921	-	Sep	lastMon	2:00s	0	AMT
1173Rule	Neth	1922	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	NST
1174Rule	Neth	1922	1936	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	AMT
1175Rule	Neth	1923	only	-	Jun	Fri>=1	2:00s	1:00	NST
1176Rule	Neth	1924	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	NST
1177Rule	Neth	1925	only	-	Jun	Fri>=1	2:00s	1:00	NST
1178# From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week
1179# in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend.
1180Rule	Neth	1926	1931	-	May	15	2:00s	1:00	NST
1181Rule	Neth	1932	only	-	May	22	2:00s	1:00	NST
1182Rule	Neth	1933	1936	-	May	15	2:00s	1:00	NST
1183Rule	Neth	1937	only	-	May	22	2:00s	1:00	NST
1184Rule	Neth	1937	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	1:00	S
1185Rule	Neth	1937	1939	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00s	0	-
1186Rule	Neth	1938	1939	-	May	15	2:00s	1:00	S
1187Rule	Neth	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00s	1:00	S
1188Rule	Neth	1945	only	-	Sep	16	2:00s	0	-
1189		#STDOFF	0:19:32.13
1190Zone Europe/Amsterdam	0:19:32 -	LMT	1835
1191			0:19:32	Neth	%s	1937 Jul  1
1192			0:20	Neth +0020/+0120 1940 May 16  0:00
1193			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2  2:00
1194			1:00	Neth	CE%sT	1977
1195			1:00	EU	CE%sT
1196
1197
1198# Northern Ireland
1199Zone	Europe/Belfast	-0:23:40 -	LMT	1880 Aug  2
1200			-0:25:21 -	DMT	1916 May 21  2:00
1201						# DMT = Dublin/Dunsink MT
1202			-0:25:21 1:00	IST	1916 Oct  1  2:00s
1203						# IST = Irish Summer Time
1204			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1968 Oct 27
1205			 1:00	-	BST	1971 Oct 31  2:00u
1206			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1996
1207			 0:00	EU	GMT/BST
1208
1209
1210# Denmark
1211
1212# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-04-26):
1213# the law [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01....
1214# The page https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1893/83
1215# confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29.
1216#
1217# The EU [actually, EEC and Euratom] treaty with effect from 1973:
1218# https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1972/21100
1219#
1220# This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes
1221# in subsequent decrees with the law
1222# https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1974/223
1223#
1224# It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980.  I have
1225# not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST
1226# changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to
1227# 1980-09-28 at 02:00.  If this is true, this differs slightly from
1228# the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00.  We don't know
1229# when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only
1230# confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981:
1231# The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning
1232# working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which
1233# was suspended on that night):
1234# https://web.archive.org/web/20140104053304/https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=60267
1235
1236# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-06-11):
1237# The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between
1238# Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two.
1239
1240# From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11):
1241# Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not
1242# wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980.
1243
1244Rule	Denmark	1916	only	-	May	14	23:00	1:00	S
1245Rule	Denmark	1916	only	-	Sep	30	23:00	0	-
1246Rule	Denmark	1940	only	-	May	15	 0:00	1:00	S
1247Rule	Denmark	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	 2:00s	1:00	S
1248Rule	Denmark	1945	only	-	Aug	15	 2:00s	0	-
1249Rule	Denmark	1946	only	-	May	 1	 2:00s	1:00	S
1250Rule	Denmark	1946	only	-	Sep	 1	 2:00s	0	-
1251Rule	Denmark	1947	only	-	May	 4	 2:00s	1:00	S
1252Rule	Denmark	1947	only	-	Aug	10	 2:00s	0	-
1253Rule	Denmark	1948	only	-	May	 9	 2:00s	1:00	S
1254Rule	Denmark	1948	only	-	Aug	 8	 2:00s	0	-
1255#
1256Zone Europe/Copenhagen	 0:50:20 -	LMT	1890
1257			 0:50:20 -	CMT	1894 Jan  1 # Copenhagen MT
1258			 1:00	Denmark	CE%sT	1942 Nov  2  2:00s
1259			 1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2  2:00
1260			 1:00	Denmark	CE%sT	1980
1261			 1:00	EU	CE%sT
1262
1263# Guernsey
1264# Data from Joseph S. Myers
1265# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019883.html
1266# References to be added
1267# LMT is for Town Church, St. Peter Port, 49° 27' 17" N, 2° 32' 10" W.
1268Zone	Europe/Guernsey	-0:10:09 -	LMT	1913 Jun 18
1269			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1940 Jul  2
1270			 1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 May  8
1271			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1968 Oct 27
1272			 1:00	-	BST	1971 Oct 31  2:00u
1273			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1996
1274			 0:00	EU	GMT/BST
1275
1276# Isle of Man
1277#
1278# From Lester Caine (2013-09-04):
1279# The Isle of Man legislation is now on-line at
1280# <https://www.legislation.gov.im>, starting with the original Statutory
1281# Time Act in 1883 and including additional confirmation of some of
1282# the dates of the 'Summer Time' orders originating at
1283# Westminster.  There is a little uncertainty as to the starting date
1284# of the first summer time in 1916 which may have been announced a
1285# couple of days late.  There is still a substantial number of
1286# documents to work through, but it is thought that every GB change
1287# was also implemented on the island.
1288#
1289# AT4 of 1883 - The Statutory Time et cetera Act 1883 -
1290# LMT Location - 54.1508N -4.4814E - Tynwald Hill ( Manx parliament )
1291Zone Europe/Isle_of_Man	-0:17:55 -	LMT	1883 Mar 30  0:00s
1292			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1968 Oct 27
1293			 1:00	-	BST	1971 Oct 31  2:00u
1294			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1996
1295			 0:00	EU	GMT/BST
1296
1297# Jersey
1298# Data from Joseph S. Myers
1299# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019883.html
1300# References to be added
1301# LMT is for Parish Church, St. Helier, 49° 11' 0.57" N, 2° 6' 24.33" W.
1302Zone	Europe/Jersey	-0:08:26 -	LMT	1898 Jun 11 16:00u
1303			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1940 Jul  2
1304			 1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 May  8
1305			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1968 Oct 27
1306			 1:00	-	BST	1971 Oct 31  2:00u
1307			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1996
1308			 0:00	EU	GMT/BST
1309
1310# Slovenia
1311Zone Europe/Ljubljana	0:58:04	-	LMT	1884
1312			1:00	-	CET	1941 Apr 18 23:00
1313			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 May  8  2:00s
1314			1:00	1:00	CEST	1945 Sep 16  2:00s
1315			1:00	-	CET	1982 Nov 27
1316			1:00	EU	CE%sT
1317
1318
1319# Luxembourg
1320
1321# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways;
1322# go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1323Rule	Lux	1916	only	-	May	14	23:00	1:00	S
1324Rule	Lux	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
1325Rule	Lux	1917	only	-	Apr	28	23:00	1:00	S
1326Rule	Lux	1917	only	-	Sep	17	 1:00	0	-
1327Rule	Lux	1918	only	-	Apr	Mon>=15	 2:00s	1:00	S
1328Rule	Lux	1918	only	-	Sep	Mon>=15	 2:00s	0	-
1329Rule	Lux	1919	only	-	Mar	 1	23:00	1:00	S
1330Rule	Lux	1919	only	-	Oct	 5	 3:00	0	-
1331Rule	Lux	1920	only	-	Feb	14	23:00	1:00	S
1332Rule	Lux	1920	only	-	Oct	24	 2:00	0	-
1333Rule	Lux	1921	only	-	Mar	14	23:00	1:00	S
1334Rule	Lux	1921	only	-	Oct	26	 2:00	0	-
1335Rule	Lux	1922	only	-	Mar	25	23:00	1:00	S
1336Rule	Lux	1922	only	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 1:00	0	-
1337Rule	Lux	1923	only	-	Apr	21	23:00	1:00	S
1338Rule	Lux	1923	only	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 2:00	0	-
1339Rule	Lux	1924	only	-	Mar	29	23:00	1:00	S
1340Rule	Lux	1924	1928	-	Oct	Sun>=2	 1:00	0	-
1341Rule	Lux	1925	only	-	Apr	 5	23:00	1:00	S
1342Rule	Lux	1926	only	-	Apr	17	23:00	1:00	S
1343Rule	Lux	1927	only	-	Apr	 9	23:00	1:00	S
1344Rule	Lux	1928	only	-	Apr	14	23:00	1:00	S
1345Rule	Lux	1929	only	-	Apr	20	23:00	1:00	S
1346
1347Zone Europe/Luxembourg	0:24:36 -	LMT	1904 Jun
1348			1:00	Lux	CE%sT	1918 Nov 25
1349			0:00	Lux	WE%sT	1929 Oct  6  2:00s
1350			0:00	Belgium	WE%sT	1940 May 14  3:00
1351			1:00	C-Eur	WE%sT	1944 Sep 18  3:00
1352			1:00	Belgium	CE%sT	1977
1353			1:00	EU	CE%sT
1354
1355# Monaco
1356#
1357# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-12):
1358# In the "Journal de Monaco" of 1892-05-24, online at
1359# https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/b1c67c12c5af11b41ea888fb048e4fe8.pdf
1360# we read: ...
1361#  [In virtue of a Sovereign Ordinance of the May 13 of the current [year],
1362#   legal time in the Principality will be set to, from the date of June 1,
1363#   1892 onwards, to the meridian of Paris, as in France.]
1364# In the "Journal de Monaco" of 1911-03-28, online at
1365# https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/de74ffb7db53d4f599059fe8f0ed482a.pdf
1366# we read an ordinance of 1911-03-16: ...
1367#  [Legal time in the Principality will be set, from the date of promulgation
1368#   of the present ordinance, to legal time in France....  Consequently, legal
1369#   time will be retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds.]
1370#
1371Zone	Europe/Monaco	0:29:32 -	LMT	1892 Jun  1
1372			0:09:21	-	PMT	1911 Mar 29 # Paris Mean Time
1373			0:00	France	WE%sT	1945 Sep 16  3:00
1374			1:00	France	CE%sT	1977
1375			1:00	EU	CE%sT
1376
1377
1378# Norway
1379
1380# http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks &
1381# Pottenger.
1382Rule	Norway	1916	only	-	May	22	1:00	1:00	S
1383Rule	Norway	1916	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	-
1384Rule	Norway	1945	only	-	Apr	 2	2:00s	1:00	S
1385Rule	Norway	1945	only	-	Oct	 1	2:00s	0	-
1386Rule	Norway	1959	1964	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	S
1387Rule	Norway	1959	1965	-	Sep	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	-
1388Rule	Norway	1965	only	-	Apr	25	2:00s	1:00	S
1389
1390Zone	Europe/Oslo	0:43:00 -	LMT	1895 Jan  1
1391			1:00	Norway	CE%sT	1940 Aug 10 23:00
1392			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 Apr  2  2:00
1393			1:00	Norway	CE%sT	1980
1394			1:00	EU	CE%sT
1395Link	Europe/Oslo	Arctic/Longyearbyen
1396#PACKRATLIST zone.tab Link Europe/Oslo Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
1397
1398# Bosnia and Herzegovina
1399Zone	Europe/Sarajevo	1:13:40	-	LMT	1884
1400			1:00	-	CET	1941 Apr 18 23:00
1401			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 May  8  2:00s
1402			1:00	1:00	CEST	1945 Sep 16  2:00s
1403			1:00	-	CET	1982 Nov 27
1404			1:00	EU	CE%sT
1405
1406# North Macedonia
1407Zone	Europe/Skopje	1:25:44	-	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# Sweden
1416
1417# From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks & Pottenger:
1418#
1419# The law "Svensk författningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879:
1420# From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all
1421# places in the country is "the mean solar time for the meridian at
1422# three degrees, or twelve minutes of time, to the west of the
1423# meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm".  The law is dated 1878-05-31.
1424#
1425# The observatory at that time had the meridian 18° 03' 30"
1426# eastern longitude = 01:12:14 in time.  Less 12 minutes gives the
1427# national standard time as 01:00:14 ahead of GMT....
1428#
1429# About the beginning of CET in Sweden. The lawtext ("Svensk
1430# författningssamling 1899, no 44") states, that "from the beginning
1431# of 1900... ... the same as the mean solar time for the meridian at
1432# the distance of one hour of time from the meridian of the English
1433# observatory at Greenwich, or at 12 minutes 14 seconds to the west
1434# from the meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated
1435# 1899-06-16.  In short: At 1900-01-01 00:00:00 the new standard time
1436# in Sweden is 01:00:00 ahead of GMT.
1437#
1438# 1916: The lawtext ("Svensk författningssamling 1916, no 124") states
1439# that "1916-05-15 is considered to begin one hour earlier". It is
1440# pretty obvious that at 05-14 23:00 the clocks are set to 05-15 00:00....
1441# Further the law says, that "1916-09-30 is considered to end one hour later".
1442#
1443# The laws regulating [DST] are available on the site of the Swedish
1444# Parliament beginning with 1985 - the laws regulating 1980/1984 are
1445# not available on the site (to my knowledge they are only available
1446# in Swedish): <http://www.riksdagen.se/english/work/sfst.asp> (type
1447# "sommartid" without the quotes in the field "Fritext" and then click
1448# the Sök-button).
1449#
1450# (2001-05-13):
1451#
1452# I have now found a newspaper stating that at 1916-10-01 01:00
1453# summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show
1454# 1916-10-01 00:00 standard time.  The article also reports that some
1455# people thought the switch to standard time would take place already
1456# at 1916-10-01 00:00 summer time, but they had to wait for another
1457# hour before the event took place.
1458#
1459# Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left.
1460
1461# An extra-special abbreviation style is SET for Swedish Time (svensk
1462# normaltid) 1879-1899, 3° west of the Stockholm Observatory.
1463
1464Zone Europe/Stockholm	1:12:12 -	LMT	1879 Jan  1
1465			1:00:14	-	SET	1900 Jan  1 # Swedish Time
1466			1:00	-	CET	1916 May 14 23:00
1467			1:00	1:00	CEST	1916 Oct  1  1:00
1468			1:00	-	CET	1980
1469			1:00	EU	CE%sT
1470
1471
1472# Moldova / Transnistria
1473Zone	Europe/Tiraspol	1:58:32	-	LMT	1880
1474			1:55	-	CMT	1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT
1475			1:44:24	-	BMT	1931 Jul 24 # Bucharest MT
1476			2:00	Romania	EE%sT	1940 Aug 15
1477			2:00	1:00	EEST	1941 Jul 17
1478			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1944 Aug 24
1479			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD	1991 Mar 31  2:00
1480			2:00	Russia	EE%sT	1992 Jan 19  2:00
1481			3:00	Russia	MSK/MSD
1482
1483# Liechtenstein
1484
1485# From Paul Eggert (2022-07-21):
1486# Shanks & Pottenger say Vaduz is like Zurich starting June 1894.
1487
1488# From Alois Treindl (2019-07-04):
1489# I was able to access the online archive of the Vaduz paper Vaterland ...
1490# I could confirm from the paper that Liechtenstein did in fact follow
1491# the same DST in 1941 and 1942 as Switzerland did.
1492
1493Zone	Europe/Vaduz	0:38:04 -	LMT	1894 Jun
1494			1:00	Swiss	CE%sT	1981
1495			1:00	EU	CE%sT
1496
1497# Croatia
1498Zone	Europe/Zagreb	1:03:52	-	LMT	1884
1499			1:00	-	CET	1941 Apr 18 23:00
1500			1:00	C-Eur	CE%sT	1945 May  8  2:00s
1501			1:00	1:00	CEST	1945 Sep 16  2:00s
1502			1:00	-	CET	1982 Nov 27
1503			1:00	EU	CE%sT
1504
1505# Madagascar
1506Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 -	LMT	1911 Jul
1507			3:00	-	EAT	1954 Feb 27 23:00s
1508			3:00	1:00	EAST	1954 May 29 23:00s
1509			3:00	-	EAT
1510
1511# Christmas
1512Zone Indian/Christmas	7:02:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
1513			7:00	-	+07
1514
1515# Cocos (Keeling) Is
1516# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
1517# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
1518Zone	Indian/Cocos	6:27:40	-	LMT	1900
1519			6:30	-	+0630
1520
1521# Comoros
1522Zone	Indian/Comoro	2:53:04 -	LMT	1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro
1523			3:00	-	EAT
1524
1525# Kerguelen
1526Zone Indian/Kerguelen	0	-	-00	1950 # Port-aux-Français
1527			5:00	-	+05
1528
1529# Seychelles
1530#
1531# From P Chan (2020-11-27):
1532# Standard Time was adopted on 1907-01-01.
1533#
1534# Standard Time Ordinance (Chapter 237)
1535# The Laws of Seychelles in Force on the 31st December, 1971, Vol. 6, p 571
1536# https://books.google.com/books?id=efE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA571
1537#
1538# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-05):
1539# A footnote on https://books.google.com/books?id=DYdDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1689
1540# confirms that Ordinance No. 9 of 1906 "was brought into force on the 1st
1541# January, 1907."
1542
1543Zone	Indian/Mahe	3:41:48 -	LMT	1907 Jan  1 # Victoria
1544			4:00	-	+04
1545# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30):
1546# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the
1547# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory
1548# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976.  We don't know
1549# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now.
1550# Possibly the islands were uninhabited.
1551
1552
1553# Mayotte
1554Zone	Indian/Mayotte	3:00:56 -	LMT	1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
1555			3:00	-	EAT
1556
1557# Réunion
1558Zone	Indian/Reunion	3:41:52 -	LMT	1911 Jun # Saint-Denis
1559			4:00	-	+04
1560#
1561# Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses) administered from Réunion are as follows.
1562# The following information about them is taken from
1563# Îles Éparses (<http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm>, 1997-07-22,
1564# in French; no longer available as of 1999-08-17).
1565# We have no info about their time zone histories.
1566#
1567# Bassas da India - uninhabited
1568# Europa Island - inhabited from 1905 to 1910 by two families
1569# Glorioso Is - inhabited until at least 1958
1570# Juan de Nova - uninhabited
1571# Tromelin - inhabited until at least 1958
1572
1573# Micronesia
1574# Also see Pacific/Pohnpei and commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'.
1575#
1576# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
1577# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
1578# "I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that 'Truk'
1579# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10."
1580# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UT +10 to +11
1581# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now.
1582Zone Pacific/Chuuk	-13:52:52 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
1583			 10:07:08 -	LMT	1901
1584			 10:00	-	+10	1914 Oct
1585			  9:00	-	+09	1919 Feb  1
1586			 10:00	-	+10	1941 Apr  1
1587			  9:00	-	+09	1945 Aug
1588			 10:00	-	+10
1589Link Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Truk
1590Link Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Yap
1591
1592# Phoenix Islands, Kiribati
1593# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-27):
1594# Enderbury was inhabited 1860/1880s to mine guano, and 1938-03-06/1942-02-09
1595# for aviation (ostensibly commercial, but military uses foreseen).
1596# The 19th-century dates are approximate.  See Pacific/Kanton for
1597# the currently-inhabited representative for this timezone.
1598Zone Pacific/Enderbury	0	-	-00	1860
1599			-11:24:20 -	LMT	1885
1600			0	-	-00	1938 Mar  6
1601			-12:00	-	-12	1942 Feb  9
1602			0	-	-00
1603
1604# Tuvalu
1605Zone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
1606			12:00	-	+12
1607
1608# Johnston
1609Zone Pacific/Johnston	-10:00	-	HST
1610
1611# Marshall Is
1612Zone Pacific/Majuro	 11:24:48 -	LMT	1901
1613			 11:00	-	+11	1914 Oct
1614			  9:00	-	+09	1919 Feb  1
1615			 11:00	-	+11	1937
1616			 10:00	-	+10	1941 Apr  1
1617			  9:00	-	+09	1944 Jan 30
1618			 11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
1619			 12:00	-	+12
1620
1621# Midway
1622#
1623# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
1624# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
1625# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
1626# reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly
1627# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
1628# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast.  As it uses some time zone
1629# designations that I've never seen before:....
1630# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I.   H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
1631#  "   3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A  "
1632#
1633Zone Pacific/Midway	-11:49:28 -	LMT	1901
1634			-11:00	-	-11	1956 Jun  3
1635			-11:00	1:00	-10	1956 Sep  2
1636			-11:00	-	-11
1637
1638# Micronesia
1639# Also see Pacific/Chuuk and commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'.
1640Zone Pacific/Pohnpei	-13:27:08 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31	# Kolonia
1641			 10:32:52 -	LMT	1901
1642			 11:00	-	+11	1914 Oct
1643			  9:00	-	+09	1919 Feb  1
1644			 11:00	-	+11	1937
1645			 10:00	-	+10	1941 Apr  1
1646			  9:00	-	+09	1945 Aug
1647			 11:00	-	+11
1648Link Pacific/Pohnpei Pacific/Ponape
1649
1650# N Mariana Is
1651Zone Pacific/Saipan	-14:17:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
1652			 9:43:00 -	LMT	1901
1653			 9:00	-	+09	1969 Oct
1654			10:00	-	+10	2000 Dec 23
1655			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
1656
1657
1658# Wake
1659
1660# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
1661# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
1662#
1663# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ...  The time was all the
1664# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
1665# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays.  Furthermore, we
1666# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
1667# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
1668# impossible.
1669#
1670# https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/andrsonv.htm
1671
1672# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1673# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
1674
1675# Also see commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'.
1676Zone	Pacific/Wake	11:06:28 -	LMT	1901
1677			12:00	-	+12
1678
1679
1680# Wallis and Futuna
1681Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
1682			12:00	-	+12
1683
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1685# coding: utf-8
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