1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4# also includes Central America and the Caribbean 5 6# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 7# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 8# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 9# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 10 11# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): 12# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 13# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 14 15############################################################################### 16 17# United States 18 19# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 20# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by 21# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904), 22# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY). 23# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870) 24# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines 25# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC, 26# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich. 27# His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00, 28# and the most of the country soon followed suit. 29 30# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): 31# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. 32# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). 33 34# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 35# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is 36# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), 37# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 38# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. 39# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below. 40 41# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 42# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin 43# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost 44# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). 45# Not everyone is happy with the results: 46# 47# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some 48# agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving 49# daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. 50# I even object to the implication that I am wasting something 51# valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer 52# of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to 53# reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving 54# scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager 55# to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make 56# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. 57# 58# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 59# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday 60# 61# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see 62# Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint 63# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927). 64# http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html 65# 66# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919. 67# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which 68# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently 69# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time". 70 71# From Arthur David Olson: 72# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974. 73# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26 74# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post. 75 76# From Arthur David Olson: 77# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of 78# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime. 79 80# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25): 81# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. 82# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." 83# An AltaVista search turned up: 84# http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html 85# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace 86# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." 87# (August 1945) by way of confirmation. 88 89# From Joseph Gallant citing 90# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): 91# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set 92# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people 93# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, 94# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, 95# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word 96# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in 97# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. 98 99# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From 100# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times: 101# 102# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender. 103# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a 104# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news. 105# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out 106# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental 107# importance." 108# 109# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open 110# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell, 111# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over. 112# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms." 113# 114# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. 115 116# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): 117# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations 118# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of 119# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed 120# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. 121 122# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 123Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 124Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 125Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 126Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 127Rule US 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 128Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 129Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 130Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D 131Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D 132Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 133Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 134Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 135Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 136 137# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19 138# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with 139# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory. 140# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of 141# this time zone package. 142# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if 143# a particular place changes whether it observes DST. 144# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to 145# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to 146# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file. 147 148# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 149Zone EST -5:00 - EST 150Zone MST -7:00 - MST 151Zone HST -10:00 - HST 152Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT 153Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT 154Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT 155Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT 156 157# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 158# ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. 159# old new 160# Pacific Standard Time(PST) -same- 161# Yukon Standard Time(YST) -same- 162# Central Alaska S.T. (CAT) Alaska-Hawaii St[an]dard Time (AHST) 163# Nome Standard Time (NT) Bering Standard Time (BST) 164# 165# ...Alaska's timezone lines were redrawn in 1983 to give only 2 tz. 166# The YST zone now covers nearly all of the state, AHST just part 167# of the Aleutian islands. No DST. 168 169# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 170# The tables below use 'NST', not 'NT', for Nome Standard Time. 171# I invented 'CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time. 172 173# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 174# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON 175# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 176# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON 177# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 178# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER 179# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 180# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO 181# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 182# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST) 183# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT) 184# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W 185# USA " 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 186# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC 187# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY 188 189# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21): 190# The above dates are for 1988. 191# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's 192# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the 193# Aleutians. 194 195# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 196# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and 197# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names 198# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 199# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261: 200# (none) 201# United States standard eastern time 202# United States standard mountain time 203# United States standard central time 204# United States standard Pacific time 205# (none) 206# United States standard Alaska time 207# (none) 208# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for 209# public law 98-181): 210# Atlantic standard time 211# eastern standard time 212# central standard time 213# mountain standard time 214# Pacific standard time 215# Yukon standard time 216# Alaska-Hawaii standard time 217# Bering standard time 218# And after 1983-11-30: 219# Atlantic standard time 220# eastern standard time 221# central standard time 222# mountain standard time 223# Pacific standard time 224# Alaska standard time 225# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time 226# Samoa standard time 227# The law doesn't give abbreviations. 228# 229# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow: 230# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time" 231# for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. See the file "australasia". 232# 233# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17): 234# HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian 235# standard and daylight times. See section 9.47 (p 234) of the 236# U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008) 237# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf 238 239# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 240# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. 241# 242# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. 243# (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 244# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- 245# (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second 246# Sunday of March"; and 247# (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first 248# Sunday of November'. 249# (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the 250# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. 251# (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective 252# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress 253# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United 254# States. 255# (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the 256# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the 257# Department study is complete. 258 259# US eastern time, represented by New York 260 261# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, 262# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky 263# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 264# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 265# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, 266# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia 267 268# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): 269# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington 270# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... 271# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time 272# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their 273# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. 274 275# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): 276# According to today's Huntsville Times 277# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1 278# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City 279# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, 280# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" 281# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central 282# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work 283# in Columbus." 284 285# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06): 286# Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 44, 4 (1884-02-08), 208 287# says that New York City Hall time was 3 minutes 58.4 seconds fast of 288# Eastern time (i.e., -4:56:01.6) just before the 1883 switch. Round to the 289# nearest second. 290 291# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 292Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 293Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 294Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 295Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 296Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 297# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 298Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 299 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 300 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 301 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 302 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967 303 -5:00 US E%sT 304 305# US central time, represented by Chicago 306 307# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, 308# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and 309# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana 310# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 311# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western 312# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern 313# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, 314# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin 315 316# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: 317# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/statutes/Stat0175.pdf ... 318# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local 319# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations 320# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited 321# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year.... 322# 323# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12): 324# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI 325# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent.... 326# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act3.pdf 327 328# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 329Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D 330Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 331Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 332Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 333Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 334Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 335# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 336Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 337 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 338 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 339 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 340 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942 341 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 342 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 343 -6:00 US C%sT 344# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. 345Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 346 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 2:00 347 -6:00 US C%sT 348# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on 349# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time. 350# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>. 351# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and 352# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota; 353# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time. 354# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>. 355Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 356 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 2:00 357 -6:00 US C%sT 358 359# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21): 360# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the 361# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from 362# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010): 363# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm 364# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html 365 366# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24): 367# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although 368# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next 369# largest city in Mercer County). Google Maps places Beulah's city hall 370# at 47 degrees 15' 51" N, 101 degrees 46' 40" W, which yields an offset 371# of 6h47'07". 372 373Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53 374 -7:00 US M%sT 2010 Nov 7 2:00 375 -6:00 US C%sT 376 377# US mountain time, represented by Denver 378# 379# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western 380# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), 381# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, 382# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, 383# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming 384# 385# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 386Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 387Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 388Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S 389Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 390Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 391# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 392Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 393 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 394 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 395 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 396 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967 397 -7:00 US M%sT 398 399# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles 400# 401# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, 402# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county 403# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren), 404# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern 3/4 of 405# Malheur county), and Washington 406# 407# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 408Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D 409Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S 410Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 411Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 412Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 413# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 414Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 415 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 416 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 417 -8:00 US P%sT 418 419# Alaska 420# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO. 421# 422# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 423# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 424# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. 425# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian, 426# also a Friday. Include only the time zone part of this transition, 427# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent 428# the Julian calendar. 429# 430# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were 431# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. 432# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement 433# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there 434# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps 435# it's best to simply use the official transition. 436 437# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18): 438# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and 439# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall: 440# "Welcome to Juneau. Please turn your watch back to the 19th century." 441# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01. 442# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html 443# 444# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source: 445# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response. 446# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2). 447# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/ 448 449# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): 450# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: 451# 452# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27, 453# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time. 454# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on 455# Pacific Time. 456# 457# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the 458# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in 459# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26. 460# 461# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted 462# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time. 463# 464# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not 465# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions. 466# 467# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo 468# Nation.) 469 470# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09): 471# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian 472# Community office (using contact information available at 473# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla 474# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States; 475# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether 476# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their 477# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I 478# did not inquire about practices in the past. 479 480# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17): 481# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's 482# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote. 483 484# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 485Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 486 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 487 -8:00 - PST 1942 488 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 489 -8:00 - PST 1969 490 -8:00 US P%sT 1980 Apr 27 2:00 491 -9:00 US Y%sT 1980 Oct 26 2:00 492 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 493 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 494 -9:00 US AK%sT 495Zone America/Sitka 14:58:47 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 496 -9:01:13 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 497 -8:00 - PST 1942 498 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 499 -8:00 - PST 1969 500 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 501 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 502 -9:00 US AK%sT 503Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 504 -8:46:18 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 505 -8:00 - PST 1942 506 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 507 -8:00 - PST 1969 508 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 509 -8:00 - PST 510Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 511 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 512 -9:00 - YST 1942 513 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946 514 -9:00 - YST 1969 515 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 516 -9:00 US AK%sT 517Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 518 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 519 -10:00 - CAT 1942 520 -10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 521 -10:00 US CAT/CAPT 1946 # Peace 522 -10:00 - CAT 1967 Apr 523 -10:00 - AHST 1969 524 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 525 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 526 -9:00 US AK%sT 527Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 528 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 529 -11:00 - NST 1942 530 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 531 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 532 -11:00 - BST 1969 533 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 534 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 535 -9:00 US AK%sT 536Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 537 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 538 -11:00 - NST 1942 539 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 540 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 541 -11:00 - BST 1969 542 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 543 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 544 -10:00 US H%sT 545# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. 546# 547# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) 548# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, 549# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. 550# 551# From David Flater (2004-11-09): 552# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska 553# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which 554# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 555# possibly until 1983: 556# 557# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: 558# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important 559# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was 560# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it 561# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard 562# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, 563# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with 564# three votes for and one against." 565 566# Hawaii 567 568# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): 569# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 570# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, 571# the article is available at 572# http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf 573# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January 574# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight 575# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the 576# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the 577# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect 578# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for 579# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes 580# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of 581# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes 582# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) 583# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." 584 585# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): 586# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the 587# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of 588# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act 589# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each 590# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one 591# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th 592# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of 593# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is 594# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon 595# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to 596# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. 597# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor 598# of the Territory of Hawaii." 599# 600# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. 601# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. 602 603# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 604Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 605 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 606 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 607 -10:30 - HST 1942 Feb 9 2:00 608 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 609 -10:30 - HST 1947 Jun 8 2:00 610 -10:00 - HST 611Link Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston 612 613# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. 614 615# Arizona mostly uses MST. 616 617# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): 618# 619# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the 620# Daylight Saving Time web page 621# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23) 622# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 623# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard 624# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military 625# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to 626# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix 627# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was 628# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of 629# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as 630# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona 631# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. 632# 633# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. 634# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. 635 636# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 637Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 638 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 0:01 639 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 0:01 640 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 0:01 641 -7:00 - MST 1967 642 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 643 -7:00 - MST 644# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 645# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 646# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the 647# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its 648# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other 649# tribal nations don't use DST.) 650# 651# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26): 652# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation. 653 654# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, 655# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, 656# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, 657# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, 658# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern 659# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County) 660# switched four weeks late in 1974. 661# 662# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 663Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 664 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 665 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 666 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 667 -7:00 US M%sT 668 669# Indiana 670# 671# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: 672# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana 673# 674# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): 675# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, 676# with the following exceptions: 677# 678# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 679# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. 680# 681# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. 682# 683# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like 684# America/Kentucky/Louisville. 685# 686# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke, 687# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below. 688# 689# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, 690# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information." 691# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! 692# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 693# 694# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript 695# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level. 696# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'. 697 698# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26): 699# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana 700# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, 701# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the 702# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of 703# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the 704# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." 705# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their 706# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error. The intent 707# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. 708 709# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10): 710# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is 711# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007.... 712# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL 713 714# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 715Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 716Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 717Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 718# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 719Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 720 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 721 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 722 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 723 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00 724 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00 725 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 726 -5:00 - EST 1969 727 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 728 -5:00 - EST 2006 729 -5:00 US E%sT 730# 731# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, 732# as well as from 1976 through 2005. 733# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 734Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 735Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 736Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 737Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 738# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 739Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 740 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 741 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 742 -5:00 - EST 1969 743 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 744 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 745 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 746 -5:00 - EST 2006 747 -5:00 US E%sT 748# 749# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana, 750# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back 751# in November 2007. 752# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 753Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 754Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 755Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 756Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 757Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 758Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 759Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 760Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 761Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 762# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 763Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53 764 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 765 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 766 -5:00 - EST 1969 767 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 768 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 769 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 770 -5:00 US E%sT 771# 772# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. 773# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 774Rule Perry 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 775Rule Perry 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 776Rule Perry 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 777Rule Perry 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 778Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 779Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 780Rule Perry 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 781Rule Perry 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 782Rule Perry 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 783# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 784Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:57 785 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 786 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 787 -5:00 - EST 1969 788 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 789 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 790 -6:00 US C%sT 791# 792# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, 793# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007. 794# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 795Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 796Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 797Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 798Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 799# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 800Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53 801 -6:00 US C%sT 1955 802 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 803 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 804 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 805 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 806 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 807 -5:00 US E%sT 808# 809# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, 810# then switched back in 2006. 811# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): 812# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post 813# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of 814# 1991-10-27. 815# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 816Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 817Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 818Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 819Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 820Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 821# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 822Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 823 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 824 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 825 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 826 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 827 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 828 -6:00 US C%sT 829# 830# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in 831# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007. 832# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 833Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 834Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 835Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 836Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 837# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 838Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:35 839 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 840 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 841 -5:00 - EST 1969 842 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 843 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 844 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00 845 -5:00 US E%sT 846# 847# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. 848# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 849Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 850 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 851 -5:00 - EST 1969 852 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 853 -5:00 - EST 2006 854 -5:00 US E%sT 855 856# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. 857# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. 858# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 859Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 860Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S 861Rule Louisville 1941 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 862Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 863Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S 864Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 865Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 866# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 867Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 868 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 869 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 870 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 871 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00 872 -5:00 - EST 1968 873 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 874 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 875 -5:00 US E%sT 876# 877# Wayne County, Kentucky 878# 879# From Lake Cumberland LIFE 880# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml 881# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: 882# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from 883# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made 884# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not 885# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in 886# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also. 887# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S. 888# location in the Central time zone. 889# 890# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29): 891# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion, 892# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern 893# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, 894# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). 895# 896# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): 897# The final rule was published in the 898# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. 899# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22 900# 901Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 902 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 903 -6:00 - CST 1968 904 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 905 -5:00 US E%sT 906 907 908# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): 909# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985. 910# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central; 911# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10 912# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10 913# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 914# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 915# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 916# 917# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): 918# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, 919# so omit that change for now. 920# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. 921# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. 922# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on 923# 1999-10-31. See the 924# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. 925# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=fr21oc99-15 926# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated 927# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; 928# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. 929 930# Michigan 931# 932# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 933# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973. 934# 935# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 936# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, 937# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) 938# that Detroit kept 939# 940# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should 941# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the 942# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision 943# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to 944# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the 945# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted 946# by city vote. 947# 948# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks. 949# 950# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 951# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks 952# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more 953# info, so omit this for now. 954# 955# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975. 956# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 957Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 958Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 959Rule Detroit 1967 only - Jun 14 2:00 1:00 D 960Rule Detroit 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 961# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 962Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 963 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00 964 -5:00 - EST 1942 965 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 966 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1973 967 -5:00 US E%sT 1975 968 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 969 -5:00 US E%sT 970# 971# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, 972# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. 973# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 974Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 975Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 976Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 977Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 978# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 979Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 980 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 981 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 982 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00 983 -6:00 US C%sT 984 985# Navassa 986# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service 987# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act 988# also claimed by Haiti 989# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co 990# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 991# currently uninhabited 992# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord", 993# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites 994# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). 995 996################################################################################ 997 998 999# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): 1000# 1001# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 1002# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 1003# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 1004# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 1005# 1006# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 1007# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 1008# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 1009# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 1010# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 1011# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 1012# 1013# Other sources occasionally used include: 1014# 1015# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 1016# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 1017# which I found in the UCLA library. 1018# 1019# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 1020# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 1021# [PDF] (1914-03) 1022# 1023# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 1024# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 1025# 1026# See the 'europe' file for Greenland. 1027 1028# Canada 1029 1030# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14): 1031# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada 1032# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... 1033# 1034# UTC Standard time Daylight saving time 1035# offset French English French English 1036# -2:30 - - HAT NDT 1037# -3 - - HAA ADT 1038# -3:30 HNT NST - - 1039# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT 1040# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT 1041# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT 1042# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT 1043# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT 1044# -9 HNY YST - - 1045# 1046# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time 1047# HA: Heure Avancée DT: Daylight saving Time 1048# 1049# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic 1050# C: du Centre Central 1051# E: de l'Est Eastern 1052# M: Mountain 1053# N: Newfoundland 1054# P: du Pacifique Pacific 1055# R: des Rocheuses 1056# T: de Terre-Neuve 1057# Y: du Yukon Yukon 1058# 1059# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): 1060# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. 1061 1062# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks 1063# & Pottenger. 1064 1065# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31, 1066# 2007-03-01): 1067# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will 1068# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the 1069# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... 1070# http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm 1071# ... 1072# Nova Scotia 1073# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... 1074# http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf 1075# 1076# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to 1077# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. 1078# http://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf 1079# ... 1080# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. 1081# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. 1082# http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php 1083# ... 1084# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. 1085# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM 1086# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm 1087# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF 1088# ... 1089# P.E.I. will follow US rules.... 1090# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf 1091# ... 1092# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... 1093# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm 1094# ... 1095# Yukon 1096# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf 1097# ... 1098# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site 1099# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the 1100# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the 1101# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using 1102# JavaScript. 1103# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive 1104# ... 1105# Nunavut 1106# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007.... 1107# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf 1108 1109# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-18): 1110# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 1111# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 1112# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp 1113# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard 1114# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. 1115# 1116# National Research Council Canada maintains info about time zones and DST. 1117# http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html 1118# http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/index.html#Q5 1119# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. 1120 1121# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): 1122# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the 1123# new US DST rules, 1124 1125# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01) 1126# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles 1127# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1128# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review. 1129# The quote includes these two statements: 1130# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...' 1131# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,' 1132# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time 1133# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918. This transition was 1134# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star. 1135 1136# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed 1137# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day 1138# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets. 1139 1140# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1141Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1142Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1143Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1144Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1145Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1146Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1147Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1148Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1149Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1150Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1151 1152 1153# Newfoundland and Labrador 1154 1155# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1156# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Labrador should use NST/NDT, 1157# but the only part of Labrador that follows the rules is the 1158# southeast corner, including Port Hope Simpson and Mary's Harbour, 1159# but excluding, say, Black Tickle. 1160 1161# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1162Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D 1163Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1164# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1165Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D 1166Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S 1167# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1168Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D 1169Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S 1170# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & 1171# Pottenger. 1172Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D 1173Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S 1174# Whitman gives the following transitions: 1175# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 1176# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. 1177# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives 1178# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1179Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1180Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S 1181Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1182Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1183Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1184# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1185# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches 1186# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. 1187 1188# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12): 1189# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the 1190# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed. 1191# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings 1192# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time 1193# now occurs at 2:00AM. 1194# ... 1195# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm 1196# ... 1197# MICHAEL PELLEY | Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery 1198# Office of the Chief Information Officer 1199# Executive Council 1200# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 1201 1202Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1203Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1204Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD 1205Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1206Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D 1207Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S 1208# 1209# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. 1210# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1211Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 1212 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 1213 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1214 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 1215 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1216 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1217 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 2011 Nov 1218 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1219 1220# most of east Labrador 1221 1222# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'. 1223# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1224Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1225 -3:30:52 - NST 1918 1226 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1227 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 1228 -3:30 - NST 1936 1229 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1230 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1231 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 1232 -4:00 StJohns A%sT 2011 Nov 1233 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1234 1235 1236# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I 1237 1238# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20): 1239# From the historical weather station records available at: 1240# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada 1241# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was 1242# likely to be the same across the island.... 1243# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would 1244# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996. 1245 1246# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20): 1247# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like 1248# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; 1249# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of 1250# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now). 1251# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town 1252# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume 1253# this is a typo. 1254 1255# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1256Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1257Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1258Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D 1259Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S 1260Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D 1261Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1262Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1263Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1264Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1265Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1266Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S 1267Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D 1268Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1269Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1270Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1271Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1272Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S 1273Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1274Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1275Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1276Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1277Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1278Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 1279Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D 1280Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1281Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D 1282Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 1283Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1284Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1285Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1286Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1287Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D 1288Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1289Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1290Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1291Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1292Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1293Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1294Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1295Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1296Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1297# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1298Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1299 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 1300 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 1301 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1302 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1303 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1304 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1305Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1306 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 1307 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 1308 -4:00 - AST 1972 1309 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1310 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1311 1312# New Brunswick 1313 1314# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31): 1315# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> 1316# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and 1317# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it 1318# clear that this was the case since at least 1993. 1319# For now, assume it started in 1993. 1320 1321# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1322Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D 1323Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S 1324Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D 1325Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 1326Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D 1327Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S 1328Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D 1329Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D 1330Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1331Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1332Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1333Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1334Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1335# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1336Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 1337 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 1338 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 1339 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 1340 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1341 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 1342 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 1343 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 1344 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1345 1346# Quebec 1347 1348# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24): 1349# See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal. 1350# 1351# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63 1352# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as 1353# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST. 1354# The Quebec department of justice writes in 1355# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" 1356# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm 1357# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon 1358# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. 1359# http://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en 1360# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007. 1361# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to 1362# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. 1363 1364# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1365Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 1366 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 1367 -4:00 - AST 1368 1369# Ontario 1370 1371# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1372# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1373# Toronto. 1374# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1375# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1376# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1377# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. 1378 1379# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1380# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST 1381# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that 1382# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw 1383# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, 1384# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable 1385# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after 1386# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but 1387# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters 1388# earlier in June). 1389# 1390# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). 1391 1392# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): 1393# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star 1394# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, 1395# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. 1396# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) 1397# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html 1398# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. 1399# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report 1400# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. 1401# 1402# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1403# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and 1404# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes 1405# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in 1406# violation of the official Ontario rules. 1407# 1408# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1409# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the 1410# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: 1411# 1412# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. 1413# This means they spend about half the time on central time and 1414# the other half on eastern time. 1415# 1416# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. 1417# 1418# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern 1419# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he 1420# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." 1421# 1422# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang 1423# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." 1424 1425# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: 1426# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory 1427# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he 1428# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current 1429# time keeping since 1952, at least. 1430 1431# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): 1432# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River 1433# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from 1434# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan 1435# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time 1436# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour 1437# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move 1438# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. 1439 1440# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06): 1441# 1442# Currently the database has: 1443# 1444# # Ontario 1445# 1446# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1447# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1448# # Toronto. 1449# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1450# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1451# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1452# 1453# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom 1454# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard 1455# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that: 1456# 1457# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario, 1458# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year. 1459# 1460# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon. 1461# 1462# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began 1463# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date. 1464# 1465# By the way, the article continues by noting that: 1466# 1467# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back 1468# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October. 1469 1470# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17): 1471# 1472# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in 1473# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1474# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17, 1475# was available at 1476# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S 1477# 1478# It includes the text below (starting on page 57): 1479# 1480# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would 1481# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by 1482# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities 1483# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav- 1484# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite, 1485# for the other provinces only approximate: 1486# 1487# Province Daylight saving time used 1488# Prince Edward Island Not used. 1489# Nova Scotia In Halifax only. 1490# New Brunswick In St. John only. 1491# Quebec In the following places: 1492# Montreal Lachine 1493# Quebec Mont-Royal 1494# Lévis Iberville 1495# St. Lambert Cap de la Madelèine 1496# Verdun Loretteville 1497# Westmount Richmond 1498# Outremont St. Jérôme 1499# Longueuil Greenfield Park 1500# Arvida Waterloo 1501# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu 1502# Melbourne La Tuque 1503# St. Théophile Buckingham 1504# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along 1505# the southerly part of the province. Not 1506# used in the northwesterly part. 1507# Manitoba Not used. 1508# Saskatchewan In Regina only. 1509# Alberta Not used. 1510# British Columbia Not used. 1511# 1512# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited 1513# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont. 1514 1515# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1516Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D 1517Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S 1518Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D 1519Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1520Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D 1521Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S 1522Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1523# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" 1524# was meant. 1525Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 1526Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1527# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as 1528# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S 1529# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D 1530# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1531# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1532# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25 1533# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle). 1534Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1535Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1536Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1537Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1538Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 1539Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1540Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1541Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1542Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1543Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1544Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S 1545Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1546Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S 1547Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1548# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, 1549# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this 1550# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 1551# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. 1552Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1553 1554# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1555# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and 1556# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in 1557# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, 1558# Saskatchewan, for one year." 1559 1560# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, 1561# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): 1562# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight 1563# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur 1564# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central 1565# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to 1566# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight 1567# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so 1568# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World 1569# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer 1570# months for the remainder of the war years. 1571 1572# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1573Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 1574 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1575 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1576 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1577 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 1578 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1579Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 1580 -6:00 - CST 1910 1581 -5:00 - EST 1942 1582 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 1583 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1973 1584 -5:00 - EST 1974 1585 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1586Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 1587 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 1588 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1589 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1590Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 1591 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1592 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1593 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1594Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 1595 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1596 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1597 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 1598 -5:00 - EST 1599 1600 1601# Manitoba 1602 1603# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): 1604# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to 1605# March 27, 1987 ... said ... 1606# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of 1607# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central 1608# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next 1609# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... 1610# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had 1611# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... 1612# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying 1613# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of 1614# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central 1615# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). 1616 1617# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): 1618# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) 1619# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume 1620# it was also 02:00s in 1966. 1621 1622# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1623Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D 1624Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S 1625Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1626Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1627Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D 1628Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S 1629Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1630Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1631Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1632Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D 1633Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1634Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1635Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1636Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1637Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1638Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1639Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1640Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1641Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1642Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1643Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S 1644Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 1645Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S 1646Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 1647# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1648Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 1649 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 1650 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1651 1652 1653# Saskatchewan 1654 1655# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1656# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal 1657# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people 1658# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, 1659# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." 1660# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: 1661# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of 1662# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad 1663# time was noted. 1664 1665# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1666# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the 1667# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." 1668 1669# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1670# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. 1671# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. 1672# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. 1673# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton 1674# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. 1675 1676# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): 1677# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the 1678# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. 1679# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and 1680# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother. 1681# 1682# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years 1683# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated 1684# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial 1685# referendum favoured legislating common time practices. 1686# 1687# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of 1688# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern 1689# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in 1690# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to 1691# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and 1692# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would 1693# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST. 1694# 1695# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town 1696# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to 1697# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only 1698# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT 1699# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round 1700# since sometime in the 1960s. 1701 1702# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1703# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages 1704# long and rather painful to read. 1705# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf 1706 1707# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1708Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1709Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1710Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1711Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1712Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1713Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1714Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1715Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1716Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1717Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1718Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1719Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1720Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 1721Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1722Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1723Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1724Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1725# 1726Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1727Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1728Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1729Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1730Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1731# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1732Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep 1733 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00 1734 -6:00 - CST 1735Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep 1736 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00 1737 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950 1738 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00 1739 -6:00 - CST 1740 1741 1742# Alberta 1743 1744# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1745Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1746Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1747Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S 1748Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1749Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1750Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1751Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1752Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1753Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1754Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1755Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1756Rule Edm 1967 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1757Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1758Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1759Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1760Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1761Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1762# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1763Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep 1764 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 1765 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1766 1767 1768# British Columbia 1769 1770# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1771# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has 1772# been like Vancouver. 1773# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. 1774# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek. 1775 1776# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct: 1777 1778# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): 1779# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia 1780# that do not currently observe daylight saving: 1781# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) 1782# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District 1783# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) 1784 1785# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time 1786# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the 1787# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. 1788# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1789# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. 1790# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UTC-7 for 93 years. 1791# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. 1792 1793# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains 1794# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months 1795# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just 1796# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing 1797# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the 1798# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010. 1799# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 1800 1801# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: 1802# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) 1803# Exact date unknown 1804# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) 1805# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. 1806# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) 1807# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. 1808# note 1: 1809# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, 1810# Creston did not change its clocks. 1811# note 2: 1812# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, 1813# Creston did not oblige. 1814# note 3: 1815# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time 1816# (UTC-7) forever. 1817# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. 1818# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html 1819 1820# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. 1821# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying 1822# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before 1823# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this 1824# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough 1825# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. 1826 1827# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. 1828 1829# From Matt Johnson (2015-09-21): 1830# Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year. So while previously they 1831# were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with 1832# America/Dawson_Creek. 1833# http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html 1834# 1835# From Tim Parenti (2015-09-23): 1836# This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, 1837# America/Fort_Nelson. The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a 1838# 2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support. Effectively, the municipality has 1839# been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on 1840# 2015-03-08. 1841# 1842# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23): 1843# Shanks says Fort Nelson did not observe DST in 1946, unlike Vancouver. 1844 1845# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1846Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1847Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1848Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1849Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1850Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1851Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1852Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1853Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1854Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1855# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1856Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 1857 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1858 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1859Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 1860 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 1861 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 1862 -7:00 - MST 1863Zone America/Fort_Nelson -8:10:47 - LMT 1884 1864 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1946 1865 -8:00 - PST 1947 1866 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1867 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2015 Mar 8 2:00 1868 -7:00 - MST 1869Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 1870 -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 1871 -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 1872 -7:00 - MST 1873 1874# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon 1875 1876# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1877# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. 1878# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: 1879# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, 1880# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9.... 1881# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). 1882# [http://canlii.ca/t/7vhg] 1883# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. 1884# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. 1885# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. 1886 1887# From Brian Inglis (2015-04-14): 1888# 1889# I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following 1890# regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name, 1891# and relevant quote if available. Each regulation specifically revokes its 1892# predecessor. The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act 1893# authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes. 1894# 1895# Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or 1896# index, and only some via Canadian legal sources. Other sources used include 1897# articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS 1898# Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and 1899# 1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial 1900# and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of 1901# standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada, 1902# with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset, 1903# and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart 1904# and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as 1905# another source of information for 1970 and earlier. 1906# 1907# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26, 1908# pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 1909# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75: 1910# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance 1911# Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and 1912# thirty-fifth meridian. 1913# 1914# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.; 1915# JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System 1916# (ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1: 1917# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16. 1918# 1919# (1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine 1920# hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time. 1921# 1922# (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations 1923# varying the manner of reckoning standard time. 1924# 1925# * Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance 1926# http://? - no online source found 1927# 1928# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC, 1929# Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 1930# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon 1931# Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ... 1932# 1933# 1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon 1934# Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked. 1935# 1936# 2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the 1937# Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May, 1938# 1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that 1939# is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon 1940# Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west. 1941# 1942# 3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree 1943# longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine 1944# hours behind Greenwich Time. 1945# 1946# * Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214 1947# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html 1948# C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 1949# 1950# 1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby 1951# revoked. 1952# 1953# 2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation 1954# Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973 1955# shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is 1956# to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time. 1957# 1958# * O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT 1959# http://? - no online source found 1960# 1961# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56 1962# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html 1963# O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 1964# 1965# In every year between 1966# (a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and 1967# (b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October, 1968# Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and 1969# called Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 1970# ... 1971# Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987. 1972# 1973# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127 1974# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html 1975# O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 1976# 1977# 1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours 1978# behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock 1979# in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock 1980# in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called 1981# Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 1982# 1983# 2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked. 1984# 1985# 3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007. 1986# 1987# * Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125 1988# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html 1989 1990# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): 1991# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. 1992# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 1993# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html 1994# 1995# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): 1996# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut 1997# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region. 1998 1999# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 2000# Basic Facts: The New Territory 2001# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html 2002# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, 2003# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when 2004# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. 2005 2006# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 2007# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 2008# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 2009# 2010# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 2011# 2012# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 2013# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 2014# 2015# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 2016# 2017# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 2018# 2019# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 2020# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 2021# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 2022# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 2023# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 2024# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 2025# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 2026# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 2027# the current state of affairs. 2028 2029# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 2030# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): 2031# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html 2032# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 2033# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 2034# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 2035# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 2036 2037# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 2038# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories 2039# for these potential new Zones. 2040# 2041# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the 2042# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central 2043# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the 2044# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time. 2045# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of 2046# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not 2047# required to use daylight savings. 2048 2049# From <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html> 2050# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10): 2051# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and 2052# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them 2053# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter. 2054# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against 2055# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with 2056# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on 2057# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to 2058# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's 2059# unified time zone in 1999. 2060# 2061# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government: 2062# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000. 2063 2064# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2065# Let's just keep track of the official times for now. 2066 2067# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07): 2068# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising 2069# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert 2070# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the 2071# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that 2072# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm 2073# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with 2074# more. 2075# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] 2076 2077# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): 2078# According to ... 2079# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 2080# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time 2081# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year 2082# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. 2083# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it 2084# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... 2085# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. 2086# 2087# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-17): 2088# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed 2089# daylight saving only during wartime. Gwillim Law's email also 2090# mentioned maps now maintained by National Research Council Canada; 2091# see above for an up-to-date link. 2092 2093# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01): 2094# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in 2095# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. 2096# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of 2097# daylight saving.... 2098# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html 2099 2100# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21): 2101# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute 2102# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of 2103# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had 2104# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007. 2105# 2106# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay 2107# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008... 2108# 2109# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March 2110# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I 2111# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able 2112# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was 2113# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone 2114# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT). 2115# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks 2116# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in 2117# so they could follow the correct TV schedule... 2118# 2119# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I 2120# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature 2121# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of 2122# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of 2123# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for 2124# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived 2125# and worked in Resolute Bay... 2126# 2127# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that 2128# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of 2129# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead 2130# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay 2131# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not 2132# tell me when the practice had stopped. 2133# 2134# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of 2135# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went 2136# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz 2137# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the 2138# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on 2139# Aziz: 2140# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493 2141# 2142# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using 2143# Eastern Standard Time. 2144# 2145# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the 2146# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way 2147# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in 2148# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs" 2149# 2150# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008. 2151# 2152# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz 2153# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You 2154# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a 2155# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site" 2156# 2157# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would 2158# never have contacted her. I now believe that all the information I 2159# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... 2160# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. 2161 2162# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2163Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2164Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2165Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D 2166Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 2167Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2168Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2169Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2170Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD 2171Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2172Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2173Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2174Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2175# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2176# aka Panniqtuuq 2177Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - zzz 1921 # trading post est. 2178 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 2179 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2180 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2181 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2182# formerly Frobisher Bay 2183Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - zzz 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. 2184 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2185 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2186 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2187# aka Qausuittuq 2188Zone America/Resolute 0 - zzz 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded 2189 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2190 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2191 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 2192 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 2193 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2194# aka Kangiqiniq 2195Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - zzz 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded 2196 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2197 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2198 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2199# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq 2200Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - zzz 1920 # trading post est.? 2201 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2202 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2203 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 2204 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2205 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2206Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - zzz 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 2207 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2208 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2209Zone America/Inuvik 0 - zzz 1953 # Inuvik founded 2210 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 2211 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2212 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2213Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2214 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1967 May 28 0:00 2215 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2216 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2217Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2218 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 2219 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2220 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2221 2222 2223############################################################################### 2224 2225# Mexico 2226 2227# From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07): 2228# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the 2229# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a 2230# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) 2231# http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm 2232# 2233# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. 2234# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) 2235# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. 2236# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. 2237# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. 2238# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. 2239 2240# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): 2241# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the 2242# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that 2243# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of 2244# the relevant documents. 2245 2246# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): 2247# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree 2248# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. 2249# 2250# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 2251# 2252# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the 2253# rules for the DST changes. The rules are: 2254# 2255# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones: 2256# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ) 2257# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ) 2258# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ) 2259# 2260# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October 2261# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows: 2262# BajaNorte: GMT+7 2263# BajaSur: GMT+6 2264# General: GMT+5 2265# 2266# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows: 2267# BajaNorte: GMT+8 2268# BajaSur: GMT+7 2269# General: GMT+6 2270# 2271# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th. 2272# 2273# -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- 2274# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): 2275# For an English translation of the decree, see 2276# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04). 2277# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html 2278 2279# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 2280# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times 2281# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). 2282 2283# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): 2284# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time 2285# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight 2286# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of 2287# Arizona year round. 2288 2289# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating 2290# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17): 2291# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National 2292# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each 2293# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the 2294# whole year. 2295 2296# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19): 2297# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says 2298# (translated):... 2299# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced 2300# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting 2301# this year.... 2302# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001 2303# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday 2304# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. 2305 2306# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25): 2307# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one 2308# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."... 2309# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html 2310# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep 2311# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than 2312# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish 2313# observation of Daylight Saving Time. 2314 2315# Official statute published by the Energy Department 2316# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre 2317# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, 2318# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). 2319 2320# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): 2321# 2322# http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html 2323# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times 2324# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. 2325# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that 2326# the Federal District will not adopt DST. 2327# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree. 2328# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including 2329# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools. 2330# 2331# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules. 2332 2333# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01): 2334# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight 2335# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier 2336# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight 2337# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California 2338# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight 2339# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president 2340# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending 2341# September 30, 2001. 2342# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp> 2343# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31) 2344 2345# From Reuters (2001-09-04): 2346# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was 2347# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the 2348# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation 2349# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 2350# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to 2351# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not 2352# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. 2353 2354# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12): 2355# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted 2356# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico.... 2357# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20) 2358# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied. 2359 2360# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28): 2361# 2362# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2363# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern 2364# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as 2365# > the United States. 2366# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from 2367# 2010, some border regions will be the same: 2368# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/ 2369# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939 2370# (Spanish) 2371# 2372# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here: 2373# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf 2374# (Gaceta Parlamentaria) 2375# 2376# There is also a list of the votes here: 2377# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html 2378# 2379# Our page: 2380# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html 2381 2382# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20): 2383# The page 2384# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2385# includes this text: 2386# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California; 2387# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila; 2388# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en 2389# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto 2390# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos 2391# horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2392# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja 2393# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea 2394# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte 2395# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el 2396# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá 2397# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a 2398# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2399 2400# From Steffen Thorsen (2014-12-08), translated by Gwillim Law: 2401# The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015. 2402# 2403# http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/12/04/medio-ambiente/congreso-aprueba-una-hora-mas-de-sol-en-qroo 2404# "With this change, the time conflict that has existed between the municipios 2405# of Quintana Roo and the municipio of Felipe Carrillo Puerto may come to an 2406# end. The latter declared itself in rebellion 15 years ago when a time change 2407# was initiated in Mexico, and since then it has refused to change its time 2408# zone along with the rest of the country." 2409# 2410# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-01-14), translated by Gwillim Law: 2411# http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva-zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html 2412# "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday 2413# of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current 2414# time..." 2415# Also, the new zone will not use DST. 2416# 2417# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02): 2418# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally 2419# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación 2420# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015 2421# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico: 2422# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W, 2423# includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below. 2424# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the 2425# states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía 2426# de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora. 2427# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the 2428# state of Baja California. 2429# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state 2430# of Quintana Roo. 2431# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the 2432# longitude they are located at. 2433 2434# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2435Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D 2436Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S 2437Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D 2438Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S 2439Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War 2440Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S 2441Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D 2442Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S 2443Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2444Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2445Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2446Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2447Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2448Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2449# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2450# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún 2451Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56 2452 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2453 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 2454 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2015 Feb 1 2:00 2455 -5:00 - EST 2456# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida 2457Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 2458 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2459 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 2460 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2461# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) 2462Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 2463 -6:00 - CST 1988 2464 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2465 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 2466 -6:00 US C%sT 2467# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) 2468Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44 2469 -6:00 - CST 1988 2470 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2471 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2472# Central Mexico 2473Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 2474 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2475 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2476 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2477 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2478 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2479 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 2:00 2480 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 2481 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2482# Chihuahua (near US border) 2483Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 2484 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2485 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2486 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2487 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2488 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2489 -6:00 - CST 1996 2490 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2491 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2492 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 2493 -7:00 US M%sT 2494# Chihuahua (away from US border) 2495Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40 2496 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2497 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2498 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2499 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2500 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2501 -6:00 - CST 1996 2502 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2503 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2504 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2505# Sonora 2506Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08 2507 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2508 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2509 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2510 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2511 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2512 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2513 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2514 -8:00 - PST 1970 2515 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999 2516 -7:00 - MST 2517 2518# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21): 2519# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) 2520# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to 2521# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco). 2522# 2523# (Spanish) 2524# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del 2525# país, a partir de este domingo 2526# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748 2527# 2528# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del 2529# País 2530# http://www.bahiadebanderas.gob.mx/principal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=261:bahia-de-banderas-homologa-su-horario-con-el-del-centro-del-pais&catid=42:comunicacion-social&Itemid=50 2531# 2532# (English) 2533# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone 2534# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml 2535# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html 2536# 2537# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that 2538# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time 2539# zone ..." 2540# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa 2541 2542# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01): 2543# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters. 2544 2545# Mazatlán 2546Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20 2547 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2548 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2549 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2550 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2551 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2552 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2553 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2554 -8:00 - PST 1970 2555 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2556 2557# Bahía de Banderas 2558Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:59:00 2559 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2560 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2561 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2562 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2563 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2564 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2565 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2566 -8:00 - PST 1970 2567 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 2568 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2569 2570# Baja California (near US border) 2571Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 2572 -7:00 - MST 1924 2573 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2574 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2575 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2576 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2577 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2578 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2579 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2580 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2581 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2582 -8:00 - PST 1954 2583 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2584 -8:00 - PST 1976 2585 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2586 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2587 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2588 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 2589 -8:00 US P%sT 2590# Baja California (away from US border) 2591Zone America/Santa_Isabel -7:39:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:20:32 2592 -7:00 - MST 1924 2593 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2594 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2595 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2596 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2597 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2598 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2599 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2600 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2601 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2602 -8:00 - PST 1954 2603 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2604 -8:00 - PST 1976 2605 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2606 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2607 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2608 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2609# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2610# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from 2611# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 2612# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say 2613# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports 2614# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and 2615# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that 2616# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns 2617# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone 2618# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its 2619# name or contents should be. 2620# 2621# Revillagigedo Is 2622# no information 2623 2624############################################################################### 2625 2626# Anguilla 2627# Antigua and Barbuda 2628# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2629 2630# Bahamas 2631# 2632# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. 2633# 2634# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): 2635# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST 2636# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... 2637# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 2638 2639# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2640Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2641Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2642# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2643Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2644 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 2645 -5:00 US E%sT 2646 2647# Barbados 2648 2649# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that. 2650 2651# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2652Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D 2653Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2654Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2655Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2656Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S 2657# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2658Zone America/Barbados -3:58:29 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown 2659 -3:58:29 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time 2660 -4:00 Barb A%sT 2661 2662# Belize 2663# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2664# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2665Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 HD 2666Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 S 2667Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 D 2668Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 S 2669Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 D 2670Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 S 2671# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2672Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 2673 -6:00 Belize C%sT 2674 2675# Bermuda 2676 2677# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower, 2678# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that. 2679 2680# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): 2681 2682# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday 2683# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone 2684# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on 2685# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. 2686# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 2687 2688# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2689Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton 2690 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2691 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976 2692 -4:00 US A%sT 2693 2694# Cayman Is 2695 2696# From Paul Eggert (2015-05-15): 2697# The Cayman government has decided to introduce DST in 2016, the idea being 2698# to keep in sync with New York. The legislation hasn't passed but the change 2699# seems quite likely. See: Meade B. Cayman 27. 2700# http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2015/05/15/clock-ticks-toward-daylight-saving-time-in-cayman 2701 2702Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown 2703 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 2704 -5:00 - EST 2016 2705 -5:00 US E%sT 2706 2707# Costa Rica 2708 2709# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest. 2710 2711# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2712Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2713Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2714Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2715# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; 2716# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2717Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S 2718Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S 2719# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'. 2720# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2721Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José 2722 -5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time 2723 -6:00 CR C%sT 2724# Coco 2725# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica 2726 2727# Cuba 2728 2729# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2730# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57 2731# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations. 2732# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger. 2733 2734# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29): 2735# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between 2736# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on 2737# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. 2738# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that 2739# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving 2740# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of 2741# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched 2742# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have 2743# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) 2744 2745# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11): 2746# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the 2747# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ... 2748# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html 2749 2750# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): 2751# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. 2752# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2753# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html 2754# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras 2755# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return 2756# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". 2757# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. 2758 2759# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): 2760# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone 2761# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: 2762# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html 2763 2764# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21): 2765# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end 2766# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see 2767# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html 2768# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, 2769# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning 2770# to the normal schedule.... 2771 2772# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02): 2773# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday, 2774# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10. 2775# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules, 2776# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual. 2777# 2778# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25): 2779# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week 2780# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. 2781# 2782# He supplied these references: 2783# 2784# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES 2785# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm 2786# 2787# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25): 2788# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba): 2789# 2790# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre 2791# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html 2792# 2793# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html 2794 2795# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09): 2796# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight 2797# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to 2798# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj 2799# a Cuban information station, and heard 2800# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"), 2801# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time. 2802 2803# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12): 2804# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16... 2805# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish): 2806# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm 2807# 2808# Some more background information is posted here: 2809# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html 2810# 2811# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963, 2812# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the 2813# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been 2814# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception 2815# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to 2816# change some historic records as well. 2817# 2818# One example: 2819# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm 2820 2821# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13): 2822# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative 2823# web site, the Granma. Please check out 2824# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html 2825# 2826# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change 2827# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday. 2828 2829# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12): 2830# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward. 2831 2832# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04) 2833# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on 2834# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009- 2835# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought. 2836# 2837# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html 2838# (in Spanish) 2839 2840# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09) 2841# I listened over the Internet to 2842# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj 2843# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the 2844# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating 2845# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. 2846 2847# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): 2848# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 2849# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has 2850# changed at all). 2851# 2852# Source: 2853# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html 2854# 2855# Our info: 2856# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html 2857# 2858# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30) 2859# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back 2860# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00. 2861# 2862# One source (Spanish) 2863# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html 2864# 2865# Our page: 2866# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html 2867# 2868# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01) 2869# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March 2870# 31 and April 1. 2871# 2872# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish): 2873# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril 2874# 2875# Our info on it: 2876# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html 2877 2878# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03): 2879# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back 2880# to standard time on 2012-11-04: 2881# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre 2882# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03): 2883# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November. 2884 2885# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2886Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D 2887Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S 2888Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2889Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2890Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2891Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2892Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 2893Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 2894Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D 2895Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 2896Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D 2897Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2898Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 2899Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2900Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2901Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S 2902Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2903Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D 2904Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2905Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2906Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D 2907Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D 2908Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2909Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S 2910Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S 2911Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S 2912Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2913Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2914Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D 2915Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2916Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2917Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2918Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2919Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2920Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2921Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S 2922Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D 2923Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S 2924Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2925 2926# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2927Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 2928 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT 2929 -5:00 Cuba C%sT 2930 2931# Dominica 2932# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2933 2934# Dominican Republic 2935 2936# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30): 2937# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the 2938# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am.... 2939# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html 2940 2941# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2942# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST. 2943 2944# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 2945# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday, 2946# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the 2947# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date 2948# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they 2949# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going 2950# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president 2951# decided to revert. 2952 2953 2954# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2955Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 D 2956Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 S 2957Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HD 2958Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 S 2959Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 S 2960Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 S 2961# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2962Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 2963 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT 2964 -5:00 DR E%sT 1974 Oct 27 2965 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2966 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 1:00 2967 -4:00 - AST 2968 2969# El Salvador 2970 2971# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2972Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2973Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 2974# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador 2975# instead of America/San_Salvador. 2976# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2977Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador 2978 -6:00 Salv C%sT 2979 2980# Grenada 2981# Guadeloupe 2982# St Barthélemy 2983# St Martin (French part) 2984# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2985 2986# Guatemala 2987# 2988# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: 2989# Diario Co Latino, at 2990# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>, 2991# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had 2992# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the 2993# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from 2994# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). 2995# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): 2996# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 2997# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See 2998# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf 2999 3000# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3001Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D 3002Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S 3003Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D 3004Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 3005Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D 3006Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 3007Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 3008Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 3009# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3010Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 3011 -6:00 Guat C%sT 3012 3013# Haiti 3014# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): 3015# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. 3016# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release 3017# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), 3018# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>. Translated from French, it says: 3019# 3020# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general 3021# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior 3022# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the 3023# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next 3024# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. 3025# 3026# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform 3027# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour 3028# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in 3029# October 2005. 3030# 3031# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" 3032# 3033# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): 3034# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like 3035# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a 3036# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST 3037# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). 3038# 3039# I have found this article about it (in French): 3040# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 3041# 3042# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. 3043 3044# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22): 3045# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007. 3046 3047# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11): 3048# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year, 3049# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada. 3050# So this means they have already changed their time. 3051# 3052# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510 3053# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253 3054# 3055# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11): 3056# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to 3057# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight. 3058# Assume a US-style fall back as well. 3059 3060# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10): 3061# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules 3062# as US/Canada. They did it last year as well, and it looks like they 3063# are going to observe DST every year now... 3064# 3065# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ 3066# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 3067 3068# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3069Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D 3070Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3071Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3072# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. 3073# Go with IATA. 3074Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D 3075Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S 3076Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3077Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3078Rule Haiti 2012 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3079Rule Haiti 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3080# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3081Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 3082 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT 3083 -5:00 Haiti E%sT 3084 3085# Honduras 3086# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. 3087 3088# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): 3089# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article 3090# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 3091# months until September. La Tribuna reported today 3092# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president 3093# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. 3094 3095# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08): 3096# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at 3097# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). 3098# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html 3099 3100# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): 3101# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08). 3102# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12 3103# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. 3104 3105# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 3106# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not 3107# published, I have located this authoritative source: 3108# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 3109 3110# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30): 3111# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386 3112# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year.... 3113 3114# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3115Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3116Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3117Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3118Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S 3119# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3120Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr 3121 -6:00 Hond C%sT 3122# 3123# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 3124 3125# Jamaica 3126# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an 3127# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the 3128# island". Go with Milne. Round to the nearest second as required by zic. 3129# 3130# Shanks & Pottenger give April 28 for the 1974 spring-forward transition, but 3131# Lance Neita writes that Prime Minister Michael Manley decreed it January 5. 3132# Assume Neita meant Jan 6 02:00, the same as the US. Neita also writes that 3133# Manley's supporters associated this act with Manley's nickname "Joshua" 3134# (recall that in the Bible the sun stood still at Joshua's request), 3135# and with the Rod of Correction which Manley said he had received from 3136# Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. See: 3137# Neita L. The politician in all of us. Jamaica Observer 2014-09-20 3138# http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-politician-in-all-of-us_17573647 3139# 3140# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3141Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:11 - LMT 1890 # Kingston 3142 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3143 -5:00 - EST 1974 3144 -5:00 US E%sT 1984 3145 -5:00 - EST 3146 3147# Martinique 3148# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3149Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France 3150 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT 3151 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 3152 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 3153 -4:00 - AST 3154 3155# Montserrat 3156# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3157 3158# Nicaragua 3159# 3160# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. 3161# 3162# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): 3163# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started 3164# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of 3165# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet 3166# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". 3167# Some background information is available on the President's official site: 3168# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm 3169# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: 3170# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2005/Decreto%2023-2005%20Se%20adelanta%20en%20una%20hora%20en%20todo%20el%20territorio%20nacional%20apartir%20de%20las%2024horas%20del%2009%20de%20Abril.pdf 3171# 3172# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): 3173# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's 3174# assume that it is daylight saving.... 3175# 3176# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): 3177# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at 3178# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html 3179# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last 3180# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 3181# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."... 3182# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously 3183# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time 3184# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to 3185# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. 3186# 3187# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02): 3188# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). 3189# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm 3190# (2005-09-26) 3191# 3192# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05): 3193# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 3194# (my informal translation) 3195# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua 3196# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the 3197# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September. 3198# 3199# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30): 3200# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf 3201# My informal translation runs: 3202# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the 3203# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. 3204# 3205# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3206Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D 3207Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S 3208Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 3209Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3210Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 3211Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 3212# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3213Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 3214 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? 3215 -6:00 - CST 1973 May 3216 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 3217 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 3218 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 3219 -6:00 - CST 1993 3220 -5:00 - EST 1997 3221 -6:00 Nic C%sT 3222 3223# Panama 3224# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3225Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 3226 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time 3227 -5:00 - EST 3228 3229# Puerto Rico 3230# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. 3231# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3232Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan 3233 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 3234 -4:00 US A%sT 1946 3235 -4:00 - AST 3236 3237# St Kitts-Nevis 3238# St Lucia 3239# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3240 3241# St Pierre and Miquelon 3242# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'. 3243# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3244Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre 3245 -4:00 - AST 1980 May 3246 -3:00 - PMST 1987 # Pierre & Miquelon Time 3247 -3:00 Canada PM%sT 3248 3249# St Vincent and the Grenadines 3250# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3251 3252# Turks and Caicos 3253# 3254# From Chris Dunn in 3255# http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007 3256# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the 3257# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match 3258# the recent U.S. change of dates. 3259# 3260# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28): 3261# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26] 3262# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three 3263# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: 3264# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 3265# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" 3266# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. 3267# 3268# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): 3269# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UTC-4 year-round. See: 3270# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm 3271# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ... 3272# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04): 3273# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to 3274# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year.... 3275# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm 3276# 3277# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3278Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 3279 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3280 -5:00 - EST 1979 3281 -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00 3282 -4:00 - AST 3283 3284# British Virgin Is 3285# Virgin Is 3286# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3287 3288 3289# Local Variables: 3290# coding: utf-8 3291# End: 3292