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 data 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). 9 10# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): 11# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 12# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 13 14############################################################################### 15 16# United States 17 18# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 19# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by 20# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904), 21# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY). 22# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870) 23# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines 24# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC, 25# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich. 26# His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00, 27# and the most of the country soon followed suit. 28 29# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): 30# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. 31# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). 32 33# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 34# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is 35# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), 36# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 37# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. 38# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below. 39 40# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 41# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin 42# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost 43# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). 44# Not everyone is happy with the results: 45# 46# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some 47# agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving 48# daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. 49# I even object to the implication that I am wasting something 50# valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer 51# of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to 52# reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving 53# scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager 54# to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make 55# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. 56# 57# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 58# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday 59# 60# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see 61# Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint 62# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927) 63# <http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html>. 64# 65# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919. 66# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which 67# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently 68# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time". 69 70# From Arthur David Olson: 71# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974. 72# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26 73# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post. 74 75# From Arthur David Olson: 76# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of 77# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime. 78 79# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25): 80# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. 81# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." 82# An AltaVista search turned up 83# <http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html>: 84# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace 85# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." 86# (August 1945) by way of confirmation. 87 88# From Joseph Gallant citing 89# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): 90# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set 91# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people 92# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, 93# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, 94# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word 95# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in 96# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. 97 98# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From 99# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times: 100# 101# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender. 102# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a 103# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news. 104# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out 105# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental 106# importance." 107# 108# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open 109# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell, 110# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over. 111# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms." 112# 113# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. 114 115# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): 116# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations 117# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of 118# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed 119# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. 120 121# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 122Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 123Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 124Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 125Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 126Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 127Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 128Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 129Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D 130Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D 131Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 132Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 133Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 134Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 135 136# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19 137# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with 138# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory. 139# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of 140# this time zone package. 141# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if 142# a particular place changes whether it observes DST. 143# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to 144# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to 145# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file. 146 147# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 148Zone EST -5:00 - EST 149Zone MST -7:00 - MST 150Zone HST -10:00 - HST 151Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT 152Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT 153Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT 154Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT 155 156# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 157# ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. 158# old new 159# Pacific Standard Time(PST) -same- 160# Yukon Standard Time(YST) -same- 161# Central Alaska S.T. (CAT) Alaska-Hawaii St[an]dard Time (AHST) 162# Nome Standard Time (NT) Bering Standard Time (BST) 163# 164# ...Alaska's timezone lines were redrawn in 1983 to give only 2 tz. 165# The YST zone now covers nearly all of the state, AHST just part 166# of the Aleutian islands. No DST. 167 168# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 169# The tables below use 'NST', not 'NT', for Nome Standard Time. 170# I invented 'CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time. 171 172# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 173# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON 174# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 175# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON 176# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 177# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER 178# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 179# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO 180# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 181# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST) 182# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT) 183# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W 184# USA " 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 185# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC 186# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY 187 188# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21): 189# The above dates are for 1988. 190# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's 191# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the 192# Aleutians. 193 194# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 195# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and 196# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names 197# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 198# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261: 199# (none) 200# United States standard eastern time 201# United States standard mountain time 202# United States standard central time 203# United States standard Pacific time 204# (none) 205# United States standard Alaska time 206# (none) 207# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for 208# public law 98-181): 209# Atlantic standard time 210# eastern standard time 211# central standard time 212# mountain standard time 213# Pacific standard time 214# Yukon standard time 215# Alaska-Hawaii standard time 216# Bering standard time 217# And after 1983-11-30: 218# Atlantic standard time 219# eastern standard time 220# central standard time 221# mountain standard time 222# Pacific standard time 223# Alaska standard time 224# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time 225# Samoa standard time 226# The law doesn't give abbreviations. 227# 228# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow: 229# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation 230# "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. 231# See the file "australasia". 232 233# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 234# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. 235# 236# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. 237# (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 238# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- 239# (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second 240# Sunday of March"; and 241# (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first 242# Sunday of November'. 243# (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the 244# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. 245# (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective 246# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress 247# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United 248# States. 249# (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the 250# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the 251# Department study is complete. 252 253# US eastern time, represented by New York 254 255# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, 256# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky 257# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 258# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 259# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, 260# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia 261 262# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): 263# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington 264# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... 265# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time 266# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their 267# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. 268 269# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): 270# According to today's Huntsville Times 271# <http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1> 272# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City 273# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, 274# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" 275# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central 276# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work 277# in Columbus." 278 279# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 280Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 281Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 282Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 283Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 284Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 285# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 286Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 287 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 288 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 289 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 290 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967 291 -5:00 US E%sT 292 293# US central time, represented by Chicago 294 295# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, 296# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and 297# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana 298# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 299# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western 300# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern 301# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, 302# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin 303 304# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: 305# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/statutes/Stat0175.pdf ... 306# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local 307# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations 308# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited 309# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year.... 310# 311# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12): 312# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI 313# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent.... 314# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act3.pdf 315 316# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 317Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D 318Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 319Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 320Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 321Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 322Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 323# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 324Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 325 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 326 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 327 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 328 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942 329 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 330 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 331 -6:00 US C%sT 332# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. 333Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 334 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 02:00 335 -6:00 US C%sT 336# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on 337# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time. 338# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>. 339# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and 340# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota; 341# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time. 342# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>. 343Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 344 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 02:00 345 -6:00 US C%sT 346 347# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21): 348# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the 349# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from 350# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010): 351# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm 352# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html 353 354# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24): 355# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although 356# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next 357# largest city in Mercer County). Google Maps places Beulah's city hall 358# at 47 degrees 15' 51" N, 101 degrees 46' 40" W, which yields an offset 359# of 6h47'07". 360 361Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53 362 -7:00 US M%sT 2010 Nov 7 2:00 363 -6:00 US C%sT 364 365# US mountain time, represented by Denver 366# 367# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western 368# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), 369# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, 370# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, 371# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming 372# 373# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 374Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 375Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 376Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S 377Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 378Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 379# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 380Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 381 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 382 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 383 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 384 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967 385 -7:00 US M%sT 386 387# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles 388# 389# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, 390# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county 391# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren), 392# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern 3/4 of 393# Malheur county), and Washington 394# 395# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 396Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D 397Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S 398Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 399Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 400Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 401# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 402Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 403 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 404 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 405 -8:00 US P%sT 406 407# Alaska 408# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO. 409# 410# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 411# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 412# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. 413# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian, 414# also a Friday. Include only the time zone part of this transition, 415# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent 416# the Julian calendar. 417# 418# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were 419# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. 420# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement 421# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there 422# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps 423# it's best to simply use the official transition. 424 425# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18): 426# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and 427# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall: 428# "Welcome to Juneau. Please turn your watch back to the 19th century." 429# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01. 430# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html 431# 432# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source: 433# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response. 434# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2). 435# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/ 436 437# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): 438# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: 439# 440# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27, 441# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time. 442# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on 443# Pacific Time. 444# 445# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the 446# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in 447# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26. 448# 449# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted 450# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time. 451# 452# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not 453# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions. 454# 455# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo 456# Nation.) 457 458# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09): 459# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian 460# Community office (using contact information available at 461# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla 462# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States; 463# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether 464# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their 465# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I 466# did not inquire about practices in the past. 467 468# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17): 469# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's 470# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote. 471 472# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 473Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 474 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 475 -8:00 - PST 1942 476 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 477 -8:00 - PST 1969 478 -8:00 US P%sT 1980 Apr 27 2:00 479 -9:00 US Y%sT 1980 Oct 26 2:00 480 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 481 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 482 -9:00 US AK%sT 483Zone America/Sitka 14:58:47 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 484 -9:01:13 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 485 -8:00 - PST 1942 486 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 487 -8:00 - PST 1969 488 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 489 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 490 -9:00 US AK%sT 491Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 492 -8:46:18 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 493 -8:00 - PST 1942 494 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 495 -8:00 - PST 1969 496 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 497 -8:00 - PST 498Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 499 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 500 -9:00 - YST 1942 501 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946 502 -9:00 - YST 1969 503 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 504 -9:00 US AK%sT 505Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 506 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 507 -10:00 - CAT 1942 508 -10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 509 -10:00 US CAT/CAPT 1946 # Peace 510 -10:00 - CAT 1967 Apr 511 -10:00 - AHST 1969 512 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 513 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 514 -9:00 US AK%sT 515Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 516 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 517 -11:00 - NST 1942 518 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 519 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 520 -11:00 - BST 1969 521 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 522 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 523 -9:00 US AK%sT 524Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 525 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 526 -11:00 - NST 1942 527 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 528 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 529 -11:00 - BST 1969 530 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 531 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 532 -10:00 US HA%sT 533# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. 534# 535# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) 536# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, 537# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. 538# 539# From David Flater (2004-11-09): 540# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska 541# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which 542# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 543# possibly until 1983: 544# 545# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: 546# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important 547# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was 548# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it 549# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard 550# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, 551# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with 552# three votes for and one against." 553 554# Hawaii 555 556# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): 557# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 558# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, 559# the article is available at 560# http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf 561# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January 562# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight 563# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the 564# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the 565# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect 566# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for 567# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes 568# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of 569# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes 570# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) 571# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." 572 573# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): 574# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the 575# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of 576# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act 577# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each 578# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one 579# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th 580# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of 581# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is 582# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon 583# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to 584# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. 585# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor 586# of the Territory of Hawaii." 587# 588# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. 589# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. 590 591Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 #Schmitt&Cox 592 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 #Laws 1933 593 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 #Laws 1933+12 594 -10:30 - HST 1942 Feb 09 2:00 #Schmitt&Cox+2 595 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 #Schmitt&Cox+2 596 -10:30 - HST 1947 Jun 8 2:00 #Schmitt&Cox+2 597 -10:00 - HST 598 599Link Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston 600 601# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. 602 603# Arizona mostly uses MST. 604 605# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): 606# 607# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the 608# Daylight Saving Time web page 609# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23) 610# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 611# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard 612# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military 613# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to 614# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix 615# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was 616# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of 617# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as 618# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona 619# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. 620# 621# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. 622# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. 623 624Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 625 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 00:01 626 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 00:01 627 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 00:01 628 -7:00 - MST 1967 629 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 630 -7:00 - MST 631# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 632# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 633# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the 634# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its 635# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other 636# tribal nations don't use DST.) 637# 638# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26): 639# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation. 640 641# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, 642# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, 643# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, 644# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, 645# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern 646# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County) 647# switched four weeks late in 1974. 648# 649# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 650Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 651 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 652 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 653 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 654 -7:00 US M%sT 655 656# Indiana 657# 658# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: 659# What time is it in Indiana? (2006-03-01) 660# <http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html> 661# 662# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): 663# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, 664# with the following exceptions: 665# 666# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 667# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. 668# 669# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. 670# 671# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like 672# America/Kentucky/Louisville. 673# 674# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke, 675# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below. 676# 677# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, 678# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information." 679# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! 680# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 681# 682# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript 683# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level. 684# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'. 685 686# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): 687# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006. 688 689# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26): 690# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana 691# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, 692# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the 693# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of 694# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the 695# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." 696# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their 697# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error. The intent 698# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. 699 700# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10): 701# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is 702# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007.... 703# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL 704 705# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 706Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 707Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 708Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 709# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 710Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 711 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 712 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 713 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 714 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00 715 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00 716 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 717 -5:00 - EST 1969 718 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 719 -5:00 - EST 2006 720 -5:00 US E%sT 721# 722# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, 723# as well as from 1976 through 2005. 724# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 725Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 726Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 727Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 728Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 729# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 730Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 731 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 732 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 733 -5:00 - EST 1969 734 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 735 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 736 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 737 -5:00 - EST 2006 738 -5:00 US E%sT 739# 740# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana, 741# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back 742# in November 2007. 743# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 744Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 745Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 746Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 747Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 748Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 749Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 750Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 751Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 752Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 753# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 754Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53 755 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 756 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 757 -5:00 - EST 1969 758 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 759 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 760 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 761 -5:00 US E%sT 762# 763# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. 764# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 765Rule Perry 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 766Rule Perry 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 767Rule Perry 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 768Rule Perry 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 769Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 770Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 771Rule Perry 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 772Rule Perry 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 773Rule Perry 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 774# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 775Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:57 776 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 777 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 778 -5:00 - EST 1969 779 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 780 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 781 -6:00 US C%sT 782# 783# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, 784# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007. 785# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 786Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 787Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 788Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 789Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 790# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 791Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53 792 -6:00 US C%sT 1955 793 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 794 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 795 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 796 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 797 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 798 -5:00 US E%sT 799# 800# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, 801# then switched back in 2006. 802# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): 803# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post 804# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of 805# 1991-10-27. 806# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 807Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 808Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 809Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 810Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 811Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 812# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 813Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 814 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 815 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 816 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 817 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 818 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 819 -6:00 US C%sT 820# 821# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in 822# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007. 823# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 824Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 825Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 826Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 827Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 828# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 829Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:35 830 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 831 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 832 -5:00 - EST 1969 833 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 834 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 835 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00 836 -5:00 US E%sT 837# 838# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. 839# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 840Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 841 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 842 -5:00 - EST 1969 843 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 844 -5:00 - EST 2006 845 -5:00 US E%sT 846 847# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. 848# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. 849# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 850Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 851Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S 852Rule Louisville 1941 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 853Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 854Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S 855Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 856Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 857# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 858Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 859 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 860 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 861 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 862 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00 863 -5:00 - EST 1968 864 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 865 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 866 -5:00 US E%sT 867# 868# Wayne County, Kentucky 869# 870# From Lake Cumberland LIFE 871# <http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml> 872# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: 873# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from 874# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made 875# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not 876# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in 877# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also. 878# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S. 879# location in the Central time zone. 880# 881# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29): 882# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion, 883# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern 884# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, 885# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). 886# 887# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): 888# The final rule was published in the 889# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. 890# <http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22> 891# 892Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 893 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 894 -6:00 - CST 1968 895 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 896 -5:00 US E%sT 897 898 899# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): 900# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985. 901# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central; 902# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10 903# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10 904# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 905# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 906# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 907# 908# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): 909# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, 910# so omit that change for now. 911# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. 912# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. 913# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on 914# 1999-10-31. See the 915# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. 916# <http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=fr21oc99-15> 917# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated 918# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; 919# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. 920 921# Michigan 922# 923# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 924# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973. 925# 926# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 927# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, 928# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) 929# that Detroit kept 930# 931# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should 932# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the 933# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision 934# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to 935# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the 936# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted 937# by city vote. 938# 939# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks. 940# 941# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 942# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks 943# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more 944# info, so omit this for now. 945# 946# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975. 947# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 948Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 949Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 950Rule Detroit 1967 only - Jun 14 2:00 1:00 D 951Rule Detroit 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 952# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 953Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 954 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00 955 -5:00 - EST 1942 956 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 957 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1973 958 -5:00 US E%sT 1975 959 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 960 -5:00 US E%sT 961# 962# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, 963# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. 964# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 965Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 966Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 967Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 968Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 969# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 970Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 971 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 972 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 973 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00 974 -6:00 US C%sT 975 976# Navassa 977# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service 978# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act 979# also claimed by Haiti 980# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co 981# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 982# currently uninhabited 983# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord", 984# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites 985# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). 986 987################################################################################ 988 989 990# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 991# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 992# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 993# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 994# 995# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 996# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 997# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 998# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 999# of the IATA's data after 1990. 1000# 1001# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for 1002# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. 1003# 1004# Other sources occasionally used include: 1005# 1006# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 1007# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 1008# which I found in the UCLA library. 1009# 1010# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 1011# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 1012# [PDF] (1914-03) 1013# 1014# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 1015# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 1016# 1017# See the 'europe' file for Greenland. 1018 1019# Canada 1020 1021# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14): 1022# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada 1023# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... 1024# 1025# UTC Standard time Daylight saving time 1026# offset French English French English 1027# -2:30 - - HAT NDT 1028# -3 - - HAA ADT 1029# -3:30 HNT NST - - 1030# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT 1031# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT 1032# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT 1033# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT 1034# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT 1035# -9 HNY YST - - 1036# 1037# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time 1038# HA: Heure Avancée DT: Daylight saving Time 1039# 1040# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic 1041# C: du Centre Central 1042# E: de l'Est Eastern 1043# M: Mountain 1044# N: Newfoundland 1045# P: du Pacifique Pacific 1046# R: des Rocheuses 1047# T: de Terre-Neuve 1048# Y: du Yukon Yukon 1049# 1050# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): 1051# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. 1052 1053# Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks 1054# & Pottenger. 1055 1056# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31, 1057# 2007-03-01): 1058# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will 1059# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the 1060# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... 1061# http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm 1062# ... 1063# Nova Scotia 1064# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... 1065# http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf 1066# 1067# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to 1068# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. 1069# http://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf 1070# ... 1071# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. 1072# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. 1073# http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php 1074# ... 1075# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. 1076# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM 1077# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm 1078# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF 1079# ... 1080# P.E.I. will follow US rules.... 1081# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf 1082# ... 1083# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... 1084# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm 1085# ... 1086# Yukon 1087# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf 1088# ... 1089# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site 1090# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the 1091# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the 1092# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using 1093# JavaScript. 1094# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive 1095# ... 1096# Nunavut 1097# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007.... 1098# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf 1099 1100# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): 1101# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 1102# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 1103# <http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp> 1104# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard 1105# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. 1106# 1107# INMS, the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, has 1108# information about standard and daylight saving time zones in Canada. 1109# <http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php> 1110# (updated periodically). 1111# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. 1112 1113# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): 1114# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the 1115# new US DST rules, 1116 1117# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01) 1118# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles 1119# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1120# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review. 1121# The quote includes these two statements: 1122# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...' 1123# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,' 1124# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time 1125# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918. This transition was 1126# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star. 1127 1128# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed 1129# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day 1130# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets. 1131 1132# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1133Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1134Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1135Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1136Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1137Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1138Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1139Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1140Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1141Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1142Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1143 1144 1145# Newfoundland and Labrador 1146 1147# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1148# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Labrador should use NST/NDT, 1149# but the only part of Labrador that follows the rules is the 1150# southeast corner, including Port Hope Simpson and Mary's Harbour, 1151# but excluding, say, Black Tickle. 1152 1153# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1154Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D 1155Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1156# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1157Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D 1158Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S 1159# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1160Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D 1161Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S 1162# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & 1163# Pottenger. 1164Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D 1165Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S 1166# Whitman gives the following transitions: 1167# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 1168# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. 1169# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives 1170# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1171Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1172Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S 1173Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1174Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1175Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1176# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1177# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches 1178# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. 1179 1180# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12): 1181# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the 1182# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed. 1183# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings 1184# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time 1185# now occurs at 2:00AM. 1186# ... 1187# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm 1188# ... 1189# MICHAEL PELLEY | Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery 1190# Office of the Chief Information Officer 1191# Executive Council 1192# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 1193 1194Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1195Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1196Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD 1197Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1198Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D 1199Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S 1200# 1201# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. 1202# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1203Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 1204 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 1205 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1206 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 1207 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1208 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1209 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 2011 Nov 1210 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1211 1212# most of east Labrador 1213 1214# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'. 1215# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1216Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1217 -3:30:52 - NST 1918 1218 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1219 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 1220 -3:30 - NST 1936 1221 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1222 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1223 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 1224 -4:00 StJohns A%sT 2011 Nov 1225 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1226 1227 1228# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I 1229 1230# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1231# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like 1232# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; 1233# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of. 1234# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town 1235# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume 1236# this is a typo. 1237 1238# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1239Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1240Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1241Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D 1242Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S 1243Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D 1244Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1245Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1246Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1247Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1248Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1249Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S 1250Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D 1251Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1252Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1253Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1254Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1255Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S 1256Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1257Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1258Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1259Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1260Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1261Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 1262Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D 1263Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1264Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D 1265Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 1266Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1267Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1268Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1269Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1270Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D 1271Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1272Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1273Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1274Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1275Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1276Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1277Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1278Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1279Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1280# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1281Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1282 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 1283 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 1284 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1285 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1286 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1287 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1288Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1289 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 1290 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 1291 -4:00 - AST 1972 1292 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1293 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1294 1295# New Brunswick 1296 1297# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31): 1298# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> 1299# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and 1300# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it 1301# clear that this was the case since at least 1993. 1302# For now, assume it started in 1993. 1303 1304# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1305Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D 1306Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S 1307Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D 1308Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 1309Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D 1310Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S 1311Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D 1312Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D 1313Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1314Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1315Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1316Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1317Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1318# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1319Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 1320 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 1321 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 1322 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 1323 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1324 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 1325 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 1326 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 1327 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1328 1329# Quebec 1330 1331# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-30): 1332# Since 1970 most of Quebec has been like Toronto. 1333# However, because earlier versions of the tz database mistakenly relied on data 1334# from Shanks & Pottenger saying that Quebec differed from Ontario after 1970, 1335# a separate entry was created for most of Quebec. We're loath to lose 1336# its pre-1970 info, even though the tz database is normally limited to 1337# zones that differ after 1970, so keep this otherwise out-of-scope entry. 1338 1339# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63 1340# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as 1341# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST. 1342# The Quebec department of justice writes in 1343# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" 1344# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm 1345# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon 1346# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. 1347# http://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en 1348# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007. 1349# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to 1350# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. 1351 1352# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1353Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D 1354Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S 1355Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D 1356Rule Mont 1919 only - Oct 25 2:30 0 S 1357Rule Mont 1920 only - May 2 2:30 1:00 D 1358Rule Mont 1920 1922 - Oct Sun>=1 2:30 0 S 1359Rule Mont 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1360Rule Mont 1922 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 1361Rule Mont 1924 only - May 17 2:00 1:00 D 1362Rule Mont 1924 1926 - Sep lastSun 2:30 0 S 1363Rule Mont 1925 1926 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1364# The 1927-to-1937 rules can be expressed more simply as 1365# Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Apr lastSat 24:00 1:00 D 1366# Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Sep lastSat 24:00 0 S 1367# The rules below avoid use of 24:00 1368# (which pre-1998 versions of zic cannot handle). 1369Rule Mont 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1370Rule Mont 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1371Rule Mont 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1372Rule Mont 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1373Rule Mont 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1374Rule Mont 1933 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1375Rule Mont 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1376Rule Mont 1946 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1377Rule Mont 1945 1948 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1378Rule Mont 1949 1950 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1379Rule Mont 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1380Rule Mont 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1381 1382# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1383Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 1384 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 1385 -4:00 - AST 1386Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884 1387 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1918 1388 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1389 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1390 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1391 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1974 1392 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1393 1394# Ontario 1395 1396# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1397# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1398# Toronto. 1399# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1400# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1401# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1402# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. 1403 1404# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1405# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST 1406# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that 1407# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw 1408# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, 1409# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable 1410# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after 1411# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but 1412# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters 1413# earlier in June). 1414# 1415# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). 1416 1417# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): 1418# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star 1419# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, 1420# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. 1421# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) 1422# <http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html> 1423# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. 1424# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report 1425# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. 1426# 1427# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1428# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and 1429# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes 1430# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in 1431# violation of the official Ontario rules. 1432# 1433# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1434# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the 1435# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: 1436# 1437# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. 1438# This means they spend about half the time on central time and 1439# the other half on eastern time. 1440# 1441# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. 1442# 1443# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern 1444# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he 1445# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." 1446# 1447# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang 1448# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." 1449 1450# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: 1451# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory 1452# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he 1453# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current 1454# time keeping since 1952, at least. 1455 1456# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): 1457# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River 1458# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from 1459# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan 1460# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time 1461# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour 1462# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move 1463# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. 1464 1465# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06): 1466# 1467# Currently the database has: 1468# 1469# # Ontario 1470# 1471# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1472# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1473# # Toronto. 1474# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1475# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1476# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1477# 1478# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom 1479# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard 1480# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that: 1481# 1482# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario, 1483# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year. 1484# 1485# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon. 1486# 1487# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began 1488# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date. 1489# 1490# By the way, the article continues by noting that: 1491# 1492# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back 1493# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October. 1494 1495# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17): 1496# 1497# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in 1498# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1499# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17, 1500# was available at 1501# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S 1502# 1503# It includes the text below (starting on page 57): 1504# 1505# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would 1506# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by 1507# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities 1508# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav- 1509# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite, 1510# for the other provinces only approximate: 1511# 1512# Province Daylight saving time used 1513# Prince Edward Island Not used. 1514# Nova Scotia In Halifax only. 1515# New Brunswick In St. John only. 1516# Quebec In the following places: 1517# Montreal Lachine 1518# Quebec Mont-Royal 1519# Lévis Iberville 1520# St. Lambert Cap de la Madelèine 1521# Verdun Loretteville 1522# Westmount Richmond 1523# Outremont St. Jérôme 1524# Longueuil Greenfield Park 1525# Arvida Waterloo 1526# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu 1527# Melbourne La Tuque 1528# St. Théophile Buckingham 1529# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along 1530# the southerly part of the province. Not 1531# used in the northwesterly part. 1532# Manitoba Not used. 1533# Saskatchewan In Regina only. 1534# Alberta Not used. 1535# British Columbia Not used. 1536# 1537# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited 1538# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont. 1539 1540# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1541Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D 1542Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S 1543Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D 1544Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1545Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D 1546Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S 1547Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1548# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" 1549# was meant. 1550Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 1551Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1552# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as 1553# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S 1554# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D 1555# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1556# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1557# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25 1558# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle). 1559Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1560Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1561Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1562Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1563Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 1564Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1565Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1566Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1567Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1568Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1569Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S 1570Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1571Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S 1572Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1573# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, 1574# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this 1575# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 1576# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. 1577Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1578 1579# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1580# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and 1581# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in 1582# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, 1583# Saskatchewan, for one year." 1584 1585# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, 1586# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): 1587# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight 1588# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur 1589# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central 1590# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to 1591# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight 1592# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so 1593# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World 1594# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer 1595# months for the remainder of the war years. 1596 1597# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1598Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 1599 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1600 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1601 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1602 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 1603 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1604Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 1605 -6:00 - CST 1910 1606 -5:00 - EST 1942 1607 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 1608 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1973 1609 -5:00 - EST 1974 1610 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1611Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 1612 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 1613 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1614 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1615Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 1616 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1617 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1618 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1619Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 1620 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1621 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1622 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 1623 -5:00 - EST 1624 1625 1626# Manitoba 1627 1628# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): 1629# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to 1630# March 27, 1987 ... said ... 1631# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of 1632# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central 1633# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next 1634# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... 1635# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had 1636# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... 1637# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying 1638# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of 1639# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central 1640# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). 1641 1642# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): 1643# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) 1644# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume 1645# it was also 02:00s in 1966. 1646 1647# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1648Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D 1649Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S 1650Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1651Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1652Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D 1653Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S 1654Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1655Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1656Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1657Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D 1658Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1659Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1660Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1661Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1662Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1663Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1664Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1665Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1666Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1667Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1668Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S 1669Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 1670Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S 1671Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 1672# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1673Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 1674 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 1675 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1676 1677 1678# Saskatchewan 1679 1680# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1681# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal 1682# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people 1683# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, 1684# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." 1685# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: 1686# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of 1687# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad 1688# time was noted. 1689 1690# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1691# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the 1692# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." 1693 1694# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1695# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. 1696# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. 1697# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. 1698# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton 1699# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. 1700 1701# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): 1702# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the 1703# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. 1704# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and 1705# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother. 1706# 1707# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years 1708# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated 1709# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial 1710# referendum favoured legislating common time practices. 1711# 1712# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of 1713# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern 1714# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in 1715# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to 1716# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and 1717# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would 1718# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST. 1719# 1720# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town 1721# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to 1722# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only 1723# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT 1724# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round 1725# since sometime in the 1960s. 1726 1727# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1728# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages 1729# long and rather painful to read. 1730# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf 1731 1732# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1733Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1734Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1735Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1736Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1737Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1738Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1739Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1740Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1741Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1742Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1743Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1744Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1745Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 1746Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1747Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1748Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1749Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1750# 1751Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1752Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1753Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1754Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1755Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1756# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1757Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep 1758 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00 1759 -6:00 - CST 1760Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep 1761 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00 1762 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950 1763 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00 1764 -6:00 - CST 1765 1766 1767# Alberta 1768 1769# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1770Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1771Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1772Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S 1773Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1774Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1775Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1776Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1777Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1778Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1779Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1780Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1781Rule Edm 1967 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1782Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1783Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1784Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1785Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1786Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1787# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1788Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep 1789 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 1790 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1791 1792 1793# British Columbia 1794 1795# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1796# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has 1797# been like Vancouver. 1798# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. 1799# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek. 1800 1801# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct: 1802 1803# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): 1804# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia 1805# that do not currently observe daylight saving: 1806# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) 1807# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District 1808# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) 1809 1810# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time 1811# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the 1812# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. 1813# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1814# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. 1815# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UTC-7 for 93 years. 1816# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. 1817 1818# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains 1819# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months 1820# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just 1821# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing the 1822# article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the subject 1823# of another article which she wrote in October 2010. 1824# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 1825 1826# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: 1827# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) 1828# Exact date unknown 1829# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) 1830# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. 1831# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) 1832# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. 1833# note#1: 1834# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, 1835# Creston did not change its clocks. 1836# note#2: 1837# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, 1838# Creston did not oblige. 1839# note#3: 1840# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time 1841# (UTC-7) forever. 1842# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. 1843# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html 1844 1845# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. 1846# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying 1847# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before 1848# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this 1849# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough 1850# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. 1851 1852# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. 1853 1854# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1855Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1856Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1857Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1858Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1859Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1860Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1861Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1862Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1863Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1864# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1865Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 1866 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1867 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1868Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 1869 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 1870 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 1871 -7:00 - MST 1872Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 1873 -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 1874 -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 1875 -7:00 - MST 1876 1877# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon 1878 1879# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1880# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. 1881# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: 1882# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, 1883# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid; 1884# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). 1885# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. 1886# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. 1887# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. 1888# Shanks & Pottenger say Yukon's 1973-10-28 switch was at 2:00; go 1889# with Englander. 1890# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1891# Here is a link to the old daylight saving portion of the interpretation 1892# act which was last updated in 1987: 1893# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic1987_056.pdf 1894 1895# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): 1896# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. 1897# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 1898# <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html> 1899# 1900# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): 1901# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut 1902# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region. 1903 1904# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 1905# Basic Facts: The New Territory 1906# <http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html> 1907# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, 1908# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when 1909# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. 1910 1911# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 1912# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 1913# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 1914# 1915# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 1916# 1917# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 1918# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 1919# 1920# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 1921# 1922# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 1923# 1924# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 1925# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 1926# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 1927# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 1928# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 1929# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 1930# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 1931# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 1932# the current state of affairs. 1933 1934# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 1935# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19) 1936# <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html>: 1937# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 1938# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 1939# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 1940# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 1941 1942# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1943# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories 1944# for these potential new Zones. 1945# 1946# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the 1947# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central 1948# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the 1949# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time. 1950# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of 1951# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not 1952# required to use daylight savings. 1953 1954# From <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html> 1955# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10): 1956# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and 1957# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them 1958# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter. 1959# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against 1960# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with 1961# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on 1962# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to 1963# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's 1964# unified time zone in 1999. 1965# 1966# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government: 1967# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000. 1968 1969# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 1970# Let's just keep track of the official times for now. 1971 1972# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07): 1973# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising 1974# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert 1975# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the 1976# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that 1977# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm 1978# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with 1979# more. 1980# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] 1981 1982# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): 1983# According to maps at 1984# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SWE.jpg 1985# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SSE.jpg 1986# (both dated 2003), and 1987# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 1988# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time 1989# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year 1990# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. 1991# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it 1992# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... 1993# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. 1994# 1995# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): 1996# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed 1997# daylight saving only during wartime. 1998 1999# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01): 2000# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in 2001# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. 2002# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of 2003# daylight saving.... 2004# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html 2005 2006# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21): 2007# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute 2008# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of 2009# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had 2010# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007. 2011# 2012# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay 2013# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008... 2014# 2015# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March 2016# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I 2017# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able 2018# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was 2019# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone 2020# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT). 2021# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks 2022# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in 2023# so they could follow the correct TV schedule... 2024# 2025# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I 2026# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature 2027# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of 2028# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of 2029# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for 2030# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived 2031# and worked in Resolute Bay... 2032# 2033# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that 2034# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of 2035# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead 2036# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay 2037# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not 2038# tell me when the practice had stopped. 2039# 2040# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of 2041# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went 2042# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz 2043# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the 2044# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on 2045# Aziz: 2046# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493 2047# 2048# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using 2049# Eastern Standard Time. 2050# 2051# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the 2052# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way 2053# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in 2054# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs" 2055# 2056# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008. 2057# 2058# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz 2059# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You 2060# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a 2061# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site" 2062# 2063# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would 2064# never have contacted her. I now believe that all the information I 2065# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... 2066# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. 2067 2068# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2069Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2070Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2071Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D 2072Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 2073Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2074Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2075Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2076Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD 2077Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2078Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2079Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2080Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2081# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2082# aka Panniqtuuq 2083Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - zzz 1921 # trading post est. 2084 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 2085 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2086 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2087 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2088# formerly Frobisher Bay 2089Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - zzz 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. 2090 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2091 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2092 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2093# aka Qausuittuq 2094Zone America/Resolute 0 - zzz 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded 2095 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2096 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2097 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 2098 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 2099 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2100# aka Kangiqiniq 2101Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - zzz 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded 2102 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2103 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2104 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2105# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq 2106Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - zzz 1920 # trading post est.? 2107 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2108 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2109 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 2110 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2111 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2112Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - zzz 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 2113 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2114 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2115Zone America/Inuvik 0 - zzz 1953 # Inuvik founded 2116 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 2117 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2118 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2119Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2120 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1966 Jul 1 2:00 2121 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2122 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2123Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2124 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 2125 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2126 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2127 2128 2129############################################################################### 2130 2131# Mexico 2132 2133# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05): 2134# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the 2135# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a 2136# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) 2137# <http://www.cddhcu.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/>. 2138# 2139# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. 2140# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) 2141# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. 2142# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. 2143# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. 2144# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. 2145 2146# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): 2147# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the 2148# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that 2149# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of 2150# the relevant documents. 2151 2152# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): 2153# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree 2154# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. 2155# 2156# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 2157# 2158# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the 2159# rules for the DST changes. The rules are: 2160# 2161# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones: 2162# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ) 2163# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ) 2164# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ) 2165# 2166# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October 2167# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows: 2168# BajaNorte: GMT+7 2169# BajaSur: GMT+6 2170# General: GMT+5 2171# 2172# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows: 2173# BajaNorte: GMT+8 2174# BajaSur: GMT+7 2175# General: GMT+6 2176# 2177# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th. 2178# 2179# -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- 2180# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): 2181# For an English translation of the decree, see 2182# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04) 2183# <http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html>. 2184 2185# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 2186# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times 2187# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). 2188 2189# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): 2190# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time 2191# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight 2192# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of 2193# Arizona year round. 2194 2195# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating 2196# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17): 2197# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National 2198# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each 2199# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the 2200# whole year. 2201 2202# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19): 2203# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says 2204# (translated):... 2205# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced 2206# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting 2207# this year.... 2208# <http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001> 2209# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday 2210# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. 2211 2212# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25): 2213# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one 2214# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."... 2215# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html 2216# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep 2217# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than 2218# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish 2219# observation of Daylight Saving Time. 2220 2221# Official statute published by the Energy Department 2222# <http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre> 2223# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, 2224# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). 2225 2226# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): 2227# 2228# <http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html> 2229# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times 2230# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. 2231# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that 2232# the Federal District will not adopt DST. 2233# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree. 2234# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including 2235# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools. 2236# 2237# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules. 2238 2239# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01): 2240# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight 2241# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier 2242# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight 2243# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California 2244# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight 2245# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president 2246# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending 2247# September 30, 2001. 2248# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp> 2249# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31) 2250 2251# From Reuters (2001-09-04): 2252# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was 2253# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the 2254# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation 2255# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 2256# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to 2257# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not 2258# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. 2259 2260# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12): 2261# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted 2262# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico.... 2263# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20) 2264# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied. 2265 2266# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28): 2267# 2268# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2269# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern 2270# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as 2271# > the United States. 2272# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from 2273# 2010, some border regions will be the same: 2274# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/ 2275# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939 2276# (Spanish) 2277# 2278# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here: 2279# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf 2280# (Gaceta Parlamentaria) 2281# 2282# There is also a list of the votes here: 2283# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html 2284# 2285# Our page: 2286# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html 2287 2288# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20): 2289# The page 2290# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2291# includes this text: 2292# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California; 2293# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila; 2294# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en 2295# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto 2296# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos 2297# horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2298# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja 2299# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea 2300# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte 2301# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el 2302# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá 2303# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a 2304# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2305 2306# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2307Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D 2308Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S 2309Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D 2310Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S 2311Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War 2312Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S 2313Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D 2314Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S 2315Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2316Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2317Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2318Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2319Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2320Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2321# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2322# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún 2323Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56 2324 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2325 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 2326 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2327# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida 2328Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 2329 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2330 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 2331 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2332# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) 2333Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 2334 -6:00 - CST 1988 2335 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2336 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 2337 -6:00 US C%sT 2338# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) 2339Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44 2340 -6:00 - CST 1988 2341 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2342 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2343# Central Mexico 2344Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 2345 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2346 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2347 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2348 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2349 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2350 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 02:00 2351 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 2352 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2353# Chihuahua (near US border) 2354Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 2355 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2356 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2357 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2358 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2359 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2360 -6:00 - CST 1996 2361 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2362 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2363 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 2364 -7:00 US M%sT 2365# Chihuahua (away from US border) 2366Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40 2367 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2368 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2369 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2370 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2371 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2372 -6:00 - CST 1996 2373 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2374 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2375 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2376# Sonora 2377Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08 2378 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2379 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2380 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2381 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2382 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2383 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2384 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2385 -8:00 - PST 1970 2386 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999 2387 -7:00 - MST 2388 2389# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21): 2390# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) 2391# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to 2392# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco). 2393# 2394# (Spanish) 2395# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del 2396# país, a partir de este domingo 2397# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748 2398# 2399# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del 2400# País 2401# 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 2402# 2403# (English) 2404# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone 2405# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml 2406# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html 2407# 2408# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that 2409# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time 2410# zone ..." 2411# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa 2412 2413# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01): 2414# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters. 2415 2416# Mazatlán 2417Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20 2418 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2419 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2420 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2421 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2422 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2423 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2424 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2425 -8:00 - PST 1970 2426 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2427 2428# Bahía de Banderas 2429Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:59:00 2430 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2431 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2432 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2433 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2434 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2435 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2436 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2437 -8:00 - PST 1970 2438 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 2439 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2440 2441# Baja California (near US border) 2442Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 2443 -7:00 - MST 1924 2444 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2445 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2446 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2447 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2448 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2449 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2450 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2451 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2452 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2453 -8:00 - PST 1954 2454 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2455 -8:00 - PST 1976 2456 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2457 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2458 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2459 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 2460 -8:00 US P%sT 2461# Baja California (away from US border) 2462Zone America/Santa_Isabel -7:39:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:20:32 2463 -7:00 - MST 1924 2464 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2465 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2466 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2467 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2468 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2469 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2470 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2471 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2472 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2473 -8:00 - PST 1954 2474 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2475 -8:00 - PST 1976 2476 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2477 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2478 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2479 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2480# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2481# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from 2482# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 2483# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say 2484# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports 2485# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and 2486# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that 2487# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns 2488# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone 2489# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its 2490# name or contents should be. 2491# 2492# Revillagigedo Is 2493# no information 2494 2495############################################################################### 2496 2497# Anguilla 2498# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2499 2500# Antigua and Barbuda 2501# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2502Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2503 -5:00 - EST 1951 2504 -4:00 - AST 2505 2506# Bahamas 2507# 2508# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. 2509# 2510# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): 2511# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST 2512# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... 2513# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 2514 2515# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2516Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2517Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2518# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2519Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2520 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 2521 -5:00 US E%sT 2522 2523# Barbados 2524 2525# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that. 2526 2527# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2528Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D 2529Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2530Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2531Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2532Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S 2533# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2534Zone America/Barbados -3:58:29 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown 2535 -3:58:29 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time 2536 -4:00 Barb A%sT 2537 2538# Belize 2539# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2540# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2541Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 HD 2542Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 S 2543Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 D 2544Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 S 2545Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 D 2546Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 S 2547# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2548Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 2549 -6:00 Belize C%sT 2550 2551# Bermuda 2552 2553# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower, 2554# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that. 2555 2556# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): 2557 2558# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday 2559# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone 2560# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on 2561# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. 2562# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 2563 2564# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2565Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton 2566 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2567 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976 2568 -4:00 US A%sT 2569 2570# Cayman Is 2571# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2572Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown 2573 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 2574 -5:00 - EST 2575 2576# Costa Rica 2577 2578# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest. 2579 2580# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2581Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2582Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2583Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2584# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; 2585# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2586Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S 2587Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S 2588# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'. 2589# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2590Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José 2591 -5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time 2592 -6:00 CR C%sT 2593# Coco 2594# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica 2595 2596# Cuba 2597 2598# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2599# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57 2600# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations. 2601# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger. 2602 2603# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29): 2604# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between 2605# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on 2606# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. 2607# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that 2608# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving 2609# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of 2610# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched 2611# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have 2612# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) 2613 2614# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11): 2615# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the 2616# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ... 2617# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html 2618 2619# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): 2620# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. 2621# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2622# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html 2623# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras 2624# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return 2625# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". 2626# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. 2627 2628# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): 2629# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone 2630# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: 2631# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html 2632 2633# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21): 2634# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end 2635# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see 2636# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html 2637# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, 2638# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning 2639# to the normal schedule.... 2640 2641# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02): 2642# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday, 2643# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10. 2644# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules, 2645# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual. 2646# 2647# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25): 2648# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week 2649# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. 2650# 2651# He supplied these references: 2652# 2653# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES 2654# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm 2655# 2656# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25): 2657# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba): 2658# 2659# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre 2660# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html 2661# 2662# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html 2663 2664# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09): 2665# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight 2666# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to 2667# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj 2668# a Cuban information station, and heard 2669# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"), 2670# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time. 2671 2672# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12): 2673# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16... 2674# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish): 2675# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm 2676# 2677# Some more background information is posted here: 2678# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html 2679# 2680# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963, 2681# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the 2682# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been 2683# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception 2684# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to 2685# change some historic records as well. 2686# 2687# One example: 2688# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm 2689 2690# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13): 2691# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative 2692# web site, the Granma. Please check out 2693# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html 2694# 2695# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change 2696# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday. 2697 2698# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12): 2699# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward. 2700 2701# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04) 2702# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on 2703# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009- 2704# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought. 2705# 2706# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html 2707# (in Spanish) 2708 2709# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09) 2710# I listened over the Internet to 2711# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj 2712# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the 2713# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating 2714# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. 2715 2716# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): 2717# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 2718# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has 2719# changed at all). 2720# 2721# Source: 2722# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html 2723# 2724# Our info: 2725# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html 2726# 2727# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30) 2728# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back 2729# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00. 2730# 2731# One source (Spanish) 2732# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html 2733# 2734# Our page: 2735# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html 2736# 2737# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01) 2738# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March 2739# 31 and April 1. 2740# 2741# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish): 2742# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril 2743# 2744# Our info on it: 2745# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html 2746 2747# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03): 2748# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back 2749# to standard time on 2012-11-04: 2750# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre 2751# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03): 2752# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November. 2753 2754# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2755Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D 2756Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S 2757Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2758Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2759Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2760Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2761Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 2762Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 2763Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D 2764Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 2765Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D 2766Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2767Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 2768Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2769Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2770Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S 2771Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2772Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D 2773Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2774Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2775Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D 2776Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D 2777Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2778Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S 2779Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S 2780Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S 2781Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2782Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2783Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D 2784Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2785Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2786Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2787Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2788Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2789Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2790Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S 2791Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D 2792Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S 2793Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2794 2795# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2796Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 2797 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT 2798 -5:00 Cuba C%sT 2799 2800# Dominica 2801# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2802 2803# Dominican Republic 2804 2805# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30): 2806# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the 2807# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am.... 2808# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html 2809 2810# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2811# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST. 2812 2813# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 2814# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday, 2815# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the 2816# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date 2817# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they 2818# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going 2819# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president 2820# decided to revert. 2821 2822 2823# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2824Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 D 2825Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 S 2826Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HD 2827Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 S 2828Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 S 2829Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 S 2830# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2831Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 2832 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT 2833 -5:00 DR E%sT 1974 Oct 27 2834 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 02:00 2835 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 01:00 2836 -4:00 - AST 2837 2838# El Salvador 2839 2840# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2841Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2842Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 2843# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador 2844# instead of America/San_Salvador. 2845# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2846Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador 2847 -6:00 Salv C%sT 2848 2849# Grenada 2850# Guadeloupe 2851# St Barthélemy 2852# St Martin (French part) 2853# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2854 2855# Guatemala 2856# 2857# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: 2858# Diario Co Latino, at 2859# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>, 2860# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had 2861# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the 2862# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from 2863# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). 2864# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): 2865# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 2866# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See 2867# <http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf>. 2868 2869# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2870Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D 2871Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S 2872Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D 2873Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 2874Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D 2875Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 2876Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 2877Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 2878# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2879Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 2880 -6:00 Guat C%sT 2881 2882# Haiti 2883# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): 2884# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. 2885# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release 2886# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), 2887# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>. Translated from French, it says: 2888# 2889# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general 2890# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior 2891# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the 2892# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next 2893# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. 2894# 2895# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform 2896# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour 2897# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in 2898# October 2005. 2899# 2900# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" 2901# 2902# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): 2903# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like 2904# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a 2905# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST 2906# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). 2907# 2908# I have found this article about it (in French): 2909# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 2910# 2911# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. 2912 2913# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22): 2914# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007. 2915 2916# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11): 2917# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year, 2918# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada. 2919# So this means they have already changed their time. 2920# 2921# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510 2922# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253 2923# 2924# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11): 2925# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to 2926# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight. 2927# Assume a US-style fall back as well. 2928 2929# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10): 2930# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules 2931# as US/Canada. They did it last year as well, and it looks like they 2932# are going to observe DST every year now... 2933# 2934# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ 2935# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 2936 2937# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2938Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D 2939Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2940Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2941# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. 2942# Go with IATA. 2943Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D 2944Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S 2945Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2946Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2947Rule Haiti 2012 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 2948Rule Haiti 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2949# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2950Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 2951 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT 2952 -5:00 Haiti E%sT 2953 2954# Honduras 2955# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. 2956 2957# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): 2958# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article 2959# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 2960# months until September. La Tribuna reported today 2961# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president 2962# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. 2963 2964# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08): 2965# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at 2966# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). 2967# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html 2968 2969# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): 2970# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08) 2971# <http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12>. 2972# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. 2973 2974# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 2975# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not 2976# published, I have located this authoritative source: 2977# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 2978 2979# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30): 2980# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386 2981# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year.... 2982 2983# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2984Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2985Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 2986Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2987Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S 2988# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2989Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr 2990 -6:00 Hond C%sT 2991# 2992# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 2993 2994# Jamaica 2995# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an 2996# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the 2997# island". Go with Milne. Round to the nearest second as required by zic. 2998# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2999Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:11 - LMT 1890 # Kingston 3000 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3001 -5:00 - EST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 3002 -5:00 US E%sT 1984 3003 -5:00 - EST 3004 3005# Martinique 3006# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3007Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France 3008 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT 3009 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 3010 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 3011 -4:00 - AST 3012 3013# Montserrat 3014# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3015 3016# Nicaragua 3017# 3018# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. 3019# 3020# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): 3021# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started 3022# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of 3023# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet 3024# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". 3025# Some background information is available on the President's official site: 3026# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm 3027# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: 3028# 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 3029# 3030# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): 3031# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's 3032# assume that it is daylight saving.... 3033# 3034# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): 3035# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at 3036# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html 3037# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last 3038# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 3039# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."... 3040# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously 3041# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time 3042# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to 3043# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. 3044# 3045# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02): 3046# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). 3047# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm 3048# (2005-09-26) 3049# 3050# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05): 3051# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 3052# (my informal translation) 3053# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua 3054# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the 3055# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September. 3056# 3057# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30): 3058# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf 3059# My informal translation runs: 3060# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the 3061# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. 3062# 3063# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3064Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D 3065Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S 3066Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 3067Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3068Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 3069Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 3070# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3071Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 3072 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? 3073 -6:00 - CST 1973 May 3074 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 3075 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 3076 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 3077 -6:00 - CST 1993 3078 -5:00 - EST 1997 3079 -6:00 Nic C%sT 3080 3081# Panama 3082# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3083Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 3084 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time 3085 -5:00 - EST 3086 3087# Puerto Rico 3088# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. 3089# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3090Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan 3091 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 3092 -4:00 US A%sT 1946 3093 -4:00 - AST 3094 3095# St Kitts-Nevis 3096# St Lucia 3097# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3098 3099# St Pierre and Miquelon 3100# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'. 3101# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3102Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre 3103 -4:00 - AST 1980 May 3104 -3:00 - PMST 1987 # Pierre & Miquelon Time 3105 -3:00 Canada PM%sT 3106 3107# St Vincent and the Grenadines 3108# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3109 3110# Turks and Caicos 3111# 3112# From Chris Dunn in 3113# <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007> 3114# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the 3115# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match 3116# the recent U.S. change of dates. 3117# 3118# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28): 3119# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26] 3120# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three 3121# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: 3122# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 3123# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" 3124# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. 3125# 3126# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-01): 3127# Shanks & Pottenger say they use US DST rules, but IATA SSIM (1991/1998) 3128# says they switch at midnight. Go with Shanks & Pottenger. 3129# 3130# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3131Rule TC 1979 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 3132Rule TC 1979 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 3133Rule TC 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 3134Rule TC 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3135Rule TC 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3136# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3137Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 3138 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3139 -5:00 TC E%sT 3140 3141# British Virgin Is 3142# Virgin Is 3143# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3144 3145 3146# Local Variables: 3147# coding: utf-8 3148# End: 3149