1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4# also includes Central America and the Caribbean 5 6# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 7# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 8# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 9# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 10 11# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): 12# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 13# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 14 15############################################################################### 16 17# United States 18 19# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 20# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by 21# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904), 22# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY). 23# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870) 24# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines 25# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC, 26# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich. 27 28# From Paul Eggert (2016-09-21): 29# Dowd's proposal left many details unresolved, such as where to draw 30# lines between time zones. The key individual who made time zones 31# work in the US was William Frederick Allen - railway engineer, 32# managing editor of the Travelers' Guide, and secretary of the 33# General Time Convention, a railway standardization group. Allen 34# spent months in dialogs with scientific and railway leaders, 35# developed a workable plan to institute time zones, and presented it 36# to the General Time Convention on 1883-04-11, saying that his plan 37# meant "local time would be practically abolished" - a plus for 38# railway scheduling. By the next convention on 1883-10-11 nearly all 39# railroads had agreed and it took effect on 1883-11-18 at 12:00. 40# That Sunday was called the "day of two noons", as the eastern parts 41# of the new zones observed noon twice. Allen witnessed the 42# transition in New York City, writing: 43# 44# I heard the bells of St. Paul's strike on the old time. Four 45# minutes later, obedient to the electrical signal from the Naval 46# Observatory ... the time-ball made its rapid descent, the chimes 47# of old Trinity rang twelve measured strokes, and local time was 48# abandoned, probably forever. 49# 50# Most of the US soon followed suit. See: 51# Bartky IR. The adoption of standard time. Technol Cult 1989 Jan;30(1):25-56. 52# http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105430 53 54# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): 55# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. 56# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). 57 58# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 59# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is 60# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), 61# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 62# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. 63# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below. 64 65# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 66# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin 67# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost 68# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). 69# Not everyone is happy with the results: 70# 71# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some 72# agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving 73# daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. 74# I even object to the implication that I am wasting something 75# valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer 76# of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to 77# reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving 78# scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager 79# to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make 80# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. 81# 82# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 83# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday 84# 85# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see 86# Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint 87# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927). 88# http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html 89# 90# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919. 91# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which 92# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently 93# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time". 94 95# From Arthur David Olson: 96# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974. 97# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26 98# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post. 99 100# From Arthur David Olson: 101# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of 102# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime. 103 104# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25): 105# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. 106# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." 107# An AltaVista search turned up: 108# http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html 109# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace 110# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." 111# (August 1945) by way of confirmation. 112 113# From Joseph Gallant citing 114# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): 115# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set 116# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people 117# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, 118# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, 119# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word 120# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in 121# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. 122 123# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From 124# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times: 125# 126# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender. 127# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a 128# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news. 129# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out 130# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental 131# importance." 132# 133# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open 134# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell, 135# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over. 136# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms." 137# 138# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. 139 140# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): 141# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations 142# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of 143# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed 144# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. 145 146# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 147Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 148Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 149Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 150Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 151Rule US 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 152Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 153Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 154Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D 155Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D 156Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 157Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 158Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 159Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 160 161# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19 162# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with 163# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory. 164# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of 165# this time zone package. 166# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if 167# a particular place changes whether it observes DST. 168# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to 169# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to 170# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file. 171 172# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 173Zone EST -5:00 - EST 174Zone MST -7:00 - MST 175Zone HST -10:00 - HST 176Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT 177Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT 178Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT 179Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT 180 181# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 182# ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. 183# old new 184# Pacific Standard Time(PST) -same- 185# Yukon Standard Time(YST) -same- 186# Central Alaska S.T. (CAT) Alaska-Hawaii St[an]dard Time (AHST) 187# Nome Standard Time (NT) Bering Standard Time (BST) 188# 189# ...Alaska's timezone lines were redrawn in 1983 to give only 2 tz. 190# The YST zone now covers nearly all of the state, AHST just part 191# of the Aleutian islands. No DST. 192 193# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 194# The tables below use 'NST', not 'NT', for Nome Standard Time. 195# I invented 'CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time. 196 197# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 198# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON 199# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 200# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON 201# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 202# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER 203# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 204# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO 205# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 206# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST) 207# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT) 208# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W 209# USA " 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 210# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC 211# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY 212 213# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21): 214# The above dates are for 1988. 215# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's 216# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the 217# Aleutians. 218 219# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 220# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and 221# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names 222# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 223# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261: 224# (none) 225# United States standard eastern time 226# United States standard mountain time 227# United States standard central time 228# United States standard Pacific time 229# (none) 230# United States standard Alaska time 231# (none) 232# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for 233# public law 98-181): 234# Atlantic standard time 235# eastern standard time 236# central standard time 237# mountain standard time 238# Pacific standard time 239# Yukon standard time 240# Alaska-Hawaii standard time 241# Bering standard time 242# And after 1983-11-30: 243# Atlantic standard time 244# eastern standard time 245# central standard time 246# mountain standard time 247# Pacific standard time 248# Alaska standard time 249# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time 250# Samoa standard time 251# The law doesn't give abbreviations. 252# 253# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow: 254# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time" 255# for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. See the file "australasia". 256# 257# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17): 258# HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian 259# standard and daylight times. See section 9.47 (p 234) of the 260# U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008) 261# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf 262 263# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 264# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. 265# 266# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. 267# (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 268# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- 269# (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second 270# Sunday of March"; and 271# (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first 272# Sunday of November'. 273# (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the 274# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. 275# (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective 276# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress 277# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United 278# States. 279# (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the 280# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the 281# Department study is complete. 282 283# US eastern time, represented by New York 284 285# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, 286# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky 287# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 288# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 289# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, 290# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia 291 292# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): 293# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington 294# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... 295# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time 296# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their 297# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. 298 299# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): 300# According to today's Huntsville Times 301# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1 302# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City 303# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, 304# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" 305# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central 306# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work 307# in Columbus." 308 309# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06): 310# Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 44, 4 (1884-02-08), 208 311# says that New York City Hall time was 3 minutes 58.4 seconds fast of 312# Eastern time (i.e., -4:56:01.6) just before the 1883 switch. Round to the 313# nearest second. 314 315# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 316Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 317Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 318Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 319Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 320Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 321# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 322Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 323 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 324 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 325 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 326 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967 327 -5:00 US E%sT 328 329# US central time, represented by Chicago 330 331# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, 332# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and 333# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana 334# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 335# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western 336# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern 337# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, 338# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin 339 340# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: 341# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/statutes/Stat0175.pdf ... 342# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local 343# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations 344# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited 345# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year.... 346# 347# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12): 348# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI 349# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent.... 350# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act3.pdf 351 352# From an email administrator of the City of Fort Pierre, SD (2015-12-21): 353# Fort Pierre is technically located in the Mountain time zone as is 354# the rest of Stanley County. Most of Stanley County and Fort Pierre 355# uses the Central time zone due to doing most of their business in 356# Pierre so it simplifies schedules. I have lived in Stanley County 357# all my life and it has been that way since I can remember. (43 years!) 358# 359# From Paul Eggert (2015-12-25): 360# Assume this practice predates 1970, so Fort Pierre can use America/Chicago. 361 362# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 363Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D 364Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 365Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 366Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 367Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 368Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 369# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 370Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 371 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 372 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 373 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 374 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942 375 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 376 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 377 -6:00 US C%sT 378# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. 379Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 380 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 2:00 381 -6:00 US C%sT 382# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on 383# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time. 384# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>. 385# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and 386# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota; 387# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time. 388# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>. 389Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 390 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 2:00 391 -6:00 US C%sT 392 393# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21): 394# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the 395# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from 396# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010): 397# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm 398# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html 399 400# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24): 401# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although 402# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next 403# largest city in Mercer County). Google Maps places Beulah's city hall 404# at 47 degrees 15' 51" N, 101 degrees 46' 40" W, which yields an offset 405# of 6h47'07". 406 407Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53 408 -7:00 US M%sT 2010 Nov 7 2:00 409 -6:00 US C%sT 410 411# US mountain time, represented by Denver 412# 413# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western 414# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), 415# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, 416# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, 417# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming 418# 419# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 420Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 421Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 422Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S 423Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 424Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 425# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 426Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 427 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 428 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 429 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 430 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967 431 -7:00 US M%sT 432 433# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles 434# 435# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, 436# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county 437# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren), 438# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern 3/4 of 439# Malheur county), and Washington 440 441# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-20): 442# In early February 1948, in response to California's electricity shortage, 443# PG&E changed power frequency from 60 to 59.5 Hz during daylight hours, 444# causing electric clocks to lose six minutes per day. (This did not change 445# legal time, and is not part of the data here.) See: 446# Ross SA. An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948. 447# Working Paper No. 8, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, 448# 1973-11. http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x22k30c 449# 450# In another measure to save electricity, DST was instituted from 1948-03-14 451# at 02:01 to 1949-01-16 at 02:00, with the governor having the option to move 452# the fallback transition earlier. See pages 3-4 of: 453# http://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1948/48Vol1_Chapters.pdf 454# 455# In response: 456# 457# Governor Warren received a torrent of objecting mail, and it is not too much 458# to speculate that the objections to Daylight Saving Time were one important 459# factor in the defeat of the Dewey-Warren Presidential ticket in California. 460# -- Ross, p 25 461# 462# On December 8 the governor exercised the option, setting the date to January 1 463# (LA Times 1948-12-09). The transition time was 02:00 (LA Times 1949-01-01). 464# 465# Despite the controversy, in 1949 California voters approved Proposition 12, 466# which established DST from April's last Sunday at 01:00 until September's 467# last Sunday at 02:00. This was amended by 1962's Proposition 6, which changed 468# the fall-back date to October's last Sunday. See: 469# http://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1501&context=ca_ballot_props 470# http://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1636&context=ca_ballot_props 471# 472# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 473Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:01 1:00 D 474Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S 475Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 1:00 1:00 D 476Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 477Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 478# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 479Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 480 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 481 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 482 -8:00 US P%sT 483 484# Alaska 485# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO. 486# 487# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 488# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 489# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. 490# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian, 491# also a Friday. Include only the time zone part of this transition, 492# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent 493# the Julian calendar. 494# 495# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were 496# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. 497# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement 498# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there 499# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps 500# it's best to simply use the official transition. 501 502# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18): 503# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and 504# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall: 505# "Welcome to Juneau. Please turn your watch back to the 19th century." 506# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01. 507# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html 508# 509# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source: 510# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response. 511# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2). 512# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/ 513 514# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): 515# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: 516# 517# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27, 518# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time. 519# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on 520# Pacific Time. 521# 522# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the 523# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in 524# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26. 525# 526# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted 527# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time. 528# 529# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not 530# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions. 531# 532# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo 533# Nation.) 534 535# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09): 536# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian 537# Community office (using contact information available at 538# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla 539# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States; 540# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether 541# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their 542# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I 543# did not inquire about practices in the past. 544 545# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17): 546# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's 547# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote. 548 549# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-11-09): 550# It seems Metlakatla did go off PST on Sunday, November 1, changing 551# their time to AKST and are going to follow Alaska's DST, switching 552# between AKST and AKDT from now on.... 553# http://www.krbd.org/2015/10/30/annette-island-times-they-are-a-changing/ 554 555# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 556Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 557 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 558 -8:00 - PST 1942 559 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 560 -8:00 - PST 1969 561 -8:00 US P%sT 1980 Apr 27 2:00 562 -9:00 US Y%sT 1980 Oct 26 2:00 563 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 564 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 565 -9:00 US AK%sT 566Zone America/Sitka 14:58:47 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 567 -9:01:13 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 568 -8:00 - PST 1942 569 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 570 -8:00 - PST 1969 571 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 572 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 573 -9:00 US AK%sT 574Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 575 -8:46:18 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 576 -8:00 - PST 1942 577 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 578 -8:00 - PST 1969 579 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 580 -8:00 - PST 2015 Nov 1 2:00 581 -9:00 US AK%sT 582Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 583 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 584 -9:00 - YST 1942 585 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946 586 -9:00 - YST 1969 587 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 588 -9:00 US AK%sT 589Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 590 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 591 -10:00 - CAT 1942 592 -10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 593 -10:00 US CAT/CAPT 1946 # Peace 594 -10:00 - CAT 1967 Apr 595 -10:00 - AHST 1969 596 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 597 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 598 -9:00 US AK%sT 599Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 600 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 601 -11:00 - NST 1942 602 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 603 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 604 -11:00 - BST 1969 605 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 606 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 607 -9:00 US AK%sT 608Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 609 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 610 -11:00 - NST 1942 611 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 612 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 613 -11:00 - BST 1969 614 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 615 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 616 -10:00 US H%sT 617# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. 618# 619# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) 620# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, 621# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. 622# 623# From David Flater (2004-11-09): 624# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska 625# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which 626# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 627# possibly until 1983: 628# 629# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: 630# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important 631# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was 632# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it 633# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard 634# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, 635# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with 636# three votes for and one against." 637 638# Hawaii 639 640# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): 641# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 642# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, 643# the article is available at 644# http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf 645# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January 646# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight 647# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the 648# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the 649# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect 650# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for 651# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes 652# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of 653# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes 654# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) 655# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." 656 657# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): 658# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the 659# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of 660# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act 661# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each 662# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one 663# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th 664# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of 665# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is 666# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon 667# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to 668# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. 669# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor 670# of the Territory of Hawaii." 671# 672# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. 673# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. 674 675# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 676Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 677 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 678 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 679 -10:30 - HST 1942 Feb 9 2:00 680 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 681 -10:30 - HST 1947 Jun 8 2:00 682 -10:00 - HST 683Link Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston 684 685# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. 686 687# Arizona mostly uses MST. 688 689# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): 690# 691# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the 692# Daylight Saving Time web page 693# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23) 694# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 695# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard 696# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military 697# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to 698# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix 699# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was 700# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of 701# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as 702# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona 703# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. 704# 705# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. 706# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. 707 708# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 709Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 710 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 0:01 711 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 0:01 712 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 0:01 713 -7:00 - MST 1967 714 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 715 -7:00 - MST 716# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 717# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 718# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the 719# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its 720# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other 721# tribal nations don't use DST.) 722# 723# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26): 724# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation. 725 726# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, 727# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, 728# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, 729# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, 730# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern 731# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County) 732# switched four weeks late in 1974. 733# 734# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 735Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 736 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 737 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 738 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 739 -7:00 US M%sT 740 741# Indiana 742# 743# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: 744# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana 745# 746# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): 747# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, 748# with the following exceptions: 749# 750# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 751# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. 752# 753# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. 754# 755# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like 756# America/Kentucky/Louisville. 757# 758# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke, 759# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below. 760# 761# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, 762# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information." 763# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! 764# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 765# 766# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript 767# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level. 768# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'. 769 770# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26): 771# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana 772# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, 773# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the 774# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of 775# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the 776# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." 777# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their 778# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error. The intent 779# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. 780 781# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10): 782# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is 783# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007.... 784# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL 785 786# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 787Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 788Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 789Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 790# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 791Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 792 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 793 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 794 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 795 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00 796 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00 797 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 798 -5:00 - EST 1969 799 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 800 -5:00 - EST 2006 801 -5:00 US E%sT 802# 803# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, 804# as well as from 1976 through 2005. 805# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 806Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 807Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 808Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 809Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 810# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 811Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 812 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 813 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 814 -5:00 - EST 1969 815 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 816 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 817 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 818 -5:00 - EST 2006 819 -5:00 US E%sT 820# 821# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana, 822# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back 823# in November 2007. 824# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 825Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 826Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 827Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 828Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 829Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 830Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 831Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 832Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 833Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 834# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 835Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53 836 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 837 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 838 -5:00 - EST 1969 839 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 840 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 841 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 842 -5:00 US E%sT 843# 844# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. 845# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 846Rule Perry 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 847Rule Perry 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 848Rule Perry 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 849Rule Perry 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 850Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 851Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 852Rule Perry 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 853Rule Perry 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 854Rule Perry 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 855# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 856Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:57 857 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 858 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 859 -5:00 - EST 1969 860 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 861 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 862 -6:00 US C%sT 863# 864# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, 865# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007. 866# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 867Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 868Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 869Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 870Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 871# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 872Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53 873 -6:00 US C%sT 1955 874 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 875 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 876 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 877 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 878 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 879 -5:00 US E%sT 880# 881# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, 882# then switched back in 2006. 883# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): 884# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post 885# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of 886# 1991-10-27. 887# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 888Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 889Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 890Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 891Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 892Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 893# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 894Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 895 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 896 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 897 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 898 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 899 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 900 -6:00 US C%sT 901# 902# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in 903# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007. 904# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 905Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 906Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 907Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 908Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 909# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 910Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:35 911 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 912 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 913 -5:00 - EST 1969 914 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 915 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 916 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00 917 -5:00 US E%sT 918# 919# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. 920# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 921Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 922 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 923 -5:00 - EST 1969 924 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 925 -5:00 - EST 2006 926 -5:00 US E%sT 927 928# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. 929# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. 930# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 931Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 932Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S 933Rule Louisville 1941 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 934Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 935Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S 936Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 937Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 938# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 939Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 940 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 941 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 943 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00 944 -5:00 - EST 1968 945 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 946 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 947 -5:00 US E%sT 948# 949# Wayne County, Kentucky 950# 951# From Lake Cumberland LIFE 952# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml 953# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: 954# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from 955# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made 956# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not 957# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in 958# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also. 959# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S. 960# location in the Central time zone. 961# 962# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29): 963# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion, 964# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern 965# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, 966# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). 967# 968# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): 969# The final rule was published in the 970# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. 971# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22 972# 973Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 974 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 975 -6:00 - CST 1968 976 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 977 -5:00 US E%sT 978 979 980# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): 981# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985. 982# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central; 983# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10 984# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10 985# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 986# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 987# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 988# 989# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): 990# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, 991# so omit that change for now. 992# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. 993# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. 994# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on 995# 1999-10-31. See the 996# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. 997# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=fr21oc99-15 998# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated 999# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; 1000# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. 1001 1002# Michigan 1003# 1004# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 1005# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973. 1006# 1007# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 1008# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, 1009# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) 1010# that Detroit kept 1011# 1012# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should 1013# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the 1014# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision 1015# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to 1016# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the 1017# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted 1018# by city vote. 1019# 1020# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks. 1021# 1022# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 1023# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks 1024# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more 1025# info, so omit this for now. 1026# 1027# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975. 1028# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1029Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1030Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1031Rule Detroit 1967 only - Jun 14 2:00 1:00 D 1032Rule Detroit 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1033# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1034Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 1035 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00 1036 -5:00 - EST 1942 1037 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 1038 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1973 1039 -5:00 US E%sT 1975 1040 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 1041 -5:00 US E%sT 1042# 1043# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, 1044# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. 1045# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1046Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1047Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1048Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1049Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1050# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1051Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 1052 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1053 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 1054 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00 1055 -6:00 US C%sT 1056 1057# Navassa 1058# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service 1059# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act 1060# also claimed by Haiti 1061# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co 1062# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 1063# currently uninhabited 1064# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord", 1065# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites 1066# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). 1067 1068################################################################################ 1069 1070 1071# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): 1072# 1073# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 1074# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 1075# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 1076# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 1077# 1078# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 1079# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 1080# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 1081# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 1082# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 1083# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 1084# 1085# Other sources occasionally used include: 1086# 1087# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 1088# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 1089# which I found in the UCLA library. 1090# 1091# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 1092# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 1093# [PDF] (1914-03) 1094# 1095# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 1096# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 1097# 1098# See the 'europe' file for Greenland. 1099 1100# Canada 1101 1102# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14): 1103# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada 1104# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... 1105# 1106# UTC Standard time Daylight saving time 1107# offset French English French English 1108# -2:30 - - HAT NDT 1109# -3 - - HAA ADT 1110# -3:30 HNT NST - - 1111# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT 1112# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT 1113# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT 1114# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT 1115# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT 1116# -9 HNY YST - - 1117# 1118# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time 1119# HA: Heure Avancée DT: Daylight saving Time 1120# 1121# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic 1122# C: du Centre Central 1123# E: de l'Est Eastern 1124# M: Mountain 1125# N: Newfoundland 1126# P: du Pacifique Pacific 1127# R: des Rocheuses 1128# T: de Terre-Neuve 1129# Y: du Yukon Yukon 1130# 1131# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): 1132# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. 1133 1134# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks 1135# & Pottenger. 1136 1137# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31, 1138# 2007-03-01): 1139# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will 1140# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the 1141# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... 1142# http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm 1143# ... 1144# Nova Scotia 1145# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... 1146# http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf 1147# 1148# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to 1149# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. 1150# http://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf 1151# ... 1152# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. 1153# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. 1154# http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php 1155# ... 1156# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. 1157# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM 1158# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm 1159# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF 1160# ... 1161# P.E.I. will follow US rules.... 1162# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf 1163# ... 1164# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... 1165# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm 1166# ... 1167# Yukon 1168# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf 1169# ... 1170# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site 1171# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the 1172# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the 1173# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using 1174# JavaScript. 1175# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive 1176# ... 1177# Nunavut 1178# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007.... 1179# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf 1180 1181# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-18): 1182# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 1183# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 1184# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp 1185# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard 1186# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. 1187# 1188# National Research Council Canada maintains info about time zones and DST. 1189# http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html 1190# http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/index.html#Q5 1191# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. 1192 1193# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): 1194# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the 1195# new US DST rules, 1196 1197# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01) 1198# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles 1199# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1200# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review. 1201# The quote includes these two statements: 1202# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...' 1203# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,' 1204# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time 1205# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918. This transition was 1206# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star. 1207 1208# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed 1209# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day 1210# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets. 1211 1212# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1213Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1214Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1215Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1216Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1217Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1218Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1219Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1220Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1221Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1222Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1223 1224 1225# Newfoundland and Labrador 1226 1227# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1228# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Labrador should use NST/NDT, 1229# but the only part of Labrador that follows the rules is the 1230# southeast corner, including Port Hope Simpson and Mary's Harbour, 1231# but excluding, say, Black Tickle. 1232 1233# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1234Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D 1235Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1236# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1237Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D 1238Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S 1239# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1240Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D 1241Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S 1242# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & 1243# Pottenger. 1244Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D 1245Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S 1246# Whitman gives the following transitions: 1247# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 1248# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. 1249# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives 1250# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1251Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1252Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S 1253Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1254Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1255Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1256# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1257# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches 1258# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. 1259 1260# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12): 1261# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the 1262# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed. 1263# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings 1264# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time 1265# now occurs at 2:00AM. 1266# ... 1267# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm 1268# ... 1269# MICHAEL PELLEY | Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery 1270# Office of the Chief Information Officer 1271# Executive Council 1272# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 1273 1274Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1275Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1276Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD 1277Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1278Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D 1279Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S 1280# 1281# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. 1282# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1283Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 1284 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 1285 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1286 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 1287 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1288 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1289 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 2011 Nov 1290 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1291 1292# most of east Labrador 1293 1294# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'. 1295# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1296Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1297 -3:30:52 - NST 1918 1298 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1299 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 1300 -3:30 - NST 1936 1301 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1302 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1303 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 1304 -4:00 StJohns A%sT 2011 Nov 1305 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1306 1307 1308# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I 1309 1310# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20): 1311# From the historical weather station records available at: 1312# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada 1313# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was 1314# likely to be the same across the island.... 1315# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would 1316# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996. 1317 1318# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20): 1319# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like 1320# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; 1321# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of 1322# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now). 1323# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town 1324# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume 1325# this is a typo. 1326 1327# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1328Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1329Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1330Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D 1331Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S 1332Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D 1333Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1334Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1335Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1336Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1337Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1338Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S 1339Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D 1340Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1341Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1342Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1343Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1344Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S 1345Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1346Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1347Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1348Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1349Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1350Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 1351Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D 1352Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1353Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D 1354Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 1355Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1356Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1357Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1358Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1359Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D 1360Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1361Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1362Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1363Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1364Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1365Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1366Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1367Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1368Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1369# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1370Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1371 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 1372 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 1373 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1374 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1375 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1376 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1377Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1378 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 1379 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 1380 -4:00 - AST 1972 1381 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1382 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1383 1384# New Brunswick 1385 1386# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31): 1387# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> 1388# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and 1389# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it 1390# clear that this was the case since at least 1993. 1391# For now, assume it started in 1993. 1392 1393# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1394Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D 1395Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S 1396Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D 1397Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 1398Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D 1399Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S 1400Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D 1401Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D 1402Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1403Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1404Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1405Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1406Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1407# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1408Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 1409 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 1410 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 1411 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 1412 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1413 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 1414 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 1415 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 1416 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1417 1418# Quebec 1419 1420# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24): 1421# See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal. 1422# 1423# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63 1424# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as 1425# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST. 1426# The Quebec department of justice writes in 1427# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" 1428# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm 1429# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon 1430# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. 1431# http://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en 1432# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007. 1433# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to 1434# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. 1435 1436# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1437Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 1438 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 1439 -4:00 - AST 1440 1441# Ontario 1442 1443# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1444# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1445# Toronto. 1446# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1447# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1448# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1449# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. 1450 1451# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1452# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST 1453# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that 1454# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw 1455# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, 1456# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable 1457# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after 1458# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but 1459# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters 1460# earlier in June). 1461# 1462# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). 1463 1464# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): 1465# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star 1466# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, 1467# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. 1468# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) 1469# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html 1470# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. 1471# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report 1472# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. 1473# 1474# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1475# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and 1476# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes 1477# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in 1478# violation of the official Ontario rules. 1479# 1480# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1481# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the 1482# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: 1483# 1484# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. 1485# This means they spend about half the time on central time and 1486# the other half on eastern time. 1487# 1488# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. 1489# 1490# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern 1491# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he 1492# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." 1493# 1494# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang 1495# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." 1496 1497# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: 1498# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory 1499# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he 1500# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current 1501# time keeping since 1952, at least. 1502 1503# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): 1504# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River 1505# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from 1506# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan 1507# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time 1508# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour 1509# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move 1510# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. 1511 1512# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06): 1513# 1514# Currently the database has: 1515# 1516# # Ontario 1517# 1518# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1519# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1520# # Toronto. 1521# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1522# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1523# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1524# 1525# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom 1526# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard 1527# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that: 1528# 1529# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario, 1530# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year. 1531# 1532# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon. 1533# 1534# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began 1535# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date. 1536# 1537# By the way, the article continues by noting that: 1538# 1539# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back 1540# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October. 1541 1542# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17): 1543# 1544# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in 1545# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1546# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17, 1547# was available at 1548# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S 1549# 1550# It includes the text below (starting on page 57): 1551# 1552# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would 1553# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by 1554# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities 1555# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav- 1556# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite, 1557# for the other provinces only approximate: 1558# 1559# Province Daylight saving time used 1560# Prince Edward Island Not used. 1561# Nova Scotia In Halifax only. 1562# New Brunswick In St. John only. 1563# Quebec In the following places: 1564# Montreal Lachine 1565# Quebec Mont-Royal 1566# Lévis Iberville 1567# St. Lambert Cap de la Madelèine 1568# Verdun Loretteville 1569# Westmount Richmond 1570# Outremont St. Jérôme 1571# Longueuil Greenfield Park 1572# Arvida Waterloo 1573# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu 1574# Melbourne La Tuque 1575# St. Théophile Buckingham 1576# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along 1577# the southerly part of the province. Not 1578# used in the northwesterly part. 1579# Manitoba Not used. 1580# Saskatchewan In Regina only. 1581# Alberta Not used. 1582# British Columbia Not used. 1583# 1584# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited 1585# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont. 1586 1587# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1588Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D 1589Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S 1590Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D 1591Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1592Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D 1593Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S 1594Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1595# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" 1596# was meant. 1597Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 1598Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1599# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as 1600# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S 1601# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D 1602# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1603# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1604# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25 1605# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle). 1606Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1607Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1608Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1609Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1610Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 1611Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1612Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1613Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1614Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1615Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1616Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S 1617Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1618Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S 1619Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1620# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, 1621# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this 1622# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 1623# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. 1624Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1625 1626# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1627# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and 1628# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in 1629# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, 1630# Saskatchewan, for one year." 1631 1632# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, 1633# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): 1634# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight 1635# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur 1636# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central 1637# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to 1638# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight 1639# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so 1640# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World 1641# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer 1642# months for the remainder of the war years. 1643 1644# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1645Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 1646 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1647 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1648 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1649 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 1650 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1651Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 1652 -6:00 - CST 1910 1653 -5:00 - EST 1942 1654 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 1655 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1973 1656 -5:00 - EST 1974 1657 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1658Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 1659 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 1660 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1661 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1662Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 1663 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1664 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1665 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1666Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 1667 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1668 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1669 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 1670 -5:00 - EST 1671 1672 1673# Manitoba 1674 1675# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): 1676# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to 1677# March 27, 1987 ... said ... 1678# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of 1679# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central 1680# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next 1681# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... 1682# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had 1683# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... 1684# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying 1685# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of 1686# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central 1687# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). 1688 1689# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): 1690# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) 1691# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume 1692# it was also 02:00s in 1966. 1693 1694# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1695Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D 1696Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S 1697Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1698Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1699Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D 1700Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S 1701Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1702Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1703Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1704Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D 1705Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1706Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1707Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1708Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1709Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1710Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1711Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1712Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1713Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1714Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1715Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S 1716Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 1717Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S 1718Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 1719# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1720Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 1721 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 1722 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1723 1724 1725# Saskatchewan 1726 1727# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1728# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal 1729# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people 1730# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, 1731# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." 1732# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: 1733# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of 1734# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad 1735# time was noted. 1736 1737# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1738# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the 1739# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." 1740 1741# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1742# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. 1743# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. 1744# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. 1745# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton 1746# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. 1747 1748# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): 1749# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the 1750# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. 1751# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and 1752# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother. 1753# 1754# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years 1755# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated 1756# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial 1757# referendum favoured legislating common time practices. 1758# 1759# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of 1760# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern 1761# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in 1762# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to 1763# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and 1764# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would 1765# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST. 1766# 1767# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town 1768# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to 1769# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only 1770# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT 1771# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round 1772# since sometime in the 1960s. 1773 1774# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1775# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages 1776# long and rather painful to read. 1777# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf 1778 1779# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1780Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1781Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1782Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1783Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1784Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1785Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1786Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1787Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1788Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1789Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1790Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1791Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1792Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 1793Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1794Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1795Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1796Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1797# 1798Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1799Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1800Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1801Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1802Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1803# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1804Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep 1805 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00 1806 -6:00 - CST 1807Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep 1808 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00 1809 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950 1810 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00 1811 -6:00 - CST 1812 1813 1814# Alberta 1815 1816# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1817Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1818Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1819Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S 1820Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1821Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1822Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1823Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1824Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1825Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1826Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1827Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1828Rule Edm 1967 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1829Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1830Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1831Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1832Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1833Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1834# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1835Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep 1836 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 1837 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1838 1839 1840# British Columbia 1841 1842# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1843# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has 1844# been like Vancouver. 1845# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. 1846# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek. 1847 1848# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct: 1849 1850# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): 1851# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia 1852# that do not currently observe daylight saving: 1853# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) 1854# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District 1855# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) 1856 1857# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time 1858# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the 1859# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. 1860# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1861# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. 1862# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UTC-7 for 93 years. 1863# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. 1864 1865# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains 1866# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months 1867# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just 1868# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing 1869# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the 1870# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010. 1871# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 1872 1873# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: 1874# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) 1875# Exact date unknown 1876# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) 1877# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. 1878# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) 1879# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. 1880# note 1: 1881# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, 1882# Creston did not change its clocks. 1883# note 2: 1884# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, 1885# Creston did not oblige. 1886# note 3: 1887# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time 1888# (UTC-7) forever. 1889# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. 1890# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html 1891 1892# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. 1893# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying 1894# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before 1895# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this 1896# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough 1897# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. 1898 1899# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. 1900 1901# From Matt Johnson (2015-09-21): 1902# Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year. So while previously they 1903# were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with 1904# America/Dawson_Creek. 1905# http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html 1906# 1907# From Tim Parenti (2015-09-23): 1908# This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, 1909# America/Fort_Nelson. The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a 1910# 2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support. Effectively, the municipality has 1911# been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on 1912# 2015-03-08. 1913# 1914# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23): 1915# Shanks says Fort Nelson did not observe DST in 1946, unlike Vancouver. 1916 1917# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1918Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1919Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1920Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1921Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1922Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1923Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1924Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1925Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1926Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1927# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1928Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 1929 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1930 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1931Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 1932 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 1933 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 1934 -7:00 - MST 1935Zone America/Fort_Nelson -8:10:47 - LMT 1884 1936 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1946 1937 -8:00 - PST 1947 1938 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1939 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2015 Mar 8 2:00 1940 -7:00 - MST 1941Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 1942 -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 1943 -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 1944 -7:00 - MST 1945 1946# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon 1947 1948# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1949# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. 1950# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: 1951# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, 1952# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9.... 1953# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). 1954# [http://canlii.ca/t/7vhg] 1955# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. 1956# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. 1957# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. 1958 1959# From Brian Inglis (2015-04-14): 1960# 1961# I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following 1962# regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name, 1963# and relevant quote if available. Each regulation specifically revokes its 1964# predecessor. The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act 1965# authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes. 1966# 1967# Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or 1968# index, and only some via Canadian legal sources. Other sources used include 1969# articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS 1970# Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and 1971# 1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial 1972# and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of 1973# standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada, 1974# with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset, 1975# and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart 1976# and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as 1977# another source of information for 1970 and earlier. 1978# 1979# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26, 1980# pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 1981# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75: 1982# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance 1983# Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and 1984# thirty-fifth meridian. 1985# 1986# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.; 1987# JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System 1988# (ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1: 1989# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16. 1990# 1991# (1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine 1992# hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time. 1993# 1994# (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations 1995# varying the manner of reckoning standard time. 1996# 1997# * Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance 1998# http://? - no online source found 1999# 2000# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC, 2001# Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 2002# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon 2003# Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ... 2004# 2005# 1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon 2006# Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked. 2007# 2008# 2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the 2009# Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May, 2010# 1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that 2011# is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon 2012# Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west. 2013# 2014# 3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree 2015# longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine 2016# hours behind Greenwich Time. 2017# 2018# * Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214 2019# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html 2020# C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2021# 2022# 1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby 2023# revoked. 2024# 2025# 2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation 2026# Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973 2027# shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is 2028# to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time. 2029# 2030# * O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT 2031# http://? - no online source found 2032# 2033# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56 2034# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html 2035# O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2036# 2037# In every year between 2038# (a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and 2039# (b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October, 2040# Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and 2041# called Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2042# ... 2043# Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987. 2044# 2045# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127 2046# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html 2047# O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2048# 2049# 1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours 2050# behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock 2051# in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock 2052# in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called 2053# Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2054# 2055# 2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked. 2056# 2057# 3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007. 2058# 2059# * Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125 2060# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html 2061 2062# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): 2063# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. 2064# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 2065# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html 2066# 2067# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): 2068# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut 2069# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region. 2070 2071# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 2072# Basic Facts: The New Territory 2073# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html 2074# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, 2075# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when 2076# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. 2077 2078# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 2079# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 2080# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 2081# 2082# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 2083# 2084# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 2085# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 2086# 2087# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 2088# 2089# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 2090# 2091# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 2092# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 2093# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 2094# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 2095# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 2096# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 2097# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 2098# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 2099# the current state of affairs. 2100 2101# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 2102# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): 2103# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html 2104# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 2105# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 2106# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 2107# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 2108 2109# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 2110# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories 2111# for these potential new Zones. 2112# 2113# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the 2114# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central 2115# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the 2116# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time. 2117# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of 2118# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not 2119# required to use daylight savings. 2120 2121# From <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html> 2122# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10): 2123# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and 2124# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them 2125# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter. 2126# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against 2127# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with 2128# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on 2129# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to 2130# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's 2131# unified time zone in 1999. 2132# 2133# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government: 2134# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000. 2135 2136# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2137# Let's just keep track of the official times for now. 2138 2139# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07): 2140# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising 2141# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert 2142# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the 2143# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that 2144# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm 2145# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with 2146# more. 2147# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] 2148 2149# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): 2150# According to ... 2151# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 2152# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time 2153# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year 2154# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. 2155# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it 2156# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... 2157# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. 2158# 2159# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-17): 2160# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed 2161# daylight saving only during wartime. Gwillim Law's email also 2162# mentioned maps now maintained by National Research Council Canada; 2163# see above for an up-to-date link. 2164 2165# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01): 2166# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in 2167# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. 2168# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of 2169# daylight saving.... 2170# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html 2171 2172# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21): 2173# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute 2174# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of 2175# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had 2176# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007. 2177# 2178# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay 2179# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008... 2180# 2181# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March 2182# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I 2183# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able 2184# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was 2185# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone 2186# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT). 2187# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks 2188# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in 2189# so they could follow the correct TV schedule... 2190# 2191# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I 2192# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature 2193# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of 2194# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of 2195# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for 2196# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived 2197# and worked in Resolute Bay... 2198# 2199# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that 2200# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of 2201# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead 2202# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay 2203# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not 2204# tell me when the practice had stopped. 2205# 2206# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of 2207# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went 2208# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz 2209# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the 2210# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on 2211# Aziz: 2212# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493 2213# 2214# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using 2215# Eastern Standard Time. 2216# 2217# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the 2218# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way 2219# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in 2220# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs" 2221# 2222# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008. 2223# 2224# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz 2225# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You 2226# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a 2227# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site" 2228# 2229# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would 2230# never have contacted her. I now believe that all the information I 2231# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... 2232# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. 2233 2234# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2235Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2236Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2237Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D 2238Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 2239Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2240Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2241Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2242Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD 2243Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2244Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2245Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2246Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2247# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2248# aka Panniqtuuq 2249Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - -00 1921 # trading post est. 2250 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 2251 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2252 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2253 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2254# formerly Frobisher Bay 2255Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - -00 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. 2256 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2257 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2258 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2259# aka Qausuittuq 2260Zone America/Resolute 0 - -00 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded 2261 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2262 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2263 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 2264 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 2265 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2266# aka Kangiqiniq 2267Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - -00 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded 2268 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2269 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2270 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2271# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq 2272Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - -00 1920 # trading post est.? 2273 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2274 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2275 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 2276 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2277 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2278Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 2279 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2280 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2281Zone America/Inuvik 0 - -00 1953 # Inuvik founded 2282 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 2283 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2284 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2285Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2286 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1967 May 28 0:00 2287 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2288 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2289Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2290 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 2291 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2292 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2293 2294 2295############################################################################### 2296 2297# Mexico 2298 2299# From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07): 2300# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the 2301# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a 2302# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) 2303# http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm 2304# 2305# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. 2306# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) 2307# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. 2308# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. 2309# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. 2310# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. 2311 2312# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): 2313# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the 2314# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that 2315# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of 2316# the relevant documents. 2317 2318# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): 2319# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree 2320# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. 2321# 2322# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 2323# 2324# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the 2325# rules for the DST changes. The rules are: 2326# 2327# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones: 2328# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ) 2329# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ) 2330# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ) 2331# 2332# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October 2333# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows: 2334# BajaNorte: GMT+7 2335# BajaSur: GMT+6 2336# General: GMT+5 2337# 2338# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows: 2339# BajaNorte: GMT+8 2340# BajaSur: GMT+7 2341# General: GMT+6 2342# 2343# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th. 2344# 2345# -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- 2346# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): 2347# For an English translation of the decree, see 2348# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04). 2349# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html 2350 2351# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 2352# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times 2353# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). 2354 2355# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): 2356# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time 2357# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight 2358# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of 2359# Arizona year round. 2360 2361# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating 2362# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17): 2363# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National 2364# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each 2365# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the 2366# whole year. 2367 2368# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19): 2369# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says 2370# (translated):... 2371# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced 2372# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting 2373# this year.... 2374# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001 2375# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday 2376# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. 2377 2378# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25): 2379# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one 2380# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."... 2381# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html 2382# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep 2383# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than 2384# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish 2385# observation of Daylight Saving Time. 2386 2387# Official statute published by the Energy Department 2388# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre 2389# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, 2390# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). 2391 2392# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): 2393# 2394# http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html 2395# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times 2396# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. 2397# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that 2398# the Federal District will not adopt DST. 2399# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree. 2400# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including 2401# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools. 2402# 2403# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules. 2404 2405# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01): 2406# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight 2407# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier 2408# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight 2409# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California 2410# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight 2411# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president 2412# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending 2413# September 30, 2001. 2414# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp> 2415# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31) 2416 2417# From Reuters (2001-09-04): 2418# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was 2419# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the 2420# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation 2421# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 2422# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to 2423# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not 2424# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. 2425 2426# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12): 2427# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted 2428# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico.... 2429# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20) 2430# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied. 2431 2432# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28): 2433# 2434# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2435# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern 2436# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as 2437# > the United States. 2438# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from 2439# 2010, some border regions will be the same: 2440# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/ 2441# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939 2442# (Spanish) 2443# 2444# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here: 2445# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf 2446# (Gaceta Parlamentaria) 2447# 2448# There is also a list of the votes here: 2449# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html 2450# 2451# Our page: 2452# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html 2453 2454# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20): 2455# The page 2456# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2457# includes this text: 2458# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California; 2459# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila; 2460# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en 2461# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto 2462# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos 2463# horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2464# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja 2465# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea 2466# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte 2467# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el 2468# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá 2469# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a 2470# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2471 2472# From Steffen Thorsen (2014-12-08), translated by Gwillim Law: 2473# The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015. 2474# 2475# http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/12/04/medio-ambiente/congreso-aprueba-una-hora-mas-de-sol-en-qroo 2476# "With this change, the time conflict that has existed between the municipios 2477# of Quintana Roo and the municipio of Felipe Carrillo Puerto may come to an 2478# end. The latter declared itself in rebellion 15 years ago when a time change 2479# was initiated in Mexico, and since then it has refused to change its time 2480# zone along with the rest of the country." 2481# 2482# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-01-14), translated by Gwillim Law: 2483# http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva-zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html 2484# "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday 2485# of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current 2486# time..." 2487# Also, the new zone will not use DST. 2488# 2489# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02): 2490# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally 2491# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación 2492# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015 2493# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico: 2494# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W, 2495# includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below. 2496# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the 2497# states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía 2498# de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora. 2499# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the 2500# state of Baja California. 2501# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state 2502# of Quintana Roo. 2503# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the 2504# longitude they are located at. 2505 2506# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2507Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D 2508Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S 2509Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D 2510Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S 2511Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War 2512Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S 2513Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D 2514Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S 2515Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2516Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2517Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2518Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2519Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2520Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2521# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2522# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún 2523Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56 2524 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2525 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 2526 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2015 Feb 1 2:00 2527 -5:00 - EST 2528# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida 2529Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 2530 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2531 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 2532 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2533# Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) 2534# This includes the following municipalities: 2535# in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava, 2536# Guerrero, Hidalgo. 2537# in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama. 2538# in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, 2539# Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. 2540# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, 2541# 2016-03-12 2542# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-horario-de-verano-en-zona-fronteriza 2543Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 2544 -6:00 - CST 1988 2545 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2546 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 2547 -6:00 US C%sT 2548# Durango; Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) 2549Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44 2550 -6:00 - CST 1988 2551 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2552 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2553# Central Mexico 2554Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 2555 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2556 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2557 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2558 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2559 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2560 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 2:00 2561 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 2562 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2563# Chihuahua (near US border) 2564# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, 2565# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. 2566# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.) 2567Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 2568 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2569 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2570 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2571 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2572 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2573 -6:00 - CST 1996 2574 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2575 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2576 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 2577 -7:00 US M%sT 2578# Chihuahua (away from US border) 2579Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40 2580 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2581 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2582 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2583 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2584 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2585 -6:00 - CST 1996 2586 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2587 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2588 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2589# Sonora 2590Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08 2591 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2592 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2593 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2594 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2595 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2596 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2597 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2598 -8:00 - PST 1970 2599 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999 2600 -7:00 - MST 2601 2602# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21): 2603# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) 2604# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to 2605# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco). 2606# 2607# (Spanish) 2608# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del 2609# país, a partir de este domingo 2610# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748 2611# 2612# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del 2613# País 2614# 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 2615# 2616# (English) 2617# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone 2618# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml 2619# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html 2620# 2621# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that 2622# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time 2623# zone ..." 2624# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa 2625 2626# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01): 2627# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters. 2628 2629# Mazatlán 2630Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20 2631 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2632 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2633 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2634 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2635 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2636 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2637 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2638 -8:00 - PST 1970 2639 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2640 2641# Bahía de Banderas 2642Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:59:00 2643 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2644 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2645 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2646 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2647 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2648 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2649 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2650 -8:00 - PST 1970 2651 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 2652 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2653 2654# Baja California 2655Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 2656 -7:00 - MST 1924 2657 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2658 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2659 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2660 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2661 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2662 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2663 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2664 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2665 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2666 -8:00 - PST 1954 2667 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2668 -8:00 - PST 1976 2669 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2670 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2671 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2672 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 2673 -8:00 US P%sT 2674# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2675# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from 2676# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 2677# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say 2678# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports 2679# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and 2680# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that 2681# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns 2682# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone 2683# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its 2684# name or contents should be. 2685# 2686# From Paul Eggert (2015-10-08): 2687# Formerly there was an America/Santa_Isabel zone, but this appears to 2688# have come from a misreading of 2689# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2690# It has been moved to the 'backward' file. 2691# 2692# 2693# Revillagigedo Is 2694# no information 2695 2696############################################################################### 2697 2698# Anguilla 2699# Antigua and Barbuda 2700# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2701 2702# Bahamas 2703# 2704# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. 2705# 2706# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): 2707# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST 2708# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... 2709# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 2710 2711# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2712Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2713Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2714# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2715Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2716 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 2717 -5:00 US E%sT 2718 2719# Barbados 2720 2721# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that. 2722 2723# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2724Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D 2725Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2726Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2727Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2728Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S 2729# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2730Zone America/Barbados -3:58:29 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown 2731 -3:58:29 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time 2732 -4:00 Barb A%sT 2733 2734# Belize 2735# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2736# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2737Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 HD 2738Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 S 2739Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 D 2740Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 S 2741Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 D 2742Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 S 2743# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2744Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 2745 -6:00 Belize C%sT 2746 2747# Bermuda 2748 2749# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower, 2750# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that. 2751 2752# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): 2753 2754# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday 2755# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone 2756# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on 2757# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. 2758# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 2759 2760# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2761Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton 2762 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2763 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976 2764 -4:00 US A%sT 2765 2766# Cayman Is 2767# See America/Panama. 2768 2769# Costa Rica 2770 2771# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest. 2772 2773# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2774Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2775Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2776Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2777# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; 2778# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2779Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S 2780Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S 2781# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'. 2782# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2783Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José 2784 -5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time 2785 -6:00 CR C%sT 2786# Coco 2787# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica 2788 2789# Cuba 2790 2791# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2792# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57 2793# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations. 2794# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger. 2795 2796# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29): 2797# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between 2798# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on 2799# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. 2800# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that 2801# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving 2802# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of 2803# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched 2804# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have 2805# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) 2806 2807# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11): 2808# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the 2809# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ... 2810# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html 2811 2812# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): 2813# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. 2814# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2815# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html 2816# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras 2817# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return 2818# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". 2819# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. 2820 2821# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): 2822# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone 2823# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: 2824# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html 2825 2826# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21): 2827# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end 2828# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see 2829# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html 2830# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, 2831# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning 2832# to the normal schedule.... 2833 2834# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02): 2835# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday, 2836# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10. 2837# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules, 2838# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual. 2839# 2840# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25): 2841# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week 2842# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. 2843# 2844# He supplied these references: 2845# 2846# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES 2847# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm 2848# 2849# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25): 2850# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba): 2851# 2852# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre 2853# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html 2854# 2855# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html 2856 2857# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09): 2858# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight 2859# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to 2860# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj 2861# a Cuban information station, and heard 2862# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"), 2863# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time. 2864 2865# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12): 2866# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16... 2867# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish): 2868# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm 2869# 2870# Some more background information is posted here: 2871# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html 2872# 2873# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963, 2874# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the 2875# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been 2876# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception 2877# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to 2878# change some historic records as well. 2879# 2880# One example: 2881# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm 2882 2883# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13): 2884# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative 2885# web site, the Granma. Please check out 2886# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html 2887# 2888# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change 2889# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday. 2890 2891# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12): 2892# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward. 2893 2894# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04) 2895# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on 2896# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009- 2897# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought. 2898# 2899# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html 2900# (in Spanish) 2901 2902# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09) 2903# I listened over the Internet to 2904# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj 2905# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the 2906# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating 2907# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. 2908 2909# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): 2910# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 2911# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has 2912# changed at all). 2913# 2914# Source: 2915# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html 2916# 2917# Our info: 2918# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html 2919# 2920# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30) 2921# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back 2922# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00. 2923# 2924# One source (Spanish) 2925# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html 2926# 2927# Our page: 2928# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html 2929# 2930# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01) 2931# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March 2932# 31 and April 1. 2933# 2934# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish): 2935# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril 2936# 2937# Our info on it: 2938# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html 2939 2940# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03): 2941# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back 2942# to standard time on 2012-11-04: 2943# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre 2944# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03): 2945# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November. 2946 2947# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2948Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D 2949Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S 2950Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2951Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2952Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2953Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2954Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 2955Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 2956Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D 2957Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 2958Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D 2959Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2960Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 2961Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2962Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2963Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S 2964Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2965Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D 2966Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2967Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2968Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D 2969Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D 2970Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2971Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S 2972Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S 2973Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S 2974Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2975Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2976Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D 2977Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2978Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2979Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2980Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2981Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2982Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2983Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S 2984Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D 2985Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S 2986Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2987 2988# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2989Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 2990 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT 2991 -5:00 Cuba C%sT 2992 2993# Dominica 2994# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2995 2996# Dominican Republic 2997 2998# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30): 2999# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the 3000# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am.... 3001# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html 3002 3003# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 3004# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST. 3005 3006# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 3007# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday, 3008# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the 3009# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date 3010# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they 3011# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going 3012# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president 3013# decided to revert. 3014 3015 3016# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3017Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 D 3018Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 S 3019Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HD 3020Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 S 3021Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 S 3022Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 S 3023# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3024Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 3025 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT 3026 -5:00 DR E%sT 1974 Oct 27 3027 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 2:00 3028 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 1:00 3029 -4:00 - AST 3030 3031# El Salvador 3032 3033# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3034Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3035Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3036# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador 3037# instead of America/San_Salvador. 3038# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3039Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador 3040 -6:00 Salv C%sT 3041 3042# Grenada 3043# Guadeloupe 3044# St Barthélemy 3045# St Martin (French part) 3046# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3047 3048# Guatemala 3049# 3050# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: 3051# Diario Co Latino, at 3052# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>, 3053# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had 3054# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the 3055# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from 3056# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). 3057# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): 3058# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 3059# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See 3060# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf 3061 3062# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3063Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D 3064Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S 3065Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D 3066Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 3067Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D 3068Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 3069Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 3070Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 3071# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3072Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 3073 -6:00 Guat C%sT 3074 3075# Haiti 3076# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): 3077# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. 3078# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release 3079# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), 3080# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>. Translated from French, it says: 3081# 3082# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general 3083# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior 3084# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the 3085# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next 3086# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. 3087# 3088# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform 3089# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour 3090# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in 3091# October 2005. 3092# 3093# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" 3094# 3095# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): 3096# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like 3097# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a 3098# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST 3099# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). 3100# 3101# I have found this article about it (in French): 3102# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 3103# 3104# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. 3105 3106# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22): 3107# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007. 3108 3109# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11): 3110# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year, 3111# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada. 3112# So this means they have already changed their time. 3113# 3114# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510 3115# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253 3116# 3117# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11): 3118# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to 3119# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight. 3120# Assume a US-style fall back as well. 3121 3122# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10): 3123# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules 3124# as US/Canada. They did it last year as well, and it looks like they 3125# are going to observe DST every year now... 3126# 3127# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ 3128# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 3129 3130# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-03-12): 3131# Jean Antoine, editor of www.haiti-reference.com informed us that Haiti 3132# are not going on DST this year. Several other resources confirm this: ... 3133# http://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/presse/heure_d_t_pas_de_changement_d_heure_pr_vu_pour_cet_ann_e.html 3134# http://www.vantbefinfo.com/changement-dheure-pas-pour-haiti/ 3135# http://news.anmwe.com/haiti-lheure-nationale-ne-sera-ni-avancee-ni-reculee-cette-annee/ 3136 3137# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3138Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D 3139Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3140Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3141# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. 3142# Go with IATA. 3143Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D 3144Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S 3145Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3146Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3147Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3148Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3149# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3150Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 3151 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT 3152 -5:00 Haiti E%sT 3153 3154# Honduras 3155# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. 3156 3157# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): 3158# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article 3159# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 3160# months until September. La Tribuna reported today 3161# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president 3162# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. 3163 3164# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08): 3165# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at 3166# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). 3167# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html 3168 3169# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): 3170# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08). 3171# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12 3172# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. 3173 3174# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 3175# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not 3176# published, I have located this authoritative source: 3177# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 3178 3179# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30): 3180# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386 3181# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year.... 3182 3183# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3184Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3185Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3186Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3187Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S 3188# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3189Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr 3190 -6:00 Hond C%sT 3191# 3192# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 3193 3194# Jamaica 3195# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an 3196# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the 3197# island". Go with Milne. Round to the nearest second as required by zic. 3198# 3199# Shanks & Pottenger give April 28 for the 1974 spring-forward transition, but 3200# Lance Neita writes that Prime Minister Michael Manley decreed it January 5. 3201# Assume Neita meant Jan 6 02:00, the same as the US. Neita also writes that 3202# Manley's supporters associated this act with Manley's nickname "Joshua" 3203# (recall that in the Bible the sun stood still at Joshua's request), 3204# and with the Rod of Correction which Manley said he had received from 3205# Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. See: 3206# Neita L. The politician in all of us. Jamaica Observer 2014-09-20 3207# http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-politician-in-all-of-us_17573647 3208# 3209# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3210Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:11 - LMT 1890 # Kingston 3211 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3212 -5:00 - EST 1974 3213 -5:00 US E%sT 1984 3214 -5:00 - EST 3215 3216# Martinique 3217# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3218Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France 3219 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT 3220 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 3221 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 3222 -4:00 - AST 3223 3224# Montserrat 3225# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3226 3227# Nicaragua 3228# 3229# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. 3230# 3231# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): 3232# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started 3233# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of 3234# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet 3235# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". 3236# Some background information is available on the President's official site: 3237# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm 3238# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: 3239# 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 3240# 3241# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): 3242# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's 3243# assume that it is daylight saving.... 3244# 3245# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): 3246# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at 3247# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html 3248# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last 3249# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 3250# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."... 3251# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously 3252# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time 3253# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to 3254# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. 3255# 3256# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02): 3257# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). 3258# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm 3259# (2005-09-26) 3260# 3261# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05): 3262# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 3263# (my informal translation) 3264# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua 3265# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the 3266# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September. 3267# 3268# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30): 3269# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf 3270# My informal translation runs: 3271# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the 3272# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. 3273# 3274# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3275Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D 3276Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S 3277Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 3278Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3279Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 3280Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 3281# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3282Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 3283 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? 3284 -6:00 - CST 1973 May 3285 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 3286 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 3287 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 3288 -6:00 - CST 1993 3289 -5:00 - EST 1997 3290 -6:00 Nic C%sT 3291 3292# Panama 3293# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3294Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 3295 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time 3296 -5:00 - EST 3297Link America/Panama America/Cayman 3298 3299# Puerto Rico 3300# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. 3301# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3302Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan 3303 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 3304 -4:00 US A%sT 1946 3305 -4:00 - AST 3306 3307# St Kitts-Nevis 3308# St Lucia 3309# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3310 3311# St Pierre and Miquelon 3312# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'. 3313# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3314Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre 3315 -4:00 - AST 1980 May 3316 -3:00 - PMST 1987 # Pierre & Miquelon Time 3317 -3:00 Canada PM%sT 3318 3319# St Vincent and the Grenadines 3320# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3321 3322# Turks and Caicos 3323# 3324# From Chris Dunn in 3325# http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007 3326# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the 3327# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match 3328# the recent U.S. change of dates. 3329# 3330# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28): 3331# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26] 3332# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three 3333# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: 3334# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 3335# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" 3336# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. 3337# 3338# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): 3339# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UT -04 year-round. See: 3340# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm 3341# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ... 3342# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04): 3343# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to 3344# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year.... 3345# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm 3346# 3347# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3348Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 3349 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3350 -5:00 - EST 1979 3351 -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00 3352 -4:00 - AST 3353 3354# British Virgin Is 3355# Virgin Is 3356# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3357 3358 3359# Local Variables: 3360# coding: utf-8 3361# End: 3362