1# tzdb data for North and Central America and environs 2 3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 5 6# also includes Central America and the Caribbean 7 8# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 9# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 10# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 11# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 12 13# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): 14# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 15# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 16 17############################################################################### 18 19# United States 20 21# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 22# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by 23# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904), 24# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY). 25# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870) 26# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines 27# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC, 28# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich. 29 30# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20): 31# Dowd's proposal left many details unresolved, such as where to draw 32# lines between time zones. The key individual who made time zones 33# work in the US was William Frederick Allen - railway engineer, 34# managing editor of the Travelers' Guide, and secretary of the 35# General Time Convention, a railway standardization group. Allen 36# spent months in dialogs with scientific and railway leaders, 37# developed a workable plan to institute time zones, and presented it 38# to the General Time Convention on 1883-04-11, saying that his plan 39# meant "local time would be practically abolished" - a plus for 40# railway scheduling. By the next convention on 1883-10-11 nearly all 41# railroads had agreed and it took effect on 1883-11-18. That Sunday 42# was called the "day of two noons", as some locations observed noon 43# twice. Allen witnessed the transition in New York City, writing: 44# 45# I heard the bells of St. Paul's strike on the old time. Four 46# minutes later, obedient to the electrical signal from the Naval 47# Observatory ... the time-ball made its rapid descent, the chimes 48# of old Trinity rang twelve measured strokes, and local time was 49# abandoned, probably forever. 50# 51# Most of the US soon followed suit. See: 52# Bartky IR. The adoption of standard time. Technol Cult 1989 Jan;30(1):25-56. 53# https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105430 54 55# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): 56# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. 57# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). 58 59# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 60# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is 61# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), 62# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 63# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. 64# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below. 65 66# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 67# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin 68# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost 69# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). 70# Not everyone is happy with the results: 71# 72# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some 73# agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving 74# daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. 75# I even object to the implication that I am wasting something 76# valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer 77# of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to 78# reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving 79# scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager 80# to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make 81# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. 82# 83# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 84# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday 85# 86# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see 87# Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint 88# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927). 89# http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html 90# 91# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919. 92# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which 93# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently 94# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time". 95 96# From Arthur David Olson: 97# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974. 98# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26 99# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post. 100 101# From Arthur David Olson: 102# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of 103# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime. 104 105# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25): 106# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. 107# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." 108# An AltaVista search turned up: 109# https://web.archive.org/web/20000926032210/http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html 110# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace 111# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." 112# (August 1945) by way of confirmation. 113# 114# From Paul Eggert (2017-09-23): 115# This was the V-J Day issue of the Clamdigger, a Rowayton, CT newsletter. 116 117# From Joseph Gallant citing 118# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): 119# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set 120# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people 121# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, 122# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, 123# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word 124# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in 125# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. 126 127# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From 128# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times: 129# 130# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender. 131# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a 132# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news. 133# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out 134# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental 135# importance." 136# 137# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open 138# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell, 139# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over. 140# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms." 141# 142# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. 143 144# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): 145# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations 146# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of 147# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed 148# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. 149 150# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 151Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 152Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 153Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 154Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 155Rule US 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 156Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 157Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 158Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D 159Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D 160Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 161Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 162Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 163Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 164 165# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19 166# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with 167# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory. 168# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of 169# this time zone package. 170# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if 171# a particular place changes whether it observes DST. 172# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to 173# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to 174# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file. 175 176# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 177Zone EST -5:00 - EST 178Zone MST -7:00 - MST 179Zone HST -10:00 - HST 180Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT 181Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT 182Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT 183Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT 184 185# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 186# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON 187# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 188# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON 189# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 190# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER 191# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 192# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO 193# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 194# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST) 195# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT) 196# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W 197# USA " 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 198# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC 199# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY 200 201# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21): 202# The above dates are for 1988. 203# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's 204# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the 205# Aleutians. 206 207# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 208# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and 209# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names 210# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 211# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261: 212# (none) 213# United States standard eastern time 214# United States standard mountain time 215# United States standard central time 216# United States standard Pacific time 217# (none) 218# United States standard Alaska time 219# (none) 220# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for 221# public law 98-181): 222# Atlantic standard time 223# eastern standard time 224# central standard time 225# mountain standard time 226# Pacific standard time 227# Yukon standard time 228# Alaska-Hawaii standard time 229# Bering standard time 230# And after 1983-11-30: 231# Atlantic standard time 232# eastern standard time 233# central standard time 234# mountain standard time 235# Pacific standard time 236# Alaska standard time 237# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time 238# Samoa standard time 239# The law doesn't give abbreviations. 240# 241# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-19): 242# Here are URLs for the 1918 and 1966 legislation: 243# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=40&page=451 244# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=80&page=108 245# Although the 1918 names were officially "United States Standard 246# Eastern Time" and similarly for "Central", "Mountain", "Pacific", 247# and "Alaska", in practice "Standard" was placed just before "Time", 248# as codified in 1966. In practice, Alaska time was abbreviated "AST" 249# before 1968. Summarizing the 1967 name changes: 250# 1918 names 1967 names 251# -08 Standard Pacific Time (PST) Pacific standard time (PST) 252# -09 (unofficial) Yukon (YST) Yukon standard time (YST) 253# -10 Standard Alaska Time (AST) Alaska-Hawaii standard time (AHST) 254# -11 (unofficial) Nome (NST) Bering standard time (BST) 255# 256# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow: 257# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time" 258# for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. See the file "australasia". 259# 260# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17): 261# HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian 262# standard and daylight times. See section 9.47 (p 234) of the 263# U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008) 264# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf 265 266# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 267# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. 268# 269# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. 270# (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 271# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- 272# (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second 273# Sunday of March"; and 274# (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first 275# Sunday of November'. 276# (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the 277# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. 278# (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective 279# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress 280# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United 281# States. 282# (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the 283# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the 284# Department study is complete. 285 286# US eastern time, represented by New York 287 288# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, 289# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky 290# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 291# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 292# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, 293# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia 294 295# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): 296# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington 297# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... 298# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time 299# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their 300# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. 301 302# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): 303# According to today's Huntsville Times 304# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1 305# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City 306# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, 307# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" 308# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central 309# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work 310# in Columbus." 311# 312# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-22): 313# Four cities are involved. The two not mentioned above are Smiths Station 314# and Valley. Barbara Brooks, Valley's assistant treasurer, heard it started 315# because West Point Pepperell textile mills were in Alabama while the 316# corporate office was in Georgia, and residents voted to keep Eastern 317# time even after the mills closed. See: Kazek K. Did you know which 318# Alabama towns are in a different time zone? al.com 2017-02-06. 319# http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/02/do_you_know_which_alabama_town.html 320 321# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06): 322# Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 44, 4 (1884-02-08), 208 323# says that New York City Hall time was 3 minutes 58.4 seconds fast of 324# Eastern time (i.e., -4:56:01.6) just before the 1883 switch. Round to the 325# nearest second. 326 327# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 328Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 329Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 330Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 331Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 332Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 333# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 334Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 335 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 336 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 337 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 338 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967 339 -5:00 US E%sT 340 341# US central time, represented by Chicago 342 343# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, 344# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and 345# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana 346# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 347# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western 348# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern 349# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, 350# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin 351 352# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-07): 353# In 1869 the Chicago Astronomical Society contracted with the city to keep 354# time. Though delayed by the Great Fire, by 1880 a wire ran from the 355# Dearborn Observatory (on the University of Chicago campus) to City Hall, 356# which then sent signals to police and fire stations. However, railroads got 357# their time signals from the Allegheny Observatory, the Madison Observatory, 358# the Ann Arbor Observatory, etc., so their clocks did not agree with each 359# other or with the city's official time. The confusion took some years to 360# clear up. See: 361# Moser M. How Chicago gave America its time zones. Chicago. 2018-01-04. 362# http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/January-2018/How-Chicago-Gave-America-Its-Time-Zones/ 363 364# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: 365# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/175.pdf 366# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local 367# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations 368# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited 369# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year.... 370# 371# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12): 372# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI 373# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent.... 374# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2007/related/acts/3 375 376# From an email administrator of the City of Fort Pierre, SD (2015-12-21): 377# Fort Pierre is technically located in the Mountain time zone as is 378# the rest of Stanley County. Most of Stanley County and Fort Pierre 379# uses the Central time zone due to doing most of their business in 380# Pierre so it simplifies schedules. I have lived in Stanley County 381# all my life and it has been that way since I can remember. (43 years!) 382# 383# From Paul Eggert (2015-12-25): 384# Assume this practice predates 1970, so Fort Pierre can use America/Chicago. 385 386# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 387Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D 388Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 389Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 390Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 391Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 392Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 393# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 394Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 395 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 396 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 397 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 398 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942 399 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 400 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 401 -6:00 US C%sT 402# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. 403Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 404 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 2:00 405 -6:00 US C%sT 406# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on 407# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time. 408# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>. 409# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and 410# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota; 411# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time. 412# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>. 413Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 414 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 2:00 415 -6:00 US C%sT 416 417# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21): 418# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the 419# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from 420# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010): 421# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm 422# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html 423 424# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24): 425# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although 426# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next 427# largest city in Mercer County). Google Maps places Beulah's city hall 428# at 47° 15' 51" N, 101° 46' 40" W, which yields an offset of 6h47'07". 429 430Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53 431 -7:00 US M%sT 2010 Nov 7 2:00 432 -6:00 US C%sT 433 434# US mountain time, represented by Denver 435# 436# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western 437# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), 438# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, 439# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, 440# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming 441# 442# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 443Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 444Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 445Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S 446Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 447Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 448# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 449Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 450 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 451 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 452 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 453 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967 454 -7:00 US M%sT 455 456# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles 457# 458# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, 459# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county 460# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren), 461# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern ¾ of 462# Malheur county), and Washington 463 464# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-20): 465# In early February 1948, in response to California's electricity shortage, 466# PG&E changed power frequency from 60 to 59.5 Hz during daylight hours, 467# causing electric clocks to lose six minutes per day. (This did not change 468# legal time, and is not part of the data here.) See: 469# Ross SA. An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948. 470# Working Paper No. 8, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, 471# 1973-11. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x22k30c 472# 473# In another measure to save electricity, DST was instituted from 1948-03-14 474# at 02:01 to 1949-01-16 at 02:00, with the governor having the option to move 475# the fallback transition earlier. See pages 3-4 of: 476# http://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1948/48Vol1_Chapters.pdf 477# 478# In response: 479# 480# Governor Warren received a torrent of objecting mail, and it is not too much 481# to speculate that the objections to Daylight Saving Time were one important 482# factor in the defeat of the Dewey-Warren Presidential ticket in California. 483# -- Ross, p 25 484# 485# On December 8 the governor exercised the option, setting the date to January 1 486# (LA Times 1948-12-09). The transition time was 02:00 (LA Times 1949-01-01). 487# 488# Despite the controversy, in 1949 California voters approved Proposition 12, 489# which established DST from April's last Sunday at 01:00 until September's 490# last Sunday at 02:00. This was amended by 1962's Proposition 6, which changed 491# the fall-back date to October's last Sunday. See: 492# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1501&context=ca_ballot_props 493# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1636&context=ca_ballot_props 494# 495# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 496Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:01 1:00 D 497Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S 498Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 1:00 1:00 D 499Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 500Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 501# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 502Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 503 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 504 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 505 -8:00 US P%sT 506 507# Alaska 508# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -09 per USNO. 509# 510# From Paul Eggert (2017-06-15): 511# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 512# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. 513# On Friday, 1867-10-18 (Gregorian), at precisely 15:30 local time, the 514# Russian forts and fleet at Sitka fired salutes to mark the ceremony of 515# formal transfer. See the Sacramento Daily Union (1867-11-14), p 3, col 2. 516# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18671114.2.12.1 517# Sitka workers did not change their calendars until Sunday, 1867-10-20, 518# and so celebrated two Sundays that week. See: Ahllund T (tr Hallamaa P). 519# From the memoirs of a Finnish workman. Alaska History. 2006 Fall;21(2):1-25. 520# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ahllund-2006-Memoirs-of-a-Finnish-Workman.pdf 521# Include only the time zone part of this transition, ignoring the switch 522# from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent the Julian calendar. 523# 524# As far as we know, of the locations mentioned below only Sitka was 525# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. 526# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement was 527# destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) Many of Alaska's inhabitants 528# were unaware of the US acquisition of Alaska, much less of any calendar or 529# time change. However, the Russian-influenced part of Alaska did observe 530# Russian time, and it is more accurate to model this than to ignore it. 531# The database format requires an exact transition time; use the Russian 532# salute as a somewhat-arbitrary time for the formal transfer of control for 533# all of Alaska. Sitka's UTC offset is -9:01:13; adjust its 15:30 to the 534# local times of other Alaskan locations so that they change simultaneously. 535 536# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18): 537# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and 538# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall: 539# "Welcome to Juneau. Please turn your watch back to the 19th century." 540# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01. 541# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html 542# 543# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source: 544# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response. 545# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2). 546# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/ 547 548# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): 549# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: 550# 551# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27, 552# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time. 553# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on 554# Pacific Time. 555# 556# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the 557# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in 558# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26. 559# 560# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted 561# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time. 562# 563# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not 564# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions. 565# 566# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo 567# Nation.) 568 569# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09): 570# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian 571# Community office (using contact information available at 572# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla 573# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States; 574# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether 575# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their 576# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I 577# did not inquire about practices in the past. 578 579# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17): 580# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's 581# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote. 582 583# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-11-09): 584# It seems Metlakatla did go off PST on Sunday, November 1, changing 585# their time to AKST and are going to follow Alaska's DST, switching 586# between AKST and AKDT from now on.... 587# https://www.krbd.org/2015/10/30/annette-island-times-they-are-a-changing/ 588 589# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 590Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:33:32 591 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 592 -8:00 - PST 1942 593 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 594 -8:00 - PST 1969 595 -8:00 US P%sT 1980 Apr 27 2:00 596 -9:00 US Y%sT 1980 Oct 26 2:00 597 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 598 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 599 -9:00 US AK%sT 600Zone America/Sitka 14:58:47 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:30 601 -9:01:13 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 602 -8:00 - PST 1942 603 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 604 -8:00 - PST 1969 605 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 606 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 607 -9:00 US AK%sT 608Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:44:55 609 -8:46:18 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 610 -8:00 - PST 1942 611 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 612 -8:00 - PST 1969 613 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 614 -8:00 - PST 2015 Nov 1 2:00 615 -9:00 US AK%sT 616Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:12:18 617 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 618 -9:00 - YST 1942 619 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946 620 -9:00 - YST 1969 621 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 622 -9:00 US AK%sT 623Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 14:31:37 624 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 625 -10:00 - AST 1942 626 -10:00 US A%sT 1967 Apr 627 -10:00 - AHST 1969 628 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 629 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 630 -9:00 US AK%sT 631Zone America/Nome 12:58:22 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 13:29:35 632 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 633 -11:00 - NST 1942 634 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 635 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 636 -11:00 - BST 1969 637 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 638 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 639 -9:00 US AK%sT 640Zone America/Adak 12:13:22 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 12:44:35 641 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 642 -11:00 - NST 1942 643 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 644 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 645 -11:00 - BST 1969 646 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 647 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 648 -10:00 US H%sT 649# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. 650# 651# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) 652# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, 653# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. 654# 655# From David Flater (2004-11-09): 656# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska 657# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which 658# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 659# possibly until 1983: 660# 661# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: 662# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important 663# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was 664# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it 665# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard 666# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, 667# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with 668# three votes for and one against." 669 670# Hawaii 671 672# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): 673# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 674# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, 675# the article is available at 676# https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf 677# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January 678# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight 679# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the 680# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the 681# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect 682# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for 683# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes 684# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of 685# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes 686# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) 687# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." 688 689# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): 690# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the 691# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of 692# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act 693# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each 694# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one 695# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th 696# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of 697# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is 698# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon 699# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to 700# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. 701# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor 702# of the Territory of Hawaii." 703# 704# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. 705# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. 706 707# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 708Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 709 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 710 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 711 -10:30 - HST 1942 Feb 9 2:00 712 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 713 -10:30 - HST 1947 Jun 8 2:00 714 -10:00 - HST 715 716# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. 717 718# Arizona mostly uses MST. 719 720# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): 721# 722# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the 723# Daylight Saving Time web page 724# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23) 725# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 726# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard 727# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military 728# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to 729# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix 730# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was 731# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of 732# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as 733# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona 734# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. 735# 736# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. 737# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. 738 739# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 740Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 741 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 0:01 742 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 0:01 743 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 0:01 744 -7:00 - MST 1967 745 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 746 -7:00 - MST 747# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 748# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 749# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the 750# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its 751# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other 752# tribal nations don't use DST.) 753# 754# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26): 755# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation. 756 757# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, 758# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, 759# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, 760# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, 761# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern 762# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County) 763# switched four weeks late in 1974. 764# 765# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 766Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 767 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 768 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 769 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 770 -7:00 US M%sT 771 772# Indiana 773# 774# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: 775# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana 776# 777# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): 778# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, 779# with the following exceptions: 780# 781# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 782# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. 783# 784# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. 785# 786# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like 787# America/Kentucky/Louisville. 788# 789# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke, 790# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below. 791# 792# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, 793# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information." 794# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! 795# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 796# 797# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript 798# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level. 799# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'. 800 801# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26): 802# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana 803# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, 804# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the 805# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of 806# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the 807# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." 808# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their 809# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error. The intent 810# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. 811 812# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10): 813# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is 814# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007.... 815# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL 816 817# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 818Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 819Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 820Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 821# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 822Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 823 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 824 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 825 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 826 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00 827 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00 828 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 829 -5:00 - EST 1969 830 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 831 -5:00 - EST 2006 832 -5:00 US E%sT 833# 834# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, 835# as well as from 1976 through 2005. 836# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 837Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 838Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 839Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 840Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 841# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 842Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 843 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 844 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 845 -5:00 - EST 1969 846 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 847 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 848 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 849 -5:00 - EST 2006 850 -5:00 US E%sT 851# 852# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana, 853# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back 854# in November 2007. 855# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 856Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 857Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 858Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 859Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 860Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 861Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 862Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 863Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 864Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 865# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 866Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53 867 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 868 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 869 -5:00 - EST 1969 870 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 871 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 872 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 873 -5:00 US E%sT 874# 875# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. 876# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 877Rule Perry 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 878Rule Perry 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 879Rule Perry 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 880Rule Perry 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 881Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 882Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 883Rule Perry 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 884Rule Perry 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 885Rule Perry 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 886# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 887Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:57 888 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 889 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 890 -5:00 - EST 1969 891 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 892 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 893 -6:00 US C%sT 894# 895# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, 896# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007. 897# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 898Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 899Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 900Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 901Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 902# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 903Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53 904 -6:00 US C%sT 1955 905 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 906 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 907 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 908 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 909 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 910 -5:00 US E%sT 911# 912# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, 913# then switched back in 2006. 914# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): 915# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post 916# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of 917# 1991-10-27. 918# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 919Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 920Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 921Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 922Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 923Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 924# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 925Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 926 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 927 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 928 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 929 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 930 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 931 -6:00 US C%sT 932# 933# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in 934# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007. 935# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 936Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 937Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 938Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 939Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 940# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 941Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:35 942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 943 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 944 -5:00 - EST 1969 945 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 946 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 947 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00 948 -5:00 US E%sT 949# 950# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. 951# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 952Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 953 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 954 -5:00 - EST 1969 955 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 956 -5:00 - EST 2006 957 -5:00 US E%sT 958 959# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20): 960# The Louisville & Nashville Railroad's 1883-11-18 change occurred at 961# 10:00 old local time; train were supposed to come to a standstill 962# for precisely 18 minutes. See Bartky Fig. 1 (page 50). It is not 963# clear how this matched civil time in Louisville, so for now continue 964# to assume Louisville switched at noon new local time, like New York. 965# 966# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. 967# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. 968# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 969Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 970Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S 971Rule Louisville 1941 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 972Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 973Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S 974Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 975Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 976# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 977Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 978 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 979 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 980 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 981 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00 982 -5:00 - EST 1968 983 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 984 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 985 -5:00 US E%sT 986# 987# Wayne County, Kentucky 988# 989# From Lake Cumberland LIFE 990# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml 991# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: 992# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from 993# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made 994# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not 995# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in 996# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also. 997# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S. 998# location in the Central time zone. 999# 1000# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29): 1001# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion, 1002# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern 1003# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, 1004# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). 1005# 1006# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): 1007# The final rule was published in the 1008# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. 1009# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2000-08-17/html/00-20854.htm 1010# 1011Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 1012 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1013 -6:00 - CST 1968 1014 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 1015 -5:00 US E%sT 1016 1017 1018# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): 1019# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985. 1020# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central; 1021# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10 1022# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10 1023# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 1024# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 1025# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 1026# 1027# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): 1028# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, 1029# so omit that change for now. 1030# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. 1031# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. 1032# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on 1033# 1999-10-31. See the 1034# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. 1035# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1999-10-21/html/99-27240.htm 1036# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated 1037# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; 1038# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. 1039 1040# Michigan 1041# 1042# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 1043# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973. 1044# 1045# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 1046# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, 1047# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) 1048# that Detroit kept 1049# 1050# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should 1051# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the 1052# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision 1053# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to 1054# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the 1055# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted 1056# by city vote. 1057# 1058# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks. 1059# 1060# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 1061# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks 1062# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more 1063# info, so omit this for now. 1064# 1065# From Paul Eggert (2017-07-26): 1066# Although Shanks says Detroit observed DST in 1967 from 06-14 00:01 1067# until 10-29 00:01, I now see multiple reports that this is incorrect. 1068# For example, according to a 50-year anniversary report about the 1967 1069# Detroit riots and a major-league doubleheader on 1967-07-23, "By the time 1070# the last fly ball of the doubleheader settled into the glove of leftfielder 1071# Lenny Green, it was after 7 p.m. Detroit did not observe daylight saving 1072# time, so light was already starting to fail. Twilight was made even deeper 1073# by billowing columns of smoke that ascended in an unbroken wall north of the 1074# ballpark." See: Dow B. Detroit '67: As violence unfolded, Tigers played two 1075# at home vs. Yankees. Detroit Free Press 2017-07-23. 1076# https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/07/23/detroit-tigers-1967-riot-new-york-yankees/499951001/ 1077# 1078# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975. 1079# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1080Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1081Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1082# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1083Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 1084 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00 1085 -5:00 - EST 1942 1086 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 1087 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1973 1088 -5:00 US E%sT 1975 1089 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 1090 -5:00 US E%sT 1091# 1092# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, 1093# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. 1094# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1095Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1096Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1097Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1098Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1099# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1100Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 1101 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1102 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 1103 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00 1104 -6:00 US C%sT 1105 1106# Navassa 1107# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service 1108# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act 1109# also claimed by Haiti 1110# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co 1111# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 1112# currently uninhabited 1113# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord", 1114# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites 1115# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). 1116 1117################################################################################ 1118 1119 1120# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10): 1121# 1122# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 1123# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 1124# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 1125# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 1126# 1127# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source 1128# for time zone data was the International Air Transport 1129# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 1130# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 1131# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 1132# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 1133# 1134# Other sources occasionally used include: 1135# 1136# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 1137# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 1138# which I found in the UCLA library. 1139# 1140# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 1141# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 1142# [PDF] (1914-03) 1143# 1144# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 1145# <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 1146# 1147# See the 'europe' file for Greenland. 1148 1149# Canada 1150 1151# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14): 1152# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada 1153# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... 1154# 1155# UTC Standard time Daylight saving time 1156# offset French English French English 1157# -2:30 - - HAT NDT 1158# -3 - - HAA ADT 1159# -3:30 HNT NST - - 1160# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT 1161# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT 1162# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT 1163# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT 1164# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT 1165# -9 HNY YST - - 1166# 1167# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time 1168# HA: Heure Avancée DT: Daylight saving Time 1169# 1170# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic 1171# C: du Centre Central 1172# E: de l'Est Eastern 1173# M: Mountain 1174# N: Newfoundland 1175# P: du Pacifique Pacific 1176# R: des Rocheuses 1177# T: de Terre-Neuve 1178# Y: du Yukon Yukon 1179# 1180# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): 1181# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. 1182 1183# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks 1184# & Pottenger. 1185 1186# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31, 1187# 2007-03-01): 1188# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will 1189# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the 1190# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... 1191# https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm 1192# ... 1193# Nova Scotia 1194# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... 1195# https://www.novascotia.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf 1196# 1197# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to 1198# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. 1199# https://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf 1200# ... 1201# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. 1202# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. 1203# https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php 1204# ... 1205# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. 1206# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM 1207# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm 1208# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF 1209# ... 1210# P.E.I. will follow US rules.... 1211# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf 1212# ... 1213# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... 1214# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm 1215# ... 1216# Yukon 1217# https://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf 1218# ... 1219# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site 1220# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the 1221# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the 1222# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using 1223# JavaScript. 1224# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive 1225# ... 1226# Nunavut 1227# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007.... 1228# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf 1229 1230# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-18): 1231# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 1232# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 1233# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp 1234# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard 1235# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. 1236# 1237# National Research Council Canada maintains info about time zones and DST. 1238# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html 1239# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/index.html#Q5 1240# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. 1241 1242# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): 1243# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the 1244# new US DST rules, 1245 1246# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01) 1247# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles 1248# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1249# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review. 1250# The quote includes these two statements: 1251# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...' 1252# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,' 1253# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time 1254# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918. This transition was 1255# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star. 1256 1257# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed 1258# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day 1259# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets. 1260 1261# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1262Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1263Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1264Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1265Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1266Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1267Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1268Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1269Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1270Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1271Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1272 1273 1274# Newfoundland and Labrador 1275 1276# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-14): 1277# Legally Labrador should observe Newfoundland time; see: 1278# McLeod J. Labrador time - legal or not? St. John's Telegram, 2017-10-07 1279# http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/labrador-time--legal-or-not-154860/ 1280# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that the only part of Labrador 1281# that follows the rules is the southeast corner, including Port Hope 1282# Simpson and Mary's Harbour, but excluding, say, Black Tickle. 1283 1284# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1285Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D 1286Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1287# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1288Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D 1289Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S 1290# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1291Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D 1292Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S 1293# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & 1294# Pottenger. 1295Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D 1296Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S 1297# Whitman gives the following transitions: 1298# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 1299# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. 1300# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives 1301# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1302Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1303Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S 1304Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1305Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1306Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1307# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1308# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches 1309# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. 1310 1311# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12): 1312# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the 1313# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed. 1314# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings 1315# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time 1316# now occurs at 2:00AM. 1317# ... 1318# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm 1319# ... 1320# MICHAEL PELLEY | Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery 1321# Office of the Chief Information Officer 1322# Executive Council 1323# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 1324 1325Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1326Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1327Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD 1328Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1329Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D 1330Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S 1331# 1332# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. 1333# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1334Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 1335 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 1336 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1337 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 1338 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1339 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1340 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 2011 Nov 1341 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1342 1343# most of east Labrador 1344 1345# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'. 1346# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1347Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1348 -3:30:52 - NST 1918 1349 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1350 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 1351 -3:30 - NST 1936 1352 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1353 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1354 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 1355 -4:00 StJohns A%sT 2011 Nov 1356 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1357 1358 1359# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I 1360 1361# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20): 1362# From the historical weather station records available at: 1363# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada 1364# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was 1365# likely to be the same across the island.... 1366# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would 1367# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996. 1368 1369# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20): 1370# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like 1371# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; 1372# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of 1373# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now). 1374# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town 1375# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume 1376# this is a typo. 1377 1378# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1379Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1380Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1381Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D 1382Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S 1383Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D 1384Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1385Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1386Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1387Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1388Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1389Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S 1390Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D 1391Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1392Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1393Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1394Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1395Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S 1396Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1397Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1398Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1399Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1400Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1401Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 1402Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D 1403Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1404Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D 1405Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 1406Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1407Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1408Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1409Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1410Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D 1411Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1412Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1413Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1414Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1415Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1416Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1417Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1418Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1419Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1420# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1421Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1422 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 1423 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 1424 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1425 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1426 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1427 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1428Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1429 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 1430 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 1431 -4:00 - AST 1972 1432 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1433 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1434 1435# New Brunswick 1436 1437# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31): 1438# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> 1439# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and 1440# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it 1441# clear that this was the case since at least 1993. 1442# For now, assume it started in 1993. 1443 1444# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1445Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D 1446Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S 1447Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D 1448Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 1449Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D 1450Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S 1451Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D 1452Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D 1453Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1454Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1455Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1456Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1457Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1458# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1459Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 1460 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 1461 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 1462 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 1463 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1464 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 1465 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 1466 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 1467 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1468 1469# Quebec 1470 1471# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24): 1472# See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal. 1473# 1474# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63 1475# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as 1476# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST. 1477# The Quebec department of justice writes in 1478# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" 1479# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm 1480# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon 1481# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. 1482# https://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en 1483# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007. 1484# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to 1485# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. 1486 1487# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1488Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 1489 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 1490 -4:00 - AST 1491 1492# Ontario 1493 1494# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1495# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1496# Toronto. 1497# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1498# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1499# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1500# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. 1501 1502# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1503# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST 1504# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that 1505# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw 1506# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, 1507# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable 1508# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after 1509# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but 1510# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters 1511# earlier in June). 1512# 1513# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). 1514# 1515# From Paul Eggert (2017-07-08): 1516# For more on Orillia, see: Daubs K. Bold attempt at daylight saving 1517# time became a comic failure in Orillia. Toronto Star 2017-07-08. 1518# https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/07/08/bold-attempt-at-daylight-saving-time-became-a-comic-failure-in-orillia.html 1519 1520# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): 1521# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star 1522# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, 1523# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. 1524# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) 1525# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html 1526# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. 1527# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report 1528# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. 1529# 1530# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1531# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and 1532# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes 1533# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in 1534# violation of the official Ontario rules. 1535# 1536# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1537# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the 1538# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: 1539# 1540# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. 1541# This means they spend about half the time on central time and 1542# the other half on eastern time. 1543# 1544# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. 1545# 1546# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern 1547# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he 1548# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." 1549# 1550# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang 1551# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." 1552 1553# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: 1554# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory 1555# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he 1556# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current 1557# time keeping since 1952, at least. 1558 1559# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): 1560# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River 1561# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from 1562# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan 1563# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time 1564# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour 1565# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move 1566# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. 1567 1568# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06): 1569# 1570# Currently the database has: 1571# 1572# # Ontario 1573# 1574# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1575# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1576# # Toronto. 1577# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1578# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1579# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1580# 1581# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom 1582# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard 1583# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that: 1584# 1585# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario, 1586# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year. 1587# 1588# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon. 1589# 1590# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began 1591# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date. 1592# 1593# By the way, the article continues by noting that: 1594# 1595# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back 1596# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October. 1597 1598# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17): 1599# 1600# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in 1601# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1602# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17, 1603# was available at 1604# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S 1605# 1606# It includes the text below (starting on page 57): 1607# 1608# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would 1609# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by 1610# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities 1611# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav- 1612# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite, 1613# for the other provinces only approximate: 1614# 1615# Province Daylight saving time used 1616# Prince Edward Island Not used. 1617# Nova Scotia In Halifax only. 1618# New Brunswick In St. John only. 1619# Quebec In the following places: 1620# Montreal Lachine 1621# Quebec Mont-Royal 1622# Lévis Iberville 1623# St. Lambert Cap de la Madelèine 1624# Verdun Loretteville 1625# Westmount Richmond 1626# Outremont St. Jérôme 1627# Longueuil Greenfield Park 1628# Arvida Waterloo 1629# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu 1630# Melbourne La Tuque 1631# St. Théophile Buckingham 1632# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along 1633# the southerly part of the province. Not 1634# used in the northwesterly part. 1635# Manitoba Not used. 1636# Saskatchewan In Regina only. 1637# Alberta Not used. 1638# British Columbia Not used. 1639# 1640# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited 1641# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont. 1642 1643# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1644Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D 1645Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S 1646Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D 1647Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1648Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D 1649Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S 1650Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1651# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" 1652# was meant. 1653Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 1654Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1655# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as 1656# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S 1657# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D 1658# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1659# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1660# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25 1661# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle). 1662Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1663Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1664Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1665Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1666Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 1667Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1668Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1669Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1670Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1671Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1672Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S 1673Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1674Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S 1675Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1676# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, 1677# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this 1678# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 1679# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. 1680Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1681 1682# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1683# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and 1684# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in 1685# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, 1686# Saskatchewan, for one year." 1687 1688# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, 1689# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): 1690# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight 1691# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur 1692# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central 1693# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to 1694# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight 1695# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so 1696# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World 1697# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer 1698# months for the remainder of the war years. 1699 1700# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1701Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 1702 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1703 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1704 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1705 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 1706 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1707Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 1708 -6:00 - CST 1910 1709 -5:00 - EST 1942 1710 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 1711 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1973 1712 -5:00 - EST 1974 1713 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1714Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 1715 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 1716 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1717 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1718Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 1719 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1720 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1721 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1722Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 1723 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1724 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1725 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 1726 -5:00 - EST 1727 1728 1729# Manitoba 1730 1731# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): 1732# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to 1733# March 27, 1987 ... said ... 1734# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of 1735# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central 1736# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next 1737# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... 1738# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had 1739# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... 1740# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying 1741# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of 1742# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central 1743# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). 1744 1745# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): 1746# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) 1747# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume 1748# it was also 02:00s in 1966. 1749 1750# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1751Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D 1752Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S 1753Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1754Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1755Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D 1756Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S 1757Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1758Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1759Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1760Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D 1761Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1762Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1763Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1764Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1765Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1766Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1767Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1768Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1769Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1770Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1771Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S 1772Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 1773Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S 1774Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 1775# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1776Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 1777 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 1778 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1779 1780 1781# Saskatchewan 1782 1783# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1784# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal 1785# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people 1786# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, 1787# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." 1788# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: 1789# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of 1790# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad 1791# time was noted. 1792 1793# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1794# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the 1795# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." 1796 1797# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1798# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. 1799# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. 1800# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. 1801# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton 1802# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. 1803 1804# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): 1805# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the 1806# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. 1807# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and 1808# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother. 1809# 1810# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years 1811# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated 1812# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial 1813# referendum favoured legislating common time practices. 1814# 1815# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of 1816# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern 1817# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in 1818# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to 1819# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and 1820# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would 1821# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST. 1822# 1823# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town 1824# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to 1825# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only 1826# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT 1827# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round 1828# since sometime in the 1960s. 1829 1830# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1831# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages 1832# long and rather painful to read. 1833# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf 1834 1835# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1836Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1837Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1838Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1839Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1840Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1841Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1842Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1843Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1844Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1845Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1846Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1847Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1848Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 1849Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1850Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1851Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1852Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1853# 1854Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1855Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1856Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1857Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1858Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1859# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1860Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep 1861 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00 1862 -6:00 - CST 1863Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep 1864 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00 1865 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950 1866 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00 1867 -6:00 - CST 1868 1869 1870# Alberta 1871 1872# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1873Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1874Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1875Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S 1876Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1877Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1878Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1879Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1880Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1881Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1882Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1883Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1884Rule Edm 1967 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1885Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1886Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1887Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1888Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1889Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1890# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1891Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep 1892 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 1893 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1894 1895 1896# British Columbia 1897 1898# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1899# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has 1900# been like Vancouver. 1901# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. 1902# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek. 1903 1904# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct: 1905 1906# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): 1907# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia 1908# that do not currently observe daylight saving: 1909# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) 1910# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District 1911# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) 1912 1913# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time 1914# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the 1915# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. 1916# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1917# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. 1918# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UT-7 for 93 years. 1919# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. 1920 1921# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains 1922# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months 1923# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just 1924# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing 1925# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the 1926# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010. 1927# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 1928 1929# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: 1930# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) 1931# Exact date unknown 1932# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) 1933# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. 1934# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) 1935# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. 1936# note 1: 1937# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, 1938# Creston did not change its clocks. 1939# note 2: 1940# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, 1941# Creston did not oblige. 1942# note 3: 1943# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time 1944# (UTC-7) forever. 1945# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. 1946# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html 1947 1948# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. 1949# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying 1950# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before 1951# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this 1952# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough 1953# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. 1954 1955# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. 1956 1957# From Matt Johnson (2015-09-21): 1958# Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year. So while previously they 1959# were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with 1960# America/Dawson_Creek. 1961# http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html 1962# 1963# From Tim Parenti (2015-09-23): 1964# This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, 1965# America/Fort_Nelson. The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a 1966# 2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support. Effectively, the municipality has 1967# been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on 1968# 2015-03-08. 1969# 1970# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23): 1971# Shanks says Fort Nelson did not observe DST in 1946, unlike Vancouver. 1972 1973# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1974Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1975Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1976Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1977Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1978Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1979Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1980Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1981Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1982Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1983# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1984Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 1985 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1986 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1987Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 1988 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 1989 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 1990 -7:00 - MST 1991Zone America/Fort_Nelson -8:10:47 - LMT 1884 1992 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1946 1993 -8:00 - PST 1947 1994 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1995 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2015 Mar 8 2:00 1996 -7:00 - MST 1997Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 1998 -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 1999 -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 2000 -7:00 - MST 2001 2002# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon 2003 2004# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2005# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. 2006# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: 2007# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, 2008# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9.... 2009# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). 2010# [https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-i-21/latest/rsc-1985-c-i-21.html] 2011# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. 2012# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. 2013# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. 2014 2015# From Brian Inglis (2015-04-14): 2016# 2017# I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following 2018# regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name, 2019# and relevant quote if available. Each regulation specifically revokes its 2020# predecessor. The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act 2021# authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes. 2022# 2023# Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or 2024# index, and only some via Canadian legal sources. Other sources used include 2025# articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS 2026# Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and 2027# 1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial 2028# and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of 2029# standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada, 2030# with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset, 2031# and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart 2032# and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as 2033# another source of information for 1970 and earlier. 2034# 2035# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26, 2036# pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 2037# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75: 2038# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance 2039# Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and 2040# thirty-fifth meridian. 2041# 2042# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.; 2043# JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System 2044# (ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1: 2045# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16. 2046# 2047# (1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine 2048# hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time. 2049# 2050# (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations 2051# varying the manner of reckoning standard time. 2052# 2053# * Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance 2054# http://? - no online source found 2055# 2056# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC, 2057# Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 2058# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon 2059# Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ... 2060# 2061# 1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon 2062# Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked. 2063# 2064# 2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the 2065# Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May, 2066# 1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that 2067# is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon 2068# Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west. 2069# 2070# 3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree 2071# longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine 2072# hours behind Greenwich Time. 2073# 2074# * Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214 2075# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html 2076# C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2077# 2078# 1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby 2079# revoked. 2080# 2081# 2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation 2082# Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973 2083# shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is 2084# to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time. 2085# 2086# * O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT 2087# http://? - no online source found 2088# 2089# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56 2090# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html 2091# O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2092# 2093# In every year between 2094# (a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and 2095# (b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October, 2096# Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and 2097# called Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2098# ... 2099# Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987. 2100# 2101# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127 2102# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html 2103# O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2104# 2105# 1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours 2106# behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock 2107# in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock 2108# in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called 2109# Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2110# 2111# 2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked. 2112# 2113# 3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007. 2114# 2115# * Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125 2116# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html 2117 2118# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): 2119# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. 2120# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 2121# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html 2122# 2123# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): 2124# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut 2125# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region. 2126 2127# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 2128# Basic Facts: The New Territory 2129# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html 2130# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, 2131# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when 2132# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. 2133 2134# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 2135# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 2136# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 2137# 2138# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 2139# 2140# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 2141# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 2142# 2143# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 2144# 2145# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 2146# 2147# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 2148# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 2149# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 2150# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 2151# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 2152# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 2153# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 2154# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 2155# the current state of affairs. 2156 2157# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 2158# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): 2159# http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html 2160# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 2161# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 2162# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 2163# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 2164 2165# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 2166# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories 2167# for these potential new Zones. 2168# 2169# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the 2170# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central 2171# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the 2172# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time. 2173# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of 2174# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not 2175# required to use daylight savings. 2176 2177# From <http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html> 2178# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10): 2179# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and 2180# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them 2181# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter. 2182# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against 2183# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with 2184# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on 2185# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to 2186# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's 2187# unified time zone in 1999. 2188# 2189# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government: 2190# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000. 2191 2192# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2193# Let's just keep track of the official times for now. 2194 2195# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07): 2196# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising 2197# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert 2198# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the 2199# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that 2200# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm 2201# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with 2202# more. 2203# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] 2204 2205# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): 2206# According to ... 2207# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 2208# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time 2209# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year 2210# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. 2211# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it 2212# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... 2213# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. 2214# 2215# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-17): 2216# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed 2217# daylight saving only during wartime. Gwillim Law's email also 2218# mentioned maps now maintained by National Research Council Canada; 2219# see above for an up-to-date link. 2220 2221# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01): 2222# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in 2223# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. 2224# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of 2225# daylight saving.... 2226# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html 2227 2228# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21): 2229# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute 2230# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of 2231# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had 2232# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007. 2233# 2234# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay 2235# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008... 2236# 2237# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March 2238# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I 2239# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able 2240# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was 2241# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone 2242# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT). 2243# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks 2244# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in 2245# so they could follow the correct TV schedule... 2246# 2247# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I 2248# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature 2249# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of 2250# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of 2251# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for 2252# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived 2253# and worked in Resolute Bay... 2254# 2255# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that 2256# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of 2257# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead 2258# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay 2259# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not 2260# tell me when the practice had stopped. 2261# 2262# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of 2263# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went 2264# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz 2265# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the 2266# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on 2267# Aziz: 2268# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493 2269# 2270# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using 2271# Eastern Standard Time. 2272# 2273# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the 2274# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way 2275# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in 2276# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs" 2277# 2278# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008. 2279# 2280# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz 2281# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You 2282# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a 2283# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site" 2284# 2285# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would 2286# never have contacted her. I now believe that all the information I 2287# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... 2288# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. 2289 2290# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2291Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2292Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2293Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D 2294Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 2295Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2296Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2297Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2298Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD 2299Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2300Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2301Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2302Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2303# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2304# aka Panniqtuuq 2305Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - -00 1921 # trading post est. 2306 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 2307 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2308 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2309 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2310# formerly Frobisher Bay 2311Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - -00 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. 2312 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2313 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2314 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2315# aka Qausuittuq 2316Zone America/Resolute 0 - -00 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded 2317 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2318 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2319 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 2320 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 2321 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2322# aka Kangiqiniq 2323Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - -00 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded 2324 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2325 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2326 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2327# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq 2328Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - -00 1920 # trading post est.? 2329 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2330 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2331 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 2332 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2333 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2334Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 2335 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2336 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2337Zone America/Inuvik 0 - -00 1953 # Inuvik founded 2338 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 2339 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2340 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2341Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2342 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1967 May 28 0:00 2343 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2344 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2345Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2346 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 2347 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2348 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2349 2350 2351############################################################################### 2352 2353# Mexico 2354 2355# From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07): 2356# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the 2357# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a 2358# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) 2359# http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm 2360# 2361# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. 2362# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) 2363# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. 2364# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. 2365# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. 2366# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. 2367 2368# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): 2369# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the 2370# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that 2371# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of 2372# the relevant documents. 2373 2374# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): 2375# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree 2376# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. 2377# 2378# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 2379# 2380# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the 2381# rules for the DST changes. The rules are: 2382# 2383# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones: 2384# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ) 2385# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ) 2386# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ) 2387# 2388# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October 2389# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows: 2390# BajaNorte: GMT+7 2391# BajaSur: GMT+6 2392# General: GMT+5 2393# 2394# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows: 2395# BajaNorte: GMT+8 2396# BajaSur: GMT+7 2397# General: GMT+6 2398# 2399# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th. 2400# 2401# -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- 2402# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): 2403# For an English translation of the decree, see 2404# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04). 2405# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html 2406 2407# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 2408# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times 2409# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). 2410 2411# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): 2412# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time 2413# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight 2414# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of 2415# Arizona year round. 2416 2417# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating 2418# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17): 2419# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National 2420# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each 2421# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the 2422# whole year. 2423 2424# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19): 2425# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says 2426# (translated):... 2427# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced 2428# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting 2429# this year.... 2430# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001 2431# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday 2432# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. 2433 2434# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25): 2435# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one 2436# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."... 2437# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html 2438# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep 2439# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than 2440# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish 2441# observation of Daylight Saving Time. 2442 2443# Official statute published by the Energy Department 2444# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre 2445# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, 2446# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). 2447 2448# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): 2449# 2450# http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html 2451# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times 2452# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. 2453# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that 2454# the Federal District will not adopt DST. 2455# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree. 2456# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including 2457# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools. 2458# 2459# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules. 2460 2461# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01): 2462# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight 2463# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier 2464# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight 2465# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California 2466# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight 2467# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president 2468# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending 2469# September 30, 2001. 2470# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp> 2471# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31) 2472 2473# From Reuters (2001-09-04): 2474# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was 2475# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the 2476# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation 2477# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 2478# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to 2479# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not 2480# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. 2481 2482# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12): 2483# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted 2484# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico.... 2485# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20) 2486# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied. 2487 2488# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28): 2489# 2490# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2491# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern 2492# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as 2493# > the United States. 2494# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from 2495# 2010, some border regions will be the same: 2496# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/ 2497# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939 2498# (Spanish) 2499# 2500# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here: 2501# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf 2502# (Gaceta Parlamentaria) 2503# 2504# There is also a list of the votes here: 2505# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html 2506# 2507# Our page: 2508# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html 2509 2510# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20): 2511# The page 2512# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2513# includes this text: 2514# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California; 2515# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila; 2516# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en 2517# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto 2518# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos 2519# horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2520# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja 2521# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea 2522# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte 2523# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el 2524# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá 2525# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a 2526# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2527 2528# From Steffen Thorsen (2014-12-08), translated by Gwillim Law: 2529# The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015. 2530# 2531# http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/12/04/medio-ambiente/congreso-aprueba-una-hora-mas-de-sol-en-qroo 2532# "With this change, the time conflict that has existed between the municipios 2533# of Quintana Roo and the municipio of Felipe Carrillo Puerto may come to an 2534# end. The latter declared itself in rebellion 15 years ago when a time change 2535# was initiated in Mexico, and since then it has refused to change its time 2536# zone along with the rest of the country." 2537# 2538# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-01-14), translated by Gwillim Law: 2539# http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva-zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html 2540# "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday 2541# of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current 2542# time..." 2543# Also, the new zone will not use DST. 2544# 2545# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02): 2546# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally 2547# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación 2548# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015 2549# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico: 2550# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W, 2551# includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below. 2552# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the 2553# states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía 2554# de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora. 2555# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the 2556# state of Baja California. 2557# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state 2558# of Quintana Roo. 2559# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the 2560# longitude they are located at. 2561 2562# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2563Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D 2564Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S 2565Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D 2566Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S 2567Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War 2568Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S 2569Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D 2570Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S 2571Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2572Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2573Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2574Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2575Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2576Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2577# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2578# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún 2579Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56 2580 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2581 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 2582 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2015 Feb 1 2:00 2583 -5:00 - EST 2584# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida 2585Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 2586 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2587 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 2588 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2589# Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) 2590# This includes the following municipalities: 2591# in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava, 2592# Guerrero, Hidalgo. 2593# in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama. 2594# in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, 2595# Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. 2596# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, 2597# 2016-03-12 2598# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-horario-de-verano-en-zona-fronteriza 2599Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 2600 -6:00 - CST 1988 2601 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2602 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 2603 -6:00 US C%sT 2604# Durango; Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) 2605Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44 2606 -6:00 - CST 1988 2607 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2608 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2609# Central Mexico 2610Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 2611 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2612 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2613 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2614 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2615 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2616 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 2:00 2617 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 2618 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2619# Chihuahua (near US border) 2620# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, 2621# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. 2622# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.) 2623Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 2624 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2625 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2626 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2627 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2628 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2629 -6:00 - CST 1996 2630 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2631 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2632 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 2633 -7:00 US M%sT 2634# Chihuahua (away from US border) 2635Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40 2636 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2637 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2638 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2639 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2640 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2641 -6:00 - CST 1996 2642 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2643 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2644 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2645# Sonora 2646Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08 2647 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2648 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2649 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2650 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2651 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2652 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2653 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2654 -8:00 - PST 1970 2655 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999 2656 -7:00 - MST 2657 2658# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21): 2659# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) 2660# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to 2661# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco). 2662# 2663# (Spanish) 2664# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del 2665# país, a partir de este domingo 2666# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748 2667# 2668# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del 2669# País 2670# 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 2671# 2672# (English) 2673# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone 2674# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml 2675# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html 2676# 2677# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that 2678# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time 2679# zone ..." 2680# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa 2681 2682# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01): 2683# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters. 2684 2685# Mazatlán 2686Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20 2687 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2688 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2689 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2690 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2691 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2692 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2693 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2694 -8:00 - PST 1970 2695 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2696 2697# Bahía de Banderas 2698Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:59:00 2699 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2700 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2701 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2702 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2703 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2704 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2705 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2706 -8:00 - PST 1970 2707 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 2708 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2709 2710# Baja California 2711Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 2712 -7:00 - MST 1924 2713 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2714 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2715 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2716 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2717 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2718 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2719 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2720 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2721 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2722 -8:00 - PST 1954 2723 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2724 -8:00 - PST 1976 2725 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2726 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2727 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2728 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 2729 -8:00 US P%sT 2730# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2731# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from 2732# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 2733# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say 2734# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports 2735# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and 2736# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that 2737# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns 2738# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone 2739# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its 2740# name or contents should be. 2741# 2742# From Paul Eggert (2015-10-08): 2743# Formerly there was an America/Santa_Isabel zone, but this appears to 2744# have come from a misreading of 2745# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2746# It has been moved to the 'backward' file. 2747# 2748# 2749# Revillagigedo Is 2750# no information 2751 2752############################################################################### 2753 2754# Anguilla 2755# Antigua and Barbuda 2756# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2757 2758# Bahamas 2759# 2760# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. 2761# 2762# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): 2763# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST 2764# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... 2765# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 2766 2767# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2768Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2769Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2770# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2771Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2772 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 2773 -5:00 US E%sT 2774 2775# Barbados 2776 2777# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that. 2778 2779# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2780Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D 2781Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2782Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2783Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2784Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S 2785# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2786Zone America/Barbados -3:58:29 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown 2787 -3:58:29 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time 2788 -4:00 Barb A%sT 2789 2790# Belize 2791# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2792# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2793Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 -0530 2794Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 CST 2795Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 CDT 2796Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 CST 2797Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 CDT 2798Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 CST 2799# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2800Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 2801 -6:00 Belize %s 2802 2803# Bermuda 2804 2805# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower, 2806# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that. 2807 2808# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): 2809 2810# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday 2811# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone 2812# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on 2813# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. 2814# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 2815 2816# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2817Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton 2818 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2819 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976 2820 -4:00 US A%sT 2821 2822# Cayman Is 2823# See America/Panama. 2824 2825# Costa Rica 2826 2827# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest. 2828 2829# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2830Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2831Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2832Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2833# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; 2834# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2835Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S 2836Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S 2837# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'. 2838# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2839Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José 2840 -5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time 2841 -6:00 CR C%sT 2842# Coco 2843# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica 2844 2845# Cuba 2846 2847# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2848# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57 2849# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations. 2850# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger. 2851 2852# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29): 2853# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between 2854# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on 2855# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. 2856# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that 2857# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving 2858# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of 2859# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched 2860# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have 2861# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) 2862 2863# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11): 2864# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the 2865# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ... 2866# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html 2867 2868# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): 2869# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. 2870# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2871# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html 2872# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras 2873# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return 2874# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". 2875# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. 2876 2877# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): 2878# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone 2879# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: 2880# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html 2881 2882# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21): 2883# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end 2884# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see 2885# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html 2886# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, 2887# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning 2888# to the normal schedule.... 2889 2890# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02): 2891# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday, 2892# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10. 2893# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules, 2894# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual. 2895# 2896# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25): 2897# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week 2898# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. 2899# 2900# He supplied these references: 2901# 2902# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES 2903# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm 2904# 2905# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25): 2906# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba): 2907# 2908# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre 2909# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html 2910# 2911# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html 2912 2913# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09): 2914# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight 2915# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to 2916# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj 2917# a Cuban information station, and heard 2918# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"), 2919# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time. 2920 2921# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12): 2922# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16... 2923# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish): 2924# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm 2925# 2926# Some more background information is posted here: 2927# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html 2928# 2929# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963, 2930# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the 2931# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been 2932# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception 2933# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to 2934# change some historic records as well. 2935# 2936# One example: 2937# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm 2938 2939# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13): 2940# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative 2941# web site, the Granma. Please check out 2942# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html 2943# 2944# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change 2945# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday. 2946 2947# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12): 2948# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward. 2949 2950# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04) 2951# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on 2952# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009- 2953# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought. 2954# 2955# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html 2956# (in Spanish) 2957 2958# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09) 2959# I listened over the Internet to 2960# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj 2961# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the 2962# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating 2963# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. 2964 2965# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): 2966# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 2967# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has 2968# changed at all). 2969# 2970# Source: 2971# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html 2972# 2973# Our info: 2974# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html 2975# 2976# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30) 2977# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back 2978# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00. 2979# 2980# One source (Spanish) 2981# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html 2982# 2983# Our page: 2984# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html 2985# 2986# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01) 2987# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March 2988# 31 and April 1. 2989# 2990# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish): 2991# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril 2992# 2993# Our info on it: 2994# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html 2995 2996# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03): 2997# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back 2998# to standard time on 2012-11-04: 2999# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre 3000# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03): 3001# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November. 3002 3003# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3004Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D 3005Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S 3006Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3007Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3008Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3009Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3010Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 3011Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 3012Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D 3013Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 3014Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D 3015Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 3016Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 3017Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3018Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3019Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S 3020Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3021Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D 3022Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 3023Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D 3024Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D 3025Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D 3026Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3027Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S 3028Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S 3029Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S 3030Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 3031Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 3032Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D 3033Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 3034Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 3035Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3036Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 3037Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3038Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 3039Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S 3040Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D 3041Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S 3042Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3043 3044# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3045Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 3046 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT 3047 -5:00 Cuba C%sT 3048 3049# Dominica 3050# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3051 3052# Dominican Republic 3053 3054# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30): 3055# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the 3056# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am.... 3057# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html 3058 3059# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 3060# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST. 3061 3062# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 3063# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday, 3064# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the 3065# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date 3066# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they 3067# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going 3068# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president 3069# decided to revert. 3070 3071 3072# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3073Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 EDT 3074Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 EST 3075Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 -0430 3076Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 EST 3077Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 EST 3078Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 EST 3079# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3080Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 3081 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT 3082 -5:00 DR %s 1974 Oct 27 3083 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 2:00 3084 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 1:00 3085 -4:00 - AST 3086 3087# El Salvador 3088 3089# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3090Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3091Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3092# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador 3093# instead of America/San_Salvador. 3094# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3095Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador 3096 -6:00 Salv C%sT 3097 3098# Grenada 3099# Guadeloupe 3100# St Barthélemy 3101# St Martin (French part) 3102# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3103 3104# Guatemala 3105# 3106# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: 3107# Diario Co Latino, at 3108# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>, 3109# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had 3110# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the 3111# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from 3112# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). 3113# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): 3114# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 3115# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See 3116# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf 3117 3118# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3119Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D 3120Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S 3121Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D 3122Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 3123Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D 3124Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 3125Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 3126Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 3127# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3128Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 3129 -6:00 Guat C%sT 3130 3131# Haiti 3132# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): 3133# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. 3134# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release 3135# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), 3136# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>. Translated from French, it says: 3137# 3138# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general 3139# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior 3140# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the 3141# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next 3142# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. 3143# 3144# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform 3145# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour 3146# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in 3147# October 2005. 3148# 3149# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" 3150# 3151# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): 3152# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like 3153# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a 3154# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST 3155# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). 3156# 3157# I have found this article about it (in French): 3158# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 3159# 3160# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. 3161 3162# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22): 3163# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007. 3164 3165# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11): 3166# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year, 3167# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada. 3168# So this means they have already changed their time. 3169# 3170# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510 3171# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253 3172# 3173# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11): 3174# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to 3175# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight. 3176# Assume a US-style fall back as well. 3177 3178# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10): 3179# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules 3180# as US/Canada. They did it last year as well, and it looks like they 3181# are going to observe DST every year now... 3182# 3183# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ 3184# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 3185 3186# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-03-12): 3187# Jean Antoine, editor of www.haiti-reference.com informed us that Haiti 3188# are not going on DST this year. Several other resources confirm this: ... 3189# https://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/presse/heure_d_t_pas_de_changement_d_heure_pr_vu_pour_cet_ann_e.html 3190# https://www.vantbefinfo.com/changement-dheure-pas-pour-haiti/ 3191# http://news.anmwe.com/haiti-lheure-nationale-ne-sera-ni-avancee-ni-reculee-cette-annee/ 3192 3193# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-03-12): 3194# We have received 4 mails from different people telling that Haiti 3195# has started DST again today, and this source seems to confirm that, 3196# I have not been able to find a more authoritative source: 3197# https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20319-haiti-notices-time-change-in-haiti.html 3198 3199# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3200Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D 3201Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3202Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3203# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. 3204# Go with IATA. 3205Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D 3206Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S 3207Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3208Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3209Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3210Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3211Rule Haiti 2017 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3212Rule Haiti 2017 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3213# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3214Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 3215 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT 3216 -5:00 Haiti E%sT 3217 3218# Honduras 3219# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. 3220 3221# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): 3222# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article 3223# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 3224# months until September. La Tribuna reported today 3225# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president 3226# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. 3227 3228# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08): 3229# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at 3230# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). 3231# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html 3232 3233# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): 3234# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08). 3235# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12 3236# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. 3237 3238# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 3239# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not 3240# published, I have located this authoritative source: 3241# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 3242 3243# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30): 3244# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386 3245# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year.... 3246 3247# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3248Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3249Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3250Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3251Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S 3252# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3253Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr 3254 -6:00 Hond C%sT 3255# 3256# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 3257 3258# Jamaica 3259# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an 3260# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the 3261# island". Go with Milne. Round to the nearest second as required by zic. 3262# 3263# Shanks & Pottenger give April 28 for the 1974 spring-forward transition, but 3264# Lance Neita writes that Prime Minister Michael Manley decreed it January 5. 3265# Assume Neita meant Jan 6 02:00, the same as the US. Neita also writes that 3266# Manley's supporters associated this act with Manley's nickname "Joshua" 3267# (recall that in the Bible the sun stood still at Joshua's request), 3268# and with the Rod of Correction which Manley said he had received from 3269# Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. See: 3270# Neita L. The politician in all of us. Jamaica Observer 2014-09-20 3271# http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-politician-in-all-of-us_17573647 3272# 3273# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3274Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:10 - LMT 1890 # Kingston 3275 -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3276 -5:00 - EST 1974 3277 -5:00 US E%sT 1984 3278 -5:00 - EST 3279 3280# Martinique 3281# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3282Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France 3283 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT 3284 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 3285 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 3286 -4:00 - AST 3287 3288# Montserrat 3289# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3290 3291# Nicaragua 3292# 3293# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. 3294# 3295# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): 3296# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started 3297# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of 3298# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet 3299# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". 3300# Some background information is available on the President's official site: 3301# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm 3302# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: 3303# 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 3304# 3305# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): 3306# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's 3307# assume that it is daylight saving.... 3308# 3309# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): 3310# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at 3311# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html 3312# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last 3313# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 3314# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."... 3315# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously 3316# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time 3317# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to 3318# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. 3319# 3320# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02): 3321# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). 3322# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm 3323# (2005-09-26) 3324# 3325# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05): 3326# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 3327# (my informal translation) 3328# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua 3329# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the 3330# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September. 3331# 3332# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30): 3333# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf 3334# My informal translation runs: 3335# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the 3336# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. 3337# 3338# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3339Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D 3340Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S 3341Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 3342Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3343Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 3344Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 3345# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3346Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 3347 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? 3348 -6:00 - CST 1973 May 3349 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 3350 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 3351 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 3352 -6:00 - CST 1993 3353 -5:00 - EST 1997 3354 -6:00 Nic C%sT 3355 3356# Panama 3357# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3358Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 3359 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time 3360 -5:00 - EST 3361Link America/Panama America/Cayman 3362 3363# Puerto Rico 3364# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. 3365# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3366Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan 3367 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 3368 -4:00 US A%sT 1946 3369 -4:00 - AST 3370 3371# St Kitts-Nevis 3372# St Lucia 3373# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3374 3375# St Pierre and Miquelon 3376# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'. 3377# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3378Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre 3379 -4:00 - AST 1980 May 3380 -3:00 - -03 1987 3381 -3:00 Canada -03/-02 3382 3383# St Vincent and the Grenadines 3384# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3385 3386# Turks and Caicos 3387# 3388# From Chris Dunn in 3389# https://bugs.debian.org/415007 3390# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the 3391# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match 3392# the recent U.S. change of dates. 3393# 3394# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28): 3395# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26] 3396# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three 3397# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: 3398# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 3399# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" 3400# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. 3401# 3402# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): 3403# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UT -04 year-round. See: 3404# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm 3405# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ... 3406# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04): 3407# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to 3408# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year.... 3409# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm 3410# 3411# From the Turks & Caicos Cabinet (2017-07-20), heads-up from Steffen Thorsen: 3412# ... agreed to the reintroduction in TCI of Daylight Saving Time (DST) 3413# during the summer months and Standard Time, also known as Local 3414# Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 ... 3415# https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-statement--3 3416# 3417# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-26): 3418# The date of effect of the spring 2018 change appears to be March 11, 3419# which makes more sense. See: Hamilton D. Time change back 3420# by March 2018 for TCI. Magnetic Media. 2017-08-25. 3421# http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/08/time-change-back-by-march-2018-for-tci/ 3422# 3423# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3424Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 3425 -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3426 -5:00 - EST 1979 3427 -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00 3428 -4:00 - AST 2018 Mar 11 3:00 3429 -5:00 US E%sT 3430 3431# British Virgin Is 3432# Virgin Is 3433# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3434 3435 3436# Local Variables: 3437# coding: utf-8 3438# End: 3439