1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4# also includes Central America and the Caribbean 5 6# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 7# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 8# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 9# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 10 11# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): 12# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 13# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 14 15############################################################################### 16 17# United States 18 19# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 20# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by 21# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904), 22# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY). 23# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870) 24# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines 25# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC, 26# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich. 27# His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00, 28# and the most of the country soon followed suit. 29 30# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): 31# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. 32# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). 33 34# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 35# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is 36# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), 37# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 38# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. 39# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below. 40 41# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 42# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin 43# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost 44# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). 45# Not everyone is happy with the results: 46# 47# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some 48# agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving 49# daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. 50# I even object to the implication that I am wasting something 51# valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer 52# of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to 53# reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving 54# scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager 55# to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make 56# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. 57# 58# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 59# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday 60# 61# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see 62# Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint 63# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927). 64# http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html 65# 66# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919. 67# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which 68# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently 69# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time". 70 71# From Arthur David Olson: 72# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974. 73# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26 74# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post. 75 76# From Arthur David Olson: 77# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of 78# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime. 79 80# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25): 81# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. 82# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." 83# An AltaVista search turned up: 84# http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html 85# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace 86# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." 87# (August 1945) by way of confirmation. 88 89# From Joseph Gallant citing 90# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): 91# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set 92# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people 93# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, 94# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, 95# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word 96# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in 97# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. 98 99# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From 100# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times: 101# 102# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender. 103# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a 104# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news. 105# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out 106# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental 107# importance." 108# 109# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open 110# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell, 111# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over. 112# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms." 113# 114# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. 115 116# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): 117# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations 118# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of 119# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed 120# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. 121 122# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 123Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 124Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 125Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 126Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 127Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 128Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 129Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 130Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D 131Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D 132Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 133Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 134Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 135Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 136 137# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19 138# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with 139# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory. 140# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of 141# this time zone package. 142# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if 143# a particular place changes whether it observes DST. 144# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to 145# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to 146# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file. 147 148# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 149Zone EST -5:00 - EST 150Zone MST -7:00 - MST 151Zone HST -10:00 - HST 152Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT 153Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT 154Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT 155Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT 156 157# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 158# ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. 159# old new 160# Pacific Standard Time(PST) -same- 161# Yukon Standard Time(YST) -same- 162# Central Alaska S.T. (CAT) Alaska-Hawaii St[an]dard Time (AHST) 163# Nome Standard Time (NT) Bering Standard Time (BST) 164# 165# ...Alaska's timezone lines were redrawn in 1983 to give only 2 tz. 166# The YST zone now covers nearly all of the state, AHST just part 167# of the Aleutian islands. No DST. 168 169# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 170# The tables below use 'NST', not 'NT', for Nome Standard Time. 171# I invented 'CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time. 172 173# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 174# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON 175# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 176# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON 177# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 178# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER 179# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 180# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO 181# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 182# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST) 183# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT) 184# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W 185# USA " 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 186# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC 187# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY 188 189# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21): 190# The above dates are for 1988. 191# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's 192# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the 193# Aleutians. 194 195# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 196# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and 197# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names 198# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 199# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261: 200# (none) 201# United States standard eastern time 202# United States standard mountain time 203# United States standard central time 204# United States standard Pacific time 205# (none) 206# United States standard Alaska time 207# (none) 208# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for 209# public law 98-181): 210# Atlantic standard time 211# eastern standard time 212# central standard time 213# mountain standard time 214# Pacific standard time 215# Yukon standard time 216# Alaska-Hawaii standard time 217# Bering standard time 218# And after 1983-11-30: 219# Atlantic standard time 220# eastern standard time 221# central standard time 222# mountain standard time 223# Pacific standard time 224# Alaska standard time 225# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time 226# Samoa standard time 227# The law doesn't give abbreviations. 228# 229# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow: 230# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation 231# "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. 232# See the file "australasia". 233 234# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 235# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. 236# 237# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. 238# (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 239# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- 240# (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second 241# Sunday of March"; and 242# (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first 243# Sunday of November'. 244# (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the 245# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. 246# (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective 247# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress 248# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United 249# States. 250# (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the 251# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the 252# Department study is complete. 253 254# US eastern time, represented by New York 255 256# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, 257# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky 258# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 259# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 260# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, 261# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia 262 263# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): 264# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington 265# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... 266# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time 267# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their 268# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. 269 270# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): 271# According to today's Huntsville Times 272# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1 273# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City 274# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, 275# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" 276# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central 277# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work 278# in Columbus." 279 280# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06): 281# Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 44, 4 (1884-02-08), 208 282# says that New York City Hall time was 3 minutes 58.4 seconds fast of 283# Eastern time (i.e., -4:56:01.6) just before the 1883 switch. Round to the 284# nearest second. 285 286# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 287Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 288Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 289Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 290Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 291Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 292# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 293Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 294 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 295 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 296 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 297 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967 298 -5:00 US E%sT 299 300# US central time, represented by Chicago 301 302# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, 303# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and 304# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana 305# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 306# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western 307# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern 308# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, 309# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin 310 311# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: 312# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/statutes/Stat0175.pdf ... 313# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local 314# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations 315# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited 316# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year.... 317# 318# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12): 319# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI 320# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent.... 321# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act3.pdf 322 323# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 324Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D 325Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 326Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 327Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 328Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 329Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 330# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 331Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 332 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 333 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 334 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 335 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942 336 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 337 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 338 -6:00 US C%sT 339# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. 340Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 341 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 2:00 342 -6:00 US C%sT 343# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on 344# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time. 345# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>. 346# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and 347# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota; 348# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time. 349# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>. 350Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 351 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 2:00 352 -6:00 US C%sT 353 354# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21): 355# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the 356# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from 357# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010): 358# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm 359# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html 360 361# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24): 362# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although 363# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next 364# largest city in Mercer County). Google Maps places Beulah's city hall 365# at 47 degrees 15' 51" N, 101 degrees 46' 40" W, which yields an offset 366# of 6h47'07". 367 368Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53 369 -7:00 US M%sT 2010 Nov 7 2:00 370 -6:00 US C%sT 371 372# US mountain time, represented by Denver 373# 374# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western 375# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), 376# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, 377# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, 378# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming 379# 380# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 381Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 382Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 383Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S 384Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 385Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 386# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 387Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 388 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 389 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 390 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 391 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967 392 -7:00 US M%sT 393 394# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles 395# 396# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, 397# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county 398# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren), 399# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern 3/4 of 400# Malheur county), and Washington 401# 402# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 403Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D 404Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S 405Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 406Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 407Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 408# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 409Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 410 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 411 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 412 -8:00 US P%sT 413 414# Alaska 415# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO. 416# 417# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 418# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 419# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. 420# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian, 421# also a Friday. Include only the time zone part of this transition, 422# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent 423# the Julian calendar. 424# 425# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were 426# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. 427# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement 428# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there 429# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps 430# it's best to simply use the official transition. 431 432# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18): 433# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and 434# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall: 435# "Welcome to Juneau. Please turn your watch back to the 19th century." 436# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01. 437# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html 438# 439# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source: 440# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response. 441# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2). 442# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/ 443 444# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): 445# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: 446# 447# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27, 448# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time. 449# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on 450# Pacific Time. 451# 452# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the 453# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in 454# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26. 455# 456# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted 457# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time. 458# 459# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not 460# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions. 461# 462# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo 463# Nation.) 464 465# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09): 466# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian 467# Community office (using contact information available at 468# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla 469# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States; 470# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether 471# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their 472# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I 473# did not inquire about practices in the past. 474 475# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17): 476# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's 477# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote. 478 479# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 480Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 481 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 482 -8:00 - PST 1942 483 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 484 -8:00 - PST 1969 485 -8:00 US P%sT 1980 Apr 27 2:00 486 -9:00 US Y%sT 1980 Oct 26 2:00 487 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 488 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 489 -9:00 US AK%sT 490Zone America/Sitka 14:58:47 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 491 -9:01:13 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 492 -8:00 - PST 1942 493 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 494 -8:00 - PST 1969 495 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 496 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 497 -9:00 US AK%sT 498Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 499 -8:46:18 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 500 -8:00 - PST 1942 501 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 502 -8:00 - PST 1969 503 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 504 -8:00 - PST 505Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 506 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 507 -9:00 - YST 1942 508 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946 509 -9:00 - YST 1969 510 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 511 -9:00 US AK%sT 512Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 513 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 514 -10:00 - CAT 1942 515 -10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 516 -10:00 US CAT/CAPT 1946 # Peace 517 -10:00 - CAT 1967 Apr 518 -10:00 - AHST 1969 519 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 520 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 521 -9:00 US AK%sT 522Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 523 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 524 -11:00 - NST 1942 525 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 526 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 527 -11:00 - BST 1969 528 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 529 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 530 -9:00 US AK%sT 531Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 532 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 533 -11:00 - NST 1942 534 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 535 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 536 -11:00 - BST 1969 537 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 538 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 539 -10:00 US HA%sT 540# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. 541# 542# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) 543# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, 544# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. 545# 546# From David Flater (2004-11-09): 547# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska 548# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which 549# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 550# possibly until 1983: 551# 552# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: 553# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important 554# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was 555# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it 556# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard 557# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, 558# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with 559# three votes for and one against." 560 561# Hawaii 562 563# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): 564# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 565# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, 566# the article is available at 567# http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf 568# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January 569# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight 570# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the 571# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the 572# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect 573# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for 574# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes 575# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of 576# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes 577# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) 578# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." 579 580# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): 581# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the 582# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of 583# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act 584# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each 585# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one 586# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th 587# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of 588# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is 589# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon 590# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to 591# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. 592# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor 593# of the Territory of Hawaii." 594# 595# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. 596# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. 597 598# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 599Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 600 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 601 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 602 -10:30 - HST 1942 Feb 9 2:00 603 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 604 -10:30 - HST 1947 Jun 8 2:00 605 -10:00 - HST 606Link Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston 607 608# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. 609 610# Arizona mostly uses MST. 611 612# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): 613# 614# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the 615# Daylight Saving Time web page 616# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23) 617# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 618# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard 619# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military 620# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to 621# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix 622# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was 623# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of 624# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as 625# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona 626# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. 627# 628# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. 629# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. 630 631# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 632Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 633 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 0:01 634 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 0:01 635 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 0:01 636 -7:00 - MST 1967 637 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 638 -7:00 - MST 639# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 640# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 641# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the 642# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its 643# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other 644# tribal nations don't use DST.) 645# 646# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26): 647# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation. 648 649# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, 650# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, 651# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, 652# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, 653# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern 654# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County) 655# switched four weeks late in 1974. 656# 657# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 658Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 659 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 660 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 661 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 662 -7:00 US M%sT 663 664# Indiana 665# 666# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: 667# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana 668# 669# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): 670# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, 671# with the following exceptions: 672# 673# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 674# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. 675# 676# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. 677# 678# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like 679# America/Kentucky/Louisville. 680# 681# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke, 682# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below. 683# 684# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, 685# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information." 686# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! 687# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 688# 689# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript 690# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level. 691# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'. 692 693# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26): 694# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana 695# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, 696# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the 697# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of 698# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the 699# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." 700# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their 701# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error. The intent 702# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. 703 704# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10): 705# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is 706# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007.... 707# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL 708 709# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 710Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 711Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 712Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 713# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 714Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 715 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 716 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 717 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 718 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00 719 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00 720 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 721 -5:00 - EST 1969 722 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 723 -5:00 - EST 2006 724 -5:00 US E%sT 725# 726# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, 727# as well as from 1976 through 2005. 728# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 729Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 730Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 731Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 732Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 733# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 734Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 735 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 736 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 737 -5:00 - EST 1969 738 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 739 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 740 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 741 -5:00 - EST 2006 742 -5:00 US E%sT 743# 744# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana, 745# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back 746# in November 2007. 747# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 748Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 749Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 750Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 751Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 752Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 753Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 754Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 755Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 756Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 757# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 758Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53 759 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 760 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 761 -5:00 - EST 1969 762 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 763 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 764 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 765 -5:00 US E%sT 766# 767# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. 768# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 769Rule Perry 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 770Rule Perry 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 771Rule Perry 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 772Rule Perry 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 773Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 774Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 775Rule Perry 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 776Rule Perry 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 777Rule Perry 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 778# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 779Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:57 780 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 781 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 782 -5:00 - EST 1969 783 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 784 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 785 -6:00 US C%sT 786# 787# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, 788# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007. 789# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 790Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 791Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 792Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 793Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 794# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 795Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53 796 -6:00 US C%sT 1955 797 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 798 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 799 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 800 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 801 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 802 -5:00 US E%sT 803# 804# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, 805# then switched back in 2006. 806# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): 807# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post 808# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of 809# 1991-10-27. 810# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 811Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 812Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 813Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 814Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 815Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 816# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 817Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 818 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 819 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 820 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 821 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 822 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 823 -6:00 US C%sT 824# 825# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in 826# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007. 827# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 828Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 829Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 830Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 831Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 832# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 833Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:35 834 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 835 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 836 -5:00 - EST 1969 837 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 838 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 839 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00 840 -5:00 US E%sT 841# 842# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. 843# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 844Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 845 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 846 -5:00 - EST 1969 847 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 848 -5:00 - EST 2006 849 -5:00 US E%sT 850 851# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. 852# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. 853# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 854Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 855Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S 856Rule Louisville 1941 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 857Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 858Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S 859Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 860Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 861# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 862Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 863 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 864 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 865 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 866 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00 867 -5:00 - EST 1968 868 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 869 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 870 -5:00 US E%sT 871# 872# Wayne County, Kentucky 873# 874# From Lake Cumberland LIFE 875# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml 876# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: 877# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from 878# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made 879# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not 880# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in 881# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also. 882# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S. 883# location in the Central time zone. 884# 885# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29): 886# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion, 887# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern 888# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, 889# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). 890# 891# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): 892# The final rule was published in the 893# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. 894# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22 895# 896Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 897 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 898 -6:00 - CST 1968 899 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 900 -5:00 US E%sT 901 902 903# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): 904# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985. 905# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central; 906# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10 907# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10 908# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 909# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 910# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 911# 912# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): 913# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, 914# so omit that change for now. 915# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. 916# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. 917# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on 918# 1999-10-31. See the 919# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. 920# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=fr21oc99-15 921# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated 922# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; 923# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. 924 925# Michigan 926# 927# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 928# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973. 929# 930# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 931# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, 932# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) 933# that Detroit kept 934# 935# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should 936# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the 937# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision 938# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to 939# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the 940# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted 941# by city vote. 942# 943# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks. 944# 945# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 946# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks 947# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more 948# info, so omit this for now. 949# 950# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975. 951# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 952Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 953Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 954Rule Detroit 1967 only - Jun 14 2:00 1:00 D 955Rule Detroit 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 956# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 957Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 958 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00 959 -5:00 - EST 1942 960 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 961 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1973 962 -5:00 US E%sT 1975 963 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 964 -5:00 US E%sT 965# 966# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, 967# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. 968# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 969Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 970Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 971Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 972Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 973# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 974Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 975 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 976 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 977 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00 978 -6:00 US C%sT 979 980# Navassa 981# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service 982# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act 983# also claimed by Haiti 984# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co 985# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 986# currently uninhabited 987# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord", 988# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites 989# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). 990 991################################################################################ 992 993 994# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): 995# 996# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 997# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 998# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 999# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 1000# 1001# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 1002# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 1003# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 1004# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 1005# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 1006# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 1007# 1008# Other sources occasionally used include: 1009# 1010# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 1011# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 1012# which I found in the UCLA library. 1013# 1014# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 1015# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 1016# [PDF] (1914-03) 1017# 1018# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 1019# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 1020# 1021# See the 'europe' file for Greenland. 1022 1023# Canada 1024 1025# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14): 1026# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada 1027# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... 1028# 1029# UTC Standard time Daylight saving time 1030# offset French English French English 1031# -2:30 - - HAT NDT 1032# -3 - - HAA ADT 1033# -3:30 HNT NST - - 1034# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT 1035# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT 1036# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT 1037# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT 1038# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT 1039# -9 HNY YST - - 1040# 1041# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time 1042# HA: Heure Avancée DT: Daylight saving Time 1043# 1044# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic 1045# C: du Centre Central 1046# E: de l'Est Eastern 1047# M: Mountain 1048# N: Newfoundland 1049# P: du Pacifique Pacific 1050# R: des Rocheuses 1051# T: de Terre-Neuve 1052# Y: du Yukon Yukon 1053# 1054# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): 1055# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. 1056 1057# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks 1058# & Pottenger. 1059 1060# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31, 1061# 2007-03-01): 1062# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will 1063# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the 1064# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... 1065# http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm 1066# ... 1067# Nova Scotia 1068# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... 1069# http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf 1070# 1071# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to 1072# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. 1073# http://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf 1074# ... 1075# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. 1076# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. 1077# http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php 1078# ... 1079# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. 1080# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM 1081# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm 1082# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF 1083# ... 1084# P.E.I. will follow US rules.... 1085# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf 1086# ... 1087# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... 1088# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm 1089# ... 1090# Yukon 1091# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf 1092# ... 1093# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site 1094# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the 1095# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the 1096# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using 1097# JavaScript. 1098# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive 1099# ... 1100# Nunavut 1101# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007.... 1102# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf 1103 1104# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-18): 1105# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 1106# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 1107# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp 1108# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard 1109# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. 1110# 1111# National Research Council Canada maintains info about time zones and DST. 1112# http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html 1113# http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/index.html#Q5 1114# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. 1115 1116# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): 1117# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the 1118# new US DST rules, 1119 1120# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01) 1121# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles 1122# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1123# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review. 1124# The quote includes these two statements: 1125# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...' 1126# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,' 1127# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time 1128# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918. This transition was 1129# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star. 1130 1131# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed 1132# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day 1133# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets. 1134 1135# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1136Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1137Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1138Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1139Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1140Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1141Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1142Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1143Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1144Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1145Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1146 1147 1148# Newfoundland and Labrador 1149 1150# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1151# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Labrador should use NST/NDT, 1152# but the only part of Labrador that follows the rules is the 1153# southeast corner, including Port Hope Simpson and Mary's Harbour, 1154# but excluding, say, Black Tickle. 1155 1156# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1157Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D 1158Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1159# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1160Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D 1161Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S 1162# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1163Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D 1164Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S 1165# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & 1166# Pottenger. 1167Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D 1168Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S 1169# Whitman gives the following transitions: 1170# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 1171# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. 1172# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives 1173# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1174Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1175Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S 1176Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1177Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1178Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1179# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1180# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches 1181# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. 1182 1183# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12): 1184# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the 1185# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed. 1186# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings 1187# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time 1188# now occurs at 2:00AM. 1189# ... 1190# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm 1191# ... 1192# MICHAEL PELLEY | Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery 1193# Office of the Chief Information Officer 1194# Executive Council 1195# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 1196 1197Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1198Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1199Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD 1200Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1201Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D 1202Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S 1203# 1204# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. 1205# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1206Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 1207 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 1208 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1209 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 1210 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1211 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1212 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 2011 Nov 1213 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1214 1215# most of east Labrador 1216 1217# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'. 1218# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1219Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1220 -3:30:52 - NST 1918 1221 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1222 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 1223 -3:30 - NST 1936 1224 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1225 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1226 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 1227 -4:00 StJohns A%sT 2011 Nov 1228 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1229 1230 1231# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I 1232 1233# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1234# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like 1235# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; 1236# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of. 1237# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town 1238# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume 1239# this is a typo. 1240 1241# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1242Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1243Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1244Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D 1245Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S 1246Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D 1247Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1248Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1249Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1250Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1251Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1252Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S 1253Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D 1254Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1255Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1256Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1257Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1258Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S 1259Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1260Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1261Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1262Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1263Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1264Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 1265Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D 1266Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1267Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D 1268Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 1269Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1270Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1271Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1272Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1273Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D 1274Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1275Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1276Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1277Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1278Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1279Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1280Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1281Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1282Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1283# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1284Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1285 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 1286 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 1287 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1288 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1289 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1290 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1291Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1292 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 1293 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 1294 -4:00 - AST 1972 1295 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1296 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1297 1298# New Brunswick 1299 1300# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31): 1301# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> 1302# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and 1303# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it 1304# clear that this was the case since at least 1993. 1305# For now, assume it started in 1993. 1306 1307# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1308Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D 1309Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S 1310Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D 1311Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 1312Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D 1313Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S 1314Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D 1315Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D 1316Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1317Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1318Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1319Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1320Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1321# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1322Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 1323 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 1324 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 1325 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 1326 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1327 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 1328 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 1329 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 1330 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1331 1332# Quebec 1333 1334# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-30): 1335# Since 1970 most of Quebec has been like Toronto. 1336# However, because earlier versions of the tz database mistakenly relied on data 1337# from Shanks & Pottenger saying that Quebec differed from Ontario after 1970, 1338# a separate entry was created for most of Quebec. We're loath to lose 1339# its pre-1970 info, even though the tz database is normally limited to 1340# zones that differ after 1970, so keep this otherwise out-of-scope entry. 1341 1342# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63 1343# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as 1344# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST. 1345# The Quebec department of justice writes in 1346# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" 1347# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm 1348# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon 1349# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. 1350# http://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en 1351# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007. 1352# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to 1353# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. 1354 1355# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1356Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D 1357Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S 1358Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D 1359Rule Mont 1919 only - Oct 25 2:30 0 S 1360Rule Mont 1920 only - May 2 2:30 1:00 D 1361Rule Mont 1920 1922 - Oct Sun>=1 2:30 0 S 1362Rule Mont 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1363Rule Mont 1922 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 1364Rule Mont 1924 only - May 17 2:00 1:00 D 1365Rule Mont 1924 1926 - Sep lastSun 2:30 0 S 1366Rule Mont 1925 1926 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1367Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Apr lastSat 24:00 1:00 D 1368Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Sep lastSat 24:00 0 S 1369Rule Mont 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1370Rule Mont 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1371Rule Mont 1946 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1372Rule Mont 1945 1948 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1373Rule Mont 1949 1950 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1374Rule Mont 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1375Rule Mont 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1376 1377# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1378Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 1379 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 1380 -4:00 - AST 1381Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884 1382 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1918 1383 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1384 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1385 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1386 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1974 1387 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1388 1389# Ontario 1390 1391# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1392# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1393# Toronto. 1394# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1395# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1396# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1397# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. 1398 1399# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1400# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST 1401# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that 1402# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw 1403# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, 1404# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable 1405# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after 1406# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but 1407# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters 1408# earlier in June). 1409# 1410# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). 1411 1412# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): 1413# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star 1414# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, 1415# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. 1416# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) 1417# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html 1418# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. 1419# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report 1420# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. 1421# 1422# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1423# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and 1424# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes 1425# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in 1426# violation of the official Ontario rules. 1427# 1428# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1429# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the 1430# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: 1431# 1432# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. 1433# This means they spend about half the time on central time and 1434# the other half on eastern time. 1435# 1436# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. 1437# 1438# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern 1439# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he 1440# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." 1441# 1442# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang 1443# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." 1444 1445# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: 1446# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory 1447# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he 1448# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current 1449# time keeping since 1952, at least. 1450 1451# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): 1452# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River 1453# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from 1454# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan 1455# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time 1456# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour 1457# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move 1458# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. 1459 1460# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06): 1461# 1462# Currently the database has: 1463# 1464# # Ontario 1465# 1466# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1467# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1468# # Toronto. 1469# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1470# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1471# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1472# 1473# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom 1474# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard 1475# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that: 1476# 1477# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario, 1478# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year. 1479# 1480# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon. 1481# 1482# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began 1483# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date. 1484# 1485# By the way, the article continues by noting that: 1486# 1487# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back 1488# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October. 1489 1490# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17): 1491# 1492# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in 1493# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1494# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17, 1495# was available at 1496# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S 1497# 1498# It includes the text below (starting on page 57): 1499# 1500# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would 1501# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by 1502# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities 1503# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav- 1504# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite, 1505# for the other provinces only approximate: 1506# 1507# Province Daylight saving time used 1508# Prince Edward Island Not used. 1509# Nova Scotia In Halifax only. 1510# New Brunswick In St. John only. 1511# Quebec In the following places: 1512# Montreal Lachine 1513# Quebec Mont-Royal 1514# Lévis Iberville 1515# St. Lambert Cap de la Madelèine 1516# Verdun Loretteville 1517# Westmount Richmond 1518# Outremont St. Jérôme 1519# Longueuil Greenfield Park 1520# Arvida Waterloo 1521# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu 1522# Melbourne La Tuque 1523# St. Théophile Buckingham 1524# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along 1525# the southerly part of the province. Not 1526# used in the northwesterly part. 1527# Manitoba Not used. 1528# Saskatchewan In Regina only. 1529# Alberta Not used. 1530# British Columbia Not used. 1531# 1532# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited 1533# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont. 1534 1535# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1536Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D 1537Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S 1538Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D 1539Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1540Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D 1541Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S 1542Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1543# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" 1544# was meant. 1545Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 1546Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1547# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as 1548# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S 1549# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D 1550# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1551# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1552# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25 1553# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle). 1554Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1555Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1556Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1557Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1558Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 1559Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1560Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1561Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1562Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1563Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1564Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S 1565Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1566Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S 1567Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1568# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, 1569# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this 1570# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 1571# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. 1572Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1573 1574# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1575# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and 1576# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in 1577# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, 1578# Saskatchewan, for one year." 1579 1580# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, 1581# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): 1582# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight 1583# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur 1584# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central 1585# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to 1586# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight 1587# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so 1588# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World 1589# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer 1590# months for the remainder of the war years. 1591 1592# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1593Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 1594 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1595 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1596 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1597 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 1598 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1599Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 1600 -6:00 - CST 1910 1601 -5:00 - EST 1942 1602 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 1603 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1973 1604 -5:00 - EST 1974 1605 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1606Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 1607 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 1608 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1609 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1610Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 1611 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1612 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1613 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1614Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 1615 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1616 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1617 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 1618 -5:00 - EST 1619 1620 1621# Manitoba 1622 1623# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): 1624# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to 1625# March 27, 1987 ... said ... 1626# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of 1627# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central 1628# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next 1629# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... 1630# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had 1631# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... 1632# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying 1633# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of 1634# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central 1635# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). 1636 1637# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): 1638# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) 1639# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume 1640# it was also 02:00s in 1966. 1641 1642# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1643Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D 1644Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S 1645Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1646Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1647Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D 1648Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S 1649Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1650Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1651Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1652Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D 1653Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1654Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1655Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1656Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1657Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1658Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1659Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1660Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1661Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1662Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1663Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S 1664Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 1665Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S 1666Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 1667# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1668Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 1669 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 1670 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1671 1672 1673# Saskatchewan 1674 1675# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1676# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal 1677# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people 1678# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, 1679# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." 1680# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: 1681# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of 1682# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad 1683# time was noted. 1684 1685# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1686# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the 1687# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." 1688 1689# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1690# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. 1691# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. 1692# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. 1693# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton 1694# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. 1695 1696# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): 1697# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the 1698# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. 1699# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and 1700# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother. 1701# 1702# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years 1703# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated 1704# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial 1705# referendum favoured legislating common time practices. 1706# 1707# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of 1708# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern 1709# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in 1710# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to 1711# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and 1712# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would 1713# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST. 1714# 1715# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town 1716# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to 1717# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only 1718# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT 1719# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round 1720# since sometime in the 1960s. 1721 1722# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1723# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages 1724# long and rather painful to read. 1725# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf 1726 1727# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1728Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1729Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1730Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1731Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1732Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1733Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1734Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1735Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1736Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1737Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1738Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1739Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1740Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 1741Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1742Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1743Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1744Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1745# 1746Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1747Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1748Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1749Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1750Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1751# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1752Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep 1753 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00 1754 -6:00 - CST 1755Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep 1756 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00 1757 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950 1758 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00 1759 -6:00 - CST 1760 1761 1762# Alberta 1763 1764# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1765Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1766Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1767Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S 1768Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1769Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1770Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1771Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1772Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1773Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1774Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1775Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1776Rule Edm 1967 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1777Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1778Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1779Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1780Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1781Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1782# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1783Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep 1784 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 1785 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1786 1787 1788# British Columbia 1789 1790# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1791# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has 1792# been like Vancouver. 1793# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. 1794# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek. 1795 1796# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct: 1797 1798# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): 1799# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia 1800# that do not currently observe daylight saving: 1801# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) 1802# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District 1803# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) 1804 1805# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time 1806# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the 1807# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. 1808# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1809# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. 1810# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UTC-7 for 93 years. 1811# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. 1812 1813# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains 1814# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months 1815# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just 1816# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing 1817# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the 1818# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010. 1819# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 1820 1821# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: 1822# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) 1823# Exact date unknown 1824# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) 1825# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. 1826# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) 1827# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. 1828# note#1: 1829# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, 1830# Creston did not change its clocks. 1831# note#2: 1832# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, 1833# Creston did not oblige. 1834# note#3: 1835# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time 1836# (UTC-7) forever. 1837# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. 1838# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html 1839 1840# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. 1841# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying 1842# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before 1843# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this 1844# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough 1845# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. 1846 1847# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. 1848 1849# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1850Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1851Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1852Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1853Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1854Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1855Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1856Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1857Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1858Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1859# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1860Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 1861 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1862 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1863Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 1864 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 1865 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 1866 -7:00 - MST 1867Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 1868 -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 1869 -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 1870 -7:00 - MST 1871 1872# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon 1873 1874# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1875# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. 1876# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: 1877# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, 1878# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid; 1879# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). 1880# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. 1881# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. 1882# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. 1883# Shanks & Pottenger say Yukon's 1973-10-28 switch was at 2:00; go 1884# with Englander. 1885# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1886# Here is a link to the old daylight saving portion of the interpretation 1887# act which was last updated in 1987: 1888# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic1987_056.pdf 1889 1890# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): 1891# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. 1892# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 1893# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html 1894# 1895# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): 1896# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut 1897# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region. 1898 1899# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 1900# Basic Facts: The New Territory 1901# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html 1902# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, 1903# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when 1904# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. 1905 1906# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 1907# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 1908# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 1909# 1910# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 1911# 1912# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 1913# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 1914# 1915# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 1916# 1917# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 1918# 1919# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 1920# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 1921# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 1922# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 1923# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 1924# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 1925# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 1926# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 1927# the current state of affairs. 1928 1929# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 1930# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): 1931# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html 1932# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 1933# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 1934# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 1935# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 1936 1937# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1938# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories 1939# for these potential new Zones. 1940# 1941# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the 1942# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central 1943# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the 1944# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time. 1945# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of 1946# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not 1947# required to use daylight savings. 1948 1949# From <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html> 1950# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10): 1951# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and 1952# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them 1953# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter. 1954# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against 1955# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with 1956# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on 1957# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to 1958# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's 1959# unified time zone in 1999. 1960# 1961# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government: 1962# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000. 1963 1964# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 1965# Let's just keep track of the official times for now. 1966 1967# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07): 1968# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising 1969# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert 1970# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the 1971# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that 1972# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm 1973# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with 1974# more. 1975# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] 1976 1977# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): 1978# According to ... 1979# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 1980# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time 1981# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year 1982# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. 1983# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it 1984# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... 1985# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. 1986# 1987# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-17): 1988# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed 1989# daylight saving only during wartime. Gwillim Law's email also 1990# mentioned maps now maintained by National Research Council Canada; 1991# see above for an up-to-date link. 1992 1993# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01): 1994# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in 1995# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. 1996# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of 1997# daylight saving.... 1998# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html 1999 2000# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21): 2001# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute 2002# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of 2003# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had 2004# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007. 2005# 2006# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay 2007# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008... 2008# 2009# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March 2010# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I 2011# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able 2012# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was 2013# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone 2014# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT). 2015# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks 2016# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in 2017# so they could follow the correct TV schedule... 2018# 2019# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I 2020# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature 2021# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of 2022# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of 2023# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for 2024# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived 2025# and worked in Resolute Bay... 2026# 2027# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that 2028# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of 2029# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead 2030# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay 2031# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not 2032# tell me when the practice had stopped. 2033# 2034# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of 2035# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went 2036# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz 2037# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the 2038# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on 2039# Aziz: 2040# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493 2041# 2042# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using 2043# Eastern Standard Time. 2044# 2045# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the 2046# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way 2047# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in 2048# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs" 2049# 2050# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008. 2051# 2052# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz 2053# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You 2054# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a 2055# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site" 2056# 2057# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would 2058# never have contacted her. I now believe that all the information I 2059# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... 2060# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. 2061 2062# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2063Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2064Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2065Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D 2066Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 2067Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2068Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2069Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2070Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD 2071Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2072Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2073Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2074Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2075# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2076# aka Panniqtuuq 2077Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - zzz 1921 # trading post est. 2078 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 2079 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2080 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2081 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2082# formerly Frobisher Bay 2083Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - zzz 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. 2084 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2085 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2086 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2087# aka Qausuittuq 2088Zone America/Resolute 0 - zzz 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded 2089 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2090 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2091 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 2092 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 2093 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2094# aka Kangiqiniq 2095Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - zzz 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded 2096 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2097 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2098 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2099# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq 2100Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - zzz 1920 # trading post est.? 2101 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2102 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2103 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 2104 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2105 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2106Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - zzz 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 2107 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2108 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2109Zone America/Inuvik 0 - zzz 1953 # Inuvik founded 2110 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 2111 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2112 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2113Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2114 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1966 Jul 1 2:00 2115 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2116 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2117Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2118 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 2119 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2120 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2121 2122 2123############################################################################### 2124 2125# Mexico 2126 2127# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05): 2128# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the 2129# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a 2130# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) 2131# http://www.cddhcu.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/ 2132# 2133# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. 2134# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) 2135# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. 2136# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. 2137# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. 2138# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. 2139 2140# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): 2141# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the 2142# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that 2143# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of 2144# the relevant documents. 2145 2146# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): 2147# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree 2148# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. 2149# 2150# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 2151# 2152# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the 2153# rules for the DST changes. The rules are: 2154# 2155# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones: 2156# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ) 2157# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ) 2158# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ) 2159# 2160# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October 2161# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows: 2162# BajaNorte: GMT+7 2163# BajaSur: GMT+6 2164# General: GMT+5 2165# 2166# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows: 2167# BajaNorte: GMT+8 2168# BajaSur: GMT+7 2169# General: GMT+6 2170# 2171# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th. 2172# 2173# -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- 2174# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): 2175# For an English translation of the decree, see 2176# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04). 2177# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html 2178 2179# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 2180# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times 2181# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). 2182 2183# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): 2184# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time 2185# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight 2186# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of 2187# Arizona year round. 2188 2189# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating 2190# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17): 2191# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National 2192# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each 2193# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the 2194# whole year. 2195 2196# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19): 2197# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says 2198# (translated):... 2199# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced 2200# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting 2201# this year.... 2202# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001 2203# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday 2204# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. 2205 2206# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25): 2207# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one 2208# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."... 2209# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html 2210# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep 2211# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than 2212# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish 2213# observation of Daylight Saving Time. 2214 2215# Official statute published by the Energy Department 2216# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre 2217# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, 2218# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). 2219 2220# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): 2221# 2222# http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html 2223# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times 2224# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. 2225# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that 2226# the Federal District will not adopt DST. 2227# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree. 2228# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including 2229# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools. 2230# 2231# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules. 2232 2233# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01): 2234# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight 2235# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier 2236# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight 2237# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California 2238# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight 2239# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president 2240# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending 2241# September 30, 2001. 2242# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp> 2243# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31) 2244 2245# From Reuters (2001-09-04): 2246# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was 2247# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the 2248# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation 2249# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 2250# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to 2251# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not 2252# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. 2253 2254# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12): 2255# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted 2256# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico.... 2257# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20) 2258# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied. 2259 2260# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28): 2261# 2262# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2263# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern 2264# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as 2265# > the United States. 2266# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from 2267# 2010, some border regions will be the same: 2268# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/ 2269# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939 2270# (Spanish) 2271# 2272# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here: 2273# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf 2274# (Gaceta Parlamentaria) 2275# 2276# There is also a list of the votes here: 2277# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html 2278# 2279# Our page: 2280# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html 2281 2282# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20): 2283# The page 2284# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2285# includes this text: 2286# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California; 2287# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila; 2288# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en 2289# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto 2290# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos 2291# horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2292# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja 2293# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea 2294# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte 2295# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el 2296# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá 2297# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a 2298# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2299 2300# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2301Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D 2302Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S 2303Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D 2304Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S 2305Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War 2306Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S 2307Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D 2308Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S 2309Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2310Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2311Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2312Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2313Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2314Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2315# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2316# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún 2317Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56 2318 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2319 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 2320 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2321# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida 2322Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 2323 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2324 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 2325 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2326# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) 2327Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 2328 -6:00 - CST 1988 2329 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2330 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 2331 -6:00 US C%sT 2332# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) 2333Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44 2334 -6:00 - CST 1988 2335 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2336 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2337# Central Mexico 2338Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 2339 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2340 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2341 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2342 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2343 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2344 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 2:00 2345 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 2346 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2347# Chihuahua (near US border) 2348Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 2349 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2350 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2351 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2352 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2353 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2354 -6:00 - CST 1996 2355 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2356 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2357 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 2358 -7:00 US M%sT 2359# Chihuahua (away from US border) 2360Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40 2361 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2362 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2363 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2364 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2365 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2366 -6:00 - CST 1996 2367 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2368 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2369 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2370# Sonora 2371Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08 2372 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2373 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2374 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2375 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2376 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2377 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2378 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2379 -8:00 - PST 1970 2380 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999 2381 -7:00 - MST 2382 2383# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21): 2384# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) 2385# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to 2386# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco). 2387# 2388# (Spanish) 2389# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del 2390# país, a partir de este domingo 2391# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748 2392# 2393# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del 2394# País 2395# 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 2396# 2397# (English) 2398# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone 2399# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml 2400# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html 2401# 2402# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that 2403# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time 2404# zone ..." 2405# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa 2406 2407# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01): 2408# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters. 2409 2410# Mazatlán 2411Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20 2412 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2413 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2414 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2415 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2416 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2417 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2418 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2419 -8:00 - PST 1970 2420 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2421 2422# Bahía de Banderas 2423Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:59:00 2424 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2425 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2426 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2427 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2428 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2429 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2430 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2431 -8:00 - PST 1970 2432 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 2433 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2434 2435# Baja California (near US border) 2436Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 2437 -7:00 - MST 1924 2438 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2439 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2440 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2441 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2442 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2443 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2444 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2445 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2446 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2447 -8:00 - PST 1954 2448 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2449 -8:00 - PST 1976 2450 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2451 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2452 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2453 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 2454 -8:00 US P%sT 2455# Baja California (away from US border) 2456Zone America/Santa_Isabel -7:39:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:20:32 2457 -7:00 - MST 1924 2458 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2459 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2460 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2461 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2462 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2463 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2464 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2465 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2466 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2467 -8:00 - PST 1954 2468 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2469 -8:00 - PST 1976 2470 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2471 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2472 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2473 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2474# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2475# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from 2476# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 2477# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say 2478# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports 2479# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and 2480# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that 2481# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns 2482# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone 2483# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its 2484# name or contents should be. 2485# 2486# Revillagigedo Is 2487# no information 2488 2489############################################################################### 2490 2491# Anguilla 2492# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2493 2494# Antigua and Barbuda 2495# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2496Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2497 -5:00 - EST 1951 2498 -4:00 - AST 2499 2500# Bahamas 2501# 2502# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. 2503# 2504# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): 2505# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST 2506# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... 2507# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 2508 2509# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2510Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2511Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2512# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2513Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2514 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 2515 -5:00 US E%sT 2516 2517# Barbados 2518 2519# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that. 2520 2521# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2522Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D 2523Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2524Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2525Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2526Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S 2527# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2528Zone America/Barbados -3:58:29 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown 2529 -3:58:29 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time 2530 -4:00 Barb A%sT 2531 2532# Belize 2533# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2534# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2535Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 HD 2536Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 S 2537Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 D 2538Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 S 2539Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 D 2540Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 S 2541# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2542Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 2543 -6:00 Belize C%sT 2544 2545# Bermuda 2546 2547# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower, 2548# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that. 2549 2550# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): 2551 2552# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday 2553# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone 2554# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on 2555# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. 2556# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 2557 2558# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2559Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton 2560 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2561 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976 2562 -4:00 US A%sT 2563 2564# Cayman Is 2565# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2566Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown 2567 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 2568 -5:00 - EST 2569 2570# Costa Rica 2571 2572# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest. 2573 2574# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2575Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2576Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2577Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2578# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; 2579# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2580Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S 2581Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S 2582# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'. 2583# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2584Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José 2585 -5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time 2586 -6:00 CR C%sT 2587# Coco 2588# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica 2589 2590# Cuba 2591 2592# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2593# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57 2594# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations. 2595# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger. 2596 2597# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29): 2598# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between 2599# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on 2600# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. 2601# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that 2602# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving 2603# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of 2604# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched 2605# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have 2606# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) 2607 2608# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11): 2609# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the 2610# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ... 2611# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html 2612 2613# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): 2614# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. 2615# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2616# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html 2617# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras 2618# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return 2619# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". 2620# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. 2621 2622# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): 2623# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone 2624# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: 2625# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html 2626 2627# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21): 2628# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end 2629# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see 2630# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html 2631# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, 2632# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning 2633# to the normal schedule.... 2634 2635# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02): 2636# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday, 2637# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10. 2638# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules, 2639# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual. 2640# 2641# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25): 2642# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week 2643# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. 2644# 2645# He supplied these references: 2646# 2647# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES 2648# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm 2649# 2650# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25): 2651# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba): 2652# 2653# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre 2654# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html 2655# 2656# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html 2657 2658# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09): 2659# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight 2660# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to 2661# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj 2662# a Cuban information station, and heard 2663# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"), 2664# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time. 2665 2666# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12): 2667# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16... 2668# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish): 2669# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm 2670# 2671# Some more background information is posted here: 2672# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html 2673# 2674# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963, 2675# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the 2676# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been 2677# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception 2678# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to 2679# change some historic records as well. 2680# 2681# One example: 2682# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm 2683 2684# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13): 2685# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative 2686# web site, the Granma. Please check out 2687# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html 2688# 2689# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change 2690# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday. 2691 2692# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12): 2693# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward. 2694 2695# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04) 2696# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on 2697# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009- 2698# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought. 2699# 2700# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html 2701# (in Spanish) 2702 2703# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09) 2704# I listened over the Internet to 2705# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj 2706# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the 2707# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating 2708# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. 2709 2710# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): 2711# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 2712# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has 2713# changed at all). 2714# 2715# Source: 2716# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html 2717# 2718# Our info: 2719# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html 2720# 2721# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30) 2722# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back 2723# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00. 2724# 2725# One source (Spanish) 2726# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html 2727# 2728# Our page: 2729# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html 2730# 2731# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01) 2732# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March 2733# 31 and April 1. 2734# 2735# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish): 2736# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril 2737# 2738# Our info on it: 2739# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html 2740 2741# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03): 2742# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back 2743# to standard time on 2012-11-04: 2744# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre 2745# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03): 2746# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November. 2747 2748# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2749Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D 2750Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S 2751Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2752Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2753Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2754Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2755Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 2756Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 2757Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D 2758Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 2759Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D 2760Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2761Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 2762Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2763Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2764Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S 2765Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2766Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D 2767Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2768Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2769Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D 2770Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D 2771Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2772Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S 2773Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S 2774Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S 2775Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2776Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2777Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D 2778Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2779Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2780Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2781Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2782Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2783Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2784Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S 2785Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D 2786Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S 2787Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2788 2789# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2790Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 2791 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT 2792 -5:00 Cuba C%sT 2793 2794# Dominica 2795# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2796 2797# Dominican Republic 2798 2799# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30): 2800# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the 2801# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am.... 2802# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html 2803 2804# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2805# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST. 2806 2807# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 2808# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday, 2809# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the 2810# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date 2811# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they 2812# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going 2813# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president 2814# decided to revert. 2815 2816 2817# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2818Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 D 2819Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 S 2820Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HD 2821Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 S 2822Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 S 2823Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 S 2824# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2825Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 2826 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT 2827 -5:00 DR E%sT 1974 Oct 27 2828 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2829 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 1:00 2830 -4:00 - AST 2831 2832# El Salvador 2833 2834# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2835Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2836Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 2837# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador 2838# instead of America/San_Salvador. 2839# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2840Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador 2841 -6:00 Salv C%sT 2842 2843# Grenada 2844# Guadeloupe 2845# St Barthélemy 2846# St Martin (French part) 2847# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2848 2849# Guatemala 2850# 2851# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: 2852# Diario Co Latino, at 2853# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>, 2854# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had 2855# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the 2856# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from 2857# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). 2858# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): 2859# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 2860# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See 2861# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf 2862 2863# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2864Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D 2865Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S 2866Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D 2867Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 2868Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D 2869Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 2870Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 2871Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 2872# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2873Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 2874 -6:00 Guat C%sT 2875 2876# Haiti 2877# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): 2878# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. 2879# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release 2880# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), 2881# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>. Translated from French, it says: 2882# 2883# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general 2884# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior 2885# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the 2886# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next 2887# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. 2888# 2889# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform 2890# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour 2891# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in 2892# October 2005. 2893# 2894# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" 2895# 2896# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): 2897# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like 2898# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a 2899# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST 2900# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). 2901# 2902# I have found this article about it (in French): 2903# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 2904# 2905# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. 2906 2907# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22): 2908# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007. 2909 2910# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11): 2911# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year, 2912# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada. 2913# So this means they have already changed their time. 2914# 2915# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510 2916# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253 2917# 2918# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11): 2919# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to 2920# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight. 2921# Assume a US-style fall back as well. 2922 2923# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10): 2924# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules 2925# as US/Canada. They did it last year as well, and it looks like they 2926# are going to observe DST every year now... 2927# 2928# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ 2929# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 2930 2931# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2932Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D 2933Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2934Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2935# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. 2936# Go with IATA. 2937Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D 2938Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S 2939Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2940Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2941Rule Haiti 2012 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 2942Rule Haiti 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2943# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2944Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 2945 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT 2946 -5:00 Haiti E%sT 2947 2948# Honduras 2949# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. 2950 2951# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): 2952# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article 2953# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 2954# months until September. La Tribuna reported today 2955# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president 2956# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. 2957 2958# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08): 2959# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at 2960# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). 2961# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html 2962 2963# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): 2964# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08). 2965# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12 2966# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. 2967 2968# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 2969# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not 2970# published, I have located this authoritative source: 2971# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 2972 2973# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30): 2974# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386 2975# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year.... 2976 2977# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2978Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2979Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 2980Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2981Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S 2982# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2983Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr 2984 -6:00 Hond C%sT 2985# 2986# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 2987 2988# Jamaica 2989# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an 2990# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the 2991# island". Go with Milne. Round to the nearest second as required by zic. 2992# 2993# Shanks & Pottenger give April 28 for the 1974 spring-forward transition, but 2994# Lance Neita writes that Prime Minister Michael Manley decreed it January 5. 2995# Assume Neita meant Jan 6 02:00, the same as the US. Neita also writes that 2996# Manley's supporters associated this act with Manley's nickname "Joshua" 2997# (recall that in the Bible the sun stood still at Joshua's request), 2998# and with the Rod of Correction which Manley said he had received from 2999# Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. See: 3000# Neita L. The politician in all of us. Jamaica Observer 2014-09-20 3001# http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-politician-in-all-of-us_17573647 3002# 3003# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3004Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:11 - LMT 1890 # Kingston 3005 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3006 -5:00 - EST 1974 3007 -5:00 US E%sT 1984 3008 -5:00 - EST 3009 3010# Martinique 3011# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3012Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France 3013 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT 3014 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 3015 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 3016 -4:00 - AST 3017 3018# Montserrat 3019# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3020 3021# Nicaragua 3022# 3023# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. 3024# 3025# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): 3026# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started 3027# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of 3028# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet 3029# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". 3030# Some background information is available on the President's official site: 3031# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm 3032# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: 3033# 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 3034# 3035# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): 3036# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's 3037# assume that it is daylight saving.... 3038# 3039# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): 3040# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at 3041# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html 3042# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last 3043# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 3044# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."... 3045# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously 3046# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time 3047# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to 3048# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. 3049# 3050# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02): 3051# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). 3052# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm 3053# (2005-09-26) 3054# 3055# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05): 3056# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 3057# (my informal translation) 3058# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua 3059# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the 3060# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September. 3061# 3062# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30): 3063# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf 3064# My informal translation runs: 3065# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the 3066# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. 3067# 3068# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3069Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D 3070Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S 3071Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 3072Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3073Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 3074Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 3075# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3076Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 3077 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? 3078 -6:00 - CST 1973 May 3079 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 3080 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 3081 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 3082 -6:00 - CST 1993 3083 -5:00 - EST 1997 3084 -6:00 Nic C%sT 3085 3086# Panama 3087# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3088Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 3089 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time 3090 -5:00 - EST 3091 3092# Puerto Rico 3093# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. 3094# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3095Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan 3096 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 3097 -4:00 US A%sT 1946 3098 -4:00 - AST 3099 3100# St Kitts-Nevis 3101# St Lucia 3102# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3103 3104# St Pierre and Miquelon 3105# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'. 3106# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3107Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre 3108 -4:00 - AST 1980 May 3109 -3:00 - PMST 1987 # Pierre & Miquelon Time 3110 -3:00 Canada PM%sT 3111 3112# St Vincent and the Grenadines 3113# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3114 3115# Turks and Caicos 3116# 3117# From Chris Dunn in 3118# http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007 3119# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the 3120# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match 3121# the recent U.S. change of dates. 3122# 3123# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28): 3124# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26] 3125# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three 3126# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: 3127# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 3128# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" 3129# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. 3130# 3131# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): 3132# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UTC-4 year-round. See: 3133# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm 3134# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ... 3135# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04): 3136# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to 3137# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year.... 3138# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm 3139# 3140# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3141Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 3142 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3143 -5:00 - EST 1979 3144 -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00 3145 -4:00 - AST 3146 3147# British Virgin Is 3148# Virgin Is 3149# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3150 3151 3152# Local Variables: 3153# coding: utf-8 3154# End: 3155