1# tzdb data for Antarctica and environs 2 3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 5 6# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): 7# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see 8# COMNAP - Stations and Bases 9# http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/ 10# and 11# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 12# http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm 13# for information. 14# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 15 16# FORMAT is '-00' and STDOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. 17 18# Argentina - year-round bases 19# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 20# Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 21# Esperanza, Hope Bay, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 22# Marambio, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 23# Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 24# San Martín, Barry I, -6808-06706, since 1951-03-21 25# (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) 26 27# Australia - territories 28# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 29# previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered 30# Margaret Turner reports 31# https://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html 32# (1999-09-30) that they're UT +05, with no DST; 33# presumably this is when they have visitors. 34# 35# year-round bases 36# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 37# Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 38# (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) 39# Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 40 41# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): 42# Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: 43# Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 44# Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 45# Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 46# The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). 47# 48# Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) 49# http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 50# 51# We have more background information here: 52# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html 53 54# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 55# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ... 56# 57# - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. 58# The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but 59# has not been decided yet. 60# 61# - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 62# 20:00 UTC. 63# 64# - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. 65# 66# Background: 67# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html 68 69# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-10-28): 70# Australian Antarctica Division informed us that Casey changed time 71# zone to UTC+11 in "the morning of 22nd October 2016". 72 73# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 74Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - -00 1969 75 8:00 - +08 2009 Oct 18 2:00 76 11:00 - +11 2010 Mar 5 2:00 77 8:00 - +08 2011 Oct 28 2:00 78 11:00 - +11 2012 Feb 21 17:00u 79 8:00 - +08 2016 Oct 22 80 11:00 - +11 2018 Mar 11 4:00 81 8:00 - +08 82Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - -00 1957 Jan 13 83 7:00 - +07 1964 Nov 84 0 - -00 1969 Feb 85 7:00 - +07 2009 Oct 18 2:00 86 5:00 - +05 2010 Mar 10 20:00u 87 7:00 - +07 2011 Oct 28 2:00 88 5:00 - +05 2012 Feb 21 20:00u 89 7:00 - +07 90Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - -00 1954 Feb 13 91 6:00 - +06 2009 Oct 18 2:00 92 5:00 - +05 93# References: 94# Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 95# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html 96# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 97# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html 98# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 99# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html 100 101# Belgium - year-round base 102# Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 103 104# Brazil - year-round base 105# Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 106 107# Bulgaria - year-round base 108# St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988 109 110# Chile - year-round bases and towns 111# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 112# Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 113# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 114# Prat, -6230-05941 115# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 116# These locations employ Region of Magallanes time; use 117# TZ='America/Punta_Arenas'. 118 119# China - year-round bases 120# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 121# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 122 123# France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy") 124# 125# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): 126# Time data entries are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP 127# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). 128# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adélie bases 129# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adélie supplies came 130# from Tasmania. 131# 132# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 133# 134# Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964; 135# sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+; 136# see Indian/Reunion. 137# 138# Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 139# Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; 140# whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 141# 142# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited 143# fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 144# 145# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 146Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - -00 1950 # Port-aux-Français 147 5:00 - +05 148# 149# year-round base in the main continent 150# Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 151# <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) 152# 153# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 154# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 155# 156# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 157Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - -00 1947 158 10:00 - +10 1952 Jan 14 159 0 - -00 1956 Nov 160 10:00 - +10 161 162# France & Italy - year-round base 163# Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005 164 165# Germany - year-round base 166# Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009 167 168# India - year-round bases 169# Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012 170# Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989 171 172# Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy") 173# Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986 174 175# Japan - year-round bases 176# Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957 177# 178# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 179# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 180# 181# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 182# was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 183# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 184# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 185Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - -00 1957 Jan 29 186 3:00 - +03 187# See: 188# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 189# http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html 190 191# S Korea - year-round base 192# Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 193# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 194 195# New Zealand - claims 196# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 197# Scott Island (never inhabited) 198# 199# year-round base 200# Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 201# See Pacific/Auckland. 202 203# Norway - territories 204# Bouvet (never inhabited) 205# 206# claims 207# Peter I Island (never inhabited) 208# 209# year-round base 210# Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 211# 212# From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): 213# I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. 214# In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: 215# GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March 216# GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October 217# GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 218# GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 219# The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely 220# correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. 221# 222# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): 223# The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tz 2014b or later, so as 224# suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate 225# with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. 226# 227# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 228#Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 +01 229Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 +02 230#Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 +01 231#Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 +00 232# Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. 233Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 +00 234# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 235Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - -00 2005 Feb 12 236 0:00 Troll %s 237 238# Poland - year-round base 239# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 240 241# Romania - year-bound base 242# Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 243 244# Russia - year-round bases 245# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 246# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 247# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, 248# year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 249# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, 250# year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 251 252# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 253# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): 254# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP 255# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 256# time as Moscow, Russia. 257# 258# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 259# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 260# what they had to say about time there: 261# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) 262# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 263# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 264# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The 265# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." 266# 267# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 268# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 269# in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local 270# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 271# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 272# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 273# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time 274# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess +06. 275# 276Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - -00 1957 Dec 16 277 6:00 - +06 278 279# S Africa - year-round bases 280# Marion Island, -4653+03752 281# SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997 282 283# Ukraine - year-round base 284# Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954 285 286# United Kingdom 287# 288# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 289# South Orkney Islands 290# scientific station from 1903 291# whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 292# South Shetland Islands 293# 294# year-round bases 295# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 296# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, 297# scientific station 1943/1967, 298# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, 299# and a garrison was deployed briefly 300# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 301# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated 302# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. 303# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 304# 305# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) 306# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. 307# 308# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 309Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - -00 1976 Dec 1 310 -3:00 - -03 311 312# Uruguay - year round base 313# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 314 315# USA - year-round bases 316# 317# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) 318# See 'southamerica' for Antarctica/Palmer, since it uses South American DST. 319# 320# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 321# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 322# 323# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 324# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 325# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 326# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 327# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 328# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 329# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.) 330# 331# From Susan Smith 332# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 333# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 334# We use the same time as McMurdo does. 335# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 336# One last quirk about South Pole time. 337# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 338# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 339# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 340# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 341# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 342# 343# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo. 344