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