1# tzdb data for North and Central America and environs 2 3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 5 6# also includes Central America and the Caribbean 7 8# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 9# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 10# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 11# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 12 13# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): 14# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 15# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 16 17############################################################################### 18 19# United States 20 21# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 22# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by 23# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904), 24# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY). 25# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870) 26# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines 27# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC, 28# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich. 29 30# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20): 31# Dowd's proposal left many details unresolved, such as where to draw 32# lines between time zones. The key individual who made time zones 33# work in the US was William Frederick Allen - railway engineer, 34# managing editor of the Travelers' Guide, and secretary of the 35# General Time Convention, a railway standardization group. Allen 36# spent months in dialogs with scientific and railway leaders, 37# developed a workable plan to institute time zones, and presented it 38# to the General Time Convention on 1883-04-11, saying that his plan 39# meant "local time would be practically abolished" - a plus for 40# railway scheduling. By the next convention on 1883-10-11 nearly all 41# railroads had agreed and it took effect on 1883-11-18. That Sunday 42# was called the "day of two noons", as some locations observed noon 43# twice. Allen witnessed the transition in New York City, writing: 44# 45# I heard the bells of St. Paul's strike on the old time. Four 46# minutes later, obedient to the electrical signal from the Naval 47# Observatory ... the time-ball made its rapid descent, the chimes 48# of old Trinity rang twelve measured strokes, and local time was 49# abandoned, probably forever. 50# 51# Most of the US soon followed suit. See: 52# Bartky IR. The adoption of standard time. Technol Cult 1989 Jan;30(1):25-56. 53# https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105430 54 55# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): 56# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. 57# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). 58 59# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 60# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is 61# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), 62# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 63# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. 64# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below. 65 66# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 67# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin 68# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost 69# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). 70# Not everyone is happy with the results: 71# 72# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some 73# agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving 74# daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. 75# I even object to the implication that I am wasting something 76# valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer 77# of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to 78# reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving 79# scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager 80# to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make 81# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. 82# 83# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 84# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday 85# 86# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see 87# Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint 88# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927). 89# https://web.archive.org/web/20160517155308/http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html 90# 91# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919. 92# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which 93# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently 94# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time". 95 96# From Paul Eggert (2019-06-04): 97# Here is the legal basis for the US federal rules. 98# * Public Law 65-106 (1918-03-19) implemented standard and daylight saving 99# time for the first time across the US, springing forward on March's last 100# Sunday and falling back on October's last Sunday. 101# https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/65th-congress/session-2/c65s2ch24.pdf 102# * Public Law 66-40 (1919-08-20) repealed DST on October 1919's last Sunday. 103# https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/66th-congress/session-1/c66s1ch51.pdf 104# * Public Law 77-403 (1942-01-20) started wartime DST on 1942-02-09. 105# https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/77th-congress/session-2/c77s2ch7.pdf 106# * Public Law 79-187 (1945-09-25) ended wartime DST on 1945-09-30. 107# https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/79th-congress/session-1/c79s1ch388.pdf 108# * Public Law 89-387 (1966-04-13) reinstituted a national standard for DST, 109# from April's last Sunday to October's last Sunday, effective 1967. 110# https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-80/pdf/STATUTE-80-Pg107.pdf 111# * Public Law 93-182 (1973-12-15) moved the 1974 spring-forward to 01-06. 112# https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-87/pdf/STATUTE-87-Pg707.pdf 113# * Public Law 93-434 (1974-10-05) moved the 1975 spring-forward to 114# February's last Sunday. 115# https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-88/pdf/STATUTE-88-Pg1209.pdf 116# * Public Law 99-359 (1986-07-08) moved the spring-forward to April's first 117# Sunday. 118# https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-100/pdf/STATUTE-100-Pg764.pdf 119# * Public Law 109-58 (2005-08-08), effective 2007, moved the spring-forward 120# to March's second Sunday and the fall-back to November's first Sunday. 121# https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ58/pdf/PLAW-109publ58.pdf 122# All transitions are at 02:00 local time. 123 124# From Arthur David Olson: 125# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of 126# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime. 127 128# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25): 129# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. 130# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." 131# An AltaVista search turned up: 132# https://web.archive.org/web/20000926032210/http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html 133# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace 134# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." 135# (August 1945) by way of confirmation. 136# 137# From Paul Eggert (2017-09-23): 138# This was the V-J Day issue of the Clamdigger, a Rowayton, CT newsletter. 139 140# From Joseph Gallant citing 141# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): 142# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set 143# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people 144# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, 145# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, 146# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word 147# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in 148# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. 149 150# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From 151# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times: 152# 153# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender. 154# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a 155# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news. 156# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out 157# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental 158# importance." 159# 160# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open 161# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell, 162# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over. 163# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms." 164# 165# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. 166 167# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): 168# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations 169# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of 170# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed 171# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. 172 173# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 174Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 175Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 176Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 177Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 178Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 179Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 180Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 181Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D 182Rule US 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 183Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 184Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 185Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 186Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 187 188# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19 189# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with 190# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory. 191# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of 192# this time zone package. 193# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if 194# a particular place changes whether it observes DST. 195# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to 196# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to 197# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file. 198 199# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 200Zone EST -5:00 - EST 201Zone MST -7:00 - MST 202Zone HST -10:00 - HST 203Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT 204Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT 205Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT 206Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT 207 208# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 209# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON 210# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 211# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON 212# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 213# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER 214# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 215# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO 216# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 217# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST) 218# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT) 219# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W 220# USA " 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 221# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC 222# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY 223 224# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21): 225# The above dates are for 1988. 226# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's 227# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the 228# Aleutians. 229 230# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 231# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and 232# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names 233# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 234# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261: 235# (none) 236# United States standard eastern time 237# United States standard mountain time 238# United States standard central time 239# United States standard Pacific time 240# (none) 241# United States standard Alaska time 242# (none) 243# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for 244# public law 98-181): 245# Atlantic standard time 246# eastern standard time 247# central standard time 248# mountain standard time 249# Pacific standard time 250# Yukon standard time 251# Alaska-Hawaii standard time 252# Bering standard time 253# And after 1983-11-30: 254# Atlantic standard time 255# eastern standard time 256# central standard time 257# mountain standard time 258# Pacific standard time 259# Alaska standard time 260# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time 261# Samoa standard time 262# The law doesn't give abbreviations. 263# 264# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-19): 265# Here are URLs for the 1918 and 1966 legislation: 266# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=40&page=451 267# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=80&page=108 268# Although the 1918 names were officially "United States Standard 269# Eastern Time" and similarly for "Central", "Mountain", "Pacific", 270# and "Alaska", in practice "Standard" was placed just before "Time", 271# as codified in 1966. In practice, Alaska time was abbreviated "AST" 272# before 1968. Summarizing the 1967 name changes: 273# 1918 names 1967 names 274# -08 Standard Pacific Time (PST) Pacific standard time (PST) 275# -09 (unofficial) Yukon (YST) Yukon standard time (YST) 276# -10 Standard Alaska Time (AST) Alaska-Hawaii standard time (AHST) 277# -11 (unofficial) Nome (NST) Bering standard time (BST) 278# 279# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow: 280# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time" 281# for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. See the file "australasia". 282# 283# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17): 284# HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian 285# standard and daylight times. See section 9.47 (p 234) of the 286# U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008) 287# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf 288 289# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 290# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. 291# 292# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. 293# (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 294# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- 295# (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second 296# Sunday of March"; and 297# (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first 298# Sunday of November'. 299# (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the 300# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. 301# (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective 302# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress 303# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United 304# States. 305# (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the 306# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the 307# Department study is complete. 308 309# US eastern time, represented by New York 310 311# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, 312# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky 313# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 314# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 315# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, 316# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia 317 318# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): 319# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington 320# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... 321# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time 322# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their 323# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. 324 325# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): 326# According to today's Huntsville Times 327# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1 328# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City 329# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, 330# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" 331# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central 332# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work 333# in Columbus." 334# 335# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-22): 336# Four cities are involved. The two not mentioned above are Smiths Station 337# and Valley. Barbara Brooks, Valley's assistant treasurer, heard it started 338# because West Point Pepperell textile mills were in Alabama while the 339# corporate office was in Georgia, and residents voted to keep Eastern 340# time even after the mills closed. See: Kazek K. Did you know which 341# Alabama towns are in a different time zone? al.com 2017-02-06. 342# http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/02/do_you_know_which_alabama_town.html 343 344# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06): 345# Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 44, 4 (1884-02-08), 208 346# says that New York City Hall time was 3 minutes 58.4 seconds fast of 347# Eastern time (i.e., -4:56:01.6) just before the 1883 switch. 348 349# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 350Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 351Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 352Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 353Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 354Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 355# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 356 #STDOFF -4:56:01.6 357Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 17:00u 358 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 359 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 360 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 361 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967 362 -5:00 US E%sT 363 364# US central time, represented by Chicago 365 366# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, 367# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and 368# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana 369# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 370# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western 371# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern 372# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, 373# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin 374 375# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-07): 376# In 1869 the Chicago Astronomical Society contracted with the city to keep 377# time. Though delayed by the Great Fire, by 1880 a wire ran from the 378# Dearborn Observatory (on the University of Chicago campus) to City Hall, 379# which then sent signals to police and fire stations. However, railroads got 380# their time signals from the Allegheny Observatory, the Madison Observatory, 381# the Ann Arbor Observatory, etc., so their clocks did not agree with each 382# other or with the city's official time. The confusion took some years to 383# clear up. See: 384# Moser M. How Chicago gave America its time zones. Chicago. 2018-01-04. 385# http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/January-2018/How-Chicago-Gave-America-Its-Time-Zones/ 386 387# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: 388# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/175.pdf 389# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local 390# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations 391# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited 392# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year.... 393# 394# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12): 395# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI 396# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent.... 397# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2007/related/acts/3 398 399# From an email administrator of the City of Fort Pierre, SD (2015-12-21): 400# Fort Pierre is technically located in the Mountain time zone as is 401# the rest of Stanley County. Most of Stanley County and Fort Pierre 402# uses the Central time zone due to doing most of their business in 403# Pierre so it simplifies schedules. I have lived in Stanley County 404# all my life and it has been that way since I can remember. (43 years!) 405# 406# From Paul Eggert (2015-12-25): 407# Assume this practice predates 1970, so Fort Pierre can use America/Chicago. 408 409# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-06): 410# In 1950s Nashville a public clock had dueling faces, one for conservatives 411# and the other for liberals; the two sides didn't agree about the time of day. 412# I haven't found a photo of this clock, nor have I tracked down the TIME 413# magazine report cited below, but here's the story as told by the late 414# American journalist John Seigenthaler, who was there: 415# 416# "The two [newspaper] owners held strongly contrasting political and 417# ideological views. Evans was a New South liberal, Stahlman an Old South 418# conservative, and their two papers frequently clashed editorially, often on 419# the same day.... In the 1950s as the state legislature was grappling with 420# the question of whether to approve daylight saving time for the entire state, 421# TIME magazine reported: 422# 423# "'The Nashville Banner and The Nashville Tennessean rarely agree on anything 424# but the time of day - and last week they couldn't agree on that.' 425# 426# "It was all too true. The clock on the front of the building had two faces - 427# The Tennessean side of the building facing west, the other, east. When it 428# was high noon Banner time, it was 11 a.m. Tennessean time." 429# 430# Seigenthaler J. For 100 years, Tennessean had it covered. 431# The Tennessean 2007-05-11, republished 2015-04-06. 432# https://www.tennessean.com/story/insider/extras/2015/04/06/archives-seigenthaler-for-100-years-the-tennessean-had-it-covered/25348545/ 433 434# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 435Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D 436Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 437Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 438Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 439Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 440Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 441# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 442Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 443 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 444 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 445 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 446 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942 447 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 448 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 449 -6:00 US C%sT 450# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. 451Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 19:00u 452 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 2:00 453 -6:00 US C%sT 454# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on 455# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time. 456# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>. 457# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and 458# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota; 459# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time. 460# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>. 461Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 19:00u 462 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 2:00 463 -6:00 US C%sT 464 465# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21): 466# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the 467# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from 468# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010): 469# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm 470# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html 471 472# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24): 473# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although 474# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next 475# largest city in Mercer County). Google Maps places Beulah's city hall 476# at 47° 15' 51" N, 101° 46' 40" W, which yields an offset of 6h47'07". 477 478Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 19:00u 479 -7:00 US M%sT 2010 Nov 7 2:00 480 -6:00 US C%sT 481 482# US mountain time, represented by Denver 483# 484# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western 485# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), 486# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, 487# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, 488# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming 489# 490# From Paul Eggert (2018-10-25): 491# On 1921-03-04 federal law placed all of Texas into the central time zone. 492# However, El Paso ignored the law for decades and continued to observe 493# mountain time, on the grounds that that's what they had always done 494# and they weren't about to let the federal government tell them what to do. 495# Eventually the federal government gave in and changed the law on 496# 1970-04-10 to match what El Paso was actually doing. Although 497# that's slightly after our 1970 cutoff, there is no need to create a 498# separate zone for El Paso since they were ignoring the law anyway. See: 499# Long T. El Pasoans were time rebels, fought to stay in Mountain zone. 500# El Paso Times. 2018-10-24 06:40 -06. 501# https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2018/10/24/el-pasoans-were-time-rebels-fought-stay-mountain-zone/1744509002/ 502# 503# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 504Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 505Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 506Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S 507Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 508Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 509# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 510Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 19:00u 511 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 512 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 513 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 514 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967 515 -7:00 US M%sT 516 517# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles 518# 519# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, 520# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county 521# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren), 522# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern ¾ of 523# Malheur county), and Washington 524 525# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-20): 526# In early February 1948, in response to California's electricity shortage, 527# PG&E changed power frequency from 60 to 59.5 Hz during daylight hours, 528# causing electric clocks to lose six minutes per day. (This did not change 529# legal time, and is not part of the data here.) See: 530# Ross SA. An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948. 531# Working Paper No. 8, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, 532# 1973-11. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x22k30c 533# 534# In another measure to save electricity, DST was instituted from 1948-03-14 535# at 02:01 to 1949-01-16 at 02:00, with the governor having the option to move 536# the fallback transition earlier. See pages 3-4 of: 537# http://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1948/48Vol1_Chapters.pdf 538# 539# In response: 540# 541# Governor Warren received a torrent of objecting mail, and it is not too much 542# to speculate that the objections to Daylight Saving Time were one important 543# factor in the defeat of the Dewey-Warren Presidential ticket in California. 544# -- Ross, p 25 545# 546# On December 8 the governor exercised the option, setting the date to January 1 547# (LA Times 1948-12-09). The transition time was 02:00 (LA Times 1949-01-01). 548# 549# Despite the controversy, in 1949 California voters approved Proposition 12, 550# which established DST from April's last Sunday at 01:00 until September's 551# last Sunday at 02:00. This was amended by 1962's Proposition 6, which changed 552# the fall-back date to October's last Sunday. See: 553# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1501&context=ca_ballot_props 554# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1636&context=ca_ballot_props 555# 556# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 557Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:01 1:00 D 558Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S 559Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 1:00 1:00 D 560Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 561Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 562# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 563Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 20:00u 564 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 565 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 566 -8:00 US P%sT 567 568# Alaska 569# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -09 per USNO. 570# 571# From Paul Eggert (2017-06-15): 572# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 573# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. 574# On Friday, 1867-10-18 (Gregorian), at precisely 15:30 local time, the 575# Russian forts and fleet at Sitka fired salutes to mark the ceremony of 576# formal transfer. See the Sacramento Daily Union (1867-11-14), p 3, col 2. 577# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18671114.2.12.1 578# Sitka workers did not change their calendars until Sunday, 1867-10-20, 579# and so celebrated two Sundays that week. See: Ahllund T (tr Hallamaa P). 580# From the memoirs of a Finnish workman. Alaska History. 2006 Fall;21(2):1-25. 581# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ahllund-2006-Memoirs-of-a-Finnish-Workman.pdf 582# Include only the time zone part of this transition, ignoring the switch 583# from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent the Julian calendar. 584# 585# As far as we know, of the locations mentioned below only Sitka was 586# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. 587# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement was 588# destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) Many of Alaska's inhabitants 589# were unaware of the US acquisition of Alaska, much less of any calendar or 590# time change. However, the Russian-influenced part of Alaska did observe 591# Russian time, and it is more accurate to model this than to ignore it. 592# The database format requires an exact transition time; use the Russian 593# salute as a somewhat-arbitrary time for the formal transfer of control for 594# all of Alaska. Sitka's UTC offset is -9:01:13; adjust its 15:30 to the 595# local times of other Alaskan locations so that they change simultaneously. 596 597# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18): 598# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and 599# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall: 600# "Welcome to Juneau. Please turn your watch back to the 19th century." 601# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01. 602# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html 603# 604# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source: 605# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response. 606# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2). 607# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/ 608 609# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): 610# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: 611# 612# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27, 613# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time. 614# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on 615# Pacific Time. 616# 617# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the 618# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in 619# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26. 620# 621# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted 622# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time. 623# 624# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not 625# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions. 626# 627# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo 628# Nation.) 629 630# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09): 631# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian 632# Community office (using contact information available at 633# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla 634# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States; 635# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether 636# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their 637# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I 638# did not inquire about practices in the past. 639 640# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17): 641# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's 642# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote. 643 644# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-11-09): 645# It seems Metlakatla did go off PST on Sunday, November 1, changing 646# their time to AKST and are going to follow Alaska's DST, switching 647# between AKST and AKDT from now on.... 648# https://www.krbd.org/2015/10/30/annette-island-times-they-are-a-changing/ 649 650# From Ryan Stanley (2018-11-06): 651# The Metlakatla community in Alaska has decided not to change its 652# clock back an hour starting on November 4th, 2018 (day before yesterday). 653# They will be gmtoff=-28800 year-round. 654# https://www.facebook.com/141055983004923/photos/pb.141055983004923.-2207520000.1541465673./569081370202380/ 655 656# From Paul Eggert (2018-12-16): 657# In a 2018-12-11 special election, Metlakatla voted to go back to 658# Alaska time (including daylight saving time) starting next year. 659# https://www.krbd.org/2018/12/12/metlakatla-to-follow-alaska-standard-time-allow-liquor-sales/ 660# 661# From Ryan Stanley (2019-01-11): 662# The community will be changing back on the 20th of this month... 663# From Tim Parenti (2019-01-11): 664# Per an announcement on the Metlakatla community's official Facebook page, the 665# "fall back" will be on Sunday 2019-01-20 at 02:00: 666# https://www.facebook.com/141055983004923/photos/607150969728753/ 667# So they won't be waiting for Alaska to join them on 2019-03-10, but will 668# rather change their clocks twice in seven weeks. 669 670# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 671Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:33:32 672 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 673 -8:00 - PST 1942 674 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 675 -8:00 - PST 1969 676 -8:00 US P%sT 1980 Apr 27 2:00 677 -9:00 US Y%sT 1980 Oct 26 2:00 678 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 679 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 680 -9:00 US AK%sT 681Zone America/Sitka 14:58:47 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:30 682 -9:01:13 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 683 -8:00 - PST 1942 684 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 685 -8:00 - PST 1969 686 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 687 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 688 -9:00 US AK%sT 689Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:44:55 690 -8:46:18 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 691 -8:00 - PST 1942 692 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 693 -8:00 - PST 1969 694 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 695 -8:00 - PST 2015 Nov 1 2:00 696 -9:00 US AK%sT 2018 Nov 4 2:00 697 -8:00 - PST 2019 Jan 20 2:00 698 -9:00 US AK%sT 699Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:12:18 700 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 701 -9:00 - YST 1942 702 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946 703 -9:00 - YST 1969 704 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 705 -9:00 US AK%sT 706Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 14:31:37 707 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 708 -10:00 - AST 1942 709 -10:00 US A%sT 1967 Apr 710 -10:00 - AHST 1969 711 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 712 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 713 -9:00 US AK%sT 714Zone America/Nome 12:58:22 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 13:29:35 715 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 716 -11:00 - NST 1942 717 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 718 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 719 -11:00 - BST 1969 720 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 721 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 722 -9:00 US AK%sT 723Zone America/Adak 12:13:22 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 12:44:35 724 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 725 -11:00 - NST 1942 726 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 727 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 728 -11:00 - BST 1969 729 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 730 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 731 -10:00 US H%sT 732# The following switches don't make our 1970 cutoff. 733# 734# Kiska observed Tokyo date and time during Japanese occupation from 735# 1942-06-06 to 1943-07-29, and similarly for Attu from 1942-06-07 to 736# 1943-05-29 (all dates American). Both islands are now uninhabited. 737# 738# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) 739# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, 740# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. 741# 742# From David Flater (2004-11-09): 743# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska 744# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which 745# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 746# possibly until 1983: 747# 748# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: 749# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important 750# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was 751# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it 752# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard 753# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, 754# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with 755# three votes for and one against." 756 757# Hawaii 758 759# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): 760# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 761# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, 762# the article is available at 763# https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf 764# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January 765# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight 766# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the 767# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the 768# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect 769# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for 770# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes 771# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of 772# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes 773# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) 774# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." 775 776# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): 777# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the 778# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of 779# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act 780# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each 781# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one 782# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th 783# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of 784# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is 785# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon 786# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to 787# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. 788# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor 789# of the Territory of Hawaii." 790# 791# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. 792# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. 793 794# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 795Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 796 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 797 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 798 -10:30 US H%sT 1947 Jun 8 2:00 799 -10:00 - HST 800 801# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. 802 803# Arizona mostly uses MST. 804 805# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): 806# 807# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the 808# Daylight Saving Time web page 809# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23) 810# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 811# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard 812# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military 813# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to 814# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix 815# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was 816# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of 817# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as 818# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona 819# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. 820# 821# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. 822# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. 823 824# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 825Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 19:00u 826 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 0:01 827 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 0:01 828 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 0:01 829 -7:00 - MST 1967 830 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 831 -7:00 - MST 832 833# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 834# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 835# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the 836# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its 837# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other 838# tribal nations don't use DST.) 839# 840# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26): 841# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation. 842 843# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, 844# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, 845# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, 846# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, 847# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern 848# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County) 849# switched four weeks late in 1974. 850# 851# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 852Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 20:00u 853 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 854 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 855 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 856 -7:00 US M%sT 857 858# Indiana 859# 860# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: 861# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana 862# 863# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-30): 864# A brief but entertaining history of time in Indiana describes a 1949 debate 865# in the Indiana House where city legislators (who favored "fast time") 866# tussled with farm legislators (who didn't) over a bill to outlaw DST: 867# "Lacking enough votes, the city faction tries to filibuster until time runs 868# out on the session at midnight, but rural champion Rep. Herbert Copeland, 869# R-Madison, leans over the gallery railing and forces the official clock 870# back to 9 p.m., breaking it in the process. The clock sticks on 9 as the 871# debate rages on into the night. The filibuster finally dies out and the 872# bill passes, while outside the chamber, clocks read 3:30 a.m. In the end, 873# it doesn't matter which side won. The law has no enforcement powers and 874# is simply ignored by fast-time communities." 875# How Indiana went from 'God's time' to split zones and daylight-saving. 876# Indianapolis Star. 2018-11-27 14:58 -05. 877# https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/27/indianapolis-indiana-time-zone-history-central-eastern-daylight-savings-time/2126300002/ 878# 879# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): 880# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, 881# with the following exceptions: 882# 883# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 884# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. 885# 886# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. 887# 888# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like 889# America/Kentucky/Louisville. 890# 891# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke, 892# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below. 893# 894# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, 895# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information." 896# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! 897# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 898# 899# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript 900# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level. 901# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'. 902 903# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26): 904# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana 905# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, 906# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the 907# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of 908# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the 909# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." 910# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their 911# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error. The intent 912# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. 913 914# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10): 915# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is 916# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007.... 917# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL 918 919# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 920Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 921Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 922Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 923# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 924Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 925 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 926 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 927 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 928 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00 929 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00 930 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 931 -5:00 - EST 1969 932 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 933 -5:00 - EST 2006 934 -5:00 US E%sT 935# 936# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, 937# as well as from 1976 through 2005. 938# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 939Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 940Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 941Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 942Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 943# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 944Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 945 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 946 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 947 -5:00 - EST 1969 948 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 949 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 950 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 951 -5:00 - EST 2006 952 -5:00 US E%sT 953# 954# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana, 955# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back 956# in November 2007. 957# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 958Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 959Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 960Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 961Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 962Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 963Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 964Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 965Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 966Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 967# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 968Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 969 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 970 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 971 -5:00 - EST 1969 972 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 973 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 974 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 975 -5:00 US E%sT 976# 977# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. 978# From Alois Treindl (2019-07-09): 979# The Indianapolis News, Friday 27 October 1967 states that Perry County 980# returned to CST. It went again to EST on 27 April 1969, as documented by the 981# Indianapolis star of Saturday 26 April. 982# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 983Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 984Rule Perry 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 985Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 986Rule Perry 1961 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 987# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 988Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 989 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 990 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 991 -5:00 - EST 1967 Oct 29 2:00 992 -6:00 US C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 993 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 994 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 995 -6:00 US C%sT 996# 997# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, 998# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007. 999# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1000Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1001Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1002Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1003Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1004# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1005Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 1006 -6:00 US C%sT 1955 1007 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 1008 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 1009 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 1010 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 1011 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 1012 -5:00 US E%sT 1013# 1014# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, 1015# then switched back in 2006. 1016# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): 1017# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post 1018# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of 1019# 1991-10-27. 1020# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1021Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1022Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1023Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1024Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1025Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1026# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1027Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 1028 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 1029 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 1030 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 1031 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 1032 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 1033 -6:00 US C%sT 1034# 1035# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in 1036# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007. 1037# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1038Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1039Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1040Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1041Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1042# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1043Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 1044 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1045 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 1046 -5:00 - EST 1969 1047 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 1048 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 1049 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00 1050 -5:00 US E%sT 1051# 1052# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. 1053# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1054Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 1055 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 1056 -5:00 - EST 1969 1057 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 1058 -5:00 - EST 2006 1059 -5:00 US E%sT 1060 1061# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20): 1062# The Louisville & Nashville Railroad's 1883-11-18 change occurred at 1063# 10:00 old local time; train were supposed to come to a standstill 1064# for precisely 18 minutes. See Bartky Fig. 1 (page 50). It is not 1065# clear how this matched civil time in Louisville, so for now continue 1066# to assume Louisville switched at noon new local time, like New York. 1067# 1068# From Michael Deckers (2019-08-06): 1069# From the contemporary source given by Alois Treindl, 1070# the switch in Louisville on 1946-04-28 was on 00:01 1071# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-26): 1072# That source was the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1946-04-27, p 4. 1073# Shanks gives 02:00 for all 20th-century transition times in Louisville. 1074# Evidently this is wrong for spring 1946. Although also likely wrong 1075# for other dates, we have no data. 1076# 1077# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. 1078# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. 1079# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1080Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1081Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S 1082Rule Louisville 1941 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1083Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1084Rule Louisville 1946 only - Apr lastSun 0:01 1:00 D 1085Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S 1086Rule Louisville 1950 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1087Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1088Rule Louisville 1956 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1089# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1090Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 1091 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 1092 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 1093 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1094 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00 1095 -5:00 - EST 1968 1096 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 1097 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 1098 -5:00 US E%sT 1099# 1100# Wayne County, Kentucky 1101# 1102# From Lake Cumberland LIFE 1103# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml 1104# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: 1105# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from 1106# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made 1107# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not 1108# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in 1109# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also. 1110# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S. 1111# location in the Central time zone. 1112# 1113# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29): 1114# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion, 1115# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern 1116# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, 1117# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). 1118# 1119# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): 1120# The final rule was published in the 1121# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. 1122# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2000-08-17/html/00-20854.htm 1123# 1124Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 18:00u 1125 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1126 -6:00 - CST 1968 1127 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 1128 -5:00 US E%sT 1129 1130 1131# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): 1132# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985. 1133# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central; 1134# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10 1135# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10 1136# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 1137# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 1138# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 1139# 1140# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): 1141# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, 1142# so omit that change for now. 1143# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. 1144# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. 1145# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on 1146# 1999-10-31. See the 1147# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. 1148# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1999-10-21/html/99-27240.htm 1149# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated 1150# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; 1151# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. 1152 1153# Michigan 1154# 1155# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 1156# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973. 1157# 1158# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 1159# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, 1160# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) 1161# that Detroit kept 1162# 1163# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should 1164# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the 1165# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision 1166# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to 1167# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the 1168# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted 1169# by city vote. 1170# 1171# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks. 1172# 1173# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 1174# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks 1175# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more 1176# info, so omit this for now. 1177# 1178# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-06): 1179# Due to a complicated set of legal maneuvers, in 1967 Michigan did 1180# not start daylight saving time when the rest of the US did. 1181# Instead, it began DST on Jun 14 at 00:01. This was big news: 1182# the Detroit Free Press reported it at the top of Page 1 on 1183# 1967-06-14, in an article "State Adjusting to Switch to Fast Time" 1184# by Gary Blonston, above an article about Thurgood Marshall's 1185# confirmation to the US Supreme Court. Although Shanks says Detroit 1186# observed DST until 1967-10-29 00:01, that time of day seems to be 1187# incorrect, as the Free Press later said DST ended in Michigan at the 1188# same time as the rest of the US. Also, although Shanks reports no DST in 1189# Detroit in 1968, it did observe DST that year; in the November 1968 1190# election Michigan voters narrowly repealed DST, effective 1969. 1191# 1192# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975. 1193# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1194Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1195Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1196# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1197Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 1198 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00 1199 -5:00 - EST 1942 1200 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 1201 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1967 Jun 14 0:01 1202 -5:00 US E%sT 1969 1203 -5:00 - EST 1973 1204 -5:00 US E%sT 1975 1205 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 1206 -5:00 US E%sT 1207# 1208# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, 1209# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. 1210# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1211Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1212Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1213Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1214Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1215# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1216Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 1217 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1218 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 1219 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00 1220 -6:00 US C%sT 1221 1222# Navassa 1223# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service 1224# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act 1225# also claimed by Haiti 1226# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co 1227# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 1228# currently uninhabited 1229# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord", 1230# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites 1231# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). 1232 1233################################################################################ 1234 1235 1236# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10): 1237# 1238# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 1239# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 1240# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 1241# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 1242# 1243# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source 1244# for time zone data was the International Air Transport 1245# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 1246# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 1247# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 1248# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 1249# 1250# Other sources occasionally used include: 1251# 1252# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 1253# <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 1254# 1255# Pearce C. The Great Daylight Saving Time Controversy. 1256# Australian Ebook Publisher. 2017. ISBN 978-1-925516-96-8. 1257# 1258# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 1259# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 1260# which I found in the UCLA library. 1261# 1262# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 1263# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 1264# [PDF] (1914-03) 1265# 1266# See the 'europe' file for Greenland. 1267 1268# Canada 1269 1270# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14): 1271# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada 1272# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... 1273# 1274# UTC Standard time Daylight saving time 1275# offset French English French English 1276# -2:30 - - HAT NDT 1277# -3 - - HAA ADT 1278# -3:30 HNT NST - - 1279# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT 1280# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT 1281# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT 1282# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT 1283# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT 1284# -9 HNY YST - - 1285# 1286# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time 1287# HA: Heure Avancée DT: Daylight saving Time 1288# 1289# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic 1290# C: du Centre Central 1291# E: de l'Est Eastern 1292# M: Mountain 1293# N: Newfoundland 1294# P: du Pacifique Pacific 1295# R: des Rocheuses 1296# T: de Terre-Neuve 1297# Y: du Yukon Yukon 1298# 1299# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): 1300# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. 1301 1302# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks 1303# & Pottenger. 1304 1305# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31, 1306# 2007-03-01): 1307# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will 1308# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the 1309# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... 1310# https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm 1311# ... 1312# Nova Scotia 1313# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... 1314# https://www.novascotia.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf 1315# 1316# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to 1317# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. 1318# https://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf 1319# ... 1320# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. 1321# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. 1322# https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php 1323# ... 1324# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. 1325# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM 1326# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm 1327# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF 1328# ... 1329# P.E.I. will follow US rules.... 1330# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf 1331# ... 1332# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... 1333# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm 1334# ... 1335# Yukon 1336# https://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf 1337# ... 1338# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site 1339# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the 1340# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the 1341# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using 1342# JavaScript. 1343# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive 1344# ... 1345# Nunavut 1346# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007.... 1347# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf 1348 1349# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-18): 1350# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 1351# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 1352# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp 1353# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard 1354# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. 1355# 1356# National Research Council Canada maintains info about time zones and DST. 1357# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html 1358# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/index.html#Q5 1359# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. 1360 1361# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): 1362# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the 1363# new US DST rules, 1364 1365# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01) 1366# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles 1367# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1368# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review. 1369# The quote includes these two statements: 1370# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...' 1371# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,' 1372# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time 1373# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918. This transition was 1374# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star. 1375 1376# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed 1377# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day 1378# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets. 1379 1380# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1381Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1382Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1383Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1384Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1385Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1386Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1387Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1388Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1389Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1390Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1391 1392 1393# Newfoundland and Labrador 1394 1395# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-14): 1396# Legally Labrador should observe Newfoundland time; see: 1397# McLeod J. Labrador time - legal or not? St. John's Telegram, 2017-10-07 1398# http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/labrador-time--legal-or-not-154860/ 1399# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that the only part of Labrador 1400# that follows the rules is the southeast corner, including Port Hope 1401# Simpson and Mary's Harbour, but excluding, say, Black Tickle. 1402 1403# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1404Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D 1405Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1406# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1407Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D 1408Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S 1409# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1410Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D 1411Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S 1412# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & 1413# Pottenger. 1414Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D 1415Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S 1416# Whitman gives the following transitions: 1417# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 1418# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. 1419# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives 1420# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1421Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1422Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S 1423Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1424Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1425Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1426# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1427# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches 1428# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. 1429 1430# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12): 1431# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the 1432# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed. 1433# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings 1434# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time 1435# now occurs at 2:00AM. 1436# ... 1437# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm 1438# ... 1439# MICHAEL PELLEY | Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery 1440# Office of the Chief Information Officer 1441# Executive Council 1442# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 1443 1444Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1445Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1446Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD 1447Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1448Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D 1449Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S 1450# 1451# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. 1452# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1453Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 1454 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 1455 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1456 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 1457 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1458 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1459 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 2011 Nov 1460 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1461 1462# most of east Labrador 1463 1464# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'. 1465# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1466Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1467 -3:30:52 - NST 1918 1468 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1469 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 1470 -3:30 - NST 1936 1471 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1472 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1473 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 1474 -4:00 StJohns A%sT 2011 Nov 1475 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1476 1477 1478# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I, 1479# Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Listuguj reserve 1480 1481# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20): 1482# From the historical weather station records available at: 1483# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada 1484# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was 1485# likely to be the same across the island.... 1486# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would 1487# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996. 1488 1489# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20): 1490# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like 1491# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; 1492# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of 1493# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now). 1494# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town 1495# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume 1496# this is a typo. 1497 1498# From Jeffery Nichols (2020-01-09): 1499# America/Halifax ... also applies to Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the Listuguj 1500# reserve in Quebec. Officially, this came into effect on January 1, 2007 1501# (Legal Time Act, CQLR c T-5.1), but the legislative debates surrounding that 1502# bill say that it is "accommodating the customs and practices" of those 1503# regions, which suggests that they have always been in-line with Halifax. 1504 1505# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1506Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1507Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1508Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D 1509Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S 1510Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D 1511Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1512Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1513Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1514Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1515Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1516Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S 1517Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D 1518Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1519Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1520Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1521Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1522Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S 1523Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1524Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1525Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1526Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1527Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1528Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 1529Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D 1530Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1531Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D 1532Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 1533Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1534Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1535Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1536Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1537Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D 1538Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1539Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1540Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1541Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1542Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1543Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1544Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1545Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1546Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1547# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1548Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1549 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 1550 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 1551 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1552 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1553 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1554 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1555Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1556 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 1557 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 1558 -4:00 - AST 1972 1559 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1560 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1561 1562# New Brunswick 1563 1564# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31): 1565# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> 1566# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and 1567# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it 1568# clear that this was the case since at least 1993. 1569# For now, assume it started in 1993. 1570 1571# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1572Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D 1573Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S 1574Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D 1575Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 1576Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D 1577Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S 1578Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D 1579Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D 1580Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1581Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1582Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1583Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1584Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1585# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1586Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 1587 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 1588 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 1589 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 1590 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1591 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 1592 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 1593 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 1594 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1595 1596# Quebec 1597 1598# From Paul Eggert (2020-01-10): 1599# See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal. 1600# See America/Halifax for the Îles de la Madeleine and the Listuguj reserve. 1601# See America/Puerto_Rico for east of Natashquan. 1602 1603# Ontario 1604 1605# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1606# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST 1607# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that 1608# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw 1609# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, 1610# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable 1611# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after 1612# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but 1613# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters 1614# earlier in June). 1615# 1616# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). 1617# 1618# From Paul Eggert (2017-07-08): 1619# For more on Orillia, see: Daubs K. Bold attempt at daylight saving 1620# time became a comic failure in Orillia. Toronto Star 2017-07-08. 1621# https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/07/08/bold-attempt-at-daylight-saving-time-became-a-comic-failure-in-orillia.html 1622 1623# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06): 1624# 1625# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom 1626# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard 1627# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that: 1628# 1629# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario, 1630# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year. 1631# 1632# ... I don't know if Windsor began observing DST when Detroit did, 1633# or in 1974, or on some other date. 1634# 1635# By the way, the article continues by noting that: 1636# 1637# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back 1638# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October. 1639 1640# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17): 1641# 1642# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in 1643# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1644# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17, 1645# was available at 1646# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S 1647# 1648# It includes the text below (starting on page 57): 1649# 1650# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would 1651# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by 1652# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities 1653# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav- 1654# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite, 1655# for the other provinces only approximate: 1656# 1657# Province Daylight saving time used 1658# Prince Edward Island Not used. 1659# Nova Scotia In Halifax only. 1660# New Brunswick In St. John only. 1661# Quebec In the following places: 1662# Montreal Lachine 1663# Quebec Mont-Royal 1664# Lévis Iberville 1665# St. Lambert Cap de la Madelèine 1666# Verdun Loretteville 1667# Westmount Richmond 1668# Outremont St. Jérôme 1669# Longueuil Greenfield Park 1670# Arvida Waterloo 1671# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu 1672# Melbourne La Tuque 1673# St. Théophile Buckingham 1674# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along 1675# the southerly part of the province. Not 1676# used in the northwesterly part. 1677# Manitoba Not used. 1678# Saskatchewan In Regina only. 1679# Alberta Not used. 1680# British Columbia Not used. 1681# 1682# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited 1683# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont. 1684 1685# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1686Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D 1687Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S 1688Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D 1689Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1690Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D 1691Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S 1692Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1693# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" 1694# was meant. 1695Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 1696Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1697Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S 1698Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D 1699Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1700Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1701Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1702Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1703Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1704Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1705Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S 1706Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1707Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S 1708Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1709# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, 1710# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this 1711# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 1712# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. 1713Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1714 1715# The Bahamas match Toronto since 1970. 1716 1717# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1718Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 1719 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1720 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1721 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1722 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 1723 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1724# For Atikokan see America/Panama. 1725 1726 1727# Manitoba 1728 1729# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): 1730# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to 1731# March 27, 1987 ... said ... 1732# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of 1733# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central 1734# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next 1735# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... 1736# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had 1737# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... 1738# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying 1739# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of 1740# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central 1741# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). 1742 1743# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): 1744# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) 1745# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume 1746# it was also 02:00s in 1966. 1747 1748# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1749Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D 1750Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S 1751Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1752Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1753Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D 1754Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S 1755Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1756Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1757Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1758Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D 1759Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1760Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1761Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1762Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1763Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1764Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1765Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1766Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1767Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1768Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1769Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S 1770Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 1771Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S 1772Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 1773# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1774Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 1775 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 1776 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1777 1778 1779# Saskatchewan 1780 1781# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1782# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal 1783# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people 1784# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, 1785# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." 1786# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: 1787# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of 1788# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad 1789# time was noted. 1790 1791# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1792# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the 1793# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." 1794 1795# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25): 1796# Pearce's book says Regina observed DST in 1914-1917. No dates and times, 1797# unfortunately. It also says that in 1914 Saskatoon observed DST 1798# from 1 June to 6 July, and that DST was also tried out in Davidson, 1799# Melfort, and Prince Albert. 1800 1801# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1802# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. 1803# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. 1804# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. 1805# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton 1806# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. 1807 1808# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): 1809# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the 1810# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. 1811# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and 1812# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother. 1813# 1814# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years 1815# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated 1816# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial 1817# referendum favoured legislating common time practices. 1818# 1819# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of 1820# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern 1821# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in 1822# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to 1823# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and 1824# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would 1825# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST. 1826# 1827# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town 1828# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to 1829# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only 1830# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT 1831# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round 1832# since sometime in the 1960s. 1833 1834# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1835# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages 1836# long and rather painful to read. 1837# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf 1838 1839# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1840Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1841Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1842Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1843Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1844Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1845Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1846Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1847Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1848Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1849Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1850Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1851Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1852Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 1853Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1854Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1855Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1856Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1857# 1858Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1859Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1860Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1861Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1862Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1863# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1864Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep 1865 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00 1866 -6:00 - CST 1867Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep 1868 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00 1869 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950 1870 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00 1871 -6:00 - CST 1872 1873 1874# Alberta 1875 1876# From Alois Treindl (2019-07-19): 1877# There was no DST in Alberta in 1967... Calgary Herald, 29 April 1967. 1878# 1969, no DST, from Edmonton Journal 18 April 1969 1879# 1880# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25): 1881# Pearce's book says that Alberta's 1948 Daylight Saving Act required 1882# Mountain Standard Time without DST, and that "anyone who broke that law 1883# could be fined up to $25 and costs". There seems to be no record of 1884# anybody paying the fine. The law was not changed until an August 1971 1885# plebiscite reinstituted DST in 1972. This story is also mentioned in: 1886# Boyer JP. Forcing Choice: The Risky Reward of Referendums. Dundum. 2017. 1887# ISBN 978-1459739123. 1888 1889# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1890Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1891Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1892Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S 1893Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1894Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1895Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1896Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1897Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1898Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1899Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1900Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1901Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1902Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1903# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1904Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep 1905 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 1906 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1907 1908 1909# British Columbia 1910 1911# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1912# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has 1913# been like Vancouver. 1914# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. 1915 1916# From Matt Johnson (2015-09-21): 1917# Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year. So while previously they 1918# were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with 1919# America/Dawson_Creek. 1920# http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html 1921# 1922# From Tim Parenti (2015-09-23): 1923# This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, 1924# America/Fort_Nelson. The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a 1925# 2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support. Effectively, the municipality has 1926# been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on 1927# 2015-03-08. 1928# 1929# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25): 1930# Shanks says Fort Nelson did not observe DST in 1946, unlike Vancouver. 1931# Alois Treindl confirmed this on 07-22, citing the 1946-04-27 Vancouver Daily 1932# Province. He also cited the 1946-09-28 Victoria Daily Times, which said 1933# that Vancouver, Victoria, etc. "change at midnight Saturday"; for now, 1934# guess they meant 02:00 Sunday since 02:00 was common practice in Vancouver. 1935# 1936# Early Vancouver, Volume Four, by Major J.S. Matthews, V.D., 2011 edition 1937# says that a 1922 plebiscite adopted DST, but a 1923 plebiscite rejected it. 1938# http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/digitized/EarlyVan/SearchEarlyVan/Vol4pdf/MatthewsEarlyVancouverVol4_DaylightSavings.pdf 1939# A catalog entry for a newspaper clipping seems to indicate that Vancouver 1940# observed DST in 1941 from 07-07 through 09-27; see 1941# https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/daylight-saving-1918-starts-again-july-7-1941-start-d-s-sept-27-end-of-d-s-1941 1942# We have no further details, so omit them for now. 1943 1944# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1945Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1946Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1947Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1948Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1949Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1950Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1951Rule Vanc 1946 only - Sep 29 2:00 0 S 1952Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1953Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1954# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1955Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 1956 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1957 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1958Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 1959 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 1960 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 1961 -7:00 - MST 1962Zone America/Fort_Nelson -8:10:47 - LMT 1884 1963 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1946 1964 -8:00 - PST 1947 1965 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1966 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2015 Mar 8 2:00 1967 -7:00 - MST 1968# For Creston see America/Phoenix. 1969 1970# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon 1971 1972# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1973# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. 1974# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: 1975# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, 1976# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9.... 1977# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). 1978# [https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-i-21/latest/rsc-1985-c-i-21.html] 1979# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. 1980# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. 1981# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. 1982 1983# From Brian Inglis (2015-04-14): 1984# 1985# I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following 1986# regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name, 1987# and relevant quote if available. Each regulation specifically revokes its 1988# predecessor. The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act 1989# authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes. 1990# 1991# Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or 1992# index, and only some via Canadian legal sources. Other sources used include 1993# articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS 1994# Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and 1995# 1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial 1996# and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of 1997# standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada, 1998# with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset, 1999# and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart 2000# and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as 2001# another source of information for 1970 and earlier. 2002# 2003# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26, 2004# pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 2005# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75: 2006# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance 2007# Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and 2008# thirty-fifth meridian. 2009# 2010# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.; 2011# JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System 2012# (ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1: 2013# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16. 2014# 2015# (1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine 2016# hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time. 2017# 2018# (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations 2019# varying the manner of reckoning standard time. 2020# 2021# * Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance 2022# [no online source found] 2023# 2024# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC, 2025# Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 2026# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon 2027# Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ... 2028# 2029# 1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon 2030# Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked. 2031# 2032# 2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the 2033# Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May, 2034# 1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that 2035# is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon 2036# Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west. 2037# 2038# 3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree 2039# longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine 2040# hours behind Greenwich Time. 2041# 2042# * Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214 2043# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html 2044# C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2045# 2046# 1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby 2047# revoked. 2048# 2049# 2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation 2050# Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973 2051# shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is 2052# to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time. 2053# 2054# * O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT 2055# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/attachments/20201125/d5adc93b/CAYTOIC1980-02DST1980-01-04-0001.pdf 2056# 2057# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56 2058# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html 2059# O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2060# 2061# In every year between 2062# (a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and 2063# (b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October, 2064# Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and 2065# called Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2066# ... 2067# Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987. 2068# 2069# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127 2070# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html 2071# O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2072# 2073# 1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours 2074# behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock 2075# in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock 2076# in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called 2077# Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2078# 2079# 2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked. 2080# 2081# 3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007. 2082# 2083# * Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125 2084# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html 2085 2086# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): 2087# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. 2088# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 2089# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html 2090# 2091# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): 2092# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut 2093# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region. 2094 2095# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 2096# Basic Facts: The New Territory 2097# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html 2098# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, 2099# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when 2100# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. 2101 2102# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 2103# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 2104# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 2105# 2106# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 2107# 2108# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 2109# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 2110# 2111# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 2112# 2113# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 2114# 2115# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 2116# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 2117# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 2118# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 2119# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 2120# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 2121# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 2122# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 2123# the current state of affairs. 2124 2125# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 2126# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): 2127# http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html 2128# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 2129# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 2130# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 2131# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 2132 2133# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 2134# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories 2135# for these potential new Zones. 2136# 2137# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the 2138# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central 2139# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the 2140# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time. 2141# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of 2142# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not 2143# required to use daylight savings. 2144 2145# From <http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html> 2146# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10): 2147# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and 2148# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them 2149# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter. 2150# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against 2151# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with 2152# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on 2153# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to 2154# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's 2155# unified time zone in 1999. 2156# 2157# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government: 2158# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000. 2159 2160# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2161# Let's just keep track of the official times for now. 2162 2163# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07): 2164# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising 2165# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert 2166# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the 2167# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that 2168# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm 2169# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with 2170# more. 2171# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] 2172 2173# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): 2174# According to ... 2175# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 2176# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time 2177# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year 2178# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. 2179# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it 2180# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... 2181# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. 2182# 2183# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-17): 2184# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed 2185# daylight saving only during wartime. Gwillim Law's email also 2186# mentioned maps now maintained by National Research Council Canada; 2187# see above for an up-to-date link. 2188 2189# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01): 2190# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in 2191# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. 2192# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of 2193# daylight saving.... 2194# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html 2195 2196# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21): 2197# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute 2198# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of 2199# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had 2200# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007. 2201# 2202# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay 2203# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008... 2204# 2205# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March 2206# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I 2207# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able 2208# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was 2209# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone 2210# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT). 2211# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks 2212# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in 2213# so they could follow the correct TV schedule... 2214# 2215# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I 2216# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature 2217# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of 2218# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of 2219# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for 2220# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived 2221# and worked in Resolute Bay... 2222# 2223# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that 2224# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of 2225# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead 2226# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay 2227# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not 2228# tell me when the practice had stopped. 2229# 2230# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of 2231# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went 2232# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz 2233# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the 2234# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on 2235# Aziz: 2236# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493 2237# 2238# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using 2239# Eastern Standard Time. 2240# 2241# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the 2242# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way 2243# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in 2244# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs" 2245# 2246# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008. 2247# 2248# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz 2249# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You 2250# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a 2251# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site" 2252# 2253# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would 2254# never have contacted her. I now believe that all the information I 2255# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... 2256# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. 2257 2258# From Tim Parenti (2020-03-05): 2259# The government of Yukon announced [yesterday] the cessation of seasonal time 2260# changes. "After clocks are pushed ahead one hour on March 8, the territory 2261# will remain on [UTC-07]. ... [The government] found 93 per cent of 2262# respondents wanted to end seasonal time changes and, of that group, 70 per 2263# cent wanted 'permanent Pacific Daylight Saving Time.'" 2264# https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-end-daylight-saving-time-1.5486358 2265# 2266# Although the government press release prefers PDT, we prefer MST for 2267# consistency with nearby Dawson Creek, Creston, and Fort Nelson. 2268# https://yukon.ca/en/news/yukon-end-seasonal-time-change 2269 2270# From Andrew G. Smith (2020-09-24): 2271# Yukon has completed its regulatory change to be on UTC -7 year-round.... 2272# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2020_125.pdf 2273# What we have done is re-defined Yukon Standard Time, as we are 2274# authorized to do under section 33 of our Interpretation Act: 2275# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/acts/interpretation_c.pdf 2276# 2277# From Paul Eggert (2020-09-24): 2278# tzdb uses the obsolete YST abbreviation for standard time in Yukon through 2279# about 1970, and uses PST for standard time in Yukon since then. Consistent 2280# with that, use MST for -07, the new standard time in Yukon effective Nov. 1. 2281 2282# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2283Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2284Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2285Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D 2286Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 2287Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2288Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2289Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2290Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD 2291Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2292Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2293Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2294Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2295# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2296# aka Panniqtuuq 2297Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - -00 1921 # trading post est. 2298 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 2299 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2300 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2301 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2302# formerly Frobisher Bay 2303Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - -00 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. 2304 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2305 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2306 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2307# aka Qausuittuq 2308Zone America/Resolute 0 - -00 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded 2309 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2310 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2311 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 2312 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 2313 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2314# aka Kangiqiniq 2315Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - -00 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded 2316 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2317 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2318 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2319# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq 2320Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - -00 1920 # trading post est.? 2321 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2322 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2323 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 2324 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2325 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2326Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 2327 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2328 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2329Zone America/Inuvik 0 - -00 1953 # Inuvik founded 2330 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 2331 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2332 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2333Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2334 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1967 May 28 0:00 2335 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2336 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2020 Nov 1 2337 -7:00 - MST 2338Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2339 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 2340 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2341 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2020 Nov 1 2342 -7:00 - MST 2343 2344 2345############################################################################### 2346 2347# Mexico 2348 2349# From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07): 2350# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the 2351# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a 2352# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) 2353# http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm 2354# 2355# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. 2356# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) 2357# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. 2358# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. 2359# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. 2360# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. 2361 2362# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): 2363# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the 2364# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that 2365# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of 2366# the relevant documents. 2367 2368# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): 2369# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree 2370# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. 2371# 2372# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 2373# 2374# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the 2375# rules for the DST changes. The rules are: 2376# 2377# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones: 2378# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ) 2379# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ) 2380# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ) 2381# 2382# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October 2383# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows: 2384# BajaNorte: GMT+7 2385# BajaSur: GMT+6 2386# General: GMT+5 2387# 2388# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows: 2389# BajaNorte: GMT+8 2390# BajaSur: GMT+7 2391# General: GMT+6 2392# 2393# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th. 2394# 2395# -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- 2396# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): 2397# For an English translation of the decree, see 2398# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04). 2399# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html 2400 2401# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 2402# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times 2403# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). 2404 2405# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): 2406# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time 2407# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight 2408# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of 2409# Arizona year round. 2410 2411# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating 2412# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17): 2413# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National 2414# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each 2415# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the 2416# whole year. 2417 2418# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19): 2419# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says 2420# (translated):... 2421# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced 2422# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting 2423# this year.... 2424# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001 2425# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday 2426# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. 2427 2428# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25): 2429# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one 2430# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."... 2431# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html 2432# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep 2433# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than 2434# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish 2435# observation of Daylight Saving Time. 2436 2437# Official statute published by the Energy Department 2438# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre 2439# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, 2440# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). 2441 2442# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): 2443# 2444# https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-03-mn-32561-story.html 2445# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times 2446# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. 2447# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that 2448# the Federal District will not adopt DST. 2449# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree. 2450# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including 2451# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools. 2452# 2453# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules. 2454 2455# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01): 2456# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight 2457# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier 2458# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight 2459# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California 2460# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight 2461# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president 2462# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending 2463# September 30, 2001. 2464# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp> 2465# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31) 2466 2467# From Reuters (2001-09-04): 2468# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was 2469# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the 2470# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation 2471# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 2472# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to 2473# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not 2474# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. 2475 2476# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12): 2477# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted 2478# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico.... 2479# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20) 2480# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied. 2481 2482# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28): 2483# 2484# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2485# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern 2486# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as 2487# > the United States. 2488# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from 2489# 2010, some border regions will be the same: 2490# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/ 2491# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939 2492# (Spanish) 2493# 2494# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here: 2495# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf 2496# (Gaceta Parlamentaria) 2497# 2498# There is also a list of the votes here: 2499# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html 2500# 2501# Our page: 2502# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html 2503 2504# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20): 2505# The page 2506# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2507# includes this text: 2508# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California; 2509# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila; 2510# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en 2511# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto 2512# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos 2513# horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2514# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja 2515# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea 2516# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte 2517# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el 2518# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá 2519# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a 2520# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2521 2522# From Steffen Thorsen (2014-12-08), translated by Gwillim Law: 2523# The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015. 2524# 2525# http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/12/04/medio-ambiente/congreso-aprueba-una-hora-mas-de-sol-en-qroo 2526# "With this change, the time conflict that has existed between the municipios 2527# of Quintana Roo and the municipio of Felipe Carrillo Puerto may come to an 2528# end. The latter declared itself in rebellion 15 years ago when a time change 2529# was initiated in Mexico, and since then it has refused to change its time 2530# zone along with the rest of the country." 2531# 2532# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-01-14), translated by Gwillim Law: 2533# http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva-zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html 2534# "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday 2535# of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current 2536# time..." 2537# Also, the new zone will not use DST. 2538# 2539# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02): 2540# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally 2541# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación 2542# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015 2543# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico: 2544# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W, 2545# includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below. 2546# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the 2547# states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía 2548# de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora. 2549# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the 2550# state of Baja California. 2551# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state 2552# of Quintana Roo. 2553# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the 2554# longitude they are located at. 2555 2556# From Paul Eggert (2022-10-28): 2557# The new Mexican law was published today: 2558# https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5670045&fecha=28/10/2022 2559# This abolishes DST except where US DST rules are observed, 2560# and in addition changes all of Chihuahua to -06 with no DST. 2561 2562# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2563Rule Mexico 1931 only - May 1 23:00 1:00 D 2564Rule Mexico 1931 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 2565Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D 2566Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S 2567Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D 2568Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S 2569Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War 2570Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S 2571Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D 2572Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S 2573Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2574Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2575Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2576Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2577Rule Mexico 2002 2022 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2578Rule Mexico 2002 2022 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2579# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2580# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún 2581Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 6:00u 2582 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2583 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 2584 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2015 Feb 1 2:00 2585 -5:00 - EST 2586# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida 2587Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 6:00u 2588 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2589 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 2590 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2591# Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) 2592# This includes the following municipalities: 2593# in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava, 2594# Guerrero, Hidalgo. 2595# in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama. 2596# in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, 2597# Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. 2598# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, 2599# 2016-03-12 2600# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-horario-de-verano-en-zona-fronteriza 2601Zone America/Matamoros -6:30:00 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 6:00u 2602 -6:00 - CST 1988 2603 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2604 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 2605 -6:00 US C%sT 2606# Durango; Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) 2607Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 6:00u 2608 -6:00 - CST 1988 2609 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2610 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2611# Central Mexico 2612Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 7:00u 2613 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2614 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2615 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1932 Apr 1 2616 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 2:00 2617 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 2618 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2619# Chihuahua (near US border) 2620# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, 2621# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. 2622# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.) 2623Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 7:00u 2624 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2625 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2626 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1932 Apr 1 2627 -6:00 - CST 1996 2628 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2629 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2630 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 2631 -7:00 US M%sT 2022 Oct 30 2:00 2632 -6:00 - CST 2633# Chihuahua (away from US border) 2634Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 7:00u 2635 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2636 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2637 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1932 Apr 1 2638 -6:00 - CST 1996 2639 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2640 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2641 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2022 Oct 30 2:00 2642 -6:00 - CST 2643# Sonora 2644Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 7:00u 2645 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2646 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2647 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1932 Apr 1 2648 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2649 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2650 -8:00 - PST 1970 2651 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999 2652 -7:00 - MST 2653 2654# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21): 2655# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) 2656# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to 2657# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco). 2658# 2659# (Spanish) 2660# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del 2661# país, a partir de este domingo 2662# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748 2663# 2664# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del 2665# País 2666# 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 2667# 2668# (English) 2669# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone 2670# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml 2671# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html 2672# 2673# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that 2674# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time 2675# zone ..." 2676# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa 2677 2678# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01): 2679# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters. 2680 2681# Mazatlán 2682Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 7:00u 2683 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2684 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2685 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1932 Apr 1 2686 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2687 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2688 -8:00 - PST 1970 2689 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2690 2691# Bahía de Banderas 2692Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 7:00u 2693 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2694 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2695 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1932 Apr 1 2696 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2697 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2698 -8:00 - PST 1970 2699 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 2700 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2701 2702# Baja California 2703Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 7:00u 2704 -7:00 - MST 1924 2705 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2706 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2707 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2708 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2709 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2710 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2711 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2712 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2713 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2714 -8:00 - PST 1954 2715 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2716 -8:00 - PST 1976 2717 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2718 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2719 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2720 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 2721 -8:00 US P%sT 2722# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2723# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from 2724# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 2725# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say 2726# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports 2727# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and 2728# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that 2729# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns 2730# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone 2731# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its 2732# name or contents should be. 2733# 2734# From Paul Eggert (2015-10-08): 2735# Formerly there was an America/Santa_Isabel zone, but this appears to 2736# have come from a misreading of 2737# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2738# It has been moved to the 'backward' file. 2739# 2740# From Paul Eggert (2022-10-28): 2741# Today's new law states that the entire state of Baja California 2742# follows US DST rules, which agrees with simplifications noted above. 2743# 2744# 2745# Revillagigedo Is 2746# no information 2747 2748############################################################################### 2749 2750# Barbados 2751 2752# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2. 2753 2754# From P Chan (2020-12-09 and 2020-12-11): 2755# Standard time of GMT-4 was adopted in 1911. 2756# Definition of Time Act, 1911 (1911-7) [1911-08-28] 2757# 1912, Laws of Barbados (5 v.), OCLC Number: 919801291, Vol. 4, Image No. 522 2758# 1944, Laws of Barbados (5 v.), OCLC Number: 84548697, Vol. 4, Image No. 122 2759# http://llmc.com/browse.aspx?type=2&coll=85&div=297 2760# 2761# DST was observed in 1942-44. 2762# Defence (Daylight Saving) Regulations, 1942, 1942-04-13 2763# Defence (Daylight Saving) (Repeal) Regulations, 1942, 1942-08-22 2764# Defence (Daylight Saving) Regulations, 1943, 1943-04-16 2765# Defence (Daylight Saving) (Repeal) Regulations, 1943, 1943-09-01 2766# Defence (Daylight Saving) Regulations, 1944, 1944-03-21 2767# [Defence (Daylight Saving) (Amendment) Regulations 1944, 1944-03-28] 2768# Defence (Daylight Saving) (Repeal) Regulations, 1944, 1944-08-30 2769# 2770# 1914-, Subsidiary Legis., Annual Vols. OCLC Number: 226290591 2771# 1942: Image Nos. 527-528, 555-556 2772# 1943: Image Nos. 178-179, 198 2773# 1944: Image Nos. 113-115, 129 2774# http://llmc.com/titledescfull.aspx?type=2&coll=85&div=297&set=98437 2775# 2776# From Tim Parenti (2021-02-20): 2777# The transitions below are derived from P Chan's sources, except that the 1977 2778# through 1980 transitions are from Shanks & Pottenger since we have no better 2779# data there. Of particular note, the 1944 DST regulation only advanced the 2780# time to "exactly three and a half hours later than Greenwich mean time", as 2781# opposed to "three hours" in the 1942 and 1943 regulations. 2782 2783# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2784Rule Barb 1942 only - Apr 19 5:00u 1:00 D 2785Rule Barb 1942 only - Aug 31 6:00u 0 S 2786Rule Barb 1943 only - May 2 5:00u 1:00 D 2787Rule Barb 1943 only - Sep 5 6:00u 0 S 2788Rule Barb 1944 only - Apr 10 5:00u 0:30 - 2789Rule Barb 1944 only - Sep 10 6:00u 0 S 2790Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D 2791Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2792Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2793Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2794Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S 2795# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2796 #STDOFF -3:58:29.2 2797Zone America/Barbados -3:58:29 - LMT 1911 Aug 28 # Bridgetown 2798 -4:00 Barb A%sT 1944 2799 -4:00 Barb AST/-0330 1945 2800 -4:00 Barb A%sT 2801 2802# Belize 2803 2804# From P Chan (2020-11-03): 2805# Below are some laws related to the time in British Honduras/Belize: 2806# 2807# Definition of Time Ordinance, 1927 (No.4 of 1927) [1927-04-01] 2808# Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1927, p 19-20 2809# https://books.google.com/books?id=LqEpAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA19 2810# 2811# Definition of Time (Amendment) Ordinance, 1942 (No. 5 of 1942) [1942-06-27] 2812# Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1942, p 31-32 2813# https://books.google.com/books?id=h6MpAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA95-IA44 2814# 2815# Definition of Time Ordinance, 1945 (No. 19 of 1945) [1945-12-15] 2816# Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1945, p 49-50 2817# https://books.google.com/books?id=xaMpAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PP1 2818# 2819# Definition of Time Ordinance, 1947 (No. 1 of 1947) [1947-03-11] 2820# Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1947, p 1-2 2821# https://books.google.com/books?id=xaMpAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA1 2822# 2823# Time (Definition of) Ordinance (Chapter 180) 2824# The Laws of British Honduras in Force on the 15th Day of September, 1958 , Volume IV, p 2580 2825# https://books.google.com/books?id=v5QpAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2580 2826# 2827# Time (Definition of) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1968 (No. 13 of 1968) [1968-08-03] 2828# https://books.google.com/books?id=xij7KEB_58wC&pg=RA1-PA428-IA9 2829# 2830# Definition of Time Act (Chapter 339) 2831# Law of Belize, Revised Edition 2000 2832# http://www.belizelaw.org/web/lawadmin/PDF%20files/cap339.pdf 2833 2834# From Paul Eggert (2020-11-03): 2835# The transitions below are derived from P Chan's sources, except that the 2836# 1973 through 1983 transitions are from Shanks & Pottenger since we have 2837# no better data there. 2838 2839# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2840Rule Belize 1918 1941 - Oct Sat>=1 24:00 0:30 -0530 2841Rule Belize 1919 1942 - Feb Sat>=8 24:00 0 CST 2842Rule Belize 1942 only - Jun 27 24:00 1:00 CWT 2843Rule Belize 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 CPT 2844Rule Belize 1945 only - Dec 15 24:00 0 CST 2845Rule Belize 1947 1967 - Oct Sat>=1 24:00 0:30 -0530 2846Rule Belize 1948 1968 - Feb Sat>=8 24:00 0 CST 2847Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 CDT 2848Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 CST 2849Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 CDT 2850Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 CST 2851# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2852Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 1 2853 -6:00 Belize %s 2854 2855# Bermuda 2856 2857# From Paul Eggert (2022-07-27): 2858# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower, 2859# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I. This agrees with standard offset given in the 2860# Daylight Saving Act, 1917 cited below. 2861# It is not known when this time became standard for Bermuda; guess 1890. 2862# The transition to -04 was specified by: 2863# 1930: The Time Zone Act, 1929 (1929: No. 39) [1929-11-08] 2864# https://books.google.com/books?id=7tdMAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA54-PP1 2865 2866# From P Chan (2020-11-20): 2867# Most of the information can be found online from the Bermuda National 2868# Library - Digital Collection which includes The Royal Gazette (RG) until 1957 2869# https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/ 2870# I will cite the ID. For example, [10000] means 2871# https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/BermudaNP02/id/10000 2872# 2873# 1917: Apr 5 midnight to Sep 30 midnight 2874# Daylight Saving Act, 1917 (1917 No. 13) [1917-04-02] 2875# Bermuda Acts and Resolves 1917, p 37-38 2876# https://books.google.com/books?id=M-lCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA36-IA2 2877# RG, 1917-04-04, p 6 [42340] gives the spring forward date. 2878# 2879# 1918: Apr 13 midnight to Sep 15 midnight 2880# Daylight Saving Act, 1918 (1918 No. 9) [1918-04-06] 2881# Bermuda Acts and Resolves 1917, p 13 2882# https://books.google.com/books?id=K-lCAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA7 2883# 2884# Note that local mean time was still used before 1930. 2885# 2886# During WWII, DST was introduced by Defence Regulations 2887# 1942: Jan 11 02:00 to Oct 18 02:00 [113646], [115726] 2888# 1943: Mar 21 02:00 to Oct 31 02:00 [116704], [118193] 2889# 1944: Mar 12 02:00 to Nov 5 02:00 [119225], [121593] 2890# 1945: Mar 11 02:00 to Nov 4 02:00 [122369], [124461] 2891# RG, 1942-01-08, p 2, 1942-10-12, p 2 , 1943-03-06, p 2, 1943-09-03, p 1, 2892# 1944-02-29, p 6, 1944-09-20, p 2, 1945-02-13, p 2, 1945-11-03, p 1 2893# 2894# In 1946, the House of Assembly rejected DST twice. [128686], [128076] 2895# RG, 1946-03-16 p 1,1946-04-13 p 1 2896# 2897# 1947: third Sunday in May 02:00 to second Sunday in September 02:00 2898# DST in 1947 was defined in the Daylight Saving Act, 1947 (1947: No. 12) 2899# which expired at the end of the year. [125784] ,[132405], [144454], [138226] 2900# RG, 1947-02-27, p 1, 1947-05-15, p 1, 1947-09-13, p 1, 1947-12-30, p 1 2901# 2902# 1948-1952: fourth Sunday in May 02:00 to first Sunday in September 02:00 2903# DST in 1948 was defined in the Daylight Saving Act, 1948 (1948 : No. 12) 2904# which was set to expired at the end of the year but it was extended until 2905# the end of 1952 and was not further extended. 2906# [129802], [139403], [146008], [135240], [144330], [139049], [143309], 2907# [148271], [149773], [153589], [153802], [155924] 2908# RG, 1948-04-13, p 1, 1948-05-22, p 1, 1948-09-04, p 1, 1949-05-21, p1, 2909# 1949-09-03, p 1, 1950-05-27 p 1, 1950-09-02, p 1, 1951-05-27, p 1, 2910# 1951-09-01, p 1, 1952-05-23, p 1, 1952-09-26, p 1, 1952-12-21, p 8 2911# 2912# In 1953-1955, the House of Assembly rejected DST each year. [158996], 2913# [162620], [166720] RG, 1953-05-02, p 1, 1954-04-01 p 1, 1955-03-12, p 1 2914# 2915# 1956: fourth Sunday in May 02:00 to last Sunday in October 02:00 2916# Time Zone (Seasonal Variation) Act, 1956 (1956: No.44) [1956-05-25] 2917# Bermuda Public Acts 1956, p 331-332 2918# https://books.google.com/books?id=Xs1AlmD_cEwC&pg=PA63 2919# 2920# The extension of the Act was rejected by the House of Assembly. [176218] 2921# RG, 1956-12-13, p 1 2922# 2923# From the Chronological Table of Public and Private Acts up to 1985, it seems 2924# that there does not exist other Acts related to DST before 1973. 2925# https://books.google.com/books?id=r9hMAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA23-PA1 2926# Public Acts of the Legislature of the Islands of Bermuda, Together with 2927# Statutory Instruments in Force Thereunder, Vol VII 2928 2929# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): 2930# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday 2931# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone 2932# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on 2933# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. 2934# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 2935 2936# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2937Rule Bermuda 1917 only - Apr 5 24:00 1:00 - 2938Rule Bermuda 1917 only - Sep 30 24:00 0 - 2939Rule Bermuda 1918 only - Apr 13 24:00 1:00 - 2940Rule Bermuda 1918 only - Sep 15 24:00 0 S 2941Rule Bermuda 1942 only - Jan 11 2:00 1:00 D 2942Rule Bermuda 1942 only - Oct 18 2:00 0 S 2943Rule Bermuda 1943 only - Mar 21 2:00 1:00 D 2944Rule Bermuda 1943 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S 2945Rule Bermuda 1944 1945 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 2946Rule Bermuda 1944 1945 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2947Rule Bermuda 1947 only - May Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2948Rule Bermuda 1947 only - Sep Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 2949Rule Bermuda 1948 1952 - May Sun>=22 2:00 1:00 D 2950Rule Bermuda 1948 1952 - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2951Rule Bermuda 1956 only - May Sun>=22 2:00 1:00 D 2952Rule Bermuda 1956 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2953 2954# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2955 #STDOFF -4:19:18.3 2956Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1890 # Hamilton 2957 -4:19:18 Bermuda BMT/BST 1930 Jan 1 2:00 2958 -4:00 Bermuda A%sT 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2959 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976 2960 -4:00 US A%sT 2961 2962# Costa Rica 2963 2964# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time. 2965 2966# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2967Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2968Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2969Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2970# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; 2971# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2972Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S 2973Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S 2974# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'. 2975# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2976 #STDOFF -5:36:13.3 2977Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José 2978 -5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time 2979 -6:00 CR C%sT 2980# Coco 2981# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica 2982 2983# Cuba 2984 2985# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2986# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57 2987# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations. 2988# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger. 2989 2990# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29): 2991# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between 2992# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on 2993# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. 2994# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that 2995# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving 2996# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of 2997# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched 2998# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have 2999# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) 3000 3001# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11): 3002# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the 3003# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ... 3004# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html 3005 3006# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): 3007# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. 3008# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 3009# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html 3010# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras 3011# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return 3012# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". 3013# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. 3014 3015# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): 3016# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone 3017# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: 3018# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html 3019 3020# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21): 3021# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end 3022# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see 3023# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html 3024# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, 3025# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning 3026# to the normal schedule.... 3027 3028# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02): 3029# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday, 3030# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10. 3031# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules, 3032# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual. 3033# 3034# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25): 3035# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week 3036# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. 3037# 3038# He supplied these references: 3039# 3040# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES 3041# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm 3042# 3043# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25): 3044# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba): 3045# 3046# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre 3047# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html 3048# 3049# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html 3050 3051# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09): 3052# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight 3053# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to 3054# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj 3055# a Cuban information station, and heard 3056# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"), 3057# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time. 3058 3059# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12): 3060# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16... 3061# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish): 3062# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm 3063# 3064# Some more background information is posted here: 3065# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html 3066# 3067# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963, 3068# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the 3069# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been 3070# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception 3071# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to 3072# change some historic records as well. 3073# 3074# One example: 3075# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm 3076 3077# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13): 3078# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative 3079# web site, the Granma. Please check out 3080# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html 3081# 3082# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change 3083# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday. 3084 3085# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12): 3086# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward. 3087 3088# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04) 3089# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on 3090# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009- 3091# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought. 3092# 3093# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html 3094# (in Spanish) 3095 3096# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09) 3097# I listened over the Internet to 3098# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj 3099# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the 3100# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating 3101# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. 3102 3103# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): 3104# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 3105# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has 3106# changed at all). 3107# 3108# Source: 3109# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html 3110# 3111# Our info: 3112# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html 3113# 3114# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30) 3115# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back 3116# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00. 3117# 3118# One source (Spanish) 3119# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html 3120# 3121# Our page: 3122# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html 3123# 3124# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01) 3125# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March 3126# 31 and April 1. 3127# 3128# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish): 3129# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril 3130# 3131# Our info on it: 3132# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html 3133 3134# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03): 3135# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back 3136# to standard time on 2012-11-04: 3137# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre 3138# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03): 3139# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November. 3140 3141# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3142Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D 3143Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S 3144Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3145Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3146Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3147Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3148Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 3149Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 3150Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D 3151Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 3152Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D 3153Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 3154Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 3155Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3156Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3157Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S 3158Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3159Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D 3160Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 3161Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D 3162Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D 3163Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D 3164Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3165Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S 3166Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S 3167Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S 3168Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 3169Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 3170Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D 3171Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 3172Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 3173Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3174Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 3175Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3176Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 3177Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S 3178Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D 3179Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S 3180Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3181 3182# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3183Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 3184 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT 3185 -5:00 Cuba C%sT 3186 3187# Dominican Republic 3188 3189# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30): 3190# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the 3191# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am.... 3192# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html 3193 3194# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 3195# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST. 3196 3197# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 3198# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday, 3199# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the 3200# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date 3201# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they 3202# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going 3203# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president 3204# decided to revert. 3205 3206 3207# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3208Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 EDT 3209Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 EST 3210Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 -0430 3211Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 EST 3212Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 EST 3213Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 EST 3214# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3215Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 3216 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT 3217 -5:00 DR %s 1974 Oct 27 3218 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 2:00 3219 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 1:00 3220 -4:00 - AST 3221 3222# El Salvador 3223 3224# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3225Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3226Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3227# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador 3228# instead of America/San_Salvador. 3229# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3230Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador 3231 -6:00 Salv C%sT 3232 3233# Guatemala 3234# 3235# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: 3236# Diario Co Latino, at 3237# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>, 3238# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had 3239# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the 3240# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from 3241# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). 3242# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): 3243# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 3244# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See 3245# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf 3246 3247# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3248Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D 3249Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S 3250Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D 3251Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 3252Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D 3253Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 3254Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 3255Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 3256# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3257Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 3258 -6:00 Guat C%sT 3259 3260# Haiti 3261# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): 3262# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. 3263# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release 3264# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), 3265# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>. Translated from French, it says: 3266# 3267# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general 3268# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior 3269# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the 3270# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next 3271# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. 3272# 3273# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform 3274# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour 3275# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in 3276# October 2005. 3277# 3278# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" 3279# 3280# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): 3281# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like 3282# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a 3283# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST 3284# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). 3285# 3286# I have found this article about it (in French): 3287# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 3288# 3289# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. 3290 3291# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22): 3292# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007. 3293 3294# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11): 3295# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year, 3296# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada. 3297# So this means they have already changed their time. 3298# 3299# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510 3300# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253 3301# 3302# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11): 3303# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to 3304# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight. 3305# Assume a US-style fall back as well. 3306 3307# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10): 3308# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules 3309# as US/Canada. They did it last year as well, and it looks like they 3310# are going to observe DST every year now... 3311# 3312# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ 3313# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 3314 3315# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-03-12): 3316# Jean Antoine, editor of www.haiti-reference.com informed us that Haiti 3317# are not going on DST this year. Several other resources confirm this: ... 3318# https://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/presse/heure_d_t_pas_de_changement_d_heure_pr_vu_pour_cet_ann_e.html 3319# https://www.vantbefinfo.com/changement-dheure-pas-pour-haiti/ 3320# http://news.anmwe.com/haiti-lheure-nationale-ne-sera-ni-avancee-ni-reculee-cette-annee/ 3321 3322# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-03-12): 3323# We have received 4 mails from different people telling that Haiti 3324# has started DST again today, and this source seems to confirm that, 3325# I have not been able to find a more authoritative source: 3326# https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20319-haiti-notices-time-change-in-haiti.html 3327 3328# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3329Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D 3330Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3331Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3332# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. 3333# Go with IATA. 3334Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D 3335Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S 3336Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3337Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3338Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3339Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3340Rule Haiti 2017 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3341Rule Haiti 2017 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3342# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3343Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 3344 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT 3345 -5:00 Haiti E%sT 3346 3347# Honduras 3348# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. 3349 3350# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): 3351# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article 3352# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 3353# months until September. La Tribuna reported today 3354# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president 3355# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. 3356 3357# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08): 3358# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at 3359# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). 3360# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html 3361 3362# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): 3363# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08). 3364# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12 3365# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. 3366 3367# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 3368# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not 3369# published, I have located this authoritative source: 3370# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 3371 3372# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30): 3373# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386 3374# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year.... 3375 3376# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3377Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3378Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3379Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3380Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S 3381# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3382Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr 3383 -6:00 Hond C%sT 3384# 3385# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 3386 3387# Jamaica 3388# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an 3389# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the 3390# island". Go with Milne. 3391# 3392# Shanks & Pottenger give April 28 for the 1974 spring-forward transition, but 3393# Lance Neita writes that Prime Minister Michael Manley decreed it January 5. 3394# Assume Neita meant Jan 6 02:00, the same as the US. Neita also writes that 3395# Manley's supporters associated this act with Manley's nickname "Joshua" 3396# (recall that in the Bible the sun stood still at Joshua's request), 3397# and with the Rod of Correction which Manley said he had received from 3398# Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. See: 3399# Neita L. The politician in all of us. Jamaica Observer 2014-09-20 3400# http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-politician-in-all-of-us_17573647 3401# 3402# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3403 #STDOFF -5:07:10.41 3404Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:10 - LMT 1890 # Kingston 3405 -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3406 -5:00 - EST 1974 3407 -5:00 US E%sT 1984 3408 -5:00 - EST 3409 3410# Martinique 3411# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3412Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France 3413 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT 3414 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 3415 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 3416 -4:00 - AST 3417 3418# Nicaragua 3419# 3420# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. 3421# 3422# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): 3423# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started 3424# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of 3425# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet 3426# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". 3427# Some background information is available on the President's official site: 3428# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm 3429# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: 3430# 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 3431# 3432# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): 3433# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's 3434# assume that it is daylight saving.... 3435# 3436# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): 3437# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at 3438# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html 3439# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last 3440# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 3441# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."... 3442# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously 3443# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time 3444# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to 3445# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. 3446# 3447# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02): 3448# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). 3449# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm 3450# (2005-09-26) 3451# 3452# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05): 3453# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 3454# (my informal translation) 3455# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua 3456# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the 3457# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September. 3458# 3459# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30): 3460# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf 3461# My informal translation runs: 3462# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the 3463# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. 3464# 3465# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3466Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D 3467Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S 3468Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 3469Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3470Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 3471Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 3472# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3473Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 3474 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? 3475 -6:00 - CST 1973 May 3476 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 3477 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 3478 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 3479 -6:00 - CST 1993 3480 -5:00 - EST 1997 3481 -6:00 Nic C%sT 3482 3483# Cayman Is 3484# Panama 3485# 3486# Atikokan and Coral Harbour, Canada, match Panama since 1970. 3487# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3488Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 3489 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time 3490 -5:00 - EST 3491 3492# Anguilla 3493# Antigua & Barbuda 3494# Aruba 3495# Caribbean Netherlands 3496# Curaçao 3497# Dominica 3498# Grenada 3499# Guadeloupe 3500# Montserrat 3501# Puerto Rico 3502# St Barthélemy 3503# St Kitts-Nevis 3504# Sint Maarten / St Martin 3505# St Lucia 3506# St Vincent & the Grenadines 3507# Trinidad & Tobago 3508# Virgin Is (UK & US) 3509# 3510# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. 3511# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3512Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan 3513 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 3514 -4:00 US A%sT 1946 3515 -4:00 - AST 3516 3517# St Pierre and Miquelon 3518# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'. 3519# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3520Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre 3521 -4:00 - AST 1980 May 3522 -3:00 - -03 1987 3523 -3:00 Canada -03/-02 3524 3525# Turks and Caicos 3526# 3527# From Chris Dunn in 3528# https://bugs.debian.org/415007 3529# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the 3530# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match 3531# the recent U.S. change of dates. 3532# 3533# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28): 3534# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26] 3535# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three 3536# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: 3537# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 3538# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" 3539# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. 3540 3541# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): 3542# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UT -04 year-round. See: 3543# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm 3544# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ... 3545# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04): 3546# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to 3547# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year.... 3548# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm 3549# 3550# From the Turks & Caicos Cabinet (2017-07-20), heads-up from Steffen Thorsen: 3551# ... agreed to the reintroduction in TCI of Daylight Saving Time (DST) 3552# during the summer months and Standard Time, also known as Local 3553# Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 ... 3554# https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-statement--3 3555# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-26): 3556# The date of effect of the spring 2018 change appears to be March 11, 3557# which makes more sense. See: Hamilton D. Time change back 3558# by March 2018 for TCI. Magnetic Media. 2017-08-25. 3559# http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/08/time-change-back-by-march-2018-for-tci/ 3560# 3561# From P Chan (2020-11-27): 3562# Standard Time Declaration Order 2015 (L.N. 15/2015) 3563# http://online.fliphtml5.com/fizd/czin/#p=2 3564# 3565# Standard Time Declaration Order 2017 (L.N. 31/2017) 3566# http://online.fliphtml5.com/fizd/dmcu/#p=2 3567# 3568# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-05): 3569# Although L.N. 31/2017 reads that it "shall come into operation at 2:00 a.m. 3570# on 11th March 2018", a precise interpretation here poses some problems. The 3571# order states that "the standard time to be observed throughout the Turks and 3572# Caicos Islands shall be the same time zone as the Eastern United States of 3573# America" and further clarifies "[f]or the avoidance of doubt" that it 3574# "applies to the Eastern Standard Time as well as any changes thereto for 3575# Daylight Saving Time." However, as clocks in Turks and Caicos approached 3576# 02:00 -04, and thus the declared implementation time, it was still 01:00 EST 3577# (-05), as DST in the Eastern US would not start until an hour later. 3578# 3579# Since it is unlikely that those on the islands switched their clocks twice in 3580# the span of an hour, we assume instead that the adoption of EDT actually took 3581# effect once clocks in the Eastern US had sprung forward, from 03:00 -04. 3582# This discrepancy only affects the time zone abbreviation and DST flag for the 3583# intervening hour, not wall clock times, as -04 was maintained throughout. 3584 3585# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3586Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 3587 #STDOFF -5:07:10.41 3588 -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3589 -5:00 - EST 1979 3590 -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Mar 8 2:00 3591 -4:00 - AST 2018 Mar 11 3:00 3592 -5:00 US E%sT 3593 3594# Local Variables: 3595# coding: utf-8 3596# End: 3597