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 TYPE 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. Round to the 348# nearest second. 349 350# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 351Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 352Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 353Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 354Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 355Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 356# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 357Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 358 -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 TYPE 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 12:09:24 443 -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 12:14:48 452 -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 12:14:21 462 -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 12:12:53 479 -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 TYPE 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 12:00:04 511 -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 TYPE 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 12:07:02 564 -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 quite make our 1970 cutoff. 733# 734# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) 735# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, 736# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. 737# 738# From David Flater (2004-11-09): 739# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska 740# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which 741# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 742# possibly until 1983: 743# 744# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: 745# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important 746# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was 747# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it 748# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard 749# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, 750# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with 751# three votes for and one against." 752 753# Hawaii 754 755# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): 756# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 757# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, 758# the article is available at 759# https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf 760# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January 761# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight 762# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the 763# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the 764# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect 765# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for 766# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes 767# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of 768# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes 769# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) 770# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." 771 772# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): 773# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the 774# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of 775# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act 776# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each 777# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one 778# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th 779# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of 780# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is 781# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon 782# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to 783# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. 784# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor 785# of the Territory of Hawaii." 786# 787# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. 788# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. 789 790# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 791Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 792 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 793 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 794 -10:30 US H%sT 1947 Jun 8 2:00 795 -10:00 - HST 796 797# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. 798 799# Arizona mostly uses MST. 800 801# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): 802# 803# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the 804# Daylight Saving Time web page 805# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23) 806# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 807# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard 808# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military 809# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to 810# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix 811# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was 812# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of 813# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as 814# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona 815# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. 816# 817# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. 818# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. 819 820# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 821Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 822 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 0:01 823 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 0:01 824 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 0:01 825 -7:00 - MST 1967 826 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 827 -7:00 - MST 828# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 829# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 830# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the 831# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its 832# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other 833# tribal nations don't use DST.) 834# 835# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26): 836# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation. 837 838# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, 839# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, 840# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, 841# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, 842# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern 843# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County) 844# switched four weeks late in 1974. 845# 846# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 847Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 848 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 849 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 850 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 851 -7:00 US M%sT 852 853# Indiana 854# 855# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: 856# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana 857# 858# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-30): 859# A brief but entertaining history of time in Indiana describes a 1949 debate 860# in the Indiana House where city legislators (who favored "fast time") 861# tussled with farm legislators (who didn't) over a bill to outlaw DST: 862# "Lacking enough votes, the city faction tries to filibuster until time runs 863# out on the session at midnight, but rural champion Rep. Herbert Copeland, 864# R-Madison, leans over the gallery railing and forces the official clock 865# back to 9 p.m., breaking it in the process. The clock sticks on 9 as the 866# debate rages on into the night. The filibuster finally dies out and the 867# bill passes, while outside the chamber, clocks read 3:30 a.m. In the end, 868# it doesn't matter which side won. The law has no enforcement powers and 869# is simply ignored by fast-time communities." 870# How Indiana went from 'God's time' to split zones and daylight-saving. 871# Indianapolis Star. 2018-11-27 14:58 -05. 872# https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/27/indianapolis-indiana-time-zone-history-central-eastern-daylight-savings-time/2126300002/ 873# 874# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): 875# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, 876# with the following exceptions: 877# 878# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 879# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. 880# 881# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. 882# 883# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like 884# America/Kentucky/Louisville. 885# 886# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke, 887# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below. 888# 889# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, 890# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information." 891# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! 892# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 893# 894# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript 895# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level. 896# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'. 897 898# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26): 899# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana 900# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, 901# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the 902# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of 903# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the 904# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." 905# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their 906# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error. The intent 907# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. 908 909# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10): 910# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is 911# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007.... 912# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL 913 914# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 915Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 916Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 917Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 918# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 919Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 920 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 921 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 922 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 923 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00 924 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00 925 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 926 -5:00 - EST 1969 927 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 928 -5:00 - EST 2006 929 -5:00 US E%sT 930# 931# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, 932# as well as from 1976 through 2005. 933# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 934Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 935Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 936Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 937Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 938# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 939Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 940 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 941 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 942 -5:00 - EST 1969 943 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 944 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 945 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 946 -5:00 - EST 2006 947 -5:00 US E%sT 948# 949# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana, 950# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back 951# in November 2007. 952# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 953Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 954Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 955Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 956Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 957Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 958Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 959Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 960Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 961Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 962# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 963Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53 964 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 965 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 966 -5:00 - EST 1969 967 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 968 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 969 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 970 -5:00 US E%sT 971# 972# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. 973# From Alois Triendl (2019-07-09): 974# The Indianapolis News, Friday 27 October 1967 states that Perry County 975# returned to CST. It went again to EST on 27 April 1969, as documented by the 976# Indianapolis star of Saturday 26 April. 977# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 978Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 979Rule Perry 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 980Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 981Rule Perry 1961 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 982# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 983Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:57 984 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 985 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 986 -5:00 - EST 1967 Oct 29 2:00 987 -6:00 US C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 988 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 989 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 990 -6:00 US C%sT 991# 992# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, 993# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007. 994# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 995Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 996Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 997Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 998Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 999# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1000Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53 1001 -6:00 US C%sT 1955 1002 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 1003 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 1004 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 1005 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 1006 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 1007 -5:00 US E%sT 1008# 1009# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, 1010# then switched back in 2006. 1011# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): 1012# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post 1013# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of 1014# 1991-10-27. 1015# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1016Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1017Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1018Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1019Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1020Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1021# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1022Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 1023 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 1024 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 1025 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 1026 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 1027 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 1028 -6:00 US C%sT 1029# 1030# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in 1031# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007. 1032# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1033Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1034Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1035Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1036Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1037# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1038Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:35 1039 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1040 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 1041 -5:00 - EST 1969 1042 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 1043 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 1044 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00 1045 -5:00 US E%sT 1046# 1047# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. 1048# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1049Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 1050 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 1051 -5:00 - EST 1969 1052 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 1053 -5:00 - EST 2006 1054 -5:00 US E%sT 1055 1056# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20): 1057# The Louisville & Nashville Railroad's 1883-11-18 change occurred at 1058# 10:00 old local time; train were supposed to come to a standstill 1059# for precisely 18 minutes. See Bartky Fig. 1 (page 50). It is not 1060# clear how this matched civil time in Louisville, so for now continue 1061# to assume Louisville switched at noon new local time, like New York. 1062# 1063# From Michael Deckers (2019-08-06): 1064# From the contemporary source given by Alois Treindl, 1065# the switch in Louisville on 1946-04-28 was on 00:01 1066# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-26): 1067# That source was the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1946-04-27, p 4. 1068# Shanks gives 02:00 for all 20th-century transition times in Louisville. 1069# Evidently this is wrong for spring 1946. Although also likely wrong 1070# for other dates, we have no data. 1071# 1072# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. 1073# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. 1074# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1075Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1076Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S 1077Rule Louisville 1941 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1078Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1079Rule Louisville 1946 only - Apr lastSun 0:01 1:00 D 1080Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S 1081Rule Louisville 1950 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1082Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1083Rule Louisville 1956 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1084# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1085Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 1086 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 1087 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 1088 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1089 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00 1090 -5:00 - EST 1968 1091 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 1092 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 1093 -5:00 US E%sT 1094# 1095# Wayne County, Kentucky 1096# 1097# From Lake Cumberland LIFE 1098# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml 1099# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: 1100# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from 1101# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made 1102# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not 1103# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in 1104# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also. 1105# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S. 1106# location in the Central time zone. 1107# 1108# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29): 1109# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion, 1110# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern 1111# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, 1112# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). 1113# 1114# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): 1115# The final rule was published in the 1116# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. 1117# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2000-08-17/html/00-20854.htm 1118# 1119Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 1120 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1121 -6:00 - CST 1968 1122 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 1123 -5:00 US E%sT 1124 1125 1126# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): 1127# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985. 1128# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central; 1129# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10 1130# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10 1131# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 1132# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 1133# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 1134# 1135# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): 1136# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, 1137# so omit that change for now. 1138# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. 1139# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. 1140# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on 1141# 1999-10-31. See the 1142# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. 1143# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1999-10-21/html/99-27240.htm 1144# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated 1145# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; 1146# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. 1147 1148# Michigan 1149# 1150# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 1151# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973. 1152# 1153# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 1154# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, 1155# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) 1156# that Detroit kept 1157# 1158# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should 1159# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the 1160# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision 1161# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to 1162# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the 1163# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted 1164# by city vote. 1165# 1166# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks. 1167# 1168# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 1169# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks 1170# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more 1171# info, so omit this for now. 1172# 1173# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-06): 1174# Due to a complicated set of legal maneuvers, in 1967 Michigan did 1175# not start daylight saving time when the rest of the US did. 1176# Instead, it began DST on Jun 14 at 00:01. This was big news: 1177# the Detroit Free Press reported it at the top of Page 1 on 1178# 1967-06-14, in an article "State Adjusting to Switch to Fast Time" 1179# by Gary Blonston, above an article about Thurgood Marshall's 1180# confirmation to the US Supreme Court. Although Shanks says Detroit 1181# observed DST until 1967-10-29 00:01, that time of day seems to be 1182# incorrect, as the Free Press later said DST ended in Michigan at the 1183# same time as the rest of the US. Also, although Shanks reports no DST in 1184# Detroit in 1968, it did observe DST that year; in the November 1968 1185# election Michigan voters narrowly repealed DST, effective 1969. 1186# 1187# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975. 1188# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1189Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1190Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1191# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1192Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 1193 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00 1194 -5:00 - EST 1942 1195 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 1196 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1967 Jun 14 0:01 1197 -5:00 US E%sT 1969 1198 -5:00 - EST 1973 1199 -5:00 US E%sT 1975 1200 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 1201 -5:00 US E%sT 1202# 1203# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, 1204# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. 1205# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1206Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1207Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1208Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1209Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1210# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1211Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 1212 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1213 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 1214 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00 1215 -6:00 US C%sT 1216 1217# Navassa 1218# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service 1219# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act 1220# also claimed by Haiti 1221# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co 1222# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 1223# currently uninhabited 1224# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord", 1225# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites 1226# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). 1227 1228################################################################################ 1229 1230 1231# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10): 1232# 1233# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 1234# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 1235# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 1236# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 1237# 1238# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source 1239# for time zone data was the International Air Transport 1240# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 1241# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 1242# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 1243# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 1244# 1245# Other sources occasionally used include: 1246# 1247# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 1248# <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 1249# 1250# Pearce C. The Great Daylight Saving Time Controversy. 1251# Australian Ebook Publisher. 2017. ISBN 978-1-925516-96-8. 1252# 1253# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 1254# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 1255# which I found in the UCLA library. 1256# 1257# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 1258# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 1259# [PDF] (1914-03) 1260# 1261# See the 'europe' file for Greenland. 1262 1263# Canada 1264 1265# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14): 1266# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada 1267# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... 1268# 1269# UTC Standard time Daylight saving time 1270# offset French English French English 1271# -2:30 - - HAT NDT 1272# -3 - - HAA ADT 1273# -3:30 HNT NST - - 1274# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT 1275# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT 1276# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT 1277# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT 1278# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT 1279# -9 HNY YST - - 1280# 1281# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time 1282# HA: Heure Avancée DT: Daylight saving Time 1283# 1284# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic 1285# C: du Centre Central 1286# E: de l'Est Eastern 1287# M: Mountain 1288# N: Newfoundland 1289# P: du Pacifique Pacific 1290# R: des Rocheuses 1291# T: de Terre-Neuve 1292# Y: du Yukon Yukon 1293# 1294# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): 1295# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. 1296 1297# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks 1298# & Pottenger. 1299 1300# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31, 1301# 2007-03-01): 1302# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will 1303# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the 1304# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... 1305# https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm 1306# ... 1307# Nova Scotia 1308# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... 1309# https://www.novascotia.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf 1310# 1311# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to 1312# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. 1313# https://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf 1314# ... 1315# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. 1316# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. 1317# https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php 1318# ... 1319# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. 1320# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM 1321# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm 1322# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF 1323# ... 1324# P.E.I. will follow US rules.... 1325# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf 1326# ... 1327# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... 1328# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm 1329# ... 1330# Yukon 1331# https://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf 1332# ... 1333# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site 1334# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the 1335# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the 1336# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using 1337# JavaScript. 1338# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive 1339# ... 1340# Nunavut 1341# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007.... 1342# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf 1343 1344# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-18): 1345# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 1346# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 1347# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp 1348# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard 1349# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. 1350# 1351# National Research Council Canada maintains info about time zones and DST. 1352# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html 1353# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/index.html#Q5 1354# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. 1355 1356# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): 1357# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the 1358# new US DST rules, 1359 1360# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01) 1361# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles 1362# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1363# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review. 1364# The quote includes these two statements: 1365# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...' 1366# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,' 1367# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time 1368# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918. This transition was 1369# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star. 1370 1371# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed 1372# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day 1373# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets. 1374 1375# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1376Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1377Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1378Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1379Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1380Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1381Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1382Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1383Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1384Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1385Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1386 1387 1388# Newfoundland and Labrador 1389 1390# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-14): 1391# Legally Labrador should observe Newfoundland time; see: 1392# McLeod J. Labrador time - legal or not? St. John's Telegram, 2017-10-07 1393# http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/labrador-time--legal-or-not-154860/ 1394# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that the only part of Labrador 1395# that follows the rules is the southeast corner, including Port Hope 1396# Simpson and Mary's Harbour, but excluding, say, Black Tickle. 1397 1398# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1399Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D 1400Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1401# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1402Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D 1403Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S 1404# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1405Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D 1406Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S 1407# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & 1408# Pottenger. 1409Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D 1410Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S 1411# Whitman gives the following transitions: 1412# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 1413# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. 1414# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives 1415# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1416Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1417Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S 1418Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1419Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1420Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1421# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1422# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches 1423# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. 1424 1425# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12): 1426# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the 1427# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed. 1428# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings 1429# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time 1430# now occurs at 2:00AM. 1431# ... 1432# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm 1433# ... 1434# MICHAEL PELLEY | Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery 1435# Office of the Chief Information Officer 1436# Executive Council 1437# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 1438 1439Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1440Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1441Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD 1442Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1443Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D 1444Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S 1445# 1446# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. 1447# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1448Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 1449 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 1450 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1451 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 1452 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1453 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1454 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 2011 Nov 1455 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1456 1457# most of east Labrador 1458 1459# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'. 1460# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1461Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1462 -3:30:52 - NST 1918 1463 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1464 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 1465 -3:30 - NST 1936 1466 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1467 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1468 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 1469 -4:00 StJohns A%sT 2011 Nov 1470 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1471 1472 1473# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I, 1474# Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Listuguj reserve 1475 1476# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20): 1477# From the historical weather station records available at: 1478# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada 1479# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was 1480# likely to be the same across the island.... 1481# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would 1482# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996. 1483 1484# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20): 1485# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like 1486# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; 1487# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of 1488# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now). 1489# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town 1490# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume 1491# this is a typo. 1492 1493# From Jeffery Nichols (2020-01-09): 1494# America/Halifax ... also applies to Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the Listuguj 1495# reserve in Quebec. Officially, this came into effect on January 1, 2007 1496# (Legal Time Act, CQLR c T-5.1), but the legislative debates surrounding that 1497# bill say that it is "accommodating the customs and practices" of those 1498# regions, which suggests that they have always been in-line with Halifax. 1499 1500# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1501Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1502Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1503Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D 1504Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S 1505Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D 1506Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1507Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1508Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1509Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1510Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1511Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S 1512Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D 1513Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1514Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1515Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1516Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1517Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S 1518Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1519Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1520Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1521Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1522Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1523Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 1524Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D 1525Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1526Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D 1527Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 1528Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1529Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1530Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1531Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1532Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D 1533Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1534Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1535Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1536Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1537Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1538Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1539Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1540Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1541Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1542# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1543Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1544 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 1545 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 1546 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1547 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1548 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1549 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1550Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1551 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 1552 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 1553 -4:00 - AST 1972 1554 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1555 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1556 1557# New Brunswick 1558 1559# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31): 1560# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> 1561# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and 1562# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it 1563# clear that this was the case since at least 1993. 1564# For now, assume it started in 1993. 1565 1566# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1567Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D 1568Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S 1569Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D 1570Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 1571Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D 1572Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S 1573Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D 1574Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D 1575Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1576Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1577Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1578Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1579Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1580# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1581Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 1582 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 1583 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 1584 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 1585 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1586 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 1587 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 1588 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 1589 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1590 1591# Quebec 1592 1593# From Paul Eggert (2020-01-10): 1594# See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal. 1595# See America/Halifax for the Îles de la Madeleine and the Listuguj reserve. 1596# 1597# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63 1598# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as 1599# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST. 1600# The Quebec department of justice writes in 1601# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" 1602# https://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/en/department/ministre/functions-and-responsabilities/legal-time-in-quebec/the-situation-in-minganie-and-basse-cote-nord/ 1603# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon 1604# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. 1605# This common practice was codified into law as of 2007; see Legal Time Act, 1606# CQLR c T-5.1 <http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/T-5.1>. 1607# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to 1608# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. 1609 1610# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1611Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 1612 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 1613 -4:00 - AST 1614 1615# Ontario 1616 1617# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1618# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1619# Toronto. 1620# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1621# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1622# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1623# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. 1624 1625# From Jeffery Nichols (2020-02-06): 1626# According to the [Shanks] atlas, those western Ontario zones are huge, 1627# covering most of Ontario northwest of Sault Ste Marie and Timmins. 1628# The zones seem to include towns bigger than the ones they're named after, 1629# like Dryden in America/Rainy_River and Wawa (and maybe Attawapiskat) in 1630# America/Nipigon. I assume it's too much trouble to change the name of the 1631# zone (like when you found out that America/Glace_Bay includes Sydney, Nova 1632# Scotia).... 1633 1634# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1635# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST 1636# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that 1637# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw 1638# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, 1639# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable 1640# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after 1641# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but 1642# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters 1643# earlier in June). 1644# 1645# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). 1646# 1647# From Paul Eggert (2017-07-08): 1648# For more on Orillia, see: Daubs K. Bold attempt at daylight saving 1649# time became a comic failure in Orillia. Toronto Star 2017-07-08. 1650# https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/07/08/bold-attempt-at-daylight-saving-time-became-a-comic-failure-in-orillia.html 1651 1652# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): 1653# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star 1654# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, 1655# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. 1656# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) 1657# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html 1658# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. 1659# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report 1660# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. 1661# 1662# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1663# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and 1664# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes 1665# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in 1666# violation of the official Ontario rules. 1667# 1668# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1669# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the 1670# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: 1671# 1672# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. 1673# This means they spend about half the time on central time and 1674# the other half on eastern time. 1675# 1676# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. 1677# 1678# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern 1679# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he 1680# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." 1681# 1682# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang 1683# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." 1684 1685# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: 1686# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory 1687# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he 1688# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current 1689# time keeping since 1952, at least. 1690 1691# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): 1692# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River 1693# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from 1694# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan 1695# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time 1696# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour 1697# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move 1698# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. 1699 1700# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06): 1701# 1702# Currently the database has: 1703# 1704# # Ontario 1705# 1706# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1707# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1708# # Toronto. 1709# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1710# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1711# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1712# 1713# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom 1714# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard 1715# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that: 1716# 1717# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario, 1718# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year. 1719# 1720# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon. 1721# 1722# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began 1723# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date. 1724# 1725# By the way, the article continues by noting that: 1726# 1727# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back 1728# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October. 1729 1730# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17): 1731# 1732# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in 1733# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1734# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17, 1735# was available at 1736# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S 1737# 1738# It includes the text below (starting on page 57): 1739# 1740# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would 1741# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by 1742# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities 1743# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav- 1744# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite, 1745# for the other provinces only approximate: 1746# 1747# Province Daylight saving time used 1748# Prince Edward Island Not used. 1749# Nova Scotia In Halifax only. 1750# New Brunswick In St. John only. 1751# Quebec In the following places: 1752# Montreal Lachine 1753# Quebec Mont-Royal 1754# Lévis Iberville 1755# St. Lambert Cap de la Madelèine 1756# Verdun Loretteville 1757# Westmount Richmond 1758# Outremont St. Jérôme 1759# Longueuil Greenfield Park 1760# Arvida Waterloo 1761# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu 1762# Melbourne La Tuque 1763# St. Théophile Buckingham 1764# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along 1765# the southerly part of the province. Not 1766# used in the northwesterly part. 1767# Manitoba Not used. 1768# Saskatchewan In Regina only. 1769# Alberta Not used. 1770# British Columbia Not used. 1771# 1772# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited 1773# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont. 1774 1775# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1776Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D 1777Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S 1778Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D 1779Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1780Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D 1781Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S 1782Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1783# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" 1784# was meant. 1785Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 1786Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1787Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S 1788Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D 1789Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1790Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1791Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1792Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1793Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1794Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1795Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S 1796Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1797Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S 1798Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1799# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, 1800# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this 1801# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 1802# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. 1803Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1804 1805# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1806# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and 1807# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in 1808# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, 1809# Saskatchewan, for one year." 1810 1811# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, 1812# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): 1813# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight 1814# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur 1815# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central 1816# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to 1817# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight 1818# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so 1819# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World 1820# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer 1821# months for the remainder of the war years. 1822 1823# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1824Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 1825 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1826 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1827 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1828 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 1829 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1830Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 1831 -6:00 - CST 1910 1832 -5:00 - EST 1942 1833 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 1834 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1973 1835 -5:00 - EST 1974 1836 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1837Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 1838 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 1839 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1840 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1841Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 1842 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1843 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1844 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1845Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 1846 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1847 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1848 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 1849 -5:00 - EST 1850 1851 1852# Manitoba 1853 1854# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): 1855# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to 1856# March 27, 1987 ... said ... 1857# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of 1858# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central 1859# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next 1860# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... 1861# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had 1862# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... 1863# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying 1864# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of 1865# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central 1866# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). 1867 1868# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): 1869# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) 1870# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume 1871# it was also 02:00s in 1966. 1872 1873# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1874Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D 1875Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S 1876Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1877Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1878Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D 1879Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S 1880Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1881Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1882Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1883Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D 1884Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1885Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1886Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1887Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1888Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1889Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1890Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1891Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1892Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1893Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1894Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S 1895Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 1896Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S 1897Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 1898# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1899Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 1900 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 1901 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1902 1903 1904# Saskatchewan 1905 1906# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1907# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal 1908# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people 1909# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, 1910# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." 1911# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: 1912# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of 1913# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad 1914# time was noted. 1915 1916# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1917# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the 1918# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." 1919 1920# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25): 1921# Pearce's book says Regina observed DST in 1914-1917. No dates and times, 1922# unfortunately. It also says that in 1914 Saskatoon observed DST 1923# from 1 June to 6 July, and that DST was also tried out in Davidson, 1924# Melfort, and Prince Albert. 1925 1926# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1927# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. 1928# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. 1929# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. 1930# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton 1931# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. 1932 1933# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): 1934# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the 1935# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. 1936# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and 1937# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother. 1938# 1939# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years 1940# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated 1941# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial 1942# referendum favoured legislating common time practices. 1943# 1944# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of 1945# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern 1946# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in 1947# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to 1948# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and 1949# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would 1950# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST. 1951# 1952# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town 1953# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to 1954# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only 1955# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT 1956# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round 1957# since sometime in the 1960s. 1958 1959# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1960# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages 1961# long and rather painful to read. 1962# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf 1963 1964# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1965Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1966Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1967Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1968Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1969Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1970Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1971Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1972Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1973Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1974Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1975Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1976Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1977Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 1978Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1979Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1980Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1981Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1982# 1983Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1984Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1985Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1986Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1987Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1988# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1989Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep 1990 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00 1991 -6:00 - CST 1992Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep 1993 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00 1994 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950 1995 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00 1996 -6:00 - CST 1997 1998 1999# Alberta 2000 2001# From Alois Triendl (2019-07-19): 2002# There was no DST in Alberta in 1967... Calgary Herald, 29 April 1967. 2003# 1969, no DST, from Edmonton Journal 18 April 1969 2004# 2005# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25): 2006# Pearce's book says that Alberta's 1948 Daylight Saving Act required 2007# Mountain Standard Time without DST, and that "anyone who broke that law 2008# could be fined up to $25 and costs". There seems to be no record of 2009# anybody paying the fine. The law was not changed until an August 1971 2010# plebiscite reinstituted DST in 1972. This story is also mentioned in: 2011# Boyer JP. Forcing Choice: The Risky Reward of Referendums. Dundum. 2017. 2012# ISBN 978-1459739123. 2013 2014# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2015Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 2016Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2017Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S 2018Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2019Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2020Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2021Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2022Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2023Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2024Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2025Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2026Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2027Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2028# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2029Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep 2030 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 2031 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2032 2033 2034# British Columbia 2035 2036# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2037# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has 2038# been like Vancouver. 2039# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. 2040# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek. 2041 2042# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct: 2043 2044# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): 2045# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia 2046# that do not currently observe daylight saving: 2047# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) 2048# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District 2049# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) 2050 2051# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time 2052# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the 2053# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. 2054# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 2055# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. 2056# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UT-7 for 93 years. 2057# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. 2058 2059# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains 2060# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months 2061# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just 2062# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing 2063# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the 2064# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010. 2065# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 2066 2067# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: 2068# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) 2069# Exact date unknown 2070# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) 2071# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. 2072# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) 2073# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. 2074# note 1: 2075# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, 2076# Creston did not change its clocks. 2077# note 2: 2078# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, 2079# Creston did not oblige. 2080# note 3: 2081# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time 2082# (UTC-7) forever. 2083# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. 2084# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html 2085 2086# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. 2087# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying 2088# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before 2089# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this 2090# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough 2091# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. 2092 2093# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. 2094 2095# From Matt Johnson (2015-09-21): 2096# Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year. So while previously they 2097# were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with 2098# America/Dawson_Creek. 2099# http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html 2100# 2101# From Tim Parenti (2015-09-23): 2102# This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, 2103# America/Fort_Nelson. The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a 2104# 2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support. Effectively, the municipality has 2105# been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on 2106# 2015-03-08. 2107# 2108# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25): 2109# Shanks says Fort Nelson did not observe DST in 1946, unlike Vancouver. 2110# Alois Triendl confirmed this on 07-22, citing the 1946-04-27 Vancouver Daily 2111# Province. He also cited the 1946-09-28 Victoria Daily Times, which said 2112# that Vancouver, Victoria, etc. "change at midnight Saturday"; for now, 2113# guess they meant 02:00 Sunday since 02:00 was common practice in Vancouver. 2114# 2115# Early Vancouver, Volume Four, by Major J.S. Matthews, V.D., 2011 edition 2116# says that a 1922 plebiscite adopted DST, but a 1923 plebiscite rejected it. 2117# http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/digitized/EarlyVan/SearchEarlyVan/Vol4pdf/MatthewsEarlyVancouverVol4_DaylightSavings.pdf 2118# A catalog entry for a newspaper clipping seems to indicate that Vancouver 2119# observed DST in 1941 from 07-07 through 09-27; see 2120# https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/daylight-saving-1918-starts-again-july-7-1941-start-d-s-sept-27-end-of-d-s-1941 2121# We have no further details, so omit them for now. 2122 2123# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2124Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2125Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2126Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2127Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2128Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2129Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2130Rule Vanc 1946 only - Sep 29 2:00 0 S 2131Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2132Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2133# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2134Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 2135 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 2136 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2137Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 2138 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 2139 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 2140 -7:00 - MST 2141Zone America/Fort_Nelson -8:10:47 - LMT 1884 2142 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1946 2143 -8:00 - PST 1947 2144 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 2145 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2015 Mar 8 2:00 2146 -7:00 - MST 2147Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 2148 -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 2149 -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 2150 -7:00 - MST 2151 2152# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon 2153 2154# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2155# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. 2156# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: 2157# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, 2158# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9.... 2159# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). 2160# [https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-i-21/latest/rsc-1985-c-i-21.html] 2161# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. 2162# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. 2163# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. 2164 2165# From Brian Inglis (2015-04-14): 2166# 2167# I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following 2168# regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name, 2169# and relevant quote if available. Each regulation specifically revokes its 2170# predecessor. The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act 2171# authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes. 2172# 2173# Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or 2174# index, and only some via Canadian legal sources. Other sources used include 2175# articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS 2176# Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and 2177# 1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial 2178# and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of 2179# standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada, 2180# with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset, 2181# and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart 2182# and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as 2183# another source of information for 1970 and earlier. 2184# 2185# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26, 2186# pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 2187# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75: 2188# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance 2189# Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and 2190# thirty-fifth meridian. 2191# 2192# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.; 2193# JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System 2194# (ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1: 2195# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16. 2196# 2197# (1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine 2198# hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time. 2199# 2200# (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations 2201# varying the manner of reckoning standard time. 2202# 2203# * Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance 2204# [no online source found] 2205# 2206# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC, 2207# Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 2208# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon 2209# Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ... 2210# 2211# 1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon 2212# Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked. 2213# 2214# 2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the 2215# Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May, 2216# 1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that 2217# is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon 2218# Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west. 2219# 2220# 3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree 2221# longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine 2222# hours behind Greenwich Time. 2223# 2224# * Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214 2225# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html 2226# C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2227# 2228# 1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby 2229# revoked. 2230# 2231# 2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation 2232# Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973 2233# shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is 2234# to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time. 2235# 2236# * O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT 2237# [no online source found] 2238# 2239# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56 2240# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html 2241# O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2242# 2243# In every year between 2244# (a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and 2245# (b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October, 2246# Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and 2247# called Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2248# ... 2249# Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987. 2250# 2251# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127 2252# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html 2253# O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2254# 2255# 1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours 2256# behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock 2257# in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock 2258# in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called 2259# Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2260# 2261# 2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked. 2262# 2263# 3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007. 2264# 2265# * Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125 2266# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html 2267 2268# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): 2269# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. 2270# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 2271# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html 2272# 2273# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): 2274# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut 2275# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region. 2276 2277# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 2278# Basic Facts: The New Territory 2279# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html 2280# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, 2281# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when 2282# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. 2283 2284# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 2285# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 2286# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 2287# 2288# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 2289# 2290# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 2291# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 2292# 2293# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 2294# 2295# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 2296# 2297# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 2298# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 2299# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 2300# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 2301# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 2302# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 2303# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 2304# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 2305# the current state of affairs. 2306 2307# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 2308# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): 2309# http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html 2310# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 2311# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 2312# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 2313# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 2314 2315# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 2316# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories 2317# for these potential new Zones. 2318# 2319# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the 2320# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central 2321# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the 2322# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time. 2323# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of 2324# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not 2325# required to use daylight savings. 2326 2327# From <http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html> 2328# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10): 2329# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and 2330# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them 2331# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter. 2332# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against 2333# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with 2334# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on 2335# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to 2336# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's 2337# unified time zone in 1999. 2338# 2339# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government: 2340# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000. 2341 2342# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2343# Let's just keep track of the official times for now. 2344 2345# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07): 2346# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising 2347# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert 2348# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the 2349# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that 2350# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm 2351# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with 2352# more. 2353# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] 2354 2355# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): 2356# According to ... 2357# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 2358# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time 2359# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year 2360# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. 2361# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it 2362# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... 2363# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. 2364# 2365# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-17): 2366# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed 2367# daylight saving only during wartime. Gwillim Law's email also 2368# mentioned maps now maintained by National Research Council Canada; 2369# see above for an up-to-date link. 2370 2371# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01): 2372# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in 2373# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. 2374# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of 2375# daylight saving.... 2376# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html 2377 2378# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21): 2379# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute 2380# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of 2381# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had 2382# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007. 2383# 2384# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay 2385# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008... 2386# 2387# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March 2388# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I 2389# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able 2390# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was 2391# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone 2392# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT). 2393# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks 2394# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in 2395# so they could follow the correct TV schedule... 2396# 2397# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I 2398# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature 2399# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of 2400# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of 2401# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for 2402# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived 2403# and worked in Resolute Bay... 2404# 2405# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that 2406# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of 2407# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead 2408# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay 2409# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not 2410# tell me when the practice had stopped. 2411# 2412# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of 2413# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went 2414# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz 2415# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the 2416# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on 2417# Aziz: 2418# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493 2419# 2420# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using 2421# Eastern Standard Time. 2422# 2423# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the 2424# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way 2425# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in 2426# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs" 2427# 2428# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008. 2429# 2430# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz 2431# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You 2432# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a 2433# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site" 2434# 2435# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would 2436# never have contacted her. I now believe that all the information I 2437# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... 2438# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. 2439 2440# From Tim Parenti (2020-03-05): 2441# The government of Yukon announced [yesterday] the cessation of seasonal time 2442# changes. "After clocks are pushed ahead one hour on March 8, the territory 2443# will remain on [UTC-07]. ... [The government] found 93 per cent of 2444# respondents wanted to end seasonal time changes and, of that group, 70 per 2445# cent wanted 'permanent Pacific Daylight Saving Time.'" 2446# https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-end-daylight-saving-time-1.5486358 2447# 2448# Although the government press release prefers PDT, we prefer MST for 2449# consistency with nearby Dawson Creek, Creston, and Fort Nelson. 2450# https://yukon.ca/en/news/yukon-end-seasonal-time-change 2451 2452# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2453Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2454Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2455Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D 2456Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 2457Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2458Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2459Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2460Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD 2461Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2462Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2463Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2464Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2465# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2466# aka Panniqtuuq 2467Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - -00 1921 # trading post est. 2468 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 2469 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2470 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2471 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2472# formerly Frobisher Bay 2473Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - -00 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. 2474 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2475 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2476 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2477# aka Qausuittuq 2478Zone America/Resolute 0 - -00 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded 2479 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2480 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2481 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 2482 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 2483 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2484# aka Kangiqiniq 2485Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - -00 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded 2486 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2487 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2488 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2489# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq 2490Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - -00 1920 # trading post est.? 2491 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2492 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2493 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 2494 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2495 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2496Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 2497 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2498 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2499Zone America/Inuvik 0 - -00 1953 # Inuvik founded 2500 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 2501 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2502 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2503Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2504 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1967 May 28 0:00 2505 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2506 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2020 Mar 8 2:00 2507 -7:00 - MST 2508Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2509 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 2510 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2511 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2020 Mar 8 2:00 2512 -7:00 - MST 2513 2514 2515############################################################################### 2516 2517# Mexico 2518 2519# From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07): 2520# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the 2521# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a 2522# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) 2523# http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm 2524# 2525# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. 2526# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) 2527# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. 2528# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. 2529# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. 2530# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. 2531 2532# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): 2533# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the 2534# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that 2535# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of 2536# the relevant documents. 2537 2538# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): 2539# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree 2540# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. 2541# 2542# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 2543# 2544# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the 2545# rules for the DST changes. The rules are: 2546# 2547# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones: 2548# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ) 2549# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ) 2550# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ) 2551# 2552# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October 2553# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows: 2554# BajaNorte: GMT+7 2555# BajaSur: GMT+6 2556# General: GMT+5 2557# 2558# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows: 2559# BajaNorte: GMT+8 2560# BajaSur: GMT+7 2561# General: GMT+6 2562# 2563# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th. 2564# 2565# -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- 2566# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): 2567# For an English translation of the decree, see 2568# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04). 2569# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html 2570 2571# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 2572# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times 2573# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). 2574 2575# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): 2576# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time 2577# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight 2578# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of 2579# Arizona year round. 2580 2581# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating 2582# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17): 2583# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National 2584# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each 2585# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the 2586# whole year. 2587 2588# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19): 2589# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says 2590# (translated):... 2591# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced 2592# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting 2593# this year.... 2594# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001 2595# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday 2596# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. 2597 2598# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25): 2599# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one 2600# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."... 2601# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html 2602# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep 2603# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than 2604# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish 2605# observation of Daylight Saving Time. 2606 2607# Official statute published by the Energy Department 2608# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre 2609# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, 2610# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). 2611 2612# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): 2613# 2614# https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-03-mn-32561-story.html 2615# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times 2616# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. 2617# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that 2618# the Federal District will not adopt DST. 2619# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree. 2620# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including 2621# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools. 2622# 2623# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules. 2624 2625# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01): 2626# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight 2627# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier 2628# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight 2629# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California 2630# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight 2631# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president 2632# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending 2633# September 30, 2001. 2634# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp> 2635# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31) 2636 2637# From Reuters (2001-09-04): 2638# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was 2639# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the 2640# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation 2641# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 2642# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to 2643# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not 2644# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. 2645 2646# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12): 2647# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted 2648# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico.... 2649# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20) 2650# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied. 2651 2652# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28): 2653# 2654# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2655# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern 2656# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as 2657# > the United States. 2658# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from 2659# 2010, some border regions will be the same: 2660# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/ 2661# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939 2662# (Spanish) 2663# 2664# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here: 2665# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf 2666# (Gaceta Parlamentaria) 2667# 2668# There is also a list of the votes here: 2669# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html 2670# 2671# Our page: 2672# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html 2673 2674# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20): 2675# The page 2676# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2677# includes this text: 2678# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California; 2679# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila; 2680# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en 2681# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto 2682# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos 2683# horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2684# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja 2685# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea 2686# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte 2687# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el 2688# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá 2689# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a 2690# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2691 2692# From Steffen Thorsen (2014-12-08), translated by Gwillim Law: 2693# The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015. 2694# 2695# http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/12/04/medio-ambiente/congreso-aprueba-una-hora-mas-de-sol-en-qroo 2696# "With this change, the time conflict that has existed between the municipios 2697# of Quintana Roo and the municipio of Felipe Carrillo Puerto may come to an 2698# end. The latter declared itself in rebellion 15 years ago when a time change 2699# was initiated in Mexico, and since then it has refused to change its time 2700# zone along with the rest of the country." 2701# 2702# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-01-14), translated by Gwillim Law: 2703# http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva-zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html 2704# "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday 2705# of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current 2706# time..." 2707# Also, the new zone will not use DST. 2708# 2709# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02): 2710# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally 2711# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación 2712# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015 2713# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico: 2714# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W, 2715# includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below. 2716# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the 2717# states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía 2718# de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora. 2719# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the 2720# state of Baja California. 2721# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state 2722# of Quintana Roo. 2723# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the 2724# longitude they are located at. 2725 2726# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2727Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D 2728Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S 2729Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D 2730Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S 2731Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War 2732Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S 2733Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D 2734Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S 2735Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2736Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2737Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2738Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2739Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2740Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2741# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2742# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún 2743Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56 2744 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2745 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 2746 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2015 Feb 1 2:00 2747 -5:00 - EST 2748# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida 2749Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 2750 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2751 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 2752 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2753# Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) 2754# This includes the following municipalities: 2755# in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava, 2756# Guerrero, Hidalgo. 2757# in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama. 2758# in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, 2759# Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. 2760# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, 2761# 2016-03-12 2762# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-horario-de-verano-en-zona-fronteriza 2763Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 2764 -6:00 - CST 1988 2765 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2766 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 2767 -6:00 US C%sT 2768# Durango; Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) 2769Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44 2770 -6:00 - CST 1988 2771 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2772 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2773# Central Mexico 2774Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 2775 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2776 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2777 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2778 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2779 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2780 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 2:00 2781 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 2782 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2783# Chihuahua (near US border) 2784# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, 2785# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. 2786# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.) 2787Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 2788 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2789 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2790 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2791 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2792 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2793 -6:00 - CST 1996 2794 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2795 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2796 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 2797 -7:00 US M%sT 2798# Chihuahua (away from US border) 2799Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40 2800 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2801 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2802 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2803 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2804 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2805 -6:00 - CST 1996 2806 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2807 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2808 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2809# Sonora 2810Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08 2811 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2812 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2813 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2814 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2815 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2816 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2817 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2818 -8:00 - PST 1970 2819 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999 2820 -7:00 - MST 2821 2822# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21): 2823# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) 2824# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to 2825# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco). 2826# 2827# (Spanish) 2828# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del 2829# país, a partir de este domingo 2830# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748 2831# 2832# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del 2833# País 2834# 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 2835# 2836# (English) 2837# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone 2838# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml 2839# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html 2840# 2841# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that 2842# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time 2843# zone ..." 2844# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa 2845 2846# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01): 2847# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters. 2848 2849# Mazatlán 2850Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20 2851 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2852 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2853 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2854 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2855 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2856 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2857 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2858 -8:00 - PST 1970 2859 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2860 2861# Bahía de Banderas 2862Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:59:00 2863 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2864 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2865 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2866 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2867 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2868 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2869 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2870 -8:00 - PST 1970 2871 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 2872 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2873 2874# Baja California 2875Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 2876 -7:00 - MST 1924 2877 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2878 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2879 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2880 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2881 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2882 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2883 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2884 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2885 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2886 -8:00 - PST 1954 2887 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2888 -8:00 - PST 1976 2889 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2890 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2891 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2892 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 2893 -8:00 US P%sT 2894# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2895# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from 2896# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 2897# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say 2898# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports 2899# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and 2900# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that 2901# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns 2902# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone 2903# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its 2904# name or contents should be. 2905# 2906# From Paul Eggert (2015-10-08): 2907# Formerly there was an America/Santa_Isabel zone, but this appears to 2908# have come from a misreading of 2909# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2910# It has been moved to the 'backward' file. 2911# 2912# 2913# Revillagigedo Is 2914# no information 2915 2916############################################################################### 2917 2918# Anguilla 2919# Antigua and Barbuda 2920# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2921 2922# Bahamas 2923# 2924# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. 2925# 2926# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): 2927# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST 2928# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... 2929# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 2930 2931# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2932Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2933Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2934# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2935Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2936 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 2937 -5:00 US E%sT 2938 2939# Barbados 2940 2941# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that. 2942 2943# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2944Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D 2945Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2946Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2947Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2948Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S 2949# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2950Zone America/Barbados -3:58:29 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown 2951 -3:58:29 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time 2952 -4:00 Barb A%sT 2953 2954# Belize 2955# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2956# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2957Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 -0530 2958Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 CST 2959Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 CDT 2960Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 CST 2961Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 CDT 2962Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 CST 2963# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2964Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 2965 -6:00 Belize %s 2966 2967# Bermuda 2968 2969# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower, 2970# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that. 2971 2972# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): 2973 2974# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday 2975# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone 2976# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on 2977# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. 2978# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 2979 2980# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2981Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton 2982 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2983 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976 2984 -4:00 US A%sT 2985 2986# Cayman Is 2987# See America/Panama. 2988 2989# Costa Rica 2990 2991# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest. 2992 2993# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2994Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2995Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2996Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2997# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; 2998# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2999Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S 3000Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S 3001# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'. 3002# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3003Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José 3004 -5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time 3005 -6:00 CR C%sT 3006# Coco 3007# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica 3008 3009# Cuba 3010 3011# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 3012# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57 3013# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations. 3014# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger. 3015 3016# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29): 3017# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between 3018# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on 3019# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. 3020# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that 3021# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving 3022# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of 3023# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched 3024# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have 3025# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) 3026 3027# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11): 3028# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the 3029# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ... 3030# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html 3031 3032# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): 3033# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. 3034# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 3035# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html 3036# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras 3037# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return 3038# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". 3039# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. 3040 3041# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): 3042# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone 3043# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: 3044# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html 3045 3046# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21): 3047# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end 3048# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see 3049# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html 3050# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, 3051# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning 3052# to the normal schedule.... 3053 3054# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02): 3055# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday, 3056# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10. 3057# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules, 3058# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual. 3059# 3060# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25): 3061# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week 3062# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. 3063# 3064# He supplied these references: 3065# 3066# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES 3067# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm 3068# 3069# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25): 3070# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba): 3071# 3072# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre 3073# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html 3074# 3075# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html 3076 3077# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09): 3078# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight 3079# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to 3080# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj 3081# a Cuban information station, and heard 3082# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"), 3083# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time. 3084 3085# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12): 3086# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16... 3087# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish): 3088# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm 3089# 3090# Some more background information is posted here: 3091# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html 3092# 3093# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963, 3094# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the 3095# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been 3096# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception 3097# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to 3098# change some historic records as well. 3099# 3100# One example: 3101# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm 3102 3103# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13): 3104# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative 3105# web site, the Granma. Please check out 3106# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html 3107# 3108# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change 3109# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday. 3110 3111# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12): 3112# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward. 3113 3114# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04) 3115# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on 3116# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009- 3117# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought. 3118# 3119# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html 3120# (in Spanish) 3121 3122# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09) 3123# I listened over the Internet to 3124# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj 3125# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the 3126# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating 3127# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. 3128 3129# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): 3130# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 3131# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has 3132# changed at all). 3133# 3134# Source: 3135# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html 3136# 3137# Our info: 3138# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html 3139# 3140# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30) 3141# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back 3142# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00. 3143# 3144# One source (Spanish) 3145# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html 3146# 3147# Our page: 3148# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html 3149# 3150# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01) 3151# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March 3152# 31 and April 1. 3153# 3154# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish): 3155# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril 3156# 3157# Our info on it: 3158# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html 3159 3160# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03): 3161# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back 3162# to standard time on 2012-11-04: 3163# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre 3164# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03): 3165# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November. 3166 3167# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3168Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D 3169Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S 3170Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3171Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3172Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3173Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3174Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 3175Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 3176Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D 3177Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 3178Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D 3179Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 3180Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 3181Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3182Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3183Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S 3184Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3185Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D 3186Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 3187Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D 3188Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D 3189Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D 3190Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3191Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S 3192Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S 3193Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S 3194Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 3195Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 3196Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D 3197Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 3198Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 3199Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3200Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 3201Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3202Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 3203Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S 3204Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D 3205Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S 3206Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3207 3208# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3209Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 3210 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT 3211 -5:00 Cuba C%sT 3212 3213# Dominica 3214# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3215 3216# Dominican Republic 3217 3218# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30): 3219# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the 3220# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am.... 3221# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html 3222 3223# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 3224# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST. 3225 3226# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 3227# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday, 3228# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the 3229# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date 3230# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they 3231# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going 3232# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president 3233# decided to revert. 3234 3235 3236# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3237Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 EDT 3238Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 EST 3239Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 -0430 3240Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 EST 3241Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 EST 3242Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 EST 3243# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3244Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 3245 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT 3246 -5:00 DR %s 1974 Oct 27 3247 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 2:00 3248 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 1:00 3249 -4:00 - AST 3250 3251# El Salvador 3252 3253# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3254Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3255Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3256# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador 3257# instead of America/San_Salvador. 3258# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3259Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador 3260 -6:00 Salv C%sT 3261 3262# Grenada 3263# Guadeloupe 3264# St Barthélemy 3265# St Martin (French part) 3266# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3267 3268# Guatemala 3269# 3270# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: 3271# Diario Co Latino, at 3272# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>, 3273# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had 3274# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the 3275# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from 3276# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). 3277# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): 3278# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 3279# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See 3280# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf 3281 3282# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3283Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D 3284Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S 3285Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D 3286Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 3287Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D 3288Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 3289Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 3290Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 3291# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3292Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 3293 -6:00 Guat C%sT 3294 3295# Haiti 3296# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): 3297# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. 3298# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release 3299# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), 3300# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>. Translated from French, it says: 3301# 3302# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general 3303# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior 3304# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the 3305# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next 3306# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. 3307# 3308# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform 3309# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour 3310# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in 3311# October 2005. 3312# 3313# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" 3314# 3315# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): 3316# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like 3317# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a 3318# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST 3319# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). 3320# 3321# I have found this article about it (in French): 3322# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 3323# 3324# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. 3325 3326# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22): 3327# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007. 3328 3329# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11): 3330# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year, 3331# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada. 3332# So this means they have already changed their time. 3333# 3334# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510 3335# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253 3336# 3337# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11): 3338# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to 3339# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight. 3340# Assume a US-style fall back as well. 3341 3342# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10): 3343# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules 3344# as US/Canada. They did it last year as well, and it looks like they 3345# are going to observe DST every year now... 3346# 3347# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ 3348# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 3349 3350# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-03-12): 3351# Jean Antoine, editor of www.haiti-reference.com informed us that Haiti 3352# are not going on DST this year. Several other resources confirm this: ... 3353# https://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/presse/heure_d_t_pas_de_changement_d_heure_pr_vu_pour_cet_ann_e.html 3354# https://www.vantbefinfo.com/changement-dheure-pas-pour-haiti/ 3355# http://news.anmwe.com/haiti-lheure-nationale-ne-sera-ni-avancee-ni-reculee-cette-annee/ 3356 3357# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-03-12): 3358# We have received 4 mails from different people telling that Haiti 3359# has started DST again today, and this source seems to confirm that, 3360# I have not been able to find a more authoritative source: 3361# https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20319-haiti-notices-time-change-in-haiti.html 3362 3363# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3364Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D 3365Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3366Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3367# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. 3368# Go with IATA. 3369Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D 3370Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S 3371Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3372Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3373Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3374Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3375Rule Haiti 2017 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3376Rule Haiti 2017 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3377# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3378Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 3379 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT 3380 -5:00 Haiti E%sT 3381 3382# Honduras 3383# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. 3384 3385# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): 3386# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article 3387# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 3388# months until September. La Tribuna reported today 3389# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president 3390# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. 3391 3392# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08): 3393# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at 3394# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). 3395# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html 3396 3397# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): 3398# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08). 3399# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12 3400# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. 3401 3402# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 3403# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not 3404# published, I have located this authoritative source: 3405# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 3406 3407# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30): 3408# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386 3409# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year.... 3410 3411# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3412Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3413Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3414Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3415Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S 3416# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3417Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr 3418 -6:00 Hond C%sT 3419# 3420# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 3421 3422# Jamaica 3423# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an 3424# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the 3425# island". Go with Milne. Round to the nearest second as required by zic. 3426# 3427# Shanks & Pottenger give April 28 for the 1974 spring-forward transition, but 3428# Lance Neita writes that Prime Minister Michael Manley decreed it January 5. 3429# Assume Neita meant Jan 6 02:00, the same as the US. Neita also writes that 3430# Manley's supporters associated this act with Manley's nickname "Joshua" 3431# (recall that in the Bible the sun stood still at Joshua's request), 3432# and with the Rod of Correction which Manley said he had received from 3433# Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. See: 3434# Neita L. The politician in all of us. Jamaica Observer 2014-09-20 3435# http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-politician-in-all-of-us_17573647 3436# 3437# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3438Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:10 - LMT 1890 # Kingston 3439 -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3440 -5:00 - EST 1974 3441 -5:00 US E%sT 1984 3442 -5:00 - EST 3443 3444# Martinique 3445# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3446Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France 3447 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT 3448 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 3449 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 3450 -4:00 - AST 3451 3452# Montserrat 3453# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3454 3455# Nicaragua 3456# 3457# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. 3458# 3459# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): 3460# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started 3461# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of 3462# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet 3463# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". 3464# Some background information is available on the President's official site: 3465# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm 3466# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: 3467# 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 3468# 3469# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): 3470# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's 3471# assume that it is daylight saving.... 3472# 3473# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): 3474# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at 3475# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html 3476# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last 3477# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 3478# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."... 3479# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously 3480# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time 3481# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to 3482# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. 3483# 3484# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02): 3485# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). 3486# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm 3487# (2005-09-26) 3488# 3489# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05): 3490# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 3491# (my informal translation) 3492# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua 3493# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the 3494# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September. 3495# 3496# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30): 3497# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf 3498# My informal translation runs: 3499# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the 3500# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. 3501# 3502# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3503Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D 3504Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S 3505Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 3506Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3507Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 3508Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 3509# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3510Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 3511 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? 3512 -6:00 - CST 1973 May 3513 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 3514 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 3515 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 3516 -6:00 - CST 1993 3517 -5:00 - EST 1997 3518 -6:00 Nic C%sT 3519 3520# Panama 3521# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3522Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 3523 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time 3524 -5:00 - EST 3525Link America/Panama America/Cayman 3526 3527# Puerto Rico 3528# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. 3529# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3530Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan 3531 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 3532 -4:00 US A%sT 1946 3533 -4:00 - AST 3534 3535# St Kitts-Nevis 3536# St Lucia 3537# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3538 3539# St Pierre and Miquelon 3540# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'. 3541# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3542Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre 3543 -4:00 - AST 1980 May 3544 -3:00 - -03 1987 3545 -3:00 Canada -03/-02 3546 3547# St Vincent and the Grenadines 3548# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3549 3550# Turks and Caicos 3551# 3552# From Chris Dunn in 3553# https://bugs.debian.org/415007 3554# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the 3555# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match 3556# the recent U.S. change of dates. 3557# 3558# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28): 3559# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26] 3560# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three 3561# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: 3562# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 3563# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" 3564# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. 3565# 3566# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): 3567# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UT -04 year-round. See: 3568# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm 3569# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ... 3570# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04): 3571# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to 3572# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year.... 3573# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm 3574# 3575# From the Turks & Caicos Cabinet (2017-07-20), heads-up from Steffen Thorsen: 3576# ... agreed to the reintroduction in TCI of Daylight Saving Time (DST) 3577# during the summer months and Standard Time, also known as Local 3578# Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 ... 3579# https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-statement--3 3580# 3581# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-26): 3582# The date of effect of the spring 2018 change appears to be March 11, 3583# which makes more sense. See: Hamilton D. Time change back 3584# by March 2018 for TCI. Magnetic Media. 2017-08-25. 3585# http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/08/time-change-back-by-march-2018-for-tci/ 3586# 3587# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3588Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 3589 -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3590 -5:00 - EST 1979 3591 -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00 3592 -4:00 - AST 2018 Mar 11 3:00 3593 -5:00 US E%sT 3594 3595# British Virgin Is 3596# Virgin Is 3597# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3598 3599 3600# Local Variables: 3601# coding: utf-8 3602# End: 3603