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# 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 Arthur David Olson: 97# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974. 98# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26 99# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post. 100 101# From Arthur David Olson: 102# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of 103# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime. 104 105# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25): 106# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. 107# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." 108# An AltaVista search turned up: 109# https://web.archive.org/web/20000926032210/http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html 110# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace 111# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." 112# (August 1945) by way of confirmation. 113# 114# From Paul Eggert (2017-09-23): 115# This was the V-J Day issue of the Clamdigger, a Rowayton, CT newsletter. 116 117# From Joseph Gallant citing 118# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): 119# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set 120# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people 121# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, 122# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, 123# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word 124# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in 125# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. 126 127# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From 128# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times: 129# 130# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender. 131# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a 132# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news. 133# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out 134# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental 135# importance." 136# 137# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open 138# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell, 139# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over. 140# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms." 141# 142# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. 143 144# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): 145# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations 146# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of 147# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed 148# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. 149 150# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 151Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 152Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 153Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 154Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 155Rule US 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 156Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 157Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 158Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D 159Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D 160Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 161Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 162Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 163Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 164 165# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19 166# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with 167# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory. 168# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of 169# this time zone package. 170# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if 171# a particular place changes whether it observes DST. 172# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to 173# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to 174# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file. 175 176# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 177Zone EST -5:00 - EST 178Zone MST -7:00 - MST 179Zone HST -10:00 - HST 180Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT 181Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT 182Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT 183Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT 184 185# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 186# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON 187# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 188# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON 189# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 190# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER 191# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 192# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO 193# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 194# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST) 195# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT) 196# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W 197# USA " 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 198# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC 199# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY 200 201# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21): 202# The above dates are for 1988. 203# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's 204# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the 205# Aleutians. 206 207# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 208# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and 209# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names 210# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 211# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261: 212# (none) 213# United States standard eastern time 214# United States standard mountain time 215# United States standard central time 216# United States standard Pacific time 217# (none) 218# United States standard Alaska time 219# (none) 220# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for 221# public law 98-181): 222# Atlantic standard time 223# eastern standard time 224# central standard time 225# mountain standard time 226# Pacific standard time 227# Yukon standard time 228# Alaska-Hawaii standard time 229# Bering standard time 230# And after 1983-11-30: 231# Atlantic standard time 232# eastern standard time 233# central standard time 234# mountain standard time 235# Pacific standard time 236# Alaska standard time 237# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time 238# Samoa standard time 239# The law doesn't give abbreviations. 240# 241# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-19): 242# Here are URLs for the 1918 and 1966 legislation: 243# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=40&page=451 244# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=80&page=108 245# Although the 1918 names were officially "United States Standard 246# Eastern Time" and similarly for "Central", "Mountain", "Pacific", 247# and "Alaska", in practice "Standard" was placed just before "Time", 248# as codified in 1966. In practice, Alaska time was abbreviated "AST" 249# before 1968. Summarizing the 1967 name changes: 250# 1918 names 1967 names 251# -08 Standard Pacific Time (PST) Pacific standard time (PST) 252# -09 (unofficial) Yukon (YST) Yukon standard time (YST) 253# -10 Standard Alaska Time (AST) Alaska-Hawaii standard time (AHST) 254# -11 (unofficial) Nome (NST) Bering standard time (BST) 255# 256# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow: 257# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time" 258# for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. See the file "australasia". 259# 260# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17): 261# HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian 262# standard and daylight times. See section 9.47 (p 234) of the 263# U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008) 264# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf 265 266# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 267# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. 268# 269# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. 270# (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 271# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- 272# (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second 273# Sunday of March"; and 274# (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first 275# Sunday of November'. 276# (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the 277# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. 278# (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective 279# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress 280# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United 281# States. 282# (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the 283# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the 284# Department study is complete. 285 286# US eastern time, represented by New York 287 288# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, 289# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky 290# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 291# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 292# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, 293# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia 294 295# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): 296# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington 297# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... 298# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time 299# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their 300# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. 301 302# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): 303# According to today's Huntsville Times 304# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1 305# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City 306# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, 307# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" 308# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central 309# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work 310# in Columbus." 311# 312# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-22): 313# Four cities are involved. The two not mentioned above are Smiths Station 314# and Valley. Barbara Brooks, Valley's assistant treasurer, heard it started 315# because West Point Pepperell textile mills were in Alabama while the 316# corporate office was in Georgia, and residents voted to keep Eastern 317# time even after the mills closed. See: Kazek K. Did you know which 318# Alabama towns are in a different time zone? al.com 2017-02-06. 319# http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/02/do_you_know_which_alabama_town.html 320 321# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06): 322# Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 44, 4 (1884-02-08), 208 323# says that New York City Hall time was 3 minutes 58.4 seconds fast of 324# Eastern time (i.e., -4:56:01.6) just before the 1883 switch. Round to the 325# nearest second. 326 327# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 328Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 329Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 330Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 331Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 332Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 333# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 334Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 335 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 336 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 337 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 338 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967 339 -5:00 US E%sT 340 341# US central time, represented by Chicago 342 343# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, 344# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and 345# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana 346# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 347# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western 348# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern 349# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, 350# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin 351 352# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-07): 353# In 1869 the Chicago Astronomical Society contracted with the city to keep 354# time. Though delayed by the Great Fire, by 1880 a wire ran from the 355# Dearborn Observatory (on the University of Chicago campus) to City Hall, 356# which then sent signals to police and fire stations. However, railroads got 357# their time signals from the Allegheny Observatory, the Madison Observatory, 358# the Ann Arbor Observatory, etc., so their clocks did not agree with each 359# other or with the city's official time. The confusion took some years to 360# clear up. See: 361# Moser M. How Chicago gave America its time zones. Chicago. 2018-01-04. 362# http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/January-2018/How-Chicago-Gave-America-Its-Time-Zones/ 363 364# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: 365# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/175.pdf 366# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local 367# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations 368# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited 369# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year.... 370# 371# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12): 372# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI 373# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent.... 374# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2007/related/acts/3 375 376# From an email administrator of the City of Fort Pierre, SD (2015-12-21): 377# Fort Pierre is technically located in the Mountain time zone as is 378# the rest of Stanley County. Most of Stanley County and Fort Pierre 379# uses the Central time zone due to doing most of their business in 380# Pierre so it simplifies schedules. I have lived in Stanley County 381# all my life and it has been that way since I can remember. (43 years!) 382# 383# From Paul Eggert (2015-12-25): 384# Assume this practice predates 1970, so Fort Pierre can use America/Chicago. 385 386# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 387Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D 388Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 389Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 390Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 391Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 392Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 393# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 394Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 395 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 396 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 397 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 398 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942 399 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 400 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 401 -6:00 US C%sT 402# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. 403Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 404 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 2:00 405 -6:00 US C%sT 406# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on 407# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time. 408# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>. 409# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and 410# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota; 411# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time. 412# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>. 413Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 414 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 2:00 415 -6:00 US C%sT 416 417# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21): 418# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the 419# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from 420# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010): 421# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm 422# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html 423 424# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24): 425# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although 426# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next 427# largest city in Mercer County). Google Maps places Beulah's city hall 428# at 47° 15' 51" N, 101° 46' 40" W, which yields an offset of 6h47'07". 429 430Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53 431 -7:00 US M%sT 2010 Nov 7 2:00 432 -6:00 US C%sT 433 434# US mountain time, represented by Denver 435# 436# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western 437# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), 438# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, 439# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, 440# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming 441# 442# From Paul Eggert (2018-10-25): 443# On 1921-03-04 federal law placed all of Texas into the central time zone. 444# However, El Paso ignored the law for decades and continued to observe 445# mountain time, on the grounds that that's what they had always done 446# and they weren't about to let the federal government tell them what to do. 447# Eventually the federal government gave in and changed the law on 448# 1970-04-10 to match what El Paso was actually doing. Although 449# that's slightly after our 1970 cutoff, there is no need to create a 450# separate zone for El Paso since they were ignoring the law anyway. See: 451# Long T. El Pasoans were time rebels, fought to stay in Mountain zone. 452# El Paso Times. 2018-10-24 06:40 -06. 453# https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2018/10/24/el-pasoans-were-time-rebels-fought-stay-mountain-zone/1744509002/ 454# 455# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 456Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 457Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 458Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S 459Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 460Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 461# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 462Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 463 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 464 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 465 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 466 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967 467 -7:00 US M%sT 468 469# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles 470# 471# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, 472# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county 473# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren), 474# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern ¾ of 475# Malheur county), and Washington 476 477# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-20): 478# In early February 1948, in response to California's electricity shortage, 479# PG&E changed power frequency from 60 to 59.5 Hz during daylight hours, 480# causing electric clocks to lose six minutes per day. (This did not change 481# legal time, and is not part of the data here.) See: 482# Ross SA. An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948. 483# Working Paper No. 8, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley, 484# 1973-11. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x22k30c 485# 486# In another measure to save electricity, DST was instituted from 1948-03-14 487# at 02:01 to 1949-01-16 at 02:00, with the governor having the option to move 488# the fallback transition earlier. See pages 3-4 of: 489# http://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1948/48Vol1_Chapters.pdf 490# 491# In response: 492# 493# Governor Warren received a torrent of objecting mail, and it is not too much 494# to speculate that the objections to Daylight Saving Time were one important 495# factor in the defeat of the Dewey-Warren Presidential ticket in California. 496# -- Ross, p 25 497# 498# On December 8 the governor exercised the option, setting the date to January 1 499# (LA Times 1948-12-09). The transition time was 02:00 (LA Times 1949-01-01). 500# 501# Despite the controversy, in 1949 California voters approved Proposition 12, 502# which established DST from April's last Sunday at 01:00 until September's 503# last Sunday at 02:00. This was amended by 1962's Proposition 6, which changed 504# the fall-back date to October's last Sunday. See: 505# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1501&context=ca_ballot_props 506# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1636&context=ca_ballot_props 507# 508# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 509Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:01 1:00 D 510Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S 511Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 1:00 1:00 D 512Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 513Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 514# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 515Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 516 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 517 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 518 -8:00 US P%sT 519 520# Alaska 521# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -09 per USNO. 522# 523# From Paul Eggert (2017-06-15): 524# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 525# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. 526# On Friday, 1867-10-18 (Gregorian), at precisely 15:30 local time, the 527# Russian forts and fleet at Sitka fired salutes to mark the ceremony of 528# formal transfer. See the Sacramento Daily Union (1867-11-14), p 3, col 2. 529# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18671114.2.12.1 530# Sitka workers did not change their calendars until Sunday, 1867-10-20, 531# and so celebrated two Sundays that week. See: Ahllund T (tr Hallamaa P). 532# From the memoirs of a Finnish workman. Alaska History. 2006 Fall;21(2):1-25. 533# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ahllund-2006-Memoirs-of-a-Finnish-Workman.pdf 534# Include only the time zone part of this transition, ignoring the switch 535# from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent the Julian calendar. 536# 537# As far as we know, of the locations mentioned below only Sitka was 538# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. 539# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement was 540# destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) Many of Alaska's inhabitants 541# were unaware of the US acquisition of Alaska, much less of any calendar or 542# time change. However, the Russian-influenced part of Alaska did observe 543# Russian time, and it is more accurate to model this than to ignore it. 544# The database format requires an exact transition time; use the Russian 545# salute as a somewhat-arbitrary time for the formal transfer of control for 546# all of Alaska. Sitka's UTC offset is -9:01:13; adjust its 15:30 to the 547# local times of other Alaskan locations so that they change simultaneously. 548 549# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18): 550# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and 551# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall: 552# "Welcome to Juneau. Please turn your watch back to the 19th century." 553# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01. 554# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html 555# 556# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source: 557# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response. 558# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2). 559# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/ 560 561# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): 562# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: 563# 564# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27, 565# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time. 566# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on 567# Pacific Time. 568# 569# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the 570# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in 571# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26. 572# 573# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted 574# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time. 575# 576# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not 577# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions. 578# 579# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo 580# Nation.) 581 582# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09): 583# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian 584# Community office (using contact information available at 585# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla 586# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States; 587# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether 588# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their 589# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I 590# did not inquire about practices in the past. 591 592# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17): 593# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's 594# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote. 595 596# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-11-09): 597# It seems Metlakatla did go off PST on Sunday, November 1, changing 598# their time to AKST and are going to follow Alaska's DST, switching 599# between AKST and AKDT from now on.... 600# https://www.krbd.org/2015/10/30/annette-island-times-they-are-a-changing/ 601 602# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 603Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:33:32 604 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 605 -8:00 - PST 1942 606 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 607 -8:00 - PST 1969 608 -8:00 US P%sT 1980 Apr 27 2:00 609 -9:00 US Y%sT 1980 Oct 26 2:00 610 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 611 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 612 -9:00 US AK%sT 613Zone America/Sitka 14:58:47 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:30 614 -9:01:13 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 615 -8:00 - PST 1942 616 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 617 -8:00 - PST 1969 618 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 619 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 620 -9:00 US AK%sT 621Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:44:55 622 -8:46:18 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 623 -8:00 - PST 1942 624 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 625 -8:00 - PST 1969 626 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 627 -8:00 - PST 2015 Nov 1 2:00 628 -9:00 US AK%sT 629Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 15:12:18 630 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 631 -9:00 - YST 1942 632 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946 633 -9:00 - YST 1969 634 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 635 -9:00 US AK%sT 636Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 14:31:37 637 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 638 -10:00 - AST 1942 639 -10:00 US A%sT 1967 Apr 640 -10:00 - AHST 1969 641 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 642 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 643 -9:00 US AK%sT 644Zone America/Nome 12:58:22 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 13:29:35 645 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 646 -11:00 - NST 1942 647 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 648 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 649 -11:00 - BST 1969 650 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 651 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 652 -9:00 US AK%sT 653Zone America/Adak 12:13:22 - LMT 1867 Oct 19 12:44:35 654 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 655 -11:00 - NST 1942 656 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 657 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 658 -11:00 - BST 1969 659 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 660 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 661 -10:00 US H%sT 662# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. 663# 664# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) 665# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, 666# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. 667# 668# From David Flater (2004-11-09): 669# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska 670# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which 671# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 672# possibly until 1983: 673# 674# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: 675# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important 676# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was 677# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it 678# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard 679# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, 680# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with 681# three votes for and one against." 682 683# Hawaii 684 685# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): 686# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 687# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, 688# the article is available at 689# https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf 690# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January 691# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight 692# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the 693# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the 694# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect 695# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for 696# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes 697# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of 698# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes 699# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) 700# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." 701 702# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): 703# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the 704# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of 705# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act 706# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each 707# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one 708# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th 709# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of 710# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is 711# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon 712# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to 713# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. 714# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor 715# of the Territory of Hawaii." 716# 717# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. 718# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. 719 720# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 721Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 722 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 723 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 724 -10:30 US H%sT 1947 Jun 8 2:00 725 -10:00 - HST 726 727# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. 728 729# Arizona mostly uses MST. 730 731# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): 732# 733# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the 734# Daylight Saving Time web page 735# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23) 736# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 737# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard 738# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military 739# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to 740# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix 741# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was 742# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of 743# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as 744# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona 745# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. 746# 747# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. 748# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. 749 750# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 751Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 752 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 0:01 753 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 0:01 754 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 0:01 755 -7:00 - MST 1967 756 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 757 -7:00 - MST 758# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 759# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 760# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the 761# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its 762# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other 763# tribal nations don't use DST.) 764# 765# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26): 766# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation. 767 768# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, 769# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, 770# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, 771# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, 772# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern 773# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County) 774# switched four weeks late in 1974. 775# 776# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 777Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 778 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 779 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 780 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 781 -7:00 US M%sT 782 783# Indiana 784# 785# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: 786# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana 787# 788# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): 789# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, 790# with the following exceptions: 791# 792# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 793# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. 794# 795# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. 796# 797# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like 798# America/Kentucky/Louisville. 799# 800# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke, 801# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below. 802# 803# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, 804# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information." 805# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! 806# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 807# 808# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript 809# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level. 810# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'. 811 812# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26): 813# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana 814# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, 815# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the 816# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of 817# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the 818# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." 819# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their 820# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error. The intent 821# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. 822 823# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10): 824# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is 825# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007.... 826# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL 827 828# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 829Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 830Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 831Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 832# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 833Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 834 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 835 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 836 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 837 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00 838 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00 839 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 840 -5:00 - EST 1969 841 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 842 -5:00 - EST 2006 843 -5:00 US E%sT 844# 845# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, 846# as well as from 1976 through 2005. 847# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 848Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 849Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 850Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 851Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 852# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 853Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 854 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 855 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 856 -5:00 - EST 1969 857 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 858 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 859 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 860 -5:00 - EST 2006 861 -5:00 US E%sT 862# 863# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana, 864# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back 865# in November 2007. 866# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 867Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 868Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 869Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 870Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 871Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 872Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 873Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 874Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 875Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 876# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 877Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53 878 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 879 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 880 -5:00 - EST 1969 881 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 882 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 883 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 884 -5:00 US E%sT 885# 886# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. 887# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 888Rule Perry 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 889Rule Perry 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 890Rule Perry 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 891Rule Perry 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 892Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 893Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 894Rule Perry 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 895Rule Perry 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 896Rule Perry 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 897# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 898Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:57 899 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 900 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 901 -5:00 - EST 1969 902 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 903 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 904 -6:00 US C%sT 905# 906# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, 907# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007. 908# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 909Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 910Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 911Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 912Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 913# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 914Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53 915 -6:00 US C%sT 1955 916 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 917 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 918 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 919 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 920 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 921 -5:00 US E%sT 922# 923# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, 924# then switched back in 2006. 925# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): 926# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post 927# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of 928# 1991-10-27. 929# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 930Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 931Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 932Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 933Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 934Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 935# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 936Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 937 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 938 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 939 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 940 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 941 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 942 -6:00 US C%sT 943# 944# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in 945# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007. 946# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 947Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 948Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 949Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 950Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 951# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 952Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:35 953 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 954 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 955 -5:00 - EST 1969 956 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 957 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 958 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00 959 -5:00 US E%sT 960# 961# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. 962# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 963Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 964 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 965 -5:00 - EST 1969 966 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 967 -5:00 - EST 2006 968 -5:00 US E%sT 969 970# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20): 971# The Louisville & Nashville Railroad's 1883-11-18 change occurred at 972# 10:00 old local time; train were supposed to come to a standstill 973# for precisely 18 minutes. See Bartky Fig. 1 (page 50). It is not 974# clear how this matched civil time in Louisville, so for now continue 975# to assume Louisville switched at noon new local time, like New York. 976# 977# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. 978# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. 979# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 980Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 981Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S 982Rule Louisville 1941 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 983Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 984Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S 985Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 986Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 987# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 988Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 989 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 990 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 991 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 992 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00 993 -5:00 - EST 1968 994 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 995 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 996 -5:00 US E%sT 997# 998# Wayne County, Kentucky 999# 1000# From Lake Cumberland LIFE 1001# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml 1002# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: 1003# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from 1004# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made 1005# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not 1006# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in 1007# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also. 1008# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S. 1009# location in the Central time zone. 1010# 1011# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29): 1012# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion, 1013# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern 1014# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, 1015# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). 1016# 1017# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): 1018# The final rule was published in the 1019# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. 1020# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2000-08-17/html/00-20854.htm 1021# 1022Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 1023 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1024 -6:00 - CST 1968 1025 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 1026 -5:00 US E%sT 1027 1028 1029# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): 1030# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985. 1031# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central; 1032# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10 1033# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10 1034# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 1035# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 1036# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 1037# 1038# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): 1039# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, 1040# so omit that change for now. 1041# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. 1042# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. 1043# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on 1044# 1999-10-31. See the 1045# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. 1046# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1999-10-21/html/99-27240.htm 1047# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated 1048# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; 1049# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. 1050 1051# Michigan 1052# 1053# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 1054# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973. 1055# 1056# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 1057# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, 1058# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) 1059# that Detroit kept 1060# 1061# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should 1062# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the 1063# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision 1064# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to 1065# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the 1066# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted 1067# by city vote. 1068# 1069# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks. 1070# 1071# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 1072# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks 1073# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more 1074# info, so omit this for now. 1075# 1076# From Paul Eggert (2017-07-26): 1077# Although Shanks says Detroit observed DST in 1967 from 06-14 00:01 1078# until 10-29 00:01, I now see multiple reports that this is incorrect. 1079# For example, according to a 50-year anniversary report about the 1967 1080# Detroit riots and a major-league doubleheader on 1967-07-23, "By the time 1081# the last fly ball of the doubleheader settled into the glove of leftfielder 1082# Lenny Green, it was after 7 p.m. Detroit did not observe daylight saving 1083# time, so light was already starting to fail. Twilight was made even deeper 1084# by billowing columns of smoke that ascended in an unbroken wall north of the 1085# ballpark." See: Dow B. Detroit '67: As violence unfolded, Tigers played two 1086# at home vs. Yankees. Detroit Free Press 2017-07-23. 1087# https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/07/23/detroit-tigers-1967-riot-new-york-yankees/499951001/ 1088# 1089# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975. 1090# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1091Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1092Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1093# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1094Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 1095 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00 1096 -5:00 - EST 1942 1097 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 1098 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1973 1099 -5:00 US E%sT 1975 1100 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 1101 -5:00 US E%sT 1102# 1103# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, 1104# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. 1105# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 1106Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1107Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1108Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1109Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1110# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1111Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 1112 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 1113 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 1114 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00 1115 -6:00 US C%sT 1116 1117# Navassa 1118# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service 1119# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act 1120# also claimed by Haiti 1121# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co 1122# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 1123# currently uninhabited 1124# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord", 1125# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites 1126# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). 1127 1128################################################################################ 1129 1130 1131# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10): 1132# 1133# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 1134# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 1135# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 1136# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 1137# 1138# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source 1139# for time zone data was the International Air Transport 1140# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 1141# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 1142# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 1143# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 1144# 1145# Other sources occasionally used include: 1146# 1147# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 1148# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 1149# which I found in the UCLA library. 1150# 1151# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 1152# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 1153# [PDF] (1914-03) 1154# 1155# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 1156# <https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 1157# 1158# See the 'europe' file for Greenland. 1159 1160# Canada 1161 1162# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14): 1163# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada 1164# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... 1165# 1166# UTC Standard time Daylight saving time 1167# offset French English French English 1168# -2:30 - - HAT NDT 1169# -3 - - HAA ADT 1170# -3:30 HNT NST - - 1171# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT 1172# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT 1173# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT 1174# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT 1175# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT 1176# -9 HNY YST - - 1177# 1178# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time 1179# HA: Heure Avancée DT: Daylight saving Time 1180# 1181# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic 1182# C: du Centre Central 1183# E: de l'Est Eastern 1184# M: Mountain 1185# N: Newfoundland 1186# P: du Pacifique Pacific 1187# R: des Rocheuses 1188# T: de Terre-Neuve 1189# Y: du Yukon Yukon 1190# 1191# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): 1192# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. 1193 1194# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks 1195# & Pottenger. 1196 1197# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31, 1198# 2007-03-01): 1199# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will 1200# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the 1201# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... 1202# https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm 1203# ... 1204# Nova Scotia 1205# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... 1206# https://www.novascotia.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf 1207# 1208# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to 1209# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. 1210# https://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf 1211# ... 1212# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. 1213# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. 1214# https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php 1215# ... 1216# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. 1217# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM 1218# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm 1219# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF 1220# ... 1221# P.E.I. will follow US rules.... 1222# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf 1223# ... 1224# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... 1225# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm 1226# ... 1227# Yukon 1228# https://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf 1229# ... 1230# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site 1231# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the 1232# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the 1233# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using 1234# JavaScript. 1235# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive 1236# ... 1237# Nunavut 1238# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007.... 1239# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf 1240 1241# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-18): 1242# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 1243# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 1244# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp 1245# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard 1246# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. 1247# 1248# National Research Council Canada maintains info about time zones and DST. 1249# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html 1250# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/index.html#Q5 1251# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. 1252 1253# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): 1254# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the 1255# new US DST rules, 1256 1257# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01) 1258# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles 1259# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1260# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review. 1261# The quote includes these two statements: 1262# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...' 1263# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,' 1264# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time 1265# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918. This transition was 1266# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star. 1267 1268# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed 1269# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day 1270# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets. 1271 1272# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1273Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1274Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1275Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1276Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1277Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1278Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1279Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1280Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1281Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1282Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1283 1284 1285# Newfoundland and Labrador 1286 1287# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-14): 1288# Legally Labrador should observe Newfoundland time; see: 1289# McLeod J. Labrador time - legal or not? St. John's Telegram, 2017-10-07 1290# http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/labrador-time--legal-or-not-154860/ 1291# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that the only part of Labrador 1292# that follows the rules is the southeast corner, including Port Hope 1293# Simpson and Mary's Harbour, but excluding, say, Black Tickle. 1294 1295# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1296Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D 1297Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1298# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1299Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D 1300Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S 1301# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1302Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D 1303Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S 1304# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & 1305# Pottenger. 1306Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D 1307Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S 1308# Whitman gives the following transitions: 1309# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 1310# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. 1311# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives 1312# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1313Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1314Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S 1315Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1316Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1317Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1318# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1319# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches 1320# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. 1321 1322# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12): 1323# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the 1324# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed. 1325# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings 1326# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time 1327# now occurs at 2:00AM. 1328# ... 1329# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm 1330# ... 1331# MICHAEL PELLEY | Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery 1332# Office of the Chief Information Officer 1333# Executive Council 1334# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 1335 1336Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1337Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1338Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD 1339Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1340Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D 1341Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S 1342# 1343# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. 1344# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1345Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 1346 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 1347 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1348 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 1349 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1350 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1351 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 2011 Nov 1352 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1353 1354# most of east Labrador 1355 1356# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'. 1357# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1358Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1359 -3:30:52 - NST 1918 1360 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1361 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 1362 -3:30 - NST 1936 1363 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1364 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1365 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 1366 -4:00 StJohns A%sT 2011 Nov 1367 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1368 1369 1370# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I 1371 1372# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20): 1373# From the historical weather station records available at: 1374# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada 1375# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was 1376# likely to be the same across the island.... 1377# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would 1378# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996. 1379 1380# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20): 1381# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like 1382# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; 1383# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of 1384# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now). 1385# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town 1386# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume 1387# this is a typo. 1388 1389# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1390Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1391Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1392Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D 1393Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S 1394Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D 1395Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1396Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1397Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1398Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1399Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1400Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S 1401Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D 1402Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1403Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1404Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1405Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1406Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S 1407Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1408Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1409Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1410Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1411Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1412Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 1413Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D 1414Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1415Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D 1416Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 1417Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1418Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1419Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1420Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1421Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D 1422Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1423Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1424Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1425Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1426Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1427Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1428Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1429Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1430Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1431# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1432Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1433 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 1434 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 1435 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1436 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1437 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1438 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1439Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1440 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 1441 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 1442 -4:00 - AST 1972 1443 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1444 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1445 1446# New Brunswick 1447 1448# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31): 1449# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> 1450# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and 1451# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it 1452# clear that this was the case since at least 1993. 1453# For now, assume it started in 1993. 1454 1455# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1456Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D 1457Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S 1458Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D 1459Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 1460Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D 1461Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S 1462Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D 1463Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D 1464Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1465Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1466Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1467Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1468Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1469# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1470Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 1471 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 1472 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 1473 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 1474 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1475 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 1476 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 1477 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 1478 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1479 1480# Quebec 1481 1482# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24): 1483# See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal. 1484# 1485# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63 1486# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as 1487# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST. 1488# The Quebec department of justice writes in 1489# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" 1490# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm 1491# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon 1492# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. 1493# https://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en 1494# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007. 1495# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to 1496# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. 1497 1498# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1499Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 1500 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 1501 -4:00 - AST 1502 1503# Ontario 1504 1505# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1506# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1507# Toronto. 1508# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1509# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1510# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1511# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. 1512 1513# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1514# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST 1515# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that 1516# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw 1517# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, 1518# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable 1519# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after 1520# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but 1521# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters 1522# earlier in June). 1523# 1524# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). 1525# 1526# From Paul Eggert (2017-07-08): 1527# For more on Orillia, see: Daubs K. Bold attempt at daylight saving 1528# time became a comic failure in Orillia. Toronto Star 2017-07-08. 1529# https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/07/08/bold-attempt-at-daylight-saving-time-became-a-comic-failure-in-orillia.html 1530 1531# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): 1532# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star 1533# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, 1534# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. 1535# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) 1536# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html 1537# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. 1538# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report 1539# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. 1540# 1541# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1542# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and 1543# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes 1544# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in 1545# violation of the official Ontario rules. 1546# 1547# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1548# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the 1549# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: 1550# 1551# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. 1552# This means they spend about half the time on central time and 1553# the other half on eastern time. 1554# 1555# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. 1556# 1557# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern 1558# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he 1559# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." 1560# 1561# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang 1562# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." 1563 1564# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: 1565# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory 1566# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he 1567# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current 1568# time keeping since 1952, at least. 1569 1570# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): 1571# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River 1572# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from 1573# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan 1574# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time 1575# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour 1576# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move 1577# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. 1578 1579# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06): 1580# 1581# Currently the database has: 1582# 1583# # Ontario 1584# 1585# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1586# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1587# # Toronto. 1588# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1589# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1590# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1591# 1592# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom 1593# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard 1594# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that: 1595# 1596# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario, 1597# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year. 1598# 1599# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon. 1600# 1601# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began 1602# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date. 1603# 1604# By the way, the article continues by noting that: 1605# 1606# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back 1607# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October. 1608 1609# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17): 1610# 1611# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in 1612# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1613# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17, 1614# was available at 1615# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S 1616# 1617# It includes the text below (starting on page 57): 1618# 1619# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would 1620# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by 1621# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities 1622# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav- 1623# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite, 1624# for the other provinces only approximate: 1625# 1626# Province Daylight saving time used 1627# Prince Edward Island Not used. 1628# Nova Scotia In Halifax only. 1629# New Brunswick In St. John only. 1630# Quebec In the following places: 1631# Montreal Lachine 1632# Quebec Mont-Royal 1633# Lévis Iberville 1634# St. Lambert Cap de la Madelèine 1635# Verdun Loretteville 1636# Westmount Richmond 1637# Outremont St. Jérôme 1638# Longueuil Greenfield Park 1639# Arvida Waterloo 1640# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu 1641# Melbourne La Tuque 1642# St. Théophile Buckingham 1643# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along 1644# the southerly part of the province. Not 1645# used in the northwesterly part. 1646# Manitoba Not used. 1647# Saskatchewan In Regina only. 1648# Alberta Not used. 1649# British Columbia Not used. 1650# 1651# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited 1652# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont. 1653 1654# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1655Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D 1656Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S 1657Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D 1658Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1659Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D 1660Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S 1661Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1662# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" 1663# was meant. 1664Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 1665Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1666# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as 1667# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S 1668# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D 1669# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1670# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1671# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25 1672# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle). 1673Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1674Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1675Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1676Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1677Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 1678Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1679Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1680Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1681Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1682Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1683Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S 1684Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1685Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S 1686Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1687# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, 1688# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this 1689# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 1690# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. 1691Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1692 1693# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1694# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and 1695# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in 1696# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, 1697# Saskatchewan, for one year." 1698 1699# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, 1700# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): 1701# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight 1702# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur 1703# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central 1704# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to 1705# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight 1706# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so 1707# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World 1708# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer 1709# months for the remainder of the war years. 1710 1711# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1712Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 1713 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1714 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1715 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1716 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 1717 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1718Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 1719 -6:00 - CST 1910 1720 -5:00 - EST 1942 1721 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 1722 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1973 1723 -5:00 - EST 1974 1724 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1725Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 1726 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 1727 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1728 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1729Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 1730 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1731 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1732 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1733Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 1734 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1735 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1736 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 1737 -5:00 - EST 1738 1739 1740# Manitoba 1741 1742# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): 1743# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to 1744# March 27, 1987 ... said ... 1745# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of 1746# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central 1747# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next 1748# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... 1749# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had 1750# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... 1751# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying 1752# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of 1753# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central 1754# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). 1755 1756# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): 1757# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) 1758# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume 1759# it was also 02:00s in 1966. 1760 1761# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1762Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D 1763Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S 1764Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1765Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1766Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D 1767Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S 1768Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1769Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1770Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1771Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D 1772Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1773Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1774Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1775Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1776Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1777Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1778Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1779Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1780Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1781Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1782Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S 1783Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 1784Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S 1785Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 1786# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1787Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 1788 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 1789 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1790 1791 1792# Saskatchewan 1793 1794# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1795# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal 1796# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people 1797# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, 1798# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." 1799# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: 1800# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of 1801# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad 1802# time was noted. 1803 1804# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1805# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the 1806# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." 1807 1808# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1809# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. 1810# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. 1811# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. 1812# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton 1813# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. 1814 1815# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): 1816# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the 1817# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. 1818# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and 1819# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother. 1820# 1821# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years 1822# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated 1823# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial 1824# referendum favoured legislating common time practices. 1825# 1826# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of 1827# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern 1828# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in 1829# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to 1830# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and 1831# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would 1832# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST. 1833# 1834# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town 1835# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to 1836# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only 1837# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT 1838# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round 1839# since sometime in the 1960s. 1840 1841# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1842# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages 1843# long and rather painful to read. 1844# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf 1845 1846# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1847Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1848Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1849Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1850Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1851Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1852Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1853Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1854Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1855Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1856Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1857Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1858Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1859Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 1860Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1861Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1862Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1863Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1864# 1865Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1866Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1867Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1868Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1869Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1870# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1871Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep 1872 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00 1873 -6:00 - CST 1874Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep 1875 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00 1876 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950 1877 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00 1878 -6:00 - CST 1879 1880 1881# Alberta 1882 1883# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1884Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1885Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1886Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S 1887Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1888Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1889Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1890Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1891Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1892Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1893Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1894Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1895Rule Edm 1967 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1896Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1897Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1898Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1899Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1900Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1901# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1902Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep 1903 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 1904 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1905 1906 1907# British Columbia 1908 1909# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1910# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has 1911# been like Vancouver. 1912# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. 1913# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek. 1914 1915# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct: 1916 1917# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): 1918# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia 1919# that do not currently observe daylight saving: 1920# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) 1921# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District 1922# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) 1923 1924# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time 1925# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the 1926# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. 1927# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1928# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. 1929# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UT-7 for 93 years. 1930# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. 1931 1932# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains 1933# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months 1934# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just 1935# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing 1936# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the 1937# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010. 1938# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 1939 1940# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: 1941# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) 1942# Exact date unknown 1943# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) 1944# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. 1945# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) 1946# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. 1947# note 1: 1948# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, 1949# Creston did not change its clocks. 1950# note 2: 1951# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, 1952# Creston did not oblige. 1953# note 3: 1954# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time 1955# (UTC-7) forever. 1956# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. 1957# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html 1958 1959# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. 1960# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying 1961# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before 1962# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this 1963# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough 1964# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. 1965 1966# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. 1967 1968# From Matt Johnson (2015-09-21): 1969# Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year. So while previously they 1970# were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with 1971# America/Dawson_Creek. 1972# http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html 1973# 1974# From Tim Parenti (2015-09-23): 1975# This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality, 1976# America/Fort_Nelson. The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a 1977# 2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support. Effectively, the municipality has 1978# been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on 1979# 2015-03-08. 1980# 1981# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23): 1982# Shanks says Fort Nelson did not observe DST in 1946, unlike Vancouver. 1983 1984# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1985Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1986Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1987Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1988Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1989Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1990Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1991Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1992Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1993Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1994# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1995Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 1996 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1997 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1998Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 1999 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 2000 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 2001 -7:00 - MST 2002Zone America/Fort_Nelson -8:10:47 - LMT 1884 2003 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1946 2004 -8:00 - PST 1947 2005 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 2006 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2015 Mar 8 2:00 2007 -7:00 - MST 2008Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 2009 -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 2010 -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 2011 -7:00 - MST 2012 2013# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon 2014 2015# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2016# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. 2017# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: 2018# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, 2019# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9.... 2020# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). 2021# [https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-i-21/latest/rsc-1985-c-i-21.html] 2022# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. 2023# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. 2024# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. 2025 2026# From Brian Inglis (2015-04-14): 2027# 2028# I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following 2029# regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name, 2030# and relevant quote if available. Each regulation specifically revokes its 2031# predecessor. The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act 2032# authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes. 2033# 2034# Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or 2035# index, and only some via Canadian legal sources. Other sources used include 2036# articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS 2037# Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and 2038# 1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial 2039# and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of 2040# standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada, 2041# with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset, 2042# and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart 2043# and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as 2044# another source of information for 1970 and earlier. 2045# 2046# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26, 2047# pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 2048# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75: 2049# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance 2050# Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and 2051# thirty-fifth meridian. 2052# 2053# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.; 2054# JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System 2055# (ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1: 2056# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16. 2057# 2058# (1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine 2059# hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time. 2060# 2061# (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations 2062# varying the manner of reckoning standard time. 2063# 2064# * Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance 2065# http://? - no online source found 2066# 2067# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC, 2068# Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) 2069# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon 2070# Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ... 2071# 2072# 1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon 2073# Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked. 2074# 2075# 2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the 2076# Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May, 2077# 1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that 2078# is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon 2079# Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west. 2080# 2081# 3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree 2082# longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine 2083# hours behind Greenwich Time. 2084# 2085# * Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214 2086# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html 2087# C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2088# 2089# 1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby 2090# revoked. 2091# 2092# 2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation 2093# Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973 2094# shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is 2095# to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time. 2096# 2097# * O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT 2098# http://? - no online source found 2099# 2100# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56 2101# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html 2102# O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2103# 2104# In every year between 2105# (a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and 2106# (b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October, 2107# Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and 2108# called Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2109# ... 2110# Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987. 2111# 2112# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127 2113# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html 2114# O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ... 2115# 2116# 1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours 2117# behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock 2118# in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock 2119# in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called 2120# Yukon Daylight Saving Time. 2121# 2122# 2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked. 2123# 2124# 3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007. 2125# 2126# * Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125 2127# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html 2128 2129# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): 2130# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. 2131# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 2132# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html 2133# 2134# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): 2135# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut 2136# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region. 2137 2138# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 2139# Basic Facts: The New Territory 2140# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html 2141# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, 2142# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when 2143# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. 2144 2145# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 2146# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 2147# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 2148# 2149# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 2150# 2151# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 2152# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 2153# 2154# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 2155# 2156# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 2157# 2158# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 2159# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 2160# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 2161# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 2162# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 2163# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 2164# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 2165# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 2166# the current state of affairs. 2167 2168# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 2169# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): 2170# http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html 2171# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 2172# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 2173# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 2174# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 2175 2176# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 2177# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories 2178# for these potential new Zones. 2179# 2180# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the 2181# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central 2182# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the 2183# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time. 2184# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of 2185# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not 2186# required to use daylight savings. 2187 2188# From <http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html> 2189# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10): 2190# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and 2191# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them 2192# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter. 2193# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against 2194# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with 2195# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on 2196# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to 2197# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's 2198# unified time zone in 1999. 2199# 2200# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government: 2201# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000. 2202 2203# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2204# Let's just keep track of the official times for now. 2205 2206# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07): 2207# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising 2208# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert 2209# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the 2210# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that 2211# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm 2212# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with 2213# more. 2214# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] 2215 2216# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): 2217# According to ... 2218# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 2219# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time 2220# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year 2221# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. 2222# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it 2223# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... 2224# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. 2225# 2226# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-17): 2227# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed 2228# daylight saving only during wartime. Gwillim Law's email also 2229# mentioned maps now maintained by National Research Council Canada; 2230# see above for an up-to-date link. 2231 2232# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01): 2233# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in 2234# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. 2235# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of 2236# daylight saving.... 2237# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html 2238 2239# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21): 2240# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute 2241# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of 2242# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had 2243# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007. 2244# 2245# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay 2246# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008... 2247# 2248# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March 2249# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I 2250# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able 2251# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was 2252# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone 2253# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT). 2254# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks 2255# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in 2256# so they could follow the correct TV schedule... 2257# 2258# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I 2259# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature 2260# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of 2261# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of 2262# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for 2263# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived 2264# and worked in Resolute Bay... 2265# 2266# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that 2267# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of 2268# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead 2269# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay 2270# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not 2271# tell me when the practice had stopped. 2272# 2273# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of 2274# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went 2275# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz 2276# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the 2277# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on 2278# Aziz: 2279# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493 2280# 2281# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using 2282# Eastern Standard Time. 2283# 2284# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the 2285# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way 2286# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in 2287# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs" 2288# 2289# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008. 2290# 2291# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz 2292# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You 2293# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a 2294# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site" 2295# 2296# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would 2297# never have contacted her. I now believe that all the information I 2298# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... 2299# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. 2300 2301# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2302Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2303Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2304Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D 2305Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 2306Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2307Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2308Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2309Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD 2310Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2311Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2312Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2313Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2314# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2315# aka Panniqtuuq 2316Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - -00 1921 # trading post est. 2317 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 2318 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2319 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2320 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2321# formerly Frobisher Bay 2322Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - -00 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. 2323 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2324 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2325 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2326# aka Qausuittuq 2327Zone America/Resolute 0 - -00 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded 2328 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2329 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2330 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 2331 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 2332 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2333# aka Kangiqiniq 2334Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - -00 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded 2335 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2336 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2337 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2338# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq 2339Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - -00 1920 # trading post est.? 2340 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2341 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2342 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 2343 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2344 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2345Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 2346 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2347 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2348Zone America/Inuvik 0 - -00 1953 # Inuvik founded 2349 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 2350 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2351 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2352Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2353 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1967 May 28 0:00 2354 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2355 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2356Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2357 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 2358 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2359 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2360 2361 2362############################################################################### 2363 2364# Mexico 2365 2366# From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07): 2367# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the 2368# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a 2369# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) 2370# http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm 2371# 2372# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. 2373# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) 2374# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. 2375# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. 2376# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. 2377# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. 2378 2379# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): 2380# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the 2381# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that 2382# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of 2383# the relevant documents. 2384 2385# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): 2386# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree 2387# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. 2388# 2389# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 2390# 2391# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the 2392# rules for the DST changes. The rules are: 2393# 2394# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones: 2395# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ) 2396# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ) 2397# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ) 2398# 2399# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October 2400# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows: 2401# BajaNorte: GMT+7 2402# BajaSur: GMT+6 2403# General: GMT+5 2404# 2405# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows: 2406# BajaNorte: GMT+8 2407# BajaSur: GMT+7 2408# General: GMT+6 2409# 2410# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th. 2411# 2412# -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- 2413# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): 2414# For an English translation of the decree, see 2415# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04). 2416# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html 2417 2418# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 2419# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times 2420# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). 2421 2422# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): 2423# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time 2424# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight 2425# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of 2426# Arizona year round. 2427 2428# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating 2429# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17): 2430# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National 2431# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each 2432# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the 2433# whole year. 2434 2435# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19): 2436# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says 2437# (translated):... 2438# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced 2439# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting 2440# this year.... 2441# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001 2442# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday 2443# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. 2444 2445# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25): 2446# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one 2447# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."... 2448# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html 2449# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep 2450# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than 2451# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish 2452# observation of Daylight Saving Time. 2453 2454# Official statute published by the Energy Department 2455# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre 2456# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, 2457# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). 2458 2459# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): 2460# 2461# http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html 2462# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times 2463# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. 2464# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that 2465# the Federal District will not adopt DST. 2466# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree. 2467# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including 2468# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools. 2469# 2470# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules. 2471 2472# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01): 2473# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight 2474# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier 2475# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight 2476# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California 2477# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight 2478# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president 2479# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending 2480# September 30, 2001. 2481# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp> 2482# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31) 2483 2484# From Reuters (2001-09-04): 2485# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was 2486# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the 2487# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation 2488# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 2489# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to 2490# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not 2491# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. 2492 2493# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12): 2494# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted 2495# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico.... 2496# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20) 2497# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied. 2498 2499# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28): 2500# 2501# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2502# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern 2503# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as 2504# > the United States. 2505# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from 2506# 2010, some border regions will be the same: 2507# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/ 2508# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939 2509# (Spanish) 2510# 2511# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here: 2512# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf 2513# (Gaceta Parlamentaria) 2514# 2515# There is also a list of the votes here: 2516# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html 2517# 2518# Our page: 2519# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html 2520 2521# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20): 2522# The page 2523# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2524# includes this text: 2525# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California; 2526# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila; 2527# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en 2528# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto 2529# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos 2530# horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2531# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja 2532# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea 2533# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte 2534# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el 2535# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá 2536# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a 2537# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2538 2539# From Steffen Thorsen (2014-12-08), translated by Gwillim Law: 2540# The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015. 2541# 2542# http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/12/04/medio-ambiente/congreso-aprueba-una-hora-mas-de-sol-en-qroo 2543# "With this change, the time conflict that has existed between the municipios 2544# of Quintana Roo and the municipio of Felipe Carrillo Puerto may come to an 2545# end. The latter declared itself in rebellion 15 years ago when a time change 2546# was initiated in Mexico, and since then it has refused to change its time 2547# zone along with the rest of the country." 2548# 2549# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-01-14), translated by Gwillim Law: 2550# http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva-zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html 2551# "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday 2552# of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current 2553# time..." 2554# Also, the new zone will not use DST. 2555# 2556# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02): 2557# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally 2558# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación 2559# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015 2560# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico: 2561# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W, 2562# includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below. 2563# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the 2564# states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía 2565# de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora. 2566# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the 2567# state of Baja California. 2568# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state 2569# of Quintana Roo. 2570# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the 2571# longitude they are located at. 2572 2573# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2574Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D 2575Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S 2576Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D 2577Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S 2578Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War 2579Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S 2580Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D 2581Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S 2582Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2583Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2584Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2585Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2586Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2587Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2588# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2589# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún 2590Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56 2591 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2592 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 2593 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2015 Feb 1 2:00 2594 -5:00 - EST 2595# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida 2596Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 2597 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2598 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 2599 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2600# Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) 2601# This includes the following municipalities: 2602# in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava, 2603# Guerrero, Hidalgo. 2604# in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama. 2605# in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo, 2606# Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros. 2607# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal, 2608# 2016-03-12 2609# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-horario-de-verano-en-zona-fronteriza 2610Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 2611 -6:00 - CST 1988 2612 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2613 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 2614 -6:00 US C%sT 2615# Durango; Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) 2616Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44 2617 -6:00 - CST 1988 2618 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2619 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2620# Central Mexico 2621Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 2622 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2623 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2624 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2625 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2626 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2627 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 2:00 2628 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 2629 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2630# Chihuahua (near US border) 2631# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe, 2632# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides. 2633# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.) 2634Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 2635 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2636 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2637 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2638 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2639 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2640 -6:00 - CST 1996 2641 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2642 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2643 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 2644 -7:00 US M%sT 2645# Chihuahua (away from US border) 2646Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40 2647 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2648 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2649 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2650 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2651 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2652 -6:00 - CST 1996 2653 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2654 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2655 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2656# Sonora 2657Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08 2658 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2659 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2660 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2661 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2662 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2663 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2664 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2665 -8:00 - PST 1970 2666 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999 2667 -7:00 - MST 2668 2669# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21): 2670# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) 2671# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to 2672# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco). 2673# 2674# (Spanish) 2675# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del 2676# país, a partir de este domingo 2677# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748 2678# 2679# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del 2680# País 2681# 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 2682# 2683# (English) 2684# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone 2685# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml 2686# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html 2687# 2688# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that 2689# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time 2690# zone ..." 2691# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa 2692 2693# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01): 2694# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters. 2695 2696# Mazatlán 2697Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20 2698 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2699 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2700 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2701 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2702 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2703 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2704 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2705 -8:00 - PST 1970 2706 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2707 2708# Bahía de Banderas 2709Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:59:00 2710 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2711 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2712 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2713 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2714 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2715 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2716 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2717 -8:00 - PST 1970 2718 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 2719 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2720 2721# Baja California 2722Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 2723 -7:00 - MST 1924 2724 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2725 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2726 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2727 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2728 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2729 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2730 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2731 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2732 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2733 -8:00 - PST 1954 2734 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2735 -8:00 - PST 1976 2736 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2737 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2738 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2739 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 2740 -8:00 US P%sT 2741# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2742# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from 2743# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 2744# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say 2745# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports 2746# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and 2747# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that 2748# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns 2749# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone 2750# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its 2751# name or contents should be. 2752# 2753# From Paul Eggert (2015-10-08): 2754# Formerly there was an America/Santa_Isabel zone, but this appears to 2755# have come from a misreading of 2756# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2757# It has been moved to the 'backward' file. 2758# 2759# 2760# Revillagigedo Is 2761# no information 2762 2763############################################################################### 2764 2765# Anguilla 2766# Antigua and Barbuda 2767# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2768 2769# Bahamas 2770# 2771# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. 2772# 2773# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): 2774# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST 2775# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... 2776# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 2777 2778# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2779Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2780Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2781# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2782Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2783 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 2784 -5:00 US E%sT 2785 2786# Barbados 2787 2788# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that. 2789 2790# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2791Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D 2792Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2793Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2794Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2795Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S 2796# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2797Zone America/Barbados -3:58:29 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown 2798 -3:58:29 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time 2799 -4:00 Barb A%sT 2800 2801# Belize 2802# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2803# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2804Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 -0530 2805Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 CST 2806Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 CDT 2807Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 CST 2808Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 CDT 2809Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 CST 2810# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2811Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 2812 -6:00 Belize %s 2813 2814# Bermuda 2815 2816# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower, 2817# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that. 2818 2819# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): 2820 2821# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday 2822# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone 2823# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on 2824# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. 2825# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 2826 2827# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2828Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton 2829 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2830 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976 2831 -4:00 US A%sT 2832 2833# Cayman Is 2834# See America/Panama. 2835 2836# Costa Rica 2837 2838# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest. 2839 2840# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2841Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2842Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2843Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2844# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; 2845# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2846Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S 2847Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S 2848# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'. 2849# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2850Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José 2851 -5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time 2852 -6:00 CR C%sT 2853# Coco 2854# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica 2855 2856# Cuba 2857 2858# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2859# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57 2860# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations. 2861# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger. 2862 2863# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29): 2864# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between 2865# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on 2866# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. 2867# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that 2868# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving 2869# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of 2870# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched 2871# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have 2872# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) 2873 2874# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11): 2875# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the 2876# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ... 2877# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html 2878 2879# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): 2880# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. 2881# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2882# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html 2883# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras 2884# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return 2885# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". 2886# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. 2887 2888# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): 2889# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone 2890# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: 2891# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html 2892 2893# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21): 2894# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end 2895# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see 2896# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html 2897# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, 2898# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning 2899# to the normal schedule.... 2900 2901# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02): 2902# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday, 2903# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10. 2904# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules, 2905# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual. 2906# 2907# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25): 2908# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week 2909# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. 2910# 2911# He supplied these references: 2912# 2913# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES 2914# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm 2915# 2916# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25): 2917# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba): 2918# 2919# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre 2920# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html 2921# 2922# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html 2923 2924# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09): 2925# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight 2926# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to 2927# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj 2928# a Cuban information station, and heard 2929# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"), 2930# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time. 2931 2932# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12): 2933# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16... 2934# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish): 2935# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm 2936# 2937# Some more background information is posted here: 2938# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html 2939# 2940# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963, 2941# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the 2942# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been 2943# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception 2944# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to 2945# change some historic records as well. 2946# 2947# One example: 2948# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm 2949 2950# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13): 2951# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative 2952# web site, the Granma. Please check out 2953# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html 2954# 2955# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change 2956# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday. 2957 2958# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12): 2959# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward. 2960 2961# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04) 2962# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on 2963# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009- 2964# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought. 2965# 2966# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html 2967# (in Spanish) 2968 2969# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09) 2970# I listened over the Internet to 2971# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj 2972# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the 2973# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating 2974# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. 2975 2976# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): 2977# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 2978# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has 2979# changed at all). 2980# 2981# Source: 2982# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html 2983# 2984# Our info: 2985# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html 2986# 2987# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30) 2988# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back 2989# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00. 2990# 2991# One source (Spanish) 2992# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html 2993# 2994# Our page: 2995# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html 2996# 2997# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01) 2998# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March 2999# 31 and April 1. 3000# 3001# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish): 3002# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril 3003# 3004# Our info on it: 3005# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html 3006 3007# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03): 3008# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back 3009# to standard time on 2012-11-04: 3010# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre 3011# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03): 3012# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November. 3013 3014# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3015Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D 3016Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S 3017Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3018Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3019Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3020Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3021Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 3022Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 3023Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D 3024Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 3025Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D 3026Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 3027Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 3028Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3029Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3030Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S 3031Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3032Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D 3033Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 3034Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D 3035Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D 3036Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D 3037Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3038Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S 3039Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S 3040Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S 3041Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 3042Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 3043Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D 3044Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 3045Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 3046Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3047Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 3048Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3049Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 3050Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S 3051Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D 3052Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S 3053Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 3054 3055# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3056Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 3057 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT 3058 -5:00 Cuba C%sT 3059 3060# Dominica 3061# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3062 3063# Dominican Republic 3064 3065# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30): 3066# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the 3067# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am.... 3068# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html 3069 3070# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 3071# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST. 3072 3073# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 3074# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday, 3075# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the 3076# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date 3077# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they 3078# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going 3079# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president 3080# decided to revert. 3081 3082 3083# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3084Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 EDT 3085Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 EST 3086Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 -0430 3087Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 EST 3088Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 EST 3089Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 EST 3090# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3091Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 3092 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT 3093 -5:00 DR %s 1974 Oct 27 3094 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 2:00 3095 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 1:00 3096 -4:00 - AST 3097 3098# El Salvador 3099 3100# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3101Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3102Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3103# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador 3104# instead of America/San_Salvador. 3105# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3106Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador 3107 -6:00 Salv C%sT 3108 3109# Grenada 3110# Guadeloupe 3111# St Barthélemy 3112# St Martin (French part) 3113# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3114 3115# Guatemala 3116# 3117# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: 3118# Diario Co Latino, at 3119# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>, 3120# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had 3121# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the 3122# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from 3123# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). 3124# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): 3125# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 3126# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See 3127# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf 3128 3129# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3130Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D 3131Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S 3132Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D 3133Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 3134Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D 3135Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 3136Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 3137Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 3138# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3139Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 3140 -6:00 Guat C%sT 3141 3142# Haiti 3143# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): 3144# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. 3145# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release 3146# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), 3147# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>. Translated from French, it says: 3148# 3149# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general 3150# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior 3151# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the 3152# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next 3153# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. 3154# 3155# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform 3156# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour 3157# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in 3158# October 2005. 3159# 3160# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" 3161# 3162# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): 3163# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like 3164# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a 3165# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST 3166# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). 3167# 3168# I have found this article about it (in French): 3169# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 3170# 3171# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. 3172 3173# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22): 3174# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007. 3175 3176# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11): 3177# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year, 3178# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada. 3179# So this means they have already changed their time. 3180# 3181# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510 3182# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253 3183# 3184# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11): 3185# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to 3186# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight. 3187# Assume a US-style fall back as well. 3188 3189# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10): 3190# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules 3191# as US/Canada. They did it last year as well, and it looks like they 3192# are going to observe DST every year now... 3193# 3194# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ 3195# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 3196 3197# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-03-12): 3198# Jean Antoine, editor of www.haiti-reference.com informed us that Haiti 3199# are not going on DST this year. Several other resources confirm this: ... 3200# https://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/presse/heure_d_t_pas_de_changement_d_heure_pr_vu_pour_cet_ann_e.html 3201# https://www.vantbefinfo.com/changement-dheure-pas-pour-haiti/ 3202# http://news.anmwe.com/haiti-lheure-nationale-ne-sera-ni-avancee-ni-reculee-cette-annee/ 3203 3204# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-03-12): 3205# We have received 4 mails from different people telling that Haiti 3206# has started DST again today, and this source seems to confirm that, 3207# I have not been able to find a more authoritative source: 3208# https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20319-haiti-notices-time-change-in-haiti.html 3209 3210# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3211Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D 3212Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 3213Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3214# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. 3215# Go with IATA. 3216Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D 3217Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S 3218Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3219Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 3220Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3221Rule Haiti 2012 2015 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3222Rule Haiti 2017 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 3223Rule Haiti 2017 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 3224# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3225Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 3226 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT 3227 -5:00 Haiti E%sT 3228 3229# Honduras 3230# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. 3231 3232# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): 3233# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article 3234# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 3235# months until September. La Tribuna reported today 3236# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president 3237# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. 3238 3239# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08): 3240# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at 3241# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). 3242# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html 3243 3244# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): 3245# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08). 3246# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12 3247# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. 3248 3249# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 3250# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not 3251# published, I have located this authoritative source: 3252# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 3253 3254# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30): 3255# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386 3256# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year.... 3257 3258# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3259Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3260Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 3261Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 3262Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S 3263# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3264Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr 3265 -6:00 Hond C%sT 3266# 3267# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 3268 3269# Jamaica 3270# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an 3271# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the 3272# island". Go with Milne. Round to the nearest second as required by zic. 3273# 3274# Shanks & Pottenger give April 28 for the 1974 spring-forward transition, but 3275# Lance Neita writes that Prime Minister Michael Manley decreed it January 5. 3276# Assume Neita meant Jan 6 02:00, the same as the US. Neita also writes that 3277# Manley's supporters associated this act with Manley's nickname "Joshua" 3278# (recall that in the Bible the sun stood still at Joshua's request), 3279# and with the Rod of Correction which Manley said he had received from 3280# Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. See: 3281# Neita L. The politician in all of us. Jamaica Observer 2014-09-20 3282# http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-politician-in-all-of-us_17573647 3283# 3284# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3285Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:10 - LMT 1890 # Kingston 3286 -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3287 -5:00 - EST 1974 3288 -5:00 US E%sT 1984 3289 -5:00 - EST 3290 3291# Martinique 3292# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3293Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France 3294 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT 3295 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 3296 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 3297 -4:00 - AST 3298 3299# Montserrat 3300# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3301 3302# Nicaragua 3303# 3304# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. 3305# 3306# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): 3307# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started 3308# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of 3309# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet 3310# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". 3311# Some background information is available on the President's official site: 3312# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm 3313# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: 3314# 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 3315# 3316# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): 3317# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's 3318# assume that it is daylight saving.... 3319# 3320# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): 3321# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at 3322# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html 3323# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last 3324# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 3325# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."... 3326# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously 3327# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time 3328# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to 3329# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. 3330# 3331# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02): 3332# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). 3333# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm 3334# (2005-09-26) 3335# 3336# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05): 3337# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 3338# (my informal translation) 3339# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua 3340# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the 3341# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September. 3342# 3343# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30): 3344# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf 3345# My informal translation runs: 3346# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the 3347# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. 3348# 3349# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3350Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D 3351Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S 3352Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 3353Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3354Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 3355Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 3356# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3357Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 3358 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? 3359 -6:00 - CST 1973 May 3360 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 3361 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 3362 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 3363 -6:00 - CST 1993 3364 -5:00 - EST 1997 3365 -6:00 Nic C%sT 3366 3367# Panama 3368# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3369Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 3370 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time 3371 -5:00 - EST 3372Link America/Panama America/Cayman 3373 3374# Puerto Rico 3375# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. 3376# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3377Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan 3378 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 3379 -4:00 US A%sT 1946 3380 -4:00 - AST 3381 3382# St Kitts-Nevis 3383# St Lucia 3384# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3385 3386# St Pierre and Miquelon 3387# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'. 3388# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3389Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre 3390 -4:00 - AST 1980 May 3391 -3:00 - -03 1987 3392 -3:00 Canada -03/-02 3393 3394# St Vincent and the Grenadines 3395# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3396 3397# Turks and Caicos 3398# 3399# From Chris Dunn in 3400# https://bugs.debian.org/415007 3401# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the 3402# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match 3403# the recent U.S. change of dates. 3404# 3405# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28): 3406# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26] 3407# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three 3408# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: 3409# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 3410# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" 3411# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. 3412# 3413# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): 3414# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UT -04 year-round. See: 3415# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm 3416# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ... 3417# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04): 3418# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to 3419# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year.... 3420# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm 3421# 3422# From the Turks & Caicos Cabinet (2017-07-20), heads-up from Steffen Thorsen: 3423# ... agreed to the reintroduction in TCI of Daylight Saving Time (DST) 3424# during the summer months and Standard Time, also known as Local 3425# Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 ... 3426# https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-statement--3 3427# 3428# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-26): 3429# The date of effect of the spring 2018 change appears to be March 11, 3430# which makes more sense. See: Hamilton D. Time change back 3431# by March 2018 for TCI. Magnetic Media. 2017-08-25. 3432# http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/08/time-change-back-by-march-2018-for-tci/ 3433# 3434# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3435Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 3436 -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3437 -5:00 - EST 1979 3438 -5:00 US E%sT 2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00 3439 -4:00 - AST 2018 Mar 11 3:00 3440 -5:00 US E%sT 3441 3442# British Virgin Is 3443# Virgin Is 3444# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3445 3446 3447# Local Variables: 3448# coding: utf-8 3449# End: 3450