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diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/backzone b/contrib/tzdata/backzone index 879a14025183..f45250340493 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/backzone +++ b/contrib/tzdata/backzone @@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ # tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. +# When proposing changes to this file, please use 'git format-patch' +# format, either by attaching the resulting .patch file to your email, +# or by using 'git send-email'. This will help maintainers save time. + # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): @@ -65,6 +69,11 @@ # Zones are sorted by zone name. Each zone is preceded by the # name of the country that the zone is in, along with any other # commentary and rules associated with the entry. +# If the zone overrides links in the main data, it +# is followed by the corresponding Link lines. +# If the zone overrides main-data links only when building with +# PACKRATLIST=zone.tab, it is followed by a commented-out Link line +# that starts with "#PACKRATLIST zone.tab". # # As explained in the zic man page, the zone columns are: # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -160,7 +169,7 @@ Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1915 Nov 2 # 12-hour clock starting at our 06:00, so their "8 o'clock" is our # 02:00 or 14:00. Keep this in mind when you ask the time in Amharic. # -# Shanks & Pottenger write that Ethiopia had six narrowly-spaced time +# Shanks & Pottenger write that Ethiopia had six narrowly spaced time # zones between 1870 and 1890, that they merged to 38E50 (2:35:20) in # 1890, and that they switched to 3:00 on 1936-05-05. Perhaps 38E50 # was for Adis Dera. Quite likely the Shanks data entries are wrong @@ -181,6 +190,7 @@ Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 -1:00 - -01 1960 Jun 20 0:00 - GMT +#PACKRATLIST zone.tab Link Africa/Bamako Africa/Timbuktu # Central African Republic Zone Africa/Bangui 1:14:20 - LMT 1912 @@ -295,7 +305,7 @@ Zone Africa/Freetown -0:53:00 - LMT 1882 -0:53:00 - FMT 1913 Jul 1 # Freetown MT -1:00 SL %s 1939 Sep 5 -1:00 - -01 1941 Dec 6 24:00 - 0:00 SL GMT/+01 + 0:00 - GMT # Botswana # From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): @@ -489,7 +499,7 @@ Zone America/Aruba -4:40:24 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad # ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from # McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan # switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time -# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour +# ended. This matches the old (less populous) America/Coral_Harbour # entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move # America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. @@ -498,6 +508,7 @@ Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 -5:00 - EST +#PACKRATLIST zone.tab Link America/Atikokan America/Coral_Harbour # Quebec east of Natashquan @@ -732,6 +743,66 @@ Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 -5:00 US E%sT +# Canada +# From Chris Walton (2022-10-15): +# I would also like to see America/Nipigon and America/Rainy_River converted +# into link entries because I have zero faith in the current Shanks based data. +# From Paul Eggert (2022-10-15): +# These are now links in the primary data. Also see America/Thunder_Bay. +Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 + -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 + -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s + -5:00 Canada E%sT + +# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): +# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, +# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: +# +# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: +# +# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, +# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist +# +# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: +# +# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator +# +# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. +# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to +# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not +# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. +# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, +# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. +# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to +# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with +# the current state of affairs. + +# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the +# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): +# http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html +# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, +# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time +# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] +# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. + +# From Chris Walton (2022-11-06): +# The implication is that Pangnirtung and Qikiqtarjuaq have observed Eastern +# Time as far back as 1984 (and likely even further back than that). +# It is possible that these communities never actually observed Atlantic +# Time, but that would be difficult to prove. +# From Paul Eggert (2022-11-06): +# This is in 'backzone' as we have no good evidence that Pangnirtung differs +# from America/Iqaluit since 1970. A Google Books snippet view of +# volume 2, page 186 of "Pilot of Arctic Canada", published 1959 by +# the Canadian Hydrographic Service, suggests (though does not state) +# that Pangnirtung observed EST then. +# +# aka Panniqtuuq +Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - -00 1921 # trading post est. + -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 + -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 + -5:00 Canada E%sT + # United States # # From Paul Eggert (2018-03-18): @@ -762,6 +833,17 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Marigot Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Barthelemy +# Canada +# From Chris Walton (2022-10-15): +# I would also like to see America/Nipigon and America/Rainy_River converted +# into link entries because I have zero faith in the current Shanks based data. +# From Paul Eggert (2022-10-15): +# These are now links in the primary data. Also see America/Thunder_Bay. +Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 + -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 + -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s + -6:00 Canada C%sT + # Argentina # This entry was intended for the following areas, but has been superseded by # more detailed zones. @@ -795,10 +877,62 @@ Zone America/St_Vincent -4:04:56 - LMT 1890 # Kingstown -4:04:56 - KMT 1912 # Kingstown Mean Time -4:00 - AST +# Canada +# +# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): +# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and +# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in +# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, +# Saskatchewan, for one year." +# +# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, +# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): +# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight +# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur +# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central +# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to +# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight +# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so +# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World +# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer +# months for the remainder of the war years. +# +# From Jeffery Nichols (2020-02-06): +# According to the [Shanks] atlas, those western Ontario zones are huge, +# covering most of Ontario northwest of Sault Ste Marie and Timmins. +# The zones seem to include towns bigger than the ones they're named after, +# like Dryden in America/Rainy_River and Wawa (and maybe Attawapiskat) in +# America/Nipigon. I assume it's too much trouble to change the name of the +# zone (like when you found out that America/Glace_Bay includes Sydney, Nova +# Scotia).... +# +# From Chris Walton (2022-10-15): +# The TZ database currently shows that Thunder Bay has observed daylight +# saving every year from 1970 onwards with the exception of 1973. +# Back in July I raised some doubts on this mailing list about the 1973 data. +# I now have more proof that it is wrong. +# [attached Chronicle-Journal front pages, 1973-04-28 and 1973-10-27] +# +# From Paul Eggert (2022-10-15): +# This is now a link in the primary data. The following entry is +# from Shanks & Pottenger, with corrections as noted above. +# +Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 + -6:00 - CST 1910 + -5:00 - EST 1942 + -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 + -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 + -5:00 Canada E%sT + # British Virgin Is Zone America/Tortola -4:18:28 - LMT 1911 Jul # Road Town -4:00 - AST +# Yellowknife, Northwest Territories +Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded? + -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 + -7:00 Canada M%sT + # Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 # <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) # @@ -867,6 +1001,11 @@ Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1941 Jul 20 # Manamah 4:00 - +04 1972 Jun 3:00 - +03 +# Brunei +Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan + 7:30 - +0730 1933 + 8:00 - +08 + # India # # From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06): @@ -922,6 +1061,20 @@ Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar 5:00 - +05 1980 May 8:00 PRC C%sT +# peninsular Malaysia +# taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) +# https://web.archive.org/web/20190822231045/http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~mathelmr/teaching/timezone.html +# This agrees with Singapore since 1905-06-01. +Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 + 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. + 7:00 - +07 1933 Jan 1 + 7:00 0:20 +0720 1936 Jan 1 + 7:20 - +0720 1941 Sep 1 + 7:30 - +0730 1942 Feb 16 + 9:00 - +09 1945 Sep 12 + 7:30 - +0730 1981 Dec 31 16:00u + 8:00 - +08 + # Kuwait Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950 3:00 - +03 @@ -995,6 +1148,64 @@ Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jul 1 # From Whitman: Zone Atlantic/Jan_Mayen -1:00 - -01 +# Iceland +# +# From Adam David (1993-11-06): +# The name of the timezone in Iceland for system / mail / news purposes is GMT. +# +# (1993-12-05): +# This material is paraphrased from the 1988 edition of the University of +# Iceland Almanak. +# +# From January 1st, 1908 the whole of Iceland was standardised at 1 hour +# behind GMT. Previously, local mean solar time was used in different parts +# of Iceland, the almanak had been based on Reykjavík mean solar time which +# was 1 hour and 28 minutes behind GMT. +# +# "first day of winter" referred to [below] means the first day of the 26 weeks +# of winter, according to the old icelandic calendar that dates back to the +# time the norsemen first settled Iceland. The first day of winter is always +# Saturday, but is not dependent on the Julian or Gregorian calendars. +# +# (1993-12-10): +# I have a reference from the Oxford Icelandic-English dictionary for the +# beginning of winter, which ties it to the ecclesiastical calendar (and thus +# to the julian/gregorian calendar) over the period in question. +# the winter begins on the Saturday next before St. Luke's day +# (old style), or on St. Luke's day, if a Saturday. +# St. Luke's day ought to be traceable from ecclesiastical sources. "old style" +# might be a reference to the Julian calendar as opposed to Gregorian, or it +# might mean something else (???). +# +# From Paul Eggert (2014-11-22): +# The information below is taken from the 1988 Almanak; see +# http://www.almanak.hi.is/klukkan.html +# +Rule Iceland 1917 1919 - Feb 19 23:00 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1917 only - Oct 21 1:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1918 1919 - Nov 16 1:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1921 only - Mar 19 23:00 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1921 only - Jun 23 1:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1939 only - Apr 29 23:00 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1939 only - Oct 29 2:00 0 - +Rule Iceland 1940 only - Feb 25 2:00 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1940 1941 - Nov Sun>=2 1:00s 0 - +Rule Iceland 1941 1942 - Mar Sun>=2 1:00s 1:00 - +# 1943-1946 - first Sunday in March until first Sunday in winter +Rule Iceland 1943 1946 - Mar Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 - +Rule Iceland 1942 1948 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - +# 1947-1967 - first Sunday in April until first Sunday in winter +Rule Iceland 1947 1967 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 - +# 1949 and 1967 Oct transitions delayed by 1 week +Rule Iceland 1949 only - Oct 30 1:00s 0 - +Rule Iceland 1950 1966 - Oct Sun>=22 1:00s 0 - +Rule Iceland 1967 only - Oct 29 1:00s 0 - + +Zone Atlantic/Reykjavik -1:28 - LMT 1908 + -1:00 Iceland -01/+00 1968 Apr 7 1:00s + 0:00 - GMT +Link Atlantic/Reykjavik Iceland + # St Helena Zone Atlantic/St_Helena -0:22:48 - LMT 1890 # Jamestown -0:22:48 - JMT 1951 # Jamestown Mean Time @@ -1006,6 +1217,82 @@ Zone Australia/Currie 9:35:28 - LMT 1895 Sep 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1968 Oct 15 10:00 AT AE%sT + +# Netherlands + +# Howse writes that the Netherlands' railways used GMT between 1892 and 1940, +# but for other purposes the Netherlands used Amsterdam mean time. + +# However, Robert H. van Gent writes (2001-04-01): +# Howse's statement is only correct up to 1909. From 1909-05-01 (00:00:00 +# Amsterdam mean time) onwards, the whole of the Netherlands (including +# the Dutch railways) was required by law to observe Amsterdam mean time +# (19 minutes 32.13 seconds ahead of GMT). This had already been the +# common practice (except for the railways) for many decades but it was +# not until 1909 when the Dutch government finally defined this by law. +# On 1937-07-01 this was changed to 20 minutes (exactly) ahead of GMT and +# was generally known as Dutch Time ("Nederlandse Tijd"). +# +# (2001-04-08): +# 1892-05-01 was the date when the Dutch railways were by law required to +# observe GMT while the remainder of the Netherlands adhered to the common +# practice of following Amsterdam mean time. +# +# (2001-04-09): +# In 1835 the authorities of the province of North Holland requested the +# municipal authorities of the towns and cities in the province to observe +# Amsterdam mean time but I do not know in how many cases this request was +# actually followed. +# +# From 1852 onwards the Dutch telegraph offices were by law required to +# observe Amsterdam mean time. As the time signals from the observatory of +# Leiden were also distributed by the telegraph system, I assume that most +# places linked up with the telegraph (and railway) system automatically +# adopted Amsterdam mean time. +# +# Although the early Dutch railway companies initially observed a variety +# of times, most of them had adopted Amsterdam mean time by 1858 but it +# was not until 1866 when they were all required by law to observe +# Amsterdam mean time. + +# The data entries before 1945 are taken from +# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/wettijd/wettijd.htm + +# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-09): +# I invented the abbreviations AMT for Amsterdam Mean Time and NST for +# Netherlands Summer Time, used in the Netherlands from 1835 to 1937. + +Rule Neth 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 NST # Netherlands Summer Time +Rule Neth 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 AMT # Amsterdam Mean Time +Rule Neth 1917 only - Apr 16 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Apr Mon>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1918 1921 - Sep lastMon 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1922 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1922 1936 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 AMT +Rule Neth 1923 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1924 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1925 only - Jun Fri>=1 2:00s 1:00 NST +# From 1926 through 1939 DST began 05-15, except that it was delayed by a week +# in years when 05-15 fell in the Pentecost weekend. +Rule Neth 1926 1931 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1932 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1933 1936 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1937 only - May 22 2:00s 1:00 NST +Rule Neth 1937 only - Jul 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Neth 1937 1939 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00s 0 - +Rule Neth 1938 1939 - May 15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Neth 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Neth 1945 only - Sep 16 2:00s 0 - + #STDOFF 0:19:32.13 +Zone Europe/Amsterdam 0:19:32 - LMT 1835 + 0:19:32 Neth %s 1937 Jul 1 + 0:20 Neth +0020/+0120 1940 May 16 0:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 Neth CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + + # Northern Ireland Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 @@ -1017,6 +1304,60 @@ Zone Europe/Belfast -0:23:40 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1996 0:00 EU GMT/BST + +# Denmark + +# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-04-26): +# the law [introducing standard time] was in effect from 1894-01-01.... +# The page https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1893/83 +# confirms this, and states that the law was put forth 1893-03-29. +# +# The EU [actually, EEC and Euratom] treaty with effect from 1973: +# https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1972/21100 +# +# This provoked a new law from 1974 to make possible summer time changes +# in subsequent decrees with the law +# https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/1974/223 +# +# It seems however that no decree was set forward until 1980. I have +# not found any decree, but in another related law, the effecting DST +# changes are stated explicitly to be from 1980-04-06 at 02:00 to +# 1980-09-28 at 02:00. If this is true, this differs slightly from +# the EU rule in that DST runs to 02:00, not 03:00. We don't know +# when Denmark began using the EU rule correctly, but we have only +# confirmation of the 1980-time, so I presume it was correct in 1981: +# The law is about the management of the extra hour, concerning +# working hours reported and effect on obligatory-rest rules (which +# was suspended on that night): +# https://web.archive.org/web/20140104053304/https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=60267 + +# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-06-11): +# The Herning Folkeblad (1980-09-26) reported that the night between +# Saturday and Sunday the clock is set back from three to two. + +# From Paul Eggert (2005-06-11): +# Hence the "02:00" of the 1980 law refers to standard time, not +# wall-clock time, and so the EU rules were in effect in 1980. + +Rule Denmark 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1916 only - Sep 30 23:00 0 - +Rule Denmark 1940 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1945 only - Aug 15 2:00s 0 - +Rule Denmark 1946 only - May 1 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1946 only - Sep 1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Denmark 1947 only - May 4 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1947 only - Aug 10 2:00s 0 - +Rule Denmark 1948 only - May 9 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Denmark 1948 only - Aug 8 2:00s 0 - +# +Zone Europe/Copenhagen 0:50:20 - LMT 1890 + 0:50:20 - CMT 1894 Jan 1 # Copenhagen MT + 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1942 Nov 2 2:00s + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 Denmark CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + # Guernsey # Data from Joseph S. Myers # https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019883.html @@ -1072,6 +1413,86 @@ Zone Europe/Ljubljana 0:58:04 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Luxembourg + +# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; +# go with Shanks & Pottenger. +Rule Lux 1916 only - May 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1916 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1917 only - Apr 28 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1917 only - Sep 17 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1918 only - Apr Mon>=15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1918 only - Sep Mon>=15 2:00s 0 - +Rule Lux 1919 only - Mar 1 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1919 only - Oct 5 3:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1920 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1920 only - Oct 24 2:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1921 only - Mar 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1921 only - Oct 26 2:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1922 only - Mar 25 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1922 only - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1923 only - Apr 21 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1923 only - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1924 only - Mar 29 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1924 1928 - Oct Sun>=2 1:00 0 - +Rule Lux 1925 only - Apr 5 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1926 only - Apr 17 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1927 only - Apr 9 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1928 only - Apr 14 23:00 1:00 S +Rule Lux 1929 only - Apr 20 23:00 1:00 S + +Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 1904 Jun + 1:00 Lux CE%sT 1918 Nov 25 + 0:00 Lux WE%sT 1929 Oct 6 2:00s + 0:00 Belgium WE%sT 1940 May 14 3:00 + 1:00 C-Eur WE%sT 1944 Sep 18 3:00 + 1:00 Belgium CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + +# Monaco +# +# From Michael Deckers (2020-06-12): +# In the "Journal de Monaco" of 1892-05-24, online at +# https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/b1c67c12c5af11b41ea888fb048e4fe8.pdf +# we read: ... +# [In virtue of a Sovereign Ordinance of the May 13 of the current [year], +# legal time in the Principality will be set to, from the date of June 1, +# 1892 onwards, to the meridian of Paris, as in France.] +# In the "Journal de Monaco" of 1911-03-28, online at +# https://journaldemonaco.gouv.mc/var/jdm/storage/original/application/de74ffb7db53d4f599059fe8f0ed482a.pdf +# we read an ordinance of 1911-03-16: ... +# [Legal time in the Principality will be set, from the date of promulgation +# of the present ordinance, to legal time in France.... Consequently, legal +# time will be retarded by 9 minutes and 21 seconds.] +# +Zone Europe/Monaco 0:29:32 - LMT 1892 Jun 1 + 0:09:21 - PMT 1911 Mar 29 # Paris Mean Time + 0:00 France WE%sT 1945 Sep 16 3:00 + 1:00 France CE%sT 1977 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + + +# Norway + +# http://met.no/met/met_lex/q_u/sommertid.html (2004-01) agrees with Shanks & +# Pottenger. +Rule Norway 1916 only - May 22 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Norway 1916 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - +Rule Norway 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Norway 1945 only - Oct 1 2:00s 0 - +Rule Norway 1959 1964 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 S +Rule Norway 1959 1965 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - +Rule Norway 1965 only - Apr 25 2:00s 1:00 S + +Zone Europe/Oslo 0:43:00 - LMT 1895 Jan 1 + 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1940 Aug 10 23:00 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00 + 1:00 Norway CE%sT 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT +Link Europe/Oslo Arctic/Longyearbyen +#PACKRATLIST zone.tab Link Europe/Oslo Atlantic/Jan_Mayen + # Bosnia and Herzegovina Zone Europe/Sarajevo 1:13:40 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00 @@ -1089,6 +1510,62 @@ Zone Europe/Skopje 1:25:44 - LMT 1884 1:00 EU CE%sT +# Sweden + +# From Ivan Nilsson (2001-04-13), superseding Shanks & Pottenger: +# +# The law "Svensk författningssamling 1878, no 14" about standard time in 1879: +# From the beginning of 1879 (that is 01-01 00:00) the time for all +# places in the country is "the mean solar time for the meridian at +# three degrees, or twelve minutes of time, to the west of the +# meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated 1878-05-31. +# +# The observatory at that time had the meridian 18° 03' 30" +# eastern longitude = 01:12:14 in time. Less 12 minutes gives the +# national standard time as 01:00:14 ahead of GMT.... +# +# About the beginning of CET in Sweden. The lawtext ("Svensk +# författningssamling 1899, no 44") states, that "from the beginning +# of 1900... ... the same as the mean solar time for the meridian at +# the distance of one hour of time from the meridian of the English +# observatory at Greenwich, or at 12 minutes 14 seconds to the west +# from the meridian of the Observatory of Stockholm". The law is dated +# 1899-06-16. In short: At 1900-01-01 00:00:00 the new standard time +# in Sweden is 01:00:00 ahead of GMT. +# +# 1916: The lawtext ("Svensk författningssamling 1916, no 124") states +# that "1916-05-15 is considered to begin one hour earlier". It is +# pretty obvious that at 05-14 23:00 the clocks are set to 05-15 00:00.... +# Further the law says, that "1916-09-30 is considered to end one hour later". +# +# The laws regulating [DST] are available on the site of the Swedish +# Parliament beginning with 1985 - the laws regulating 1980/1984 are +# not available on the site (to my knowledge they are only available +# in Swedish): <http://www.riksdagen.se/english/work/sfst.asp> (type +# "sommartid" without the quotes in the field "Fritext" and then click +# the Sök-button). +# +# (2001-05-13): +# +# I have now found a newspaper stating that at 1916-10-01 01:00 +# summertime the church-clocks etc were set back one hour to show +# 1916-10-01 00:00 standard time. The article also reports that some +# people thought the switch to standard time would take place already +# at 1916-10-01 00:00 summer time, but they had to wait for another +# hour before the event took place. +# +# Source: The newspaper "Dagens Nyheter", 1916-10-01, page 7 upper left. + +# An extra-special abbreviation style is SET for Swedish Time (svensk +# normaltid) 1879-1899, 3° west of the Stockholm Observatory. + +Zone Europe/Stockholm 1:12:12 - LMT 1879 Jan 1 + 1:00:14 - SET 1900 Jan 1 # Swedish Time + 1:00 - CET 1916 May 14 23:00 + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1916 Oct 1 1:00 + 1:00 - CET 1980 + 1:00 EU CE%sT + # Moldova / Transnistria Zone Europe/Tiraspol 1:58:32 - LMT 1880 @@ -1101,7 +1578,37 @@ Zone Europe/Tiraspol 1:58:32 - LMT 1880 2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD +# Ukraine +# +# Although Shanks & Pottenger say Transcarpathia used CET 1990/1991, +# this unreliable source contradicts contemporaneous government resolutions +# (see the commentary for Ukraine in the 'europe' file) +# so for now this dubious zone is in 'backzone'. +# "Uzhhorod" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian spelling, but +# "Uzhgorod" was a common English spelling when this dubious zone was +# added to TZDB in 1999. +Zone Europe/Uzhgorod 1:29:12 - LMT 1890 Oct + 1:00 - CET 1940 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1944 Oct + 1:00 1:00 CEST 1944 Oct 26 + 1:00 - CET 1945 Jun 29 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1990 + 3:00 - MSK 1990 Jul 1 2:00 + 1:00 - CET 1991 Mar 31 3:00 + 2:00 - EET 1992 Mar 20 + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1996 May 13 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + # Liechtenstein + +# From Paul Eggert (2022-07-21): +# Shanks & Pottenger say Vaduz is like Zurich starting June 1894. + +# From Alois Treindl (2019-07-04): +# I was able to access the online archive of the Vaduz paper Vaterland ... +# I could confirm from the paper that Liechtenstein did in fact follow +# the same DST in 1941 and 1942 as Switzerland did. + Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun 1:00 Swiss CE%sT 1981 1:00 EU CE%sT @@ -1114,35 +1621,141 @@ Zone Europe/Zagreb 1:03:52 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1:00 EU CE%sT +# Ukraine + +# Although Shanks & Pottenger say Zaporizhzhia and eastern Lugansk +# observed DST 1990/1991, this unreliable source contradicts contemporaneous +# government resolutions (see the commentary for Ukraine in the 'europe' file) +# so for now this dubious zone is in 'backzone'. +# "Zaporizhzhia" is the transliteration of the Ukrainian name, but +# "Zaporozhye" was a common English spelling when this dubious zone was +# added to TZDB in 1999. +Zone Europe/Zaporozhye 2:20:40 - LMT 1880 + 2:20 - +0220 1924 May 2 + 2:00 - EET 1930 Jun 21 + 3:00 - MSK 1941 Aug 25 + 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1943 Oct 25 + 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00 + 2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1992 Mar 20 + 2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1996 May 13 + 2:00 EU EE%sT + # Madagascar Zone Indian/Antananarivo 3:10:04 - LMT 1911 Jul 3:00 - EAT 1954 Feb 27 23:00s 3:00 1:00 EAST 1954 May 29 23:00s 3:00 - EAT +# Christmas +Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb + 7:00 - +07 + +# Cocos (Keeling) Is +# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978. +# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900. +Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 + 6:30 - +0630 + # Comoros Zone Indian/Comoro 2:53:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro 3:00 - EAT +# Kerguelen +Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - -00 1950 # Port-aux-Français + 5:00 - +05 + +# Seychelles +# +# From P Chan (2020-11-27): +# Standard Time was adopted on 1907-01-01. +# +# Standard Time Ordinance (Chapter 237) +# The Laws of Seychelles in Force on the 31st December, 1971, Vol. 6, p 571 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=efE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA571 +# +# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-05): +# A footnote on https://books.google.com/books?id=DYdDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1689 +# confirms that Ordinance No. 9 of 1906 "was brought into force on the 1st +# January, 1907." + +Zone Indian/Mahe 3:41:48 - LMT 1907 Jan 1 # Victoria + 4:00 - +04 +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): +# Aldabra, Farquhar, and Desroches, originally dependencies of the +# Seychelles, were transferred to the British Indian Ocean Territory +# in 1965 and returned to Seychelles control in 1976. We don't know +# whether this affected their time zone, so omit this for now. +# Possibly the islands were uninhabited. + + # Mayotte Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou 3:00 - EAT +# Réunion +Zone Indian/Reunion 3:41:52 - LMT 1911 Jun # Saint-Denis + 4:00 - +04 +# +# Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses) administered from Réunion are as follows. +# The following information about them is taken from +# Îles Éparses (<http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm>, 1997-07-22, +# in French; no longer available as of 1999-08-17). +# We have no info about their time zone histories. +# +# Bassas da India - uninhabited +# Europa Island - inhabited from 1905 to 1910 by two families +# Glorioso Is - inhabited until at least 1958 +# Juan de Nova - uninhabited +# Tromelin - inhabited until at least 1958 + +# Micronesia +# Also see Pacific/Pohnpei and commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18): +# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16), +# "I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that 'Truk' +# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10." +# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UT +10 to +11 +# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now. +Zone Pacific/Chuuk -13:52:52 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 + 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 + 10:00 - +10 1914 Oct + 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1 + 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1 + 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug + 10:00 - +10 +Link Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Truk +Link Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Yap + # Phoenix Islands, Kiribati # From Paul Eggert (2021-05-27): # Enderbury was inhabited 1860/1880s to mine guano, and 1938-03-06/1942-02-09 # for aviation (ostensibly commercial, but military uses foreseen). # The 19th-century dates are approximate. See Pacific/Kanton for -# the currently-inhabited representative for this timezone. +# the currently inhabited representative for this timezone. Zone Pacific/Enderbury 0 - -00 1860 -11:24:20 - LMT 1885 0 - -00 1938 Mar 6 -12:00 - -12 1942 Feb 9 0 - -00 +# Tuvalu +Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 + 12:00 - +12 + # Johnston Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST +# Marshall Is +Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901 + 11:00 - +11 1914 Oct + 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1 + 11:00 - +11 1937 + 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1 + 9:00 - +09 1944 Jan 30 + 11:00 - +11 1969 Oct + 12:00 - +12 + # Midway # # From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): @@ -1158,15 +1771,64 @@ Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 -11:00 - -11 1956 Jun 3 -11:00 1:00 -10 1956 Sep 2 - -11:00 - -11 + -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa + +# Micronesia +# Also see Pacific/Chuuk and commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'. +Zone Pacific/Pohnpei -13:27:08 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 # Kolonia + 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 + 11:00 - +11 1914 Oct + 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1 + 11:00 - +11 1937 + 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1 + 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug + 11:00 - +11 +Link Pacific/Pohnpei Pacific/Ponape # N Mariana Is +# +# From Paul Eggert (2022-08-16): +# Although Shanks & Pottenger say Saipan used +09 and then switched +# to Guam time in October 1969, this is surely wrong. +# Saipan used Guam time in the late 1950s; see page 4 of the minutes on the +# conference of the 12th Saipan Legislature and the Select Committee on +# Saipan Mission, 5th Guam Legislature (1959-09-11): +# http://www.nmhcouncil.org/nmhc_archives/U.S.%20Navy%20Civil%20Affairs%20Files%201944-1962/1959/1959%2009%2017%20letter,%20minutes%20of%20conference,%20Borja.pdf +# For now, assume Saipan switched to Guam time after the Battle of Saipan. +# Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 9:43:00 - LMT 1901 - 9:00 - +09 1969 Oct - 10:00 - +10 2000 Dec 23 + 9:00 - +09 1944 Jul 9 + 10:00 Guam G%sT 2000 Dec 23 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time + +# Wake + +# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, +# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02): +# +# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ... The time was all the +# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the +# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we +# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time +# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost +# impossible. +# +# https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/andrsonv.htm + +# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): +# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now. + +# Also see commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'. +Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 + 12:00 - +12 + + +# Wallis and Futuna +Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 + 12:00 - +12 + # Local Variables: # coding: utf-8 # End: |