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diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/asia b/share/zoneinfo/asia index 673474917937..9406aca86a06 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/asia +++ b/share/zoneinfo/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.30 +# @(#)asia 7.40 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to @@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). +# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (4th edition), +# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1995). # Except where otherwise noted, it is the source for the data below. # # Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> writes that a good source @@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ # 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time # # See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. -# -# See the `africa' file for time zone naming and abbreviation conventions. # From Guy Harris: # Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as @@ -80,24 +78,30 @@ Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890 4:30 - AFT # Armenia -# From Paul Eggert (1996-05-04): +# From Paul Eggert (1998-??-??): # Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991, # but usno1995 has Armenia at 4:00 (with DST), and Edgar Der-Danieliantz -# <edd@AIC.NET> reported today that Yerevan probably won't use DST this year, -# though it did use DST in 1995. We guess Yerevan stayed in sync with Moscow -# between 1990 and 1995, but stopped using DST in 1996. -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Armenia 1991 1995 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S -Rule Armenia 1991 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - +# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST +# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that +# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, +# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. +# What a mess! We guess Yerevan DST stayed in sync with Moscow between 1990 +# and 1995, did not use DST in 1996, and started using DST again in 1997. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence - 3:00 Armenia AM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s # Armenia Time - 4:00 Armenia AM%sT + 3:00 1:00 AMST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s # Armenia Time + 3:00 - AMT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1996 + 4:00 - AMT 1997 + 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT # Azerbaijan +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S +Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time @@ -105,7 +109,8 @@ Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time - 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT + 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 + 4:00 Azer AZ%sT # Bahrain # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -156,7 +161,7 @@ Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 7:00 - ICT -# People's Republic of China +# China # From Guy Harris: # People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. @@ -185,7 +190,7 @@ Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. # Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones. -# From Shanks (1991): +# From Shanks (1995): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S @@ -239,7 +244,7 @@ Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 ############################################################################### -# Republic of China +# Taiwan # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D @@ -354,8 +359,11 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov # Iran # From Paul Eggert (1996-12-17), following up a suggestion by Rich Wales: -# Ahmad Alavi <URL:http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt> -# (1993-08-04) writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day +# Ahmea Alavi in +# <a href="http://tehran.stanford.edu/Iran_Lib/Calendar/taghveem.txt"> +# TAGHVEEM (1993-08-04) +# </a> +# writes ``Daylight saving time in Iran starts from the first day # of Farvardin and ends the first day of Mehr.'' This disagrees with the SSIM: # # DST start DST end @@ -457,12 +465,7 @@ Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 # ISRAEL 2 H AHEAD OF UTC # ISRAEL 3 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 10 - SEP 3 -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): -# -# Shanks gives the following rules for Jerusalem from 1918 through 1991. -# After 1989 Shanks often disagrees with Silverberg; we go with Silverberg. - -# From Shanks (1991): +# From Shanks (1995): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S @@ -505,7 +508,8 @@ Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S -# From Ephraim Silverberg (ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il), 1997-03-04: +# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> +# (1997-03-04 and 1998-03-16): # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. @@ -546,16 +550,18 @@ Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the # time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 -# (with the dates for 1997 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: +# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: # # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz # -# The dates for 1997 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. -# No changes have been made regarding 1998 as of yet. -# +# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. # The official announcement for the year 1997 can be viewed at: # # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1997.ps.gz +# +# The official announcement for the year 1998 can be viewed at: +# +# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1998.ps.gz # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D @@ -563,14 +569,20 @@ Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 1998 only - Oct 18 0:00 0 S +Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S + +# From Member of Knesset Avraham Poraz, as quoted in Ha'aretz (1998-09-02): +# [The 1998-09-06 transition is to] serve the interests of a small minority +# of ultra-Orthodox Sephardic Jews who, during the [Hebrew] month of Elul, +# recite Slihot penitential prayers in the early morning hours +# and thus find daylight time inconvenient. -# From Paul Eggert (1997-03-15): +# From Paul Eggert (1998-01-12): # Here are guesses for rules after 1998. # They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1999 max - Mar Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 1999 max - Sep Sun>=15 0:00 0 S +Rule Zion 1999 max - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 @@ -640,7 +652,7 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. # # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Alma-Ata 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Almaty +Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 5:00 - ALMT 1957 Mar # Alma-Ata Time 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 5:00 1:00 ALMST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s @@ -662,25 +674,27 @@ Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Aktau # Kirgizstan # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Kirgiz 1992 max - Apr Sun>=7 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Kirgiz 1991 max - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Kirgiz 1991 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - +Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S +Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 - 5:00 - FRUT 1957 Mar # Frunze Time + 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 # independence 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time ############################################################################### -# Korea +# Korea (North and South) # From Guy Harris: # According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco, # Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know # at what time of day DST starts or ends. -# From Shanks (1991): +# From Shanks (1995): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S @@ -775,8 +789,9 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time # Mongolia -# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and -# <URL:http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif> (1995) +# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map +# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01) +# </a> # both say that it has just one. # Let's comment out the western and eastern Mongolian time zones # till we know what their principal towns are. @@ -821,6 +836,69 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 5:00 - PKT # Pakistan Time # Palestine + +# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15): +# +# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now +# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. +# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too... +# +# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05 +# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no +# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt, +# though. +# +# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally +# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from +# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the +# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major +# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and +# East Jerusalem. +# +# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except +# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might +# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware +# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer +# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected). +# +# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most +# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to +# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to +# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't +# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the +# Jordanian one). +# +# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that: +# +# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996- +# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------- +# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion +# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan +# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan +# +# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they +# have one). + +# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25): +# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go +# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947, +# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996. +# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since +# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about +# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. +# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries +# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules +# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please +# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions. + +# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time, +# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg: +# +# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time +# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks +# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule, +# the PA has decided to implement DST in April. + # These rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S @@ -831,9 +909,10 @@ Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct - 2:00 - EET 1957 May 10 - 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 30 - 2:00 Zion I%sT + 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 + 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 + 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 + 2:00 Jordan EE%sT # Paracel Is # no information @@ -883,19 +962,24 @@ Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880 # Sri Lanka # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): -# <URL:http://www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html> (1996-05-24) +# <a href="http://www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html"> +# Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout (1996-05-24) +# </a> # reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at # midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.'' -# Transitions before 1996 are from Shanks (1991). +# Transitions before 1996 are from Shanks (1995). # # From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted -# in <URL:news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> (1996-10-26): +# by Shamindra in +# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net"> +# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26) +# </a>: # With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 # Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 - 5:20 - CEYT 1906 # Ceylon Time + 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 @@ -933,7 +1017,8 @@ Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - -# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1997-03-31; assume that it should be 1997-04-01. +# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1997-03-31; (1998-02) says 1998-04-02, +# 1999-03-29, and 1999-09-29; ignore all these claims for now. Rule Syria 1994 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -941,9 +1026,10 @@ Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 2:00 Syria EE%sT # Tajikistan +# From Shanks (1995), who writes ``date of change uncertain'' for 1991. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 - 5:00 - DUST 1957 Mar # Dushanbe Time + 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 # independence 5:00 RussiaAsia TJ%sT 1992 @@ -956,14 +1042,17 @@ Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880 7:00 - ICT # Turkmenistan +# From Shanks (1995): # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Ashkhabad 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashgabat - 4:00 - ASHT 1957 Mar # Ashkhabad Time - 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s - 4:00 1:00 ASHST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s - 4:00 - ASHT 1991 Oct 27 # independence - 4:00 - TMT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s - 5:00 - TMT # Turkmenistan Time + 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time + 5:00 - ASHT 1981 Apr 1 + 5:00 1:00 ASHST 1981 Oct 1 + 6:00 - ASHT 1982 Apr 1 + 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 + 5:00 - ASHT 1991 Oct 27 # independence + 5:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1993 # Turkmenistan Time + 5:00 - TMT # United Arab Emirates # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -971,18 +1060,24 @@ Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920 4:00 - GST # Uzbekistan +# From Shanks (1995): # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 + 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time + 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1 + 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1 + 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time + 5:00 - TAST 1991 Sep 1 # independence + 5:00 - UZT 1992 + 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 + 5:00 - UZT Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 - 5:00 - TAST 1957 Mar # Tashkent Time + 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s - 5:00 1:00 TASST 1991 Sep 29 2:00s - 5:00 - UZT # Uzbekistan Time -# Shanks has Tashkent using DST after 1991, but usno1995 says they don't. -# Guess no DST after 1991. -# <URL:http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/95fact/802389h.gif> (1995) -# says that Uzbekistan has two time zones, but a cable -# <URL:http://www.itaiep.doc.gov/bisnis/cables/960510uz.html> (1996-05-10) -# from the American Embassy in Tashkent implies that they have just one. + 5:00 - TAST 1991 Sep 1 # independence + 5:00 - UZT 1992 + 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 + 5:00 - UZT # Vietnam # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): |