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diff --git a/tz/antarctica b/tz/antarctica new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ed750a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/tz/antarctica @@ -0,0 +1,358 @@ +# tzdb data for Antarctica and environs + +# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of +# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. + +# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): +# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see +# COMNAP - Stations and Bases +# http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/ +# and +# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) +# http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm +# for information. +# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. + +# FORMAT is '-00' and STDOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. + +# Argentina - year-round bases +# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 +# Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 +# Esperanza, Hope Bay, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 +# Marambio, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 +# Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 +# San Martín, Barry I, -6808-06706, since 1951-03-21 +# (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) + +# Australia - territories +# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) +# previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered +# Margaret Turner reports +# https://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html +# (1999-09-30) that they're UT +05, with no DST; +# presumably this is when they have visitors. +# +# year-round bases +# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 +# Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 +# (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) +# Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): +# Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: +# Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 +# Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 +# Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 +# The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). +# +# Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) +# http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 +# +# We have more background information here: +# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): +# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ... +# +# - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. +# The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but +# has not been decided yet. +# +# - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 +# 20:00 UTC. +# +# - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. +# +# Background: +# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-10-28): +# Australian Antarctica Division informed us that Casey changed time +# zone to UTC+11 in "the morning of 22nd October 2016". + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2020-10-02, as corrected): +# Based on information we have received from the Australian Antarctic +# Division, Casey station and Macquarie Island station will move to Tasmanian +# daylight savings time on Sunday 4 October. This will take effect from 0001 +# hrs on Sunday 4 October 2020 and will mean Casey and Macquarie Island will +# be on the same time zone as Hobart. Some past dates too for this 3 hour +# time change back and forth between UTC+8 and UTC+11 for Casey: +# - 2018 Oct 7 4:00 - 2019 Mar 17 3:00 - 2019 Oct 4 3:00 - 2020 Mar 8 3:00 +# and now - 2020 Oct 4 0:01 + +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - -00 1969 + 8:00 - +08 2009 Oct 18 2:00 + 11:00 - +11 2010 Mar 5 2:00 + 8:00 - +08 2011 Oct 28 2:00 + 11:00 - +11 2012 Feb 21 17:00u + 8:00 - +08 2016 Oct 22 + 11:00 - +11 2018 Mar 11 4:00 + 8:00 - +08 2018 Oct 7 4:00 + 11:00 - +11 2019 Mar 17 3:00 + 8:00 - +08 2019 Oct 4 3:00 + 11:00 - +11 2020 Mar 8 3:00 + 8:00 - +08 2020 Oct 4 0:01 + 11:00 - +11 +Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - -00 1957 Jan 13 + 7:00 - +07 1964 Nov + 0 - -00 1969 Feb + 7:00 - +07 2009 Oct 18 2:00 + 5:00 - +05 2010 Mar 10 20:00u + 7:00 - +07 2011 Oct 28 2:00 + 5:00 - +05 2012 Feb 21 20:00u + 7:00 - +07 +Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - -00 1954 Feb 13 + 6:00 - +06 2009 Oct 18 2:00 + 5:00 - +05 +# References: +# Casey Weather (1998-02-26) +# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html +# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) +# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html +# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) +# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html + +# Belgium - year-round base +# Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 + +# Brazil - year-round base +# Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 + +# Bulgaria - year-round base +# St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988 + +# Chile - year-round bases and towns +# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 +# Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 +# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 +# Prat, -6230-05941 +# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 +# These locations employ Region of Magallanes time; use +# TZ='America/Punta_Arenas'. + +# China - year-round bases +# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 +# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 + +# France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy") +# +# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): +# Time data entries are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP +# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). +# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adélie bases +# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adélie supplies came +# from Tasmania. +# +# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants +# +# Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964; +# sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+; +# see Indian/Reunion. +# +# Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 +# Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; +# whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 +# +# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited +# fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 +# +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - -00 1950 # Port-aux-Français + 5:00 - +05 +# +# year-round base in the main continent +# Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 +# <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) +# +# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. +# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. +# +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - -00 1947 + 10:00 - +10 1952 Jan 14 + 0 - -00 1956 Nov + 10:00 - +10 + +# France & Italy - year-round base +# Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005 + +# Germany - year-round base +# Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009 + +# India - year-round bases +# Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012 +# Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989 + +# Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy") +# Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986 + +# Japan - year-round bases +# Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957 +# +# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): +# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. +# +# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, +# was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main +# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - -00 1957 Jan 29 + 3:00 - +03 +# See: +# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) +# http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html + +# S Korea - year-round base +# Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 +# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 + +# New Zealand - claims +# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) +# Scott Island (never inhabited) +# +# year-round base +# Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. +# See Pacific/Auckland. + +# Norway - territories +# Bouvet (never inhabited) +# +# claims +# Peter I Island (never inhabited) +# +# year-round base +# Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 +# +# From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): +# I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. +# In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: +# GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March +# GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October +# GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 +# GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 +# The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely +# correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): +# The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tz 2014b or later, so as +# suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate +# with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +#Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 +01 +Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 +02 +#Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 +01 +#Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 +00 +# Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. +Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 +00 +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - -00 2005 Feb 12 + 0:00 Troll %s + +# Poland - year-round base +# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 + +# Romania - year-bound base +# Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 + +# Russia - year-round bases +# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 +# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 +# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, +# year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 +# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, +# year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 + +# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 +# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): +# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP +# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same +# time as Moscow, Russia. +# +# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): +# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is +# what they had to say about time there: +# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) +# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was +# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead +# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The +# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." +# +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): +# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it +# in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local +# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this +# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean +# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks +# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time +# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess +06. +# +Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - -00 1957 Dec 16 + 6:00 - +06 + +# S Africa - year-round bases +# Marion Island, -4653+03752 +# SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997 + +# Ukraine - year-round base +# Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954 + +# United Kingdom +# +# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims +# South Orkney Islands +# scientific station from 1903 +# whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 +# South Shetland Islands +# +# year-round bases +# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 +# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, +# scientific station 1943/1967, +# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, +# and a garrison was deployed briefly +# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 +# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated +# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. +# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 +# +# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) +# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. +# +# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - -00 1976 Dec 1 + -3:00 - -03 + +# Uruguay - year round base +# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 + +# USA - year-round bases +# +# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) +# See 'southamerica' for Antarctica/Palmer, since it uses South American DST. +# +# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 +# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 +# +# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): +# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, +# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, +# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 +# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, +# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year +# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.) +# +# From Susan Smith +# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html +# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): +# We use the same time as McMurdo does. +# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... +# One last quirk about South Pole time. +# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. +# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something +# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, +# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. +# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! +# +# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo. |