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diff --git a/tz/antarctica b/tz/antarctica index 70a5422..dbdf209 100644 --- a/tz/antarctica +++ b/tz/antarctica @@ -157,9 +157,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - -00 1954 Feb 13 # 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 +# Kerguelen - see Indian/Maldives. # # year-round base in the main continent # Dumont d'Urville - see Pacific/Port_Moresby. @@ -242,31 +240,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - -00 2005 Feb 12 # 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 +# See Asia/Urumqi. # S Africa - year-round bases # Marion Island, -4653+03752 |