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diff --git a/tz/backzone b/tz/backzone index 3ce7277..fc5e8bf 100644 --- a/tz/backzone +++ b/tz/backzone @@ -68,6 +68,91 @@ # # As explained in the zic man page, the zone columns are: # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# and the rule columns are: +# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S + + +# Ghana + +# From P Chan (2020-11-20): +# Interpretation Amendment Ordinance, 1915 (No.24 of 1915) [1915-11-02] +# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1915, p 69-71 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=ErA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA70 +# This Ordinance added "'Time' shall mean Greenwich Mean Time" to the +# Interpretation Ordinance, 1876. +# +# Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919) [1919-11-24] +# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1919, p 75-76 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=MbA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA75 +# This Ordinance removed the previous definition of time and introduced DST. +# +# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 214) +# The Laws of the Gold Coast (including Togoland Under British Mandate) +# Vol. II (1937), p 2328 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7M-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2328 +# Revised edition of the 1919 Ordinance. +# +# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1940 (No. 9 of 1940) [1940-04-06] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1940, p 22 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=1ao-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA22 +# This Ordinance changed the forward transition from September to May. +# +# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment) Regulations, 1942 +# (Regulations No. 6 of 1942) [1942-01-31, commenced on 1942-02-08] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 48 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA48 +# These regulations advanced the [standard] time by thirty minutes. +# +# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2)) Regulations, +# 1942 (Regulations No. 28 of 1942) [1942-04-25] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 87 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87 +# These regulations abolished DST and changed the time to GMT+0:30. +# +# Defence (Revocation) (No.4) Regulations, 1945 (Regulations No. 45 of +# 1945) [1945-10-24, commenced on 1946-01-06] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 256 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA256 +# These regulations revoked the previous two sets of Regulations. +# +# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1945 (No. 18 of 1945) [1946-01-06] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 69 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA69 +# This Ordinance abolished DST. +# +# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950 (No. 26 of 1950) [1950-07-22] +# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast: +# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1950, p 35 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=e60-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA35 +# This Ordinance restored DST but with thirty minutes offset. +# +# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 264) +# The Laws of the Gold Coast, Vol. V (1954), p 380 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=Mqc-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA380 +# Revised edition of the Time Determination Ordinance. +# +# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 21 of 1956) [1956-08-29] +# Annual Volume of the Ordinances of the Gold Coast Enacted During the +# Year 1956, p 83 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=VLE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA83 +# This Ordinance abolished DST. + +Rule Ghana 1919 only - Nov 24 0:00 0:20 +0020 +Rule Ghana 1920 1942 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT +Rule Ghana 1920 1939 - Sep 1 2:00 0:20 +0020 +Rule Ghana 1940 1941 - May 1 2:00 0:20 +0020 +Rule Ghana 1950 1955 - Sep 1 2:00 0:30 +0030 +Rule Ghana 1951 1956 - Jan 1 2:00 0 GMT + +Zone Africa/Accra -0:00:52 - LMT 1915 Nov 2 + 0:00 Ghana %s 1942 Feb 8 + 0:30 - +0030 1946 Jan 6 + 0:00 Ghana %s # Ethiopia # From Paul Eggert (2014-07-31): @@ -101,14 +186,36 @@ Zone Africa/Bamako -0:32:00 - LMT 1912 Zone Africa/Bangui 1:14:20 - LMT 1912 1:00 - WAT -# Gambia +# The Gambia +# From P Chan (2020-12-09): +# Standard time of GMT-1 was adopted on 1933-04-01. On 1942-02-01, GMT was +# adopted as a war time measure. This was made permanent in 1946. +# +# Interpretation Ordinance, 1914 (No. 12 of 1914) [1914-09-29] +# Interpretation Ordinance, 1933 (No. 10 of 1933) [1933-03-31] +# Notice No. 5 of 1942, Colony of the Gambia Government Gazette, Vol. LIX, +# No.2, 1942-01-15, p 2 +# Interpretation (Amendment) Ordinance, 1946 (No. 3 of 1946) [1946-07-15] Zone Africa/Banjul -1:06:36 - LMT 1912 - -1:06:36 - BMT 1935 # Banjul Mean Time - -1:00 - -01 1964 + -1:06:36 - BMT 1933 Apr 1 # Banjul Mean Time + -1:00 - -01 1942 Feb 1 0:00 0:00 - GMT # Malawi -Zone Africa/Blantyre 2:20:00 - LMT 1903 Mar +# From P Chan (2020-12-09): +# In 1911, Zomba mean time was adopted as the legal time of Nyasaland. In +# 1914, Zomba mean time switched from GMT+2:21:10 to GMT+2:21. On 1925-07-01, +# GMT+2 was adopted. +# +# Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance, 1911 (No. 12 of 1911) +# [1911-07-24] +# Notice No. 124 of 1914, 1914-06-30, The Nyasaland Government Gazette, Vol. +# XXI, No. 8, 1914-06-30, p 122 +# Interpretation and General Clauses (Amendment) Ordinance, 1925 (No. 3 of +# 1925) [1925-04-02] +Zone Africa/Blantyre 2:20:00 - LMT 1911 Jul 24 + 2:21:10 - ZMT 1914 Jun 30 # Zomba Mean Time + 2:21 - ZMT 1925 Jul 1 2:00 - CAT # Republic of the Congo @@ -145,19 +252,48 @@ Zone Africa/Djibouti 2:52:36 - LMT 1911 Jul Zone Africa/Douala 0:38:48 - LMT 1912 1:00 - WAT # Sierra Leone -# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12): -# The following table is from Shanks & Pottenger, but it can't be right. -# Whitman gives Mar 31 - Aug 31 for 1931 on. -# The International Hydrographic Bulletin, 1932-33, p 63 says that -# Sierra Leone would advance its clocks by 20 minutes on 1933-10-01. -# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule SL 1935 1942 - Jun 1 0:00 0:40 -0020 -Rule SL 1935 1942 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -01 -Rule SL 1957 1962 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 +01 -Rule SL 1957 1962 - Sep 1 0:00 0 GMT +# From P Chan (2020-12-09): +# Standard time of GMT-1 was adopted on 1913-07-01. Twenty minutes of DST was +# introduce[d] in 1932 and was suspended in 1939. In 1941, GMT was adopted by +# Defence Regulations. This was made permanent in 1946. +# +# Government Notice No. 121 of 1913, 1913-06-06, Sierra Leone Royal Gazette, +# Vol. XLIV, No. 1384, 1913-06-14, p 347 +# Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1932 (No. 34 of 1932) [1932-12-01] +# Alteration of Time (Amendment) Ordinance, 1938 (No. 25 of 1938) [1938-11-24] +# Defence Regulations (No. 9), 1939 (Regulations No. 9 of 1939), 1939-09-05 +# Defence Regulations (No. 11), 1939 (Regulations No. 11 of 1939), 1939-09-27 +# Defence (Amendment) (No. 17) Regulations, 1941 (Public Notice No. 157 of +# 1941), 1914-12-04 +# Alteration of Time (Amendment) Ordinance, 1946 (No. 2 of 1946) [1946-02-07] + +# From Tim Parenti (2021-03-02), per P Chan (2021-02-25): +# For Sierra Leone in 1957-1962, the standard time was defined in the +# Alteration of Time Ordinance, 1932 (as amended in 1946, renamed to Local Time +# Ordinance in 1960 and Local Time Act in 1961). It was unamended throughout +# that period. See references to "Time" in the Alphabetical Index of the +# Legislation in force on the 31st day of December, +# 1957: https://books.google.com/books?id=lvQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA49 +# 1958: https://books.google.com/books?id=4fQ-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA50 +# 1959: https://books.google.com/books?id=p_U-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PA55 +# 1960: https://books.google.com/books?id=JPY-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA37 +# 1961: https://books.google.com/books?id=7vY-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA41 +# 1962: https://books.google.com/books?id=W_c-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA44 +# 1963: https://books.google.com/books?id=9vk-AQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA47 +# +# Although Shanks & Pottenger had DST from Jun 1 00:00 to Sep 1 00:00 in this +# period, many contemporaneous almanacs agree that it wasn't used: +# https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-February/029866.html +# Go with the above. + +Rule SL 1932 only - Dec 1 0:00 0:20 -0040 +Rule SL 1933 1938 - Mar 31 24:00 0 -01 +Rule SL 1933 1939 - Aug 31 24:00 0:20 -0040 +Rule SL 1939 only - May 31 24:00 0 -01 Zone Africa/Freetown -0:53:00 - LMT 1882 - -0:53:00 - FMT 1913 Jun # Freetown Mean Time - -1:00 SL %s 1957 + -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 # Botswana @@ -298,6 +434,85 @@ Zone America/Aruba -4:40:24 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad -4:30 - -0430 1965 -4:00 - AST +# Atikokan, Ontario + +# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): +# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star +# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, +# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. +# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) +# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html +# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. +# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report +# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): +# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and +# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes +# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in +# violation of the official Ontario rules. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): +# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the +# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: +# +# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. +# This means they spend about half the time on central time and +# the other half on eastern time. +# +# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. +# +# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern +# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he +# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." +# +# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang +# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." + +# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: +# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory +# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he +# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current +# time keeping since 1952, at least. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): +# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River +# 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 +# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move +# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. + +Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - 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 1945 Sep 30 2:00 + -5:00 - EST + +# Quebec east of Natashquan + +# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-09): +# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map +# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) +# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp +# says that Quebec east of the -63 meridian is supposed to observe +# AST, but residents as far east as Natashquan use EST/EDT, and +# residents east of Natashquan use AST. +# The Quebec department of justice writes in +# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" +# https://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/en/department/ministre/functions-and-responsabilities/legal-time-in-quebec/the-situation-in-minganie-and-basse-cote-nord/ +# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon +# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. +# This common practice was codified into law as of 2007; see Legal Time Act, +# CQLR c T-5.1 <http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/T-5.1>. +# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to +# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. + +Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 + -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 + -4:00 - AST + # Cayman Is Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown -5:07:10 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time @@ -318,6 +533,85 @@ Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 - LMT 1884 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1946 -5:00 - EST +# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): +# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia +# that do not currently observe daylight saving: +# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) +# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District +# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) + +# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time +# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the +# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. +# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 +# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. +# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UT-7 for 93 years. +# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. + +# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains +# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months +# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just +# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing +# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the +# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010. +# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 + +# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: +# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) +# Exact date unknown +# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) +# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. +# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) +# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. +# note 1: +# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, +# Creston did not change its clocks. +# note 2: +# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, +# Creston did not oblige. +# note 3: +# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time +# (UTC-7) forever. +# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. +# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html + +# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. +# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying +# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before +# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this +# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough +# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. + +# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. + +Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 + -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 + -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 + -7:00 - MST + +# Curaçao +# Milne gives 4:35:46.9 for Curaçao mean time; round to nearest. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# Shanks & Pottenger say that The Bottom and Philipsburg have been at +# -4:00 since standard time was introduced on 1912-03-02; and that +# Kralendijk and Rincon used Kralendijk Mean Time (-4:33:08) from +# 1912-02-02 to 1965-01-01. The former is dubious, since S&P also say +# Saba Island has been like Curaçao. +# This all predates our 1970 cutoff, though. +# +# By July 2007 Curaçao and St Maarten are planned to become +# associated states within the Netherlands, much like Aruba; +# Bonaire, Saba and St Eustatius would become directly part of the +# Netherlands as Kingdom Islands. This won't affect their time zones +# though, as far as we know. +# +Zone America/Curacao -4:35:47 - LMT 1912 Feb 12 # Willemstad + -4:30 - -0430 1965 + -4:00 - AST +Link America/Curacao America/Kralendijk +Link America/Curacao America/Lower_Princes + # Dominica Zone America/Dominica -4:05:36 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Roseau -4:00 - AST @@ -340,6 +634,7 @@ Zone America/Grenada -4:07:00 - LMT 1911 Jul # St George's Zone America/Guadeloupe -4:06:08 - LMT 1911 Jun 8 # Pointe-à-Pitre -4:00 - AST + # Canada # # From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24): @@ -351,7 +646,6 @@ Zone America/Guadeloupe -4:06:08 - LMT 1911 Jun 8 # Pointe-à-Pitre # Pottenger data. The post-1970 entries have been corrected, but the # pre-1970 entries are unchecked and probably have errors. # -# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D @@ -387,6 +681,48 @@ Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884 Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Cork Hill -4:00 - AST +# The Bahamas +# +# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. +# +# From P Chan (2020-11-27, corrected on 2020-12-02): +# There were two periods of DST observed in 1942-1945: 1942-05-01 +# midnight to 1944-12-31 midnight and 1945-02-01 to 1945-10-17 midnight. +# "midnight" should mean 24:00 from the context. +# +# War Time Order 1942 [1942-05-01] and War Time (No. 2) Order 1942 [1942-09-29] +# Appendix to the Statutes of 7 George VI. and the Year 1942. p 34, 43 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA34 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA43 +# +# War Time Order 1943 [1943-03-31] and War Time Order 1944 [1943-12-29] +# Appendix to the Statutes of 8 George VI. and the Year 1943. p 9-10, 28-29 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA9 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA28 +# +# War Time Order 1945 [1945-01-31] and the Order which revoke War Time Order +# 1945 [1945-10-16] Appendix to the Statutes of 9 George VI. and the Year +# 1945. p 160, 247-248 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA160 +# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA247 +# +# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): +# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST +# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... +# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 + +Rule Bahamas 1942 only - May 1 24:00 1:00 W +Rule Bahamas 1944 only - Dec 31 24:00 0 S +Rule Bahamas 1945 only - Feb 1 0:00 1:00 W +Rule Bahamas 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace +Rule Bahamas 1945 only - Oct 17 24:00 0 S +Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D + +Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 + -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 + -5:00 US E%sT + # United States # # From Paul Eggert (2018-03-18): @@ -411,6 +747,13 @@ Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Cork Hill # https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19470110 # front page reports on end. +# Trinidad and Tobago +Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 + -4:00 - AST +Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Marigot +Link America/Port_of_Spain America/St_Barthelemy +Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Virgin + # Argentina # This entry was intended for the following areas, but has been superseded by # more detailed zones. @@ -434,7 +777,7 @@ Zone America/St_Lucia -4:04:00 - LMT 1890 # Castries -4:04:00 - CMT 1912 # Castries Mean Time -4:00 - AST -# Virgin Is +# US Virgin Is Zone America/St_Thomas -4:19:44 - LMT 1911 Jul # Charlotte Amalie -4:00 - AST @@ -447,11 +790,36 @@ Zone America/St_Vincent -4:04:56 - LMT 1890 # Kingstown Zone America/Tortola -4:18:28 - LMT 1911 Jul # Road Town -4:00 - AST +# 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 Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - -00 1947 + 10:00 - +10 1952 Jan 14 + 0 - -00 1956 Nov + 10:00 - +10 + # McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12 Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - -00 1956 12:00 NZ NZ%sT Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole +# Syowa, Antarctica +# +# 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 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 + # Yemen # Milne says 2:59:54 was the meridian of the saluting battery at Aden, # and that Yemen was at 1:55:56, the meridian of the Hagia Sophia. @@ -711,6 +1079,8 @@ Zone Europe/Skopje 1:25:44 - LMT 1884 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27 1:00 EU CE%sT + + # Moldova / Transnistria Zone Europe/Tiraspol 1:58:32 - LMT 1880 1:55 - CMT 1918 Feb 15 # Chisinau MT @@ -749,10 +1119,22 @@ Zone Indian/Comoro 2:53:04 - LMT 1911 Jul # Moroni, Gran Comoro Zone Indian/Mayotte 3:00:56 - LMT 1911 Jul # Mamoutzou 3:00 - EAT -# US minor outlying islands +# 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. +Zone Pacific/Enderbury 0 - -00 1860 + -11:24:20 - LMT 1885 + 0 - -00 1938 Mar 6 + -12:00 - -12 1942 Feb 9 + 0 - -00 + +# Johnston Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST -# US minor outlying islands +# Midway # # From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): # [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, @@ -775,3 +1157,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 9:00 - +09 1969 Oct 10:00 - +10 2000 Dec 23 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time + +# Local Variables: +# coding: utf-8 +# End: |