asia revision b8fd0f857a2fe2551715d54b59cc3c9f53b001b8
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# @(#)asia 8.36
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# of the IATA's data after 1990.
aca2ab791cb1945ec9efacc07d68c3c424574f4fChristian Maeder# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# I found in the UCLA library.
80c2d23821d095b55d9a547f48fc3fcdc27df405Christian Maeder# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
f153609d4ff5616d7caa410df605afcdfb9956dfChristian Maeder# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Corrections are welcome!
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# LMT Local Mean Time
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 2:00 IST IDT Israel
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia*
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 4:00 GST Gulf*
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 5:30 IST India
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 7:00 ICT Indochina*
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 8:00 CST China
80c2d23821d095b55d9a547f48fc3fcdc27df405Christian Maeder# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 9:00 JST JDT Japan
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 9:00 KST KDT Korea
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# From Guy Harris:
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses.
80c2d23821d095b55d9a547f48fc3fcdc27df405Christian Maeder###############################################################################
80c2d23821d095b55d9a547f48fc3fcdc27df405Christian Maeder# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.
80c2d23821d095b55d9a547f48fc3fcdc27df405Christian Maeder# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule EUAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 -
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 -
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiZone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 4:00 - AFT 1945
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Shanks & Pottenger have Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST)
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski# in spring 1991, then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski# readopting Russian DST in 1997. Go with Shanks & Pottenger, even
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski# when they disagree with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till MossakowskiZone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 4:00 - AMT 1997
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23):
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till MossakowskiRule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till MossakowskiRule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 -
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till MossakowskiZone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time
9a80079e082fdf4fe8e19f8fc61e6cd8799b47a7Christian Maeder 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski 4:00 Azer AZ%sT
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
9a80079e082fdf4fe8e19f8fc61e6cd8799b47a7Christian MaederZone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-05-13):
9a80079e082fdf4fe8e19f8fc61e6cd8799b47a7Christian Maeder# According to newspaper Asian Tribune (May 6, 2009) Bangladesh may introduce
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Daylight Saving Time from June 16 to Sept 30
0fdd7e2481e93a2b540617f0a24c4ee206a35e1cTill Mossakowski# Bangladesh to introduce daylight saving time likely from June 16
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# <a href="http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/17288">
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh02.html">
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_bangladesh02.html
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# "... Bangladesh government has decided to switch daylight saving time from
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder# 16 till September 30 in a bid to ensure maximum use of daylight to cope with
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# crippling power crisis. "
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# The switch will remain in effect from June 16 to Sept 30 (2009) but if
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# implemented the next year, it will come in force from April 1, 2010
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-06-02):
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# They have finally decided now, but changed the start date to midnight between
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder# the 19th and 20th, and they have not set the end date yet.
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Some sources:
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# <a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601">
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40017620090601
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# <a href="http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2">
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=85889&cid=2
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html">
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/bangladesh-daylight-saving-2009.html
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# From A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat (2009-06-15):
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Telecommunication Regulatory Commission).
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder# No DST end date has been announced yet.
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# From Arthur David Olson (2009-07-11):
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Arbitrarily end DST at the end of 2009 so that a POSIX-sytle time zone string
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# can appear in the Dhaka binary file and for the benefit of old glibc
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# reimplementations of the time zone software that mishandle permanent DST.
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# A change will be required once the end date is known.
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till MossakowskiZone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski 6:00 - BDT 2009 Jun 19 23:00 # Bangladesh Time
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder 6:00 1:00 BDST 2010
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiZone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder# British Indian Ocean Territory
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996.
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# We have no information as to when standard time was introduced;
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# then contained the Chagos Archipelago).
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiZone Indian/Chagos 4:49:40 - LMT 1907
80c2d23821d095b55d9a547f48fc3fcdc27df405Christian Maeder 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiZone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 7:30 - BNT 1933
f30f834d81e1c294aff8eb2752fd864f6488820dChristian Maeder# Burma / Myanmar
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiZone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time?
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time
80c2d23821d095b55d9a547f48fc3fcdc27df405Christian Maeder# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerZone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# From Guy Harris:
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone.
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it.
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# 1987 mid-April - ??
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Shanks & Pottenger write that China (except for Hong Kong and Macau)
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, observing summer DST
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Go with Shanks & Pottenger for now. I made up names for the other
aca2ab791cb1945ec9efacc07d68c3c424574f4fChristian Maeder# pre-1980 time zones.
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# From Shanks & Pottenger:
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian Maeder# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20):
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian Maeder# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five
f094a7999dfa79cad2eb34ce15f1939c0d6b9e39Till Mossakowski# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949).
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-07-14):
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border,
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian Maeder# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian Maeder# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data.
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11):
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# I just now checked Google News for western news sources that talk
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# about China's single time zone, and couldn't find anything before 1986
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# talking about China being in one time zone. (That article was: Jim
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian Maeder# time--sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05. By the way, this
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian Maeder# article confirms the tz database's data claiming that China began
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian Maeder# observing daylight saving time in 1986.
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11):
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian Maeder# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian Maeder# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s).
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder# There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone in 1949
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Shanks & Pottenger.
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerZone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 8:00 - CST 1940
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time")
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# most of China
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerZone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder 8:00 PRC C%sT
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area)
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan;
80c2d23821d095b55d9a547f48fc3fcdc27df405Christian Maeder# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing,
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu.
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiZone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time
e45f00ee89d20991a57651931b13f0637762bcd1Till Mossakowski 8:00 PRC C%sT
9a80079e082fdf4fe8e19f8fc61e6cd8799b47a7Christian Maeder# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time")
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai;
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# the Guangdong counties Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang,
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi;
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi;
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# east Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe,
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder# Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin,
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami,
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan.
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerZone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski 8:00 PRC C%sT
ad69cb3627839ed3d33f13d71c81378b65a24b35Till Mossakowski# West Tibet, including Pulan, Aheqi, Shufu, Shule;
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke,
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding,
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerZone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer 5:00 - KAST 1980 May
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Hong Kong (Xianggang)
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till Mossakowski# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 -
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 -
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiRule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 -
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian MaederRule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian MaederRule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 -
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian MaederRule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian MaederRule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 -
aca2ab791cb1945ec9efacc07d68c3c424574f4fChristian MaederRule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
3a6decfd748f532d5cb03fbcb7a42fa37b0faab3Christian MaederRule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
2f1781ab0a0a58328ef9d1ad8bda1984fd80259dChristian MaederRule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
0fdd7e2481e93a2b540617f0a24c4ee206a35e1cTill Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till MossakowskiZone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski###############################################################################
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# Shanks & Pottenger write that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't
c46bd51db9d35bed0f8f83d3d1db78238bd89ae8Till Mossakowski# have any other information.
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiZone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian Maeder 8:00 Taiwan C%sT
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Macau (Macao, Aomen)
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
7ab2df3001654dd1b7a2cfc3da1ccef11c39a503Christian MaederRule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 -
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo WiedemeyerRule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
93dfeb7d82cf7d67776b0e7492bbe7e48af172a5Till MossakowskiRule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
7ab2df3001654dd1b7a2cfc3da1ccef11c39a503Christian MaederRule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 -
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian MaederRule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian MaederZone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski 8:00 PRC C%sT
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski###############################################################################
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 -
433bb7cb49200f4e6c7341101da25309e423c0e2Christian MaederRule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 -
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiRule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill MossakowskiZone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time.
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19):
fe1771bb2ad4ad758a5654b277c1bb145d46701cTill Mossakowski# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia
970835ca7cec4085ba84151d5b901cde934ec8f6Thiemo Wiedemeyer# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,
aca2ab791cb1945ec9efacc07d68c3c424574f4fChristian Maeder# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
7ab2df3001654dd1b7a2cfc3da1ccef11c39a503Christian Maeder# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27):
Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880
# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912
Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata
# The following are like Asia/Kolkata:
Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10
Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May
Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920
Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date
Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916
# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph:
# <a href="http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10">
# http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10
Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890
# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three
# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a
# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard
# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all
# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve
# last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April
# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program
# <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (2005-02-20)
# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support
Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880
# places (e.g. Ishigaki) use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all
Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u
# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html">
# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com.
# ...I think I may have spotted an error in the timezone data for
# However timeanddate.com, which I usually find reliable, shows Jordan
Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
# <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm">
Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata
Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2
Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2
Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk
Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890
Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890
Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950
Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan
Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1
6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar
Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm">
# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus
# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST.
# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&>
# Asia/Choibalsan (GMT+09:00) is incorrect, and that it should be GMT
# database on this, e.g.:
# <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112">
# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug
# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga
Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug
# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan,
Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug
Zone Asia/Kathmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920
# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05
# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm
# <a href="http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html">
# <a href="http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=171280">
Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to
# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they
# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com.
# Palestinian territories left DST early on 13.th. of September at 2:00.
# <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001">
# According to the Palestine News Network (arabic.pnn.ps), Palestinian
Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>.
Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha
Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950
Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1
6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996
# <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13):
# <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML>
# People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'],
# Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they
Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880
# I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic):
# this month (March 2008) in the last day or so...This is the data IATA
# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm">
# </a>...which reads (in part) "The Cabinet approved the suggestion of the
# winter time on 2008-11-01 at 00:00 local daylight time (delaying/setting
# <a href="http://sana.sy/ara/2/2008/10/07/195459.htm">
# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2009/03/17/217563.htm">
Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq
Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880
Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad
Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920
Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
Zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950