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0N/A# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15):
0N/A# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see
0N/A# COMNAP - Stations and Bases
0N/A# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23)
0N/A# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information.
0N/A# Except for the French entries,
0N/A# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome!
0N/A# FORMAT is `zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited.
0N/A# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.
0N/A# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
0N/ARule RussAQ 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
0N/ARule RussAQ 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
0N/ARule RussAQ 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
0N/ARule RussAQ 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
0N/ARule RussAQ 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
0N/ARule RussAQ 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
0N/ARule RussAQ 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
0N/ARule RussAQ 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
0N/ARule RussAQ 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
0N/A# These rules are stolen from the `southamerica' file.
0N/A# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
0N/ARule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
0N/ARule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S
0N/ARule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 -
0N/ARule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
0N/ARule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
0N/ARule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S
0N/ARule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 -
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 -
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 -
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 -
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 -
0N/ARule ChileAQ 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
0N/ARule ChileAQ 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
0N/A# Argentina - year-round bases
0N/A# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05
0N/A# Esperanza, San Martin Land, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17
0N/A# Jubany, Potter Peninsula, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01
0N/A# Marambio, Seymour I, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29
0N/A# Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22
0N/A# San Martin, Debenham I, -6807-06708, since 1951-03-21
0N/A# (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21)
0N/A# Australia - territories
0N/A# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited)
0N/A# previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered
0N/A# Margaret Turner reports
0N/A# </a> (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST;
0N/A# presumably this is when they have visitors.
0N/A# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969
0N/A# Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13
0N/A# (except 1964-11 - 1969-02)
0N/A# Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13
0N/A# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
0N/A 8:00 - WST # Western (Aus) Standard Time
0N/A 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time
0N/A 6:00 - MAWT # Mawson Time
0N/A# Casey Weather (1998-02-26)
0N/A# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26)
0N/A# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25)
0N/A# Brazil - year-round base
0N/A# Comandante Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4
0N/A# Chile - year-round bases and towns
0N/A# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994
0N/A# Presidente Eduadro Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07
0N/A# General Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02
0N/A# Capitan Arturo Prat, -6230-05941
0N/A# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09
0N/A# China - year-round bases
0N/A# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20
0N/A# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26
0N/A# France - year-round bases
0N/A# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20):
0N/A# Time data are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP
0N/A# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology).
0N/A# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adelie bases
0N/A# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adelie supplies came
0N/A# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants
0N/A# Martin-de-Vivies Base, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950
0N/A# Alfred-Faure Base, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964
0N/A# Port-aux-Francais, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951;
0N/A# whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956
0N/A# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited
0N/A# fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931
0N/A# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
0N/A 5:00 - TFT # ISO code TF Time
0N/A# year-round base in the main continent
0N/A# Dumont-d'Urville, Ile des Petrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11
0N/A# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947.
0N/A# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14.
0N/A# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
0N/A 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time
0N/A 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time
0N/A# Dumont d'Urville Station (2005-12-05)
0N/A# Germany - year-round base
0N/A# Georg von Neumayer, -7039-00815
0N/A# India - year-round base
0N/A# Dakshin Gangotri, -7005+01200
0N/A# Japan - year-round bases
0N/A# Dome Fuji, -7719+03942
0N/A# Syowa, -690022+0393524
0N/A# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06):
0N/A# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time.
0N/A# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan,
0N/A# was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main
0N/A# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location.
0N/A# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
0N/A 3:00 - SYOT # Syowa Time
0N/A# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17)
0N/A# S Korea - year-round base
0N/A# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988
0N/A# New Zealand - claims
0N/A# Balleny Islands (never inhabited)
0N/A# Scott Island (never inhabited)
0N/A# These rules for New Zealand are stolen from the `australasia' file.
0N/A# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
0N/ARule NZAQ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D
0N/ARule NZAQ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
0N/ARule NZAQ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D
0N/ARule NZAQ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
0N/ARule NZAQ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S
0N/ARule NZAQ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
0N/ARule NZAQ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S
0N/ARule NZAQ 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
0N/ARule NZAQ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
0N/A# Norway - territories
0N/A# Bouvet (never inhabited)
0N/A# Peter I Island (never inhabited)
0N/A# Poland - year-round base
0N/A# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977
0N/A# Russia - year-round bases
0N/A# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22
0N/A# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02
0N/A# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551,
0N/A# year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01
0N/A# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150,
0N/A# year-round from 1960/61 to 1992
0N/A# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11
0N/A# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>:
0N/A# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same
0N/A# time as Moscow, Russia.
0N/A# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08):
0N/A# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is
0N/A# what they had to say about time there:
0N/A# ``in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo)
0N/A# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was
0N/A# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away,
i.e. 6 hours ahead
0N/A# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The
0N/A# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT.''
0N/A# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04):
0N/A# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it
0N/A# in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local
0N/A# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this
0N/A# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean
0N/A# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks
0N/A# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time
0N/A# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6.
0N/A 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time
0N/A# S Africa - year-round bases
0N/A# Marion Island, -4653+03752
0N/A# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims
0N/A# South Orkney Islands
0N/A# scientific station from 1903
0N/A# whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926
0N/A# South Shetland Islands
0N/A# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983
0N/A# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931,
0N/A# scientific station 1943/1967,
0N/A# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident,
0N/A# and a garrison was deployed briefly
0N/A# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06
0N/A# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated
0N/A# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location.
0N/A# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01
0N/A# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22)
0N/A# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
0N/A -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time
0N/A# Uruguay - year round base
0N/A# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107
0N/A# USA - year-round bases
0N/A# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
0N/A# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06):
0N/A# It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
0N/A# and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
0N/A# I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
0N/A# Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
0N/A# Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
0N/A# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
0N/A -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
0N/A -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May
0N/A# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12
0N/A# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
0N/A# Amundsen-Scott, South Pole, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20
0N/A# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
0N/A# Normally it wouldn't have a separate entry, since it's like the
0N/A# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27):
0N/A# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station,
0N/A# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station,
0N/A# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12
0N/A# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound,
0N/A# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year
0N/A# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.)
0N/A# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available):
0N/A# We use the same time as McMurdo does.
0N/A# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does....
0N/A# One last quirk about South Pole time.
0N/A# All the electric clocks are usually wrong.
0N/A# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something
0N/A# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days,
0N/A# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so.
0N/A# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!!