From 511df4d784a90340397d30966ccfd002bca2fdc1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 19:29:29 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] North Korea switches back to +09 on 2018-05-05 * NEWS: Mention this. * asia (Asia/Pyongyang): Switch to +09 on 2018-05-05. (Thanks to Kang Seonghoon, Arthur David Olson, Seo Sanghyeon and Tim Parenti.) For now, assume the switch is from 00:00 to 00:30. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ asia | 16 +++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 40c8e68..618533c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,12 +4,17 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Briefly: + North Korea switches back to +09 on 2018-05-05. The main format uses negative DST again, for Ireland etc. 'make tarballs' now also builds a rearguard tarball. New 's' and 'd' suffixes in SAVE columns of Rule and Zone lines. Changes to past and future time stamps + North Korea switches back from +0830 to +09 on 2018-05-05. + (Thanks to Kang Seonghoon, Arthur David Olson, Seo Sanghyeon, + and Tim Parenti.) + Bring back the negative-DST changes of 2018a, except be more compatible with data parsers that do not support negative DST. Also, this now affects historical time stamps in Namibia and the diff --git a/asia b/asia index 7a6294a..9d576eb 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -1983,6 +1983,19 @@ Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 3:00 0 S # There is no common English-language abbreviation for this time zone. # Use KST, as that's what we already use for 1954-1961 in ROK. +# From Kang Seonghoon (2018-04-29): +# North Korea will revert its time zone from UTC+8:30 (PYT; Pyongyang +# Time) back to UTC+9 (KST; Korea Standard Time). +# +# From Seo Sanghyeon (2018-04-30): +# Rodong Sinmun 2018-04-30 announced Pyongyang Time transition plan. +# https://www.nknews.org/kcna/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/04/rodong-2018-04-30.pdf +# ... the transition date is 2018-05-05 ... Citation should be Decree +# No. 2232 of April 30, 2018, of the Presidum of the Supreme People's +# Assembly, as published in Rodong Sinmun. +# From Tim Parenti (2018-04-29): +# It appears to be the front page story at the top in the right-most column. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1908 Apr 1 8:30 - KST 1912 Jan 1 @@ -1994,7 +2007,8 @@ Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1908 Apr 1 8:30 - KST 1912 Jan 1 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 24 9:00 - KST 2015 Aug 15 00:00 - 8:30 - KST + 8:30 - KST 2018 May 5 + 9:00 - KST ############################################################################### -- 2.7.4