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<p><tt>TZ has this information in file backzone</tt><tt><br>
</tt></p>
<p><tt># From Paul Eggert (2014-10-11):</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt># See Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh for the source for most of this
data. Also, guess</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt># (1) Cambodia reverted to UT +07 on 1945-09-02, when
Vietnam did, and</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt># (2) they also reverted to +07 on 1953-11-09, the date
of independence.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt># These guesses are probably wrong but they're better
than guessing no</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt># transitions there.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jul
1</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 7:06:30 - PLMT 1911 May
1</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 7:00 - +07 1942 Dec
31 23:00</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 8:00 - +08 1945 Mar
14 23:00</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 9:00 - +09 1945 Sep
2</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 7:00 - +07 1947 Apr
1</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 8:00 - +08 1953 Nov
9</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> 7:00 - +07</tt></p>
<p><tt>A good friend of mine born in 1951 in Phnom Pen is the
adoptive daughter of late Cambodian ruler Prince Sihanouk.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Being very interested in astrology, this friend of course
much engaged in knowing the correct time zone for her birth.</tt></p>
<p><tt>The information above would set it at 8h east of GMT for 1947
- 1953.</tt></p>
<p><tt>My friend writes (and I have bolded the essential phrase):</tt><tt><br>
</tt></p>
<p class="ydpc235cfddMsoNormal"><tt><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">According to my father xxxx, during the French
protectorate, Cambodia’s legal time was that of Hanoi. [..]<br>
</span></tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p class="ydpc235cfddMsoNormal"><tt><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">My [adoptive] father Sihanouk confirmed the above
in 2011 when I
drafted my essay on King Sihanouk. I needed to ask him many
questions, including details
regarding our time zone, especially 5-6 August 1951. [...]</span></tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p class="ydpc235cfddMsoNormal"><tt><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">King Sihanouk said that, during the Japanese
occupation,
starting with what historians refer to as “le coup de force du
9 mars 1945”,
Cambodia, like the entire French Indochina, used Tokyo time
zone. After Japan
surrendered, 2 September 1945, Cambodia fell under French rule
again and
adopted Hanoi time zone again.</span></tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p class="ydpc235cfddMsoNormal"><tt><b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">However, on 7 January 1946, Sihanouk and
Tioulong managed
to obtain a status of “internal autonomy” from the
government of Charles de Gaulle.
Although many fields remained under the administration of
the French (customs,
taxes, justice, defence, foreign affairs, etc.), the
Cambodian administration
was responsible for religious matters and traditional
celebrations, which
included our calendar and time. The time zone was GMT + 7
and <u>no</u> DST was
applied.</span></b></tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<p class="ydpc235cfddMsoNormal"><tt><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">After Sihanouk and Tioulong achieved full
independence,
on 9 November 1953, GMT + 7 was maintained.</span></tt></p>
<p class="ydpc235cfddMsoNormal"><tt><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB">-- end quote<br>
</span></tt></p>
ket<br>
<p class="ydpc235cfddMsoNormal"><tt><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
lang="EN-GB"><font size="-1">In view of this, I would tend to
eliminate the line<br>
8:00 - +08 1953 Nov 9<br>
Of course, it is here like in many other cases the question
what TZ wants to represent: offical time maintained by the
colonial administration, or 'time on the ground' used by the
local population for their own records, like a royal birth
event.<br>
<br>
I do not expect action by Paul Eggert, as this is only
backzone data.Still. I consider it worthwile to be recorded
in the TZ mailing ist history.</font><br>
</span></tt></p>
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