More about Antartica

[Antoine Leca]

Hello,

I've dig up some informations about timezones in the French Southern 
Territories.

First, a Web page in English is available at 
<URL:http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/science/reports/fr/IFRTP.html>.

IFRTP (Institut Français pour la Recherche et la Technologie Polaire)
is the French organism in charge of the scientific stations there.
They don't have a web page of their own presently.
When they will have one, it will be linked in the proper place in 
<http://www.mesr.fr/organism.htm>.

I called this organism, and Mrs. Nicole Pailleau which is in charge
of the communications with the remote stations gave me the local hours 
there.  She confirms me that no stations use daylight saving time, even 
Terre Adelie that is connected with Tasmania for support.

There is really two different zones:

* one is the islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, namely Kerguelen, 
Crozet, Amsterdam and Saint-Paul.
There are 3 meteorologic bases, in the Kerguelen, in Crozet and in 
Amsterdam.  They are constantly at UTC+5:

  Martin-de-Viviès Base, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950
      30 persons in winter, 50 in summer
  Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951
      80 persons in winter, 120 in summer
  Alfred-Faure Base, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964
      35 persons in winter, 50 in summer

St Paul Island, near Amsterdam, is uninhabited since 1927

The islands were inhabited by whale-hunters (with oil factories) in the 
1920's.  They are supported from the island of Réunion.

Since they are really in the Indian Ocean, I give them the zone name of 
Indian/Kerguelen, the name of the largest island; 
Indian/Port_aux_Francais ought to be more appropriate, but too long.


* the second is a base in the main continent, in a area called Terre 
Adélie.
It is named Dumont-d'Urville, and it lies at UTC+10 all year round.
It holds 35 persons in winter and 100 in summer.

Previously, there were another base, named Port-Martin; it was destroyed 
by fire in 1954.  I included it in the statitics about the past.



Also, I read in 
<http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/macca/macca_aws.html> that 
Macquarie Is is in the same timezone as Tasmania. But I don't know if it 
is inhabited all-year round.

I joined two diff files about the changes.
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*** antarc~1	Sun Nov 24 02:07:38 1996
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*** 58,71 ****
  
  # France
  #
  # French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants
! # Amsterdam Island
! # Crozet Islands
! # Kerguelen Islands
! # St Paul Island
  #
! # year-round base
! # Dumont d'Urville, Adelie Land, since IGY
  
  # Germany - year-round base
  # Georg von Neumayer
--- 58,95 ----
  
  # France
  #
+ # From Antoine Leca <Antoine.Leca at Renault.FR> (1996-01-20):
+ # Timezones from Nicole Pailleau at IFRTP (French institute).
+ # She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adelie bases
+ # doesn't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adelie supplies came
+ # from Tasmania.
+ # 
  # French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants
! # 
! # Martin-de-Vivies Base, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950
! # Alfred-Faure Base, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964
! # Port-aux-Francais, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951
  #
! # St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited since 1927
! #
! # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
! Zone Indian/Kerguelen	0	-	___	1950	# Port-aux-Francais
! 			5:00	-	TFT	# ISO code TF Time
! #
! # year-round base in the main continent
! # Dumont-d'Urville, Terre Adelie (Adelie Land), -6040 +14001, since 1956-11
! #
! # Previously, another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, was operated since 1947
! # It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14
! # 
! # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
! Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville	0	-	___	1947
! 			10:00	-	PMT	1952 Jan 14	# Port-Martin Time
! 			0	-	___	1956 Nov
! 			10:00	-	DDUT	# Dumont-d'Urville Time
! # References
! # <URL:http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/science/reports/fr/IFRTP.html> (1996-01-17).
! 
  
  # Germany - year-round base
  # Georg von Neumayer
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*** zone.tab	1996-11-24 02:07:38	tzdata96n
--- zone.tab	1997-01-17 18:38:22	tzdata
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*** 34,39 ****
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  AQ	-6448-06406	Antarctica/Palmer	Palmer Station, Anvers Island
  AQ	-6736+06253	Antarctica/Mawson	Mawson Station, Holme Bay
  AQ	-6617+11031	Antarctica/Casey	Casey Station, Bailey Peninsula
+ AQ	-6040+14001	Antarctica/DumontDUrville	Dumont-d'Urville Base, Terre Adelie
  AR	-3436-05827	America/Buenos_Aires	E Argentina (BA, DF, SC, TF)
  AR	-3257-06040	America/Rosario	NE Argentina (SF, ER, CN, MN, CC, FM, LP, CH)
  AR	-3124-06411	America/Cordoba	W Argentina (CB, SA, TM, LR, SJ, SL, NQ, RN)
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*** 310,315 ****
--- 311,317 ----
  SZ	-2618+03106	Africa/Mbabane
  TC	+2128-07108	America/Grand_Turk
  TD	+1207+01503	Africa/Ndjamena
+ TF	-492110+0701303	Indian/Kerguelen
  TG	+0608+00113	Africa/Lome
  TH	+1345+10031	Asia/Bangkok
  TJ	+3835+06848	Asia/Dushanbe