standard time in Japanese antarctic stations

Hideyuki Suzuki hideyuki at sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Sat Feb 6 07:19:23 UTC 1999


I'd like the following information about Japanese antarctic
stations to be written in tzdata.

Japan has two year-round bases: Syowa and Dome Fuji.
  (http://www.delm.tas.gov.au/comnap/members.html#Japan)

In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time.
  (http://www.crl.go.jp/uk/uk201/basyo.htm (Japanese) and
   information from KAMO Hiroyasu <wd at ics.nara-wu.ac.jp>)

Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan,
was established on 1957-01-29.  Since Syowa station is still the main
station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location.
The location of these stations are:
Showa:     -690022+0393524
Dome Fuji: -771901+0394212
  (http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/jare.html,
   http://www.nipr.ac.jp/jp/station/station.html (Japanese))

I noticed that the URL http://earth.agu.org/amen/nations.html
at the beginning of the file antarctica does not exist.
There is the corresponding page at COMNAP:
  http://www.delm.tas.gov.au/comnap/station.html

-- hideyuki



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