proposed tz changes for Lithuania, Tonga, Pakistan, Rothera, etc.
Paul Eggert
eggert at twinsun.com
Fri Mar 14 04:58:19 UTC 2003
Spring is coming, so it must be time for a tz update. The patch enclosed below proposes the following changes. Lithuania is perhaps the most urgent case, as it changes its DST rules in a couple of weeks or so.
Changes in the tz data proper:
* Lithuania (Europe/Riga) will observe EU-style daylight-saving in
2003. Thanks to Klaus Marten for forwarding this info.
* Tonga (Pacific/Tongatapu) stopped observing DST in January 2002.
Thanks to Pulu 'Anau for this info.
* Pakistan (Asia/Karachi) ends DST at the end of the first Saturday in
October, not on October 15. Also, add 1 minute to the transition
times, so they actually occur at 00:01 the next day. Thanks to
Rives McDow for this info.
* A new zone Antarctica/Rothera for Rothera Station, Antarctica.
* Use the BEV for historical daylight-saving transitions
for Europe/Vienna, applying the following corrections:
Change 1918-06-16 to 1918-09-16.
Change 1945-11-18 to 1945-04-12.
Add transitions 1980-04-06 00:00 and 1980-09-28 00:00.
Thanks to Janko Stamenovic for pointing out the BEV.
* The PTB has come round to Shanks's opinions about double-daylight
saving time for Europe/Berlin in 1945, so switch to Shanks.
This changes the transition times from 05-31 03:00 to 05-24 02:00
and from 09-23 03:00 to 09-24 03:00. Thanks to Joerg Schilling
for prompting me to look into this.
* For Arizona/Phoenix, correct the date of the 1944 transition from
03-17 to 04-01. This correction comes from the Arizona State
Library, Archives and Public Records.
* The New Zealand Dept of Internal Affairs says that standard time was
introduced in New Zealand on 1868-11-02; change to this date from
Shanks's presumably-vaguer 1868-01-01.
Changes in the auxiliary tables:
* Yugoslavia has changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro.
This does not affect the substance of the TZ tables, but it
does change some commentary and a label in zone.tab. The ISO 3166
maintenance agency plans to determine a suitable country code,
but this process has not been done yet, so we'll continue to
use YU for the country code.
Changes in commentary:
* Thanks to Igor Karpov, a comment now records the official document
number for daylight-saving in Ukraine.
* Add a comment noting that our historic data for Chile disagrees with
that of Chile's Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service, but we
haven't had time to resolve the discrepancies.
* Add more details in the comments about current US time zone boundaries.
* It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout, who first reported the United
States' transition from War Time to Peace Time on 1945-08-14.
Changes in the tz-link.htm web page:
* Put national histories of time zones in their own section.
* Add URLs for Cygwin, RDF-based time zone representation, XCal, Sosigenes,
Java, Python, Keim's new binary time zone file reader, Law's time
zone concepts web page, and Google's index.
* Remove URLs to obsolete web sites Timezone Converter (killed by changes
to Perl), iCS (now Sun ONE).
* Update URLs for IRIX, UnixWare.
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/antarctica,v
retrieving revision 2001.3
retrieving revision 2001.3.0.1
diff -pu -r2001.3 -r2001.3.0.1
--- antarctica 2001/06/05 17:48:22 2001.3
+++ antarctica 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2001.3.0.1
@@ -255,6 +255,13 @@ Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec
# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated
# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location.
# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22)
+# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03
+all year. #
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1
+ -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time
# Uruguay - year round base
# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 ===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/asia,v
retrieving revision 2002.4
retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1
diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1
--- asia 2002/10/15 16:59:28 2002.4
+++ asia 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880
# bill have until July 24 to pass.
#
# (2002-07-25):
-# Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew) article
+# Thanks go to Yitschak Goldberg from E&M for bringing this (Hebrew)
+article
# to my attention:
#
# http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2019315,00.html
@@ -878,7 +878,7 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991.
# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. # - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. -#
+#
#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
#
@@ -1154,9 +1154,13 @@ Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920
# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the # transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02.
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09):
+# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on
+2002-10-05 # that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow
+for now.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Apr Sun>=2 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Oct 15 0:00 0 -
+Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S
+Rule Pakistan 2002 max - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/australasia,v
retrieving revision 2002.4
retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1
diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1
--- australasia 2002/10/15 16:59:28 2002.4
+++ australasia 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1
@@ -297,6 +297,17 @@ Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912
###############################################################################
# New Zealand
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-23):
+# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history; #
+see tz-link.htm for the full reference. #
+# Shanks gives 1868 for the introduction of standard time; go with the
+# DIA's more-precise 1868-11-02. The DIA says that clocks were
+# advanced by half an hour in 1941; go with Shanks's more-precise
+# 1940-09-29 02:00. The DIA says that starting in 1933 DST began the
+# first Sunday in September; go with Shanks's last Sunday starting in
+# 1934.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
# Shanks gives 1927 Nov 6 - 1928 Mar 4, 1928 Oct 14 - 1929 Mar 17,
@@ -311,17 +322,17 @@ Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30
# didn't change until 1945 Apr 30; go with Shanks.
Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S
Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD
-Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S
Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
-Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D
-Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
-Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S
Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
+Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D
+Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S
Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D
Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868
+Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2
11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1940 Sep 29 2:00
12:00 NZ NZ%sT
Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT
@@ -399,8 +410,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 190
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 -
-Rule Tonga 2000 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Tonga 2001 max - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 -
+Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901
12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time
@@ -739,21 +750,21 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
-# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
-# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with
-# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the
-# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being
-# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the
-# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are
-# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western
-# Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
-# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The
-# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
-# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
-# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
-# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and
-# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an
-# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone
+# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on
+the # southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along
+with # 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into
+the # continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns
+being # Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the
+# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they
+are # located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and
+Western # Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time;
+Western # Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours
+apart. The # residents decided to forget about this nonsense of
+changing the clock so # much and set the local time 20 hours and 45
+minutes from the # international date line, or right in the middle of
+the time of South # Australia and Western Australia. As it only
+affects about 10 people and # tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it
+has never really made as big an # impact as Broken Hill. However, as
+tourist visiting there or anyone
# calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way. # # From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
@@ -1263,6 +1274,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one # hour to 1:00am.
+# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05):
+# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't.
###############################################################################
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/europe,v
retrieving revision 2002.3
retrieving revision 2002.3.0.1
diff -pu -r2002.3 -r2002.3.0.1
--- europe 2002/04/04 16:55:19 2002.3
+++ europe 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.3.0.1
@@ -33,20 +33,20 @@
# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. # Corrections are welcome!
-# std dst
-# LMT Local Mean Time
-# -4:00 AST Atlantic
-# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland*
-# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland*
-# 0:00 GMT BST Greenwich, British Summer
-# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer
-# 0:00 WET WEST Western Europe
-# 0:19:32 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)*
-# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)*
-# 1:00 CET CEST Central Europe
-# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)*
-# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe
-# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow
+# std dst 2dst
+# LMT Local Mean Time
+# -4:00 AST ADT Atlantic
+# -3:00 WGT WGST Western Greenland*
+# -1:00 EGT EGST Eastern Greenland*
+# 0:00 GMT BST BDST Greenwich, British Summer
+# 0:00 GMT IST Greenwich, Irish Summer
+# 0:00 WET WEST WEMT Western Europe
+# 0:19:32.13 AMT NST Amsterdam, Netherlands Summer (1835-1937)*
+# 0:20 NET NEST Netherlands (1937-1940)*
+# 1:00 CET CEST CEMT Central Europe
+# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)*
+# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe
+# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow
#
# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain, # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
@@ -558,20 +558,30 @@ Zone Europe/Andorra 0:06:04 - LMT 1901
1:00 EU CE%sT
# Austria
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-28): Shanks gives 1918-06-16 and
+# 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and #
+Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged" #
+date of 1945-04-12 with no time. For the 1980-04-06 transition #
+Shanks gives 02:00, the BEV 00:00. Go with the BEV, and guess 02:00 #
+for 1945-04-12.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Austria 1920 only - Apr 5 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Austria 1920 only - Sep 13 2:00s 0 -
-Rule Austria 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
-Rule Austria 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 -
Rule Austria 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Austria 1946 1948 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
Rule Austria 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Austria 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr
- 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1918 Jun 16 3:00
- 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00
- 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1920
+ 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00s
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s
+ 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Apr 12 2:00s
+ 1:00 - CET 1946
1:00 Austria CE%sT 1981
1:00 EU CE%sT
@@ -654,7 +664,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880
1:00 EU CE%sT
# Bosnia and Herzegovina
-# see Yugoslavia
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
# Bulgaria
#
@@ -681,7 +691,7 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880
2:00 EU EE%sT
# Croatia
-# see Yugosloavia
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
# Czech Republic
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@@ -750,7 +760,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Faeroe -0:27:04 - LMT 1908
# introduced.
# From Rives McDow (2001-11-01):
-#
+#
# I correspond regularly with the Dansk Polarcenter, and wrote them at # the time to clarify the situation in Thule. Unfortunately, I have # not heard back from them regarding my recent letter. [But I have
@@ -991,25 +1001,29 @@ Zone Europe/Paris 0:09:21 - LMT 1891 Mar
# From Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn at cl.cam.ac.uk> (1998-09-29):
# The German time zone web site by the Physikalisch-Technische # Bundesanstalt contains DST information back to 1916. -#
-# <a href="http://www.ptb.de/english/org/4/43/432/lega.htm">
-# Realisation of Legal Time in Germany
-# </a>
+# [See tz-link.htm for the URL.]
+
+# From Joerg Schilling (2002-10-23):
+# In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by <a #
+href="http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/">
+# General [Nikolai] Bersarin</a>.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-08):
+# <a
+href="http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf">
+# says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.
+# However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so
+# this was equivalent to CEMT (GMT+3), not GMT+4.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Germany 1945 only - Apr 2 2:00s 1:00 S
-# Shanks says 05-24 2:00 to 09-24 3:00 for DDST; go with the PTB, who quotes -# the Archiv fuer publizist. Arbeit (Munzinger-Archiv) 652 (Zeitsystem) -# (1961-11-25), which gives dates only. Guess 3:00 transition times.
-Rule Germany 1945 only - May 31 3:00 2:00 M # Midsummer
-Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 23 3:00 1:00 S
+Rule Germany 1945 only - May 24 2:00 2:00 M # Midsummer
+Rule Germany 1945 only - Sep 24 3:00 1:00 S
Rule Germany 1945 only - Nov 18 2:00s 0 -
Rule Germany 1946 only - Apr 14 2:00s 1:00 S
Rule Germany 1946 only - Oct 7 2:00s 0 -
Rule Germany 1947 1949 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
Rule Germany 1947 only - Apr 6 2:00s 1:00 S
-# The PTB gives 3:00 CET and 3:00 CEST for the midsummer transition times; -# go with Shanks.
Rule Germany 1947 only - May 11 2:00s 2:00 M
Rule Germany 1947 only - Jun 29 3:00 1:00 S
Rule Germany 1948 only - Apr 18 2:00s 1:00 S
@@ -1341,6 +1355,15 @@ Zone Europe/Vaduz 0:38:04 - LMT 1894 Jun
# Fact File, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism
# </a> (2000-03-27): Local time is GMT+2 hours ..., no daylight saving.
+# From a user via Klaus Marten (2003-02-07):
+# As a candidate for membership of the European Union, Lithuania will #
+observe Summer Time in 2003, changing its clocks at the times laid #
+down in EU Directive 2000/84 of 19.I.01 (i.e. at the same times as its
+# neighbour Latvia). The text of the Lithuanian government Order of #
+7.XI.02 to this effect can be found at #
+http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm
+
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880
1:24:00 - WMT 1917 # Warsaw Mean Time
@@ -1355,7 +1378,8 @@ Zone Europe/Vilnius 1:41:16 - LMT 1880
2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998
2:00 - EET 1998 Mar 29 1:00u
1:00 EU CE%sT 1999 Oct 31 1:00u
- 2:00 - EET
+ 2:00 - EET 2003 Jan 1
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT
# Luxembourg
# Whitman disagrees with most of these dates in minor ways; go with Shanks.
@@ -1393,7 +1417,7 @@ Zone Europe/Luxembourg 0:24:36 - LMT 190
1:00 EU CE%sT
# Macedonia
-# see Yugoslavia
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
# Malta
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@@ -1979,11 +2003,27 @@ Zone Asia/Anadyr 11:49:56 - LMT 1924 May
11:00 Russia ANA%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
12:00 Russia ANA%sT
+# Serbia and Montenegro
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884
+ 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00
+ 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s
+ 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s
+# Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj at rzs-hm.si> reports that the legal date of
+# transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the
+time. # Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj.
+ 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27
+ 1:00 EU CE%sT
+Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia
+Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina
+Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # Macedonia
+Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia
+
# Slovakia
Link Europe/Prague Europe/Bratislava
# Slovenia
-# see Yugoslavia
+# see Serbia and Montenegro
# Spain
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@@ -2191,6 +2231,15 @@ Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880
Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents.
# Ukraine
+#
+# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukranian Ministry of Justice, #
+via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27): # BTW, I've found the official
+document on this matter. It's goverment # regulations number 509, May
+13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: # "Time in Ukraine is set to
+second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday # of March at 3am the
+time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of # October the time at
+4am is changing to 3am"
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
# Most of Ukraine since 1970 has been like Kiev.
Zone Europe/Kiev 2:02:04 - LMT 1880
@@ -2249,22 +2298,6 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 188
3:00 - MSK 1997 Mar lastSun 1:00u
2:00 EU EE%sT
-# Yugoslavia
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Europe/Belgrade 1:22:00 - LMT 1884
- 1:00 - CET 1941 Apr 18 23:00
- 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 8 2:00s
- 1:00 1:00 CEST 1945 Sep 16 2:00s
-# Metod Kozelj <metod.kozelj at rzs-hm.si> reports that the legal date of -# transition to EU rules was 1982-11-27, for all of Yugoslavia at the time. -# Shanks doesn't give as much detail, so go with Kozelj.
- 1:00 - CET 1982 Nov 27
- 1:00 EU CE%sT
-Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Ljubljana # Slovenia
-Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Sarajevo # Bosnia and Herzegovina
-Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Skopje # Macedonia
-Link Europe/Belgrade Europe/Zagreb # Croatia
- ###############################################################################
# One source shows that Bulgaria, Cyprus, Finland, and Greece observe DST from ===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/iso3166.tab,v
retrieving revision 2002.4
retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1
diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1
--- iso3166.tab 2002/10/15 17:12:42 2002.4
+++ iso3166.tab 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
#
# @(#)iso3166.tab 1.9
#
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun.com> (2002-05-28):
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert at twinsun.com> (2003-02-04):
#
# This file contains a table with the following columns:
# 1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, current as of
-# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-5 (2002-05-20). See:
+# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-7 (2003-01-14). See:
# <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/index.html">
# ISO 3166 Maintenance agency (ISO 3166/MA)
# </a>.
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ WF Wallis & Futuna
WS Samoa (Western)
YE Yemen
YT Mayotte
-YU Yugoslavia
+YU Serbia and Montenegro
ZA South Africa
ZM Zambia
ZW Zimbabwe
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/northamerica,v
retrieving revision 2002.3
retrieving revision 2002.3.0.1
diff -pu -r2002.3 -r2002.3.0.1
--- northamerica 2002/04/04 16:55:20 2002.3
+++ northamerica 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.3.0.1
@@ -88,6 +88,23 @@
# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in # London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech.
+# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout.
+From # Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los
+Angeles Times: # # ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word
+of Japan's surrender. # Any announcement from Asia would reach St.
+John's New York newsroom on a # wire service teletype machine, which
+had prescribed signals for major news. # Associated Press, for example,
+would ring five bells before spewing out # typed copy of an important
+story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental # importance."
+#
+# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open
+# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell,
+# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over.
+# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms."
+#
+# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
@@ -189,10 +206,11 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00
# US eastern time, represented by New York
# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, -# Georgia, far southeastern Indiana, eastern Kentucky, Maine, -# Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North -# Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern -# Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
+# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, and #
+Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, # New
+Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, # Pennsylvania,
+Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, # Vermont, Virginia,
+West Virginia
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
@@ -211,10 +229,11 @@ Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 188
# US central time, represented by Chicago
# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle, Illinois, western Indiana -# corners, Iowa, most of Kansas, western Kentucky, Louisiana, -# Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern Nebraska, eastern North -# Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, western Tennessee, most of -# Texas, Wisconsin
+# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, #
+Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western #
+Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern #
+Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, #
+western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D
@@ -357,12 +376,32 @@ Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 19
# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970.
# Arizona mostly uses MST.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20):
+#
+# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the #
+<a href="http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm">
+# Daylight Saving Time web page (2002-01-23)</a> maintained by the #
+Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. # Between
+1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard # time,
+but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military #
+personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to #
+observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix #
+Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was #
+the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of #
+Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as #
+mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona #
+Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. #
+# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17.
+# Go with the Arizona State Library instead.
+
Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00
-7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 00:01
- -7:00 - MST 1944 Mar 17 00:01
+ -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 00:01
-7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 00:01
-7:00 - MST 1967
- -7:00 US M%sT 1968
+ -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21
-7:00 - MST
# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.,
@@ -522,7 +561,7 @@ Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky
# <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22">
# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158.
# </a>
-#
+#
Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00
-6:00 US C%sT 1946
-6:00 - CST 1968
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/southamerica,v
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diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1
--- southamerica 2002/10/15 17:03:12 2002.4
+++ southamerica 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1
@@ -584,6 +584,10 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1
# Go with this article in preference to Shanks's 1969 date for modern DST. # Assume this rule has been used since DST was introduced in the islands.
+# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-24):
+# <http://www.shoa.cl/shoa/faqhoraoficial.htm> gives many details that
+# disagree with the following table, but we haven't had time to compare
+them.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Chile 1918 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Chile 1919 only - Jul 2 0:00 0 -
===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/tz-link.htm,v
retrieving revision 2002.4
retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1
diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1
--- tz-link.htm 2002/10/15 16:59:28 2002.4
+++ tz-link.htm 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1
@@ -40,12 +40,13 @@ including
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>,
<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>,
+<a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>,
<a href="http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/">DJGPP</a>,
<a href="http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/operating/">HP-UX</a>,
-<a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix.html">IRIX</a>,
-<a href="http://www.caldera.com/products/openunix/">Open UNIX/UnixWare</a>, -<a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>, and -<a href="http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/">Tru64</a>.</p>
+<a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix/">IRIX</a>,
+<a href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>,
+<a href="http://www.tru64unix.compaq.com/">Tru64</a>, and
+<a href="http://www.sco.com/products/unixware/">UnixWare</a>.</p>
<p>
Each location in the database represents a national region where all clocks keeping local time have agreed since 1970. @@ -97,10 +98,6 @@ Here are some recent links that may be o <li><a href="http://www.bsdi.com/date/">Date and Time Gateway</a> is a text-based point-and-click interface to tables of current time throughout the world.</li> -<li><a href="http://sandbox.xerox.com/stewart/tzconvert.cgi">Timezone
-Converter</a> is a similar interface, with source code -written in <a href="http://www.perl.org/">Perl</a>, using what Paul -Stewart calls the "20-line hack no one will let me forget".</li> <li>Fancier web interfaces, roughly in ascending order of complexity, include: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.hilink.com.au/times/">Local Times Around the @@ -111,29 +108,44 @@ World</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.holidayfestival.com/">The Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site</a> lists DST-related clock changes along with holidays.</li> -<li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock</a>
+<li><a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/">The World Clock -
+Time Zones</a>
is a web interface to a time zone database derived from <code>tz</code>'s.</li> </ul>
+<h2>Other time zone database formats</h2>
+<ul>
+<li>The <a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2445.txt">
+Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
+(iCalendar)</a> specification published by the <a
+href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html">IETF
+Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group (calsch)</a> covers time zone
+data; see its VTIMEZONE calendar component.</li> <li>The <a
+href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/"><samp>www-rdf-calendar</samp></a>
+list discusses <a href="http://www.w3.org/RDF/">RDF</a>-based calendar
+and group scheduling systems, and has a <a
+href="http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/#tzd">workspace on time zone
+data</a> converted from <code>tz</code>. An earlier <a
+href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo">schema</a> was sketched out by <a
+href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a>.</li>
+<li><a
+href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-calsch-many-xcal-02.txt">XCal</a>
+is a draft <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</a> document type
+definition that corresponds to iCalendar. <a
+href="http://www.panix.com/~gmcgath/sosigenes/">Sosigenes</a> is a <a
+href="http://java.sun.com/">Java</a> package for reading XCal
+calendars; it is distributed under the terms of the <a
+href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/academic.php">Academic Free
+License</a>.</li>
+</ul>
<h2>Other <code>tz</code> compilers</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://primates.ximian.com/~damon/icalendar/">Olson -> VTIMEZONE Converter</a> describes a program Vzic that -compiles <code>tz</code> source into VTIMEZONE text as specified by -the <a href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc2445.txt">iCalendar</a>
-specification published by the <a -href="http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/calsch-charter.html">IETF
-Calendaring and Scheduling Working Group</a>. Vzic is freely
+compiles <code>tz</code> source into iCalendar format. Vzic is freely
available under the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU
General Public License (GPL)</a>.</li>
-<li>Possible XML schemata for the <code>tz</code> data include <a -href="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/foo">one</a> sketched out by <a -href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/">Tim Berners-Lee</a> and -<a -href="http://developer.iplanet.com/docs/wpapers/calendar/ietf.txt">another</a>
-used by the <a -href="http://wwws.sun.com/software/products/calendar_srvr/home_calendar.html">Sun
-ONE Calendar Server</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other <code>tz</code> binary file readers</h2>
<ul>
@@ -147,6 +159,10 @@ and is widely used in GNU/Linux systems. <li><a href="http://www.bmsi.com/java/#TZ">ZoneInfo.java</a>
is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in Java.
It is freely available under the GNU LGPL.</li>
+<li><a href="http://s.keim.free.fr/tz/doc.html">Python time zones</a>
+is a <code>tz</code> binary file reader written in <a
+href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>. It is freely available under
+a BSD-style license.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other <code>tz</code>-based time zone conversion software</h2> <ul> @@ -154,13 +170,13 @@ It is freely available under the GNU LGP href="http://www1.tip.nl/~t876506/AboutTimeZonesHC.html">HyperCard
time zones calculator</a> is a HyperCard stack.</li>
<li><a
-href="http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/">Time Zone Converter</a> is a
+href="http://www.cimmyt.org/timezone/">World Time Explorer</a> is a
Microsoft Windows program.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Other time zone databases</h2>
<ul>
-<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e">Astrodienst
-- Atlas Query</a> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's
+<li><a href="http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?lang=e">Atlas
+Query
+- Astrodienst</a> is Astrodienst's Web version of Shanks's
excellent time zone history atlases published in both <a href="http://astrocom.com/software/pcatlas.php">computer</a> and <a href="http://astrocom.com/books/xrefa.php#SHANKS">book</a> form by <a @@ -178,8 +194,8 @@ for the <code>usno*</code> files in the
<li><a href="http://www.airportcitycodes.com/aaa/">Airlines, Airplanes and Airports</a> lists current standard times for thousands of airports around the world. This seems to be derived from -the <a href="http://www.iata.org/sked/ssim.htm">Standard
-Schedules Information Manual</a> of the
+the <a href="http://www.iata.org/sked/publications/">Standard
+Schedules Information Manual (SSIM)</a> of the
the <a href="http://www.iata.org/">International Air Transport Association</a>, which gives current time zone rules for @@ -189,7 +205,7 @@ all the airports served by commercial av <ul> <li>The <a href="http://www.odci.gov/">United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)</a> publishes a <a -href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/ref/pdf/802801.pdf">time
+href="http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/reference_maps/pdf/
+time_zones.pdf">time
zone map</a>; the
<a href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world.html">Perry-Castañeda
@@ -220,7 +236,7 @@ Zones of the United States</a> in the pu href="http://spatialnews.geocomm.com/features/timezones/">International
Time Zones and Time Zone Data</a>.</li>
</ul>
-<h2>Daylight saving time concepts and history</h2>
+<h2>Civil time concepts and history</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://physics.nist.gov/time">A Walk through Time</a> surveys the evolution of timekeeping.</li> @@ -235,13 +251,20 @@ The time zone map is out of date, howeve <li><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm">A History of the International Date Line</a> tells the story of the most important time zone boundary.</li> -<li>A few countries have well-documented histories of legal time.
+<li><a href="http://www.mindspring.com/~gwil/tconcept.html">Basic Time
+Zone Concepts</a> discusses terminological issues behind time
+zones.</li> </ul> <h2>National histories of legal time</h2>
<dl>
<dt>Australia</dt>
<dd><a href="http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html#more">Australia's
Daylight Saving Times</a> contains pointers to government records and to histories of daylight saving.</dd>
+<dt>Austria</dt>
+<dd>The Federal Office of Metrology and Surveying publishes a table of
+<a href="http://www.metrologie.at/pdf/sommerzeit.pdf"
+hreflang="de">daylight saving time in Austria (in German)</a>.</dd>
<dt>Belgium</dt>
<dd>The Royal Observatory of Belgium maintains a table of <a href="http://www.astro.oma.be/GENERAL/INFO/nli001a.html"
@@ -254,8 +277,12 @@ Portuguese)</a>.</dd>
<dt>Canada</dt>
<dd>The Institute for National Measurement Standards publishes current and some older information about <a -href="http://www.nrc.ca/inms/time/tze.html">Time Zones and Daylight -Saving Time</a>.</dd>
+href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/time_services/daylight_savings_e.
+html">Time
+Zones and Daylight Saving Time</a>.</dd>
+<dt>Chile</dt>
+<dd>The Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service has a <a
+href="http://www.shoa.cl/shoa/faqhoraoficial.htm"
+hreflang="es">history of official time (in Spanish)</a>.</dd>
<dt>Germany</dt>
<dd>The National Institute for Science and Technology maintains the <a href="http://www.ptb.de/en/org/4/43/432/lega.htm">Realisation of @@ -273,6 +300,10 @@ hreflang="es">history of Mexican local t <dd><a href="http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/wettijd/wettijd.htm"
hreflang="nl">Legal time in the Netherlands (in Dutch)</a> covers the history of local time in the Netherlands from ancient times.</dd>
+<dt>New Zealand</dt>
+<dd>The Department of Internal Affairs maintains a brief history <a
+href="http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-material-I
+nformation-We-Provide-About-Daylight-Saving">about
+daylight saving</a>.</dd>
<dt>United Kingdom</dt>
<dd><a href="http://student.cusu.cam.ac.uk/~jsm28/british-time/">History of @@ -281,8 +312,7 @@ with perhaps the best-documented history The National Physical Laboratory also maintains an <a href="http://www.npl.co.uk/time/summer_time_archive.html">archive
of summer time dates</a>.</dd>
-</dl></li>
-</ul>
+</dl>
<h2>Precision timekeeping</h2>
<ul>
<li><a
@@ -315,13 +345,14 @@ International Earth Rotation Service, th when leap seconds occur.</li> <li>The <a href="http://rom.usno.navy.mil/archives/leapsecs.html">Leap
-Second Discussion List</a> covers <a -href="http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m0BPW/11_10/57821998/p1/article.jhtml">McCarthy
-and Klepczynski's proposal to discontinue leap seconds</a>.
+Second Discussion List</a> covers McCarthy and Klepczynski's proposal
+to discontinue leap seconds, published in <a
+href="http://www.gpsworld.com/">GPS World</a> <strong>10</strong>, 11
+(1999-11), 50–57.
This proposal is being studied by the URSI Commission J <a href="http://space.mit.edu/URSI/leapsecond.html">Working Group on the Leap Second</a>, and the IAU -has plans to report on this proposal by 2003.</li>
+has plans to report on this proposal in 2003.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Time notation</h2>
<ul>
@@ -358,10 +389,11 @@ maintainers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Related indexes</h2>
<ul>
+<li><a href="tz-art.htm">Time and the Arts</a></li>
<li><a href="http://dmoz.org/Reference/Time/">Open Directory -
Reference: Time</a></li>
-<li><a href="tz-art.htm">Time and the Arts</a></li>
-<li><a href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/Time_Zones/">Yahoo! - Science:Measurements and Units:Time:Time Zones</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Time/">Google
+Directory - Reference > Time</a></li> <li><a
+href="http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/Measurements_and_Units/Time/Time_Zones/">Yahoo! Science > Measurements and Units > Time > Time Zones</a></li>
</ul>
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+++ zone.tab 2003/03/14 04:28:08 2002.4.0.1
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ AN +1211-06900 America/Curacao
AO -0848+01314 Africa/Luanda
AQ -7750+16636 Antarctica/McMurdo McMurdo Station, Ross Island
AQ -9000+00000 Antarctica/South_Pole Amundsen-Scott Station, South Pole
+AQ -6734-06808 Antarctica/Rothera Rothera Station, Adelaide Island
AQ -6448-06406 Antarctica/Palmer Palmer Station, Anvers Island
AQ -6736+06253 Antarctica/Mawson Mawson Station, Holme Bay
AQ -6835+07758 Antarctica/Davis Davis Station, Vestfold Hills
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