Thanks for your corrections. I boiled them down to the following patch to the "asia" file, which I'll incorporate as part of my next major proposed patch to the tz database. If you find out any more about the WWII years (or about Asia/Kuching) please let me know. --- asia 2003/12/15 14:31:42 2003.5 +++ asia 2004/01/28 08:21:54 @@ -1012,17 +1012,13 @@ Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:2 Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 - # # peninsular Malaysia -# From Paul Eggert (2003-11-01): # The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) # <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. -# Before 1901, Penang, Malacca and Singapore each had their own time zone; -# assume Kuala Lumpur used Malaccan time. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:48 - LMT 1880 - 6:49:00 - MMT 1901 Jan 1 # Malacca Mean Time +Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time - 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 + 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 @@ -1309,10 +1305,10 @@ Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950 # The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) # <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1880 +Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time - 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 + 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12