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@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@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@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@twinsun.com> (2002-05-28): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@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 retrieving revision 2002.4 retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1 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> </body> </html> =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/zone.tab,v retrieving revision 2002.4 retrieving revision 2002.4.0.1 diff -pu -r2002.4 -r2002.4.0.1 --- zone.tab 2002/10/15 17:00:59 2002.4 +++ 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