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. *** antarc~1 Sun Nov 24 02:07:38 1996 --- ant.new Mon Jan 20 19:47:06 1997 *************** *** 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@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 *** zone.tab 1996-11-24 02:07:38 tzdata96n --- zone.tab 1997-01-17 18:38:22 tzdata *************** *** 34,39 **** --- 34,40 ---- 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) *************** *** 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