New data from ADO & Eggert.

4 files changed, 139 insertions, 22 deletions

diff --git a/time/asia b/time/asia
index f405bf3bdf..60166c1f34 100644
--- a/time/asia
+++ b/time/asia
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-# @(#)asia	7.10
+# @(#)asia	7.11
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993):
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (August 18, 1994):
 #
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition),
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
 # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
 # I found in the UCLA library.
 #
+# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude,
+# Oxford University Press (1980).
+#
 # 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!
@@ -287,7 +291,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Calcutta	5:53:28 -	LMT	1880
 			5:30	-	IST	1942 Sep
 			5:30	1:00	IST	1945 Oct 15
 			5:30	-	IST
-# The following are like India/Calcutta:
+# The following are like Asia/Calcutta:
 #	Andaman Is
 #	Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
 #	Nicobar Is
@@ -509,11 +513,9 @@ Zone	Asia/Amman	2:23:44 -	LMT	1931
 			2:00	Jordan	EET%s
 
 # Kazakhstan
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993):
-# Before 1993, Almaty was known by its Russian name ``Alma-Ata''.
 # From Shanks (1991):
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Asia/Almaty	5:07:48 -	LMT	1924 May  2
+Zone	Asia/Alma-Ata	5:07:48 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			5:00	-	TSK	1957 Mar
 			6:00	Russia	TS%s
 
@@ -673,6 +675,8 @@ Zone	Asia/Gaza	2:17:52	-	LMT	1900 Oct
 # This will undoubtedly change soon.
 
 # Philippines
+# Howse writes (p 162) that until 1844 the Philippines kept American date.
+# The rest of this data is from Shanks.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Phil	1899	only	-	May	11	0:00	0	S
 Rule	Phil	1936	only	-	Nov	1	0:00	1:00	D
@@ -682,7 +686,8 @@ Rule	Phil	1954	only	-	Jul	1	0:00	0	S
 Rule	Phil	1978	only	-	Mar	22	0:00	1:00	D
 Rule	Phil	1978	only	-	Sep	21	0:00	0	S
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Asia/Manila	8:04:00 -	LMT	1899 May 11
+Zone	Asia/Manila	-15:56:00 -	LMT	1844
+			8:04:00 -	LMT	1899 May 11
 			8:00	Phil	P%sT	1942 May
 			9:00	-	JST	1944 Nov
 			8:00	Phil	P%sT
diff --git a/time/australasia b/time/australasia
index c023b9ecf2..15f520acd4 100644
--- a/time/australasia
+++ b/time/australasia
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)australasia	7.19
+# @(#)australasia	7.20
 # This file also includes Pacific islands.
 
 # Notes are at the end of this file
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Rule	AS	1987	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	-
 Rule	AS	1972	only	-	Feb	27	3:00	0	-
 Rule	AS	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
 Rule	AS	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
-Rule	AS	1990	max	even	Mar	Sun>=22	3:00	0	-
+Rule	AS	1990	max	even	Mar	Sun>=18	3:00	0	-
 Rule	AS	1990	max	odd	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Australia/Adelaide	9:14:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Guam	 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901		# Agana
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Pacific/Tarawa	 11:32:04 -	LMT	1901		# Bairiki
 			 12:00	-	NZST
-Zone Pacific/Enderbury	-12:35:40 -	LMT	1901
+Zone Pacific/Enderbury	-11:24:20 -	LMT	1901
 			-12:00	-	KJT	1979 Oct
 			-11:00	-	SST
 Zone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wake	11:06:28 -	LMT	1901
 
 # Wallis and Futuna
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Pacific/Wallis	11:44:40 -	LMT	1901
+Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 			12:00	-	NZST
 
 # Western Samoa
@@ -344,11 +344,19 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	11:44:40 -	LMT	1901
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993):
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (August 18, 1994):
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition),
 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
-# Except where noted below, it is the source for the data above.
+# Except where noted, it is the source for the data above.
+#
+# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
+# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
+# I found in the UCLA library.
+#
+# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude,
+# Oxford University Press (1980).
 #
 # I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
 # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
@@ -547,6 +555,16 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	11:44:40 -	LMT	1901
 # numbered year (from 1990).  That's when the Adelaide Festival
 # is on...
 
+# From Robert Elz (March 16, 1992, 00:57:07 +1000):
+# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
+# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
+# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
+
+# From Bradley White (April 11, 1994):
+# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
+# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
+# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
+
 # Australia/Tasmania
 
 # From Bradley White (March 4, 1991):
@@ -706,6 +724,12 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	11:44:40 -	LMT	1901
 
 ###############################################################################
 
+# Fiji
+
+# Howse writes (p 162) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
+# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on +12:00.
+# Perhaps it didn't take.  We go with Shanks's more precise date in 1915.
+
 # Kwajalein
 
 # In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
@@ -713,3 +737,10 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	11:44:40 -	LMT	1901
 # August 20, 1993.  Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
 # respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
 # going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
+
+# Pacific Islands Trust Territories
+
+# Howse writes (p 162) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
+# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones
+# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
+# Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data.  See also Asia/Manila.
diff --git a/time/europe b/time/europe
index f73ca6ac92..9abf677ef4 100644
--- a/time/europe
+++ b/time/europe
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)europe	7.15
+# @(#)europe	7.16
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
 #	 4:00	KSK KSD	Kuybyshev*
 #	 5:00	ESK ESD	Yekaterinburg*
 #	 6:00	OSK OSD	Omsk*
-#	 7:00	NSK NSD	Novosibirsk
+#	 6:00	NSK NSD	Novosibirsk (was 7:00 until 1994)
+#	 7:00	TSK TSD	Tomsk*
 #	 8:00	ISK ISD	Irkutsk*
 #	 9:00	YSK YSD	Yakutsk*
 #	10:00	VSK VSD	Vladivostok*
@@ -56,6 +57,27 @@
 
 # United Kingdom
 
+# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (July 6, 1994):
+#
+# On 17 Jan 1994 the Independent, a UK quality newspaper, had a piece about
+# historical vistas along the Thames in west London. There was a photo
+# and a sketch map showing some of the sightlines involved. One paragraph
+# of the text said:
+#
+# `An old stone obelisk marking a forgotten terrestrial meridian stands
+# beside the river at Kew. In the 18th century, before time and longditude
+# was standardised by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, scholars observed
+# this stone and the movement of stars from Kew Observatory nearby. They
+# made their calculations and set the time for the Horse Guards and Parliament,
+# but now the stone is obscured by scrubwood and can only be seen by walking
+# along the towpath within a few yards of it.'
+#
+# I have a one inch to one mile map of London and my estimate of the stone's
+# position is 51 deg. 28' 30" N, 0 deg. 18' 45" W. The longditude should
+# be within about +-2". The Ordnance Survey grid reference is TQ172761.
+#
+# [This yields GMTOFF = -0:01:15 for London LMT in the 18th century.]
+
 # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993):
 #
 # Howse writes that Britain was the first country to use standard time.
@@ -548,6 +570,28 @@
 # 1993    28 Mar  24 Oct fixed
 # 1994    27 Mar  23 Oct fixed
 
+# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (June 8, 1994):
+# The European Union bureaucracy has edged a step closer to a 7th Directive
+# on summer-time arrangements.  I have the text of a Common Position
+# (EC No 9/94) and a statement of the Council's reasons dated 4 March 94,
+# reported in the Official Journal of the EC, No. C 137/38--41....
+# The dates again:
+# Year	 Start		End		End (UK & Eire, 1995 only)
+# (rule) (last Sun)	(last Sun)	(4th Sun)
+# 1995	26 March	24 September	22 October
+# 1996	31 March	27 October
+# 1997	30 March	26 October
+
+# From Peter Ilieve <peter@memex.co.uk> (March 28, 1994):
+# The UK/Eire end date of 22 October [1995] conflicts with your current rule of
+# Oct Sun>=23, and the historical UK formula of Sun after 4th Sat.
+# The last time 4th Sun and Sun after 4th Sat differed was in 1989,
+# when 29 October was used.  That year was covered by a UK Summer Time Order
+# for only a single year and it looks as though there was a matching 4th EC
+# directive for just this year.  I don't have the text of the 5th EC
+# directive (for 1990--92) but my guess would be it said 4th Sun.
+# To maintain strict historical accuracy you could start a new UK ending rule
+# of Oct Sun>=22 in 1990.
 
 # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993):
 #
@@ -652,9 +696,13 @@ Rule	GB-Eire	1972	1980	-	Oct	Sun>=23	2:00s	0	GMT
 # Current rules
 Rule	GB-Eire	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	1:00s	1:00	BST
 Rule	GB-Eire	1981	max	-	Oct	Sun>=23	1:00s	0	GMT
+# Under the 7th EU proposal, replace the above line with the following three:
+#Rule	GB-Eire 1981	1989	-	Oct	Sun>=23	1:00s	0	GMT
+#Rule	GB-Eire 1990	1995	-	Oct	Sun>=22	1:00s	0	GMT
+#Rule	GB-Eire 1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00s	0	GMT
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Europe/London	-0:00:37 -	LMT	1847 Sep 22
+Zone	Europe/London	-0:01:15 -	LMT	1847 Sep 22
 			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s	1968 Feb 18 2:00
 			 1:00	-	BST	1971 Oct 31 2:00
 			 0:00	GB-Eire	%s
@@ -708,6 +756,9 @@ Rule	M-Eur	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	 2:00s	1:00	" DST"
 Rule	M-Eur	1977	only	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
 Rule	M-Eur	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 2:00s	0	-
 Rule	M-Eur	1979	max	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
+# Under the 7th EU proposal, replace the above line with the following two:
+#Rule	M-Eur	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
+#Rule	M-Eur	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-
 Rule	M-Eur	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	" DST"
 
 Rule	E-Eur	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 3:00s	1:00	" DST"
@@ -945,7 +996,7 @@ Zone Europe/Copenhagen	 0:50:20 -	LMT	1890
 			 1:00	M-Eur	MET%s	1945 Apr  2 2:00
 			 1:00	Denmark	MET%s	1980 Apr  6 2:00
 			 1:00	M-Eur	MET%s
-Zone Atlantic/Faeroe	 0:27:04 -	LMT	1908 Jan 11	# Torshavn
+Zone Atlantic/Faeroe	-0:27:04 -	LMT	1908 Jan 11	# Torshavn
 			 0:00	-	WET	1981 Mar 29 1:00
 			 0:00	W-Eur	WET%s
 Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 -	LMT	1916 Jul 28
@@ -1269,7 +1320,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Riga	1:36:24	-	LMT	1880
 
 # Liechtenstein
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Europe/Vaduz	0:30:04 -	LMT	1894 Jun
+Zone	Europe/Vaduz	0:38:04 -	LMT	1894 Jun
 			1:00	-	MET	1981 Mar 29 2:00
 			1:00	M-Eur	MET%s
 
@@ -1618,12 +1669,26 @@ Zone Asia/Omsk		 4:53:36 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			 5:00	1:00	OSD	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
 			 5:00	-	OSK	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
 			 6:00	Russia	OS%s
+# From Stanislaw A. Kuzikowski <S.A.Kuz@iae.nsk.su> (June 29, 1994):
+# But now it is some months since Novosibirsk is 3 hours ahead of Moscow!
+# I do not know why they have decided to make this change;
+# as far as I remember it was done exactly during winter->summer switching
+# so we (Novosibirsk) simply did not switch.
+# Tomsk is still 4 hours ahead of Moscow.
 Zone Asia/Novosibirsk	 5:31:40 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			 6:00	-	NSK	1957 Mar
 			 7:00	Russia	NS%s	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
 			 6:00	1:00	NSD	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
 			 6:00	-	NSK	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
-			 7:00	Russia	NS%s
+			 7:00	Russia	NS%s	1994 Mar 27 2:00s
+			 6:00	1:00	NSD	1994 Sep 25 2:00s
+			 6:00	Russia	NS%s
+Zone Asia/Tomsk		 5:39:52 -	LMT	1924 May  2
+			 6:00	-	TSK	1957 Mar
+			 7:00	Russia	TS%s	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
+			 6:00	1:00	TSD	1991 Sep 29 2:00s
+			 6:00	-	TSK	1992 Jan 19 2:00s
+			 7:00	Russia	TS%s
 Zone Asia/Irkutsk	 6:57:20 -	LMT	1880
 			 6:57	-	LST	1924 May  2
 			 7:00	-	ISK	1957 Mar
@@ -1725,7 +1790,7 @@ Rule	Spain	1976	1977	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00	0	-
 Rule	Spain	1977	1978	-	Apr	 2	23:00	1:00	" DST"
 Rule	Spain	1978	only	-	Oct	 1	 1:00	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	Europe/Madrid	 0:14:44 -	LMT	1901
+Zone	Europe/Madrid	-0:14:44 -	LMT	1901
 			 0:00	Spain	WET%s	1946 Sep 30
 			 1:00	Spain	MET%s	1979 Apr  1 2:00
 			 1:00	M-Eur	MET%s
diff --git a/time/northamerica b/time/northamerica
index fb4557646f..9cd74b174c 100644
--- a/time/northamerica
+++ b/time/northamerica
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
-# @(#)northamerica	7.10
+# @(#)northamerica	7.11
 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean
 
 # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (August 17, 1994):
+# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude,
+# Oxford University Press (1980).
+
 ###############################################################################
 
 # United States
@@ -106,6 +111,11 @@ Rule	US	1987	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
 #	Samoa standard time
 # The law doesn't give abbreviations.
 
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (August 16, 1994):
+# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,
+# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, in 1867 when the US purchased it
+# from Russia.  We don't have this data pinned down yet, though.
+
 # Easy stuff first--including Alaska, where we ignore history (since we
 # can't tell if we should give Yukon time or Alaska-Hawaii time for "old"
 # times).
@@ -148,8 +158,14 @@ Zone America/Detroit	-5:00	US	E%sT	1968
 			-5:00	US	E%sT
 
 # Samoa just changes names.  No DST, per Naval Observatory.
+#
+# Howse writes that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
+# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
+# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that
+# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.''
 
-Zone Pacific/Samoa	-11:22:48 -	LMT	1911
+Zone Pacific/Samoa	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
+			-11:22:48 -	LMT	1911
 			-11:30	-	SST	1950
 			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr	# N=Nome
 			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30	# B=Bering