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@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ -# @(#)asia 7.14 +# @(#)asia 7.17 # 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 18, 1994): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): # # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition), @@ -28,17 +28,21 @@ # 2:00 EET EET DST Eastern European Time # 2:00 IST IDT Israel # 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* -# 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow +# 3:00 BSK BSD Baku (was 4:00)* # 3:30 IST IDT Iran -# 4:00 BSK BSD Baku* +# 4:00 TBSK TBSD Tbilisi (was 3:00)* +# 4:00 YSK YSD Yerevan (was 3:00)* # 4:00 GST GDT Gulf* # 4:30 AFT Afghanistan* -# 5:00 ASK ASD Ashkhabad* +# 5:00 ASK ASD Ashkhabad (was 4:00)* +# 5:00 BSK BSD Bishkek (was 6:00) (was FSK, FSD)* # 5:00 PKT Pakistan* +# 5:00 TSK TSD Tashkent (was 6:00)* # 5:30 IST IST India # 5:45 NPT Nepal* +# 6:00 AASK AASD Alma-Ata (was 5:00)* # 6:00 BGT Bengal, Bangladesh* -# 6:00 TSK TSD Tashkent* +# 6:00 DSK DSD Dushanbe (was 5:00)* # 6:30 BMT Burma* # 7:00 ICT Indochina* # 7:00 JVT Java* @@ -65,14 +69,11 @@ ############################################################################### -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (May 28, 1994): -# We don't know what happened to the clocks in the Caucausus and the ex-Soviet -# Central Asia after 1990. Until we get more info, stick with the pre-1991 rules. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Russia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D Rule Russia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 K -Rule Russia 1984 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 K -Rule Russia 1985 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule Russia 1984 max - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 K +Rule Russia 1985 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D # Afghanistan # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -83,14 +84,20 @@ Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890 # Armenia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 - 3:00 - MSK 1957 Mar - 4:00 Russia BS%s + 3:00 - YSK 1957 Mar + 4:00 Russia YS%s +# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991, +# but usno1995 has Armenia at 4:00 (with DST). Ignore the 1991 switch for now. # Azerbaijan # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 - 3:00 - MSK 1957 Mar - 4:00 Russia BS%s + 3:00 - BSK 1957 Mar + 4:00 Russia BS%s 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 3:00 1:00 BSD 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 3:00 - BSK +# Shanks has Baku using Russian DST rules after 1991, +# but usno1995 has Azerbaijan with no DST. Go with usno1995. # Bahrain # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -124,7 +131,7 @@ Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan 7:30 - BNT 1933 8:00 - BNT -# Burma +# Burma / Myanmar # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 6:25 - RMT 1920 @@ -159,19 +166,16 @@ Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 # 1987 mid-April - ?? -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993): -# According to Shanks, China started using DST in 1986, -# but it's still all one big happy time zone. - # From U. S. Naval Observatory (January 19, 1989): # CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN # CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): # Shanks writes that China switched from the Chinese calendar on 1912 Feb 12. # He also writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, -# and that they instituted DST on 1986 May 4; this contradicts Devine's +# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's # note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. +# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones. # From Shanks (1991): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -181,12 +185,28 @@ Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D -Rule PRC 1986 max - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S -Rule PRC 1987 max - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S +Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 + 8:30 - MAT 1932 Mar # Manchuria + 8:00 - CST 1940 + 9:00 - KST 1966 May + 8:30 - MAT 1980 May + 8:00 PRC C%sT Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 8:00 PRC C%sT +Zone Asia/Chungking 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 + 7:00 - ICT 1980 May + 8:00 PRC C%sT +Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 + 6:00 - URT 1980 May # Urumqi + 8:00 PRC C%sT +Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 + 5:30 - ETT 1940 # Eastern Turkestan + 5:00 - ETT 1980 May + 8:00 PRC C%sT ############################################################################### @@ -211,8 +231,6 @@ Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 ############################################################################### # Hong Kong -# Presumably Hong Kong will have DST again when it merges with China, -# but it's too early to predict the details. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule HK 1904 only - Oct 30 0:00 0 - Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S @@ -235,8 +253,6 @@ Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 8:00 HK HK%sT # Macao -# Presumably Macao will have DST again when it merges with China, -# but it's too early to predict the details. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Macao 1912 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S Rule Macao 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 D @@ -281,12 +297,20 @@ Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 # Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward # an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, # an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! -# Alas, we have no details. +# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. +# +# From Paul Eggert (1995-11-13): +# usno1995 has Georgia at 4:00. Guess that Georgia stopped transitions +# after spring 1994 (thus sticking at 4:00). +# Most likely we're still missing some rule changes between 1991 and 1994. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 2:59 - LST 1924 May 2 - 3:00 - MSK 1957 Mar - 4:00 Russia BS%s + 3:00 - TBSK 1957 Mar + 4:00 Russia TBS%s 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 3:00 1:00 TBSD 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 3:00 Russia TBS%s 1994 Sep 25 2:00s + 4:00 - TBSK # India # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -323,26 +347,12 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 9:00 - MLT # Iran - -# Shanks has no record of DST after 1980. - -# From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988): -# Iran: Last Sunday in March to third (?) Sunday in -# September. Since the revolution, the official calendar is Monarchic -# calendar; I have no idea what the correspondence between dates are. - -# From U. S. Naval Observatory (January 19, 1989): -# IRAN 3.5H AHEAD OF UTC - -# From Shanks (1991), with corrections from Devine: # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Iran 1977 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S -Rule Iran 1988 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule Iran 1988 max - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 3:26 - TMT 1946 @@ -428,7 +438,7 @@ Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S #Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 10 0:00 1:00 D #Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S -# From Ephraim Silverberg (September 20, 1995): +# From Ephraim Silverberg (1996-01-02): # # According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of # Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. @@ -441,7 +451,9 @@ Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S # time annually. Ever since 1993, the change to daylight savings time has # been from midnight Thursday night to 1 a.m. Friday morning and the change # back to standard time on Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time -# to 11 p.m. standard time. +# to 11 p.m. standard time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the +# change back to standard time takes place on Sunday night instead of Saturday +# night to avoid conflicts with the Jewish New Year. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D @@ -471,19 +483,20 @@ Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0:00 S # # ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/misc/timezones/announcements/1996-1998.ps.gz # -# Emptor Caveat: The fall of 1996 is an election year (the change to/from -# daylight savings time affects the earliest possible time for morning prayers -# making it is a sensitive issue among the religious sector of the electorate) -# so political considerations may cause the outgoing government to make the -# change back to standard time earlier in the fall of 1996 and the incoming -# government may nullify the 1997/1998 times altogether depending on the -# coalition formed after the elections. Life isn't boring here in Israel. +# Emptor Caveat: The dates for the years 1996-1998 were originally announced +# on August 31, 1995, by the previous Minister of Interior. The new Minister +# of Interior changed the dates on January 1, 1996, to take into account the +# desires of certain portions of Israeli society (the next election is in the +# Fall of 1996). After this (1996) year's Daylight Savings Time is over, the +# new minister has announced that a study will be conducted as to the wishes of +# the populace regarding the length of Daylight Savings Time and the Interior +# Committee will meet to review the results of the study and make any necessary +# changes to the 1997-1998 dates. Never a dull moment in the State of Israel. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Zion 1996 1998 - Mar Fri>=14 0:00 1:00 D -Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 22 0:00 0:00 S -Rule Zion 1997 only - Nov 2 0:00 0:00 S -Rule Zion 1998 only - Oct 25 0:00 0:00 S +Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0:00 S +Rule Zion 1997 1998 - Oct Sun>=14 0:00 0:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tel_Aviv 2:19:04 - LMT 1880 @@ -526,12 +539,11 @@ Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:19:04 - LMT 1896 # 9:00 Japan J%sT # and uncomment the two `Rule' lines commented out above. -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): # Shanks says that the far southern Ryukyu Is (Nansei-Shoto) are 8:00, -# but we don't have a good location name for them; -# we don't even know the name of the principal town. +# but we haven't confirmed this. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -#Zone Asia/South_Ryukyu 8:14:44 - LMT 1896 # Amitori +#Zone Asia/Ishigaki 8:16:36 - LMT 1896 # 8:00 - CST # There is no information for Marcus. # Other Japanese possessions are probably like Asia/Tokyo. @@ -567,14 +579,18 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 # From Shanks (1991): # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Alma-Ata 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 - 5:00 - TSK 1957 Mar - 6:00 Russia TS%s + 5:00 - AASK 1957 Mar + 6:00 Russia AAS%s +# Shanks has Alma-Ata switching to 5:00 in 1991, +# but usno1995 has Kazakhstan at 6:00. Ignore the 1991 switch for now. # Kirgizstan # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 - 5:00 - TSK 1957 Mar - 6:00 Russia TS%s + 5:00 - FSK 1957 Mar # Frunze + 6:00 Russia FS%s 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 5:00 1:00 FSD 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 5:00 Russia BS%s ############################################################################### @@ -723,6 +739,9 @@ Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 2:00 Zion I%sT # This will undoubtedly change soon. +# Paracel Is +# no information + # Philippines # Howse writes (p 162) that until 1844 the Philippines kept American date. # The rest of this data is from Shanks. @@ -763,6 +782,9 @@ Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:24 - LMT 1880 7:30 - SGT 1982 May 8:00 - SGT +# Spratly Is +# no information + # Sri Lanka # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 @@ -805,8 +827,11 @@ Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Tajikistan # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 - 5:00 - TSK 1957 Mar - 6:00 Russia TS%s + 5:00 - DSK 1957 Mar + 6:00 Russia DS%s 1991 + 6:00 - DSK +# Shanks has Dushanbe at 5:00 (6:00 summer) after 1991 Sep 29 3:00, +# but usno1995 has it at 6:00. Go with usno1995. # Thailand # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -818,7 +843,10 @@ Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Ashkhabad 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 4:00 - ASK 1957 Mar - 5:00 Russia AS%s + 5:00 Russia AS%s 1991 + 5:00 - ASK +# Shanks has Ashkhabad at 4:00 (5:00 summer) after 1991 Sep 20 3:00, +# but usno has it at 5:00. Go with usno1995. # United Arab Emirates # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -829,7 +857,11 @@ Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 5:00 - TSK 1957 Mar - 6:00 Russia TS%s + 6:00 Russia TS%s 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 5:00 1:00 TSD 1991 Sep 29 2:00s + 5:00 - TSK +# Shanks has Tashkent using DST after 1991, but usno1995 says they don't. +# Go with usno1995. # Vietnam # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (November 18, 1993): |