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24# tzdb data for North and Central America and environs
25
26# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
27# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
28
29# also includes Central America and the Caribbean
30
31# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
32# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
33# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
34# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
35
36# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22):
37# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
38# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
39
40###############################################################################
41
42# United States
43
44# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
45# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by
46# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904),
47# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY).
48# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870)
49# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines
50# in New York City (1869-10).  His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC,
51# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich.
52
53# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20):
54# Dowd's proposal left many details unresolved, such as where to draw
55# lines between time zones.  The key individual who made time zones
56# work in the US was William Frederick Allen - railway engineer,
57# managing editor of the Travelers' Guide, and secretary of the
58# General Time Convention, a railway standardization group.  Allen
59# spent months in dialogs with scientific and railway leaders,
60# developed a workable plan to institute time zones, and presented it
61# to the General Time Convention on 1883-04-11, saying that his plan
62# meant "local time would be practically abolished" - a plus for
63# railway scheduling.  By the next convention on 1883-10-11 nearly all
64# railroads had agreed and it took effect on 1883-11-18.  That Sunday
65# was called the "day of two noons", as some locations observed noon
66# twice.  Allen witnessed the transition in New York City, writing:
67#
68#   I heard the bells of St. Paul's strike on the old time.  Four
69#   minutes later, obedient to the electrical signal from the Naval
70#   Observatory ... the time-ball made its rapid descent, the chimes
71#   of old Trinity rang twelve measured strokes, and local time was
72#   abandoned, probably forever.
73#
74# Most of the US soon followed suit.  See:
75# Bartky IR. The adoption of standard time. Technol Cult 1989 Jan;30(1):25-56.
76# https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105430
77
78# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16):
79# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time.
80# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005).
81
82# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
83# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is
84# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition),
85# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
86# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it.
87# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below.
88
89# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
90# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin
91# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost
92# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
93# Not everyone is happy with the results:
94#
95#	I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some
96#	agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving
97#	daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind.
98#	I even object to the implication that I am wasting something
99#	valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen.  As an admirer
100#	of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to
101#	reduce my time for enjoying it.  At the back of the Daylight Saving
102#	scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager
103#	to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make
104#	them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
105#
106#	 -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks,
107#	   Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday
108#
109# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see
110# Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint
111# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927).
112# https://web.archive.org/web/20160517155308/http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html
113#
114# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919.
115# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which
116# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently
117# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time".
118
119# From Paul Eggert (2019-06-04):
120# Here is the legal basis for the US federal rules.
121# * Public Law 65-106 (1918-03-19) implemented standard and daylight saving
122#   time for the first time across the US, springing forward on March's last
123#   Sunday and falling back on October's last Sunday.
124#   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/65th-congress/session-2/c65s2ch24.pdf
125# * Public Law 66-40 (1919-08-20) repealed DST on October 1919's last Sunday.
126#   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/66th-congress/session-1/c66s1ch51.pdf
127# * Public Law 77-403 (1942-01-20) started wartime DST on 1942-02-09.
128#   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/77th-congress/session-2/c77s2ch7.pdf
129# * Public Law 79-187 (1945-09-25) ended wartime DST on 1945-09-30.
130#   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/79th-congress/session-1/c79s1ch388.pdf
131# * Public Law 89-387 (1966-04-13) reinstituted a national standard for DST,
132#   from April's last Sunday to October's last Sunday, effective 1967.
133#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-80/pdf/STATUTE-80-Pg107.pdf
134# * Public Law 93-182 (1973-12-15) moved the 1974 spring-forward to 01-06.
135#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-87/pdf/STATUTE-87-Pg707.pdf
136# * Public Law 93-434 (1974-10-05) moved the 1975 spring-forward to
137#   February's last Sunday.
138#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-88/pdf/STATUTE-88-Pg1209.pdf
139# * Public Law 99-359 (1986-07-08) moved the spring-forward to April's first
140#   Sunday.
141#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-100/pdf/STATUTE-100-Pg764.pdf
142# * Public Law 109-58 (2005-08-08), effective 2007, moved the spring-forward
143#   to March's second Sunday and the fall-back to November's first Sunday.
144#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ58/pdf/PLAW-109publ58.pdf
145# All transitions are at 02:00 local time.
146
147# From Arthur David Olson:
148# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of
149# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime.
150
151# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25):
152# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama.
153# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time."
154# An AltaVista search turned up:
155# https://web.archive.org/web/20000926032210/http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html
156# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace
157# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.'  Peace is wonderful."
158# (August 1945) by way of confirmation.
159#
160# From Paul Eggert (2017-09-23):
161# This was the V-J Day issue of the Clamdigger, a Rowayton, CT newsletter.
162
163# From Joseph Gallant citing
164# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987):
165# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set
166# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people
167# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account,
168# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender,
169# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word
170# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in
171# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech.
172
173# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout.  From
174# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times:
175#
176# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender.
177# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a
178# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news.
179# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out
180# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental
181# importance."
182#
183# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open
184# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell,
185# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over.
186# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms."
187#
188# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters.
189
190# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22):
191# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations
192# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of
193# U.S. government action.  So even though the "US" rules have changed
194# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected.
195
196# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
197Rule	US	1918	1919	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
198Rule	US	1918	1919	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
199Rule	US	1942	only	-	Feb	9	2:00	1:00	W # War
200Rule	US	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
201Rule	US	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
202Rule	US	1967	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
203Rule	US	1967	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
204Rule	US	1974	only	-	Jan	6	2:00	1:00	D
205Rule	US	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
206Rule	US	1976	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
207Rule	US	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
208Rule	US	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
209Rule	US	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
210
211# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19
212# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with
213# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory.
214# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of
215# this time zone package.
216# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if
217# a particular place changes whether it observes DST.
218# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to
219# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to
220# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file.
221
222# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
223Zone	EST		 -5:00	-	EST
224Zone	MST		 -7:00	-	MST
225Zone	HST		-10:00	-	HST
226Zone	EST5EDT		 -5:00	US	E%sT
227Zone	CST6CDT		 -6:00	US	C%sT
228Zone	MST7MDT		 -7:00	US	M%sT
229Zone	PST8PDT		 -8:00	US	P%sT
230
231# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
232# USA  EASTERN       5 H  BEHIND UTC    NEW YORK, WASHINGTON
233# USA  EASTERN       4 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
234# USA  CENTRAL       6 H  BEHIND UTC    CHICAGO, HOUSTON
235# USA  CENTRAL       5 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
236# USA  MOUNTAIN      7 H  BEHIND UTC    DENVER
237# USA  MOUNTAIN      6 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
238# USA  PACIFIC       8 H  BEHIND UTC    L.A., SAN FRANCISCO
239# USA  PACIFIC       7 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
240# USA  ALASKA STD    9 H  BEHIND UTC    MOST OF ALASKA     (AKST)
241# USA  ALASKA STD    8 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT)
242# USA  ALEUTIAN     10 H  BEHIND UTC    ISLANDS WEST OF 170W
243# USA    "           9 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
244# USA  HAWAII       10 H  BEHIND UTC
245# USA  BERING       11 H  BEHIND UTC    SAMOA, MIDWAY
246
247# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21):
248# The above dates are for 1988.
249# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's
250# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the
251# Aleutians.
252
253# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
254# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and
255# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward.  First, names
256# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966
257# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261:
258#	(none)
259#	United States standard eastern time
260#	United States standard mountain time
261#	United States standard central time
262#	United States standard Pacific time
263#	(none)
264#	United States standard Alaska time
265#	(none)
266# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for
267# public law 98-181):
268#	Atlantic standard time
269#	eastern standard time
270#	central standard time
271#	mountain standard time
272#	Pacific standard time
273#	Yukon standard time
274#	Alaska-Hawaii standard time
275#	Bering standard time
276# And after 1983-11-30:
277#	Atlantic standard time
278#	eastern standard time
279#	central standard time
280#	mountain standard time
281#	Pacific standard time
282#	Alaska standard time
283#	Hawaii-Aleutian standard time
284#	Samoa standard time
285# The law doesn't give abbreviations.
286#
287# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-19):
288# Here are URLs for the 1918 and 1966 legislation:
289# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=40&page=451
290# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=80&page=108
291# Although the 1918 names were officially "United States Standard
292# Eastern Time" and similarly for "Central", "Mountain", "Pacific",
293# and "Alaska", in practice "Standard" was placed just before "Time",
294# as codified in 1966.  In practice, Alaska time was abbreviated "AST"
295# before 1968.  Summarizing the 1967 name changes:
296#	1918 names			1967 names
297#  -08	Standard Pacific Time (PST)	Pacific standard time (PST)
298#  -09	(unofficial) Yukon (YST)	Yukon standard time (YST)
299#  -10	Standard Alaska Time (AST)	Alaska-Hawaii standard time (AHST)
300#  -11	(unofficial) Nome (NST)		Bering standard time (BST)
301#
302# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow:
303# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time"
304# for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.  See the file "australasia".
305#
306# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17):
307# HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian
308# standard and daylight times.  See section 9.47 (p 234) of the
309# U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008)
310# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf
311
312# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09
313# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08.
314#
315# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
316#   (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
317#   U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended--
318#     (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second
319#     Sunday of March"; and
320#     (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first
321#     Sunday of November'.
322#   (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the
323#   date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later.
324#   (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective
325#   date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress
326#   on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United
327#   States.
328#   (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the
329#   Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the
330#   Department study is complete.
331
332# US eastern time, represented by New York
333
334# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida,
335# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky
336# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
337# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
338# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee,
339# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
340
341# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02):
342# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington
343# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH]....
344# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time
345# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their
346# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC.
347
348# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26):
349# According to today's Huntsville Times
350# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1
351# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City
352# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County,
353# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time."  It quotes H.H. "Bubba"
354# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central
355# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work
356# in Columbus."
357#
358# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-22):
359# Four cities are involved.  The two not mentioned above are Smiths Station
360# and Valley.  Barbara Brooks, Valley's assistant treasurer, heard it started
361# because West Point Pepperell textile mills were in Alabama while the
362# corporate office was in Georgia, and residents voted to keep Eastern
363# time even after the mills closed.  See: Kazek K. Did you know which
364# Alabama towns are in a different time zone?  al.com 2017-02-06.
365# http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/02/do_you_know_which_alabama_town.html
366
367# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06):
368# Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 44, 4 (1884-02-08), 208
369# says that New York City Hall time was 3 minutes 58.4 seconds fast of
370# Eastern time (i.e., -4:56:01.6) just before the 1883 switch.  Round to the
371# nearest second.
372
373# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
374Rule	NYC	1920	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
375Rule	NYC	1920	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
376Rule	NYC	1921	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
377Rule	NYC	1921	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
378Rule	NYC	1955	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
379# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
380Zone America/New_York	-4:56:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:03:58
381			-5:00	US	E%sT	1920
382			-5:00	NYC	E%sT	1942
383			-5:00	US	E%sT	1946
384			-5:00	NYC	E%sT	1967
385			-5:00	US	E%sT
386
387# US central time, represented by Chicago
388
389# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia,
390# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and
391# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana
392# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
393# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western
394# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern
395# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota,
396# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin
397
398# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-07):
399# In 1869 the Chicago Astronomical Society contracted with the city to keep
400# time.  Though delayed by the Great Fire, by 1880 a wire ran from the
401# Dearborn Observatory (on the University of Chicago campus) to City Hall,
402# which then sent signals to police and fire stations.  However, railroads got
403# their time signals from the Allegheny Observatory, the Madison Observatory,
404# the Ann Arbor Observatory, etc., so their clocks did not agree with each
405# other or with the city's official time.  The confusion took some years to
406# clear up.  See:
407# Moser M. How Chicago gave America its time zones. Chicago. 2018-01-04.
408# http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/January-2018/How-Chicago-Gave-America-Its-Time-Zones/
409
410# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin:
411# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/175.pdf
412# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change.  Because the local
413# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations
414# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited
415# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year....
416#
417# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12):
418# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI
419# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent....
420# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2007/related/acts/3
421
422# From an email administrator of the City of Fort Pierre, SD (2015-12-21):
423# Fort Pierre is technically located in the Mountain time zone as is
424# the rest of Stanley County.  Most of Stanley County and Fort Pierre
425# uses the Central time zone due to doing most of their business in
426# Pierre so it simplifies schedules.  I have lived in Stanley County
427# all my life and it has been that way since I can remember.  (43 years!)
428#
429# From Paul Eggert (2015-12-25):
430# Assume this practice predates 1970, so Fort Pierre can use America/Chicago.
431
432# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-06):
433# In 1950s Nashville a public clock had dueling faces, one for conservatives
434# and the other for liberals; the two sides didn't agree about the time of day.
435# I haven't found a photo of this clock, nor have I tracked down the TIME
436# magazine report cited below, but here's the story as told by the late
437# American journalist John Seigenthaler, who was there:
438#
439# "The two [newspaper] owners held strongly contrasting political and
440# ideological views.  Evans was a New South liberal, Stahlman an Old South
441# conservative, and their two papers frequently clashed editorially, often on
442# the same day....  In the 1950s as the state legislature was grappling with
443# the question of whether to approve daylight saving time for the entire state,
444# TIME magazine reported:
445#
446# "'The Nashville Banner and The Nashville Tennessean rarely agree on anything
447# but the time of day - and last week they couldn't agree on that.'
448#
449# "It was all too true. The clock on the front of the building had two faces -
450# The Tennessean side of the building facing west, the other, east.  When it
451# was high noon Banner time, it was 11 a.m. Tennessean time."
452#
453# Seigenthaler J. For 100 years, Tennessean had it covered.
454# The Tennessean 2007-05-11, republished 2015-04-06.
455# https://www.tennessean.com/story/insider/extras/2015/04/06/archives-seigenthaler-for-100-years-the-tennessean-had-it-covered/25348545/
456
457# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
458Rule	Chicago	1920	only	-	Jun	13	2:00	1:00	D
459Rule	Chicago	1920	1921	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
460Rule	Chicago	1921	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
461Rule	Chicago	1922	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
462Rule	Chicago	1922	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
463Rule	Chicago	1955	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
464# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
465Zone America/Chicago	-5:50:36 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:09:24
466			-6:00	US	C%sT	1920
467			-6:00	Chicago	C%sT	1936 Mar  1  2:00
468			-5:00	-	EST	1936 Nov 15  2:00
469			-6:00	Chicago	C%sT	1942
470			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
471			-6:00	Chicago	C%sT	1967
472			-6:00	US	C%sT
473# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25.
474Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:14:48
475			-7:00	US	M%sT	1992 Oct 25  2:00
476			-6:00	US	C%sT
477# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on
478# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time.
479# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>.
480# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and
481# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota;
482# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time.
483# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>.
484Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:14:21
485			-7:00	US	M%sT	2003 Oct 26  2:00
486			-6:00	US	C%sT
487
488# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21):
489# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the
490# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from
491# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010):
492# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm
493# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html
494
495# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24):
496# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although
497# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next
498# largest city in Mercer County).  Google Maps places Beulah's city hall
499# at 47° 15' 51" N, 101° 46' 40" W, which yields an offset of 6h47'07".
500
501Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:12:53
502			-7:00	US	M%sT	2010 Nov  7  2:00
503			-6:00	US	C%sT
504
505# US mountain time, represented by Denver
506#
507# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western
508# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City),
509# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota,
510# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County,
511# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming
512#
513# From Paul Eggert (2018-10-25):
514# On 1921-03-04 federal law placed all of Texas into the central time zone.
515# However, El Paso ignored the law for decades and continued to observe
516# mountain time, on the grounds that that's what they had always done
517# and they weren't about to let the federal government tell them what to do.
518# Eventually the federal government gave in and changed the law on
519# 1970-04-10 to match what El Paso was actually doing.  Although
520# that's slightly after our 1970 cutoff, there is no need to create a
521# separate zone for El Paso since they were ignoring the law anyway.  See:
522# Long T. El Pasoans were time rebels, fought to stay in Mountain zone.
523# El Paso Times. 2018-10-24 06:40 -06.
524# https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2018/10/24/el-pasoans-were-time-rebels-fought-stay-mountain-zone/1744509002/
525#
526# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
527Rule	Denver	1920	1921	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
528Rule	Denver	1920	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
529Rule	Denver	1921	only	-	May	22	2:00	0	S
530Rule	Denver	1965	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
531Rule	Denver	1965	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
532# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
533Zone America/Denver	-6:59:56 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:00:04
534			-7:00	US	M%sT	1920
535			-7:00	Denver	M%sT	1942
536			-7:00	US	M%sT	1946
537			-7:00	Denver	M%sT	1967
538			-7:00	US	M%sT
539
540# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
541#
542# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater,
543# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county
544# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren),
545# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern ¾ of
546# Malheur county), and Washington
547
548# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-20):
549# In early February 1948, in response to California's electricity shortage,
550# PG&E changed power frequency from 60 to 59.5 Hz during daylight hours,
551# causing electric clocks to lose six minutes per day.  (This did not change
552# legal time, and is not part of the data here.)  See:
553# Ross SA. An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948.
554# Working Paper No. 8, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley,
555# 1973-11.  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x22k30c
556#
557# In another measure to save electricity, DST was instituted from 1948-03-14
558# at 02:01 to 1949-01-16 at 02:00, with the governor having the option to move
559# the fallback transition earlier.  See pages 3-4 of:
560# http://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1948/48Vol1_Chapters.pdf
561#
562# In response:
563#
564#   Governor Warren received a torrent of objecting mail, and it is not too much
565#   to speculate that the objections to Daylight Saving Time were one important
566#   factor in the defeat of the Dewey-Warren Presidential ticket in California.
567#     -- Ross, p 25
568#
569# On December 8 the governor exercised the option, setting the date to January 1
570# (LA Times 1948-12-09).  The transition time was 02:00 (LA Times 1949-01-01).
571#
572# Despite the controversy, in 1949 California voters approved Proposition 12,
573# which established DST from April's last Sunday at 01:00 until September's
574# last Sunday at 02:00. This was amended by 1962's Proposition 6, which changed
575# the fall-back date to October's last Sunday. See:
576# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1501&context=ca_ballot_props
577# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1636&context=ca_ballot_props
578#
579# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
580Rule	CA	1948	only	-	Mar	14	2:01	1:00	D
581Rule	CA	1949	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	0	S
582Rule	CA	1950	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	1:00	1:00	D
583Rule	CA	1950	1961	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
584Rule	CA	1962	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
585# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
586Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:07:02
587			-8:00	US	P%sT	1946
588			-8:00	CA	P%sT	1967
589			-8:00	US	P%sT
590
591# Alaska
592# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -09 per USNO.
593#
594# From Paul Eggert (2017-06-15):
595# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,
596# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia.
597# On Friday, 1867-10-18 (Gregorian), at precisely 15:30 local time, the
598# Russian forts and fleet at Sitka fired salutes to mark the ceremony of
599# formal transfer.  See the Sacramento Daily Union (1867-11-14), p 3, col 2.
600# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18671114.2.12.1
601# Sitka workers did not change their calendars until Sunday, 1867-10-20,
602# and so celebrated two Sundays that week.  See: Ahllund T (tr Hallamaa P).
603# From the memoirs of a Finnish workman. Alaska History. 2006 Fall;21(2):1-25.
604# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ahllund-2006-Memoirs-of-a-Finnish-Workman.pdf
605# Include only the time zone part of this transition, ignoring the switch
606# from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent the Julian calendar.
607#
608# As far as we know, of the locations mentioned below only Sitka was
609# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar.
610# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement was
611# destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.)  Many of Alaska's inhabitants
612# were unaware of the US acquisition of Alaska, much less of any calendar or
613# time change.  However, the Russian-influenced part of Alaska did observe
614# Russian time, and it is more accurate to model this than to ignore it.
615# The database format requires an exact transition time; use the Russian
616# salute as a somewhat-arbitrary time for the formal transfer of control for
617# all of Alaska.  Sitka's UTC offset is -9:01:13; adjust its 15:30 to the
618# local times of other Alaskan locations so that they change simultaneously.
619
620# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18):
621# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and
622# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall:
623# "Welcome to Juneau.  Please turn your watch back to the 19th century."
624# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01.
625# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html
626#
627# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source:
628# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response.
629# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2).
630# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/
631
632# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01):
633# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article:
634#
635# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27,
636# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time.
637# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on
638# Pacific Time.
639#
640# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the
641# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in
642# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26.
643#
644# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted
645# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time.
646#
647# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not
648# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions.
649#
650# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo
651# Nation.)
652
653# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09):
654# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian
655# Community office (using contact information available at
656# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla
657# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States;
658# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether
659# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their
660# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I
661# did not inquire about practices in the past.
662
663# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17):
664# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's
665# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote.
666
667# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-11-09):
668# It seems Metlakatla did go off PST on Sunday, November 1, changing
669# their time to AKST and are going to follow Alaska's DST, switching
670# between AKST and AKDT from now on....
671# https://www.krbd.org/2015/10/30/annette-island-times-they-are-a-changing/
672
673# From Ryan Stanley (2018-11-06):
674# The Metlakatla community in Alaska has decided not to change its
675# clock back an hour starting on November 4th, 2018 (day before yesterday).
676# They will be gmtoff=-28800 year-round.
677# https://www.facebook.com/141055983004923/photos/pb.141055983004923.-2207520000.1541465673./569081370202380/
678
679# From Paul Eggert (2018-12-16):
680# In a 2018-12-11 special election, Metlakatla voted to go back to
681# Alaska time (including daylight saving time) starting next year.
682# https://www.krbd.org/2018/12/12/metlakatla-to-follow-alaska-standard-time-allow-liquor-sales/
683#
684# From Ryan Stanley (2019-01-11):
685# The community will be changing back on the 20th of this month...
686# From Tim Parenti (2019-01-11):
687# Per an announcement on the Metlakatla community's official Facebook page, the
688# "fall back" will be on Sunday 2019-01-20 at 02:00:
689# https://www.facebook.com/141055983004923/photos/607150969728753/
690# So they won't be waiting for Alaska to join them on 2019-03-10, but will
691# rather change their clocks twice in seven weeks.
692
693# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
694Zone America/Juneau	 15:02:19 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 15:33:32
695			 -8:57:41 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
696			 -8:00	-	PST	1942
697			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
698			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
699			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1980 Apr 27  2:00
700			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1980 Oct 26  2:00
701			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
702			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
703			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
704Zone America/Sitka	 14:58:47 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 15:30
705			 -9:01:13 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
706			 -8:00	-	PST	1942
707			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
708			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
709			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
710			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
711			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
712Zone America/Metlakatla	 15:13:42 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 15:44:55
713			 -8:46:18 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
714			 -8:00	-	PST	1942
715			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
716			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
717			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
718			 -8:00	-	PST	2015 Nov  1  2:00
719			 -9:00	US	AK%sT	2018 Nov  4  2:00
720			 -8:00	-	PST	2019 Jan 20  2:00
721			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
722Zone America/Yakutat	 14:41:05 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 15:12:18
723			 -9:18:55 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
724			 -9:00	-	YST	1942
725			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1946
726			 -9:00	-	YST	1969
727			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
728			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
729Zone America/Anchorage	 14:00:24 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 14:31:37
730			 -9:59:36 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
731			-10:00	-	AST	1942
732			-10:00	US	A%sT	1967 Apr
733			-10:00	-	AHST	1969
734			-10:00	US	AH%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
735			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
736			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
737Zone America/Nome	 12:58:22 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 13:29:35
738			-11:01:38 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
739			-11:00	-	NST	1942
740			-11:00	US	N%sT	1946
741			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr
742			-11:00	-	BST	1969
743			-11:00	US	B%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
744			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
745			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
746Zone America/Adak	 12:13:22 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 12:44:35
747			-11:46:38 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
748			-11:00	-	NST	1942
749			-11:00	US	N%sT	1946
750			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr
751			-11:00	-	BST	1969
752			-11:00	US	B%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
753			-10:00	US	AH%sT	1983 Nov 30
754			-10:00	US	H%sT
755# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff.
756#
757# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak)
758# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00,
759# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later.
760#
761# From David Flater (2004-11-09):
762# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska
763# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which
764# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967
765# possibly until 1983:
766#
767#  Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967:
768#  "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important
769#  location not on Alaska Standard Time.  The following resolution was
770#  made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it
771#  resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard
772#  Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday,
773#  January 14, Alaska Standard Time.)  This resolution was passed with
774#  three votes for and one against."
775
776# Hawaii
777
778# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09):
779# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225
780# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09,
781# the article is available at
782# https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf
783# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January
784# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight
785# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the
786# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the
787# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect
788# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for
789# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes
790# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of
791# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes
792# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933)
793# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)."
794
795# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19):
796# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the
797# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of
798# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act
799# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each
800# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one
801# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th
802# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of
803# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is
804# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon
805# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to
806# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90.
807# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor
808# of the Territory of Hawaii."
809#
810# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday.
811# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon.
812
813# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
814Zone Pacific/Honolulu	-10:31:26 -	LMT	1896 Jan 13 12:00
815			-10:30	-	HST	1933 Apr 30  2:00
816			-10:30	1:00	HDT	1933 May 21 12:00
817			-10:30	US	H%sT	1947 Jun  8  2:00
818			-10:00	-	HST
819
820# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970.
821
822# Arizona mostly uses MST.
823
824# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20):
825#
826# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the
827# Daylight Saving Time web page
828# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23)
829# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
830# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard
831# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military
832# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to
833# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time.  The 1944-03-17 Phoenix
834# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was
835# the date the state's clocks would change.  In 1945 the State of
836# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as
837# mandated by federal law.  Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona
838# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST.
839#
840# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17.
841# Go with the Arizona State Library instead.
842
843# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
844Zone America/Phoenix	-7:28:18 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 11:31:42
845			-7:00	US	M%sT	1944 Jan  1  0:01
846			-7:00	-	MST	1944 Apr  1  0:01
847			-7:00	US	M%sT	1944 Oct  1  0:01
848			-7:00	-	MST	1967
849			-7:00	US	M%sT	1968 Mar 21
850			-7:00	-	MST
851# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
852# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.,
853# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the
854# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its
855# large size and location in three states."  (The "only" means that other
856# tribal nations don't use DST.)
857#
858# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26):
859# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation.
860
861# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine,
862# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark,
863# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome,
864# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power,
865# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern
866# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County)
867# switched four weeks late in 1974.
868#
869# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
870Zone America/Boise	-7:44:49 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:15:11
871			-8:00	US	P%sT	1923 May 13  2:00
872			-7:00	US	M%sT	1974
873			-7:00	-	MST	1974 Feb  3  2:00
874			-7:00	US	M%sT
875
876# Indiana
877#
878# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see:
879# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana
880#
881# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-30):
882# A brief but entertaining history of time in Indiana describes a 1949 debate
883# in the Indiana House where city legislators (who favored "fast time")
884# tussled with farm legislators (who didn't) over a bill to outlaw DST:
885#  "Lacking enough votes, the city faction tries to filibuster until time runs
886#   out on the session at midnight, but rural champion Rep. Herbert Copeland,
887#   R-Madison, leans over the gallery railing and forces the official clock
888#   back to 9 p.m., breaking it in the process.  The clock sticks on 9 as the
889#   debate rages on into the night.  The filibuster finally dies out and the
890#   bill passes, while outside the chamber, clocks read 3:30 a.m.  In the end,
891#   it doesn't matter which side won.  The law has no enforcement powers and
892#   is simply ignored by fast-time communities."
893# How Indiana went from 'God's time' to split zones and daylight-saving.
894# Indianapolis Star. 2018-11-27 14:58 -05.
895# https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/27/indianapolis-indiana-time-zone-history-central-eastern-daylight-savings-time/2126300002/
896#
897# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17):
898# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis,
899# with the following exceptions:
900#
901# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
902#   Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago.
903#
904# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York.
905#
906# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like
907#   America/Kentucky/Louisville.
908#
909# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke,
910#   and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below.
911#
912# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history,
913# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information."
914# Those Hoosiers!  Such a flighty and changeable people!
915# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
916#
917# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript
918# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level.
919# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'.
920
921# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26):
922# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana
923# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke,
924# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the
925# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of
926# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the
927# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time."
928# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their
929# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error.  The intent
930# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT.
931
932# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10):
933# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is
934# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007....
935# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL
936
937# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
938Rule Indianapolis 1941	only	-	Jun	22	2:00	1:00	D
939Rule Indianapolis 1941	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
940Rule Indianapolis 1946	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
941# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
942Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:15:22
943			-6:00	US	C%sT	1920
944			-6:00 Indianapolis C%sT	1942
945			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
946			-6:00 Indianapolis C%sT	1955 Apr 24  2:00
947			-5:00	-	EST	1957 Sep 29  2:00
948			-6:00	-	CST	1958 Apr 27  2:00
949			-5:00	-	EST	1969
950			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
951			-5:00	-	EST	2006
952			-5:00	US	E%sT
953#
954# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974,
955# as well as from 1976 through 2005.
956# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
957Rule	Marengo	1951	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
958Rule	Marengo	1951	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
959Rule	Marengo	1954	1960	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
960Rule	Marengo	1954	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
961# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
962Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:14:37
963			-6:00	US	C%sT	1951
964			-6:00	Marengo	C%sT	1961 Apr 30  2:00
965			-5:00	-	EST	1969
966			-5:00	US	E%sT	1974 Jan  6  2:00
967			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1974 Oct 27  2:00
968			-5:00	US	E%sT	1976
969			-5:00	-	EST	2006
970			-5:00	US	E%sT
971#
972# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana,
973# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back
974# in November 2007.
975# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
976Rule Vincennes	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
977Rule Vincennes	1946	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
978Rule Vincennes	1953	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
979Rule Vincennes	1953	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
980Rule Vincennes	1955	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
981Rule Vincennes	1956	1963	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
982Rule Vincennes	1960	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
983Rule Vincennes	1961	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
984Rule Vincennes	1962	1963	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
985# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
986Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:09:53
987			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
988			-6:00 Vincennes	C%sT	1964 Apr 26  2:00
989			-5:00	-	EST	1969
990			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
991			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
992			-6:00	US	C%sT	2007 Nov  4  2:00
993			-5:00	US	E%sT
994#
995# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006.
996# From Alois Triendl (2019-07-09):
997# The Indianapolis News, Friday 27 October 1967 states that Perry County
998# returned to CST.  It went again to EST on 27 April 1969, as documented by the
999# Indianapolis star of Saturday 26 April.
1000# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1001Rule Perry	1955	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1002Rule Perry	1955	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1003Rule Perry	1956	1963	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1004Rule Perry	1961	1963	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1005# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1006Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:12:57
1007			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
1008			-6:00 Perry	C%sT	1964 Apr 26  2:00
1009			-5:00	-	EST	1967 Oct 29  2:00
1010			-6:00	US	C%sT	1969 Apr 27  2:00
1011			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
1012			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
1013			-6:00	US	C%sT
1014#
1015# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977,
1016# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007.
1017# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1018Rule	Pike	1955	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1019Rule	Pike	1955	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1020Rule	Pike	1956	1964	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1021Rule	Pike	1961	1964	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1022# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1023Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:10:53
1024			-6:00	US	C%sT	1955
1025			-6:00	Pike	C%sT	1965 Apr 25  2:00
1026			-5:00	-	EST	1966 Oct 30  2:00
1027			-6:00	US	C%sT	1977 Oct 30  2:00
1028			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
1029			-6:00	US	C%sT	2007 Nov  4  2:00
1030			-5:00	US	E%sT
1031#
1032# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991,
1033# then switched back in 2006.
1034# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28):
1035# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post
1036# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of
1037# 1991-10-27.
1038# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1039Rule	Starke	1947	1961	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1040Rule	Starke	1947	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1041Rule	Starke	1955	1956	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1042Rule	Starke	1957	1958	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1043Rule	Starke	1959	1961	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1044# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1045Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:13:30
1046			-6:00	US	C%sT	1947
1047			-6:00	Starke	C%sT	1962 Apr 29  2:00
1048			-5:00	-	EST	1963 Oct 27  2:00
1049			-6:00	US	C%sT	1991 Oct 27  2:00
1050			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
1051			-6:00	US	C%sT
1052#
1053# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in
1054# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007.
1055# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1056Rule	Pulaski	1946	1960	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1057Rule	Pulaski	1946	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1058Rule	Pulaski	1955	1956	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1059Rule	Pulaski	1957	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1060# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1061Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:13:35
1062			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
1063			-6:00	Pulaski	C%sT	1961 Apr 30  2:00
1064			-5:00	-	EST	1969
1065			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
1066			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
1067			-6:00	US	C%sT	2007 Mar 11  2:00
1068			-5:00	US	E%sT
1069#
1070# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005.
1071# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1072Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:19:44
1073			-6:00	US	C%sT	1954 Apr 25  2:00
1074			-5:00	-	EST	1969
1075			-5:00	US	E%sT	1973
1076			-5:00	-	EST	2006
1077			-5:00	US	E%sT
1078
1079# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20):
1080# The Louisville & Nashville Railroad's 1883-11-18 change occurred at
1081# 10:00 old local time; train were supposed to come to a standstill
1082# for precisely 18 minutes.  See Bartky Fig. 1 (page 50).  It is not
1083# clear how this matched civil time in Louisville, so for now continue
1084# to assume Louisville switched at noon new local time, like New York.
1085#
1086# From Michael Deckers (2019-08-06):
1087# From the contemporary source given by Alois Treindl,
1088# the switch in Louisville on 1946-04-28 was on 00:01
1089# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-26):
1090# That source was the Louisville Courier-Journal, 1946-04-27, p 4.
1091# Shanks gives 02:00 for all 20th-century transition times in Louisville.
1092# Evidently this is wrong for spring 1946.  Although also likely wrong
1093# for other dates, we have no data.
1094#
1095# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974.
1096# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana.
1097# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1098Rule Louisville	1921	only	-	May	1	2:00	1:00	D
1099Rule Louisville	1921	only	-	Sep	1	2:00	0	S
1100Rule Louisville	1941	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1101Rule Louisville	1941	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1102Rule Louisville	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	0:01	1:00	D
1103Rule Louisville	1946	only	-	Jun	2	2:00	0	S
1104Rule Louisville	1950	1961	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1105Rule Louisville	1950	1955	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1106Rule Louisville	1956	1961	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1107# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1108Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:16:58
1109			-6:00	US	C%sT	1921
1110			-6:00 Louisville C%sT	1942
1111			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
1112			-6:00 Louisville C%sT	1961 Jul 23  2:00
1113			-5:00	-	EST	1968
1114			-5:00	US	E%sT	1974 Jan  6  2:00
1115			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1974 Oct 27  2:00
1116			-5:00	US	E%sT
1117#
1118# Wayne County, Kentucky
1119#
1120# From Lake Cumberland LIFE
1121# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml
1122# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7:
1123# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from
1124# the Central to the Eastern time zone....  The Wayne County government made
1125# the same request in December.  And while Russell County officials have not
1126# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in
1127# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also.
1128# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S.
1129# location in the Central time zone.
1130#
1131# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29):
1132# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion,
1133# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern
1134# (-0500) time.  They won't "fall back" this year.  See Sara Shipley,
1135# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400).
1136#
1137# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16):
1138# The final rule was published in the
1139# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158.
1140# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2000-08-17/html/00-20854.htm
1141#
1142Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:20:36
1143			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
1144			-6:00	-	CST	1968
1145			-6:00	US	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
1146			-5:00	US	E%sT
1147
1148
1149# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30):
1150# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985.
1151# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central;
1152#	previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10
1153# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10
1154# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10
1155# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10
1156# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10
1157#
1158# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17):
1159# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS,
1160# so omit that change for now.
1161# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change.
1162# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change.
1163# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on
1164# 1999-10-31.  See the
1165# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707.
1166# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1999-10-21/html/99-27240.htm
1167# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated
1168# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official;
1169# hence a separate tz entry is not needed.
1170
1171# Michigan
1172#
1173# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
1174# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973.
1175#
1176# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
1177# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18,
1178# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01)
1179# that Detroit kept
1180#
1181#	local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should
1182#	be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time.  Half the
1183#	city obeyed, half refused.  After considerable debate, the decision
1184#	was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time.  A derisive offer to
1185#	erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the
1186#	Committee on Sewers.  Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted
1187#	by city vote.
1188#
1189# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks.
1190#
1191# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
1192# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks
1193# one hour in 1914."  This change is not in Shanks.  We have no more
1194# info, so omit this for now.
1195#
1196# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-06):
1197# Due to a complicated set of legal maneuvers, in 1967 Michigan did
1198# not start daylight saving time when the rest of the US did.
1199# Instead, it began DST on Jun 14 at 00:01.  This was big news:
1200# the Detroit Free Press reported it at the top of Page 1 on
1201# 1967-06-14, in an article "State Adjusting to Switch to Fast Time"
1202# by Gary Blonston, above an article about Thurgood Marshall's
1203# confirmation to the US Supreme Court.  Although Shanks says Detroit
1204# observed DST until 1967-10-29 00:01, that time of day seems to be
1205# incorrect, as the Free Press later said DST ended in Michigan at the
1206# same time as the rest of the US.  Also, although Shanks reports no DST in
1207# Detroit in 1968, it did observe DST that year; in the November 1968
1208# election Michigan voters narrowly repealed DST, effective 1969.
1209#
1210# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975.
1211# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1212Rule	Detroit	1948	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1213Rule	Detroit	1948	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1214# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1215Zone America/Detroit	-5:32:11 -	LMT	1905
1216			-6:00	-	CST	1915 May 15  2:00
1217			-5:00	-	EST	1942
1218			-5:00	US	E%sT	1946
1219			-5:00	Detroit	E%sT	1967 Jun 14  0:01
1220			-5:00	US	E%sT	1969
1221			-5:00	-	EST	1973
1222			-5:00	US	E%sT	1975
1223			-5:00	-	EST	1975 Apr 27  2:00
1224			-5:00	US	E%sT
1225#
1226# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan,
1227# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973.
1228# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1229Rule Menominee	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1230Rule Menominee	1946	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1231Rule Menominee	1966	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1232Rule Menominee	1966	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1233# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1234Zone America/Menominee	-5:50:27 -	LMT	1885 Sep 18 12:00
1235			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
1236			-6:00 Menominee	C%sT	1969 Apr 27  2:00
1237			-5:00	-	EST	1973 Apr 29  2:00
1238			-6:00	US	C%sT
1239
1240# Navassa
1241# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service
1242# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act
1243# also claimed by Haiti
1244# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co
1245# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09
1246# currently uninhabited
1247# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord",
1248# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites
1249# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994).
1250
1251################################################################################
1252
1253
1254# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
1255#
1256# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
1257# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
1258# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
1259# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
1260#
1261# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source
1262# for time zone data was the International Air Transport
1263# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
1264# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
1265# of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
1266# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
1267#
1268# Other sources occasionally used include:
1269#
1270#	Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
1271#	<https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
1272#
1273#	Pearce C. The Great Daylight Saving Time Controversy.
1274#	Australian Ebook Publisher. 2017. ISBN 978-1-925516-96-8.
1275#
1276#	Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
1277#	Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated),
1278#	which I found in the UCLA library.
1279#
1280#	William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition
1281#	<http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf>
1282#	[PDF] (1914-03)
1283#
1284# See the 'europe' file for Greenland.
1285
1286# Canada
1287
1288# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14):
1289# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada
1290# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard....
1291#
1292#	UTC	Standard time	Daylight saving time
1293#	offset	French	English	French	English
1294#	-2:30	-	-	HAT	NDT
1295#	-3	-	-	HAA	ADT
1296#	-3:30	HNT	NST	-	-
1297#	-4	HNA	AST	HAE	EDT
1298#	-5	HNE	EST	HAC	CDT
1299#	-6	HNC	CST	HAR	MDT
1300#	-7	HNR	MST	HAP	PDT
1301#	-8	HNP	PST	HAY	YDT
1302#	-9	HNY	YST	-	-
1303#
1304#	HN: Heure Normale	ST: Standard Time
1305#	HA: Heure Avancée	DT: Daylight saving Time
1306#
1307#	A: de l'Atlantique	Atlantic
1308#	C: du Centre		Central
1309#	E: de l'Est		Eastern
1310#	M:			Mountain
1311#	N:			Newfoundland
1312#	P: du Pacifique		Pacific
1313#	R: des Rocheuses
1314#	T: de Terre-Neuve
1315#	Y: du Yukon		Yukon
1316#
1317# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22):
1318# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software.
1319
1320# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks
1321# & Pottenger.
1322
1323# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31,
1324# 2007-03-01):
1325# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will
1326# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the
1327# U.S. and the rest of Canada....
1328# https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm
1329# ...
1330# Nova Scotia
1331# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007....
1332# https://www.novascotia.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf
1333#
1334# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to
1335# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01.
1336# https://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf
1337# ...
1338# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00.
1339# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00.
1340# https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php
1341# ...
1342# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules.
1343# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM
1344# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm
1345# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF
1346# ...
1347# P.E.I. will follow US rules....
1348# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf
1349# ...
1350# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador....
1351# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm
1352# ...
1353# Yukon
1354# https://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf
1355# ...
1356# N.W.T. will follow US rules.  Whoever maintains the government web site
1357# does not seem to believe in bookmarks.  To see the news release, click the
1358# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change".  Press the
1359# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using
1360# JavaScript.
1361# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive
1362# ...
1363# Nunavut
1364# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007....
1365# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf
1366
1367# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-18):
1368# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map
1369# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998)
1370# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp
1371# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard
1372# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998.
1373#
1374# National Research Council Canada maintains info about time zones and DST.
1375# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html
1376# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/index.html#Q5
1377# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent.
1378
1379# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27):
1380# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the
1381# new US DST rules,
1382
1383# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01)
1384# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles
1385# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260
1386# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review.
1387# The quote includes these two statements:
1388# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...'
1389# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,'
1390# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time
1391# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918.  This transition was
1392# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star.
1393
1394# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed
1395# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day
1396# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets.
1397
1398# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1399Rule	Canada	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1400Rule	Canada	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1401Rule	Canada	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1402Rule	Canada	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1403Rule	Canada	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
1404Rule	Canada	1974	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1405Rule	Canada	1974	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1406Rule	Canada	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
1407Rule	Canada	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1408Rule	Canada	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
1409
1410
1411# Newfoundland and Labrador
1412
1413# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-14):
1414# Legally Labrador should observe Newfoundland time; see:
1415# McLeod J. Labrador time - legal or not? St. John's Telegram, 2017-10-07
1416# http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/labrador-time--legal-or-not-154860/
1417# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that the only part of Labrador
1418# that follows the rules is the southeast corner, including Port Hope
1419# Simpson and Mary's Harbour, but excluding, say, Black Tickle.
1420
1421# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1422Rule	StJohns	1917	only	-	Apr	 8	2:00	1:00	D
1423Rule	StJohns	1917	only	-	Sep	17	2:00	0	S
1424# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1425Rule	StJohns	1919	only	-	May	 5	23:00	1:00	D
1426Rule	StJohns	1919	only	-	Aug	12	23:00	0	S
1427# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1428Rule	StJohns	1920	1935	-	May	Sun>=1	23:00	1:00	D
1429Rule	StJohns	1920	1935	-	Oct	lastSun	23:00	0	S
1430# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks &
1431# Pottenger.
1432Rule	StJohns	1936	1941	-	May	Mon>=9	0:00	1:00	D
1433Rule	StJohns	1936	1941	-	Oct	Mon>=2	0:00	0	S
1434# Whitman gives the following transitions:
1435# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07
1436# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules.
1437# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives
1438# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1439Rule	StJohns	1946	1950	-	May	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1440Rule	StJohns	1946	1950	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00	0	S
1441Rule	StJohns	1951	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1442Rule	StJohns	1951	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1443Rule	StJohns	1960	1986	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1444# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1445# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches
1446# at 00:01 local time.  For now, assume it started in 1987.
1447
1448# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12):
1449# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the
1450# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed.
1451# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings
1452# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time
1453# now occurs at 2:00AM.
1454# ...
1455# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm
1456# ...
1457# MICHAEL PELLEY  |  Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery
1458# Office of the Chief Information Officer
1459# Executive Council
1460# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador
1461
1462Rule	StJohns	1987	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	1:00	D
1463Rule	StJohns	1987	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	0:01	0	S
1464Rule	StJohns	1988	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	2:00	DD
1465Rule	StJohns	1989	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	1:00	D
1466Rule	StJohns	2007	2011	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:01	1:00	D
1467Rule	StJohns	2007	2010	-	Nov	Sun>=1	0:01	0	S
1468#
1469# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes.
1470# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1471Zone America/St_Johns	-3:30:52 -	LMT	1884
1472			-3:30:52 StJohns N%sT	1918
1473			-3:30:52 Canada	N%sT	1919
1474			-3:30:52 StJohns N%sT	1935 Mar 30
1475			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	1942 May 11
1476			-3:30	Canada	N%sT	1946
1477			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	2011 Nov
1478			-3:30	Canada	N%sT
1479
1480# most of east Labrador
1481
1482# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'.
1483# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1484Zone America/Goose_Bay	-4:01:40 -	LMT	1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
1485			-3:30:52 -	NST	1918
1486			-3:30:52 Canada N%sT	1919
1487			-3:30:52 -	NST	1935 Mar 30
1488			-3:30	-	NST	1936
1489			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	1942 May 11
1490			-3:30	Canada	N%sT	1946
1491			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	1966 Mar 15  2:00
1492			-4:00	StJohns	A%sT	2011 Nov
1493			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1494
1495
1496# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I,
1497# Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Listuguj reserve
1498
1499# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20):
1500# From the historical weather station records available at:
1501# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada
1502# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was
1503# likely to be the same across the island....
1504# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would
1505# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996.
1506
1507# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20):
1508# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
1509# Halifax.  Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
1510# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of
1511# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now).
1512# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
1513# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
1514# this is a typo.
1515
1516# From Jeffery Nichols (2020-01-09):
1517# America/Halifax ... also applies to Îles-de-la-Madeleine and the Listuguj
1518# reserve in Quebec. Officially, this came into effect on January 1, 2007
1519# (Legal Time Act, CQLR c T-5.1), but the legislative debates surrounding that
1520# bill say that it is "accommodating the customs and practices" of those
1521# regions, which suggests that they have always been in-line with Halifax.
1522
1523# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1524Rule	Halifax	1916	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1525Rule	Halifax	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	S
1526Rule	Halifax	1920	only	-	May	 9	0:00	1:00	D
1527Rule	Halifax	1920	only	-	Aug	29	0:00	0	S
1528Rule	Halifax	1921	only	-	May	 6	0:00	1:00	D
1529Rule	Halifax	1921	1922	-	Sep	 5	0:00	0	S
1530Rule	Halifax	1922	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
1531Rule	Halifax	1923	1925	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1532Rule	Halifax	1923	only	-	Sep	 4	0:00	0	S
1533Rule	Halifax	1924	only	-	Sep	15	0:00	0	S
1534Rule	Halifax	1925	only	-	Sep	28	0:00	0	S
1535Rule	Halifax	1926	only	-	May	16	0:00	1:00	D
1536Rule	Halifax	1926	only	-	Sep	13	0:00	0	S
1537Rule	Halifax	1927	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1538Rule	Halifax	1927	only	-	Sep	26	0:00	0	S
1539Rule	Halifax	1928	1931	-	May	Sun>=8	0:00	1:00	D
1540Rule	Halifax	1928	only	-	Sep	 9	0:00	0	S
1541Rule	Halifax	1929	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
1542Rule	Halifax	1930	only	-	Sep	15	0:00	0	S
1543Rule	Halifax	1931	1932	-	Sep	Mon>=24	0:00	0	S
1544Rule	Halifax	1932	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1545Rule	Halifax	1933	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
1546Rule	Halifax	1933	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	S
1547Rule	Halifax	1934	only	-	May	20	0:00	1:00	D
1548Rule	Halifax	1934	only	-	Sep	16	0:00	0	S
1549Rule	Halifax	1935	only	-	Jun	 2	0:00	1:00	D
1550Rule	Halifax	1935	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	S
1551Rule	Halifax	1936	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1552Rule	Halifax	1936	only	-	Sep	14	0:00	0	S
1553Rule	Halifax	1937	1938	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1554Rule	Halifax	1937	1941	-	Sep	Mon>=24	0:00	0	S
1555Rule	Halifax	1939	only	-	May	28	0:00	1:00	D
1556Rule	Halifax	1940	1941	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1557Rule	Halifax	1946	1949	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1558Rule	Halifax	1946	1949	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1559Rule	Halifax	1951	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1560Rule	Halifax	1951	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1561Rule	Halifax	1956	1959	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1562Rule	Halifax	1956	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1563Rule	Halifax	1962	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1564Rule	Halifax	1962	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1565# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1566Zone America/Halifax	-4:14:24 -	LMT	1902 Jun 15
1567			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1918
1568			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1919
1569			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1570			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1946
1571			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1974
1572			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1573Zone America/Glace_Bay	-3:59:48 -	LMT	1902 Jun 15
1574			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1953
1575			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1954
1576			-4:00	-	AST	1972
1577			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1974
1578			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1579
1580# New Brunswick
1581
1582# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31):
1583# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf>
1584# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and
1585# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it
1586# clear that this was the case since at least 1993.
1587# For now, assume it started in 1993.
1588
1589# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1590Rule	Moncton	1933	1935	-	Jun	Sun>=8	1:00	1:00	D
1591Rule	Moncton	1933	1935	-	Sep	Sun>=8	1:00	0	S
1592Rule	Moncton	1936	1938	-	Jun	Sun>=1	1:00	1:00	D
1593Rule	Moncton	1936	1938	-	Sep	Sun>=1	1:00	0	S
1594Rule	Moncton	1939	only	-	May	27	1:00	1:00	D
1595Rule	Moncton	1939	1941	-	Sep	Sat>=21	1:00	0	S
1596Rule	Moncton	1940	only	-	May	19	1:00	1:00	D
1597Rule	Moncton	1941	only	-	May	 4	1:00	1:00	D
1598Rule	Moncton	1946	1972	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1599Rule	Moncton	1946	1956	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1600Rule	Moncton	1957	1972	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1601Rule	Moncton	1993	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	1:00	D
1602Rule	Moncton	1993	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	0:01	0	S
1603# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1604Zone America/Moncton	-4:19:08 -	LMT	1883 Dec  9
1605			-5:00	-	EST	1902 Jun 15
1606			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1933
1607			-4:00	Moncton	A%sT	1942
1608			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1946
1609			-4:00	Moncton	A%sT	1973
1610			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1993
1611			-4:00	Moncton	A%sT	2007
1612			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1613
1614# Quebec
1615
1616# From Paul Eggert (2020-01-10):
1617# See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal.
1618# See America/Halifax for the Îles de la Madeleine and the Listuguj reserve.
1619#
1620# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63
1621# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as
1622# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST.
1623# The Quebec department of justice writes in
1624# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord"
1625# https://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/en/department/ministre/functions-and-responsabilities/legal-time-in-quebec/the-situation-in-minganie-and-basse-cote-nord/
1626# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon
1627# observes Atlantic standard time all year round.
1628# This common practice was codified into law as of 2007; see Legal Time Act,
1629# CQLR c T-5.1 <http://legisquebec.gouv.qc.ca/en/ShowDoc/cs/T-5.1>.
1630# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to
1631# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT.
1632
1633# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1634Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 -	LMT	1884
1635			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1970
1636			-4:00	-	AST
1637
1638# Ontario
1639
1640# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1641# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
1642# Toronto.
1643# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1644# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1645# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1646# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax.
1647
1648# From Jeffery Nichols (2020-02-06):
1649# According to the [Shanks] atlas, those western Ontario zones are huge,
1650# covering most of Ontario northwest of Sault Ste Marie and Timmins.
1651# The zones seem to include towns bigger than the ones they're named after,
1652# like Dryden in America/Rainy_River and Wawa (and maybe Attawapiskat) in
1653# America/Nipigon.  I assume it's too much trouble to change the name of the
1654# zone (like when you found out that America/Glace_Bay includes Sydney, Nova
1655# Scotia)....
1656
1657# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1658# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST
1659# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that
1660# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw
1661# have already done so.  In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday,
1662# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable
1663# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after
1664# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but
1665# presumably that should be -07-06.  (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters
1666# earlier in June).
1667#
1668# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21).
1669#
1670# From Paul Eggert (2017-07-08):
1671# For more on Orillia, see: Daubs K. Bold attempt at daylight saving
1672# time became a comic failure in Orillia. Toronto Star 2017-07-08.
1673# https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/07/08/bold-attempt-at-daylight-saving-time-became-a-comic-failure-in-orillia.html
1674
1675# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17):
1676# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star
1677# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST,
1678# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT.
1679# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9)
1680# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html
1681# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT.
1682# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report
1683# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice.
1684#
1685# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1686# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and
1687# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes
1688# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in
1689# violation of the official Ontario rules.
1690#
1691# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1692# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the
1693# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said:
1694#
1695#	The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round.
1696#	This means they spend about half the time on central time and
1697#	the other half on eastern time.
1698#
1699#	For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said.
1700#
1701#	"The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern
1702#	Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he
1703#	said.  "I don't see any changes happening here."
1704#
1705# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang
1706# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice."
1707
1708# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton:
1709# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory
1710# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he
1711# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current
1712# time keeping since 1952, at least.
1713
1714# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17):
1715# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River
1716# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from
1717# McKinnon sounds more authoritative.  For now, assume that Atikokan
1718# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time
1719# ended.  This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour
1720# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move
1721# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file.
1722
1723# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06):
1724#
1725# Currently the database has:
1726#
1727# # Ontario
1728#
1729# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1730# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
1731# # Toronto.
1732# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1733# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1734# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1735#
1736# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom
1737# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard
1738# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that:
1739#
1740#     The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario,
1741#     except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year.
1742#
1743# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon.
1744#
1745# I only came across this incidentally.  I don't know if Windsor began
1746# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date.
1747#
1748# By the way, the article continues by noting that:
1749#
1750#     Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back
1751#     three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October.
1752
1753# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17):
1754#
1755# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in
1756# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,
1757# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17,
1758# was available at
1759# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S
1760#
1761# It includes the text below (starting on page 57):
1762#
1763#   A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would
1764# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by
1765# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities
1766# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav-
1767# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite,
1768# for the other provinces only approximate:
1769#
1770#	Province	Daylight saving time used
1771# Prince Edward Island	Not used.
1772# Nova Scotia		In Halifax only.
1773# New Brunswick		In St. John only.
1774# Quebec		In the following places:
1775#			Montreal	Lachine
1776#			Quebec		Mont-Royal
1777#			Lévis		Iberville
1778#			St. Lambert	Cap de la Madelèine
1779#			Verdun		Loretteville
1780#			Westmount	Richmond
1781#			Outremont	St. Jérôme
1782#			Longueuil	Greenfield Park
1783#			Arvida		Waterloo
1784#			Chambly-Canton	Beaulieu
1785#			Melbourne	La Tuque
1786#			St. Théophile	Buckingham
1787# Ontario		Used generally in the cities and towns along
1788#			the southerly part of the province. Not
1789#			used in the northwesterly part.
1790# Manitoba		Not used.
1791# Saskatchewan		In Regina only.
1792# Alberta		Not used.
1793# British Columbia	Not used.
1794#
1795#   With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited
1796# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont.
1797
1798# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1799Rule	Toronto	1919	only	-	Mar	30	23:30	1:00	D
1800Rule	Toronto	1919	only	-	Oct	26	0:00	0	S
1801Rule	Toronto	1920	only	-	May	 2	2:00	1:00	D
1802Rule	Toronto	1920	only	-	Sep	26	0:00	0	S
1803Rule	Toronto	1921	only	-	May	15	2:00	1:00	D
1804Rule	Toronto	1921	only	-	Sep	15	2:00	0	S
1805Rule	Toronto	1922	1923	-	May	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1806# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16"
1807# was meant.
1808Rule	Toronto	1922	1926	-	Sep	Sun>=15	2:00	0	S
1809Rule	Toronto	1924	1927	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
1810Rule	Toronto	1927	1937	-	Sep	Sun>=25	2:00	0	S
1811Rule	Toronto	1928	1937	-	Apr	Sun>=25	2:00	1:00	D
1812Rule	Toronto	1938	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1813Rule	Toronto	1938	1939	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1814Rule	Toronto	1945	1946	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1815Rule	Toronto	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1816Rule	Toronto	1947	1949	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
1817Rule	Toronto	1947	1948	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
1818Rule	Toronto	1949	only	-	Nov	lastSun	0:00	0	S
1819Rule	Toronto	1950	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1820Rule	Toronto	1950	only	-	Nov	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1821Rule	Toronto	1951	1956	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1822# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971,
1823# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this
1824# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30
1825# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual.
1826Rule	Toronto	1957	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1827
1828# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1829# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and
1830# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in
1831# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw,
1832# Saskatchewan, for one year."
1833
1834# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator,
1835# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12):
1836# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight
1837# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur
1838# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central
1839# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to
1840# include the Thunder Bay area....  When Canada adopted daylight
1841# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so
1842# already, did not change their clocks....  During the Second World
1843# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer
1844# months for the remainder of the war years.
1845
1846# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1847Zone America/Toronto	-5:17:32 -	LMT	1895
1848			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1919
1849			-5:00	Toronto	E%sT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1850			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1946
1851			-5:00	Toronto	E%sT	1974
1852			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1853Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 -	LMT	1895
1854			-6:00	-	CST	1910
1855			-5:00	-	EST	1942
1856			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1970
1857			-5:00	Toronto	E%sT	1973
1858			-5:00	-	EST	1974
1859			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1860Zone America/Nipigon	-5:53:04 -	LMT	1895
1861			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1940 Sep 29
1862			-5:00	1:00	EDT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1863			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1864Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 -	LMT	1895
1865			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1940 Sep 29
1866			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1867			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
1868Zone America/Atikokan	-6:06:28 -	LMT	1895
1869			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1940 Sep 29
1870			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1871			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1945 Sep 30  2:00
1872			-5:00	-	EST
1873
1874
1875# Manitoba
1876
1877# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06):
1878# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to
1879# March 27, 1987 ... said ...
1880# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of
1881# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central
1882# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next
1883# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."...
1884# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had
1885# been assented to (March 22, 1967)....
1886# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying
1887# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of
1888# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central
1889# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time).
1890
1891# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10):
1892# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s)
1893# starting 1966.  Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume
1894# it was also 02:00s in 1966.
1895
1896# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1897Rule	Winn	1916	only	-	Apr	23	0:00	1:00	D
1898Rule	Winn	1916	only	-	Sep	17	0:00	0	S
1899Rule	Winn	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1900Rule	Winn	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1901Rule	Winn	1937	only	-	May	16	2:00	1:00	D
1902Rule	Winn	1937	only	-	Sep	26	2:00	0	S
1903Rule	Winn	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1904Rule	Winn	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1905Rule	Winn	1945	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1906Rule	Winn	1946	only	-	May	12	2:00	1:00	D
1907Rule	Winn	1946	only	-	Oct	13	2:00	0	S
1908Rule	Winn	1947	1949	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1909Rule	Winn	1947	1949	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1910Rule	Winn	1950	only	-	May	 1	2:00	1:00	D
1911Rule	Winn	1950	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
1912Rule	Winn	1951	1960	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1913Rule	Winn	1951	1958	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1914Rule	Winn	1959	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1915Rule	Winn	1960	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1916Rule	Winn	1963	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1917Rule	Winn	1963	only	-	Sep	22	2:00	0	S
1918Rule	Winn	1966	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1919Rule	Winn	1966	2005	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1920Rule	Winn	1987	2005	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1921# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1922Zone America/Winnipeg	-6:28:36 -	LMT	1887 Jul 16
1923			-6:00	Winn	C%sT	2006
1924			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
1925
1926
1927# Saskatchewan
1928
1929# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1930# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal
1931# level.  As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people
1932# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight,
1933# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook."
1934# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned:
1935# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of
1936# the summer".  The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad
1937# time was noted.
1938
1939# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1940# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the
1941# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year."
1942
1943# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25):
1944# Pearce's book says Regina observed DST in 1914-1917.  No dates and times,
1945# unfortunately.  It also says that in 1914 Saskatoon observed DST
1946# from 1 June to 6 July, and that DST was also tried out in Davidson,
1947# Melfort, and Prince Albert.
1948
1949# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1950# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina.
1951# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972.
1952# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton.
1953# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton
1954# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law.
1955
1956# From W. Jones (1992-11-06):
1957# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the
1958# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department.
1959# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and
1960# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother.
1961#
1962# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years
1963# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated
1964# their affiliations in one direction or the other.  In 1965 a provincial
1965# referendum favoured legislating common time practices.
1966#
1967# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of
1968# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern
1969# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in
1970# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to
1971# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and
1972# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would
1973# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST.
1974#
1975# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town
1976# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to
1977# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only
1978# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT
1979# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round
1980# since sometime in the 1960s.
1981
1982# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26):
1983# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages
1984# long and rather painful to read.
1985# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf
1986
1987# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1988Rule	Regina	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1989Rule	Regina	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1990Rule	Regina	1930	1934	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1991Rule	Regina	1930	1934	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
1992Rule	Regina	1937	1941	-	Apr	Sun>=8	0:00	1:00	D
1993Rule	Regina	1937	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
1994Rule	Regina	1938	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
1995Rule	Regina	1939	1941	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
1996Rule	Regina	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1997Rule	Regina	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1998Rule	Regina	1945	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1999Rule	Regina	1946	only	-	Apr	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
2000Rule	Regina	1946	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00	0	S
2001Rule	Regina	1947	1957	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2002Rule	Regina	1947	1957	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2003Rule	Regina	1959	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2004Rule	Regina	1959	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2005#
2006Rule	Swift	1957	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2007Rule	Swift	1957	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2008Rule	Swift	1959	1961	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2009Rule	Swift	1959	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2010Rule	Swift	1960	1961	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2011# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2012Zone America/Regina	-6:58:36 -	LMT	1905 Sep
2013			-7:00	Regina	M%sT	1960 Apr lastSun  2:00
2014			-6:00	-	CST
2015Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 -	LMT	1905 Sep
2016			-7:00	Canada	M%sT	1946 Apr lastSun  2:00
2017			-7:00	Regina	M%sT	1950
2018			-7:00	Swift	M%sT	1972 Apr lastSun  2:00
2019			-6:00	-	CST
2020
2021
2022# Alberta
2023
2024# From Alois Triendl (2019-07-19):
2025# There was no DST in Alberta in 1967... Calgary Herald, 29 April 1967.
2026# 1969, no DST, from Edmonton Journal 18 April 1969
2027#
2028# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25):
2029# Pearce's book says that Alberta's 1948 Daylight Saving Act required
2030# Mountain Standard Time without DST, and that "anyone who broke that law
2031# could be fined up to $25 and costs".  There seems to be no record of
2032# anybody paying the fine.  The law was not changed until an August 1971
2033# plebiscite reinstituted DST in 1972.  This story is also mentioned in:
2034# Boyer JP. Forcing Choice: The Risky Reward of Referendums. Dundum. 2017.
2035# ISBN 978-1459739123.
2036
2037# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2038Rule	Edm	1918	1919	-	Apr	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
2039Rule	Edm	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
2040Rule	Edm	1919	only	-	May	27	2:00	0	S
2041Rule	Edm	1920	1923	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2042Rule	Edm	1920	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2043Rule	Edm	1921	1923	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2044Rule	Edm	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
2045Rule	Edm	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
2046Rule	Edm	1945	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2047Rule	Edm	1947	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2048Rule	Edm	1947	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2049Rule	Edm	1972	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2050Rule	Edm	1972	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2051# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2052Zone America/Edmonton	-7:33:52 -	LMT	1906 Sep
2053			-7:00	Edm	M%sT	1987
2054			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2055
2056
2057# British Columbia
2058
2059# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2060# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has
2061# been like Vancouver.
2062# Dawson Creek uses MST.  Much of east BC is like Edmonton.
2063# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek.
2064
2065# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct:
2066
2067# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01):
2068# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia
2069# that do not currently observe daylight saving:
2070# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area)
2071# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District
2072# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John)
2073
2074# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time
2075# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the
2076# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009.
2077# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260
2078# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918.
2079# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UT-7 for 93 years.
2080# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972.
2081
2082# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains
2083# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain.  I e-mailed Tammy a few months
2084# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess.  She said it was just
2085# as plausible as any other date (in June).  She also said that after writing
2086# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the
2087# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010.
2088# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56
2089
2090# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history:
2091# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7)
2092# Exact date unknown
2093# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8)
2094# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess.
2095# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7)
2096# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess.
2097# note 1:
2098# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada,
2099# Creston did not change its clocks.
2100# note 2:
2101# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change,
2102# Creston did not oblige.
2103# note 3:
2104# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time
2105# (UTC-7) forever.
2106# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council.
2107# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html
2108
2109# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada.
2110# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying
2111# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before
2112# the change.  It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this
2113# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough
2114# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules.
2115
2116# The transition dates (and times) are guesses.
2117
2118# From Matt Johnson (2015-09-21):
2119# Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year.  So while previously they
2120# were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with
2121# America/Dawson_Creek.
2122# http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html
2123#
2124# From Tim Parenti (2015-09-23):
2125# This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality,
2126# America/Fort_Nelson.  The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a
2127# 2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support.  Effectively, the municipality has
2128# been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on
2129# 2015-03-08.
2130#
2131# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-25):
2132# Shanks says Fort Nelson did not observe DST in 1946, unlike Vancouver.
2133# Alois Triendl confirmed this on 07-22, citing the 1946-04-27 Vancouver Daily
2134# Province.  He also cited the 1946-09-28 Victoria Daily Times, which said
2135# that Vancouver, Victoria, etc. "change at midnight Saturday"; for now,
2136# guess they meant 02:00 Sunday since 02:00 was common practice in Vancouver.
2137#
2138# Early Vancouver, Volume Four, by Major J.S. Matthews, V.D., 2011 edition
2139# says that a 1922 plebiscite adopted DST, but a 1923 plebiscite rejected it.
2140# http://former.vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/digitized/EarlyVan/SearchEarlyVan/Vol4pdf/MatthewsEarlyVancouverVol4_DaylightSavings.pdf
2141# A catalog entry for a newspaper clipping seems to indicate that Vancouver
2142# observed DST in 1941 from 07-07 through 09-27; see
2143# https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/daylight-saving-1918-starts-again-july-7-1941-start-d-s-sept-27-end-of-d-s-1941
2144# We have no further details, so omit them for now.
2145
2146# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2147Rule	Vanc	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
2148Rule	Vanc	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
2149Rule	Vanc	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
2150Rule	Vanc	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
2151Rule	Vanc	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
2152Rule	Vanc	1946	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2153Rule	Vanc	1946	only	-	Sep	29	2:00	0	S
2154Rule	Vanc	1947	1961	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2155Rule	Vanc	1962	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2156# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2157Zone America/Vancouver	-8:12:28 -	LMT	1884
2158			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1987
2159			-8:00	Canada	P%sT
2160Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 -	LMT	1884
2161			-8:00	Canada	P%sT	1947
2162			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1972 Aug 30  2:00
2163			-7:00	-	MST
2164Zone America/Fort_Nelson	-8:10:47 -	LMT	1884
2165			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1946
2166			-8:00	-	PST	1947
2167			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1987
2168			-8:00	Canada	P%sT	2015 Mar  8  2:00
2169			-7:00	-	MST
2170Zone America/Creston	-7:46:04 -	LMT	1884
2171			-7:00	-	MST	1916 Oct 1
2172			-8:00	-	PST	1918 Jun 2
2173			-7:00	-	MST
2174
2175# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon
2176
2177# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2178# Dawson switched to PST in 1973.  Inuvik switched to MST in 1979.
2179# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs:
2180#	* 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68,
2181#	c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9....
2182#	see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1).
2183#	[https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-i-21/latest/rsc-1985-c-i-21.html]
2184#	* C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00.
2185#	* O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST.
2186#	* O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00.
2187
2188# From Brian Inglis (2015-04-14):
2189#
2190# I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following
2191# regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name,
2192# and relevant quote if available.  Each regulation specifically revokes its
2193# predecessor.  The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act
2194# authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes.
2195#
2196# Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or
2197# index, and only some via Canadian legal sources.  Other sources used include
2198# articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS
2199# Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and
2200# 1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial
2201# and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of
2202# standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada,
2203# with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset,
2204# and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart
2205# and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as
2206# another source of information for 1970 and earlier.
2207#
2208# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26,
2209#   pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
2210#   http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75:
2211#   Yukon Interpretation Ordinance
2212#   Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and
2213#   thirty-fifth meridian.
2214#
2215# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.;
2216#   JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
2217#   (ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1:
2218#   Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16.
2219#
2220#     (1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine
2221#     hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time.
2222#
2223#     (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations
2224#     varying the manner of reckoning standard time.
2225#
2226# * Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance
2227#   [no online source found]
2228#
2229# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC,
2230#   Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
2231#   http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon
2232#   Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ...
2233#
2234#     1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon
2235#     Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked.
2236#
2237#     2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the
2238#     Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May,
2239#     1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that
2240#     is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon
2241#     Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west.
2242#
2243#     3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree
2244#     longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine
2245#     hours behind Greenwich Time.
2246#
2247# * Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214
2248#   https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html
2249#   C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ...
2250#
2251#     1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby
2252#     revoked.
2253#
2254#     2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation
2255#     Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973
2256#     shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is
2257#     to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time.
2258#
2259# * O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT
2260#   https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/attachments/20201125/d5adc93b/CAYTOIC1980-02DST1980-01-04-0001.pdf
2261#
2262# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56
2263#   https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html
2264#   O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ...
2265#
2266#   In every year between
2267#     (a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and
2268#     (b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October,
2269#   Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and
2270#   called Yukon Daylight Saving Time.
2271#   ...
2272#   Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987.
2273#
2274# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127
2275#   https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html
2276#   O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ...
2277#
2278#     1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours
2279#     behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock
2280#     in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock
2281#     in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called
2282#     Yukon Daylight Saving Time.
2283#
2284#     2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked.
2285#
2286#     3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007.
2287#
2288# * Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125
2289# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html
2290
2291# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04):
2292# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone.
2293# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31
2294# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html
2295#
2296# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06):
2297# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut
2298# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region.
2299
2300# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
2301# Basic Facts: The New Territory
2302# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html
2303# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time,
2304# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST.  We don't know when
2305# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995.
2306
2307# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
2308# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time,
2309# Pangnirtung wobbled.  Here is the result of their wobble:
2310#
2311# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time:
2312#
2313#	First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP,
2314#	Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist
2315#
2316# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time:
2317#
2318#	Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator
2319#
2320# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news.
2321# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to
2322# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not
2323# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally.
2324# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart,
2325# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long.
2326# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to
2327# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with
2328# the current state of affairs.
2329
2330# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the
2331# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19):
2332# http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html
2333# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones,
2334# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time
2335# for municipal offices and schools....  Igloolik [was similar but then]
2336# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6.
2337
2338# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
2339# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories
2340# for these potential new Zones.
2341#
2342# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the
2343# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central
2344# zone] skip daylight savings.  Baffin Island, which is crossed by the
2345# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time.
2346# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of
2347# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not
2348# required to use daylight savings.
2349
2350# From <http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html>
2351# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10):
2352# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and
2353# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them
2354# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter.
2355# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against
2356# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with
2357# the rest of the territory for the winter.  Cambridge Bay remained on
2358# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to
2359# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's
2360# unified time zone in 1999.
2361#
2362# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government:
2363# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000.
2364
2365# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
2366# Let's just keep track of the official times for now.
2367
2368# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07):
2369# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising
2370# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert
2371# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern).  Of the
2372# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that
2373# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round.  I'm
2374# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with
2375# more.
2376# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).]
2377
2378# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21):
2379# According to ...
2380# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp
2381# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time
2382# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year
2383# round.  Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this.
2384# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it
2385# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years....
2386# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used.
2387#
2388# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-17):
2389# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed
2390# daylight saving only during wartime.  Gwillim Law's email also
2391# mentioned maps now maintained by National Research Council Canada;
2392# see above for an up-to-date link.
2393
2394# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01):
2395# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in
2396# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November.
2397# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of
2398# daylight saving....
2399# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html
2400
2401# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21):
2402# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute
2403# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of
2404# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had
2405# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007.
2406#
2407# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay
2408# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008...
2409#
2410# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March
2411# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I
2412# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able
2413# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was
2414# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone
2415# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT).
2416# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks
2417# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in
2418# so they could follow the correct TV schedule...
2419#
2420# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I
2421# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature
2422# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of
2423# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of
2424# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for
2425# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived
2426# and worked in Resolute Bay...
2427#
2428# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that
2429# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of
2430# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead
2431# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay
2432# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not
2433# tell me when the practice had stopped.
2434#
2435# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of
2436# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went
2437# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz
2438# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the
2439# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on
2440# Aziz:
2441# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493
2442#
2443# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using
2444# Eastern Standard Time.
2445#
2446# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the
2447# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way
2448# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in
2449# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs"
2450#
2451# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008.
2452#
2453# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz
2454# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You
2455# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a
2456# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site"
2457#
2458# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would
2459# never have contacted her.  I now believe that all the information I
2460# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored...
2461# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008.
2462
2463# From Tim Parenti (2020-03-05):
2464# The government of Yukon announced [yesterday] the cessation of seasonal time
2465# changes.  "After clocks are pushed ahead one hour on March 8, the territory
2466# will remain on [UTC-07].  ... [The government] found 93 per cent of
2467# respondents wanted to end seasonal time changes and, of that group, 70 per
2468# cent wanted 'permanent Pacific Daylight Saving Time.'"
2469# https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-end-daylight-saving-time-1.5486358
2470#
2471# Although the government press release prefers PDT, we prefer MST for
2472# consistency with nearby Dawson Creek, Creston, and Fort Nelson.
2473# https://yukon.ca/en/news/yukon-end-seasonal-time-change
2474
2475# From Andrew G. Smith (2020-09-24):
2476# Yukon has completed its regulatory change to be on UTC -7 year-round....
2477# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2020_125.pdf
2478# What we have done is re-defined Yukon Standard Time, as we are
2479# authorized to do under section 33 of our Interpretation Act:
2480# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/acts/interpretation_c.pdf
2481#
2482# From Paul Eggert (2020-09-24):
2483# tzdb uses the obsolete YST abbreviation for standard time in Yukon through
2484# about 1970, and uses PST for standard time in Yukon since then.  Consistent
2485# with that, use MST for -07, the new standard time in Yukon effective Nov. 1.
2486
2487# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2488Rule	NT_YK	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
2489Rule	NT_YK	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
2490Rule	NT_YK	1919	only	-	May	25	2:00	1:00	D
2491Rule	NT_YK	1919	only	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	S
2492Rule	NT_YK	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
2493Rule	NT_YK	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
2494Rule	NT_YK	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
2495Rule	NT_YK	1965	only	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	2:00	DD
2496Rule	NT_YK	1965	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2497Rule	NT_YK	1980	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2498Rule	NT_YK	1980	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2499Rule	NT_YK	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2500# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2501# aka Panniqtuuq
2502Zone America/Pangnirtung 0	-	-00	1921 # trading post est.
2503			-4:00	NT_YK	A%sT	1995 Apr Sun>=1  2:00
2504			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1999 Oct 31  2:00
2505			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2506			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
2507# formerly Frobisher Bay
2508Zone America/Iqaluit	0	-	-00	1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est.
2509			-5:00	NT_YK	E%sT	1999 Oct 31  2:00
2510			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2511			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
2512# aka Qausuittuq
2513Zone America/Resolute	0	-	-00	1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded
2514			-6:00	NT_YK	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2515			-5:00	-	EST	2001 Apr  1  3:00
2516			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2006 Oct 29  2:00
2517			-5:00	-	EST	2007 Mar 11  3:00
2518			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
2519# aka Kangiqiniq
2520Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0	-	-00	1957 # Rankin Inlet founded
2521			-6:00	NT_YK	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2522			-5:00	-	EST	2001 Apr  1  3:00
2523			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
2524# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq
2525Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0	-	-00	1920 # trading post est.?
2526			-7:00	NT_YK	M%sT	1999 Oct 31  2:00
2527			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2528			-5:00	-	EST	2000 Nov  5  0:00
2529			-6:00	-	CST	2001 Apr  1  3:00
2530			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2531Zone America/Yellowknife 0	-	-00	1935 # Yellowknife founded?
2532			-7:00	NT_YK	M%sT	1980
2533			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2534Zone America/Inuvik	0	-	-00	1953 # Inuvik founded
2535			-8:00	NT_YK	P%sT	1979 Apr lastSun  2:00
2536			-7:00	NT_YK	M%sT	1980
2537			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2538Zone America/Whitehorse	-9:00:12 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20
2539			-9:00	NT_YK	Y%sT	1967 May 28  0:00
2540			-8:00	NT_YK	P%sT	1980
2541			-8:00	Canada	P%sT	2020 Nov  1
2542			-7:00	-	MST
2543Zone America/Dawson	-9:17:40 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20
2544			-9:00	NT_YK	Y%sT	1973 Oct 28  0:00
2545			-8:00	NT_YK	P%sT	1980
2546			-8:00	Canada	P%sT	2020 Nov  1
2547			-7:00	-	MST
2548
2549
2550###############################################################################
2551
2552# Mexico
2553
2554# From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07):
2555# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the
2556# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a
2557# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish)
2558# http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm
2559#
2560# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC.
2561# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.)
2562# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923.
2563# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16.
2564# S&P report no DST during summer 1931.
2565# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01.
2566
2567# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20):
2568# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the
2569# tz database.  I think they can best be explained by supposing that
2570# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of
2571# the relevant documents.
2572
2573# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15):
2574# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree
2575# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico.
2576#
2577# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
2578#
2579# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the
2580# rules for the DST changes. The rules are:
2581#
2582# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones:
2583#    - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ)
2584#    - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ)
2585#    - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ)
2586#
2587# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October
2588#    at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows:
2589#    BajaNorte: GMT+7
2590#    BajaSur:   GMT+6
2591#    General:   GMT+5
2592#
2593# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows:
2594#    BajaNorte: GMT+8
2595#    BajaSur:   GMT+7
2596#    General:   GMT+6
2597#
2598# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th.
2599#
2600# -------------- End Forwarded Message --------------
2601# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
2602# For an English translation of the decree, see
2603# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04).
2604# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html
2605
2606# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
2607# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times
2608# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02).
2609
2610# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
2611# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time
2612# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight
2613# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of
2614# Arizona year round.
2615
2616# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating
2617# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17):
2618# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National
2619# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each
2620# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the
2621# whole year.
2622
2623# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19):
2624# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says
2625# (translated):...
2626# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced
2627# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting
2628# this year....
2629# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001
2630# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday
2631# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September.
2632
2633# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25):
2634# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one
2635# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."...
2636# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html
2637# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep
2638# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than
2639# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish
2640# observation of Daylight Saving Time.
2641
2642# Official statute published by the Energy Department
2643# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre
2644# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules,
2645# and Sonora with no DST.  This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03).
2646
2647# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03):
2648#
2649# https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-03-mn-32561-story.html
2650# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times
2651# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time.
2652# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that
2653#   the Federal District will not adopt DST.
2654# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree.
2655# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including
2656#   the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools.
2657#
2658# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules.
2659
2660# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01):
2661# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight
2662# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier
2663# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight
2664# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California
2665# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight
2666# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president
2667# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending
2668# September 30, 2001.
2669# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp>
2670# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31)
2671
2672# From Reuters (2001-09-04):
2673# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was
2674# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the
2675# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation
2676# next year....  The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00
2677# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to
2678# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not
2679# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said.
2680
2681# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12):
2682# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted
2683# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico....
2684# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20)
2685# confirms this.  Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied.
2686
2687# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28):
2688#
2689# Steffen Thorsen wrote:
2690# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern
2691# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as
2692# > the United States.
2693# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from
2694# 2010, some border regions will be the same:
2695# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/
2696# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939
2697# (Spanish)
2698#
2699# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here:
2700# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf
2701# (Gaceta Parlamentaria)
2702#
2703# There is also a list of the votes here:
2704# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html
2705#
2706# Our page:
2707# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html
2708
2709# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20):
2710# The page
2711# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010
2712# includes this text:
2713# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California;
2714# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila;
2715# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en
2716# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto
2717# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos
2718# horas del primer domingo de noviembre.
2719# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja
2720# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea
2721# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte
2722# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el
2723# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá
2724# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a
2725# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre.
2726
2727# From Steffen Thorsen (2014-12-08), translated by Gwillim Law:
2728# The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015.
2729#
2730# http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/12/04/medio-ambiente/congreso-aprueba-una-hora-mas-de-sol-en-qroo
2731# "With this change, the time conflict that has existed between the municipios
2732# of Quintana Roo and the municipio of Felipe Carrillo Puerto may come to an
2733# end. The latter declared itself in rebellion 15 years ago when a time change
2734# was initiated in Mexico, and since then it has refused to change its time
2735# zone along with the rest of the country."
2736#
2737# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-01-14), translated by Gwillim Law:
2738# http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva-zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html
2739# "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday
2740# of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current
2741# time..."
2742# Also, the new zone will not use DST.
2743#
2744# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02):
2745# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally
2746# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación
2747# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015
2748# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico:
2749# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W,
2750#    includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below.
2751# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the
2752#    states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía
2753#    de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora.
2754# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the
2755#    state of Baja California.
2756# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state
2757#    of Quintana Roo.
2758# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the
2759#    longitude they are located at.
2760
2761# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2762Rule	Mexico	1939	only	-	Feb	5	0:00	1:00	D
2763Rule	Mexico	1939	only	-	Jun	25	0:00	0	S
2764Rule	Mexico	1940	only	-	Dec	9	0:00	1:00	D
2765Rule	Mexico	1941	only	-	Apr	1	0:00	0	S
2766Rule	Mexico	1943	only	-	Dec	16	0:00	1:00	W # War
2767Rule	Mexico	1944	only	-	May	1	0:00	0	S
2768Rule	Mexico	1950	only	-	Feb	12	0:00	1:00	D
2769Rule	Mexico	1950	only	-	Jul	30	0:00	0	S
2770Rule	Mexico	1996	2000	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2771Rule	Mexico	1996	2000	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2772Rule	Mexico	2001	only	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2773Rule	Mexico	2001	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2774Rule	Mexico	2002	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2775Rule	Mexico	2002	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2776# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2777# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún
2778Zone America/Cancun	-5:47:04 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:12:56
2779			-6:00	-	CST	1981 Dec 23
2780			-5:00	Mexico	E%sT	1998 Aug  2  2:00
2781			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	2015 Feb  1  2:00
2782			-5:00	-	EST
2783# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida
2784Zone America/Merida	-5:58:28 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:01:32
2785			-6:00	-	CST	1981 Dec 23
2786			-5:00	-	EST	1982 Dec  2
2787			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2788# Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border)
2789# This includes the following municipalities:
2790#   in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava,
2791#     Guerrero, Hidalgo.
2792#   in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama.
2793#   in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo,
2794#     Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros.
2795# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal,
2796# 2016-03-12
2797# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-horario-de-verano-en-zona-fronteriza
2798Zone America/Matamoros	-6:40:00 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:20:00
2799			-6:00	-	CST	1988
2800			-6:00	US	C%sT	1989
2801			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	2010
2802			-6:00	US	C%sT
2803# Durango; Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border)
2804Zone America/Monterrey	-6:41:16 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:18:44
2805			-6:00	-	CST	1988
2806			-6:00	US	C%sT	1989
2807			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2808# Central Mexico
2809Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:23:24
2810			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2811			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2812			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2813			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2814			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2815			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	2001 Sep 30  2:00
2816			-6:00	-	CST	2002 Feb 20
2817			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2818# Chihuahua (near US border)
2819# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe,
2820# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides.
2821# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.)
2822Zone America/Ojinaga	-6:57:40 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:02:20
2823			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2824			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2825			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2826			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2827			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2828			-6:00	-	CST	1996
2829			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	1998
2830			-6:00	-	CST	1998 Apr Sun>=1  3:00
2831			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT	2010
2832			-7:00	US	M%sT
2833# Chihuahua (away from US border)
2834Zone America/Chihuahua	-7:04:20 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:55:40
2835			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2836			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2837			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2838			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2839			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2840			-6:00	-	CST	1996
2841			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	1998
2842			-6:00	-	CST	1998 Apr Sun>=1  3:00
2843			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT
2844# Sonora
2845Zone America/Hermosillo	-7:23:52 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:36:08
2846			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2847			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2848			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2849			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2850			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2851			-6:00	-	CST	1942 Apr 24
2852			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
2853			-8:00	-	PST	1970
2854			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT	1999
2855			-7:00	-	MST
2856
2857# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21):
2858# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit)
2859# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to
2860# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco).
2861#
2862# (Spanish)
2863# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del
2864# país, a partir de este domingo
2865# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748
2866#
2867# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del
2868# País
2869# http://www.bahiadebanderas.gob.mx/principal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=261:bahia-de-banderas-homologa-su-horario-con-el-del-centro-del-pais&catid=42:comunicacion-social&Itemid=50
2870#
2871# (English)
2872# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone
2873# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml
2874# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html
2875#
2876# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that
2877# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time
2878# zone ..."
2879# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa
2880
2881# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01):
2882# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters.
2883
2884# Mazatlán
2885Zone America/Mazatlan	-7:05:40 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:54:20
2886			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2887			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2888			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2889			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2890			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2891			-6:00	-	CST	1942 Apr 24
2892			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
2893			-8:00	-	PST	1970
2894			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT
2895
2896# Bahía de Banderas
2897Zone America/Bahia_Banderas	-7:01:00 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:59:00
2898			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2899			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2900			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2901			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2902			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2903			-6:00	-	CST	1942 Apr 24
2904			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
2905			-8:00	-	PST	1970
2906			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT	2010 Apr  4  2:00
2907			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2908
2909# Baja California
2910Zone America/Tijuana	-7:48:04 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:11:56
2911			-7:00	-	MST	1924
2912			-8:00	-	PST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2913			-7:00	-	MST	1930 Nov 15
2914			-8:00	-	PST	1931 Apr  1
2915			-8:00	1:00	PDT	1931 Sep 30
2916			-8:00	-	PST	1942 Apr 24
2917			-8:00	1:00	PWT	1945 Aug 14 23:00u
2918			-8:00	1:00	PPT	1945 Nov 12 # Peace
2919			-8:00	-	PST	1948 Apr  5
2920			-8:00	1:00	PDT	1949 Jan 14
2921			-8:00	-	PST	1954
2922			-8:00	CA	P%sT	1961
2923			-8:00	-	PST	1976
2924			-8:00	US	P%sT	1996
2925			-8:00	Mexico	P%sT	2001
2926			-8:00	US	P%sT	2002 Feb 20
2927			-8:00	Mexico	P%sT	2010
2928			-8:00	US	P%sT
2929# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2930# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from
2931# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976
2932# through 1995.  This was as per Shanks (1999).  But Shanks & Pottenger say
2933# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975.  Guy Harris reports
2934# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and
2935# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that
2936# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then.  This concerns
2937# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone
2938# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its
2939# name or contents should be.
2940#
2941# From Paul Eggert (2015-10-08):
2942# Formerly there was an America/Santa_Isabel zone, but this appears to
2943# have come from a misreading of
2944# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010
2945# It has been moved to the 'backward' file.
2946#
2947#
2948# Revillagigedo Is
2949# no information
2950
2951###############################################################################
2952
2953# Anguilla
2954# Antigua and Barbuda
2955# See America/Port_of_Spain.
2956
2957# Bahamas
2958#
2959# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that.
2960#
2961# From P Chan (2020-11-27, corrected on 2020-12-02):
2962# There were two periods of DST observed in 1942-1945: 1942-05-01
2963# midnight to 1944-12-31 midnight and 1945-02-01 to 1945-10-17 midnight.
2964# "midnight" should mean 24:00 from the context.
2965#
2966# War Time Order 1942 [1942-05-01] and War Time (No. 2) Order 1942  [1942-09-29]
2967# Appendix to the Statutes of 7 George VI. and the Year 1942. p 34, 43
2968# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA34
2969# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA3-PA43
2970#
2971# War Time Order 1943 [1943-03-31] and War Time Order 1944 [1943-12-29]
2972# Appendix to the Statutes of 8 George VI. and the Year 1943. p 9-10, 28-29
2973# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA9
2974# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA4-PA28
2975#
2976# War Time Order 1945 [1945-01-31] and the Order which revoke War Time Order
2977# 1945 [1945-10-16] Appendix to the Statutes of 9 George VI. and the Year
2978# 1945. p 160, 247-248
2979# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA160
2980# https://books.google.com/books?id=5rlNAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA247
2981#
2982# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07):
2983# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST
2984# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007....
2985# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412
2986
2987# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2988Rule	Bahamas	1942	only	-	May	 1	24:00	1:00	W
2989Rule	Bahamas	1944	only	-	Dec	31	24:00	0	S
2990Rule	Bahamas	1945	only	-	Feb	 1	0:00	1:00	W
2991Rule	Bahamas	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
2992Rule	Bahamas	1945	only	-	Oct	17	24:00	0	S
2993Rule	Bahamas	1964	1975	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2994Rule	Bahamas	1964	1975	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2995# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2996Zone	America/Nassau	-5:09:30 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
2997			-5:00	Bahamas	E%sT	1976
2998			-5:00	US	E%sT
2999
3000# Barbados
3001
3002# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that.
3003
3004# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3005Rule	Barb	1977	only	-	Jun	12	2:00	1:00	D
3006Rule	Barb	1977	1978	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
3007Rule	Barb	1978	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=15	2:00	1:00	D
3008Rule	Barb	1979	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
3009Rule	Barb	1980	only	-	Sep	25	2:00	0	S
3010# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3011Zone America/Barbados	-3:58:29 -	LMT	1924 # Bridgetown
3012			-3:58:29 -	BMT	1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time
3013			-4:00	Barb	A%sT
3014
3015# Belize
3016
3017# From P Chan (2020-11-03):
3018# Below are some laws related to the time in British Honduras/Belize:
3019#
3020# Definition of Time Ordinance, 1927 (No.4 of 1927) [1927-04-01]
3021# Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1927, p 19-20
3022# https://books.google.com/books?id=LqEpAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA19
3023#
3024# Definition of Time (Amendment) Ordinance, 1942 (No. 5 of 1942) [1942-06-27]
3025# Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1942, p 31-32
3026# https://books.google.com/books?id=h6MpAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA95-IA44
3027#
3028# Definition of Time Ordinance, 1945 (No. 19 of 1945) [1945-12-15]
3029# Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1945, p 49-50
3030# https://books.google.com/books?id=xaMpAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PP1
3031#
3032# Definition of Time Ordinance, 1947 (No. 1 of 1947) [1947-03-11]
3033# Ordinances of British Honduras Passed in the Year 1947, p 1-2
3034# https://books.google.com/books?id=xaMpAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA1
3035#
3036# Time (Definition of) Ordinance  (Chapter 180)
3037# The Laws of British Honduras in Force on the 15th Day of September, 1958 , Volume IV, p 2580
3038# https://books.google.com/books?id=v5QpAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA2580
3039#
3040# Time (Definition of) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1968 (No. 13 of 1968) [1968-08-03]
3041# https://books.google.com/books?id=xij7KEB_58wC&pg=RA1-PA428-IA9
3042#
3043# Definition of Time Act (Chapter 339)
3044# Law of Belize, Revised Edition 2000
3045# http://www.belizelaw.org/web/lawadmin/PDF%20files/cap339.pdf
3046
3047# From Paul Eggert (2020-11-03):
3048# The transitions below are derived from P Chan's sources, except that the
3049# 1973 through 1983 transitions are from Shanks & Pottenger since we have
3050# no better data there.
3051
3052# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3053Rule	Belize	1918	1941	-	Oct	Sat>=1	24:00	0:30	-0530
3054Rule	Belize	1919	1942	-	Feb	Sat>=8	24:00	0	CST
3055Rule	Belize	1942	only	-	Jun	27	24:00	1:00	CWT
3056Rule	Belize	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	CPT
3057Rule	Belize	1945	only	-	Dec	15	24:00	0	CST
3058Rule	Belize	1947	1967	-	Oct	Sat>=1	24:00	0:30	-0530
3059Rule	Belize	1948	1968	-	Feb	Sat>=8	24:00	0	CST
3060Rule	Belize	1973	only	-	Dec	 5	0:00	1:00	CDT
3061Rule	Belize	1974	only	-	Feb	 9	0:00	0	CST
3062Rule	Belize	1982	only	-	Dec	18	0:00	1:00	CDT
3063Rule	Belize	1983	only	-	Feb	12	0:00	0	CST
3064# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3065Zone	America/Belize	-5:52:48 -	LMT	1912 Apr  1
3066			-6:00	Belize	%s
3067
3068# Bermuda
3069
3070# From Paul Eggert (2020-11-24):
3071# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower,
3072# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I.  This agrees with standard offset given in the
3073# Daylight Saving Act, 1917 cited below.  Round that to the nearest second.
3074# It is not known when this time became standard for Bermuda; guess 1890.
3075# The transition to -04 was specified by:
3076# 1930: The Time Zone Act, 1929 (1929: No. 39) [1929-11-08]
3077# https://books.google.com/books?id=7tdMAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA54-PP1
3078
3079# From P Chan (2020-11-20):
3080# Most of the information can be found online from the Bermuda National
3081# Library - Digital Collection which includes The Royal Gazette (RG) until 1957
3082# https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/
3083# I will cite the ID.  For example, [10000] means
3084# https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/BermudaNP02/id/10000
3085#
3086# 1917: Apr 5 midnight to Sep 30 midnight
3087# Daylight Saving Act, 1917 (1917 No. 13) [1917-04-02]
3088# Bermuda Acts and Resolves 1917, p 37-38
3089# https://books.google.com/books?id=M-lCAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA36-IA2
3090# RG, 1917-04-04, p 6 [42340] gives the spring forward date.
3091#
3092# 1918: Apr 13 midnight to Sep 15 midnight
3093# Daylight Saving Act, 1918 (1918 No. 9) [1918-04-06]
3094# Bermuda Acts and Resolves 1917, p 13
3095# https://books.google.com/books?id=K-lCAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA7
3096#
3097# Note that local mean time was still used before 1930.
3098#
3099# During WWII, DST was introduced by Defence Regulations
3100# 1942: Jan 11 02:00 to Oct 18 02:00 [113646], [115726]
3101# 1943: Mar 21 02:00 to Oct 31 02:00 [116704], [118193]
3102# 1944: Mar 12 02:00 to Nov 5 02:00 [119225], [121593]
3103# 1945: Mar 11 02:00 to Nov 4 02:00 [122369], [124461]
3104# RG, 1942-01-08, p 2, 1942-10-12, p 2 , 1943-03-06, p 2, 1943-09-03, p 1,
3105# 1944-02-29, p 6, 1944-09-20, p 2, 1945-02-13, p 2, 1945-11-03, p 1
3106#
3107# In 1946, the House of Assembly rejected DST twice. [128686], [128076]
3108# RG, 1946-03-16 p 1,1946-04-13 p 1
3109#
3110# 1947: third Sunday in May 02:00 to second Sunday in September 02:00
3111# DST in 1947 was defined in the Daylight Saving Act, 1947 (1947: No. 12)
3112# which expired at the end of the year.  [125784] ,[132405], [144454], [138226]
3113# RG, 1947-02-27, p 1, 1947-05-15, p 1, 1947-09-13, p 1, 1947-12-30, p 1
3114#
3115# 1948-1952: fourth Sunday in May 02:00 to first Sunday in September 02:00
3116# DST in 1948 was defined in the Daylight Saving Act, 1948 (1948 : No. 12)
3117# which was set to expired at the end of the year but it was extended until
3118# the end of 1952 and was not further extended.
3119# [129802], [139403], [146008], [135240], [144330], [139049], [143309],
3120# [148271], [149773], [153589], [153802], [155924]
3121# RG, 1948-04-13, p 1, 1948-05-22, p 1, 1948-09-04, p 1, 1949-05-21, p1,
3122# 1949-09-03, p 1, 1950-05-27 p 1, 1950-09-02, p 1, 1951-05-27, p 1,
3123# 1951-09-01, p 1, 1952-05-23, p 1, 1952-09-26, p 1, 1952-12-21, p 8
3124#
3125# In 1953-1955, the House of Assembly rejected DST each year. [158996],
3126# [162620], [166720] RG, 1953-05-02, p 1, 1954-04-01 p 1, 1955-03-12, p 1
3127#
3128# 1956: fourth Sunday in May 02:00 to last Sunday in October 02:00
3129# Time Zone (Seasonal Variation) Act, 1956 (1956: No.44) [1956-05-25]
3130# Bermuda Public Acts 1956, p 331-332
3131# https://books.google.com/books?id=Xs1AlmD_cEwC&pg=PA63
3132#
3133# The extension of the Act was rejected by the House of Assembly. [176218]
3134# RG, 1956-12-13, p 1
3135#
3136# From the Chronological Table of Public and Private Acts up to 1985, it seems
3137# that there does not exist other Acts related to DST before 1973.
3138# https://books.google.com/books?id=r9hMAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA23-PA1
3139# Public Acts of the Legislature of the Islands of Bermuda, Together with
3140# Statutory Instruments in Force Thereunder, Vol VII
3141
3142# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26):
3143# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday
3144# in March, until the first Sunday in November.  And, after the Time Zone
3145# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on
3146# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda.
3147# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135
3148
3149# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3150Rule	Bermuda	1917	only	-	Apr	 5	24:00	1:00	-
3151Rule	Bermuda	1917	only	-	Sep	30	24:00	0	-
3152Rule	Bermuda	1918	only	-	Apr	13	24:00	1:00	-
3153Rule	Bermuda	1918	only	-	Sep	15	24:00	0	S
3154Rule	Bermuda	1942	only	-	Jan	11	 2:00	1:00	D
3155Rule	Bermuda	1942	only	-	Oct	18	 2:00	0	S
3156Rule	Bermuda	1943	only	-	Mar	21	 2:00	1:00	D
3157Rule	Bermuda	1943	only	-	Oct	31	 2:00	0	S
3158Rule	Bermuda	1944	1945	-	Mar	Sun>=8	 2:00	1:00	D
3159Rule	Bermuda	1944	1945	-	Nov	Sun>=1	 2:00	0	S
3160Rule	Bermuda	1947	only	-	May	Sun>=15	 2:00	1:00	D
3161Rule	Bermuda	1947	only	-	Sep	Sun>=8	 2:00	0	S
3162Rule	Bermuda	1948	1952	-	May	Sun>=22	 2:00	1:00	D
3163Rule	Bermuda	1948	1952	-	Sep	Sun>=1	 2:00	0	S
3164Rule	Bermuda	1956	only	-	May	Sun>=22	 2:00	1:00	D
3165Rule	Bermuda	1956	only	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00	0	S
3166
3167# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3168Zone Atlantic/Bermuda	-4:19:18 -	LMT	1890	# Hamilton
3169			-4:19:18 Bermuda BMT/BST 1930 Jan 1  2:00
3170			-4:00	Bermuda	A%sT	1974 Apr 28  2:00
3171			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1976
3172			-4:00	US	A%sT
3173
3174# Cayman Is
3175# See America/Panama.
3176
3177# Costa Rica
3178
3179# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest.
3180
3181# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3182Rule	CR	1979	1980	-	Feb	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
3183Rule	CR	1979	1980	-	Jun	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
3184Rule	CR	1991	1992	-	Jan	Sat>=15	0:00	1:00	D
3185# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00;
3186# go with Shanks & Pottenger.
3187Rule	CR	1991	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	0	S
3188Rule	CR	1992	only	-	Mar	15	0:00	0	S
3189# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'.
3190# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3191Zone America/Costa_Rica	-5:36:13 -	LMT	1890        # San José
3192			-5:36:13 -	SJMT	1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time
3193			-6:00	CR	C%sT
3194# Coco
3195# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica
3196
3197# Cuba
3198
3199# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
3200# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57
3201# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations.
3202# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger.
3203
3204# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29):
3205# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between
3206# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on
3207# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC.
3208# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that
3209# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving
3210# Time today."  (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of
3211# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched
3212# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have
3213# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.)
3214
3215# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11):
3216# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the
3217# years before.  The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ...
3218# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html
3219
3220# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28):
3221# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year.
3222# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
3223# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html
3224# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras
3225# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return
3226# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)".
3227# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure.
3228
3229# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12):
3230# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone
3231# adjustment in Cuba.  We will stay in daylight saving time:
3232# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html
3233
3234# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21):
3235# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end
3236# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see
3237# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html
3238# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00,
3239# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning
3240# to the normal schedule....
3241
3242# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02):
3243# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday,
3244# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10.
3245# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules,
3246# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual.
3247#
3248# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25):
3249# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week
3250# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006.
3251#
3252# He supplied these references:
3253#
3254# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES
3255# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm
3256#
3257# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25):
3258# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba):
3259#
3260# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre
3261# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html
3262#
3263# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html
3264
3265# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09):
3266# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight
3267# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to
3268# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj
3269# a Cuban information station, and heard
3270# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"),
3271# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time.
3272
3273# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12):
3274# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16...
3275# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish):
3276# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm
3277#
3278# Some more background information is posted here:
3279# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html
3280#
3281# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963,
3282# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the
3283# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been
3284# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception
3285# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to
3286# change some historic records as well.
3287#
3288# One example:
3289# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm
3290
3291# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13):
3292# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative
3293# web site, the Granma.  Please check out
3294# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html
3295#
3296# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change
3297# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday.
3298
3299# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12):
3300# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward.
3301
3302# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04)
3303# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on
3304# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009-
3305# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought.
3306#
3307# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html
3308# (in Spanish)
3309
3310# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09)
3311# I listened over the Internet to
3312# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj
3313# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the
3314# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating
3315# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward.
3316
3317# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08):
3318# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00
3319# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has
3320# changed at all).
3321#
3322# Source:
3323# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html
3324#
3325# Our info:
3326# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html
3327#
3328# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30)
3329# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back
3330# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00.
3331#
3332# One source (Spanish)
3333# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html
3334#
3335# Our page:
3336# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html
3337#
3338# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01)
3339# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March
3340# 31 and April 1.
3341#
3342# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish):
3343# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril
3344#
3345# Our info on it:
3346# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html
3347
3348# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03):
3349# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back
3350# to standard time on 2012-11-04:
3351# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre
3352# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03):
3353# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November.
3354
3355# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3356Rule	Cuba	1928	only	-	Jun	10	0:00	1:00	D
3357Rule	Cuba	1928	only	-	Oct	10	0:00	0	S
3358Rule	Cuba	1940	1942	-	Jun	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3359Rule	Cuba	1940	1942	-	Sep	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
3360Rule	Cuba	1945	1946	-	Jun	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3361Rule	Cuba	1945	1946	-	Sep	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
3362Rule	Cuba	1965	only	-	Jun	1	0:00	1:00	D
3363Rule	Cuba	1965	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	S
3364Rule	Cuba	1966	only	-	May	29	0:00	1:00	D
3365Rule	Cuba	1966	only	-	Oct	2	0:00	0	S
3366Rule	Cuba	1967	only	-	Apr	8	0:00	1:00	D
3367Rule	Cuba	1967	1968	-	Sep	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
3368Rule	Cuba	1968	only	-	Apr	14	0:00	1:00	D
3369Rule	Cuba	1969	1977	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
3370Rule	Cuba	1969	1971	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3371Rule	Cuba	1972	1974	-	Oct	8	0:00	0	S
3372Rule	Cuba	1975	1977	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3373Rule	Cuba	1978	only	-	May	7	0:00	1:00	D
3374Rule	Cuba	1978	1990	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
3375Rule	Cuba	1979	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	D
3376Rule	Cuba	1981	1985	-	May	Sun>=5	0:00	1:00	D
3377Rule	Cuba	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=14	0:00	1:00	D
3378Rule	Cuba	1990	1997	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3379Rule	Cuba	1991	1995	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00s	0	S
3380Rule	Cuba	1996	only	-	Oct	 6	0:00s	0	S
3381Rule	Cuba	1997	only	-	Oct	12	0:00s	0	S
3382Rule	Cuba	1998	1999	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00s	1:00	D
3383Rule	Cuba	1998	2003	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00s	0	S
3384Rule	Cuba	2000	2003	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00s	1:00	D
3385Rule	Cuba	2004	only	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00s	1:00	D
3386Rule	Cuba	2006	2010	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00s	0	S
3387Rule	Cuba	2007	only	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00s	1:00	D
3388Rule	Cuba	2008	only	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00s	1:00	D
3389Rule	Cuba	2009	2010	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00s	1:00	D
3390Rule	Cuba	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00s	1:00	D
3391Rule	Cuba	2011	only	-	Nov	13	0:00s	0	S
3392Rule	Cuba	2012	only	-	Apr	1	0:00s	1:00	D
3393Rule	Cuba	2012	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	0:00s	0	S
3394Rule	Cuba	2013	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00s	1:00	D
3395
3396# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3397Zone	America/Havana	-5:29:28 -	LMT	1890
3398			-5:29:36 -	HMT	1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT
3399			-5:00	Cuba	C%sT
3400
3401# Dominica
3402# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3403
3404# Dominican Republic
3405
3406# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30):
3407# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the
3408# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am....
3409# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html
3410
3411# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
3412# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST.
3413
3414# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
3415# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday,
3416# November 28, 2000, with a new decree.  On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the
3417# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date
3418# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future.  The reason they
3419# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going
3420# to implement DST.  When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president
3421# decided to revert.
3422
3423
3424# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3425Rule	DR	1966	only	-	Oct	30	0:00	1:00	EDT
3426Rule	DR	1967	only	-	Feb	28	0:00	0	EST
3427Rule	DR	1969	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	-0430
3428Rule	DR	1970	only	-	Feb	21	0:00	0	EST
3429Rule	DR	1971	only	-	Jan	20	0:00	0	EST
3430Rule	DR	1972	1974	-	Jan	21	0:00	0	EST
3431# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3432Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 -	LMT	1890
3433			-4:40	-	SDMT	1933 Apr  1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT
3434			-5:00	DR	%s	1974 Oct 27
3435			-4:00	-	AST	2000 Oct 29  2:00
3436			-5:00	US	E%sT	2000 Dec  3  1:00
3437			-4:00	-	AST
3438
3439# El Salvador
3440
3441# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3442Rule	Salv	1987	1988	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3443Rule	Salv	1987	1988	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3444# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador
3445# instead of America/San_Salvador.
3446# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3447Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 -	LMT	1921 # San Salvador
3448			-6:00	Salv	C%sT
3449
3450# Grenada
3451# Guadeloupe
3452# St Barthélemy
3453# St Martin (French part)
3454# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3455
3456# Guatemala
3457#
3458# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen:
3459# Diario Co Latino, at
3460# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>,
3461# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had
3462# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the
3463# impact of the elevated cost of oil....  Daylight saving time will last from
3464# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified).
3465# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22):
3466# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006
3467# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00.  See
3468# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf
3469
3470# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3471Rule	Guat	1973	only	-	Nov	25	0:00	1:00	D
3472Rule	Guat	1974	only	-	Feb	24	0:00	0	S
3473Rule	Guat	1983	only	-	May	21	0:00	1:00	D
3474Rule	Guat	1983	only	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
3475Rule	Guat	1991	only	-	Mar	23	0:00	1:00	D
3476Rule	Guat	1991	only	-	Sep	 7	0:00	0	S
3477Rule	Guat	2006	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
3478Rule	Guat	2006	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	S
3479# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3480Zone America/Guatemala	-6:02:04 -	LMT	1918 Oct 5
3481			-6:00	Guat	C%sT
3482
3483# Haiti
3484# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15):
3485# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST.
3486# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release
3487# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31),
3488# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>.  Translated from French, it says:
3489#
3490#  "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general
3491#   and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior
3492#   Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the
3493#   provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next
3494#   Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd.
3495#
3496#  "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform
3497#   the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour
3498#   starting at midnight.  This provision will hold until the last Saturday in
3499#   October 2005.
3500#
3501#  "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005"
3502#
3503# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04):
3504# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like
3505# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a
3506# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST
3507# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year).
3508#
3509# I have found this article about it (in French):
3510# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612
3511#
3512# The reason seems to be an energy crisis.
3513
3514# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22):
3515# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007.
3516
3517# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11):
3518# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year,
3519# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada.
3520# So this means they have already changed their time.
3521#
3522# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510
3523# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253
3524#
3525# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11):
3526# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to
3527# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight.
3528# Assume a US-style fall back as well.
3529
3530# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10):
3531# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules
3532# as US/Canada.  They did it last year as well, and it looks like they
3533# are going to observe DST every year now...
3534#
3535# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/
3536# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714
3537
3538# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-03-12):
3539# Jean Antoine, editor of www.haiti-reference.com informed us that Haiti
3540# are not going on DST this year.  Several other resources confirm this: ...
3541# https://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/presse/heure_d_t_pas_de_changement_d_heure_pr_vu_pour_cet_ann_e.html
3542# https://www.vantbefinfo.com/changement-dheure-pas-pour-haiti/
3543# http://news.anmwe.com/haiti-lheure-nationale-ne-sera-ni-avancee-ni-reculee-cette-annee/
3544
3545# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-03-12):
3546# We have received 4 mails from different people telling that Haiti
3547# has started DST again today, and this source seems to confirm that,
3548# I have not been able to find a more authoritative source:
3549# https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20319-haiti-notices-time-change-in-haiti.html
3550
3551# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3552Rule	Haiti	1983	only	-	May	8	0:00	1:00	D
3553Rule	Haiti	1984	1987	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
3554Rule	Haiti	1983	1987	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3555# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s.
3556# Go with IATA.
3557Rule	Haiti	1988	1997	-	Apr	Sun>=1	1:00s	1:00	D
3558Rule	Haiti	1988	1997	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00s	0	S
3559Rule	Haiti	2005	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3560Rule	Haiti	2005	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3561Rule	Haiti	2012	2015	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
3562Rule	Haiti	2012	2015	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
3563Rule	Haiti	2017	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
3564Rule	Haiti	2017	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
3565# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3566Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 -	LMT	1890
3567			-4:49	-	PPMT	1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT
3568			-5:00	Haiti	E%sT
3569
3570# Honduras
3571# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1.
3572
3573# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05):
3574# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article
3575# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4
3576# months until September.  La Tribuna reported today
3577# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president
3578# of Honduras, refused to back down on this.
3579
3580# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08):
3581# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at
3582# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration).
3583# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html
3584
3585# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08):
3586# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08).
3587# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12
3588# It mentions executive decree 18-2006.
3589
3590# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17):
3591# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not
3592# published, I have located this authoritative source:
3593# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47
3594
3595# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30):
3596# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386
3597# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year....
3598
3599# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3600Rule	Hond	1987	1988	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3601Rule	Hond	1987	1988	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3602Rule	Hond	2006	only	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3603Rule	Hond	2006	only	-	Aug	Mon>=1	0:00	0	S
3604# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3605Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 -	LMT	1921 Apr
3606			-6:00	Hond	C%sT
3607#
3608# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972
3609
3610# Jamaica
3611# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an
3612# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the
3613# island".  Go with Milne.  Round to the nearest second as required by zic.
3614#
3615# Shanks & Pottenger give April 28 for the 1974 spring-forward transition, but
3616# Lance Neita writes that Prime Minister Michael Manley decreed it January 5.
3617# Assume Neita meant Jan 6 02:00, the same as the US.  Neita also writes that
3618# Manley's supporters associated this act with Manley's nickname "Joshua"
3619# (recall that in the Bible the sun stood still at Joshua's request),
3620# and with the Rod of Correction which Manley said he had received from
3621# Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.  See:
3622# Neita L. The politician in all of us. Jamaica Observer 2014-09-20
3623# http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-politician-in-all-of-us_17573647
3624#
3625# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3626Zone	America/Jamaica	-5:07:10 -	LMT	1890        # Kingston
3627			-5:07:10 -	KMT	1912 Feb    # Kingston Mean Time
3628			-5:00	-	EST	1974
3629			-5:00	US	E%sT	1984
3630			-5:00	-	EST
3631
3632# Martinique
3633# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3634Zone America/Martinique	-4:04:20 -      LMT	1890        # Fort-de-France
3635			-4:04:20 -	FFMT	1911 May    # Fort-de-France MT
3636			-4:00	-	AST	1980 Apr  6
3637			-4:00	1:00	ADT	1980 Sep 28
3638			-4:00	-	AST
3639
3640# Montserrat
3641# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3642
3643# Nicaragua
3644#
3645# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005.
3646#
3647# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12):
3648# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started
3649# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of
3650# expensive petroleum.  The exact end date for DST is not yet
3651# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September".
3652# Some background information is available on the President's official site:
3653# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm
3654# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here:
3655# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2005/Decreto%2023-2005%20Se%20adelanta%20en%20una%20hora%20en%20todo%20el%20territorio%20nacional%20apartir%20de%20las%2024horas%20del%2009%20de%20Abril.pdf
3656#
3657# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01):
3658# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's
3659# assume that it is daylight saving....
3660#
3661# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21):
3662# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at
3663# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html
3664# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last
3665# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000
3666# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."...
3667# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously
3668# since December 1998.  I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time
3669# changes in 2000.  Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to
3670# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000.
3671#
3672# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02):
3673# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time).
3674# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm
3675# (2005-09-26)
3676#
3677# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05):
3678# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410
3679# (my informal translation)
3680# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua
3681# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the
3682# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September.
3683#
3684# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30):
3685# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf
3686# My informal translation runs:
3687# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the
3688# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006.
3689#
3690# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	-	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3691Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	D
3692Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Jun	Mon>=23	0:00	0	S
3693Rule	Nic	2005	only	-	Apr	10	0:00	1:00	D
3694Rule	Nic	2005	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
3695Rule	Nic	2006	only	-	Apr	30	2:00	1:00	D
3696Rule	Nic	2006	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	1:00	0	S
3697# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3698Zone	America/Managua	-5:45:08 -	LMT	1890
3699			-5:45:12 -	MMT	1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time?
3700			-6:00	-	CST	1973 May
3701			-5:00	-	EST	1975 Feb 16
3702			-6:00	Nic	C%sT	1992 Jan  1  4:00
3703			-5:00	-	EST	1992 Sep 24
3704			-6:00	-	CST	1993
3705			-5:00	-	EST	1997
3706			-6:00	Nic	C%sT
3707
3708# Panama
3709# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3710Zone	America/Panama	-5:18:08 -	LMT	1890
3711			-5:19:36 -	CMT	1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time
3712			-5:00	-	EST
3713Link America/Panama America/Cayman
3714
3715# Puerto Rico
3716# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'.
3717# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3718Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 -	LMT	1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan
3719			-4:00	-	AST	1942 May  3
3720			-4:00	US	A%sT	1946
3721			-4:00	-	AST
3722
3723# St Kitts-Nevis
3724# St Lucia
3725# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3726
3727# St Pierre and Miquelon
3728# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'.
3729# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3730Zone America/Miquelon	-3:44:40 -	LMT	1911 May 15 # St Pierre
3731			-4:00	-	AST	1980 May
3732			-3:00	-	-03	1987
3733			-3:00	Canada	-03/-02
3734
3735# St Vincent and the Grenadines
3736# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3737
3738# Turks and Caicos
3739#
3740# From Chris Dunn in
3741# https://bugs.debian.org/415007
3742# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the
3743# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match
3744# the recent U.S. change of dates.
3745#
3746# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28):
3747# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26]
3748# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three
3749# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct:
3750# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007
3751# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time"
3752# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed.
3753
3754# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19):
3755# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UT -04 year-round.  See:
3756# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm
3757# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ...
3758# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04):
3759# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to
3760# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year....
3761# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm
3762#
3763# From the Turks & Caicos Cabinet (2017-07-20), heads-up from Steffen Thorsen:
3764# ... agreed to the reintroduction in TCI of Daylight Saving Time (DST)
3765# during the summer months and Standard Time, also known as Local
3766# Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 ...
3767# https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-statement--3
3768# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-26):
3769# The date of effect of the spring 2018 change appears to be March 11,
3770# which makes more sense.  See: Hamilton D. Time change back
3771# by March 2018 for TCI. Magnetic Media. 2017-08-25.
3772# http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/08/time-change-back-by-march-2018-for-tci/
3773#
3774# From P Chan (2020-11-27):
3775# Standard Time Declaration Order 2015 (L.N. 15/2015)
3776# http://online.fliphtml5.com/fizd/czin/#p=2
3777#
3778# Standard Time Declaration Order 2017 (L.N. 31/2017)
3779# http://online.fliphtml5.com/fizd/dmcu/#p=2
3780#
3781# From Tim Parenti (2020-12-05):
3782# Although L.N. 31/2017 reads that it "shall come into operation at 2:00 a.m.
3783# on 11th March 2018", a precise interpretation here poses some problems.  The
3784# order states that "the standard time to be observed throughout the Turks and
3785# Caicos Islands shall be the same time zone as the Eastern United States of
3786# America" and further clarifies "[f]or the avoidance of doubt" that it
3787# "applies to the Eastern Standard Time as well as any changes thereto for
3788# Daylight Saving Time."  However, as clocks in Turks and Caicos approached
3789# 02:00 -04, and thus the declared implementation time, it was still 01:00 EST
3790# (-05), as DST in the Eastern US would not start until an hour later.
3791#
3792# Since it is unlikely that those on the islands switched their clocks twice in
3793# the span of an hour, we assume instead that the adoption of EDT actually took
3794# effect once clocks in the Eastern US had sprung forward, from 03:00 -04.
3795# This discrepancy only affects the time zone abbreviation and DST flag for the
3796# intervening hour, not wall clock times, as -04 was maintained throughout.
3797
3798# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3799Zone America/Grand_Turk	-4:44:32 -	LMT	1890
3800			-5:07:10 -	KMT	1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
3801			-5:00	-	EST	1979
3802			-5:00	US	E%sT	2015 Mar  8  2:00
3803			-4:00	-	AST	2018 Mar 11  3:00
3804			-5:00	US	E%sT
3805
3806# British Virgin Is
3807# Virgin Is
3808# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3809
3810
3811# Local Variables:
3812# coding: utf-8
3813# End:
3814