1# @(#)asia 7.75 2 3# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 4# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 5# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 6 7# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): 8# 9# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 10# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), 11# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). 12# 13# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 14# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 15# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 16# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 17# of the IATA's data after 1990. 18# 19# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, 20# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 21# 22# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 23# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 24# I found in the UCLA library. 25# 26# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 27# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 28# 29# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 30# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 31# Corrections are welcome! 32# std dst 33# LMT Local Mean Time 34# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time 35# 2:00 IST IDT Israel 36# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia* 37# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran 38# 4:00 GST Gulf* 39# 5:30 IST India 40# 7:00 ICT Indochina* 41# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia 42# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia 43# 8:00 CST China 44# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)* 45# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia 46# 9:00 JST Japan 47# 9:00 KST Korea 48# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time 49# 50# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. 51 52# From Guy Harris: 53# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as 54# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental 55# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide - 56# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses. 57 58############################################################################### 59 60# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file. 61# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 62Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S 63Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 - 64Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 65Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 66Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 67Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 68Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 69Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 70Rule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 71Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S 72Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - 73Rule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 74Rule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 75Rule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - 76 77# Afghanistan 78# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 79Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890 80 4:00 - AFT 1945 81 4:30 - AFT 82 83# Armenia 84# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): 85# Shanks has Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST) in spring 1991, 86# then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then readopting Russian DST in 1997. 87# Go with Shanks, even when he disagrees with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz 88# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST 89# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that 90# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991, 91# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998. 92# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 93Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2 94 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time 95 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 96 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence 97 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s 98 4:00 - AMT 1997 99 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 100 101# Azerbaijan 102# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 103Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 1:00 1:00 S 104Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 1:00 0 - 105# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 106Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 107 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time 108 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 109 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence 110 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSun 2:00s 111 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time 112 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997 113 4:00 Azer AZ%sT 114 115# Bahrain 116# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 117Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah 118 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 119 3:00 - AST 120 121# Bangladesh 122# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 123Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890 124 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 125 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 126 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 127 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30 128 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time 129 6:00 - BDT # Bangladesh Time 130 131# Bhutan 132# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 133Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu 134 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct 135 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time 136 137# British Indian Ocean Territory 138# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the 139# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996. 140# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 141Zone Indian/Chagos 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time 142 6:00 - IOT 143 144# Brunei 145# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 146Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan 147 7:30 - BNT 1933 148 8:00 - BNT 149 150# Burma / Myanmar 151# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 152Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon 153 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time? 154 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time 155 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3 156 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time 157 158# Cambodia 159# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 160Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 161 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 162 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 163 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 164 7:00 - ICT 165 166# China 167 168# From Guy Harris: 169# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone. 170 171# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 172# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though 173# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the 174# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China 175# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of 176# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it. 177# 178# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too 179# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for 180# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP): 181# 182# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14 183# 1987 mid-April - ?? 184 185# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 186# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN 187# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10 188 189# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): 190# Shanks writes that China has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, 191# observing summer DST from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's 192# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986. 193# Go with Shanks for now. I made up names for the other pre-1980 time zones. 194 195# From Shanks: 196# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 197Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 198Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 199Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D 200Rule PRC 1949 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S 201Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D 202Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S 203Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D 204# 205# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 206# 207# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20): 208# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five 209# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official 210# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949): 211# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) 212Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin 213 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time 214 8:00 - CST 1940 215 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May 216 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May 217 8:00 PRC C%sT 218# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time") 219Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928 220 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949 221 8:00 PRC C%sT 222# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area) 223Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking 224 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time 225 8:00 PRC C%sT 226# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time") 227Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi 228 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time 229 8:00 PRC C%sT 230# Kunlun Time 231Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar 232 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time 233 5:00 - KAST 1980 May 234 8:00 PRC C%sT 235 236# Hong Kong (Xianggang) 237# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 238Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S 239Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 - 240Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S 241Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 - 242Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S 243Rule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 - 244Rule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S 245Rule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 - 246Rule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S 247Rule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 - 248Rule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 249Rule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 250Rule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 251Rule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S 252Rule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 253# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 254Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 255 8:00 HK HK%sT 256 257 258############################################################################### 259 260# Taiwan 261 262# Shanks writes that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it 263# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't 264# have any other information. 265 266# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 267Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 268Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 269Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D 270Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 271Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 272Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 273Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 274Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 275Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 276Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D 277Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 278# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 279Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei 280 8:00 Taiwan C%sT 281 282# Macau (Macao, Aomen) 283# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 284Rule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 285Rule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 - 286Rule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 287Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 288Rule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S 289Rule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 - 290Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S 291Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 - 292Rule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 293Rule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 294Rule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 - 295Rule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S 296Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S 297Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 - 298# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 299Zone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912 300 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China 301 8:00 PRC C%sT 302 303 304############################################################################### 305 306# Cyprus 307# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 308Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S 309Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 - 310Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S 311Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 - 312Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 313Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 314Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 - 315Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 316Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 317# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 318Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14 319 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep 320 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT 321# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. 322 323# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72. 324# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe. 325Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia 326 327# Georgia 328# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19): 329# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward 330# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze, 331# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it! 332# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall. 333# 334# From Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org>, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04): 335# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia 336# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy, 337# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday. 338# 339# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27): 340# 341# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet 342# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it 343# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours 344# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia, 345# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process 346# of integration into Europe. 347 348# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 349Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880 350 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time 351 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time 352 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 353 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence 354 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time 355 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun 356 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun 357 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun 358 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27 359 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 360 361# East Timor 362 363# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in 364# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm"> 365# East Timor may be late for its millennium 366# </a> (1999-12-26/31): 367# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun 368# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the 369# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it 370# conflicts with their way of life. 371 372# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 373# We don't have any record of the above attempt. 374# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data. 375 376# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html"> 377# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General 378# (2000-08-16)</a>: 379# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided 380# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change, 381# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at 382# midnight on Saturday, September 16. 383 384# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 385Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912 386 8:00 - TPT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time 387 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 388 9:00 - TPT 1976 May 3 389 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00 390 9:00 - TPT 391 392# India 393# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 394Zone Asia/Calcutta 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata 395 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time? 396 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time 397 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 398 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 399 5:30 - IST 400# The following are like Asia/Calcutta: 401# Andaman Is 402# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is) 403# Nicobar Is 404 405# Indonesia 406# 407# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks: 408# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime> 409# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some 410# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat 411# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7. 412# 413# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 414Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10 415# Shanks says the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13, 416# but this must be a typo. 417 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta 418 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time 419 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23 420 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 421 7:30 - WIT 1948 May 422 8:00 - WIT 1950 May 423 7:30 - WIT 1964 424 7:00 - WIT 425Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May 426 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT 427 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29 428 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 429 7:30 - WIT 1948 May 430 8:00 - WIT 1950 May 431 7:30 - WIT 1964 432 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1 433 7:00 - WIT 434Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920 435 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT 436 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9 437 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 438 8:00 - CIT 439Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov 440 9:00 - EIT 1944 441 9:30 - CST 1964 442 9:00 - EIT 443 444# Iran 445 446# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15): 447# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian). 448# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine: 449# 450# Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16] 451# No. 16760/T233 H 1370/6/10 [1991-09-01] 452# 453# The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country 454# 455# The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14], 456# based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13] 457# of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs, 458# and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers 459# and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and 460# for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that: 461# 462# The official time of the country will should move forward one hour 463# at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return 464# to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of 465# Shahrivar. 466# 467# First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi 468# 469# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed 470# for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the 471# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last 472# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates.... 473# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct 474# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time. 475 476# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-15) 477# Go with Shanks before September 1991, and with Pournader thereafter. 478# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates. 479# The Persian calendar is based on the sun, and dates after around 2050 480# are approximate; stop after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow. 481# 482# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 483Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 484Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S 485Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S 486Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S 487Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 D 488Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 489Rule Iran 1991 1995 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 490Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 491Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 492Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 493Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 494Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 495Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 496Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 497Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 498Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 499Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 500Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 501Rule Iran 2005 2007 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 502Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 503Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 504Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 505Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 506Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 507Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 508Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 509Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 510Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 511Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 512Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 513Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 514Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 515Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 516Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 517Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 518Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 519Rule Iran 2024 2025 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 520Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 521Rule Iran 2026 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 522Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 523Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 524Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 525Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 526Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 527Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 528Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D 529Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 530Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 531Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S 532# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 533Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916 534 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time 535 3:30 - IRST 1977 Nov 536 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979 537 3:30 Iran IR%sT 538 539 540# Iraq 541# 542# From Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cs.columbia.edu> (2000-06-12): 543# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in 544# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph: 545# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and 546# are an hour ahead of Baghdad." 547# 548# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows: 549# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi 550# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred 551# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone 552# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq. 553# 554# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim. 555 556# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 557Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 558Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 559Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 560Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 561Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S 562Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D 563# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo. 564# Shanks says Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997 or 1999 on; ignore this. 565Rule Iraq 1991 max - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D 566Rule Iraq 1991 max - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S 567# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 568Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890 569 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time? 570 3:00 - AST 1982 May 571 3:00 Iraq A%sT 572 573 574############################################################################### 575 576# Israel 577 578# From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11): 579# 580# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three 581# different abbreviations in use: 582# 583# JST Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University] 584# IZT Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion] 585# EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else] 586# 587# Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities, 588# I ruled out JST. As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe, 589# EEST was equally unacceptable. Since "zonal" was not compatible with 590# any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go 591# and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone 592# settings in Israeli computers. 593# 594# In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India, 595# high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's 596# family is from India). 597 598# From Shanks: 599# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 600Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 601Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 602Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D 603Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 604Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 605Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 606Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D 607Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 608Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD 609Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D 610Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S 611Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 612Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D 613Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S 614Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 615Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S 616Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D 617Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S 618Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D 619Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S 620Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D 621Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S 622Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D 623Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S 624Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D 625Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S 626Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D 627Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 628Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D 629Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S 630Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D 631Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S 632Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 633Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 634Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D 635Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 636Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D 637Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 638Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D 639Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 640 641# From Ephraim Silverberg <ephraim@cs.huji.ac.il> 642# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17 and 2000-07-25): 643 644# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of 645# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes. 646# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150 647# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to 648# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to 649# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a 650# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard 651# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard 652# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid 653# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to 654# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from 655# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time 656# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for 657# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was 658# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it 659# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all 660# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no 661# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date 662# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve 663# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date 664# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement] 665# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar). 666 667# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 668Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 669Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 670Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D 671Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S 672Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D 673Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S 674Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D 675Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 676Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D 677Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 678 679# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the 680# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by 681# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448. 682 683# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 684Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 685Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S 686Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D 687Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 688 689# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the 690# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998 691# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at: 692# 693# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz 694# 695# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa. 696# 697# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at: 698# 699# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz 700# 701# where YYYY is the relevant year. 702 703# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 704Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D 705Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 706Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D 707Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 708Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D 709Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S 710Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D 711Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S 712 713# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for 714# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the 715# years 2001-2004 as well. 716# 717# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at: 718# 719# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz 720# 721# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates 722# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at: 723# 724# ftp://ftp.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz 725 726# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 727Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 728Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S 729Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D 730Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S 731Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D 732Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S 733Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D 734Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S 735Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D 736Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S 737 738# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-25): 739# Here are guesses for rules after 2004. 740# They are probably wrong, but they are more likely than no DST at all. 741# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 742Rule Zion 2005 max - Apr 1 1:00 1:00 D 743Rule Zion 2005 max - Oct 1 1:00 0 S 744 745# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 746Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880 747 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time? 748 2:00 Zion I%sT 749 750# From Ephraim Silverberg (2003-03-23): 751# 752# Minister of Interior Poraz has announced that he will respect the law 753# passed in July 2000 (proposed at the time jointly by himself and 754# then-MK David Azulai [Shas]) fixing the dates for 2000-2004. Hence, 755# the dates for 2003 and 2004 remain unchanged.... 756# 757# As far as 2005 and beyond, no dates have been set. However, the 758# minister has mentioned that he wishes to propose to move Israel's 759# timezone in 2005 from GMT+2 to GMT+3 and upon that have DST during 760# the summer months (i.e. GMT+4). However, no legislation in this 761# direction is expected until the latter part of 2004 which is a long 762# time off in terms of Israeli politics. 763 764 765 766############################################################################### 767 768# Japan 769 770# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris. 771 772# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-03-06): 773# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had 774# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued 775# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.'' 776# Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows: 777# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 778#Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 779#Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S 780#Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 781#Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 782# but the only locations using it were US military bases. 783# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo. 784 785# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09): 786# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical 787# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0. 788# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996' 789# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.... 790# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST). 791# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07. 792 793# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16): 794# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan, 795# which stands for the time on E 135 degree. 796# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central 797# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard 798# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard 799# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No. 800# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is 801# standard.... 802# 803# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate. 804# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor. 805 806# Shanks claims JST in use since 1896, and that a few places (e.g. Ishigaki) 807# use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all ordinances took effect on Jan 1. 808 809# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 810Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u 811 9:00 - JST 1896 812 9:00 - CJT 1938 813 9:00 - JST 814# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo. 815 816# Jordan 817# 818# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html"> 819# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): 820# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight, 821# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time 822# all year round. 823# 824# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html"> 825# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09): 826# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back 827# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final! 828# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in 829# government's departments from six to seven hours. 830# 831# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 832Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S 833Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 834Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 835Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - 836Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 837Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 838Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 839Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 840Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 841Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 842Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 843Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S 844Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S 845Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S 846Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 - 847Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S 848Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 - 849Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S 850Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 851Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 - 852Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S 853Rule Jordan 1999 max - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 - 854Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S 855# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 856Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931 857 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 858 859# Kazakhstan 860# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 861# Andrew Evtichov <evti@chevron.com> (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan 862# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk) 863# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones. 864# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time 865# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan. 866# 867# From Paul Eggert (2001-10-18): 868# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses 869# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it. 870# Go with Shanks, who has them always using RussiaAsia rules. 871# Also go with the following claims of Shanks: 872# 873# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991. 874# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00. 875# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989. 876# 877# 878# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 879# 880# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan 881Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata 882 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time 883 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991 884 6:00 - ALMT 1992 885 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 886# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.) 887Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2 888 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time 889 5:00 - KIZT 1981 Apr 1 890 5:00 1:00 KIZST 1981 Oct 1 891 6:00 - KIZT 1982 Apr 1 892 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991 893 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 894 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 895 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 896# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk) 897Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2 898 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time 899 5:00 - AKTT 1981 Apr 1 900 5:00 1:00 AKTST 1981 Oct 1 901 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1 902 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991 903 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 904 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT # Aqtobe Time 905# Mangghystau 906# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region, 907# so include time stamps before 1963. 908Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2 909 4:00 - FORT 1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T 910 5:00 - FORT 1963 911 5:00 - SHET 1981 Oct 1 # Shevchenko Time 912 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1 913 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991 914 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence 915 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time 916 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 917# West Kazakhstan 918Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk 919 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time 920 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1 921 5:00 1:00 URAST 1981 Oct 1 922 6:00 - URAT 1982 Apr 1 923 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00 924 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991 925 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence 926 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT # Oral Time 927 928# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan) 929# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks. 930# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 931Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S 932Rule Kirgiz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 933Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S 934Rule Kirgiz 1997 max - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 - 935# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 936Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 937 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time 938 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 939 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence 940 5:00 Kirgiz KG%sT # Kirgizstan Time 941 942############################################################################### 943 944# Korea (North and South) 945 946# From Guy Harris: 947# According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco, 948# Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know 949# at what time of day DST starts or ends. 950 951# From Shanks: 952# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 953Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D 954Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 955Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun<=14 0:00 1:00 D 956Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun<=14 0:00 0 S 957 958# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 959Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890 960 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 961 9:00 - KST 1928 962 8:30 - KST 1932 963 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 964 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10 965 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct 966 9:00 ROK K%sT 967Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890 968 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec 969 9:00 - KST 1928 970 8:30 - KST 1932 971 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21 972 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10 973 9:00 - KST 974 975############################################################################### 976 977# Kuwait 978# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 979Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950 980 3:00 - AST 981 982# Laos 983# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 984Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan 985 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 986 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 987 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 988 7:00 - ICT 989 990# Lebanon 991# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 992Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S 993Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 - 994Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S 995Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 - 996Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 997Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 - 998Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S 999Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 - 1000Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1001Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1002Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S 1003Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1004Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1005Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S 1006Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 - 1007Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1008Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 - 1009Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S 1010Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 1011Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1012Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 - 1013Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S 1014Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 - 1015Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 - 1016# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1017Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880 1018 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT 1019 1020# Malaysia 1021# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1022Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer 1023Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 - 1024# 1025# peninsular Malaysia 1026# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) 1027# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. 1028# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1029Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 1030 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. 1031 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time 1032 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 1033 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 1034 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 1035 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 1036 7:30 - MALT 1982 Jan 1 1037 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time 1038# Sabah & Sarawak 1039# From Paul Eggert (2003-11-01): 1040# The data here are mostly from Shanks, but the 1942, 1945 and 1982 1041# transition dates are from Mok Ly Yng. 1042# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1043Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar 1044 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time 1045 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 Feb 16 1046 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 1047 8:00 - BORT 1982 Jan 1 1048 8:00 - MYT 1049 1050# Maldives 1051# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1052Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male 1053 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time 1054 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time 1055 1056# Mongolia 1057 1058# Shanks says that Mongolia has three time zones, but usno1995 and the CIA map 1059# Standard Time Zones of the World (1997-01) 1060# both say that it has just one. 1061 1062# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11): 1063# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm"> 1064# General Information Mongolia 1065# </a> (1999-09) 1066# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of 1067# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and 1068# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus 1069# eight hours." 1070 1071# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13): 1072# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998 1073# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am 1074# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time 1075# of implementation may have been different.... 1076# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time 1077# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod, 1078# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij. 1079 1080# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15): 1081# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia. 1082# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone; 1083# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us, 1084# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd 1085# is good enough for our purposes. 1086 1087# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13): 1088# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier 1089# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28), 1090# there are three time zones. 1091# 1092# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai 1093# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov, 1094# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi 1095# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar 1096# 1097# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.] 1098 1099# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar <ganbold@micom.mng.net> (2004-04-17): 1100# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March. 1101# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of 1102# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001. 1103# 1104# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17): 1105# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs 1106# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them. 1107 1108# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1109Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1110Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1111# IATA SSIM says 1990s switches occurred at 00:00, but Shanks (1995) lists 1112# them at 02:00s, and McDow says the 2001 switches also occurred at 02:00. 1113# Also, IATA SSIM (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks through 1998. 1114Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 1115Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - 1116# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST. 1117Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr lastSat 2:00 1:00 S 1118Rule Mongol 2001 max - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 - 1119Rule Mongol 2002 max - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S 1120 1121# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1122# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta 1123Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug 1124 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time 1125 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT 1126# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga 1127Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug 1128 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time 1129 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT 1130# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan, 1131# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan 1132Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug 1133 7:00 - ULAT 1978 1134 8:00 - ULAT 1983 Apr 1135 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT # Choibalsan Time 1136 1137# Nepal 1138# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1139Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920 1140 5:30 - IST 1986 1141 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time 1142 1143# Oman 1144# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1145Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920 1146 4:00 - GST 1147 1148# Pakistan 1149 1150# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13): 1151# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a 1152# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002 1153# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was 1154# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the 1155# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on. 1156 1157# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15): 1158# Jesper Norgaard found this URL: 1159# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm 1160# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to 1161# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first 1162# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on 1163# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00, 1164# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like 1165# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday 1166# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the 1167# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02. 1168 1169# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): 1170# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05 1171# that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow for now. 1172 1173# From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14): 1174# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm 1175# there will be no DST in Pakistan this year: 1176# 1177# ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh 1178# Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous 1179# decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by 1180# one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy. 1181# 1182# The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather 1183# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity. 1184 1185 1186# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1187Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S 1188Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - 1189# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1190Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 1191 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep 1192 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15 1193 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30 1194 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time 1195 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time 1196 1197# Palestine 1198 1199# From Amos Shapir <amos@nsof.co.il> (1998-02-15): 1200# 1201# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now 1202# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule. 1203# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too... 1204# 1205# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05 1206# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no 1207# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt, 1208# though. 1209# 1210# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally 1211# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from 1212# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the 1213# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major 1214# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and 1215# East Jerusalem. 1216# 1217# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except 1218# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might 1219# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware 1220# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer 1221# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected). 1222# 1223# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most 1224# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to 1225# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to 1226# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't 1227# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the 1228# Jordanian one). 1229# 1230# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that: 1231# 1232# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996- 1233# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+----------- 1234# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion 1235# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan 1236# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan 1237# 1238# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they 1239# have one). 1240 1241# From Paul Eggert (1998-02-25): 1242# Shanks writes that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but we'll go 1243# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947, 1244# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996. 1245# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since 1246# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about 1247# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 1248# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries 1249# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules 1250# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please 1251# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions. 1252 1253# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time, 1254# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg: 1255# 1256# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time 1257# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks 1258# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule, 1259# the PA has decided to implement DST in April. 1260 1261# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 1262# Daoud Kuttab writes in 1263# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html"> 1264# Holiday havoc 1265# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that 1266# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15. 1267# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source). 1268# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00, 1269# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October. 1270 1271# The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. 1272# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1273Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S 1274Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1275Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S 1276Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S 1277Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 - 1278Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 - 1279 1280Rule Palestine 1999 max - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S 1281Rule Palestine 1999 max - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 - 1282 1283# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1284Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct 1285 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15 1286 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5 1287 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996 1288 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999 1289 2:00 Palestine EE%sT 1290 1291# Paracel Is 1292# no information 1293 1294# Philippines 1295# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the 1296# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to 1297# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a 1298# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>. 1299# The rest of this data is from Shanks. 1300# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1301Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S 1302Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 - 1303Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S 1304Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 - 1305Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S 1306Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 - 1307# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1308Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 1309 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11 1310 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May 1311 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov 1312 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1313 1314# Qatar 1315# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1316Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha 1317 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun 1318 3:00 - AST 1319 1320# Saudi Arabia 1321# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1322Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950 1323 3:00 - AST 1324 1325# Singapore 1326# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30) 1327# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>. 1328# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1329Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1 1330 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T. 1331 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time 1332 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1 1333 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1 1334 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16 1335 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12 1336 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence 1337 7:30 - SGT 1982 Jan 1 # Singapore Time 1338 8:00 - SGT 1339 1340# Spratly Is 1341# no information 1342 1343# Sri Lanka 1344# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): 1345# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout" 1346# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24, 1347# no longer available as of 1999-08-17) 1348# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at 1349# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.'' 1350# 1351# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted 1352# by Shamindra in 1353# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net"> 1354# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26) 1355# </a>: 1356# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996 1357# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT. 1358 1359# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1360Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880 1361 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time 1362 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5 1363 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep 1364 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00 1365 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00 1366 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30 1367 6:00 - LKT 1368 1369# Syria 1370# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1371Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S 1372Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 1373Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S 1374Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1375Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 1376Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1377Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1378Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1379Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S 1380Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1381Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S 1382Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 - 1383Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S 1384Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1385Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S 1386Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 - 1387Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S 1388Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 - 1389Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S 1390Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S 1391Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 - 1392Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S 1393Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 - 1394Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1395Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1396Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S 1397Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S 1398Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 - 1399# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02; 1400# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02, 1401# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31; 1402# ignore all these claims and go with Shanks. 1403Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1404Rule Syria 1994 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 - 1405Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S 1406Rule Syria 1999 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S 1407# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1408Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq 1409 2:00 Syria EE%sT 1410 1411# Tajikistan 1412# From Shanks. 1413# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1414Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 1415 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time 1416 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1417 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s 1418 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time 1419 1420# Thailand 1421# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1422Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880 1423 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time 1424 7:00 - ICT 1425 1426# Turkmenistan 1427# From Shanks. 1428# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1429Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad 1430 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time 1431 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 1432 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence 1433 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00 1434 5:00 - TMT 1435 1436# United Arab Emirates 1437# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1438Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920 1439 4:00 - GST 1440 1441# Uzbekistan 1442# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1443Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 1444 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time 1445 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1 1446 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1 1447 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00 # Tashkent Time 1448 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 1449 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 1450 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 1451 5:00 - UZT 1452Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 1453 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time 1454 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 1455 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence 1456 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992 1457 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1993 1458 5:00 - UZT 1459 1460# Vietnam 1461# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1993-11-18): 1462# Saigon's official name is Thanh-Pho Ho Chi Minh, but it's too long. 1463# We'll stick with the traditional name for now. 1464# From Shanks: 1465# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1466Zone Asia/Saigon 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 1467 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT? 1468 7:00 - ICT 1912 May 1469 8:00 - ICT 1931 May 1470 7:00 - ICT 1471 1472# Yemen 1473# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1474Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950 1475 3:00 - AST 1476