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1# tzdb data for North and Central America and environs
2
3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
5
6# also includes Central America and the Caribbean
7
8# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
9# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
10# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
11# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
12
13# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22):
14# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
15# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
16
17###############################################################################
18
19# United States
20
21# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
22# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by
23# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904),
24# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY).
25# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870)
26# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines
27# in New York City (1869-10).  His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC,
28# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich.
29
30# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20):
31# Dowd's proposal left many details unresolved, such as where to draw
32# lines between time zones.  The key individual who made time zones
33# work in the US was William Frederick Allen - railway engineer,
34# managing editor of the Travelers' Guide, and secretary of the
35# General Time Convention, a railway standardization group.  Allen
36# spent months in dialogs with scientific and railway leaders,
37# developed a workable plan to institute time zones, and presented it
38# to the General Time Convention on 1883-04-11, saying that his plan
39# meant "local time would be practically abolished" - a plus for
40# railway scheduling.  By the next convention on 1883-10-11 nearly all
41# railroads had agreed and it took effect on 1883-11-18.  That Sunday
42# was called the "day of two noons", as some locations observed noon
43# twice.  Allen witnessed the transition in New York City, writing:
44#
45#   I heard the bells of St. Paul's strike on the old time.  Four
46#   minutes later, obedient to the electrical signal from the Naval
47#   Observatory ... the time-ball made its rapid descent, the chimes
48#   of old Trinity rang twelve measured strokes, and local time was
49#   abandoned, probably forever.
50#
51# Most of the US soon followed suit.  See:
52# Bartky IR. The adoption of standard time. Technol Cult 1989 Jan;30(1):25-56.
53# https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3105430
54
55# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16):
56# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time.
57# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005).
58
59# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
60# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is
61# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition),
62# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
63# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it.
64# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below.
65
66# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
67# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin
68# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost
69# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
70# Not everyone is happy with the results:
71#
72#	I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some
73#	agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving
74#	daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind.
75#	I even object to the implication that I am wasting something
76#	valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen.  As an admirer
77#	of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to
78#	reduce my time for enjoying it.  At the back of the Daylight Saving
79#	scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager
80#	to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make
81#	them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
82#
83#	 -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks,
84#	   Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday
85#
86# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see
87# Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint
88# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927).
89# http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html
90#
91# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919.
92# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which
93# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently
94# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time".
95
96# From Paul Eggert (2019-06-04):
97# Here is the legal basis for the US federal rules.
98# * Public Law 65-106 (1918-03-19) implemented standard and daylight saving
99#   time for the first time across the US, springing forward on March's last
100#   Sunday and falling back on October's last Sunday.
101#   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/65th-congress/session-2/c65s2ch24.pdf
102# * Public Law 66-40 (1919-08-20) repealed DST on October 1919's last Sunday.
103#   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/66th-congress/session-1/c66s1ch51.pdf
104# * Public Law 77-403 (1942-01-20) started wartime DST on 1942-02-09.
105#   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/77th-congress/session-2/c77s2ch7.pdf
106# * Public Law 79-187 (1945-09-25) ended wartime DST on 1945-09-30.
107#   https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-at-large/79th-congress/session-1/c79s1ch388.pdf
108# * Public Law 89-387 (1966-04-13) reinstituted a national standard for DST,
109#   from April's last Sunday to October's last Sunday, effective 1967.
110#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-80/pdf/STATUTE-80-Pg107.pdf
111# * Public Law 93-182 (1973-12-15) moved the 1974 spring-forward to 01-06.
112#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-87/pdf/STATUTE-87-Pg707.pdf
113# * Public Law 93-434 (1974-10-05) moved the 1975 spring-forward to
114#   February's last Sunday.
115#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-88/pdf/STATUTE-88-Pg1209.pdf
116# * Public Law 99-359 (1986-07-08) moved the spring-forward to April's first
117#   Sunday.
118#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-100/pdf/STATUTE-100-Pg764.pdf
119# * Public Law 109-58 (2005-08-08), effective 2007, moved the spring-forward
120#   to March's second Sunday and the fall-back to November's first Sunday.
121#   https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-109publ58/pdf/PLAW-109publ58.pdf
122# All transitions are at 02:00 local time.
123
124# From Arthur David Olson:
125# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of
126# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime.
127
128# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25):
129# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama.
130# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time."
131# An AltaVista search turned up:
132# https://web.archive.org/web/20000926032210/http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html
133# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace
134# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.'  Peace is wonderful."
135# (August 1945) by way of confirmation.
136#
137# From Paul Eggert (2017-09-23):
138# This was the V-J Day issue of the Clamdigger, a Rowayton, CT newsletter.
139
140# From Joseph Gallant citing
141# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987):
142# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set
143# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people
144# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account,
145# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender,
146# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word
147# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in
148# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech.
149
150# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout.  From
151# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times:
152#
153# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender.
154# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a
155# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news.
156# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out
157# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental
158# importance."
159#
160# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open
161# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell,
162# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over.
163# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms."
164#
165# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters.
166
167# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22):
168# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations
169# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of
170# U.S. government action.  So even though the "US" rules have changed
171# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected.
172
173# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
174Rule	US	1918	1919	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
175Rule	US	1918	1919	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
176Rule	US	1942	only	-	Feb	9	2:00	1:00	W # War
177Rule	US	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
178Rule	US	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
179Rule	US	1967	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
180Rule	US	1967	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
181Rule	US	1974	only	-	Jan	6	2:00	1:00	D
182Rule	US	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
183Rule	US	1976	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
184Rule	US	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
185Rule	US	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
186Rule	US	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
187
188# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19
189# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with
190# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory.
191# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of
192# this time zone package.
193# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if
194# a particular place changes whether it observes DST.
195# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to
196# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to
197# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file.
198
199# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
200Zone	EST		 -5:00	-	EST
201Zone	MST		 -7:00	-	MST
202Zone	HST		-10:00	-	HST
203Zone	EST5EDT		 -5:00	US	E%sT
204Zone	CST6CDT		 -6:00	US	C%sT
205Zone	MST7MDT		 -7:00	US	M%sT
206Zone	PST8PDT		 -8:00	US	P%sT
207
208# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
209# USA  EASTERN       5 H  BEHIND UTC    NEW YORK, WASHINGTON
210# USA  EASTERN       4 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
211# USA  CENTRAL       6 H  BEHIND UTC    CHICAGO, HOUSTON
212# USA  CENTRAL       5 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
213# USA  MOUNTAIN      7 H  BEHIND UTC    DENVER
214# USA  MOUNTAIN      6 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
215# USA  PACIFIC       8 H  BEHIND UTC    L.A., SAN FRANCISCO
216# USA  PACIFIC       7 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
217# USA  ALASKA STD    9 H  BEHIND UTC    MOST OF ALASKA     (AKST)
218# USA  ALASKA STD    8 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT)
219# USA  ALEUTIAN     10 H  BEHIND UTC    ISLANDS WEST OF 170W
220# USA    "           9 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
221# USA  HAWAII       10 H  BEHIND UTC
222# USA  BERING       11 H  BEHIND UTC    SAMOA, MIDWAY
223
224# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21):
225# The above dates are for 1988.
226# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's
227# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the
228# Aleutians.
229
230# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
231# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and
232# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward.  First, names
233# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966
234# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261:
235#	(none)
236#	United States standard eastern time
237#	United States standard mountain time
238#	United States standard central time
239#	United States standard Pacific time
240#	(none)
241#	United States standard Alaska time
242#	(none)
243# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for
244# public law 98-181):
245#	Atlantic standard time
246#	eastern standard time
247#	central standard time
248#	mountain standard time
249#	Pacific standard time
250#	Yukon standard time
251#	Alaska-Hawaii standard time
252#	Bering standard time
253# And after 1983-11-30:
254#	Atlantic standard time
255#	eastern standard time
256#	central standard time
257#	mountain standard time
258#	Pacific standard time
259#	Alaska standard time
260#	Hawaii-Aleutian standard time
261#	Samoa standard time
262# The law doesn't give abbreviations.
263#
264# From Paul Eggert (2016-12-19):
265# Here are URLs for the 1918 and 1966 legislation:
266# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=40&page=451
267# http://uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm?volume=80&page=108
268# Although the 1918 names were officially "United States Standard
269# Eastern Time" and similarly for "Central", "Mountain", "Pacific",
270# and "Alaska", in practice "Standard" was placed just before "Time",
271# as codified in 1966.  In practice, Alaska time was abbreviated "AST"
272# before 1968.  Summarizing the 1967 name changes:
273#	1918 names			1967 names
274#  -08	Standard Pacific Time (PST)	Pacific standard time (PST)
275#  -09	(unofficial) Yukon (YST)	Yukon standard time (YST)
276#  -10	Standard Alaska Time (AST)	Alaska-Hawaii standard time (AHST)
277#  -11	(unofficial) Nome (NST)		Bering standard time (BST)
278#
279# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow:
280# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time"
281# for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.  See the file "australasia".
282#
283# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17):
284# HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian
285# standard and daylight times.  See section 9.47 (p 234) of the
286# U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008)
287# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf
288
289# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09
290# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08.
291#
292# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
293#   (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
294#   U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended--
295#     (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second
296#     Sunday of March"; and
297#     (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first
298#     Sunday of November'.
299#   (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the
300#   date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later.
301#   (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective
302#   date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress
303#   on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United
304#   States.
305#   (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the
306#   Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the
307#   Department study is complete.
308
309# US eastern time, represented by New York
310
311# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida,
312# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky
313# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
314# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
315# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee,
316# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
317
318# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02):
319# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington
320# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH]....
321# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time
322# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their
323# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC.
324
325# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26):
326# According to today's Huntsville Times
327# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1
328# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City
329# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County,
330# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time."  It quotes H.H. "Bubba"
331# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central
332# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work
333# in Columbus."
334#
335# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-22):
336# Four cities are involved.  The two not mentioned above are Smiths Station
337# and Valley.  Barbara Brooks, Valley's assistant treasurer, heard it started
338# because West Point Pepperell textile mills were in Alabama while the
339# corporate office was in Georgia, and residents voted to keep Eastern
340# time even after the mills closed.  See: Kazek K. Did you know which
341# Alabama towns are in a different time zone?  al.com 2017-02-06.
342# http://www.al.com/living/index.ssf/2017/02/do_you_know_which_alabama_town.html
343
344# From Paul Eggert (2014-09-06):
345# Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 44, 4 (1884-02-08), 208
346# says that New York City Hall time was 3 minutes 58.4 seconds fast of
347# Eastern time (i.e., -4:56:01.6) just before the 1883 switch.  Round to the
348# nearest second.
349
350# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
351Rule	NYC	1920	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
352Rule	NYC	1920	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
353Rule	NYC	1921	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
354Rule	NYC	1921	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
355Rule	NYC	1955	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
356# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
357Zone America/New_York	-4:56:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:03:58
358			-5:00	US	E%sT	1920
359			-5:00	NYC	E%sT	1942
360			-5:00	US	E%sT	1946
361			-5:00	NYC	E%sT	1967
362			-5:00	US	E%sT
363
364# US central time, represented by Chicago
365
366# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia,
367# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and
368# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana
369# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
370# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western
371# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern
372# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota,
373# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin
374
375# From Paul Eggert (2018-01-07):
376# In 1869 the Chicago Astronomical Society contracted with the city to keep
377# time.  Though delayed by the Great Fire, by 1880 a wire ran from the
378# Dearborn Observatory (on the University of Chicago campus) to City Hall,
379# which then sent signals to police and fire stations.  However, railroads got
380# their time signals from the Allegheny Observatory, the Madison Observatory,
381# the Ann Arbor Observatory, etc., so their clocks did not agree with each
382# other or with the city's official time.  The confusion took some years to
383# clear up.  See:
384# Moser M. How Chicago gave America its time zones. Chicago. 2018-01-04.
385# http://www.chicagomag.com/city-life/January-2018/How-Chicago-Gave-America-Its-Time-Zones/
386
387# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin:
388# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/175.pdf
389# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change.  Because the local
390# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations
391# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited
392# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year....
393#
394# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12):
395# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI
396# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent....
397# https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2007/related/acts/3
398
399# From an email administrator of the City of Fort Pierre, SD (2015-12-21):
400# Fort Pierre is technically located in the Mountain time zone as is
401# the rest of Stanley County.  Most of Stanley County and Fort Pierre
402# uses the Central time zone due to doing most of their business in
403# Pierre so it simplifies schedules.  I have lived in Stanley County
404# all my life and it has been that way since I can remember.  (43 years!)
405#
406# From Paul Eggert (2015-12-25):
407# Assume this practice predates 1970, so Fort Pierre can use America/Chicago.
408
409# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
410Rule	Chicago	1920	only	-	Jun	13	2:00	1:00	D
411Rule	Chicago	1920	1921	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
412Rule	Chicago	1921	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
413Rule	Chicago	1922	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
414Rule	Chicago	1922	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
415Rule	Chicago	1955	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
416# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
417Zone America/Chicago	-5:50:36 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:09:24
418			-6:00	US	C%sT	1920
419			-6:00	Chicago	C%sT	1936 Mar  1  2:00
420			-5:00	-	EST	1936 Nov 15  2:00
421			-6:00	Chicago	C%sT	1942
422			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
423			-6:00	Chicago	C%sT	1967
424			-6:00	US	C%sT
425# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25.
426Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:14:48
427			-7:00	US	M%sT	1992 Oct 25  2:00
428			-6:00	US	C%sT
429# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on
430# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time.
431# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>.
432# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and
433# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota;
434# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time.
435# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>.
436Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:14:21
437			-7:00	US	M%sT	2003 Oct 26  2:00
438			-6:00	US	C%sT
439
440# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21):
441# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the
442# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from
443# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010):
444# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm
445# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html
446
447# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24):
448# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although
449# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next
450# largest city in Mercer County).  Google Maps places Beulah's city hall
451# at 47° 15' 51" N, 101° 46' 40" W, which yields an offset of 6h47'07".
452
453Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:12:53
454			-7:00	US	M%sT	2010 Nov  7  2:00
455			-6:00	US	C%sT
456
457# US mountain time, represented by Denver
458#
459# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western
460# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City),
461# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota,
462# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County,
463# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming
464#
465# From Paul Eggert (2018-10-25):
466# On 1921-03-04 federal law placed all of Texas into the central time zone.
467# However, El Paso ignored the law for decades and continued to observe
468# mountain time, on the grounds that that's what they had always done
469# and they weren't about to let the federal government tell them what to do.
470# Eventually the federal government gave in and changed the law on
471# 1970-04-10 to match what El Paso was actually doing.  Although
472# that's slightly after our 1970 cutoff, there is no need to create a
473# separate zone for El Paso since they were ignoring the law anyway.  See:
474# Long T. El Pasoans were time rebels, fought to stay in Mountain zone.
475# El Paso Times. 2018-10-24 06:40 -06.
476# https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/local/el-paso/2018/10/24/el-pasoans-were-time-rebels-fought-stay-mountain-zone/1744509002/
477#
478# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
479Rule	Denver	1920	1921	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
480Rule	Denver	1920	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
481Rule	Denver	1921	only	-	May	22	2:00	0	S
482Rule	Denver	1965	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
483Rule	Denver	1965	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
484# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
485Zone America/Denver	-6:59:56 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:00:04
486			-7:00	US	M%sT	1920
487			-7:00	Denver	M%sT	1942
488			-7:00	US	M%sT	1946
489			-7:00	Denver	M%sT	1967
490			-7:00	US	M%sT
491
492# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
493#
494# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater,
495# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county
496# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren),
497# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern ¾ of
498# Malheur county), and Washington
499
500# From Paul Eggert (2016-08-20):
501# In early February 1948, in response to California's electricity shortage,
502# PG&E changed power frequency from 60 to 59.5 Hz during daylight hours,
503# causing electric clocks to lose six minutes per day.  (This did not change
504# legal time, and is not part of the data here.)  See:
505# Ross SA. An energy crisis from the past: Northern California in 1948.
506# Working Paper No. 8, Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley,
507# 1973-11.  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8x22k30c
508#
509# In another measure to save electricity, DST was instituted from 1948-03-14
510# at 02:01 to 1949-01-16 at 02:00, with the governor having the option to move
511# the fallback transition earlier.  See pages 3-4 of:
512# http://clerk.assembly.ca.gov/sites/clerk.assembly.ca.gov/files/archive/Statutes/1948/48Vol1_Chapters.pdf
513#
514# In response:
515#
516#   Governor Warren received a torrent of objecting mail, and it is not too much
517#   to speculate that the objections to Daylight Saving Time were one important
518#   factor in the defeat of the Dewey-Warren Presidential ticket in California.
519#     -- Ross, p 25
520#
521# On December 8 the governor exercised the option, setting the date to January 1
522# (LA Times 1948-12-09).  The transition time was 02:00 (LA Times 1949-01-01).
523#
524# Despite the controversy, in 1949 California voters approved Proposition 12,
525# which established DST from April's last Sunday at 01:00 until September's
526# last Sunday at 02:00. This was amended by 1962's Proposition 6, which changed
527# the fall-back date to October's last Sunday. See:
528# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1501&context=ca_ballot_props
529# https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1636&context=ca_ballot_props
530#
531# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
532Rule	CA	1948	only	-	Mar	14	2:01	1:00	D
533Rule	CA	1949	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	0	S
534Rule	CA	1950	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	1:00	1:00	D
535Rule	CA	1950	1961	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
536Rule	CA	1962	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
537# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
538Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:07:02
539			-8:00	US	P%sT	1946
540			-8:00	CA	P%sT	1967
541			-8:00	US	P%sT
542
543# Alaska
544# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -09 per USNO.
545#
546# From Paul Eggert (2017-06-15):
547# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,
548# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia.
549# On Friday, 1867-10-18 (Gregorian), at precisely 15:30 local time, the
550# Russian forts and fleet at Sitka fired salutes to mark the ceremony of
551# formal transfer.  See the Sacramento Daily Union (1867-11-14), p 3, col 2.
552# https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SDU18671114.2.12.1
553# Sitka workers did not change their calendars until Sunday, 1867-10-20,
554# and so celebrated two Sundays that week.  See: Ahllund T (tr Hallamaa P).
555# From the memoirs of a Finnish workman. Alaska History. 2006 Fall;21(2):1-25.
556# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ahllund-2006-Memoirs-of-a-Finnish-Workman.pdf
557# Include only the time zone part of this transition, ignoring the switch
558# from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent the Julian calendar.
559#
560# As far as we know, of the locations mentioned below only Sitka was
561# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar.
562# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement was
563# destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.)  Many of Alaska's inhabitants
564# were unaware of the US acquisition of Alaska, much less of any calendar or
565# time change.  However, the Russian-influenced part of Alaska did observe
566# Russian time, and it is more accurate to model this than to ignore it.
567# The database format requires an exact transition time; use the Russian
568# salute as a somewhat-arbitrary time for the formal transfer of control for
569# all of Alaska.  Sitka's UTC offset is -9:01:13; adjust its 15:30 to the
570# local times of other Alaskan locations so that they change simultaneously.
571
572# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18):
573# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and
574# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall:
575# "Welcome to Juneau.  Please turn your watch back to the 19th century."
576# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01.
577# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html
578#
579# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source:
580# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response.
581# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2).
582# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/
583
584# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01):
585# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article:
586#
587# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27,
588# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time.
589# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on
590# Pacific Time.
591#
592# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the
593# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in
594# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26.
595#
596# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted
597# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time.
598#
599# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not
600# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions.
601#
602# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo
603# Nation.)
604
605# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09):
606# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian
607# Community office (using contact information available at
608# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla
609# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States;
610# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether
611# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their
612# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I
613# did not inquire about practices in the past.
614
615# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17):
616# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's
617# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote.
618
619# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-11-09):
620# It seems Metlakatla did go off PST on Sunday, November 1, changing
621# their time to AKST and are going to follow Alaska's DST, switching
622# between AKST and AKDT from now on....
623# https://www.krbd.org/2015/10/30/annette-island-times-they-are-a-changing/
624
625# From Ryan Stanley (2018-11-06):
626# The Metlakatla community in Alaska has decided not to change its
627# clock back an hour starting on November 4th, 2018 (day before yesterday).
628# They will be gmtoff=-28800 year-round.
629# https://www.facebook.com/141055983004923/photos/pb.141055983004923.-2207520000.1541465673./569081370202380/
630
631# From Paul Eggert (2018-12-16):
632# In a 2018-12-11 special election, Metlakatla voted to go back to
633# Alaska time (including daylight saving time) starting next year.
634# https://www.krbd.org/2018/12/12/metlakatla-to-follow-alaska-standard-time-allow-liquor-sales/
635#
636# From Ryan Stanley (2019-01-11):
637# The community will be changing back on the 20th of this month...
638# From Tim Parenti (2019-01-11):
639# Per an announcement on the Metlakatla community's official Facebook page, the
640# "fall back" will be on Sunday 2019-01-20 at 02:00:
641# https://www.facebook.com/141055983004923/photos/607150969728753/
642# So they won't be waiting for Alaska to join them on 2019-03-10, but will
643# rather change their clocks twice in seven weeks.
644
645# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
646Zone America/Juneau	 15:02:19 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 15:33:32
647			 -8:57:41 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
648			 -8:00	-	PST	1942
649			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
650			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
651			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1980 Apr 27  2:00
652			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1980 Oct 26  2:00
653			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
654			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
655			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
656Zone America/Sitka	 14:58:47 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 15:30
657			 -9:01:13 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
658			 -8:00	-	PST	1942
659			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
660			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
661			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
662			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
663			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
664Zone America/Metlakatla	 15:13:42 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 15:44:55
665			 -8:46:18 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
666			 -8:00	-	PST	1942
667			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
668			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
669			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
670			 -8:00	-	PST	2015 Nov  1  2:00
671			 -9:00	US	AK%sT	2018 Nov  4  2:00
672			 -8:00	-	PST	2019 Jan 20  2:00
673			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
674Zone America/Yakutat	 14:41:05 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 15:12:18
675			 -9:18:55 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
676			 -9:00	-	YST	1942
677			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1946
678			 -9:00	-	YST	1969
679			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
680			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
681Zone America/Anchorage	 14:00:24 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 14:31:37
682			 -9:59:36 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
683			-10:00	-	AST	1942
684			-10:00	US	A%sT	1967 Apr
685			-10:00	-	AHST	1969
686			-10:00	US	AH%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
687			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
688			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
689Zone America/Nome	 12:58:22 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 13:29:35
690			-11:01:38 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
691			-11:00	-	NST	1942
692			-11:00	US	N%sT	1946
693			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr
694			-11:00	-	BST	1969
695			-11:00	US	B%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
696			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
697			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
698Zone America/Adak	 12:13:22 -	LMT	1867 Oct 19 12:44:35
699			-11:46:38 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
700			-11:00	-	NST	1942
701			-11:00	US	N%sT	1946
702			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr
703			-11:00	-	BST	1969
704			-11:00	US	B%sT	1983 Oct 30  2:00
705			-10:00	US	AH%sT	1983 Nov 30
706			-10:00	US	H%sT
707# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff.
708#
709# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak)
710# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00,
711# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later.
712#
713# From David Flater (2004-11-09):
714# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska
715# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which
716# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967
717# possibly until 1983:
718#
719#  Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967:
720#  "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important
721#  location not on Alaska Standard Time.  The following resolution was
722#  made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it
723#  resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard
724#  Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday,
725#  January 14, Alaska Standard Time.)  This resolution was passed with
726#  three votes for and one against."
727
728# Hawaii
729
730# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09):
731# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225
732# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09,
733# the article is available at
734# https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf
735# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January
736# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight
737# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the
738# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the
739# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect
740# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for
741# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes
742# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of
743# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes
744# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933)
745# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)."
746
747# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19):
748# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the
749# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of
750# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act
751# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each
752# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one
753# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th
754# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of
755# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is
756# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon
757# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to
758# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90.
759# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor
760# of the Territory of Hawaii."
761#
762# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday.
763# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon.
764
765# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
766Zone Pacific/Honolulu	-10:31:26 -	LMT	1896 Jan 13 12:00
767			-10:30	-	HST	1933 Apr 30  2:00
768			-10:30	1:00	HDT	1933 May 21 12:00
769			-10:30	US	H%sT	1947 Jun  8  2:00
770			-10:00	-	HST
771
772# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970.
773
774# Arizona mostly uses MST.
775
776# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20):
777#
778# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the
779# Daylight Saving Time web page
780# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23)
781# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
782# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard
783# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military
784# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to
785# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time.  The 1944-03-17 Phoenix
786# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was
787# the date the state's clocks would change.  In 1945 the State of
788# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as
789# mandated by federal law.  Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona
790# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST.
791#
792# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17.
793# Go with the Arizona State Library instead.
794
795# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
796Zone America/Phoenix	-7:28:18 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 11:31:42
797			-7:00	US	M%sT	1944 Jan  1  0:01
798			-7:00	-	MST	1944 Apr  1  0:01
799			-7:00	US	M%sT	1944 Oct  1  0:01
800			-7:00	-	MST	1967
801			-7:00	US	M%sT	1968 Mar 21
802			-7:00	-	MST
803# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
804# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.,
805# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the
806# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its
807# large size and location in three states."  (The "only" means that other
808# tribal nations don't use DST.)
809#
810# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26):
811# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation.
812
813# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine,
814# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark,
815# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome,
816# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power,
817# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern
818# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County)
819# switched four weeks late in 1974.
820#
821# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
822Zone America/Boise	-7:44:49 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:15:11
823			-8:00	US	P%sT	1923 May 13  2:00
824			-7:00	US	M%sT	1974
825			-7:00	-	MST	1974 Feb  3  2:00
826			-7:00	US	M%sT
827
828# Indiana
829#
830# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see:
831# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana
832#
833# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-30):
834# A brief but entertaining history of time in Indiana describes a 1949 debate
835# in the Indiana House where city legislators (who favored "fast time")
836# tussled with farm legislators (who didn't) over a bill to outlaw DST:
837#  "Lacking enough votes, the city faction tries to filibuster until time runs
838#   out on the session at midnight, but rural champion Rep. Herbert Copeland,
839#   R-Madison, leans over the gallery railing and forces the official clock
840#   back to 9 p.m., breaking it in the process.  The clock sticks on 9 as the
841#   debate rages on into the night.  The filibuster finally dies out and the
842#   bill passes, while outside the chamber, clocks read 3:30 a.m.  In the end,
843#   it doesn't matter which side won.  The law has no enforcement powers and
844#   is simply ignored by fast-time communities."
845# How Indiana went from 'God's time' to split zones and daylight-saving.
846# Indianapolis Star. 2018-11-27 14:58 -05.
847# https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/27/indianapolis-indiana-time-zone-history-central-eastern-daylight-savings-time/2126300002/
848#
849# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17):
850# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis,
851# with the following exceptions:
852#
853# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
854#   Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago.
855#
856# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York.
857#
858# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like
859#   America/Kentucky/Louisville.
860#
861# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke,
862#   and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below.
863#
864# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history,
865# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information."
866# Those Hoosiers!  Such a flighty and changeable people!
867# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
868#
869# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript
870# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level.
871# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'.
872
873# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26):
874# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana
875# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke,
876# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the
877# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of
878# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the
879# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time."
880# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their
881# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error.  The intent
882# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT.
883
884# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10):
885# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is
886# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007....
887# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL
888
889# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
890Rule Indianapolis 1941	only	-	Jun	22	2:00	1:00	D
891Rule Indianapolis 1941	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
892Rule Indianapolis 1946	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
893# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
894Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:15:22
895			-6:00	US	C%sT	1920
896			-6:00 Indianapolis C%sT	1942
897			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
898			-6:00 Indianapolis C%sT	1955 Apr 24  2:00
899			-5:00	-	EST	1957 Sep 29  2:00
900			-6:00	-	CST	1958 Apr 27  2:00
901			-5:00	-	EST	1969
902			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
903			-5:00	-	EST	2006
904			-5:00	US	E%sT
905#
906# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974,
907# as well as from 1976 through 2005.
908# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
909Rule	Marengo	1951	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
910Rule	Marengo	1951	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
911Rule	Marengo	1954	1960	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
912Rule	Marengo	1954	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
913# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
914Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:14:37
915			-6:00	US	C%sT	1951
916			-6:00	Marengo	C%sT	1961 Apr 30  2:00
917			-5:00	-	EST	1969
918			-5:00	US	E%sT	1974 Jan  6  2:00
919			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1974 Oct 27  2:00
920			-5:00	US	E%sT	1976
921			-5:00	-	EST	2006
922			-5:00	US	E%sT
923#
924# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana,
925# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back
926# in November 2007.
927# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
928Rule Vincennes	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
929Rule Vincennes	1946	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
930Rule Vincennes	1953	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
931Rule Vincennes	1953	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
932Rule Vincennes	1955	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
933Rule Vincennes	1956	1963	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
934Rule Vincennes	1960	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
935Rule Vincennes	1961	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
936Rule Vincennes	1962	1963	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
937# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
938Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:09:53
939			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
940			-6:00 Vincennes	C%sT	1964 Apr 26  2:00
941			-5:00	-	EST	1969
942			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
943			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
944			-6:00	US	C%sT	2007 Nov  4  2:00
945			-5:00	US	E%sT
946#
947# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006.
948# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
949Rule Perry	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
950Rule Perry	1946	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
951Rule Perry	1953	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
952Rule Perry	1953	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
953Rule Perry	1955	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
954Rule Perry	1956	1963	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
955Rule Perry	1960	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
956Rule Perry	1961	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
957Rule Perry	1962	1963	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
958# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
959Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:12:57
960			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
961			-6:00 Perry	C%sT	1964 Apr 26  2:00
962			-5:00	-	EST	1969
963			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
964			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
965			-6:00	US	C%sT
966#
967# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977,
968# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007.
969# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
970Rule	Pike	1955	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
971Rule	Pike	1955	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
972Rule	Pike	1956	1964	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
973Rule	Pike	1961	1964	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
974# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
975Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:10:53
976			-6:00	US	C%sT	1955
977			-6:00	Pike	C%sT	1965 Apr 25  2:00
978			-5:00	-	EST	1966 Oct 30  2:00
979			-6:00	US	C%sT	1977 Oct 30  2:00
980			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
981			-6:00	US	C%sT	2007 Nov  4  2:00
982			-5:00	US	E%sT
983#
984# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991,
985# then switched back in 2006.
986# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28):
987# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post
988# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of
989# 1991-10-27.
990# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
991Rule	Starke	1947	1961	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
992Rule	Starke	1947	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
993Rule	Starke	1955	1956	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
994Rule	Starke	1957	1958	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
995Rule	Starke	1959	1961	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
996# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
997Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:13:30
998			-6:00	US	C%sT	1947
999			-6:00	Starke	C%sT	1962 Apr 29  2:00
1000			-5:00	-	EST	1963 Oct 27  2:00
1001			-6:00	US	C%sT	1991 Oct 27  2:00
1002			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
1003			-6:00	US	C%sT
1004#
1005# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in
1006# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007.
1007# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1008Rule	Pulaski	1946	1960	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1009Rule	Pulaski	1946	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1010Rule	Pulaski	1955	1956	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1011Rule	Pulaski	1957	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1012# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1013Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:13:35
1014			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
1015			-6:00	Pulaski	C%sT	1961 Apr 30  2:00
1016			-5:00	-	EST	1969
1017			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
1018			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2  2:00
1019			-6:00	US	C%sT	2007 Mar 11  2:00
1020			-5:00	US	E%sT
1021#
1022# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005.
1023# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1024Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:19:44
1025			-6:00	US	C%sT	1954 Apr 25  2:00
1026			-5:00	-	EST	1969
1027			-5:00	US	E%sT	1973
1028			-5:00	-	EST	2006
1029			-5:00	US	E%sT
1030
1031# From Paul Eggert (2018-03-20):
1032# The Louisville & Nashville Railroad's 1883-11-18 change occurred at
1033# 10:00 old local time; train were supposed to come to a standstill
1034# for precisely 18 minutes.  See Bartky Fig. 1 (page 50).  It is not
1035# clear how this matched civil time in Louisville, so for now continue
1036# to assume Louisville switched at noon new local time, like New York.
1037#
1038# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974.
1039# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana.
1040# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1041Rule Louisville	1921	only	-	May	1	2:00	1:00	D
1042Rule Louisville	1921	only	-	Sep	1	2:00	0	S
1043Rule Louisville	1941	1961	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1044Rule Louisville	1941	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1045Rule Louisville	1946	only	-	Jun	2	2:00	0	S
1046Rule Louisville	1950	1955	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1047Rule Louisville	1956	1960	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1048# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1049Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:16:58
1050			-6:00	US	C%sT	1921
1051			-6:00 Louisville C%sT	1942
1052			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
1053			-6:00 Louisville C%sT	1961 Jul 23  2:00
1054			-5:00	-	EST	1968
1055			-5:00	US	E%sT	1974 Jan  6  2:00
1056			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1974 Oct 27  2:00
1057			-5:00	US	E%sT
1058#
1059# Wayne County, Kentucky
1060#
1061# From Lake Cumberland LIFE
1062# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml
1063# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7:
1064# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from
1065# the Central to the Eastern time zone....  The Wayne County government made
1066# the same request in December.  And while Russell County officials have not
1067# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in
1068# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also.
1069# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S.
1070# location in the Central time zone.
1071#
1072# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29):
1073# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion,
1074# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern
1075# (-0500) time.  They won't "fall back" this year.  See Sara Shipley,
1076# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400).
1077#
1078# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16):
1079# The final rule was published in the
1080# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158.
1081# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2000-08-17/html/00-20854.htm
1082#
1083Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:20:36
1084			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
1085			-6:00	-	CST	1968
1086			-6:00	US	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
1087			-5:00	US	E%sT
1088
1089
1090# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30):
1091# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985.
1092# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central;
1093#	previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10
1094# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10
1095# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10
1096# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10
1097# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10
1098#
1099# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17):
1100# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS,
1101# so omit that change for now.
1102# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change.
1103# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change.
1104# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on
1105# 1999-10-31.  See the
1106# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707.
1107# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-1999-10-21/html/99-27240.htm
1108# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated
1109# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official;
1110# hence a separate tz entry is not needed.
1111
1112# Michigan
1113#
1114# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
1115# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973.
1116#
1117# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
1118# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18,
1119# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01)
1120# that Detroit kept
1121#
1122#	local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should
1123#	be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time.  Half the
1124#	city obeyed, half refused.  After considerable debate, the decision
1125#	was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time.  A derisive offer to
1126#	erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the
1127#	Committee on Sewers.  Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted
1128#	by city vote.
1129#
1130# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks.
1131#
1132# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
1133# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks
1134# one hour in 1914."  This change is not in Shanks.  We have no more
1135# info, so omit this for now.
1136#
1137# From Paul Eggert (2017-07-26):
1138# Although Shanks says Detroit observed DST in 1967 from 06-14 00:01
1139# until 10-29 00:01, I now see multiple reports that this is incorrect.
1140# For example, according to a 50-year anniversary report about the 1967
1141# Detroit riots and a major-league doubleheader on 1967-07-23, "By the time
1142# the last fly ball of the doubleheader settled into the glove of leftfielder
1143# Lenny Green, it was after 7 p.m.  Detroit did not observe daylight saving
1144# time, so light was already starting to fail.  Twilight was made even deeper
1145# by billowing columns of smoke that ascended in an unbroken wall north of the
1146# ballpark."  See: Dow B. Detroit '67: As violence unfolded, Tigers played two
1147# at home vs. Yankees. Detroit Free Press 2017-07-23.
1148# https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2017/07/23/detroit-tigers-1967-riot-new-york-yankees/499951001/
1149#
1150# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975.
1151# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1152Rule	Detroit	1948	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1153Rule	Detroit	1948	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1154# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1155Zone America/Detroit	-5:32:11 -	LMT	1905
1156			-6:00	-	CST	1915 May 15  2:00
1157			-5:00	-	EST	1942
1158			-5:00	US	E%sT	1946
1159			-5:00	Detroit	E%sT	1973
1160			-5:00	US	E%sT	1975
1161			-5:00	-	EST	1975 Apr 27  2:00
1162			-5:00	US	E%sT
1163#
1164# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan,
1165# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973.
1166# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
1167Rule Menominee	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1168Rule Menominee	1946	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1169Rule Menominee	1966	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1170Rule Menominee	1966	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1171# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1172Zone America/Menominee	-5:50:27 -	LMT	1885 Sep 18 12:00
1173			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
1174			-6:00 Menominee	C%sT	1969 Apr 27  2:00
1175			-5:00	-	EST	1973 Apr 29  2:00
1176			-6:00	US	C%sT
1177
1178# Navassa
1179# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service
1180# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act
1181# also claimed by Haiti
1182# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co
1183# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09
1184# currently uninhabited
1185# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord",
1186# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites
1187# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994).
1188
1189################################################################################
1190
1191
1192# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
1193#
1194# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
1195# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
1196# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
1197# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
1198#
1199# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source
1200# for time zone data was the International Air Transport
1201# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
1202# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
1203# of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
1204# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
1205#
1206# Other sources occasionally used include:
1207#
1208#	Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
1209#	Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated),
1210#	which I found in the UCLA library.
1211#
1212#	William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition
1213#	<http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf>
1214#	[PDF] (1914-03)
1215#
1216#	Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
1217#	<https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
1218#
1219# See the 'europe' file for Greenland.
1220
1221# Canada
1222
1223# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14):
1224# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada
1225# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard....
1226#
1227#	UTC	Standard time	Daylight saving time
1228#	offset	French	English	French	English
1229#	-2:30	-	-	HAT	NDT
1230#	-3	-	-	HAA	ADT
1231#	-3:30	HNT	NST	-	-
1232#	-4	HNA	AST	HAE	EDT
1233#	-5	HNE	EST	HAC	CDT
1234#	-6	HNC	CST	HAR	MDT
1235#	-7	HNR	MST	HAP	PDT
1236#	-8	HNP	PST	HAY	YDT
1237#	-9	HNY	YST	-	-
1238#
1239#	HN: Heure Normale	ST: Standard Time
1240#	HA: Heure Avancée	DT: Daylight saving Time
1241#
1242#	A: de l'Atlantique	Atlantic
1243#	C: du Centre		Central
1244#	E: de l'Est		Eastern
1245#	M:			Mountain
1246#	N:			Newfoundland
1247#	P: du Pacifique		Pacific
1248#	R: des Rocheuses
1249#	T: de Terre-Neuve
1250#	Y: du Yukon		Yukon
1251#
1252# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22):
1253# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software.
1254
1255# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks
1256# & Pottenger.
1257
1258# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31,
1259# 2007-03-01):
1260# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will
1261# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the
1262# U.S. and the rest of Canada....
1263# https://archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm
1264# ...
1265# Nova Scotia
1266# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007....
1267# https://www.novascotia.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf
1268#
1269# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to
1270# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01.
1271# https://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf
1272# ...
1273# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00.
1274# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00.
1275# https://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php
1276# ...
1277# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules.
1278# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM
1279# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm
1280# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF
1281# ...
1282# P.E.I. will follow US rules....
1283# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf
1284# ...
1285# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador....
1286# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm
1287# ...
1288# Yukon
1289# https://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf
1290# ...
1291# N.W.T. will follow US rules.  Whoever maintains the government web site
1292# does not seem to believe in bookmarks.  To see the news release, click the
1293# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change".  Press the
1294# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using
1295# JavaScript.
1296# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive
1297# ...
1298# Nunavut
1299# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007....
1300# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf
1301
1302# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-18):
1303# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map
1304# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998)
1305# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/alacarte.asp
1306# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard
1307# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998.
1308#
1309# National Research Council Canada maintains info about time zones and DST.
1310# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/time_zones.html
1311# https://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/time/faq/index.html#Q5
1312# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent.
1313
1314# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27):
1315# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the
1316# new US DST rules,
1317
1318# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01)
1319# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles
1320# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260
1321# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review.
1322# The quote includes these two statements:
1323# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...'
1324# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,'
1325# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time
1326# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918.  This transition was
1327# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star.
1328
1329# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed
1330# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day
1331# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets.
1332
1333# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1334Rule	Canada	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1335Rule	Canada	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1336Rule	Canada	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1337Rule	Canada	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1338Rule	Canada	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
1339Rule	Canada	1974	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1340Rule	Canada	1974	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1341Rule	Canada	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
1342Rule	Canada	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1343Rule	Canada	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
1344
1345
1346# Newfoundland and Labrador
1347
1348# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-14):
1349# Legally Labrador should observe Newfoundland time; see:
1350# McLeod J. Labrador time - legal or not? St. John's Telegram, 2017-10-07
1351# http://www.thetelegram.com/news/local/labrador-time--legal-or-not-154860/
1352# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that the only part of Labrador
1353# that follows the rules is the southeast corner, including Port Hope
1354# Simpson and Mary's Harbour, but excluding, say, Black Tickle.
1355
1356# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1357Rule	StJohns	1917	only	-	Apr	 8	2:00	1:00	D
1358Rule	StJohns	1917	only	-	Sep	17	2:00	0	S
1359# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1360Rule	StJohns	1919	only	-	May	 5	23:00	1:00	D
1361Rule	StJohns	1919	only	-	Aug	12	23:00	0	S
1362# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1363Rule	StJohns	1920	1935	-	May	Sun>=1	23:00	1:00	D
1364Rule	StJohns	1920	1935	-	Oct	lastSun	23:00	0	S
1365# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks &
1366# Pottenger.
1367Rule	StJohns	1936	1941	-	May	Mon>=9	0:00	1:00	D
1368Rule	StJohns	1936	1941	-	Oct	Mon>=2	0:00	0	S
1369# Whitman gives the following transitions:
1370# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07
1371# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules.
1372# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives
1373# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1374Rule	StJohns	1946	1950	-	May	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1375Rule	StJohns	1946	1950	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00	0	S
1376Rule	StJohns	1951	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1377Rule	StJohns	1951	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1378Rule	StJohns	1960	1986	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1379# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1380# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches
1381# at 00:01 local time.  For now, assume it started in 1987.
1382
1383# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12):
1384# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the
1385# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed.
1386# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings
1387# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time
1388# now occurs at 2:00AM.
1389# ...
1390# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm
1391# ...
1392# MICHAEL PELLEY  |  Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery
1393# Office of the Chief Information Officer
1394# Executive Council
1395# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador
1396
1397Rule	StJohns	1987	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	1:00	D
1398Rule	StJohns	1987	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	0:01	0	S
1399Rule	StJohns	1988	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	2:00	DD
1400Rule	StJohns	1989	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	1:00	D
1401Rule	StJohns	2007	2011	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:01	1:00	D
1402Rule	StJohns	2007	2010	-	Nov	Sun>=1	0:01	0	S
1403#
1404# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes.
1405# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1406Zone America/St_Johns	-3:30:52 -	LMT	1884
1407			-3:30:52 StJohns N%sT	1918
1408			-3:30:52 Canada	N%sT	1919
1409			-3:30:52 StJohns N%sT	1935 Mar 30
1410			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	1942 May 11
1411			-3:30	Canada	N%sT	1946
1412			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	2011 Nov
1413			-3:30	Canada	N%sT
1414
1415# most of east Labrador
1416
1417# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'.
1418# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1419Zone America/Goose_Bay	-4:01:40 -	LMT	1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
1420			-3:30:52 -	NST	1918
1421			-3:30:52 Canada N%sT	1919
1422			-3:30:52 -	NST	1935 Mar 30
1423			-3:30	-	NST	1936
1424			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	1942 May 11
1425			-3:30	Canada	N%sT	1946
1426			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	1966 Mar 15  2:00
1427			-4:00	StJohns	A%sT	2011 Nov
1428			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1429
1430
1431# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I
1432
1433# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20):
1434# From the historical weather station records available at:
1435# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada
1436# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was
1437# likely to be the same across the island....
1438# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would
1439# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996.
1440
1441# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20):
1442# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
1443# Halifax.  Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
1444# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of
1445# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now).
1446# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
1447# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
1448# this is a typo.
1449
1450# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1451Rule	Halifax	1916	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1452Rule	Halifax	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	S
1453Rule	Halifax	1920	only	-	May	 9	0:00	1:00	D
1454Rule	Halifax	1920	only	-	Aug	29	0:00	0	S
1455Rule	Halifax	1921	only	-	May	 6	0:00	1:00	D
1456Rule	Halifax	1921	1922	-	Sep	 5	0:00	0	S
1457Rule	Halifax	1922	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
1458Rule	Halifax	1923	1925	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1459Rule	Halifax	1923	only	-	Sep	 4	0:00	0	S
1460Rule	Halifax	1924	only	-	Sep	15	0:00	0	S
1461Rule	Halifax	1925	only	-	Sep	28	0:00	0	S
1462Rule	Halifax	1926	only	-	May	16	0:00	1:00	D
1463Rule	Halifax	1926	only	-	Sep	13	0:00	0	S
1464Rule	Halifax	1927	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1465Rule	Halifax	1927	only	-	Sep	26	0:00	0	S
1466Rule	Halifax	1928	1931	-	May	Sun>=8	0:00	1:00	D
1467Rule	Halifax	1928	only	-	Sep	 9	0:00	0	S
1468Rule	Halifax	1929	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
1469Rule	Halifax	1930	only	-	Sep	15	0:00	0	S
1470Rule	Halifax	1931	1932	-	Sep	Mon>=24	0:00	0	S
1471Rule	Halifax	1932	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1472Rule	Halifax	1933	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
1473Rule	Halifax	1933	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	S
1474Rule	Halifax	1934	only	-	May	20	0:00	1:00	D
1475Rule	Halifax	1934	only	-	Sep	16	0:00	0	S
1476Rule	Halifax	1935	only	-	Jun	 2	0:00	1:00	D
1477Rule	Halifax	1935	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	S
1478Rule	Halifax	1936	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1479Rule	Halifax	1936	only	-	Sep	14	0:00	0	S
1480Rule	Halifax	1937	1938	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1481Rule	Halifax	1937	1941	-	Sep	Mon>=24	0:00	0	S
1482Rule	Halifax	1939	only	-	May	28	0:00	1:00	D
1483Rule	Halifax	1940	1941	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1484Rule	Halifax	1946	1949	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1485Rule	Halifax	1946	1949	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1486Rule	Halifax	1951	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1487Rule	Halifax	1951	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1488Rule	Halifax	1956	1959	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1489Rule	Halifax	1956	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1490Rule	Halifax	1962	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1491Rule	Halifax	1962	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1492# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1493Zone America/Halifax	-4:14:24 -	LMT	1902 Jun 15
1494			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1918
1495			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1919
1496			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1497			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1946
1498			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1974
1499			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1500Zone America/Glace_Bay	-3:59:48 -	LMT	1902 Jun 15
1501			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1953
1502			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1954
1503			-4:00	-	AST	1972
1504			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1974
1505			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1506
1507# New Brunswick
1508
1509# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31):
1510# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf>
1511# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and
1512# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it
1513# clear that this was the case since at least 1993.
1514# For now, assume it started in 1993.
1515
1516# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1517Rule	Moncton	1933	1935	-	Jun	Sun>=8	1:00	1:00	D
1518Rule	Moncton	1933	1935	-	Sep	Sun>=8	1:00	0	S
1519Rule	Moncton	1936	1938	-	Jun	Sun>=1	1:00	1:00	D
1520Rule	Moncton	1936	1938	-	Sep	Sun>=1	1:00	0	S
1521Rule	Moncton	1939	only	-	May	27	1:00	1:00	D
1522Rule	Moncton	1939	1941	-	Sep	Sat>=21	1:00	0	S
1523Rule	Moncton	1940	only	-	May	19	1:00	1:00	D
1524Rule	Moncton	1941	only	-	May	 4	1:00	1:00	D
1525Rule	Moncton	1946	1972	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1526Rule	Moncton	1946	1956	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1527Rule	Moncton	1957	1972	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1528Rule	Moncton	1993	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	1:00	D
1529Rule	Moncton	1993	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	0:01	0	S
1530# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1531Zone America/Moncton	-4:19:08 -	LMT	1883 Dec  9
1532			-5:00	-	EST	1902 Jun 15
1533			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1933
1534			-4:00	Moncton	A%sT	1942
1535			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1946
1536			-4:00	Moncton	A%sT	1973
1537			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1993
1538			-4:00	Moncton	A%sT	2007
1539			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1540
1541# Quebec
1542
1543# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24):
1544# See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal.
1545#
1546# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63
1547# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as
1548# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST.
1549# The Quebec department of justice writes in
1550# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord"
1551# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm
1552# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon
1553# observes Atlantic standard time all year round.
1554# https://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en
1555# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007.
1556# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to
1557# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT.
1558
1559# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1560Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 -	LMT	1884
1561			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1970
1562			-4:00	-	AST
1563
1564# Ontario
1565
1566# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1567# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
1568# Toronto.
1569# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1570# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1571# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1572# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax.
1573
1574# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1575# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST
1576# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that
1577# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw
1578# have already done so.  In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday,
1579# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable
1580# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after
1581# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but
1582# presumably that should be -07-06.  (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters
1583# earlier in June).
1584#
1585# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21).
1586#
1587# From Paul Eggert (2017-07-08):
1588# For more on Orillia, see: Daubs K. Bold attempt at daylight saving
1589# time became a comic failure in Orillia. Toronto Star 2017-07-08.
1590# https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/07/08/bold-attempt-at-daylight-saving-time-became-a-comic-failure-in-orillia.html
1591
1592# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17):
1593# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star
1594# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST,
1595# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT.
1596# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9)
1597# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html
1598# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT.
1599# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report
1600# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice.
1601#
1602# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1603# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and
1604# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes
1605# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in
1606# violation of the official Ontario rules.
1607#
1608# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1609# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the
1610# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said:
1611#
1612#	The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round.
1613#	This means they spend about half the time on central time and
1614#	the other half on eastern time.
1615#
1616#	For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said.
1617#
1618#	"The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern
1619#	Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he
1620#	said.  "I don't see any changes happening here."
1621#
1622# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang
1623# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice."
1624
1625# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton:
1626# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory
1627# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he
1628# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current
1629# time keeping since 1952, at least.
1630
1631# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17):
1632# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River
1633# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from
1634# McKinnon sounds more authoritative.  For now, assume that Atikokan
1635# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time
1636# ended.  This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour
1637# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move
1638# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file.
1639
1640# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06):
1641#
1642# Currently the database has:
1643#
1644# # Ontario
1645#
1646# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1647# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
1648# # Toronto.
1649# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1650# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1651# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1652#
1653# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom
1654# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard
1655# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that:
1656#
1657#     The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario,
1658#     except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year.
1659#
1660# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon.
1661#
1662# I only came across this incidentally.  I don't know if Windsor began
1663# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date.
1664#
1665# By the way, the article continues by noting that:
1666#
1667#     Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back
1668#     three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October.
1669
1670# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17):
1671#
1672# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in
1673# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,
1674# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17,
1675# was available at
1676# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S
1677#
1678# It includes the text below (starting on page 57):
1679#
1680#   A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would
1681# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by
1682# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities
1683# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav-
1684# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite,
1685# for the other provinces only approximate:
1686#
1687#	Province	Daylight saving time used
1688# Prince Edward Island	Not used.
1689# Nova Scotia		In Halifax only.
1690# New Brunswick		In St. John only.
1691# Quebec		In the following places:
1692#			Montreal	Lachine
1693#			Quebec		Mont-Royal
1694#			Lévis		Iberville
1695#			St. Lambert	Cap de la Madelèine
1696#			Verdun		Loretteville
1697#			Westmount	Richmond
1698#			Outremont	St. Jérôme
1699#			Longueuil	Greenfield Park
1700#			Arvida		Waterloo
1701#			Chambly-Canton	Beaulieu
1702#			Melbourne	La Tuque
1703#			St. Théophile	Buckingham
1704# Ontario		Used generally in the cities and towns along
1705#			the southerly part of the province. Not
1706#			used in the northwesterly part.
1707# Manitoba		Not used.
1708# Saskatchewan		In Regina only.
1709# Alberta		Not used.
1710# British Columbia	Not used.
1711#
1712#   With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited
1713# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont.
1714
1715# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1716Rule	Toronto	1919	only	-	Mar	30	23:30	1:00	D
1717Rule	Toronto	1919	only	-	Oct	26	0:00	0	S
1718Rule	Toronto	1920	only	-	May	 2	2:00	1:00	D
1719Rule	Toronto	1920	only	-	Sep	26	0:00	0	S
1720Rule	Toronto	1921	only	-	May	15	2:00	1:00	D
1721Rule	Toronto	1921	only	-	Sep	15	2:00	0	S
1722Rule	Toronto	1922	1923	-	May	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1723# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16"
1724# was meant.
1725Rule	Toronto	1922	1926	-	Sep	Sun>=15	2:00	0	S
1726Rule	Toronto	1924	1927	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
1727Rule	Toronto	1927	1937	-	Sep	Sun>=25	2:00	0	S
1728Rule	Toronto	1928	1937	-	Apr	Sun>=25	2:00	1:00	D
1729Rule	Toronto	1938	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1730Rule	Toronto	1938	1939	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1731Rule	Toronto	1945	1946	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1732Rule	Toronto	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1733Rule	Toronto	1947	1949	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
1734Rule	Toronto	1947	1948	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
1735Rule	Toronto	1949	only	-	Nov	lastSun	0:00	0	S
1736Rule	Toronto	1950	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1737Rule	Toronto	1950	only	-	Nov	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1738Rule	Toronto	1951	1956	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1739# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971,
1740# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this
1741# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30
1742# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual.
1743Rule	Toronto	1957	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1744
1745# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1746# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and
1747# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in
1748# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw,
1749# Saskatchewan, for one year."
1750
1751# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator,
1752# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12):
1753# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight
1754# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur
1755# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central
1756# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to
1757# include the Thunder Bay area....  When Canada adopted daylight
1758# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so
1759# already, did not change their clocks....  During the Second World
1760# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer
1761# months for the remainder of the war years.
1762
1763# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1764Zone America/Toronto	-5:17:32 -	LMT	1895
1765			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1919
1766			-5:00	Toronto	E%sT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1767			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1946
1768			-5:00	Toronto	E%sT	1974
1769			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1770Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 -	LMT	1895
1771			-6:00	-	CST	1910
1772			-5:00	-	EST	1942
1773			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1970
1774			-5:00	Toronto	E%sT	1973
1775			-5:00	-	EST	1974
1776			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1777Zone America/Nipigon	-5:53:04 -	LMT	1895
1778			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1940 Sep 29
1779			-5:00	1:00	EDT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1780			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1781Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 -	LMT	1895
1782			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1940 Sep 29
1783			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1784			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
1785Zone America/Atikokan	-6:06:28 -	LMT	1895
1786			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1940 Sep 29
1787			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1942 Feb  9  2:00s
1788			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1945 Sep 30  2:00
1789			-5:00	-	EST
1790
1791
1792# Manitoba
1793
1794# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06):
1795# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to
1796# March 27, 1987 ... said ...
1797# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of
1798# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central
1799# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next
1800# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."...
1801# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had
1802# been assented to (March 22, 1967)....
1803# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying
1804# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of
1805# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central
1806# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time).
1807
1808# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10):
1809# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s)
1810# starting 1966.  Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume
1811# it was also 02:00s in 1966.
1812
1813# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1814Rule	Winn	1916	only	-	Apr	23	0:00	1:00	D
1815Rule	Winn	1916	only	-	Sep	17	0:00	0	S
1816Rule	Winn	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1817Rule	Winn	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1818Rule	Winn	1937	only	-	May	16	2:00	1:00	D
1819Rule	Winn	1937	only	-	Sep	26	2:00	0	S
1820Rule	Winn	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1821Rule	Winn	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1822Rule	Winn	1945	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1823Rule	Winn	1946	only	-	May	12	2:00	1:00	D
1824Rule	Winn	1946	only	-	Oct	13	2:00	0	S
1825Rule	Winn	1947	1949	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1826Rule	Winn	1947	1949	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1827Rule	Winn	1950	only	-	May	 1	2:00	1:00	D
1828Rule	Winn	1950	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
1829Rule	Winn	1951	1960	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1830Rule	Winn	1951	1958	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1831Rule	Winn	1959	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1832Rule	Winn	1960	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1833Rule	Winn	1963	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1834Rule	Winn	1963	only	-	Sep	22	2:00	0	S
1835Rule	Winn	1966	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1836Rule	Winn	1966	2005	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1837Rule	Winn	1987	2005	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1838# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1839Zone America/Winnipeg	-6:28:36 -	LMT	1887 Jul 16
1840			-6:00	Winn	C%sT	2006
1841			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
1842
1843
1844# Saskatchewan
1845
1846# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1847# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal
1848# level.  As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people
1849# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight,
1850# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook."
1851# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned:
1852# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of
1853# the summer".  The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad
1854# time was noted.
1855
1856# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1857# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the
1858# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year."
1859
1860# From Paul Eggert (2019-04-26):
1861# Chris Pearce's book "The Great Daylight Saving Time Controversy" (2017)
1862# says that Regina observed DST in 1914-1917.  No dates and times,
1863# unfortunately.  It also says that in 1914 Saskatoon observed DST
1864# from 1 June to 6 July, and that DST was also tried out in Davidson,
1865# Melfort, and Prince Albert.
1866
1867# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1868# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina.
1869# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972.
1870# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton.
1871# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton
1872# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law.
1873
1874# From W. Jones (1992-11-06):
1875# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the
1876# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department.
1877# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and
1878# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother.
1879#
1880# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years
1881# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated
1882# their affiliations in one direction or the other.  In 1965 a provincial
1883# referendum favoured legislating common time practices.
1884#
1885# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of
1886# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern
1887# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in
1888# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to
1889# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and
1890# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would
1891# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST.
1892#
1893# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town
1894# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to
1895# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only
1896# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT
1897# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round
1898# since sometime in the 1960s.
1899
1900# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26):
1901# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages
1902# long and rather painful to read.
1903# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf
1904
1905# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1906Rule	Regina	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1907Rule	Regina	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1908Rule	Regina	1930	1934	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1909Rule	Regina	1930	1934	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
1910Rule	Regina	1937	1941	-	Apr	Sun>=8	0:00	1:00	D
1911Rule	Regina	1937	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
1912Rule	Regina	1938	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
1913Rule	Regina	1939	1941	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
1914Rule	Regina	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1915Rule	Regina	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1916Rule	Regina	1945	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1917Rule	Regina	1946	only	-	Apr	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1918Rule	Regina	1946	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00	0	S
1919Rule	Regina	1947	1957	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1920Rule	Regina	1947	1957	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1921Rule	Regina	1959	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1922Rule	Regina	1959	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1923#
1924Rule	Swift	1957	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1925Rule	Swift	1957	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1926Rule	Swift	1959	1961	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1927Rule	Swift	1959	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1928Rule	Swift	1960	1961	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1929# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1930Zone America/Regina	-6:58:36 -	LMT	1905 Sep
1931			-7:00	Regina	M%sT	1960 Apr lastSun  2:00
1932			-6:00	-	CST
1933Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 -	LMT	1905 Sep
1934			-7:00	Canada	M%sT	1946 Apr lastSun  2:00
1935			-7:00	Regina	M%sT	1950
1936			-7:00	Swift	M%sT	1972 Apr lastSun  2:00
1937			-6:00	-	CST
1938
1939
1940# Alberta
1941
1942# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1943Rule	Edm	1918	1919	-	Apr	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1944Rule	Edm	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1945Rule	Edm	1919	only	-	May	27	2:00	0	S
1946Rule	Edm	1920	1923	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1947Rule	Edm	1920	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1948Rule	Edm	1921	1923	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1949Rule	Edm	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1950Rule	Edm	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1951Rule	Edm	1945	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1952Rule	Edm	1947	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1953Rule	Edm	1947	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1954Rule	Edm	1967	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1955Rule	Edm	1967	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1956Rule	Edm	1969	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1957Rule	Edm	1969	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1958Rule	Edm	1972	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1959Rule	Edm	1972	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1960# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1961Zone America/Edmonton	-7:33:52 -	LMT	1906 Sep
1962			-7:00	Edm	M%sT	1987
1963			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
1964
1965
1966# British Columbia
1967
1968# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1969# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has
1970# been like Vancouver.
1971# Dawson Creek uses MST.  Much of east BC is like Edmonton.
1972# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek.
1973
1974# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct:
1975
1976# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01):
1977# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia
1978# that do not currently observe daylight saving:
1979# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area)
1980# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District
1981# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John)
1982
1983# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time
1984# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the
1985# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009.
1986# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260
1987# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918.
1988# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UT-7 for 93 years.
1989# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972.
1990
1991# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains
1992# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain.  I e-mailed Tammy a few months
1993# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess.  She said it was just
1994# as plausible as any other date (in June).  She also said that after writing
1995# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the
1996# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010.
1997# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56
1998
1999# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history:
2000# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7)
2001# Exact date unknown
2002# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8)
2003# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess.
2004# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7)
2005# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess.
2006# note 1:
2007# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada,
2008# Creston did not change its clocks.
2009# note 2:
2010# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change,
2011# Creston did not oblige.
2012# note 3:
2013# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time
2014# (UTC-7) forever.
2015# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council.
2016# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html
2017
2018# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada.
2019# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying
2020# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before
2021# the change.  It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this
2022# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough
2023# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules.
2024
2025# The transition dates (and times) are guesses.
2026
2027# From Matt Johnson (2015-09-21):
2028# Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year.  So while previously they
2029# were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with
2030# America/Dawson_Creek.
2031# http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html
2032#
2033# From Tim Parenti (2015-09-23):
2034# This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality,
2035# America/Fort_Nelson.  The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a
2036# 2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support.  Effectively, the municipality has
2037# been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on
2038# 2015-03-08.
2039#
2040# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23):
2041# Shanks says Fort Nelson did not observe DST in 1946, unlike Vancouver.
2042
2043# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2044Rule	Vanc	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
2045Rule	Vanc	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
2046Rule	Vanc	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
2047Rule	Vanc	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
2048Rule	Vanc	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
2049Rule	Vanc	1946	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2050Rule	Vanc	1946	only	-	Oct	13	2:00	0	S
2051Rule	Vanc	1947	1961	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2052Rule	Vanc	1962	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2053# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2054Zone America/Vancouver	-8:12:28 -	LMT	1884
2055			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1987
2056			-8:00	Canada	P%sT
2057Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 -	LMT	1884
2058			-8:00	Canada	P%sT	1947
2059			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1972 Aug 30  2:00
2060			-7:00	-	MST
2061Zone America/Fort_Nelson	-8:10:47 -	LMT	1884
2062			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1946
2063			-8:00	-	PST	1947
2064			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1987
2065			-8:00	Canada	P%sT	2015 Mar  8  2:00
2066			-7:00	-	MST
2067Zone America/Creston	-7:46:04 -	LMT	1884
2068			-7:00	-	MST	1916 Oct 1
2069			-8:00	-	PST	1918 Jun 2
2070			-7:00	-	MST
2071
2072# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon
2073
2074# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2075# Dawson switched to PST in 1973.  Inuvik switched to MST in 1979.
2076# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs:
2077#	* 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68,
2078#	c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9....
2079#	see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1).
2080#	[https://www.canlii.org/en/ca/laws/stat/rsc-1985-c-i-21/latest/rsc-1985-c-i-21.html]
2081#	* C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00.
2082#	* O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST.
2083#	* O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00.
2084
2085# From Brian Inglis (2015-04-14):
2086#
2087# I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following
2088# regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name,
2089# and relevant quote if available.  Each regulation specifically revokes its
2090# predecessor.  The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act
2091# authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes.
2092#
2093# Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or
2094# index, and only some via Canadian legal sources.  Other sources used include
2095# articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS
2096# Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and
2097# 1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial
2098# and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of
2099# standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada,
2100# with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset,
2101# and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart
2102# and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as
2103# another source of information for 1970 and earlier.
2104#
2105# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26,
2106#   pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
2107#   http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75:
2108#   Yukon Interpretation Ordinance
2109#   Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and
2110#   thirty-fifth meridian.
2111#
2112# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.;
2113#   JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
2114#   (ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1:
2115#   Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16.
2116#
2117#     (1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine
2118#     hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time.
2119#
2120#     (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations
2121#     varying the manner of reckoning standard time.
2122#
2123# * Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance
2124#   [no online source found]
2125#
2126# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC,
2127#   Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
2128#   http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon
2129#   Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ...
2130#
2131#     1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon
2132#     Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked.
2133#
2134#     2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the
2135#     Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May,
2136#     1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that
2137#     is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon
2138#     Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west.
2139#
2140#     3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree
2141#     longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine
2142#     hours behind Greenwich Time.
2143#
2144# * Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214
2145#   https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html
2146#   C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ...
2147#
2148#     1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby
2149#     revoked.
2150#
2151#     2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation
2152#     Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973
2153#     shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is
2154#     to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time.
2155#
2156# * O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT
2157#   [no online source found]
2158#
2159# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56
2160#   https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html
2161#   O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ...
2162#
2163#   In every year between
2164#     (a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and
2165#     (b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October,
2166#   Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and
2167#   called Yukon Daylight Saving Time.
2168#   ...
2169#   Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987.
2170#
2171# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127
2172#   https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html
2173#   O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ...
2174#
2175#     1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours
2176#     behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock
2177#     in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock
2178#     in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called
2179#     Yukon Daylight Saving Time.
2180#
2181#     2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked.
2182#
2183#     3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007.
2184#
2185# * Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125
2186# https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html
2187
2188# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04):
2189# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone.
2190# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31
2191# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html
2192#
2193# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06):
2194# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut
2195# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region.
2196
2197# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
2198# Basic Facts: The New Territory
2199# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html
2200# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time,
2201# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST.  We don't know when
2202# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995.
2203
2204# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
2205# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time,
2206# Pangnirtung wobbled.  Here is the result of their wobble:
2207#
2208# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time:
2209#
2210#	First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP,
2211#	Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist
2212#
2213# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time:
2214#
2215#	Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator
2216#
2217# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news.
2218# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to
2219# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not
2220# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally.
2221# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart,
2222# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long.
2223# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to
2224# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with
2225# the current state of affairs.
2226
2227# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the
2228# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19):
2229# http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html
2230# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones,
2231# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time
2232# for municipal offices and schools....  Igloolik [was similar but then]
2233# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6.
2234
2235# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
2236# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories
2237# for these potential new Zones.
2238#
2239# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the
2240# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central
2241# zone] skip daylight savings.  Baffin Island, which is crossed by the
2242# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time.
2243# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of
2244# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not
2245# required to use daylight savings.
2246
2247# From <http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html>
2248# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10):
2249# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and
2250# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them
2251# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter.
2252# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against
2253# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with
2254# the rest of the territory for the winter.  Cambridge Bay remained on
2255# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to
2256# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's
2257# unified time zone in 1999.
2258#
2259# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government:
2260# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000.
2261
2262# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
2263# Let's just keep track of the official times for now.
2264
2265# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07):
2266# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising
2267# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert
2268# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern).  Of the
2269# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that
2270# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round.  I'm
2271# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with
2272# more.
2273# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).]
2274
2275# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21):
2276# According to ...
2277# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp
2278# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time
2279# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year
2280# round.  Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this.
2281# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it
2282# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years....
2283# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used.
2284#
2285# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-17):
2286# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed
2287# daylight saving only during wartime.  Gwillim Law's email also
2288# mentioned maps now maintained by National Research Council Canada;
2289# see above for an up-to-date link.
2290
2291# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01):
2292# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in
2293# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November.
2294# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of
2295# daylight saving....
2296# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html
2297
2298# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21):
2299# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute
2300# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of
2301# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had
2302# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007.
2303#
2304# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay
2305# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008...
2306#
2307# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March
2308# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I
2309# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able
2310# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was
2311# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone
2312# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT).
2313# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks
2314# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in
2315# so they could follow the correct TV schedule...
2316#
2317# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I
2318# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature
2319# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of
2320# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of
2321# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for
2322# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived
2323# and worked in Resolute Bay...
2324#
2325# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that
2326# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of
2327# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead
2328# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay
2329# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not
2330# tell me when the practice had stopped.
2331#
2332# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of
2333# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went
2334# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz
2335# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the
2336# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on
2337# Aziz:
2338# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493
2339#
2340# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using
2341# Eastern Standard Time.
2342#
2343# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the
2344# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way
2345# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in
2346# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs"
2347#
2348# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008.
2349#
2350# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz
2351# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You
2352# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a
2353# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site"
2354#
2355# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would
2356# never have contacted her.  I now believe that all the information I
2357# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored...
2358# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008.
2359
2360# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2361Rule	NT_YK	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
2362Rule	NT_YK	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
2363Rule	NT_YK	1919	only	-	May	25	2:00	1:00	D
2364Rule	NT_YK	1919	only	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	S
2365Rule	NT_YK	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
2366Rule	NT_YK	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
2367Rule	NT_YK	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
2368Rule	NT_YK	1965	only	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	2:00	DD
2369Rule	NT_YK	1965	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2370Rule	NT_YK	1980	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2371Rule	NT_YK	1980	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2372Rule	NT_YK	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2373# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2374# aka Panniqtuuq
2375Zone America/Pangnirtung 0	-	-00	1921 # trading post est.
2376			-4:00	NT_YK	A%sT	1995 Apr Sun>=1  2:00
2377			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1999 Oct 31  2:00
2378			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2379			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
2380# formerly Frobisher Bay
2381Zone America/Iqaluit	0	-	-00	1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est.
2382			-5:00	NT_YK	E%sT	1999 Oct 31  2:00
2383			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2384			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
2385# aka Qausuittuq
2386Zone America/Resolute	0	-	-00	1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded
2387			-6:00	NT_YK	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2388			-5:00	-	EST	2001 Apr  1  3:00
2389			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2006 Oct 29  2:00
2390			-5:00	-	EST	2007 Mar 11  3:00
2391			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
2392# aka Kangiqiniq
2393Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0	-	-00	1957 # Rankin Inlet founded
2394			-6:00	NT_YK	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2395			-5:00	-	EST	2001 Apr  1  3:00
2396			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
2397# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq
2398Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0	-	-00	1920 # trading post est.?
2399			-7:00	NT_YK	M%sT	1999 Oct 31  2:00
2400			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
2401			-5:00	-	EST	2000 Nov  5  0:00
2402			-6:00	-	CST	2001 Apr  1  3:00
2403			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2404Zone America/Yellowknife 0	-	-00	1935 # Yellowknife founded?
2405			-7:00	NT_YK	M%sT	1980
2406			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2407Zone America/Inuvik	0	-	-00	1953 # Inuvik founded
2408			-8:00	NT_YK	P%sT	1979 Apr lastSun  2:00
2409			-7:00	NT_YK	M%sT	1980
2410			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2411Zone America/Whitehorse	-9:00:12 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20
2412			-9:00	NT_YK	Y%sT	1967 May 28  0:00
2413			-8:00	NT_YK	P%sT	1980
2414			-8:00	Canada	P%sT
2415Zone America/Dawson	-9:17:40 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20
2416			-9:00	NT_YK	Y%sT	1973 Oct 28  0:00
2417			-8:00	NT_YK	P%sT	1980
2418			-8:00	Canada	P%sT
2419
2420
2421###############################################################################
2422
2423# Mexico
2424
2425# From Paul Eggert (2014-12-07):
2426# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the
2427# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a
2428# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish)
2429# http://www.diputados.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/index.htm
2430#
2431# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC.
2432# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.)
2433# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923.
2434# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16.
2435# S&P report no DST during summer 1931.
2436# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01.
2437
2438# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20):
2439# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the
2440# tz database.  I think they can best be explained by supposing that
2441# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of
2442# the relevant documents.
2443
2444# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15):
2445# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree
2446# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico.
2447#
2448# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
2449#
2450# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the
2451# rules for the DST changes. The rules are:
2452#
2453# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones:
2454#    - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ)
2455#    - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ)
2456#    - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ)
2457#
2458# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October
2459#    at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows:
2460#    BajaNorte: GMT+7
2461#    BajaSur:   GMT+6
2462#    General:   GMT+5
2463#
2464# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows:
2465#    BajaNorte: GMT+8
2466#    BajaSur:   GMT+7
2467#    General:   GMT+6
2468#
2469# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th.
2470#
2471# -------------- End Forwarded Message --------------
2472# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
2473# For an English translation of the decree, see
2474# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04).
2475# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html
2476
2477# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
2478# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times
2479# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02).
2480
2481# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
2482# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time
2483# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight
2484# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of
2485# Arizona year round.
2486
2487# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating
2488# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17):
2489# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National
2490# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each
2491# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the
2492# whole year.
2493
2494# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19):
2495# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says
2496# (translated):...
2497# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced
2498# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting
2499# this year....
2500# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001
2501# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday
2502# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September.
2503
2504# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25):
2505# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one
2506# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."...
2507# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html
2508# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep
2509# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than
2510# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish
2511# observation of Daylight Saving Time.
2512
2513# Official statute published by the Energy Department
2514# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre
2515# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules,
2516# and Sonora with no DST.  This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03).
2517
2518# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03):
2519#
2520# https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-mar-03-mn-32561-story.html
2521# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times
2522# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time.
2523# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that
2524#   the Federal District will not adopt DST.
2525# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree.
2526# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including
2527#   the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools.
2528#
2529# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules.
2530
2531# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01):
2532# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight
2533# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier
2534# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight
2535# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California
2536# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight
2537# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president
2538# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending
2539# September 30, 2001.
2540# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp>
2541# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31)
2542
2543# From Reuters (2001-09-04):
2544# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was
2545# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the
2546# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation
2547# next year....  The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00
2548# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to
2549# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not
2550# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said.
2551
2552# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12):
2553# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted
2554# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico....
2555# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20)
2556# confirms this.  Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied.
2557
2558# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28):
2559#
2560# Steffen Thorsen wrote:
2561# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern
2562# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as
2563# > the United States.
2564# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from
2565# 2010, some border regions will be the same:
2566# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/
2567# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939
2568# (Spanish)
2569#
2570# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here:
2571# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf
2572# (Gaceta Parlamentaria)
2573#
2574# There is also a list of the votes here:
2575# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html
2576#
2577# Our page:
2578# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html
2579
2580# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20):
2581# The page
2582# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010
2583# includes this text:
2584# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California;
2585# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila;
2586# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en
2587# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto
2588# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos
2589# horas del primer domingo de noviembre.
2590# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja
2591# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea
2592# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte
2593# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el
2594# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá
2595# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a
2596# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre.
2597
2598# From Steffen Thorsen (2014-12-08), translated by Gwillim Law:
2599# The Mexican state of Quintana Roo will likely change to EST in 2015.
2600#
2601# http://www.unioncancun.mx/articulo/2014/12/04/medio-ambiente/congreso-aprueba-una-hora-mas-de-sol-en-qroo
2602# "With this change, the time conflict that has existed between the municipios
2603# of Quintana Roo and the municipio of Felipe Carrillo Puerto may come to an
2604# end. The latter declared itself in rebellion 15 years ago when a time change
2605# was initiated in Mexico, and since then it has refused to change its time
2606# zone along with the rest of the country."
2607#
2608# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-01-14), translated by Gwillim Law:
2609# http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva-zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html
2610# "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday
2611# of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current
2612# time..."
2613# Also, the new zone will not use DST.
2614#
2615# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02):
2616# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally
2617# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación
2618# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015
2619# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico:
2620# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W,
2621#    includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below.
2622# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the
2623#    states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía
2624#    de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora.
2625# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the
2626#    state of Baja California.
2627# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state
2628#    of Quintana Roo.
2629# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the
2630#    longitude they are located at.
2631
2632# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2633Rule	Mexico	1939	only	-	Feb	5	0:00	1:00	D
2634Rule	Mexico	1939	only	-	Jun	25	0:00	0	S
2635Rule	Mexico	1940	only	-	Dec	9	0:00	1:00	D
2636Rule	Mexico	1941	only	-	Apr	1	0:00	0	S
2637Rule	Mexico	1943	only	-	Dec	16	0:00	1:00	W # War
2638Rule	Mexico	1944	only	-	May	1	0:00	0	S
2639Rule	Mexico	1950	only	-	Feb	12	0:00	1:00	D
2640Rule	Mexico	1950	only	-	Jul	30	0:00	0	S
2641Rule	Mexico	1996	2000	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2642Rule	Mexico	1996	2000	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2643Rule	Mexico	2001	only	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2644Rule	Mexico	2001	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2645Rule	Mexico	2002	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2646Rule	Mexico	2002	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2647# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2648# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún
2649Zone America/Cancun	-5:47:04 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:12:56
2650			-6:00	-	CST	1981 Dec 23
2651			-5:00	Mexico	E%sT	1998 Aug  2  2:00
2652			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	2015 Feb  1  2:00
2653			-5:00	-	EST
2654# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida
2655Zone America/Merida	-5:58:28 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:01:32
2656			-6:00	-	CST	1981 Dec 23
2657			-5:00	-	EST	1982 Dec  2
2658			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2659# Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border)
2660# This includes the following municipalities:
2661#   in Coahuila: Ocampo, Acuña, Zaragoza, Jiménez, Piedras Negras, Nava,
2662#     Guerrero, Hidalgo.
2663#   in Nuevo León: Anáhuac, Los Aldama.
2664#   in Tamaulipas: Nuevo Laredo, Guerrero, Mier, Miguel Alemán, Camargo,
2665#     Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Reynosa, Río Bravo, Valle Hermoso, Matamoros.
2666# See: Inicia mañana Horario de Verano en zona fronteriza, El Universal,
2667# 2016-03-12
2668# http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/articulo/estados/2016/03/12/inicia-manana-horario-de-verano-en-zona-fronteriza
2669Zone America/Matamoros	-6:40:00 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:20:00
2670			-6:00	-	CST	1988
2671			-6:00	US	C%sT	1989
2672			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	2010
2673			-6:00	US	C%sT
2674# Durango; Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border)
2675Zone America/Monterrey	-6:41:16 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:18:44
2676			-6:00	-	CST	1988
2677			-6:00	US	C%sT	1989
2678			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2679# Central Mexico
2680Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:23:24
2681			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2682			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2683			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2684			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2685			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2686			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	2001 Sep 30  2:00
2687			-6:00	-	CST	2002 Feb 20
2688			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2689# Chihuahua (near US border)
2690# This includes the municipalities of Janos, Ascensión, Juárez, Guadalupe,
2691# Práxedis G Guerrero, Coyame del Sotol, Ojinaga, and Manuel Benavides.
2692# (See the 2016-03-12 El Universal source mentioned above.)
2693Zone America/Ojinaga	-6:57:40 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:02:20
2694			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2695			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2696			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2697			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2698			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2699			-6:00	-	CST	1996
2700			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	1998
2701			-6:00	-	CST	1998 Apr Sun>=1  3:00
2702			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT	2010
2703			-7:00	US	M%sT
2704# Chihuahua (away from US border)
2705Zone America/Chihuahua	-7:04:20 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:55:40
2706			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2707			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2708			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2709			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2710			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2711			-6:00	-	CST	1996
2712			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	1998
2713			-6:00	-	CST	1998 Apr Sun>=1  3:00
2714			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT
2715# Sonora
2716Zone America/Hermosillo	-7:23:52 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:36:08
2717			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2718			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2719			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2720			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2721			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2722			-6:00	-	CST	1942 Apr 24
2723			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
2724			-8:00	-	PST	1970
2725			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT	1999
2726			-7:00	-	MST
2727
2728# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21):
2729# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit)
2730# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to
2731# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco).
2732#
2733# (Spanish)
2734# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del
2735# país, a partir de este domingo
2736# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748
2737#
2738# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del
2739# País
2740# 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
2741#
2742# (English)
2743# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone
2744# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml
2745# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html
2746#
2747# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that
2748# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time
2749# zone ..."
2750# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa
2751
2752# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01):
2753# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters.
2754
2755# Mazatlán
2756Zone America/Mazatlan	-7:05:40 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:54:20
2757			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2758			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2759			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2760			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2761			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2762			-6:00	-	CST	1942 Apr 24
2763			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
2764			-8:00	-	PST	1970
2765			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT
2766
2767# Bahía de Banderas
2768Zone America/Bahia_Banderas	-7:01:00 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:59:00
2769			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2770			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2771			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2772			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2773			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2774			-6:00	-	CST	1942 Apr 24
2775			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
2776			-8:00	-	PST	1970
2777			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT	2010 Apr  4  2:00
2778			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2779
2780# Baja California
2781Zone America/Tijuana	-7:48:04 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:11:56
2782			-7:00	-	MST	1924
2783			-8:00	-	PST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2784			-7:00	-	MST	1930 Nov 15
2785			-8:00	-	PST	1931 Apr  1
2786			-8:00	1:00	PDT	1931 Sep 30
2787			-8:00	-	PST	1942 Apr 24
2788			-8:00	1:00	PWT	1945 Aug 14 23:00u
2789			-8:00	1:00	PPT	1945 Nov 12 # Peace
2790			-8:00	-	PST	1948 Apr  5
2791			-8:00	1:00	PDT	1949 Jan 14
2792			-8:00	-	PST	1954
2793			-8:00	CA	P%sT	1961
2794			-8:00	-	PST	1976
2795			-8:00	US	P%sT	1996
2796			-8:00	Mexico	P%sT	2001
2797			-8:00	US	P%sT	2002 Feb 20
2798			-8:00	Mexico	P%sT	2010
2799			-8:00	US	P%sT
2800# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2801# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from
2802# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976
2803# through 1995.  This was as per Shanks (1999).  But Shanks & Pottenger say
2804# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975.  Guy Harris reports
2805# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and
2806# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that
2807# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then.  This concerns
2808# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone
2809# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its
2810# name or contents should be.
2811#
2812# From Paul Eggert (2015-10-08):
2813# Formerly there was an America/Santa_Isabel zone, but this appears to
2814# have come from a misreading of
2815# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010
2816# It has been moved to the 'backward' file.
2817#
2818#
2819# Revillagigedo Is
2820# no information
2821
2822###############################################################################
2823
2824# Anguilla
2825# Antigua and Barbuda
2826# See America/Port_of_Spain.
2827
2828# Bahamas
2829#
2830# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that.
2831#
2832# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07):
2833# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST
2834# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007....
2835# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412
2836
2837# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2838Rule	Bahamas	1964	1975	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2839Rule	Bahamas	1964	1975	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2840# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2841Zone	America/Nassau	-5:09:30 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
2842			-5:00	Bahamas	E%sT	1976
2843			-5:00	US	E%sT
2844
2845# Barbados
2846
2847# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that.
2848
2849# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2850Rule	Barb	1977	only	-	Jun	12	2:00	1:00	D
2851Rule	Barb	1977	1978	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
2852Rule	Barb	1978	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=15	2:00	1:00	D
2853Rule	Barb	1979	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
2854Rule	Barb	1980	only	-	Sep	25	2:00	0	S
2855# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2856Zone America/Barbados	-3:58:29 -	LMT	1924 # Bridgetown
2857			-3:58:29 -	BMT	1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time
2858			-4:00	Barb	A%sT
2859
2860# Belize
2861# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
2862# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2863Rule	Belize	1918	1942	-	Oct	Sun>=2	0:00	0:30	-0530
2864Rule	Belize	1919	1943	-	Feb	Sun>=9	0:00	0	CST
2865Rule	Belize	1973	only	-	Dec	 5	0:00	1:00	CDT
2866Rule	Belize	1974	only	-	Feb	 9	0:00	0	CST
2867Rule	Belize	1982	only	-	Dec	18	0:00	1:00	CDT
2868Rule	Belize	1983	only	-	Feb	12	0:00	0	CST
2869# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2870Zone	America/Belize	-5:52:48 -	LMT	1912 Apr
2871			-6:00	Belize	%s
2872
2873# Bermuda
2874
2875# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower,
2876# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that.
2877
2878# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26):
2879
2880# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday
2881# in March, until the first Sunday in November.  And, after the Time Zone
2882# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on
2883# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda.
2884# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135
2885
2886# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2887Zone Atlantic/Bermuda	-4:19:18 -	LMT	1930 Jan  1  2:00 # Hamilton
2888			-4:00	-	AST	1974 Apr 28  2:00
2889			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1976
2890			-4:00	US	A%sT
2891
2892# Cayman Is
2893# See America/Panama.
2894
2895# Costa Rica
2896
2897# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest.
2898
2899# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2900Rule	CR	1979	1980	-	Feb	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
2901Rule	CR	1979	1980	-	Jun	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
2902Rule	CR	1991	1992	-	Jan	Sat>=15	0:00	1:00	D
2903# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00;
2904# go with Shanks & Pottenger.
2905Rule	CR	1991	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	0	S
2906Rule	CR	1992	only	-	Mar	15	0:00	0	S
2907# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'.
2908# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2909Zone America/Costa_Rica	-5:36:13 -	LMT	1890        # San José
2910			-5:36:13 -	SJMT	1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time
2911			-6:00	CR	C%sT
2912# Coco
2913# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica
2914
2915# Cuba
2916
2917# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
2918# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57
2919# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations.
2920# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger.
2921
2922# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29):
2923# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between
2924# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on
2925# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC.
2926# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that
2927# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving
2928# Time today."  (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of
2929# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched
2930# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have
2931# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.)
2932
2933# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11):
2934# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the
2935# years before.  The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ...
2936# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html
2937
2938# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28):
2939# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year.
2940# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2941# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html
2942# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras
2943# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return
2944# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)".
2945# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure.
2946
2947# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12):
2948# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone
2949# adjustment in Cuba.  We will stay in daylight saving time:
2950# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html
2951
2952# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21):
2953# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end
2954# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see
2955# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html
2956# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00,
2957# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning
2958# to the normal schedule....
2959
2960# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02):
2961# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday,
2962# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10.
2963# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules,
2964# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual.
2965#
2966# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25):
2967# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week
2968# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006.
2969#
2970# He supplied these references:
2971#
2972# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES
2973# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm
2974#
2975# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25):
2976# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba):
2977#
2978# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre
2979# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html
2980#
2981# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html
2982
2983# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09):
2984# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight
2985# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to
2986# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj
2987# a Cuban information station, and heard
2988# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"),
2989# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time.
2990
2991# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12):
2992# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16...
2993# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish):
2994# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm
2995#
2996# Some more background information is posted here:
2997# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html
2998#
2999# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963,
3000# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the
3001# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been
3002# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception
3003# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to
3004# change some historic records as well.
3005#
3006# One example:
3007# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm
3008
3009# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13):
3010# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative
3011# web site, the Granma.  Please check out
3012# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html
3013#
3014# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change
3015# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday.
3016
3017# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12):
3018# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward.
3019
3020# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04)
3021# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on
3022# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009-
3023# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought.
3024#
3025# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html
3026# (in Spanish)
3027
3028# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09)
3029# I listened over the Internet to
3030# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj
3031# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the
3032# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating
3033# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward.
3034
3035# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08):
3036# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00
3037# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has
3038# changed at all).
3039#
3040# Source:
3041# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html
3042#
3043# Our info:
3044# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html
3045#
3046# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30)
3047# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back
3048# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00.
3049#
3050# One source (Spanish)
3051# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html
3052#
3053# Our page:
3054# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html
3055#
3056# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01)
3057# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March
3058# 31 and April 1.
3059#
3060# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish):
3061# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril
3062#
3063# Our info on it:
3064# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html
3065
3066# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03):
3067# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back
3068# to standard time on 2012-11-04:
3069# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre
3070# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03):
3071# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November.
3072
3073# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3074Rule	Cuba	1928	only	-	Jun	10	0:00	1:00	D
3075Rule	Cuba	1928	only	-	Oct	10	0:00	0	S
3076Rule	Cuba	1940	1942	-	Jun	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3077Rule	Cuba	1940	1942	-	Sep	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
3078Rule	Cuba	1945	1946	-	Jun	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3079Rule	Cuba	1945	1946	-	Sep	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
3080Rule	Cuba	1965	only	-	Jun	1	0:00	1:00	D
3081Rule	Cuba	1965	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	S
3082Rule	Cuba	1966	only	-	May	29	0:00	1:00	D
3083Rule	Cuba	1966	only	-	Oct	2	0:00	0	S
3084Rule	Cuba	1967	only	-	Apr	8	0:00	1:00	D
3085Rule	Cuba	1967	1968	-	Sep	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
3086Rule	Cuba	1968	only	-	Apr	14	0:00	1:00	D
3087Rule	Cuba	1969	1977	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
3088Rule	Cuba	1969	1971	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3089Rule	Cuba	1972	1974	-	Oct	8	0:00	0	S
3090Rule	Cuba	1975	1977	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3091Rule	Cuba	1978	only	-	May	7	0:00	1:00	D
3092Rule	Cuba	1978	1990	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
3093Rule	Cuba	1979	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	D
3094Rule	Cuba	1981	1985	-	May	Sun>=5	0:00	1:00	D
3095Rule	Cuba	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=14	0:00	1:00	D
3096Rule	Cuba	1990	1997	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3097Rule	Cuba	1991	1995	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00s	0	S
3098Rule	Cuba	1996	only	-	Oct	 6	0:00s	0	S
3099Rule	Cuba	1997	only	-	Oct	12	0:00s	0	S
3100Rule	Cuba	1998	1999	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00s	1:00	D
3101Rule	Cuba	1998	2003	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00s	0	S
3102Rule	Cuba	2000	2003	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00s	1:00	D
3103Rule	Cuba	2004	only	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00s	1:00	D
3104Rule	Cuba	2006	2010	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00s	0	S
3105Rule	Cuba	2007	only	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00s	1:00	D
3106Rule	Cuba	2008	only	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00s	1:00	D
3107Rule	Cuba	2009	2010	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00s	1:00	D
3108Rule	Cuba	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00s	1:00	D
3109Rule	Cuba	2011	only	-	Nov	13	0:00s	0	S
3110Rule	Cuba	2012	only	-	Apr	1	0:00s	1:00	D
3111Rule	Cuba	2012	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	0:00s	0	S
3112Rule	Cuba	2013	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00s	1:00	D
3113
3114# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3115Zone	America/Havana	-5:29:28 -	LMT	1890
3116			-5:29:36 -	HMT	1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT
3117			-5:00	Cuba	C%sT
3118
3119# Dominica
3120# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3121
3122# Dominican Republic
3123
3124# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30):
3125# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the
3126# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am....
3127# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html
3128
3129# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
3130# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST.
3131
3132# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
3133# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday,
3134# November 28, 2000, with a new decree.  On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the
3135# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date
3136# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future.  The reason they
3137# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going
3138# to implement DST.  When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president
3139# decided to revert.
3140
3141
3142# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3143Rule	DR	1966	only	-	Oct	30	0:00	1:00	EDT
3144Rule	DR	1967	only	-	Feb	28	0:00	0	EST
3145Rule	DR	1969	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	-0430
3146Rule	DR	1970	only	-	Feb	21	0:00	0	EST
3147Rule	DR	1971	only	-	Jan	20	0:00	0	EST
3148Rule	DR	1972	1974	-	Jan	21	0:00	0	EST
3149# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3150Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 -	LMT	1890
3151			-4:40	-	SDMT	1933 Apr  1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT
3152			-5:00	DR	%s	1974 Oct 27
3153			-4:00	-	AST	2000 Oct 29  2:00
3154			-5:00	US	E%sT	2000 Dec  3  1:00
3155			-4:00	-	AST
3156
3157# El Salvador
3158
3159# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3160Rule	Salv	1987	1988	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3161Rule	Salv	1987	1988	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3162# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador
3163# instead of America/San_Salvador.
3164# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3165Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 -	LMT	1921 # San Salvador
3166			-6:00	Salv	C%sT
3167
3168# Grenada
3169# Guadeloupe
3170# St Barthélemy
3171# St Martin (French part)
3172# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3173
3174# Guatemala
3175#
3176# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen:
3177# Diario Co Latino, at
3178# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>,
3179# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had
3180# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the
3181# impact of the elevated cost of oil....  Daylight saving time will last from
3182# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified).
3183# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22):
3184# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006
3185# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00.  See
3186# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf
3187
3188# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3189Rule	Guat	1973	only	-	Nov	25	0:00	1:00	D
3190Rule	Guat	1974	only	-	Feb	24	0:00	0	S
3191Rule	Guat	1983	only	-	May	21	0:00	1:00	D
3192Rule	Guat	1983	only	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
3193Rule	Guat	1991	only	-	Mar	23	0:00	1:00	D
3194Rule	Guat	1991	only	-	Sep	 7	0:00	0	S
3195Rule	Guat	2006	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
3196Rule	Guat	2006	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	S
3197# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3198Zone America/Guatemala	-6:02:04 -	LMT	1918 Oct 5
3199			-6:00	Guat	C%sT
3200
3201# Haiti
3202# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15):
3203# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST.
3204# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release
3205# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31),
3206# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>.  Translated from French, it says:
3207#
3208#  "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general
3209#   and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior
3210#   Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the
3211#   provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next
3212#   Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd.
3213#
3214#  "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform
3215#   the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour
3216#   starting at midnight.  This provision will hold until the last Saturday in
3217#   October 2005.
3218#
3219#  "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005"
3220#
3221# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04):
3222# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like
3223# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a
3224# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST
3225# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year).
3226#
3227# I have found this article about it (in French):
3228# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612
3229#
3230# The reason seems to be an energy crisis.
3231
3232# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22):
3233# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007.
3234
3235# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11):
3236# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year,
3237# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada.
3238# So this means they have already changed their time.
3239#
3240# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510
3241# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253
3242#
3243# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11):
3244# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to
3245# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight.
3246# Assume a US-style fall back as well.
3247
3248# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10):
3249# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules
3250# as US/Canada.  They did it last year as well, and it looks like they
3251# are going to observe DST every year now...
3252#
3253# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/
3254# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714
3255
3256# From Steffen Thorsen (2016-03-12):
3257# Jean Antoine, editor of www.haiti-reference.com informed us that Haiti
3258# are not going on DST this year.  Several other resources confirm this: ...
3259# https://www.radiotelevisioncaraibes.com/presse/heure_d_t_pas_de_changement_d_heure_pr_vu_pour_cet_ann_e.html
3260# https://www.vantbefinfo.com/changement-dheure-pas-pour-haiti/
3261# http://news.anmwe.com/haiti-lheure-nationale-ne-sera-ni-avancee-ni-reculee-cette-annee/
3262
3263# From Steffen Thorsen (2017-03-12):
3264# We have received 4 mails from different people telling that Haiti
3265# has started DST again today, and this source seems to confirm that,
3266# I have not been able to find a more authoritative source:
3267# https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-20319-haiti-notices-time-change-in-haiti.html
3268
3269# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3270Rule	Haiti	1983	only	-	May	8	0:00	1:00	D
3271Rule	Haiti	1984	1987	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
3272Rule	Haiti	1983	1987	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3273# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s.
3274# Go with IATA.
3275Rule	Haiti	1988	1997	-	Apr	Sun>=1	1:00s	1:00	D
3276Rule	Haiti	1988	1997	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00s	0	S
3277Rule	Haiti	2005	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3278Rule	Haiti	2005	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3279Rule	Haiti	2012	2015	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
3280Rule	Haiti	2012	2015	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
3281Rule	Haiti	2017	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
3282Rule	Haiti	2017	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
3283# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3284Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 -	LMT	1890
3285			-4:49	-	PPMT	1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT
3286			-5:00	Haiti	E%sT
3287
3288# Honduras
3289# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1.
3290
3291# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05):
3292# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article
3293# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4
3294# months until September.  La Tribuna reported today
3295# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president
3296# of Honduras, refused to back down on this.
3297
3298# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08):
3299# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at
3300# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration).
3301# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html
3302
3303# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08):
3304# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08).
3305# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12
3306# It mentions executive decree 18-2006.
3307
3308# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17):
3309# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not
3310# published, I have located this authoritative source:
3311# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47
3312
3313# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30):
3314# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386
3315# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year....
3316
3317# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3318Rule	Hond	1987	1988	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3319Rule	Hond	1987	1988	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3320Rule	Hond	2006	only	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3321Rule	Hond	2006	only	-	Aug	Mon>=1	0:00	0	S
3322# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3323Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 -	LMT	1921 Apr
3324			-6:00	Hond	C%sT
3325#
3326# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972
3327
3328# Jamaica
3329# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an
3330# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the
3331# island".  Go with Milne.  Round to the nearest second as required by zic.
3332#
3333# Shanks & Pottenger give April 28 for the 1974 spring-forward transition, but
3334# Lance Neita writes that Prime Minister Michael Manley decreed it January 5.
3335# Assume Neita meant Jan 6 02:00, the same as the US.  Neita also writes that
3336# Manley's supporters associated this act with Manley's nickname "Joshua"
3337# (recall that in the Bible the sun stood still at Joshua's request),
3338# and with the Rod of Correction which Manley said he had received from
3339# Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia.  See:
3340# Neita L. The politician in all of us. Jamaica Observer 2014-09-20
3341# http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/The-politician-in-all-of-us_17573647
3342#
3343# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3344Zone	America/Jamaica	-5:07:10 -	LMT	1890        # Kingston
3345			-5:07:10 -	KMT	1912 Feb    # Kingston Mean Time
3346			-5:00	-	EST	1974
3347			-5:00	US	E%sT	1984
3348			-5:00	-	EST
3349
3350# Martinique
3351# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3352Zone America/Martinique	-4:04:20 -      LMT	1890        # Fort-de-France
3353			-4:04:20 -	FFMT	1911 May    # Fort-de-France MT
3354			-4:00	-	AST	1980 Apr  6
3355			-4:00	1:00	ADT	1980 Sep 28
3356			-4:00	-	AST
3357
3358# Montserrat
3359# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3360
3361# Nicaragua
3362#
3363# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005.
3364#
3365# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12):
3366# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started
3367# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of
3368# expensive petroleum.  The exact end date for DST is not yet
3369# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September".
3370# Some background information is available on the President's official site:
3371# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm
3372# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here:
3373# 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
3374#
3375# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01):
3376# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's
3377# assume that it is daylight saving....
3378#
3379# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21):
3380# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at
3381# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html
3382# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last
3383# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000
3384# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."...
3385# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously
3386# since December 1998.  I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time
3387# changes in 2000.  Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to
3388# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000.
3389#
3390# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02):
3391# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time).
3392# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm
3393# (2005-09-26)
3394#
3395# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05):
3396# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410
3397# (my informal translation)
3398# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua
3399# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the
3400# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September.
3401#
3402# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30):
3403# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf
3404# My informal translation runs:
3405# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the
3406# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006.
3407#
3408# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3409Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	D
3410Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Jun	Mon>=23	0:00	0	S
3411Rule	Nic	2005	only	-	Apr	10	0:00	1:00	D
3412Rule	Nic	2005	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
3413Rule	Nic	2006	only	-	Apr	30	2:00	1:00	D
3414Rule	Nic	2006	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	1:00	0	S
3415# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3416Zone	America/Managua	-5:45:08 -	LMT	1890
3417			-5:45:12 -	MMT	1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time?
3418			-6:00	-	CST	1973 May
3419			-5:00	-	EST	1975 Feb 16
3420			-6:00	Nic	C%sT	1992 Jan  1  4:00
3421			-5:00	-	EST	1992 Sep 24
3422			-6:00	-	CST	1993
3423			-5:00	-	EST	1997
3424			-6:00	Nic	C%sT
3425
3426# Panama
3427# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3428Zone	America/Panama	-5:18:08 -	LMT	1890
3429			-5:19:36 -	CMT	1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time
3430			-5:00	-	EST
3431Link America/Panama America/Cayman
3432
3433# Puerto Rico
3434# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'.
3435# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3436Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 -	LMT	1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan
3437			-4:00	-	AST	1942 May  3
3438			-4:00	US	A%sT	1946
3439			-4:00	-	AST
3440
3441# St Kitts-Nevis
3442# St Lucia
3443# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3444
3445# St Pierre and Miquelon
3446# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'.
3447# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3448Zone America/Miquelon	-3:44:40 -	LMT	1911 May 15 # St Pierre
3449			-4:00	-	AST	1980 May
3450			-3:00	-	-03	1987
3451			-3:00	Canada	-03/-02
3452
3453# St Vincent and the Grenadines
3454# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3455
3456# Turks and Caicos
3457#
3458# From Chris Dunn in
3459# https://bugs.debian.org/415007
3460# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the
3461# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match
3462# the recent U.S. change of dates.
3463#
3464# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28):
3465# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26]
3466# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three
3467# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct:
3468# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007
3469# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time"
3470# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed.
3471#
3472# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19):
3473# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UT -04 year-round.  See:
3474# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm
3475# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST ...
3476# From Chris Walton (2014-11-04):
3477# ... the TCI government appears to have delayed the switch to
3478# "permanent daylight saving time" by one year....
3479# http://tcweeklynews.com/time-change-to-go-ahead-this-november-p5437-127.htm
3480#
3481# From the Turks & Caicos Cabinet (2017-07-20), heads-up from Steffen Thorsen:
3482# ... agreed to the reintroduction in TCI of Daylight Saving Time (DST)
3483# during the summer months and Standard Time, also known as Local
3484# Time, during the winter months with effect from April 2018 ...
3485# https://www.gov.uk/government/news/turks-and-caicos-post-cabinet-meeting-statement--3
3486#
3487# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-26):
3488# The date of effect of the spring 2018 change appears to be March 11,
3489# which makes more sense.  See: Hamilton D. Time change back
3490# by March 2018 for TCI. Magnetic Media. 2017-08-25.
3491# http://magneticmediatv.com/2017/08/time-change-back-by-march-2018-for-tci/
3492#
3493# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3494Zone America/Grand_Turk	-4:44:32 -	LMT	1890
3495			-5:07:10 -	KMT	1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
3496			-5:00	-	EST	1979
3497			-5:00	US	E%sT	2015 Nov Sun>=1 2:00
3498			-4:00	-	AST	2018 Mar 11 3:00
3499			-5:00	US	E%sT
3500
3501# British Virgin Is
3502# Virgin Is
3503# See America/Port_of_Spain.
3504
3505
3506# Local Variables:
3507# coding: utf-8
3508# End:
3509