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authorDan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>2015-10-27 09:01:54 -0400
committerDan McDonald <danmcd@omniti.com>2015-10-29 20:35:27 -0400
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6402 Update zoneinfo to 2015g
Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net> Reviewed by: Marcel Telka <marcel@telka.sk> Approved by: Albert Lee <trisk@omniti.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'usr/src/cmd/zic')
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/africa155
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/antarctica51
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/asia64
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/australasia61
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/backward1
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/country.tab11
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/europe82
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/northamerica244
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/southamerica211
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/zone.tab.txt5
-rw-r--r--usr/src/cmd/zic/zone_sun.tab5
11 files changed, 530 insertions, 360 deletions
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/africa b/usr/src/cmd/zic/africa
index 1b9bf50da2..f20d216021 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/africa
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/africa
@@ -319,35 +319,30 @@ Rule Egypt 2007 only - Sep Thu>=1 24:00 0 -
# above) says DST had no affect on electricity consumption. There is
# no information about when DST will end this fall. See:
# http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/el-sissi-pushes-egyptians-line-23614833
-#
-# For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use
-# 2010's rules, and guess that Egypt will switch to standard time at
-# 24:00 the last Thursday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 00:00 the
-# first Friday after Ramadan. To implement this,
-# transition dates for 2015 through 2037 were determined by running
-# the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3, with the results integrated
-# by hand into the table below. Ramadan again intrudes on the guessed
-# DST starting in 2038, but that's beyond our somewhat-arbitrary cutoff.
-# (let ((islamic-year 1436))
-# (while (< islamic-year 1460)
-# (let ((a (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year)))
-# (b (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year)))
-# (friday 5))
-# (while (/= friday (mod a 7))
-# (setq a (1- a)))
-# (while (/= friday (mod b 7))
-# (setq b (1+ b)))
-# (setq a (1- a))
-# (setq b (1- b))
-# (setq a (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute a))
-# (setq b (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute b))
-# (insert
-# (format
-# (concat "Rule\tEgypt\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t24:00\t0\t-\n"
-# "Rule\tEgypt\t%d\tonly\t-\t%s\t%2d\t24:00\t1:00\tS\n")
-# (car (cdr (cdr a))) (calendar-month-name (car a) t) (car (cdr a))
-# (car (cdr (cdr b))) (calendar-month-name (car b) t) (car (cdr b)))))
-# (setq islamic-year (+ 1 islamic-year))))
+
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-04-08):
+# Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015.
+# This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last
+# Thursday of April.... Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but
+# dates not yet announced....
+# http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ...
+# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html
+
+# From Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20):
+# Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced ... that it will cancel DST at
+# least for 2015.
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2015-04-20):
+# http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx
+# "Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving
+# time this summer, and carry out studies on the possibility of canceling the
+# practice altogether in future years."
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-24):
+# Yesterday the office of Egyptian President El-Sisi announced his
+# decision to abandon DST permanently. See Ahram Online 2015-04-24.
+# http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/128509/Egypt/Politics-/Sisi-cancels-daylight-saving-time-in-Egypt.aspx
+
Rule Egypt 2008 only - Aug lastThu 24:00 0 -
Rule Egypt 2009 only - Aug 20 24:00 0 -
Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 10 24:00 0 -
@@ -356,22 +351,7 @@ Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
Rule Egypt 2014 only - May 15 24:00 1:00 S
Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jun 26 24:00 0 -
Rule Egypt 2014 only - Jul 31 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2014 max - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2015 2019 - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2015 only - Jun 11 24:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2015 only - Jul 23 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2016 only - Jun 2 24:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2016 only - Jul 7 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2017 only - May 25 24:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2017 only - Jun 29 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2018 only - May 10 24:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2018 only - Jun 14 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2019 only - May 2 24:00 0 -
-Rule Egypt 2019 only - Jun 6 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2020 only - May 28 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2021 only - May 13 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2022 only - May 5 24:00 1:00 S
-Rule Egypt 2023 max - Apr lastFri 0:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Egypt 2014 only - Sep lastThu 24:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Cairo 2:05:09 - LMT 1900 Oct
@@ -558,7 +538,7 @@ Zone Africa/Tripoli 0:52:44 - LMT 1920
# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-07-11):
# Seems that English language article "The revival of daylight saving
-# time: Energy conservation?"-# No. 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally
+# time: Energy conservation?"- No. 16578 (07/11/2008) was originally
# published on Monday, June 30, 2008...
#
# I guess that article in French "Le gouvernement avance l'introduction
@@ -690,7 +670,7 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
# Here is a link to official document from Royaume du Maroc Premier Ministre,
# Ministère de la Modernisation des Secteurs Publics
#
-# Under Article 1 of Royal Decree No. 455-67 of Act 23 safar 1387 (2 june 1967)
+# Under Article 1 of Royal Decree No. 455-67 of Act 23 safar 1387 (2 June 1967)
# concerning the amendment of the legal time, the Ministry of Modernization of
# Public Sectors announced that the official time in the Kingdom will be
# advanced 60 minutes from Sunday 31 May 2009 at midnight.
@@ -808,20 +788,41 @@ Zone Indian/Mauritius 3:50:00 - LMT 1907 # Port Louis
# will resume again at 02:00 on Saturday, August 2, 2014....
# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=586
-# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-05):
-# For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use 2014's rules,
+# From Milamber (2015-06-08):
+# (Google Translation) The hour will thus be delayed 60 minutes
+# Sunday, June 14 at 3:00, the ministry said in a statement, adding
+# that the time will be advanced again 60 minutes Sunday, July 19,
+# 2015 at 2:00. The move comes under 2.12.126 Decree of 26 Jumada I
+# 1433 (18 April 2012) and the decision of the Head of Government of
+# 16 N. 3-29-15 Chaaban 1435 (4 June 2015).
+# Source (french):
+# http://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/
+#
+# From Milamber (2015-06-09):
+# http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=863
+#
+# From Michael Deckers (2015-06-09):
+# [The gov.ma announcement] would (probably) make the switch on 2015-07-19 go
+# from 03:00 to 04:00 rather than from 02:00 to 03:00, as in the patch....
+# I think the patch is correct and the quoted text is wrong; the text in
+# <http://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/> agrees
+# with the patch.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-08):
+# For now, guess that later spring and fall transitions will use 2015's rules,
# and guess that Morocco will switch to standard time at 03:00 the last
-# Saturday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Saturday after
-# Ramadan. To implement this, transition dates for 2015 through 2037 were
+# Sunday before Ramadan, and back to DST at 02:00 the first Sunday after
+# Ramadan. To implement this, transition dates for 2016 through 2037 were
# determined by running the following program under GNU Emacs 24.3, with the
# results integrated by hand into the table below.
-# (let ((islamic-year 1436))
+# (let ((islamic-year 1437))
+# (require 'cal-islam)
# (while (< islamic-year 1460)
# (let ((a (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 9 1 islamic-year)))
# (b (calendar-islamic-to-absolute (list 10 1 islamic-year)))
-# (saturday 6))
-# (while (/= saturday (mod (setq a (1- a)) 7)))
-# (while (/= saturday (mod b 7))
+# (sunday 0))
+# (while (/= sunday (mod (setq a (1- a)) 7)))
+# (while (/= sunday (mod b 7))
# (setq b (1+ b)))
# (setq a (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute a))
# (setq b (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute b))
@@ -865,32 +866,30 @@ Rule Morocco 2012 only - Aug 20 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2013 only - Jul 7 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2013 only - Aug 10 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2013 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2014 2022 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2014 2021 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2014 only - Jun 28 3:00 0 -
Rule Morocco 2014 only - Aug 2 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jun 13 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jul 18 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jun 4 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jul 9 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2017 only - May 20 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2017 only - Jul 1 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2018 only - May 12 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2018 only - Jun 16 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2019 only - May 4 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2019 only - Jun 8 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2020 only - Apr 18 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2020 only - May 30 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2021 only - Apr 10 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2021 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2022 only - Apr 2 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2022 only - May 7 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2023 only - Apr 22 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2024 only - Apr 13 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2025 only - Apr 5 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jun 14 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2015 only - Jul 19 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jun 5 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2016 only - Jul 10 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2017 only - May 21 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2017 only - Jul 2 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2018 only - May 13 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2018 only - Jun 17 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2019 only - May 5 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2019 only - Jun 9 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2020 only - Apr 19 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2020 only - May 24 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2021 only - Apr 11 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2021 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2022 only - May 8 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2023 only - Apr 23 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2024 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Morocco 2025 only - Apr 6 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Morocco 2026 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Morocco 2035 only - Oct 27 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2036 only - Oct 18 3:00 0 -
-Rule Morocco 2037 only - Oct 10 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2036 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 -
+Rule Morocco 2037 only - Oct 4 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Africa/Casablanca -0:30:20 - LMT 1913 Oct 26
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/antarctica b/usr/src/cmd/zic/antarctica
index ebae994071..2af088f0b9 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/antarctica
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/antarctica
@@ -15,41 +15,6 @@
# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome!
# FORMAT is 'zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited.
-# These rules are stolen from the 'southamerica' file.
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 -
-Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
-Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule ChileAQ 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule ChileAQ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule ChileAQ 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule ChileAQ 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 1999 2010 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule ChileAQ 2000 2007 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
-# N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time,
-# which is used below in specifying the transition.
-Rule ChileAQ 2008 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule ChileAQ 2012 2015 - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 -
-Rule ChileAQ 2012 2014 - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
-
# Argentina - year-round bases
# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05
# Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01
@@ -344,21 +309,7 @@ Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1
# USA - year-round bases
#
# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
-#
-# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06):
-# It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
-# and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
-# I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
-# Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
-# Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
-#
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965
- -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
- -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May
- -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u
- -3:00 - CLT
-#
+# See 'southamerica' for Antarctica/Palmer, since it uses South American DST.
#
# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12
# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/asia b/usr/src/cmd/zic/asia
index 8f33b16209..5467024db2 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/asia
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/asia
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see
# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
-# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-08):
#
# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time
# 2:00 IST IDT Israel
# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia*
-# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran
+# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran*
# 4:00 GST Gulf*
# 5:30 IST India
# 7:00 ICT Indochina, most times and locations*
@@ -52,10 +52,11 @@
# 8:00 CST China
# 8:00 IDT Indochina, 1943-45, 1947-55, 1960-75 (some locations)*
# 8:00 JWST Western Standard Time (Japan, 1896/1937)*
+# 8:30 KST KDT Korea when at +0830*
# 9:00 JCST Central Standard Time (Japan, 1896/1937)
# 9:00 WIT east Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Timur)
# 9:00 JST JDT Japan
-# 9:00 KST KDT Korea
+# 9:00 KST KDT Korea when at +09
# 9:30 ACST Australian Central Standard Time
#
# See the 'europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
@@ -130,7 +131,8 @@ Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2
# Azerbaijan
# From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23):
# According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997
-# Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-17): It was Resolution No. 21 (1997-03-17).
+# http://code.az/files/daylight_res.pdf
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S
Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 -
@@ -1027,7 +1029,7 @@ Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
#
# From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05):
# This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of
-# Iran, Volume 63, Number 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24
+# Iran, Volume 63, No. 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24
# [2007-10-16]. I am doing the best translation I can:...
# The official time of the country will be moved forward for one hour
# on the 24 hours of the first day of the month of Farvardin and will
@@ -1557,7 +1559,7 @@ Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00.
# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989.
-# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11
+# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin No. 11
# <http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm> (2005-03-21):
# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing
# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health
@@ -1711,6 +1713,18 @@ Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 3:00 0 S
#
# For Pyongyang we have no information; guess no changes since World War II.
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-08-07):
+# According to many news sources, North Korea is going to change to
+# the 8:30 time zone on August 15, one example:
+# http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33815049
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-15):
+# Bells rang out midnight (00:00) Friday as part of the celebrations. See:
+# Talmadge E. North Korea celebrates new time zone, 'Pyongyang Time'
+# http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-celebrates-time-zone-pyongyang-time-164038128.html
+# There is no common English-language abbreviation for this time zone.
+# Use KST, as that's what we already use for 1954-1961 in ROK.
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1908 Apr 1
8:30 - KST 1912 Jan 1
@@ -1723,7 +1737,8 @@ Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1908 Apr 1
8:30 - KST 1912 Jan 1
9:00 - JCST 1937 Oct 1
9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 24
- 9:00 - KST
+ 9:00 - KST 2015 Aug 15 00:00
+ 8:30 - KST
###############################################################################
@@ -1904,6 +1919,13 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
# was at the start of 2008-03-31 (the day of Steffen Thorsen's report);
# this is almost surely wrong.
+# From Ganbold Tsagaankhuu (2015-03-10):
+# It seems like yesterday Mongolian Government meeting has concluded to use
+# daylight saving time in Mongolia.... Starting at 2:00AM of last Saturday of
+# March 2015, daylight saving time starts. And 00:00AM of last Saturday of
+# September daylight saving time ends. Source:
+# http://zasag.mn/news/view/8969
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
@@ -1924,6 +1946,8 @@ Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Mongol 2001 2006 - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 -
Rule Mongol 2002 2006 - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Mongol 2015 max - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Mongol 2015 max - Sep lastSat 0:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
@@ -2342,13 +2366,19 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
# official source...:
# http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/ar/Views/ViewDetails.aspx?pid=1252
-# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-24):
-# For future dates, guess the last Thursday in March at 24:00 through
-# the first Friday on or after September 21 at 00:00. This is consistent with
-# the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs,
-# which are for Gaza and Hebron respectively:
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=702
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=2364
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-03-03):
+# Sources such as http://www.alquds.com/news/article/view/id/548257
+# and http://www.raya.ps/ar/news/890705.html say Palestine areas will
+# start DST on 2015-03-28 00:00 which is one day later than expected.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):
+# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014
+# says that the fall 2014 transition was Oct 23 at 24:00.
+# For future dates, guess the last Friday in March at 24:00 through
+# the first Friday on or after October 21 at 00:00. This is consistent with
+# the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs:
+# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza
+# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
@@ -2374,9 +2404,11 @@ Rule Palestine 2011 only - Apr 1 0:01 1:00 S
Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 -
Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 30 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Palestine 2011 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
-Rule Palestine 2012 max - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S
+Rule Palestine 2012 2014 - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S
Rule Palestine 2012 only - Sep 21 1:00 0 -
-Rule Palestine 2013 max - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 -
+Rule Palestine 2013 only - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 -
+Rule Palestine 2014 max - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 -
+Rule Palestine 2015 max - Mar lastFri 24:00 1:00 S
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/australasia b/usr/src/cmd/zic/australasia
index 911e68176a..5c272db3b2 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/australasia
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/australasia
@@ -335,10 +335,17 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900
# DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx
-# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-20):
+# From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77
+# in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28),
+# via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02):
+# the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time
+# commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
+# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-01):
# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
-# 03:00 the first Sunday on or after January 18. Although ad hoc, it
-# matches this year's plan and seems more likely to match future
+# 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches
+# transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future
# practice than guessing no DST.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
@@ -351,7 +358,7 @@ Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 -
Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
+Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
@@ -373,6 +380,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana
10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam
10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
+Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
# Kiribati
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -388,12 +396,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901
14:00 - LINT
# N Mariana Is
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
- 9:43:00 - LMT 1901
- 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time
- 10:00 - MPT 2000 Dec 23
- 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
+# See Pacific/Guam.
# Marshall Is
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -514,7 +517,10 @@ Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston
11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
- 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time
+ 11:30 - NFT 1974 Oct 27 02:00 # Norfolk T.
+ 11:30 1:00 NFST 1975 Mar 2 02:00
+ 11:30 - NFT 2015 Oct 4 02:00
+ 11:00 - NFT
# Palau (Belau)
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -563,6 +569,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
-11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
-11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
-11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
+Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
# Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
@@ -744,23 +751,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901
# uninhabited
# Midway
-#
-# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
-# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
-# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
-# reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly
-# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
-# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone
-# designations that I've never seen before:....
-# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
-# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A "
-#
-Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901
- -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3
- -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2
- -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
- -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
- -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
+# See Pacific/Pago_Pago.
# Palmyra
# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
@@ -1569,6 +1560,20 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years
# in Midway, but we have no record of it.
+# Norfolk
+
+# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23):
+# Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100:
+# https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
+# ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015.
+# http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23):
+# Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted
+# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's
+# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST
+# other than in 1974/5. See:
+# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html
# Pitcairn
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/backward b/usr/src/cmd/zic/backward
index 3ceda884bd..8b0fef5825 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/backward
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/backward
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ Link America/Argentina/Jujuy America/Jujuy
Link America/Indiana/Knox America/Knox_IN
Link America/Kentucky/Louisville America/Louisville
Link America/Argentina/Mendoza America/Mendoza
+Link America/Toronto America/Montreal
Link America/Rio_Branco America/Porto_Acre
Link America/Argentina/Cordoba America/Rosario
Link America/Denver America/Shiprock
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/country.tab b/usr/src/cmd/zic/country.tab
index 0b0b8426d4..0548800e2d 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/country.tab
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/country.tab
@@ -3,11 +3,10 @@
# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
#
-# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18):
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-05-02):
# This file contains a table of two-letter country codes. Columns are
# separated by a single tab. Lines beginning with '#' are comments.
-# Although all text currently uses ASCII encoding, this is planned to
-# change to UTF-8 soon. The columns of the table are as follows:
+# All text uses UTF-8 encoding. The columns of the table are as follows:
#
# 1. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, current as of
# ISO 3166-1 Newsletter VI-16 (2013-07-11). See: Updates on ISO 3166
@@ -38,7 +37,7 @@ AS Samoa (American)
AT Austria
AU Australia
AW Aruba
-AX Aaland Islands
+AX Åland Islands
AZ Azerbaijan
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina
BB Barbados
@@ -67,7 +66,7 @@ CD Congo (Dem. Rep.)
CF Central African Rep.
CG Congo (Rep.)
CH Switzerland
-CI Cote d'Ivoire
+CI Côte d'Ivoire
CK Cook Islands
CL Chile
CM Cameroon
@@ -211,7 +210,7 @@ PT Portugal
PW Palau
PY Paraguay
QA Qatar
-RE Reunion
+RE Réunion
RO Romania
RS Serbia
RU Russia
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/europe b/usr/src/cmd/zic/europe
index 60dfc1dce1..358a0485f6 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/europe
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/europe
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
# 1:00:14 SET Swedish (1879-1899)*
# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe
# 3:00 FET Further-eastern Europe (2011-2014)*
-# 3:00 MSK MSD MSM* Moscow
+# 3:00 MSK MSD MSM* Minsk, Moscow
# From Peter Ilieve (1994-12-04),
# The original six [EU members]: Belgium, France, (West) Germany, Italy,
@@ -193,11 +193,14 @@
# republished in Finest Hour (Spring 2002) 1(114):26
# http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/Vol.01%20No.114.pdf
-# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-08-08):
# The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving"
# when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this
# term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the
# proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using "Summer".
+# The term "Summer Time" was introduced by Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary; see:
+# Viscount Samuel. Leisure in a Democracy. Cambridge University Press
+# ISBN 978-1-107-49471-8 (1949, reissued 2015), p 8.
# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-19):
# A source at the British Information Office in New York avers that it's
@@ -343,7 +346,7 @@
# From an anonymous contributor (1996-06-02):
# The law governing time in Ireland is under Statutory Instrument SI 395/94,
-# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive # 94/21/EC.
+# which gives force to European Union 7th Council Directive No. 94/21/EC.
# Under this directive, the Minister for Justice in Ireland makes appropriate
# regulations. I spoke this morning with the Secretary of the Department of
# Justice (tel +353 1 678 9711) who confirmed to me that the correct name is
@@ -592,11 +595,11 @@ Rule Russia 1921 only - Feb 14 23:00 1:00 MSD
Rule Russia 1921 only - Mar 20 23:00 2:00 MSM # Midsummer
Rule Russia 1921 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 MSD
Rule Russia 1921 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-# Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24):
+# Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1980-10-24):
Rule Russia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Russia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-# Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in
-# Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14):
+# Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1984-09-13), repeated in
+# Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989-03-14):
Rule Russia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
Rule Russia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
#
@@ -828,7 +831,7 @@ Zone Europe/Brussels 0:17:30 - LMT 1880
# Bulgaria
#
# From Plamen Simenov via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
-# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No.94/1997) says:
+# A document of Government of Bulgaria (No. 94/1997) says:
# EET -> EETDST is in 03:00 Local time in last Sunday of March ...
# EETDST -> EET is in 04:00 Local time in last Sunday of October
#
@@ -845,7 +848,7 @@ Zone Europe/Sofia 1:33:16 - LMT 1880
1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945
1:00 - CET 1945 Apr 2 3:00
2:00 - EET 1979 Mar 31 23:00
- 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 2:00
+ 2:00 Bulg EE%sT 1982 Sep 26 3:00
2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1991
2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997
2:00 EU EE%sT
@@ -1062,8 +1065,8 @@ Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Pituffik air base
# after that.
# From Mart Oruaas (2000-01-29):
-# Regulation no. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation
-# no. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all
+# Regulation No. 301 (1999-10-12) obsoletes previous regulation
+# No. 206 (1998-09-22) and thus sticks Estonia to +02:00 GMT for all
# the year round. The regulation is effective 1999-11-01.
# From Toomas Soome (2002-02-21):
@@ -1084,7 +1087,7 @@ Zone Europe/Tallinn 1:39:00 - LMT 1880
3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 1989 Mar 26 2:00s
2:00 1:00 EEST 1989 Sep 24 2:00s
2:00 C-Eur EE%sT 1998 Sep 22
- 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Nov 1
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT 1999 Oct 31 4:00
2:00 - EET 2002 Feb 21
2:00 EU EE%sT
@@ -1527,21 +1530,21 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino
# correct data in juridical acts and I found some juridical documents about
# changes in the counting of time in Latvia from 1981....
#
-# Act No.35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ...
-# according to the Act No.925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24
+# Act No. 35 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1981-01-22 ...
+# according to the Act No. 925 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1980-10-24
# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning
# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on 1 April at 00:00 (GMT 31 March 21:00)
# and 1 hour backward on the 1 October at 00:00 (GMT 30 September 20:00).
#
-# Act No.592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ...
-# according to the Act No.967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13
+# Act No. 592 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1984-09-24 ...
+# according to the Act No. 967 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1984-09-13
# ...: all year round the time of 2nd time zone + 1 hour, in addition turning
# the hands of the clock 1 hour forward on the last Sunday of March at 02:00
# (GMT 23:00 on the previous day) and 1 hour backward on the last Sunday of
# September at 03:00 (GMT 23:00 on the previous day).
#
-# Act No.81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ...
-# according to the Act No.227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14
+# Act No. 81 of the Council of Ministers of Latvian SSR of 1989-03-22 ...
+# according to the Act No. 227 of the Council of Ministers of USSR of 1989-03-14
# ...: since the last Sunday of March 1989 in Lithuanian SSR, Latvian SSR,
# Estonian SSR and Kaliningrad region of Russian Federation all year round the
# time of 2nd time zone (Moscow time minus one hour). On the territory of Latvia
@@ -1558,7 +1561,7 @@ Link Europe/Rome Europe/San_Marino
# From Andrei Ivanov (2000-03-06):
# This year Latvia will not switch to Daylight Savings Time (as specified in
# The Regulations of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Rep. of Latvia of
-# 29-Feb-2000 (#79) <http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm>,
+# 29-Feb-2000 (No. 79) <http://www.lv-laiks.lv/wwwraksti/2000/071072/vd4.htm>,
# in Latvian for subscribers only).
# From RFE/RL Newsline
@@ -1763,6 +1766,18 @@ Zone Europe/Malta 0:58:04 - LMT 1893 Nov 2 0:00s # Valletta
# News from Moldova (in russian):
# http://ru.publika.md/link_317061.html
+# From Roman Tudos (2015-07-02):
+# http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=355077
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-01):
+# The abovementioned official link to IGO1445-868/2014 states that
+# 2014-10-26's fallback transition occurred at 03:00 local time. Also,
+# http://www.trm.md/en/social/la-30-martie-vom-trece-la-ora-de-vara
+# says the 2014-03-30 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 local time.
+# Guess that since 1997 Moldova has switched one hour before the EU.
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+Rule Moldova 1997 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Moldova 1997 max - Oct lastSun 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880
@@ -1777,7 +1792,7 @@ Zone Europe/Chisinau 1:55:20 - LMT 1880
2:00 Russia EE%sT 1992
2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1997
# See Romania commentary for the guessed 1997 transition to EU rules.
- 2:00 EU EE%sT
+ 2:00 Moldova EE%sT
# Monaco
# Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's
@@ -2123,7 +2138,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct
# Russia
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-15):
-# Based on last Russian Government Decree # 725 on August 31, 2011
+# Based on last Russian Government Decree No. 725 on August 31, 2011
# (Government document
# http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/
# in Russian)
@@ -2133,7 +2148,7 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct
# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm
# From Sanjeev Gupta (2011-09-27):
-# Scans of [Decree #23 of January 8, 1992] are available at:
+# Scans of [Decree No. 23 of January 8, 1992] are available at:
# http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966
# They are in Cyrillic letters (presumably Russian).
@@ -2144,19 +2159,19 @@ Zone Europe/Bucharest 1:44:24 - LMT 1891 Oct
# One source is
# http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/
# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Decree of August 31,
-# 2011 No 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information.
+# 2011 No. 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information.
#
# Another source is
# http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html
# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Resolution of the
# Government of the Russian Federation on August 31, 2011 N 725" and also
# contains "Date first official publication: September 6, 2011 Posted on:
-# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue number 5573 September 6, 2011" but which
+# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue No. 5573 September 6, 2011" but which
# does not contain any "effective date" information.
#
# Another source is
# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7
-# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011...
+# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution No. 725 of August 31, 2011...
# Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication"
# but which does not contain any reference to September 6, 2011.
#
@@ -2364,7 +2379,7 @@ Zone Europe/Simferopol 2:16:24 - LMT 1880
# changed in May.
2:00 E-Eur EE%sT 1994 May
# From IATA SSIM (1994/1997), which also says that Kerch is still like Kiev.
- 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 3:00s
+ 3:00 E-Eur MSK/MSD 1996 Mar 31 0:00s
3:00 1:00 MSD 1996 Oct 27 3:00s
# IATA SSIM (1997-09) says Crimea switched to EET/EEST.
# Assume it happened in March by not changing the clocks.
@@ -2400,7 +2415,7 @@ Zone Europe/Volgograd 2:57:40 - LMT 1920 Jan 3
4:00 Russia VOL%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00s # Volgograd T
3:00 Russia VOL%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
4:00 - VOLT 1992 Mar 29 2:00s
- 3:00 Russia MSK 2011 Mar 27 2:00s
+ 3:00 Russia MSK/MSD 2011 Mar 27 2:00s
4:00 - MSK 2014 Oct 26 2:00s
3:00 - MSK
@@ -2499,7 +2514,7 @@ Zone Asia/Novosibirsk 5:31:40 - LMT 1919 Dec 14 6:00
# from current Russia Zone 6 - Krasnoyarsk Time Zone (KRA) UTC +0700
# to Russia Zone 5 - Novosibirsk Time Zone (NOV) UTC +0600
#
-# This is according to Government of Russia decree # 740, on September
+# This is according to Government of Russia decree No. 740, on September
# 14, 2009 "Application in the territory of the Kemerovo region the Fifth
# time zone." ("Russia Zone 5" or old "USSR Zone 5" is GMT +0600)
#
@@ -2922,7 +2937,7 @@ Zone Africa/Ceuta -0:21:16 - LMT 1901
Zone Atlantic/Canary -1:01:36 - LMT 1922 Mar # Las Palmas de Gran C.
-1:00 - CANT 1946 Sep 30 1:00 # Canaries T
0:00 - WET 1980 Apr 6 0:00s
- 0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 0:00s
+ 0:00 1:00 WEST 1980 Sep 28 1:00u
0:00 EU WE%sT
# IATA SSIM (1996-09) says the Canaries switch at 2:00u, not 1:00u.
# Ignore this for now, as the Canaries are part of the EU.
@@ -3135,6 +3150,11 @@ Zone Europe/Zurich 0:34:08 - LMT 1853 Jul 16 # See above comment.
# http://www.balkaneu.com/eventful-elections-turkey/ 2014-03-30.
# I guess the best we can do is document the official time.
+# From Fatih (2015-09-29):
+# It's officially announced now by the Ministry of Energy.
+# Turkey delays winter time to 8th of November 04:00
+# http://www.aa.com.tr/tr/turkiye/yaz-saati-uygulamasi-8-kasimda-sona-erecek/362217
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Turkey 1916 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Turkey 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
@@ -3204,6 +3224,8 @@ Zone Europe/Istanbul 1:55:52 - LMT 1880
2:00 - EET 2011 Mar 28 1:00u
2:00 EU EE%sT 2014 Mar 30 1:00u
2:00 - EET 2014 Mar 31 1:00u
+ 2:00 EU EE%sT 2015 Oct 25 1:00u
+ 2:00 1:00 EEST 2015 Nov 8 1:00u
2:00 EU EE%sT
Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents.
@@ -3212,7 +3234,7 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents.
# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice,
# via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27):
# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's government
-# regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says:
+# regulations No. 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says:
# "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday
# of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of
# October the time at 4am is changing to 3am"
@@ -3221,7 +3243,7 @@ Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents.
# On September 20, 2011 the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada agreed to
# abolish the transfer clock to winter time.
#
-# Bill number 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got
+# Bill No. 8330 of MP from the Party of Regions Oleg Nadoshi got
# approval from 266 deputies.
#
# Ukraine abolishes transfer back to the winter time (in Russian)
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/northamerica b/usr/src/cmd/zic/northamerica
index cb94c5e502..7658a45e5c 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/northamerica
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/northamerica
@@ -227,9 +227,14 @@ Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT
# The law doesn't give abbreviations.
#
# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow:
-# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation
-# "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.
-# See the file "australasia".
+# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced ... "Chamorro Standard Time"
+# for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. See the file "australasia".
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-17):
+# HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian
+# standard and daylight times. See section 9.47 (p 234) of the
+# U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008)
+# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf
# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09
# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08.
@@ -536,7 +541,7 @@ Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
-11:00 - BST 1969
-11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
-10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30
- -10:00 US HA%sT
+ -10:00 US H%sT
# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff.
#
# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak)
@@ -1230,10 +1235,19 @@ Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
+# From Brian Inglis (2015-07-20):
+# From the historical weather station records available at:
+# https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada
+# Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was
+# likely to be the same across the island....
+# Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would
+# have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-20):
# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
-# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of.
+# the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of
+# (Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now).
# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
# this is a typo.
@@ -1331,14 +1345,9 @@ Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9
# Quebec
-# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-30):
-# Since 1970 most of Quebec has been like Toronto.
-# However, because earlier versions of the tz database mistakenly relied on data
-# from Shanks & Pottenger saying that Quebec differed from Ontario after 1970,
-# a separate entry was created for most of Quebec. We're loath to lose
-# its pre-1970 info, even though the tz database is normally limited to
-# zones that differ after 1970, so keep this otherwise out-of-scope entry.
-
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-24):
+# See America/Toronto for most of Quebec, including Montreal.
+#
# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63
# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as
# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST.
@@ -1352,39 +1361,10 @@ Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9
# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to
# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT.
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S
-Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1919 only - Oct 25 2:30 0 S
-Rule Mont 1920 only - May 2 2:30 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1920 1922 - Oct Sun>=1 2:30 0 S
-Rule Mont 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1922 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1924 only - May 17 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1924 1926 - Sep lastSun 2:30 0 S
-Rule Mont 1925 1926 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Apr lastSat 24:00 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Sep lastSat 24:00 0 S
-Rule Mont 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
-Rule Mont 1946 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Mont 1945 1948 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
-Rule Mont 1949 1950 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
-Rule Mont 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
-Rule Mont 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
-
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884
-4:00 Canada A%sT 1970
-4:00 - AST
-Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884
- -5:00 Mont E%sT 1918
- -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919
- -5:00 Mont E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
- -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946
- -5:00 Mont E%sT 1974
- -5:00 Canada E%sT
# Ontario
@@ -1825,13 +1805,13 @@ Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep
# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess.
# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7)
# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess.
-# note#1:
+# note 1:
# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada,
# Creston did not change its clocks.
-# note#2:
+# note 2:
# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change,
# Creston did not oblige.
-# note#3:
+# note 3:
# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time
# (UTC-7) forever.
# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council.
@@ -1846,6 +1826,22 @@ Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep
# The transition dates (and times) are guesses.
+# From Matt Johnson (2015-09-21):
+# Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year. So while previously they
+# were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with
+# America/Dawson_Creek.
+# http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html
+#
+# From Tim Parenti (2015-09-23):
+# This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality,
+# America/Fort_Nelson. The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a
+# 2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support. Effectively, the municipality has
+# been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on
+# 2015-03-08.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23):
+# Shanks says Fort Nelson did not observe DST in 1946, unlike Vancouver.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S
@@ -1864,6 +1860,12 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884
-8:00 Canada P%sT 1947
-8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00
-7:00 - MST
+Zone America/Fort_Nelson -8:10:47 - LMT 1884
+ -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1946
+ -8:00 - PST 1947
+ -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987
+ -8:00 Canada P%sT 2015 Mar 8 2:00
+ -7:00 - MST
Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884
-7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1
-8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2
@@ -1875,17 +1877,115 @@ Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884
# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979.
# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs:
# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68,
-# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid;
+# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9....
# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1).
+# [http://canlii.ca/t/7vhg]
# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00.
# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST.
# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00.
-# Shanks & Pottenger say Yukon's 1973-10-28 switch was at 2:00; go
-# with Englander.
-# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26):
-# Here is a link to the old daylight saving portion of the interpretation
-# act which was last updated in 1987:
-# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic1987_056.pdf
+
+# From Brian Inglis (2015-04-14):
+#
+# I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following
+# regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name,
+# and relevant quote if available. Each regulation specifically revokes its
+# predecessor. The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act
+# authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes.
+#
+# Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or
+# index, and only some via Canadian legal sources. Other sources used include
+# articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS
+# Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and
+# 1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial
+# and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of
+# standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada,
+# with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset,
+# and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart
+# and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as
+# another source of information for 1970 and earlier.
+#
+# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26,
+# pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
+# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75:
+# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance
+# Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and
+# thirty-fifth meridian.
+#
+# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.;
+# JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
+# (ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1:
+# Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16.
+#
+# (1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine
+# hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time.
+#
+# (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations
+# varying the manner of reckoning standard time.
+#
+# * Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance
+# http://? - no online source found
+#
+# * Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC,
+# Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
+# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon
+# Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ...
+#
+# 1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon
+# Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked.
+#
+# 2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the
+# Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May,
+# 1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that
+# is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon
+# Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west.
+#
+# 3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree
+# longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine
+# hours behind Greenwich Time.
+#
+# * Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214
+# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html
+# C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ...
+#
+# 1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby
+# revoked.
+#
+# 2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation
+# Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973
+# shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is
+# to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time.
+#
+# * O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT
+# http://? - no online source found
+#
+# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56
+# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html
+# O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ...
+#
+# In every year between
+# (a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and
+# (b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October,
+# Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and
+# called Yukon Daylight Saving Time.
+# ...
+# Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987.
+#
+# * Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127
+# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html
+# O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ...
+#
+# 1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours
+# behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock
+# in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock
+# in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called
+# Yukon Daylight Saving Time.
+#
+# 2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked.
+#
+# 3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007.
+#
+# * Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125
+# http://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html
# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04):
# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone.
@@ -2111,7 +2211,7 @@ Zone America/Inuvik 0 - zzz 1953 # Inuvik founded
-7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980
-7:00 Canada M%sT
Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20
- -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1966 Jul 1 2:00
+ -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1967 May 28 0:00
-8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980
-8:00 Canada P%sT
Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20
@@ -2312,8 +2412,24 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20
# "...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday
# of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current
# time..."
-#
# Also, the new zone will not use DST.
+#
+# From Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02):
+# The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally
+# been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación
+# http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015
+# It establishes 5 zones for Mexico:
+# 1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W,
+# includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below.
+# 2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the
+# states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía
+# de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora.
+# 3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the
+# state of Baja California.
+# 4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state
+# of Quintana Roo.
+# 5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the
+# longitude they are located at.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D
@@ -2508,13 +2624,8 @@ Zone America/Santa_Isabel -7:39:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:20:32
###############################################################################
# Anguilla
-# See America/Port_of_Spain.
-
# Antigua and Barbuda
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
- -5:00 - EST 1951
- -4:00 - AST
+# See America/Port_of_Spain.
# Bahamas
#
@@ -2581,10 +2692,17 @@ Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton
-4:00 US A%sT
# Cayman Is
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-05-15):
+# The Cayman government has decided to introduce DST in 2016, the idea being
+# to keep in sync with New York. The legislation hasn't passed but the change
+# seems quite likely. See: Meade B. Cayman 27.
+# http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2015/05/15/clock-ticks-toward-daylight-saving-time-in-cayman
+
Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown
-5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
- -5:00 - EST
+ -5:00 - EST 2016
+ -5:00 US E%sT
# Costa Rica
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/southamerica b/usr/src/cmd/zic/southamerica
index 3ab353e329..50d118ebfa 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/southamerica
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/southamerica
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
# I suggest the use of _Summer time_ instead of the more cumbersome
# _daylight-saving time_. _Summer time_ seems to be in general use
# in Europe and South America.
-# -- E O Cutler, _New York Times_ (1937-02-14), quoted in
+# -- E O Cutler, _New York Times_ (1937-02-14), quoted in
# H L Mencken, _The American Language: Supplement I_ (1960), p 466
#
# Earlier editions of these tables also used the North American style
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar 3 0:00 0 -
# Timezone Law (which never was effectively applied) will (would?) be
# in effect.... The article is at
# http://ar.clarin.com/diario/2001-06-06/e-01701.htm
-# ... The Law itself is "Ley No 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted
+# ... The Law itself is "Ley No. 25155", sanctioned on 1999-08-25, enacted
# 1999-09-17, and published 1999-09-21. The official publication is at:
# http://www.boletin.jus.gov.ar/BON/Primera/1999/09-Septiembre/21/PDF/BO21-09-99LEG.PDF
# Regretfully, you have to subscribe (and pay) for the on-line version....
@@ -175,15 +175,11 @@ Rule Arg 2000 only - Mar 3 0:00 0 -
# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_argentina03.html
# http://www.impulsobaires.com.ar/nota.php?id=57832 (in spanish)
-# From Rodrigo Severo (2008-10-06):
-# Here is some info available at a Gentoo bug related to TZ on Argentina's DST:
-# ...
-# ------- Comment #1 from [jmdocile] 2008-10-06 16:28 0000 -------
-# Hi, there is a problem with timezone-data-2008e and maybe with
-# timezone-data-2008f
-# Argentinian law [Number] 25.155 is no longer valid.
+# From Juan Manuel Docile in https://bugs.gentoo.org/240339 (2008-10-07)
+# via Rodrigo Severo:
+# Argentinian law No. 25.155 is no longer valid.
# http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/60000-64999/60036/norma.htm
-# The new one is law [Number] 26.350
+# The new one is law No. 26.350
# http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/135000-139999/136191/norma.htm
# So there is no summer time in Argentina for now.
@@ -771,7 +767,7 @@ Zone America/La_Paz -4:32:36 - LMT 1890
# [ and in a second message (same day): ]
# I found the decree.
#
-# DECRETO No- 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
+# DECRETO No. 7.584, DE 13 DE OUTUBRO DE 2011
# Link :
# http://www.in.gov.br/visualiza/index.jsp?data=13/10/2011&jornal=1000&pagina=6&totalArquivos=6
@@ -1098,6 +1094,60 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914
# Chile
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-04-03):
+# Shanks & Pottenger says America/Santiago introduced standard time in
+# 1890 and rounds its UTC offset to 70W40; guess that in practice this
+# was the same offset as in 1916-1919. It also says Pacific/Easter
+# standardized on 109W22 in 1890; assume this didn't change the clocks.
+#
+# Dates for America/Santiago from 1910 to 2004 are primarily from
+# the following source, cited by Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08):
+# [1] Chile Law
+# http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/chile.html
+# This contains a copy of a this official table:
+# Cambios en la hora oficial de Chile desde 1900 (retrieved 2008-03-30)
+# http://web.archive.org/web/20080330200901/http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
+# [1] needs several corrections, though.
+#
+# The first set of corrections is from:
+# [2] History of the Official Time of Chile
+# http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html (retrieved 2012-03-06). See:
+# http://web.archive.org/web/20120306042032/http://www.horaoficial.cl/ing/horaof_ing.html
+# This is an English translation of:
+# Historia de la hora oficial de Chile (retrieved 2012-10-24). See:
+# http://web.archive.org/web/20121024234627/http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm
+# A fancier Spanish version (requiring mouse-clicking) is at:
+# http://www.horaoficial.cl/historia_hora.html
+# Conflicts between [1] and [2] were resolved as follows:
+#
+# - [1] says the 1910 transition was Jan 1, [2] says Jan 10 and cites
+# Boletín No. 1, Aviso No. 1 (1910). Go with [2].
+#
+# - [1] says SMT was -4:42:45, [2] says Chile's official time from
+# 1916 to 1919 was -4:42:46.3, the meridian of Chile's National
+# Astronomical Observatory (OAN), then located in what is now
+# Quinta Normal in Santiago. Go with [2], rounding it to -4:42:46.
+#
+# - [1] says the 1918 transition was Sep 1, [2] says Sep 10 and cites
+# Boletín No. 22, Aviso No. 129/1918 (1918-08-23). Go with [2].
+#
+# - [1] does not give times for transitions; assume they occur
+# at midnight mainland time, the current common practice. However,
+# go with [2]'s specification of 23:00 for the 1947-05-21 transition.
+#
+# Another correction to [1] is from Jesper Nørgaard Welen, who
+# wrote (2006-10-08), "I think that there are some obvious mistakes in
+# the suggested link from Oscar van Vlijmen,... for instance entry 66
+# says that GMT-4 ended 1990-09-12 while entry 67 only begins GMT-3 at
+# 1990-09-15 (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16
+# respectively), but anyhow it clears up some doubts too."
+#
+# Data for Pacific/Easter from 1910 through 1967 come from Shanks &
+# Pottenger. After that, for lack of better info assume
+# Pacific/Easter is always two hours behind America/Santiago;
+# this is known to work for DST transitions starting in 2008 and
+# may well be true for earlier transitions.
+
# From Eduardo Krell (1995-10-19):
# The law says to switch to DST at midnight [24:00] on the second SATURDAY
# of October.... The law is the same for March and October.
@@ -1110,78 +1160,35 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914
# Because of the same drought, the government decided to end DST later,
# on April 3, (one-time change).
-# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2006-10-08):
-# http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
-
-# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-08):
-# I think that there are some obvious mistakes in the suggested link
-# from Oscar van Vlijmen,... for instance entry 66 says that GMT-4
-# ended 1990-09-12 while entry 67 only begins GMT-3 at 1990-09-15
-# (they should have been 1990-09-15 and 1990-09-16 respectively), but
-# anyhow it clears up some doubts too.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-12):
-# The following data entries for Chile and America/Santiago are from
-# <http://www.horaoficial.cl/horaof.htm> (2006-09-20), transcribed by
-# Jesper Nørgaard Welen. The data entries for Pacific/Easter are from Shanks
-# & Pottenger, except with DST transitions after 1932 cloned from
-# America/Santiago. The pre-1980 Pacific/Easter data entries are dubious,
-# but we have no other source.
-
# From Germán Poo-Caamaño (2008-03-03):
# Due to drought, Chile extends Daylight Time in three weeks. This
# is one-time change (Saturday 3/29 at 24:00 for America/Santiago
# and Saturday 3/29 at 22:00 for Pacific/Easter)
# The Supreme Decree is located at
# http://www.shoa.cl/servicios/supremo316.pdf
-# and the instructions for 2008 are located in:
-# http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
-
+#
# From José Miguel Garrido (2008-03-05):
-# ...
-# You could see the announces of the change on
# http://www.shoa.cl/noticias/2008/04hora/hora.htm
# From Angel Chiang (2010-03-04):
# Subject: DST in Chile exceptionally extended to 3 April due to earthquake
# http://www.gobiernodechile.cl/viewNoticia.aspx?idArticulo=30098
-# (in Spanish, last paragraph).
#
-# This is breaking news. There should be more information available later.
-
# From Arthur David Olson (2010-03-06):
# Angel Chiang's message confirmed by Julio Pacheco; Julio provided a patch.
-# From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-02):
-# It appears that the Chilean government has decided to postpone the
-# change from summer time to winter time again, by three weeks to April
-# 2nd:
-# http://www.emol.com/noticias/nacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=467651
-#
-# This is not yet reflected in the official "cambio de hora" site, but
-# probably will be soon:
-# http://www.horaoficial.cl/cambio.htm
-
-# From Arthur David Olson (2011-03-02):
-# The emol.com article mentions a water shortage as the cause of the
-# postponement, which may mean that it's not a permanent change.
-
# From Glenn Eychaner (2011-03-28):
-# The article:
# http://diario.elmercurio.com/2011/03/28/_portada/_portada/noticias/7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E.htm?id=3D{7565897A-CA86-49E6-9E03-660B21A4883E}
-#
# In English:
# Chile's clocks will go back an hour this year on the 7th of May instead
# of this Saturday. They will go forward again the 3rd Saturday in
-# August, not in October as they have since 1968. This is a pilot plan
-# which will be reevaluated in 2012.
+# August, not in October as they have since 1968.
# From Mauricio Parada (2012-02-22), translated by Glenn Eychaner (2012-02-23):
# As stated in the website of the Chilean Energy Ministry
# http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/gobierno-anuncia-fechas-de-cambio-de.html
# The Chilean Government has decided to postpone the entrance into winter time
-# (to leave DST) from March 11 2012 to April 28th 2012. The decision has not
-# been yet formalized but it will within the next days.
+# (to leave DST) from March 11 2012 to April 28th 2012....
# Quote from the website communication:
#
# 6. For the year 2012, the dates of entry into winter time will be as follows:
@@ -1206,22 +1213,17 @@ Zone America/Rio_Branco -4:31:12 - LMT 1914
# DST Start: first Saturday of September 2014 (Sun 07 Sep 2014 04:00 UTC)
# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl//media/2014/02/19/do-20140219.pdf
-# From Juan Correa (2015-01-28):
-# ... today the Ministry of Energy announced that Chile will drop DST, will keep
-# "summer time" (UTC -3 / UTC -5) all year round....
-# http://www.minenergia.cl/ministerio/noticias/generales/ministerio-de-energia-anuncia.html
-
-# NOTE: ChileAQ rules for Antarctic bases are stored separately in the
-# 'antarctica' file.
+# From Eduardo Romero Urra (2015-03-03):
+# Today has been published officially that Chile will use the DST time
+# permanently until March 25 of 2017
+# http://www.diariooficial.interior.gob.cl/media/2015/03/03/1-large.jpg
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):
+# For now, assume that the extension will persist indefinitely.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Chile 1927 1932 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S
+Rule Chile 1927 1931 - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 S
Rule Chile 1928 1932 - Apr 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Chile 1942 only - Jun 1 4:00u 0 -
-Rule Chile 1942 only - Aug 1 5:00u 1:00 S
-Rule Chile 1946 only - Jul 15 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule Chile 1946 only - Sep 1 3:00u 0:00 -
-Rule Chile 1947 only - Apr 1 4:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 1968 only - Nov 3 4:00u 1:00 S
Rule Chile 1969 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 1969 only - Nov 23 4:00u 1:00 S
@@ -1232,10 +1234,8 @@ Rule Chile 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 1973 only - Sep 30 4:00u 1:00 S
Rule Chile 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
Rule Chile 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 -
-Rule Chile 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
-Rule Chile 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule Chile 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
-Rule Chile 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 -
+Rule Chile 1988 1990 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
+Rule Chile 1988 1989 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
Rule Chile 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S
Rule Chile 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 -
Rule Chile 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S
@@ -1258,17 +1258,23 @@ Rule Chile 2012 2014 - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S
# (1996-09) says 1998-03-08. Ignore these.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Santiago -4:42:46 - LMT 1890
- -4:42:46 - SMT 1910 # Santiago Mean Time
+ -4:42:46 - SMT 1910 Jan 10 # Santiago Mean Time
-5:00 - CLT 1916 Jul 1 # Chile Time
- -4:42:46 - SMT 1918 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time
- -4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1 # Chile Time
- -4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Sep 1 # Santiago Mean Time
- -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1947 May 22 # Chile Time
+ -4:42:46 - SMT 1918 Sep 10
+ -4:00 - CLT 1919 Jul 1
+ -4:42:46 - SMT 1927 Sep 1
+ -5:00 Chile CL%sT 1932 Sep 1
+ -4:00 - CLT 1942 Jun 1
+ -5:00 - CLT 1942 Aug 1
+ -4:00 - CLT 1946 Jul 15
+ -4:00 1:00 CLST 1946 Sep 1 # central Chile
+ -4:00 - CLT 1947 Apr 1
+ -5:00 - CLT 1947 May 21 23:00
-4:00 Chile CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u
-3:00 - CLT
-Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:44 - LMT 1890
+Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:28 - LMT 1890
-7:17:28 - EMT 1932 Sep # Easter Mean Time
- -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 13 3:00u # Easter Time
+ -7:00 Chile EAS%sT 1982 Mar 14 3:00u # Easter Time
-6:00 Chile EAS%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u
-5:00 - EAST
#
@@ -1276,6 +1282,25 @@ Zone Pacific/Easter -7:17:44 - LMT 1890
# Other Chilean locations, including Juan Fernández Is, Desventuradas Is,
# and Antarctic bases, are like America/Santiago.
+# Antarctic base using South American rules
+# (See the file 'antarctica' for more.)
+#
+# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
+#
+# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06):
+# It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
+# and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
+# I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
+# Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
+# Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
+#
+# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
+Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965
+ -4:00 Arg AR%sT 1969 Oct 5
+ -3:00 Arg AR%sT 1982 May
+ -4:00 Chile CL%sT 2015 Apr 26 3:00u
+ -3:00 - CLT
+
# Colombia
# Milne gives 4:56:16.4 for Bogotá time in 1899; round to nearest. He writes,
@@ -1504,7 +1529,7 @@ Rule Para 1997 only - Feb lastSun 0:00 0 -
# (1999-09) reports no date; go with above sources and Gerd Knops (2001-02-27).
Rule Para 1998 2001 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
# From Rives McDow (2002-02-28):
-# A decree was issued in Paraguay (no. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the
+# A decree was issued in Paraguay (No. 16350) on 2002-02-26 that changed the
# dst method to be from the first Sunday in September to the first Sunday in
# April.
Rule Para 2002 2004 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
@@ -1603,6 +1628,7 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
# These all agree with Trinidad and Tobago since 1970.
Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Anguilla
+Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Antigua
Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Dominica
Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Grenada
Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Guadeloupe
@@ -1683,8 +1709,19 @@ Rule Uruguay 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 1:00 S
Rule Uruguay 2006 only - Mar 12 2:00 0 -
# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-06):
# http://www.presidencia.gub.uy/_web/decretos/2006/09/CM%20210_08%2006%202006_00001.PDF
-Rule Uruguay 2006 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Uruguay 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 0 -
+#
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-06-30):
+# ... it looks like they will not be using DST the coming summer:
+# http://www.elobservador.com.uy/gobierno-resolvio-que-no-habra-cambio-horario-verano-n656787
+# http://www.republica.com.uy/este-ano-no-se-modificara-el-huso-horario-en-uruguay/523760/
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-06-30):
+# Apparently restaurateurs complained that DST caused people to go to the beach
+# instead of out to dinner.
+# From Pablo Camargo (2015-07-13):
+# http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/sci/decretos/2015/06/cons_min_201.pdf
+# [dated 2015-06-29; repeals Decree 311/006 dated 2006-09-04]
+Rule Uruguay 2006 2014 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Uruguay 2007 2015 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28
-3:44:44 - MMT 1920 May 1 # Montevideo MT
@@ -1693,6 +1730,10 @@ Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28
# Venezuela
#
+# From Paul Eggert (2015-07-28):
+# For the 1965 transition see Gaceta Oficial No. 27.619 (1964-12-15), p 205.533
+# http://www.pgr.gob.ve/dmdocuments/1964/27619.pdf
+#
# From John Stainforth (2007-11-28):
# ... the change for Venezuela originally expected for 2007-12-31 has
# been brought forward to 2007-12-09. The official announcement was
@@ -1704,6 +1745,6 @@ Zone America/Montevideo -3:44:44 - LMT 1898 Jun 28
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Caracas -4:27:44 - LMT 1890
-4:27:40 - CMT 1912 Feb 12 # Caracas Mean Time?
- -4:30 - VET 1965 # Venezuela Time
+ -4:30 - VET 1965 Jan 1 0:00 # Venezuela T.
-4:00 - VET 2007 Dec 9 3:00
-4:30 - VET
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/zone.tab.txt b/usr/src/cmd/zic/zone.tab.txt
index f418e7ffca..935143f523 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/zone.tab.txt
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/zone.tab.txt
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@ BW -2439+02555 Africa/Gaborone
BY +5354+02734 Europe/Minsk
BZ +1730-08812 America/Belize
CA +4734-05243 America/St_Johns Newfoundland Time, including SE Labrador
-CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (most places), PEI
-CA +4612-05957 America/Glace_Bay Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia - places that did not observe DST 1966-1971
+CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (peninsula), PEI
+CA +4612-05957 America/Glace_Bay Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (Cape Breton)
CA +4606-06447 America/Moncton Atlantic Time - New Brunswick
CA +5320-06025 America/Goose_Bay Atlantic Time - Labrador - most locations
CA +5125-05707 America/Blanc-Sablon Atlantic Standard Time - Quebec - Lower North Shore
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ CA +6227-11421 America/Yellowknife Mountain Time - central Northwest Territories
CA +682059-1334300 America/Inuvik Mountain Time - west Northwest Territories
CA +4906-11631 America/Creston Mountain Standard Time - Creston, British Columbia
CA +5946-12014 America/Dawson_Creek Mountain Standard Time - Dawson Creek & Fort Saint John, British Columbia
+CA +5848-12242 America/Fort_Nelson Mountain Standard Time - Fort Nelson, British Columbia
CA +4916-12307 America/Vancouver Pacific Time - west British Columbia
CA +6043-13503 America/Whitehorse Pacific Time - south Yukon
CA +6404-13925 America/Dawson Pacific Time - north Yukon
diff --git a/usr/src/cmd/zic/zone_sun.tab b/usr/src/cmd/zic/zone_sun.tab
index 3d2345a8dd..2aa44fbe45 100644
--- a/usr/src/cmd/zic/zone_sun.tab
+++ b/usr/src/cmd/zic/zone_sun.tab
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ BW -2439+02555 Africa/Gaborone -
BY +5354+02734 Europe/Minsk -
BZ +1730-08812 America/Belize -
CA +4734-05243 America/St_Johns Canada/Newfoundland Newfoundland Time, including SE Labrador
-CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Canada/Atlantic Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (most places), PEI
-CA +4612-05957 America/Glace_Bay - Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia - places that did not observe DST 1966-1971
+CA +4439-06336 America/Halifax Canada/Atlantic Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (peninsula), PEI
+CA +4612-05957 America/Glace_Bay - Atlantic Time - Nova Scotia (Cape Breton)
CA +4606-06447 America/Moncton - Atlantic Time - New Brunswick
CA +5320-06025 America/Goose_Bay - Atlantic Time - Labrador - most locations
CA +5125-05707 America/Blanc-Sablon - Atlantic Standard Time - Quebec - Lower North Shore
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ CA +6227-11421 America/Yellowknife - Mountain Time - central Northwest Territori
CA +682059-1334300 America/Inuvik - Mountain Time - west Northwest Territories
CA +4906-11631 America/Creston - Mountain Standard Time - Creston, British Columbia
CA +5946-12014 America/Dawson_Creek - Mountain Standard Time - Dawson Creek & Fort Saint John, British Columbia
+CA +5848-12242 America/Fort_Nelson Mountain Standard Time - Fort Nelson, British Columbia
CA +4916-12307 America/Vancouver Canada/Pacific Pacific Time - west British Columbia
CA +6043-13503 America/Whitehorse Canada/Yukon Pacific Time - south Yukon
CA +6404-13925 America/Dawson - Pacific Time - north Yukon
generated by cgit v1.2.3 (git 2.46.0) at 2025-12-03 08:38:53 +0000