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24# <pre>
25
26# also includes Central America and the Caribbean
27
28# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
29# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
30# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
31
32# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22):
33# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
34# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
35
36###############################################################################
37
38# United States
39
40# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
41# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by
42# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904),
43# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY).
44# His pamphlet ``A System of National Time for Railroads'' (1870)
45# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines
46# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC,
47# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich.
48# His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00,
49# and the most of the country soon followed suit.
50
51# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16):
52# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time.
53# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005).
54
55# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
56# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is
57# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition),
58# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
59# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it.
60# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below.
61
62# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
63# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin
64# in his whimsical essay ``An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost
65# of Light'' published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
66# Not everyone is happy with the results:
67#
68# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some
69# agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving
70# daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind.
71# I even object to the implication that I am wasting something
72# valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer
73# of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to
74# reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving
75# scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager
76# to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make
77# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
78#
79# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks,
80# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday
81#
82# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see
83# Robert Garland's <a href="http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html">
84# Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint
85# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927)</a>.
86#
87# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919.
88# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which
89# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently
90# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time".
91
92# From Arthur David Olson:
93# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974.
94# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26
95# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post.
96
97# From Arthur David Olson:
98# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of
99# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime.
100
101# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25):
102# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama.
103# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time."
104# An AltaVista search turned up
105# <a href="http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html">:
106# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace
107# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful."
108# </a> (August 1945) by way of confirmation.
109
110# From Joseph Gallant citing
111# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987):
112# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set
113# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people
114# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account,
115# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender,
116# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word
117# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in
118# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech.
119
120# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From
121# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times:
122#
123# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender.
124# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a
125# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news.
126# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out
127# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental
128# importance."
129#
130# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open
131# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell,
132# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over.
133# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms."
134#
135# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters.
136
137# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22):
138# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations
139# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of
140# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed
141# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected.
142
143# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
144Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
145Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
146Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
147Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
148Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
149Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
150Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
151Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D
152Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D
153Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
154Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
155Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
156Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
157
158# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19
159# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with
160# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory.
161# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of
162# this time zone package.
163# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if
164# a particular place changes whether it observes DST.
165# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to
166# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to
167# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file.
168
169# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
170Zone EST -5:00 - EST
171Zone MST -7:00 - MST
172Zone HST -10:00 - HST
173Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT
174Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT
175Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT
176Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT
177
178# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
179# ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967.
180# old new
181# Pacific Standard Time(PST) -same-
182# Yukon Standard Time(YST) -same-
183# Central Alaska S.T. (CAT) Alaska-Hawaii St[an]dard Time (AHST)
184# Nome Standard Time (NT) Bering Standard Time (BST)
185#
186# ...Alaska's timezone lines were redrawn in 1983 to give only 2 tz.
187# The YST zone now covers nearly all of the state, AHST just part
188# of the Aleutian islands. No DST.
189
190# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
191# The tables below use `NST', not `NT', for Nome Standard Time.
192# I invented `CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time.
193
194# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
195# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON
196# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
197# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON
198# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
199# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER
200# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
201# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO
202# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
203# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST)
204# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT)
205# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W
206# USA - " - 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
207# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC
208# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY
209
210# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21):
211# The above dates are for 1988.
212# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's
213# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the
214# Aleutians.
215
216# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
217# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and
218# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names
219# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966
220# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261:
221# (none)
222# United States standard eastern time
223# United States standard mountain time
224# United States standard central time
225# United States standard Pacific time
226# (none)
227# United States standard Alaska time
228# (none)
229# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for
230# public law 98-181):
231# Atlantic standard time
232# eastern standard time
233# central standard time
234# mountain standard time
235# Pacific standard time
236# Yukon standard time
237# Alaska-Hawaii standard time
238# Bering standard time
239# And after 1983-11-30:
240# Atlantic standard time
241# eastern standard time
242# central standard time
243# mountain standard time
244# Pacific standard time
245# Alaska standard time
246# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time
247# Samoa standard time
248# The law doesn't give abbreviations.
249#
250# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow:
251# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation
252# "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.
253# See the file "australasia".
254
255# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09
256# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08.
257#
258# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
259# (a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
260# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended--
261# (1) by striking `first Sunday of April' and inserting `second
262# Sunday of March'; and
263# (2) by striking `last Sunday of October' and inserting `first
264# Sunday of November'.
265# (b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the
266# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later.
267# (c) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the effective
268# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress
269# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United
270# States.
271# (d) Right to Revert- Congress retains the right to revert the
272# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the
273# Department study is complete.
274
275# US eastern time, represented by New York
276
277# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida,
278# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky
279# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
280# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
281# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee,
282# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
283
284# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02):
285# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington
286# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH]....
287# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time
288# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their
289# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC.
290
291# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26):
292# According to today's Huntsville Times
293# <http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1>
294# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City
295# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County,
296# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba"
297# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central
298# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work
299# in Columbus."
300
301# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
302Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
303Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
304Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
305Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
306Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
307# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
308Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58
309 -5:00 US E%sT 1920
310 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942
311 -5:00 US E%sT 1946
312 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967
313 -5:00 US E%sT
314
315# US central time, represented by Chicago
316
317# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia,
318# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and
319# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana
320# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
321# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western
322# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern
323# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota,
324# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin
325
326# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin:
327# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/statutes/Stat0175.pdf ...
328# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local
329# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations
330# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited
331# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year....
332#
333# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12):
334# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI
335# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent....
336# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act3.pdf
337
338# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
339Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D
340Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
341Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
342Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
343Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
344Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
345# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
346Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24
347 -6:00 US C%sT 1920
348 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00
349 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00
350 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942
351 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
352 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967
353 -6:00 US C%sT
354# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25.
355Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48
356 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 02:00
357 -6:00 US C%sT
358# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on
359# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time.
360# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>.
361# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and
362# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota;
363# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time.
364# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>.
365Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21
366 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 02:00
367 -6:00 US C%sT
368
369# US mountain time, represented by Denver
370#
371# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western
372# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City),
373# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota,
374# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County,
375# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming
376#
377# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
378Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
379Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
380Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S
381Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
382Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
383# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
384Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04
385 -7:00 US M%sT 1920
386 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942
387 -7:00 US M%sT 1946
388 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967
389 -7:00 US M%sT
390
391# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
392#
393# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater,
394# Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties,
395# and the northern three-quarters of Idaho county),
396# most of Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington
397#
398# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
399Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D
400Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S
401Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
402Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
403Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
404# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
405Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02
406 -8:00 US P%sT 1946
407 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967
408 -8:00 US P%sT
409
410# Alaska
411# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO.
412#
413# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30):
414# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,
415# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia.
416# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian,
417# also a Friday. Include only the time zone part of this transition,
418# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent
419# the Julian calendar.
420#
421# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were
422# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar.
423# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement
424# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there
425# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps
426# it's best to simply use the official transition.
427#
428# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
429Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
430 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
431 -8:00 - PST 1942
432 -8:00 US P%sT 1946
433 -8:00 - PST 1969
434 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
435 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30
436 -9:00 US AK%sT
437Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
438 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
439 -9:00 - YST 1942
440 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946
441 -9:00 - YST 1969
442 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30
443 -9:00 US AK%sT
444Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
445 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
446 -10:00 - CAT 1942
447 -10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u
448 -10:00 US CAT/CAPT 1946 # Peace
449 -10:00 - CAT 1967 Apr
450 -10:00 - AHST 1969
451 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
452 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30
453 -9:00 US AK%sT
454Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
455 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
456 -11:00 - NST 1942
457 -11:00 US N%sT 1946
458 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr
459 -11:00 - BST 1969
460 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
461 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30
462 -9:00 US AK%sT
463Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
464 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
465 -11:00 - NST 1942
466 -11:00 US N%sT 1946
467 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr
468 -11:00 - BST 1969
469 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
470 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30
471 -10:00 US HA%sT
472# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff.
473#
474# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak)
475# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00,
476# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later.
477#
478# From David Flater (2004-11-09):
479# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska
480# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which
481# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967
482# possibly until 1983:
483#
484# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967:
485# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important
486# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was
487# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it
488# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard
489# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday,
490# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with
491# three votes for and one against."
492
493# Hawaii
494#
495# From Arthur David Olson:
496# And then there's Hawaii.
497# DST was observed for one day in 1933;
498# standard time was changed by half an hour in 1947;
499# it's always standard as of 1986.
500#
501# From Paul Eggert:
502# Shanks says the 1933 experiment lasted for three weeks. Go with Shanks.
503#
504Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1900 Jan 1 12:00
505 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00
506 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 2:00
507 -10:30 US H%sT 1947 Jun 8 2:00
508 -10:00 - HST
509
510# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970.
511
512# Arizona mostly uses MST.
513
514# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20):
515#
516# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the
517# <a href="http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm">
518# Daylight Saving Time web page (2002-01-23)</a> maintained by the
519# Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
520# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard
521# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military
522# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to
523# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix
524# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was
525# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of
526# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as
527# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona
528# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST.
529#
530# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17.
531# Go with the Arizona State Library instead.
532
533Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42
534 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 00:01
535 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 00:01
536 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 00:01
537 -7:00 - MST 1967
538 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21
539 -7:00 - MST
540# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
541# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.,
542# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the
543# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its
544# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other
545# tribal nations don't use DST.)
546
547Link America/Denver America/Shiprock
548
549# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine,
550# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark,
551# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome,
552# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power,
553# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern
554# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County)
555# switched four weeks late in 1974.
556#
557# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
558Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11
559 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00
560 -7:00 US M%sT 1974
561 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00
562 -7:00 US M%sT
563
564# Indiana
565#
566# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see:
567# <a href="http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html">
568# What time is it in Indiana?
569# </a> (2006-03-01)
570#
571# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17):
572# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis,
573# with the following exceptions:
574#
575# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
576# Vandenburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago.
577#
578# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York.
579#
580# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like
581# America/Kentucky/Louisville.
582#
583# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke,
584# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below.
585#
586# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history,
587# and wrote ``Even newspaper reports present contradictory information.''
588# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people!
589# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
590#
591# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript
592# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the `America' level.
593# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory `America/Indiana'.
594
595# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
596# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006.
597
598# From Nathan Stratton Treadway (2006-03-30):
599# http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot0406.htm [3705 B]
600# From Deborah Goldsmith (2006-01-18):
601# http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf95/382329_web.pdf [2.9 MB]
602# From Paul Eggert (2006-01-20):
603# It says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke,
604# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the
605# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of
606# this rule is 2:OO a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the
607# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time."
608# Strictly speaking, this means the affected counties will change their
609# clocks twice that night, but this obviously is in error. The intent
610# is that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT.
611
612# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10):
613# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is
614# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007....
615# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL
616
617# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
618Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D
619Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
620Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
621# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
622Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22
623 -6:00 US C%sT 1920
624 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942
625 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
626 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00
627 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00
628 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00
629 -5:00 - EST 1969
630 -5:00 US E%sT 1971
631 -5:00 - EST 2006
632 -5:00 US E%sT
633#
634# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974,
635# as well as from 1976 through 2005.
636# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
637Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
638Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
639Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
640Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
641# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
642Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37
643 -6:00 US C%sT 1951
644 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00
645 -5:00 - EST 1969
646 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00
647 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00
648 -5:00 US E%sT 1976
649 -5:00 - EST 2006
650 -5:00 US E%sT
651#
652# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana,
653# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back
654# in November 2007.
655# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
656Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
657Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
658Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
659Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
660Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
661Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
662Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
663Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
664Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
665# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
666Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53
667 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
668 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00
669 -5:00 - EST 1969
670 -5:00 US E%sT 1971
671 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00
672 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00
673 -5:00 US E%sT
674#
675# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006.
676# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
677Rule Perry 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
678Rule Perry 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
679Rule Perry 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
680Rule Perry 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
681Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
682Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
683Rule Perry 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
684Rule Perry 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
685Rule Perry 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
686# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
687Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:57
688 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
689 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00
690 -5:00 - EST 1969
691 -5:00 US E%sT 1971
692 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00
693 -6:00 US C%sT
694#
695# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977,
696# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007.
697# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
698Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
699Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
700Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
701Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
702# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
703Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53
704 -6:00 US C%sT 1955
705 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00
706 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00
707 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00
708 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00
709 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00
710 -5:00 US E%sT
711#
712# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991,
713# then switched back in 2006.
714# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28):
715# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post
716# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of
717# 1991-10-27.
718# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
719Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
720Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
721Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
722Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
723Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
724# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
725Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30
726 -6:00 US C%sT 1947
727 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00
728 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00
729 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00
730 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00
731 -6:00 US C%sT
732#
733# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in
734# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007.
735# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
736Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
737Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
738Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
739Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
740# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
741Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:35
742 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
743 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00
744 -5:00 - EST 1969
745 -5:00 US E%sT 1971
746 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00
747 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00
748 -5:00 US E%sT
749#
750# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005.
751# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
752Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44
753 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00
754 -5:00 - EST 1969
755 -5:00 US E%sT 1973
756 -5:00 - EST 2006
757 -5:00 US E%sT
758
759# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974.
760# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana.
761# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
762Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
763Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S
764Rule Louisville 1941 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
765Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
766Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S
767Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
768Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
769# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
770Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58
771 -6:00 US C%sT 1921
772 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942
773 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
774 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00
775 -5:00 - EST 1968
776 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00
777 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00
778 -5:00 US E%sT
779#
780# Wayne County, Kentucky
781#
782# From
783# <a href="http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml">
784# Lake Cumberland LIFE
785# </a> (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7:
786# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from
787# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made
788# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not
789# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in
790# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also.
791# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S.
792# location in the Central time zone.
793#
794# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29):
795# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion,
796# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern
797# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley,
798# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400).
799#
800# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16):
801# The final rule was published in the
802# <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22">
803# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158.
804# </a>
805#
806Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36
807 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
808 -6:00 - CST 1968
809 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
810 -5:00 US E%sT
811
812
813# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30):
814# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985.
815# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central;
816# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10
817# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10
818# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10
819# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10
820# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10
821#
822# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17):
823# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS,
824# so omit that change for now.
825# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change.
826# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change.
827# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on
828# 1999-10-31. See the
829# <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=fr21oc99-15">
830# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), page 56705-56707.
831# </a>
832# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated
833# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official;
834# hence a separate tz entry is not needed.
835
836# Michigan
837#
838# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
839# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973.
840#
841# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
842# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18,
843# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01)
844# that Detroit kept
845#
846# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should
847# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the
848# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision
849# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to
850# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the
851# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted
852# by city vote.
853#
854# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks.
855#
856# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
857# Garland (1927) writes ``Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks
858# one hour in 1914.'' This change is not in Shanks. We have no more
859# info, so omit this for now.
860#
861# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975.
862# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
863Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
864Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
865Rule Detroit 1967 only - Jun 14 2:00 1:00 D
866Rule Detroit 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
867# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
868Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905
869 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00
870 -5:00 - EST 1942
871 -5:00 US E%sT 1946
872 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1973
873 -5:00 US E%sT 1975
874 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00
875 -5:00 US E%sT
876#
877# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan,
878# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973.
879# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
880Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
881Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
882Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
883Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
884# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
885Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00
886 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
887 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00
888 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00
889 -6:00 US C%sT
890
891# Navassa
892# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service
893# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act
894# also claimed by Haiti
895# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co
896# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09
897# currently uninhabited
898# see Mark Fineman, ``An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord'',
899# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites
900# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994).
901
902################################################################################
903
904
905# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
906# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
907# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
908# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
909#
910# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
911# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
912# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
913# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
914# of the IATA's data after 1990.
915#
916# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
917# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
918#
919# Other sources occasionally used include:
920#
921# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
922# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated),
923# which I found in the UCLA library.
924#
925# <a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf">
926# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition
927# </a> (1914-03)
928#
929# See the `europe' file for Greenland.
930
931# Canada
932
933# From Alain LaBont<e'> (1994-11-14):
934# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada
935# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard....
936#
937# UTC Standard time Daylight savings time
938# offset French English French English
939# -2:30 - - HAT NDT
940# -3 - - HAA ADT
941# -3:30 HNT NST - -
942# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT
943# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT
944# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT
945# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT
946# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT
947# -9 HNY YST - -
948#
949# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time
950# HA: Heure Avanc<e'>e DT: Daylight saving Time
951#
952# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic
953# C: du Centre Central
954# E: de l'Est Eastern
955# M: Mountain
956# N: Newfoundland
957# P: du Pacifique Pacific
958# R: des Rocheuses
959# T: de Terre-Neuve
960# Y: du Yukon Yukon
961#
962# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22):
963# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software.
964
965# Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks
966# & Pottenger.
967
968# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31,
969# 2007-03-01):
970# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will
971# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the
972# U.S. and the rest of Canada....
973# http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm
974# ...
975# Nova Scotia
976# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007....
977# http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf
978#
979# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to
980# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01.
981# http://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf
982# ...
983# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00.
984# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00.
985# http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php
986# ...
987# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules.
988# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM
989# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm
990# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF
991# ...
992# P.E.I. will follow US rules....
993# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf
994# ...
995# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador....
996# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm
997# ...
998# Yukon
999# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf
1000# ...
1001# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site
1002# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the
1003# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the
1004# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using
1005# JavaScript.
1006# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive
1007# ...
1008# Nunavut
1009# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007....
1010# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf
1011
1012# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25):
1013# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map
1014# <a href="http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp">
1015# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998)
1016# </a> contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard
1017# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998.
1018#
1019# INMS, the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, has <a
1020# href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php">
1021# information about standard and daylight saving time zones in Canada.
1022# </a> (updated periodically).
1023# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent.
1024
1025# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27):
1026# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the
1027# new US DST rules,
1028
1029# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1030Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
1031Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
1032Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1033Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1034Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
1035Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1036Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1037Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1038Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
1039Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
1040
1041
1042# Newfoundland and Labrador
1043
1044# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1045# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Labrador should use NST/NDT,
1046# but the only part of Labrador that follows the rules is the
1047# southeast corner, including Port Hope Simpson and Mary's Harbour,
1048# but excluding, say, Black Tickle.
1049
1050# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1051Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D
1052Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S
1053# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1054Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D
1055Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S
1056# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1057Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D
1058Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S
1059# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks &
1060# Pottenger.
1061Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D
1062Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S
1063# Whitman gives the following transitions:
1064# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07
1065# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules.
1066# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives
1067# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1068Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
1069Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S
1070Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1071Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1072Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1073# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1074# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches
1075# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987.
1076Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D
1077Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S
1078Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD
1079Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D
1080Rule StJohns 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D
1081Rule StJohns 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S
1082#
1083# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes.
1084# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1085Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884
1086 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918
1087 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919
1088 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30
1089 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11
1090 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946
1091 -3:30 StJohns N%sT
1092
1093# most of east Labrador
1094
1095# The name `Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use `Goose Bay'.
1096# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1097Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
1098 -3:30:52 - NST 1918
1099 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919
1100 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30
1101 -3:30 - NST 1936
1102 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11
1103 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946
1104 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00
1105 -4:00 StJohns A%sT
1106
1107
1108# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I
1109
1110# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1111# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
1112# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
1113# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of.
1114# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
1115# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
1116# this is a typo.
1117
1118# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1119Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
1120Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
1121Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D
1122Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S
1123Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D
1124Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S
1125Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
1126Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1127Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S
1128Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
1129Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S
1130Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D
1131Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
1132Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
1133Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S
1134Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D
1135Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S
1136Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
1137Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
1138Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S
1139Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
1140Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
1141Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S
1142Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D
1143Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S
1144Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D
1145Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
1146Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
1147Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S
1148Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1149Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S
1150Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D
1151Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1152Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1153Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1154Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1155Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1156Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1157Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1158Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1159Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1160# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1161Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15
1162 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918
1163 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919
1164 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1165 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946
1166 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974
1167 -4:00 Canada A%sT
1168Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15
1169 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953
1170 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954
1171 -4:00 - AST 1972
1172 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974
1173 -4:00 Canada A%sT
1174
1175# New Brunswick
1176
1177# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31):
1178# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf>
1179# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and
1180# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it
1181# clear that this was the case since at least 1993.
1182# For now, assume it started in 1993.
1183
1184# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1185Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D
1186Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S
1187Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D
1188Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S
1189Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D
1190Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S
1191Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D
1192Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D
1193Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1194Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1195Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1196Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D
1197Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S
1198# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1199Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9
1200 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15
1201 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933
1202 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942
1203 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946
1204 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973
1205 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993
1206 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007
1207 -4:00 Canada A%sT
1208
1209# Quebec
1210
1211# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1212# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Quebec has been
1213# like Montreal.
1214
1215# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27):
1216# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63
1217# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as
1218# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST.
1219# In "Official time in Quebec" the Quebec department of justice writes in
1220# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-regl-1-a.htm
1221# that "The residents of the Municipality of the
1222# Cote-Nord-du-Golfe-Saint-Laurent and the municipalities of Saint-Augustin,
1223# Bonne-Esperance and Blanc-Sablon apply the Official Time Act as it is
1224# written and use Atlantic standard time all year round. The same applies to
1225# the residents of the Native facilities along the lower North Shore."
1226# <http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/37legislature2/Projets-loi/Publics/06-a002.htm>
1227# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007.
1228# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to
1229# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT.
1230
1231# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1232Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D
1233Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S
1234Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D
1235Rule Mont 1919 only - Oct 25 2:30 0 S
1236Rule Mont 1920 only - May 2 2:30 1:00 D
1237Rule Mont 1920 1922 - Oct Sun>=1 2:30 0 S
1238Rule Mont 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
1239Rule Mont 1922 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D
1240Rule Mont 1924 only - May 17 2:00 1:00 D
1241Rule Mont 1924 1926 - Sep lastSun 2:30 0 S
1242Rule Mont 1925 1926 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1243# The 1927-to-1937 rules can be expressed more simply as
1244# Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Apr lastSat 24:00 1:00 D
1245# Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Sep lastSat 24:00 0 S
1246# The rules below avoid use of 24:00
1247# (which pre-1998 versions of zic cannot handle).
1248Rule Mont 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
1249Rule Mont 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
1250Rule Mont 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
1251Rule Mont 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
1252Rule Mont 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
1253Rule Mont 1933 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
1254Rule Mont 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
1255Rule Mont 1946 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1256Rule Mont 1945 1948 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1257Rule Mont 1949 1950 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1258Rule Mont 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1259Rule Mont 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1260
1261# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1262Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884
1263 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970
1264 -4:00 - AST
1265Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884
1266 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1918
1267 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919
1268 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1269 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946
1270 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1974
1271 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1272
1273
1274# Ontario
1275
1276# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1277# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
1278# Toronto.
1279# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1280# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1281# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1282# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax.
1283
1284# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1285# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST
1286# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that
1287# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw
1288# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday,
1289# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable
1290# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after
1291# only two weeks -- I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but
1292# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters
1293# earlier in June).
1294#
1295# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21).
1296
1297# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17):
1298# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star
1299# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST,
1300# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT.
1301# He also writes that the
1302# <a href="http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html">
1303# Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9)
1304# </a>
1305# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT.
1306# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report
1307# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice.
1308#
1309# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1310# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and
1311# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes
1312# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in
1313# violation of the official Ontario rules.
1314#
1315# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1316# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the
1317# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said:
1318#
1319# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round.
1320# This means they spend about half the time on central time and
1321# the other half on eastern time.
1322#
1323# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said.
1324#
1325# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern
1326# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he
1327# said. "I don't see any changes happening here."
1328#
1329# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang
1330# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice."
1331
1332# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton:
1333# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory
1334# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he
1335# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current
1336# time keeping since 1952, at least.
1337
1338# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17):
1339# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River
1340# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from
1341# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan
1342# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time
1343# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour
1344# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move
1345# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file.
1346
1347# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1348Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D
1349Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S
1350Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D
1351Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S
1352Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D
1353Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S
1354Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
1355# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16"
1356# was meant.
1357Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S
1358Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1359# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as
1360# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S
1361# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D
1362# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1363# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1364# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25
1365# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle).
1366Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1367Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1368Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
1369Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1370Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S
1371Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1372Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1373Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1374Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
1375Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
1376Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S
1377Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1378Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S
1379Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1380# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971,
1381# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this
1382# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30
1383# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual.
1384Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1385
1386# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1387# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and
1388# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in
1389# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw,
1390# Saskatchewan, for one year."
1391
1392# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator,
1393# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12):
1394# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight
1395# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur
1396# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central
1397# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to
1398# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight
1399# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so
1400# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World
1401# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer
1402# months for the remainder of the war years.
1403
1404# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1405Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895
1406 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919
1407 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1408 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946
1409 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974
1410 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1411Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895
1412 -6:00 - CST 1910
1413 -5:00 - EST 1942
1414 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970
1415 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1973
1416 -5:00 - EST 1974
1417 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1418Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895
1419 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29
1420 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1421 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1422Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895
1423 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29
1424 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1425 -6:00 Canada C%sT
1426Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895
1427 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29
1428 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1429 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00
1430 -5:00 - EST
1431
1432
1433# Manitoba
1434
1435# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06):
1436# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to
1437# March 27, 1987 ... said ...
1438# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of
1439# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central
1440# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next
1441# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."...
1442# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had =
1443# been assented to (March 22, 1967)....
1444# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying
1445# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of
1446# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central
1447# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time).
1448
1449# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10):
1450# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s)
1451# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume
1452# it was also 02:00s in 1966.
1453
1454# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1455Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D
1456Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S
1457Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
1458Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
1459Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D
1460Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S
1461Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1462Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1463Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1464Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D
1465Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S
1466Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1467Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1468Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
1469Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
1470Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1471Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1472Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1473Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1474Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1475Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S
1476Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
1477Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S
1478Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
1479# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1480Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16
1481 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006
1482 -6:00 Canada C%sT
1483
1484
1485# Saskatchewan
1486
1487# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1488# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal
1489# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people
1490# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight,
1491# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook."
1492# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned:
1493# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of
1494# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad
1495# time was noted.
1496
1497# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1498# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the
1499# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year."
1500
1501# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1502# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina.
1503# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972.
1504# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton.
1505# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton
1506# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law.
1507
1508# From W. Jones (1992-11-06):
1509# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the
1510# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department.
1511# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and
1512# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother.
1513#
1514# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years
1515# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated
1516# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial
1517# referendum favoured legislating common time practices.
1518#
1519# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of
1520# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern
1521# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in
1522# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to
1523# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and
1524# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would
1525# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST.
1526#
1527# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town
1528# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to
1529# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only
1530# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT
1531# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round
1532# since sometime in the 1960s.
1533
1534# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26):
1535# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages
1536# long and rather painful to read.
1537# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf
1538
1539# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1540Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
1541Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
1542Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1543Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
1544Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D
1545Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
1546Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
1547Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
1548Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1549Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1550Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1551Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
1552Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S
1553Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1554Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1555Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1556Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1557#
1558Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1559Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1560Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1561Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1562Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1563# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1564Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep
1565 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00
1566 -6:00 - CST
1567Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep
1568 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00
1569 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950
1570 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00
1571 -6:00 - CST
1572
1573
1574# Alberta
1575
1576# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1577Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
1578Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
1579Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S
1580Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1581Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1582Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1583Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1584Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1585Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1586Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1587Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1588Rule Edm 1967 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1589Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1590Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1591Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1592Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1593Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1594# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1595Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep
1596 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987
1597 -7:00 Canada M%sT
1598
1599
1600# British Columbia
1601
1602# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1603# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has
1604# been like Vancouver.
1605# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton.
1606# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek.
1607
1608# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1609Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
1610Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
1611Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1612Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1613Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
1614Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1615Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S
1616Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1617Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1618# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1619Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884
1620 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987
1621 -8:00 Canada P%sT
1622Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884
1623 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947
1624 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00
1625 -7:00 - MST
1626
1627
1628# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon
1629
1630# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1631# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979.
1632# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs:
1633# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68,
1634# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid;
1635# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1).
1636# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00.
1637# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST.
1638# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00.
1639# Shanks & Pottenger say Yukon's 1973-10-28 switch was at 2:00; go
1640# with Englander.
1641# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26):
1642# Here is a link to the old daylight saving portion of the interpretation
1643# act which was last updated in 1987:
1644# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic1987_056.pdf
1645
1646# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04):
1647# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone.
1648# <a href="http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html">
1649# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31
1650# </a>
1651#
1652# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06):
1653# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut
1654# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region.
1655
1656# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
1657# <a href="http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html">
1658# Basic Facts: The New Territory
1659# </a> (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time,
1660# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when
1661# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995.
1662
1663# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
1664# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time,
1665# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble:
1666#
1667# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time:
1668#
1669# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP,
1670# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist
1671#
1672# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time:
1673#
1674# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator
1675#
1676# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news.
1677# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to
1678# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not
1679# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally.
1680# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart,
1681# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long.
1682# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to
1683# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with
1684# the current state of affairs.
1685
1686# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the
1687# <a href="http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html">
1688# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19)</a>:
1689# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones,
1690# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time
1691# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then]
1692# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6.
1693
1694# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1695# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories
1696# for these potential new Zones.
1697#
1698# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the
1699# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central
1700# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the
1701# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time.
1702# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of
1703# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not
1704# required to use daylight savings.
1705
1706# From
1707# <a href="http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html">
1708# Nunavut now has two time zones
1709# </a> (2000-11-10):
1710# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and
1711# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them
1712# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter.
1713# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against
1714# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with
1715# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on
1716# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to
1717# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's
1718# unified time zone in 1999.
1719#
1720# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government:
1721# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000.
1722
1723# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
1724# Let's just keep track of the official times for now.
1725
1726# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07):
1727# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising
1728# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert
1729# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the
1730# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that
1731# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm
1732# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with
1733# more.
1734# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).]
1735
1736# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21):
1737# According to maps at
1738# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SWE.jpg
1739# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SSE.jpg
1740# (both dated 2003), and
1741# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp
1742# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time
1743# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year
1744# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this.
1745# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it
1746# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years....
1747# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used.
1748#
1749# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26):
1750# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed
1751# daylight saving only during wartime.
1752
1753# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01):
1754# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in
1755# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November.
1756# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of
1757# daylight saving....
1758# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html
1759
1760# From Chris Walton (2007-03-14):
1761# Today I phoned the "hamlet office" to find out what Resolute was doing with
1762# its clocks.
1763#
1764# The individual that answered the phone confirmed that the clocks did not
1765# move at the end of daylight saving on October 29/2006. He also told me that
1766# the clocks did not move this past weekend (March 11/2007)....
1767#
1768# America/Resolute should use the "Canada" Rule up to October 29/2006.
1769# After that it should be fixed on Eastern Standard Time until further notice.
1770
1771# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1772Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
1773Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S
1774Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D
1775Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
1776Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1777Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1778Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
1779Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD
1780Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1781Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1782Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1783Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1784# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1785# aka Panniqtuuq
1786Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - zzz 1921 # trading post est.
1787 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00
1788 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00
1789 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
1790 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1791# formerly Frobisher Bay
1792Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - zzz 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est.
1793 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00
1794 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
1795 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1796# aka Qausuittuq
1797Zone America/Resolute 0 - zzz 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded
1798 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
1799 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00
1800 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00
1801 -5:00 - EST
1802# aka Kangiqiniq
1803Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - zzz 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded
1804 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
1805 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00
1806 -6:00 Canada C%sT
1807# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq
1808Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - zzz 1920 # trading post est.?
1809 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00
1810 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
1811 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00
1812 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00
1813 -7:00 Canada M%sT
1814Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - zzz 1935 # Yellowknife founded?
1815 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980
1816 -7:00 Canada M%sT
1817Zone America/Inuvik 0 - zzz 1953 # Inuvik founded
1818 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00
1819 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980
1820 -7:00 Canada M%sT
1821Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20
1822 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1966 Jul 1 2:00
1823 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980
1824 -8:00 Canada P%sT
1825Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20
1826 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00
1827 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980
1828 -8:00 Canada P%sT
1829
1830
1831###############################################################################
1832
1833# Mexico
1834
1835# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05):
1836# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the
1837# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a
1838# <a href="http://www.cddhcu.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/">
1839# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish)
1840# </a>.
1841#
1842# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC.
1843# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.)
1844# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923.
1845# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16.
1846# S&P report no DST during summer 1931.
1847# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01.
1848
1849# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20):
1850# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the
1851# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that
1852# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of
1853# the relevant documents.
1854
1855# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15):
1856# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree
1857# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico.
1858#
1859# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
1860#
1861# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the
1862# rules for the DST changes. The rules are:
1863#
1864# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones:
1865# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ)
1866# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ)
1867# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ)
1868#
1869# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October
1870# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows:
1871# BajaNorte: GMT+7
1872# BajaSur: GMT+6
1873# General: GMT+5
1874#
1875# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows:
1876# BajaNorte: GMT+8
1877# BajaSur: GMT+7
1878# General: GMT+6
1879#
1880# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th.
1881#
1882# -------------- End Forwarded Message --------------
1883# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
1884# For an English translation of the decree, see
1885# <a href="http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html">
1886# ``Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover'' (1996-01-04).
1887# </a>
1888
1889# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
1890# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times
1891# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02).
1892
1893# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
1894# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time
1895# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight
1896# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of
1897# Arizona year round.
1898
1899# From Jesper Norgaard, translating
1900# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17):
1901# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National
1902# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each
1903# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the
1904# whole year.
1905
1906# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19):
1907# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says
1908# (translated):...
1909# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced
1910# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting
1911# this year....
1912# <http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001>
1913# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday
1914# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September.
1915
1916# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25):
1917# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one
1918# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."...
1919# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html
1920# ... Mexico City Mayor Lopez Obrador "...is threatening to keep
1921# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than
1922# the rest of the country..." In particular, Lopez Obrador would abolish
1923# observation of Daylight Saving Time.
1924
1925# <a href="http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre">
1926# Official statute published by the Energy Department
1927# </a> (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules,
1928# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Norgaard (2001-02-03).
1929
1930# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03):
1931#
1932# <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html">
1933# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times
1934# </a>
1935# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time.
1936# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador decreed that
1937# the Federal District will not adopt DST.
1938# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree.
1939# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including
1940# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools.
1941#
1942# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules.
1943
1944# From Jesper Norgaard (2001-04-01):
1945# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight
1946# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier
1947# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight
1948# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California
1949# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight
1950# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president
1951# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending
1952# September 30, 2001.
1953# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp>
1954# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31)
1955
1956# From Reuters (2001-09-04):
1957# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was
1958# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the
1959# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation
1960# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00
1961# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to
1962# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not
1963# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said.
1964
1965# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2002-03-12):
1966# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted
1967# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico....
1968# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20)
1969# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied.
1970
1971# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1972Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D
1973Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S
1974Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D
1975Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S
1976Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War
1977Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S
1978Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D
1979Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S
1980Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1981Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1982Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1983Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1984Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1985Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1986# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1987# Quintana Roo
1988Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56
1989 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23
1990 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00
1991 -6:00 Mexico C%sT
1992# Campeche, Yucatan
1993Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32
1994 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23
1995 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2
1996 -6:00 Mexico C%sT
1997# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas
1998Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44
1999 -6:00 - CST 1988
2000 -6:00 US C%sT 1989
2001 -6:00 Mexico C%sT
2002# Central Mexico
2003Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24
2004 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
2005 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15
2006 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00
2007 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct
2008 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1
2009 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 02:00
2010 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20
2011 -6:00 Mexico C%sT
2012# Chihuahua
2013Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40
2014 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
2015 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15
2016 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00
2017 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct
2018 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1
2019 -6:00 - CST 1996
2020 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998
2021 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00
2022 -7:00 Mexico M%sT
2023# Sonora
2024Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08
2025 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
2026 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15
2027 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00
2028 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct
2029 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1
2030 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24
2031 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14
2032 -8:00 - PST 1970
2033 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999
2034 -7:00 - MST
2035# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa
2036Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20
2037 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
2038 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15
2039 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00
2040 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct
2041 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1
2042 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24
2043 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14
2044 -8:00 - PST 1970
2045 -7:00 Mexico M%sT
2046# Baja California
2047Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56
2048 -7:00 - MST 1924
2049 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
2050 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15
2051 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1
2052 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30
2053 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24
2054 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u
2055 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace
2056 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5
2057 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14
2058 -8:00 - PST 1954
2059 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961
2060 -8:00 - PST 1976
2061 -8:00 US P%sT 1996
2062 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001
2063 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20
2064 -8:00 Mexico P%sT
2065# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2066# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from
2067# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976
2068# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say
2069# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports
2070# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicale, San Felipe and
2071# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that
2072# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns
2073# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone
2074# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its
2075# name or contents should be.
2076#
2077# Revillagigedo Is
2078# no information
2079
2080###############################################################################
2081
2082# Anguilla
2083# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2084Zone America/Anguilla -4:12:16 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
2085 -4:00 - AST
2086
2087# Antigua and Barbuda
2088# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2089Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
2090 -5:00 - EST 1951
2091 -4:00 - AST
2092
2093# Bahamas
2094#
2095# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07):
2096# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST
2097# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007....
2098# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412
2099
2100# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2101Rule Bahamas 1964 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
2102Rule Bahamas 1964 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
2103# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2104Zone America/Nassau -5:09:24 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
2105 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976
2106 -5:00 US E%sT
2107
2108# Barbados
2109# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2110Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D
2111Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
2112Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D
2113Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
2114Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S
2115# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2116Zone America/Barbados -3:58:28 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown
2117 -3:58:28 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time
2118 -4:00 Barb A%sT
2119
2120# Belize
2121# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
2122# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2123Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 HD
2124Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 S
2125Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 D
2126Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 S
2127Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 D
2128Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 S
2129# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2130Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr
2131 -6:00 Belize C%sT
2132
2133# Bermuda
2134
2135# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26):
2136
2137# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday
2138# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone
2139# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on
2140# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda.
2141# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135
2142
2143# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2144Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:04 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton
2145 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00
2146 -4:00 Bahamas A%sT 1976
2147 -4:00 US A%sT
2148
2149# Cayman Is
2150# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2151Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown
2152 -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
2153 -5:00 - EST
2154
2155# Costa Rica
2156# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2157Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
2158Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
2159Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D
2160# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00;
2161# go with Shanks & Pottenger.
2162Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S
2163Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S
2164# There are too many San Joses elsewhere, so we'll use `Costa Rica'.
2165# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2166Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:20 - LMT 1890 # San Jose
2167 -5:36:20 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San Jose Mean Time
2168 -6:00 CR C%sT
2169# Coco
2170# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica
2171
2172# Cuba
2173
2174# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29):
2175# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between
2176# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on
2177# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC.
2178# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that
2179# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving
2180# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of
2181# sleep on 1999-03-28--when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched
2182# to DST--and one more hour on 1999-04-04--when the announcers will have
2183# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.)
2184
2185# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28):
2186# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year.
2187# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2188# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html
2189# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras
2190# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return
2191# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)".
2192# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure.
2193
2194# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12):
2195# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone
2196# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time:
2197# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html
2198
2199# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-10-21):
2200# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end
2201# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see
2202# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html
2203# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00,
2204# watches should be set back one hour -- going back to 00:00 hours -- returning
2205# to the normal schedule....
2206
2207# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02):
2208# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html, dated yesterday,
2209# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10.
2210# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules,
2211# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual.
2212
2213# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2214Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D
2215Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S
2216Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
2217Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
2218Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
2219Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
2220Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
2221Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
2222Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D
2223Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S
2224Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D
2225Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
2226Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D
2227Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
2228Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S
2229Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S
2230Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S
2231Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D
2232Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
2233Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D
2234Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D
2235Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D
2236Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
2237Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S
2238Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S
2239Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S
2240Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D
2241Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S
2242Rule Cuba 2000 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D
2243Rule Cuba 2006 only - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S
2244Rule Cuba 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D
2245Rule Cuba 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S
2246
2247# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2248Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890
2249 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT
2250 -5:00 Cuba C%sT
2251
2252# Dominica
2253# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2254Zone America/Dominica -4:05:36 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Roseau
2255 -4:00 - AST
2256
2257# Dominican Republic
2258
2259# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30):
2260# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the
2261# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am....
2262# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html
2263
2264# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
2265# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST.
2266
2267# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
2268# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday,
2269# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the
2270# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date
2271# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they
2272# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going
2273# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president
2274# decided to revert.
2275
2276
2277# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2278Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 D
2279Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 S
2280Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HD
2281Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 S
2282Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 S
2283Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 S
2284# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2285Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890
2286 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT
2287 -5:00 DR E%sT 1974 Oct 27
2288 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 02:00
2289 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 01:00
2290 -4:00 - AST
2291
2292# El Salvador
2293
2294# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2295Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
2296Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
2297# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador
2298# instead of America/San_Salvador.
2299# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2300Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador
2301 -6:00 Salv C%sT
2302
2303# Grenada
2304# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2305Zone America/Grenada -4:07:00 - LMT 1911 Jul # St George's
2306 -4:00 - AST
2307
2308# Guadeloupe
2309# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2310Zone America/Guadeloupe -4:06:08 - LMT 1911 Jun 8 # Pointe a Pitre
2311 -4:00 - AST
2312
2313# Guatemala
2314#
2315# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen:
2316# Diario Co Latino, at
2317# http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079,
2318# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had
2319# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the
2320# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from
2321# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified).
2322# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22):
2323# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006
2324# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See
2325# <http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf>.
2326
2327# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2328Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D
2329Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S
2330Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D
2331Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
2332Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D
2333Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S
2334Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
2335Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
2336# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2337Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5
2338 -6:00 Guat C%sT
2339
2340# Haiti
2341# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15):
2342# Risto O. Nykanen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST.
2343# I searched for confirmation, and I found a
2344# <a href="http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc"> press release
2345# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31),
2346# </a>. Translated from French, it says:
2347#
2348# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general
2349# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior
2350# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the
2351# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next
2352# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd.
2353#
2354# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform
2355# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour
2356# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in
2357# October 2005.
2358#
2359# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005"
2360#
2361# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04):
2362# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like
2363# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a
2364# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST
2365# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year).
2366#
2367# I have found this article about it (in French):
2368# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612
2369#
2370# The reason seems to be an energy crisis.
2371
2372# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22):
2373# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007.
2374
2375
2376# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2377Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D
2378Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
2379Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S
2380# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s.
2381# Go with IATA.
2382Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D
2383Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S
2384Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
2385Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S
2386# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2387Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890
2388 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT
2389 -5:00 Haiti E%sT
2390
2391# Honduras
2392# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1.
2393
2394# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05):
2395# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article
2396# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4
2397# months until September. La Tribuna reported today
2398# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president
2399# of Honduras, refused to back down on this.
2400
2401# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-08-08):
2402# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at
2403# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration).
2404# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html
2405
2406# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08):
2407# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08)
2408# <http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12>.
2409# It mentions executive decree 18-2006.
2410
2411# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17):
2412# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not
2413# published, I have located this authoritative source:
2414# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47
2415
2416# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30):
2417# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386
2418# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year....
2419
2420# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2421Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
2422Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
2423Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
2424Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S
2425# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2426Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr
2427 -6:00 Hond C%sT
2428#
2429# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972
2430
2431# Jamaica
2432
2433# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
2434# Follows US rules.
2435
2436# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
2437# JAMAICA 5 H BEHIND UTC
2438
2439# From Shanks & Pottenger:
2440# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2441Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:12 - LMT 1890 # Kingston
2442 -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
2443 -5:00 - EST 1974 Apr 28 2:00
2444 -5:00 US E%sT 1984
2445 -5:00 - EST
2446
2447# Martinique
2448# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2449Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France
2450 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT
2451 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6
2452 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28
2453 -4:00 - AST
2454
2455# Montserrat
2456# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2457# In 1995 volcanic eruptions forced evacuation of Plymouth, the capital.
2458# world.gazetteer.com says Cork Hill is the most populous location now.
2459# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2460Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Cork Hill
2461 -4:00 - AST
2462
2463# Nicaragua
2464#
2465# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005.
2466#
2467# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12):
2468# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started
2469# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of
2470# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet
2471# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September".
2472# Some background information is available on the President's official site:
2473# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm
2474# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here:
2475# 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
2476#
2477# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01):
2478# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's
2479# assume that it is daylight saving....
2480#
2481# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21):
2482# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at
2483# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html
2484# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last
2485# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000
2486# during the Arnoldo Aleman administration."...
2487# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously
2488# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time
2489# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to
2490# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000.
2491#
2492# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-11-02):
2493# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time).
2494# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm
2495# (2005-09-26)
2496#
2497# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-05-05):
2498# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410
2499# (my informal translation)
2500# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolanos, Nicaragua
2501# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the
2502# morning, and will stay that way until 30.th. of september.
2503#
2504# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-09-30):
2505# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf
2506# My informal translation runs:
2507# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the
2508# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006.
2509#
2510# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2511Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D
2512Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S
2513Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D
2514Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
2515Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D
2516Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S
2517# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2518Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890
2519 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time?
2520 -6:00 - CST 1973 May
2521 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16
2522 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00
2523 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24
2524 -6:00 - CST 1993
2525 -5:00 - EST 1997
2526 -6:00 Nic C%sT
2527
2528# Panama
2529# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2530Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890
2531 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colon Mean Time
2532 -5:00 - EST
2533
2534# Puerto Rico
2535# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use `Puerto_Rico'.
2536# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2537Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan
2538 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3
2539 -4:00 US A%sT 1946
2540 -4:00 - AST
2541
2542# St Kitts-Nevis
2543# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2544Zone America/St_Kitts -4:10:52 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 # Basseterre
2545 -4:00 - AST
2546
2547# St Lucia
2548# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2549Zone America/St_Lucia -4:04:00 - LMT 1890 # Castries
2550 -4:04:00 - CMT 1912 # Castries Mean Time
2551 -4:00 - AST
2552
2553# St Pierre and Miquelon
2554# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use `Miquelon'.
2555# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2556Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre
2557 -4:00 - AST 1980 May
2558 -3:00 - PMST 1987 # Pierre & Miquelon Time
2559 -3:00 Canada PM%sT
2560
2561# St Vincent and the Grenadines
2562# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2563Zone America/St_Vincent -4:04:56 - LMT 1890 # Kingstown
2564 -4:04:56 - KMT 1912 # Kingstown Mean Time
2565 -4:00 - AST
2566
2567# Turks and Caicos
2568#
2569# From Chris Dunn in
2570# <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007>
2571# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the
2572# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match
2573# the recent U.S. change of dates.
2574#
2575# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28):
2576# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26]
2577# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three
2578# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct:
2579# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007
2580# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time"
2581# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed.
2582#
2583# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-01):
2584# Shanks & Pottenger say they use US DST rules, but IATA SSIM (1991/1998)
2585# says they switch at midnight. Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
2586#
2587# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2588Rule TC 1979 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
2589Rule TC 1979 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
2590Rule TC 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
2591Rule TC 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
2592Rule TC 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
2593# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2594Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890
2595 -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
2596 -5:00 TC E%sT
2597
2598# British Virgin Is
2599# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2600Zone America/Tortola -4:18:28 - LMT 1911 Jul # Road Town
2601 -4:00 - AST
2602
2603# Virgin Is
2604# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2605Zone America/St_Thomas -4:19:44 - LMT 1911 Jul # Charlotte Amalie
2606 -4:00 - AST