1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4# also includes Central America and the Caribbean 5 6# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 7# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 8# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 9# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 10 11# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): 12# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 13# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 14 15############################################################################### 16 17# United States 18 19# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 20# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by 21# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904), 22# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY). 23# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870) 24# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines 25# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC, 26# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich. 27# His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00, 28# and the most of the country soon followed suit. 29 30# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): 31# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. 32# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). 33 34# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 35# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is 36# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), 37# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 38# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. 39# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below. 40 41# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 42# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin 43# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost 44# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26). 45# Not everyone is happy with the results: 46# 47# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some 48# agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving 49# daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. 50# I even object to the implication that I am wasting something 51# valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer 52# of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to 53# reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving 54# scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager 55# to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make 56# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. 57# 58# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 59# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday 60# 61# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see 62# Robert Garland, Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint 63# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927). 64# http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html 65# 66# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919. 67# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which 68# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently 69# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time". 70 71# From Arthur David Olson: 72# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974. 73# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26 74# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post. 75 76# From Arthur David Olson: 77# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of 78# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime. 79 80# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25): 81# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama. 82# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time." 83# An AltaVista search turned up: 84# http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html 85# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace 86# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." 87# (August 1945) by way of confirmation. 88 89# From Joseph Gallant citing 90# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): 91# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set 92# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people 93# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account, 94# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender, 95# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word 96# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in 97# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech. 98 99# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From 100# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times: 101# 102# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender. 103# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a 104# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news. 105# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out 106# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental 107# importance." 108# 109# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open 110# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell, 111# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over. 112# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms." 113# 114# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters. 115 116# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22): 117# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations 118# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of 119# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed 120# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected. 121 122# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 123Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 124Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 125Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 126Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 127Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 128Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 129Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 130Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D 131Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D 132Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 133Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 134Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 135Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 136 137# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19 138# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with 139# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory. 140# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of 141# this time zone package. 142# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if 143# a particular place changes whether it observes DST. 144# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to 145# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to 146# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file. 147 148# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 149Zone EST -5:00 - EST 150Zone MST -7:00 - MST 151Zone HST -10:00 - HST 152Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT 153Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT 154Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT 155Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT 156 157# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 158# ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. 159# old new 160# Pacific Standard Time(PST) -same- 161# Yukon Standard Time(YST) -same- 162# Central Alaska S.T. (CAT) Alaska-Hawaii St[an]dard Time (AHST) 163# Nome Standard Time (NT) Bering Standard Time (BST) 164# 165# ...Alaska's timezone lines were redrawn in 1983 to give only 2 tz. 166# The YST zone now covers nearly all of the state, AHST just part 167# of the Aleutian islands. No DST. 168 169# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 170# The tables below use 'NST', not 'NT', for Nome Standard Time. 171# I invented 'CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time. 172 173# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19): 174# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON 175# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 176# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON 177# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 178# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER 179# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 180# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO 181# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 182# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST) 183# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT) 184# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W 185# USA " 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 186# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC 187# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY 188 189# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21): 190# The above dates are for 1988. 191# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's 192# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the 193# Aleutians. 194 195# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 196# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and 197# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names 198# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 199# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261: 200# (none) 201# United States standard eastern time 202# United States standard mountain time 203# United States standard central time 204# United States standard Pacific time 205# (none) 206# United States standard Alaska time 207# (none) 208# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for 209# public law 98-181): 210# Atlantic standard time 211# eastern standard time 212# central standard time 213# mountain standard time 214# Pacific standard time 215# Yukon standard time 216# Alaska-Hawaii standard time 217# Bering standard time 218# And after 1983-11-30: 219# Atlantic standard time 220# eastern standard time 221# central standard time 222# mountain standard time 223# Pacific standard time 224# Alaska standard time 225# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time 226# Samoa standard time 227# The law doesn't give abbreviations. 228# 229# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow: 230# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation 231# "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. 232# See the file "australasia". 233 234# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 235# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. 236# 237# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. 238# (a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 239# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- 240# (1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second 241# Sunday of March"; and 242# (2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first 243# Sunday of November'. 244# (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the 245# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. 246# (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective 247# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress 248# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United 249# States. 250# (d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the 251# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the 252# Department study is complete. 253 254# US eastern time, represented by New York 255 256# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida, 257# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky 258# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, 259# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, 260# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, 261# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia 262 263# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): 264# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington 265# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... 266# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time 267# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their 268# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. 269 270# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26): 271# According to today's Huntsville Times 272# http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1 273# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City 274# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County, 275# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba" 276# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central 277# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work 278# in Columbus." 279 280# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 281Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 282Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 283Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 284Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 285Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 286# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 287Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 288 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 289 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 290 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 291 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967 292 -5:00 US E%sT 293 294# US central time, represented by Chicago 295 296# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, 297# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and 298# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana 299# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 300# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western 301# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern 302# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, 303# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin 304 305# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin: 306# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/statutes/Stat0175.pdf ... 307# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change. Because the local 308# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations 309# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited 310# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year.... 311# 312# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12): 313# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI 314# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent.... 315# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act3.pdf 316 317# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 318Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D 319Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 320Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 321Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 322Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 323Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 324# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 325Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 326 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 327 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 328 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 329 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942 330 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 331 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 332 -6:00 US C%sT 333# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. 334Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 335 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 2:00 336 -6:00 US C%sT 337# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on 338# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time. 339# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>. 340# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and 341# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota; 342# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time. 343# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>. 344Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 345 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 2:00 346 -6:00 US C%sT 347 348# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21): 349# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the 350# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from 351# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010): 352# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm 353# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html 354 355# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24): 356# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although 357# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next 358# largest city in Mercer County). Google Maps places Beulah's city hall 359# at 47 degrees 15' 51" N, 101 degrees 46' 40" W, which yields an offset 360# of 6h47'07". 361 362Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53 363 -7:00 US M%sT 2010 Nov 7 2:00 364 -6:00 US C%sT 365 366# US mountain time, represented by Denver 367# 368# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western 369# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City), 370# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, 371# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County, 372# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming 373# 374# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 375Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 376Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 377Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S 378Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 379Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 380# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 381Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 382 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 383 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 384 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 385 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967 386 -7:00 US M%sT 387 388# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles 389# 390# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, 391# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county 392# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren), 393# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern 3/4 of 394# Malheur county), and Washington 395# 396# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 397Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D 398Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S 399Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 400Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 401Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 402# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 403Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 404 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 405 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 406 -8:00 US P%sT 407 408# Alaska 409# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO. 410# 411# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30): 412# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, 413# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia. 414# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian, 415# also a Friday. Include only the time zone part of this transition, 416# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent 417# the Julian calendar. 418# 419# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were 420# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar. 421# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement 422# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there 423# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps 424# it's best to simply use the official transition. 425 426# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-18): 427# One opinion of the early-1980s turmoil in Alaska over time zones and 428# daylight saving time appeared as graffiti on a Juneau airport wall: 429# "Welcome to Juneau. Please turn your watch back to the 19th century." 430# See: Turner W. Alaska's four time zones now two. NY Times 1983-11-01. 431# http://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/01/us/alaska-s-four-time-zones-now-two.html 432# 433# Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31) referred to the following source: 434# Norris F. Keeping time in Alaska: national directives, local response. 435# Alaska History 2001;16(1-2). 436# http://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/discover-alaska/glimpses-of-the-past/keeping-time-in-alaska/ 437 438# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): 439# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: 440# 441# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27, 442# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time. 443# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on 444# Pacific Time. 445# 446# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the 447# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in 448# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26. 449# 450# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted 451# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time. 452# 453# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not 454# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions. 455# 456# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo 457# Nation.) 458 459# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09): 460# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian 461# Community office (using contact information available at 462# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla 463# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States; 464# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether 465# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no - they were on their 466# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I 467# did not inquire about practices in the past. 468 469# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17): 470# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's 471# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote. 472 473# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 474Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 475 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 476 -8:00 - PST 1942 477 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 478 -8:00 - PST 1969 479 -8:00 US P%sT 1980 Apr 27 2:00 480 -9:00 US Y%sT 1980 Oct 26 2:00 481 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 482 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 483 -9:00 US AK%sT 484Zone America/Sitka 14:58:47 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 485 -9:01:13 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 486 -8:00 - PST 1942 487 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 488 -8:00 - PST 1969 489 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 490 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 491 -9:00 US AK%sT 492Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 493 -8:46:18 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 494 -8:00 - PST 1942 495 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 496 -8:00 - PST 1969 497 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 498 -8:00 - PST 499Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 500 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 501 -9:00 - YST 1942 502 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946 503 -9:00 - YST 1969 504 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 505 -9:00 US AK%sT 506Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 507 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 508 -10:00 - CAT 1942 509 -10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 510 -10:00 US CAT/CAPT 1946 # Peace 511 -10:00 - CAT 1967 Apr 512 -10:00 - AHST 1969 513 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 514 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 515 -9:00 US AK%sT 516Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 517 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 518 -11:00 - NST 1942 519 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 520 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 521 -11:00 - BST 1969 522 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 523 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 524 -9:00 US AK%sT 525Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 526 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 527 -11:00 - NST 1942 528 -11:00 US N%sT 1946 529 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr 530 -11:00 - BST 1969 531 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 532 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 533 -10:00 US HA%sT 534# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. 535# 536# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) 537# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, 538# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. 539# 540# From David Flater (2004-11-09): 541# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska 542# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which 543# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 544# possibly until 1983: 545# 546# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: 547# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important 548# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was 549# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it 550# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard 551# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, 552# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with 553# three votes for and one against." 554 555# Hawaii 556 557# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): 558# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 559# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, 560# the article is available at 561# http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf 562# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January 563# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight 564# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the 565# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the 566# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect 567# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for 568# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes 569# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of 570# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes 571# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) 572# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." 573 574# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): 575# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the 576# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of 577# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act 578# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each 579# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one 580# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th 581# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of 582# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is 583# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon 584# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to 585# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. 586# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor 587# of the Territory of Hawaii." 588# 589# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. 590# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. 591 592# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 593Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 594 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 595 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 596 -10:30 - HST 1942 Feb 9 2:00 597 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 598 -10:30 - HST 1947 Jun 8 2:00 599 -10:00 - HST 600Link Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston 601 602# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. 603 604# Arizona mostly uses MST. 605 606# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20): 607# 608# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the 609# Daylight Saving Time web page 610# <http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23) 611# maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. 612# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard 613# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military 614# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to 615# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix 616# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was 617# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of 618# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as 619# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona 620# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST. 621# 622# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. 623# Go with the Arizona State Library instead. 624 625# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 626Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 627 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 0:01 628 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 0:01 629 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 0:01 630 -7:00 - MST 1967 631 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21 632 -7:00 - MST 633# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13): 634# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., 635# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the 636# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its 637# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other 638# tribal nations don't use DST.) 639# 640# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26): 641# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation. 642 643# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, 644# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, 645# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, 646# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, 647# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern 648# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County) 649# switched four weeks late in 1974. 650# 651# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 652Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 653 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 654 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 655 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 656 -7:00 US M%sT 657 658# Indiana 659# 660# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see: 661# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana 662# 663# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17): 664# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis, 665# with the following exceptions: 666# 667# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer, 668# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago. 669# 670# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York. 671# 672# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like 673# America/Kentucky/Louisville. 674# 675# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke, 676# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below. 677# 678# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history, 679# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information." 680# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people! 681# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970. 682# 683# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript 684# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level. 685# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'. 686 687# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-26): 688# https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2006/01/20/06-563/standard-time-zone-boundary-in-the-state-of-indiana 689# says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke, 690# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the 691# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of 692# this rule is 2 a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the 693# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time." 694# Strictly speaking, this meant the affected counties changed their 695# clocks twice that night, but this obviously was in error. The intent 696# was that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT. 697 698# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10): 699# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is 700# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007.... 701# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL 702 703# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 704Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 705Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 706Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 707# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 708Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 709 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 710 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 711 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 712 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00 713 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00 714 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 715 -5:00 - EST 1969 716 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 717 -5:00 - EST 2006 718 -5:00 US E%sT 719# 720# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974, 721# as well as from 1976 through 2005. 722# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 723Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 724Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 725Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 726Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 727# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 728Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 729 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 730 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 731 -5:00 - EST 1969 732 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 733 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 734 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 735 -5:00 - EST 2006 736 -5:00 US E%sT 737# 738# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana, 739# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back 740# in November 2007. 741# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 742Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 743Rule Vincennes 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 744Rule Vincennes 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 745Rule Vincennes 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 746Rule Vincennes 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 747Rule Vincennes 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 748Rule Vincennes 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 749Rule Vincennes 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 750Rule Vincennes 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 751# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 752Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:53 753 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 754 -6:00 Vincennes C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 755 -5:00 - EST 1969 756 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 757 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 758 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 759 -5:00 US E%sT 760# 761# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006. 762# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 763Rule Perry 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 764Rule Perry 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 765Rule Perry 1953 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 766Rule Perry 1953 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 767Rule Perry 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 768Rule Perry 1956 1963 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 769Rule Perry 1960 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 770Rule Perry 1961 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 771Rule Perry 1962 1963 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 772# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 773Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:57 774 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 775 -6:00 Perry C%sT 1964 Apr 26 2:00 776 -5:00 - EST 1969 777 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 778 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 779 -6:00 US C%sT 780# 781# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977, 782# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007. 783# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 784Rule Pike 1955 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 785Rule Pike 1955 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 786Rule Pike 1956 1964 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 787Rule Pike 1961 1964 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 788# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 789Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:10:53 790 -6:00 US C%sT 1955 791 -6:00 Pike C%sT 1965 Apr 25 2:00 792 -5:00 - EST 1966 Oct 30 2:00 793 -6:00 US C%sT 1977 Oct 30 2:00 794 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 795 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Nov 4 2:00 796 -5:00 US E%sT 797# 798# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991, 799# then switched back in 2006. 800# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): 801# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post 802# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of 803# 1991-10-27. 804# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 805Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 806Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 807Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 808Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 809Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 810# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 811Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 812 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 813 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 814 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 815 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 816 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 817 -6:00 US C%sT 818# 819# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in 820# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007. 821# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 822Rule Pulaski 1946 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 823Rule Pulaski 1946 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 824Rule Pulaski 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 825Rule Pulaski 1957 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 826# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 827Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:35 828 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 829 -6:00 Pulaski C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 830 -5:00 - EST 1969 831 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 832 -5:00 - EST 2006 Apr 2 2:00 833 -6:00 US C%sT 2007 Mar 11 2:00 834 -5:00 US E%sT 835# 836# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005. 837# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 838Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 839 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 840 -5:00 - EST 1969 841 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 842 -5:00 - EST 2006 843 -5:00 US E%sT 844 845# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. 846# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. 847# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 848Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 849Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S 850Rule Louisville 1941 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 851Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 852Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S 853Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 854Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 855# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 856Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 857 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 858 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 859 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 860 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00 861 -5:00 - EST 1968 862 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 863 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 864 -5:00 US E%sT 865# 866# Wayne County, Kentucky 867# 868# From Lake Cumberland LIFE 869# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml 870# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7: 871# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from 872# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made 873# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not 874# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in 875# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also. 876# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S. 877# location in the Central time zone. 878# 879# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29): 880# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion, 881# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern 882# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley, 883# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400). 884# 885# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16): 886# The final rule was published in the 887# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158. 888# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22 889# 890Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 891 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 892 -6:00 - CST 1968 893 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 894 -5:00 US E%sT 895 896 897# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30): 898# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985. 899# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central; 900# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10 901# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10 902# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10 903# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10 904# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10 905# 906# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17): 907# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS, 908# so omit that change for now. 909# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change. 910# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change. 911# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on 912# 1999-10-31. See the 913# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), pp 56705-56707. 914# http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=fr21oc99-15 915# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated 916# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official; 917# hence a separate tz entry is not needed. 918 919# Michigan 920# 921# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): 922# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973. 923# 924# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31): 925# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18, 926# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01) 927# that Detroit kept 928# 929# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should 930# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the 931# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision 932# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to 933# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the 934# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted 935# by city vote. 936# 937# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks. 938# 939# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): 940# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks 941# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more 942# info, so omit this for now. 943# 944# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975. 945# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 946Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 947Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 948Rule Detroit 1967 only - Jun 14 2:00 1:00 D 949Rule Detroit 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 950# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 951Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905 952 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00 953 -5:00 - EST 1942 954 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 955 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1973 956 -5:00 US E%sT 1975 957 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00 958 -5:00 US E%sT 959# 960# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan, 961# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973. 962# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER 963Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 964Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 965Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 966Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 967# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 968Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 969 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 970 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00 971 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00 972 -6:00 US C%sT 973 974# Navassa 975# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service 976# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act 977# also claimed by Haiti 978# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co 979# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09 980# currently uninhabited 981# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord", 982# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites 983# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). 984 985################################################################################ 986 987 988# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 989# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 990# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 991# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 992# 993# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 994# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 995# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 996# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 997# of the IATA's data after 1990. 998# 999# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for 1000# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. 1001# 1002# Other sources occasionally used include: 1003# 1004# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 1005# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), 1006# which I found in the UCLA library. 1007# 1008# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition 1009# <http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf> 1010# [PDF] (1914-03) 1011# 1012# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 1013# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 1014# 1015# See the 'europe' file for Greenland. 1016 1017# Canada 1018 1019# From Alain LaBonté (1994-11-14): 1020# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada 1021# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... 1022# 1023# UTC Standard time Daylight saving time 1024# offset French English French English 1025# -2:30 - - HAT NDT 1026# -3 - - HAA ADT 1027# -3:30 HNT NST - - 1028# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT 1029# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT 1030# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT 1031# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT 1032# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT 1033# -9 HNY YST - - 1034# 1035# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time 1036# HA: Heure Avancée DT: Daylight saving Time 1037# 1038# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic 1039# C: du Centre Central 1040# E: de l'Est Eastern 1041# M: Mountain 1042# N: Newfoundland 1043# P: du Pacifique Pacific 1044# R: des Rocheuses 1045# T: de Terre-Neuve 1046# Y: du Yukon Yukon 1047# 1048# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): 1049# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. 1050 1051# Unless otherwise specified, the data entries for Canada are all from Shanks 1052# & Pottenger. 1053 1054# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31, 1055# 2007-03-01): 1056# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will 1057# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the 1058# U.S. and the rest of Canada.... 1059# http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm 1060# ... 1061# Nova Scotia 1062# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007.... 1063# http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf 1064# 1065# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to 1066# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01. 1067# http://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf 1068# ... 1069# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00. 1070# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00. 1071# http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php 1072# ... 1073# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules. 1074# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM 1075# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm 1076# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF 1077# ... 1078# P.E.I. will follow US rules.... 1079# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf 1080# ... 1081# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.... 1082# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm 1083# ... 1084# Yukon 1085# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf 1086# ... 1087# N.W.T. will follow US rules. Whoever maintains the government web site 1088# does not seem to believe in bookmarks. To see the news release, click the 1089# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change". Press the 1090# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using 1091# JavaScript. 1092# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive 1093# ... 1094# Nunavut 1095# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007.... 1096# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf 1097 1098# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25): 1099# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map 1100# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998) 1101# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 1102# contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard 1103# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998. 1104# 1105# INMS, the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, has 1106# information about standard and daylight saving time zones in Canada. 1107# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php 1108# (updated periodically). 1109# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent. 1110 1111# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27): 1112# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the 1113# new US DST rules, 1114 1115# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01) 1116# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles 1117# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1118# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review. 1119# The quote includes these two statements: 1120# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...' 1121# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,' 1122# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time 1123# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918. This transition was 1124# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star. 1125 1126# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed 1127# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day 1128# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets. 1129 1130# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1131Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1132Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1133Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1134Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1135Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1136Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1137Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1138Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1139Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1140Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 1141 1142 1143# Newfoundland and Labrador 1144 1145# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1146# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Labrador should use NST/NDT, 1147# but the only part of Labrador that follows the rules is the 1148# southeast corner, including Port Hope Simpson and Mary's Harbour, 1149# but excluding, say, Black Tickle. 1150 1151# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1152Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D 1153Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S 1154# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1155Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D 1156Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S 1157# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1158Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D 1159Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S 1160# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks & 1161# Pottenger. 1162Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D 1163Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S 1164# Whitman gives the following transitions: 1165# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07 1166# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules. 1167# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives 1168# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 1169Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1170Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S 1171Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1172Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1173Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1174# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1175# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches 1176# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987. 1177 1178# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12): 1179# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the 1180# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed. 1181# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings 1182# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time 1183# now occurs at 2:00AM. 1184# ... 1185# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm 1186# ... 1187# MICHAEL PELLEY | Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery 1188# Office of the Chief Information Officer 1189# Executive Council 1190# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 1191 1192Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1193Rule StJohns 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1194Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD 1195Rule StJohns 1989 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1196Rule StJohns 2007 2011 - Mar Sun>=8 0:01 1:00 D 1197Rule StJohns 2007 2010 - Nov Sun>=1 0:01 0 S 1198# 1199# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes. 1200# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1201Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884 1202 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918 1203 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1204 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30 1205 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1206 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1207 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 2011 Nov 1208 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1209 1210# most of east Labrador 1211 1212# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'. 1213# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1214Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay 1215 -3:30:52 - NST 1918 1216 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919 1217 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30 1218 -3:30 - NST 1936 1219 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11 1220 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946 1221 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00 1222 -4:00 StJohns A%sT 2011 Nov 1223 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1224 1225 1226# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I 1227 1228# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1229# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like 1230# Halifax. Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972; 1231# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of. 1232# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town 1233# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume 1234# this is a typo. 1235 1236# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1237Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D 1238Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 1239Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D 1240Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S 1241Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D 1242Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S 1243Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1244Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1245Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S 1246Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1247Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S 1248Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D 1249Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S 1250Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1251Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1252Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1253Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S 1254Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S 1255Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S 1256Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1257Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D 1258Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 1259Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 1260Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D 1261Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S 1262Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D 1263Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 1264Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 1265Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S 1266Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1267Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S 1268Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D 1269Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1270Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1271Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1272Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1273Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1274Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1275Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1276Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1277Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1278# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1279Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1280 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918 1281 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919 1282 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1283 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1284 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1285 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1286Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15 1287 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953 1288 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954 1289 -4:00 - AST 1972 1290 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974 1291 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1292 1293# New Brunswick 1294 1295# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31): 1296# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf> 1297# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and 1298# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it 1299# clear that this was the case since at least 1993. 1300# For now, assume it started in 1993. 1301 1302# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1303Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Jun Sun>=8 1:00 1:00 D 1304Rule Moncton 1933 1935 - Sep Sun>=8 1:00 0 S 1305Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Jun Sun>=1 1:00 1:00 D 1306Rule Moncton 1936 1938 - Sep Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 1307Rule Moncton 1939 only - May 27 1:00 1:00 D 1308Rule Moncton 1939 1941 - Sep Sat>=21 1:00 0 S 1309Rule Moncton 1940 only - May 19 1:00 1:00 D 1310Rule Moncton 1941 only - May 4 1:00 1:00 D 1311Rule Moncton 1946 1972 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1312Rule Moncton 1946 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1313Rule Moncton 1957 1972 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1314Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D 1315Rule Moncton 1993 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S 1316# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1317Zone America/Moncton -4:19:08 - LMT 1883 Dec 9 1318 -5:00 - EST 1902 Jun 15 1319 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1933 1320 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1942 1321 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946 1322 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 1973 1323 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1993 1324 -4:00 Moncton A%sT 2007 1325 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1326 1327# Quebec 1328 1329# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-30): 1330# Since 1970 most of Quebec has been like Toronto. 1331# However, because earlier versions of the tz database mistakenly relied on data 1332# from Shanks & Pottenger saying that Quebec differed from Ontario after 1970, 1333# a separate entry was created for most of Quebec. We're loath to lose 1334# its pre-1970 info, even though the tz database is normally limited to 1335# zones that differ after 1970, so keep this otherwise out-of-scope entry. 1336 1337# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63 1338# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as 1339# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST. 1340# The Quebec department of justice writes in 1341# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Côte-Nord" 1342# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm 1343# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon 1344# observes Atlantic standard time all year round. 1345# http://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en 1346# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007. 1347# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to 1348# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT. 1349 1350# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1351Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D 1352Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S 1353Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D 1354Rule Mont 1919 only - Oct 25 2:30 0 S 1355Rule Mont 1920 only - May 2 2:30 1:00 D 1356Rule Mont 1920 1922 - Oct Sun>=1 2:30 0 S 1357Rule Mont 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1358Rule Mont 1922 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 1359Rule Mont 1924 only - May 17 2:00 1:00 D 1360Rule Mont 1924 1926 - Sep lastSun 2:30 0 S 1361Rule Mont 1925 1926 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1362Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Apr lastSat 24:00 1:00 D 1363Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Sep lastSat 24:00 0 S 1364Rule Mont 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1365Rule Mont 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1366Rule Mont 1946 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1367Rule Mont 1945 1948 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1368Rule Mont 1949 1950 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1369Rule Mont 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1370Rule Mont 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1371 1372# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1373Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 - LMT 1884 1374 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1970 1375 -4:00 - AST 1376Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884 1377 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1918 1378 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1379 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1380 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1381 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1974 1382 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1383 1384# Ontario 1385 1386# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1387# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1388# Toronto. 1389# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1390# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1391# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1392# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax. 1393 1394# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1395# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST 1396# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that 1397# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw 1398# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday, 1399# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable 1400# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after 1401# only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but 1402# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters 1403# earlier in June). 1404# 1405# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21). 1406 1407# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17): 1408# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star 1409# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST, 1410# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT. 1411# He also writes that the Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9) 1412# http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html 1413# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT. 1414# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report 1415# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice. 1416# 1417# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1418# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and 1419# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes 1420# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in 1421# violation of the official Ontario rules. 1422# 1423# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1424# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the 1425# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said: 1426# 1427# The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round. 1428# This means they spend about half the time on central time and 1429# the other half on eastern time. 1430# 1431# For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said. 1432# 1433# "The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern 1434# Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he 1435# said. "I don't see any changes happening here." 1436# 1437# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang 1438# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice." 1439 1440# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton: 1441# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory 1442# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he 1443# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current 1444# time keeping since 1952, at least. 1445 1446# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17): 1447# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River 1448# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from 1449# McKinnon sounds more authoritative. For now, assume that Atikokan 1450# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time 1451# ended. This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour 1452# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move 1453# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file. 1454 1455# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06): 1456# 1457# Currently the database has: 1458# 1459# # Ontario 1460# 1461# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09): 1462# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like 1463# # Toronto. 1464# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973. 1465# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974; 1466# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of. 1467# 1468# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom 1469# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard 1470# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that: 1471# 1472# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario, 1473# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year. 1474# 1475# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon. 1476# 1477# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began 1478# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date. 1479# 1480# By the way, the article continues by noting that: 1481# 1482# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back 1483# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October. 1484 1485# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17): 1486# 1487# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in 1488# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 1489# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17, 1490# was available at 1491# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S 1492# 1493# It includes the text below (starting on page 57): 1494# 1495# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would 1496# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by 1497# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities 1498# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav- 1499# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite, 1500# for the other provinces only approximate: 1501# 1502# Province Daylight saving time used 1503# Prince Edward Island Not used. 1504# Nova Scotia In Halifax only. 1505# New Brunswick In St. John only. 1506# Quebec In the following places: 1507# Montreal Lachine 1508# Quebec Mont-Royal 1509# Lévis Iberville 1510# St. Lambert Cap de la Madelèine 1511# Verdun Loretteville 1512# Westmount Richmond 1513# Outremont St. Jérôme 1514# Longueuil Greenfield Park 1515# Arvida Waterloo 1516# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu 1517# Melbourne La Tuque 1518# St. Théophile Buckingham 1519# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along 1520# the southerly part of the province. Not 1521# used in the northwesterly part. 1522# Manitoba Not used. 1523# Saskatchewan In Regina only. 1524# Alberta Not used. 1525# British Columbia Not used. 1526# 1527# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited 1528# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont. 1529 1530# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1531Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D 1532Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S 1533Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D 1534Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S 1535Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D 1536Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S 1537Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1538# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" 1539# was meant. 1540Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 1541Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1542# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as 1543# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S 1544# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D 1545# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1546# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1547# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25 1548# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle). 1549Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1550Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1551Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1552Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1553Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S 1554Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1555Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1556Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1557Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 1558Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 1559Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S 1560Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1561Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S 1562Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1563# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, 1564# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this 1565# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30 1566# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual. 1567Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1568 1569# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1570# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and 1571# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in 1572# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, 1573# Saskatchewan, for one year." 1574 1575# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, 1576# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): 1577# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight 1578# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur 1579# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central 1580# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to 1581# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight 1582# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so 1583# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World 1584# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer 1585# months for the remainder of the war years. 1586 1587# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1588Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895 1589 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919 1590 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1591 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946 1592 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974 1593 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1594Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895 1595 -6:00 - CST 1910 1596 -5:00 - EST 1942 1597 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970 1598 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1973 1599 -5:00 - EST 1974 1600 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1601Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895 1602 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29 1603 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1604 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1605Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 - LMT 1895 1606 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1607 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1608 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1609Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895 1610 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29 1611 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s 1612 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 1613 -5:00 - EST 1614 1615 1616# Manitoba 1617 1618# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06): 1619# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to 1620# March 27, 1987 ... said ... 1621# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of 1622# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central 1623# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next 1624# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."... 1625# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had 1626# been assented to (March 22, 1967).... 1627# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying 1628# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of 1629# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central 1630# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time). 1631 1632# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10): 1633# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s) 1634# starting 1966. Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume 1635# it was also 02:00s in 1966. 1636 1637# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1638Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D 1639Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S 1640Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1641Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1642Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D 1643Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S 1644Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1645Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1646Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1647Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D 1648Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1649Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1650Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1651Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D 1652Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1653Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1654Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1655Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1656Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1657Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1658Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S 1659Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 1660Rule Winn 1966 2005 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S 1661Rule Winn 1987 2005 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 1662# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1663Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 1664 -6:00 Winn C%sT 2006 1665 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1666 1667 1668# Saskatchewan 1669 1670# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26): 1671# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal 1672# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people 1673# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight, 1674# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook." 1675# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned: 1676# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of 1677# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad 1678# time was noted. 1679 1680# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): 1681# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the 1682# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." 1683 1684# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1685# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina. 1686# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972. 1687# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton. 1688# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton 1689# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. 1690 1691# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): 1692# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the 1693# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. 1694# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and 1695# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother. 1696# 1697# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years 1698# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated 1699# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial 1700# referendum favoured legislating common time practices. 1701# 1702# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of 1703# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern 1704# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in 1705# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to 1706# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and 1707# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would 1708# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST. 1709# 1710# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town 1711# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to 1712# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only 1713# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT 1714# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round 1715# since sometime in the 1960s. 1716 1717# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1718# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages 1719# long and rather painful to read. 1720# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf 1721 1722# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1723Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1724Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1725Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 1726Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1727Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D 1728Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1729Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 1730Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 1731Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1732Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1733Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1734Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1735Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S 1736Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1737Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1738Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1739Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1740# 1741Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1742Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1743Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1744Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1745Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1746# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1747Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep 1748 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00 1749 -6:00 - CST 1750Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep 1751 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00 1752 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950 1753 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00 1754 -6:00 - CST 1755 1756 1757# Alberta 1758 1759# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1760Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 1761Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1762Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S 1763Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1764Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1765Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1766Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1767Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1768Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1769Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1770Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1771Rule Edm 1967 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1772Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1773Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1774Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1775Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1776Rule Edm 1972 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1777# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1778Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep 1779 -7:00 Edm M%sT 1987 1780 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1781 1782 1783# British Columbia 1784 1785# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1786# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has 1787# been like Vancouver. 1788# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton. 1789# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek. 1790 1791# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct: 1792 1793# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01): 1794# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia 1795# that do not currently observe daylight saving: 1796# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area) 1797# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District 1798# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John) 1799 1800# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time 1801# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the 1802# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009. 1803# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260 1804# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918. 1805# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UTC-7 for 93 years. 1806# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972. 1807 1808# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains 1809# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain. I e-mailed Tammy a few months 1810# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess. She said it was just 1811# as plausible as any other date (in June). She also said that after writing 1812# the article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the 1813# subject of another article which she wrote in October 2010. 1814# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56 1815 1816# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history: 1817# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7) 1818# Exact date unknown 1819# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8) 1820# Exact date in October unknown; Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess. 1821# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7) 1822# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess. 1823# note#1: 1824# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada, 1825# Creston did not change its clocks. 1826# note#2: 1827# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change, 1828# Creston did not oblige. 1829# note#3: 1830# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time 1831# (UTC-7) forever. 1832# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council. 1833# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html 1834 1835# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada. 1836# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying 1837# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before 1838# the change. It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this 1839# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough 1840# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules. 1841 1842# The transition dates (and times) are guesses. 1843 1844# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 1845Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 1846Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 1847Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 1848Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 1849Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 1850Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1851Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S 1852Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 1853Rule Vanc 1962 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 1854# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 1855Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884 1856 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1987 1857 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1858Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 1859 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947 1860 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00 1861 -7:00 - MST 1862Zone America/Creston -7:46:04 - LMT 1884 1863 -7:00 - MST 1916 Oct 1 1864 -8:00 - PST 1918 Jun 2 1865 -7:00 - MST 1866 1867# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon 1868 1869# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1870# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. 1871# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: 1872# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, 1873# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid; 1874# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). 1875# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00. 1876# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST. 1877# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00. 1878# Shanks & Pottenger say Yukon's 1973-10-28 switch was at 2:00; go 1879# with Englander. 1880# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26): 1881# Here is a link to the old daylight saving portion of the interpretation 1882# act which was last updated in 1987: 1883# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic1987_056.pdf 1884 1885# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04): 1886# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone. 1887# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31 1888# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html 1889# 1890# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06): 1891# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut 1892# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region. 1893 1894# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20): 1895# Basic Facts: The New Territory 1896# http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html 1897# (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, 1898# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when 1899# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. 1900 1901# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 1902# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, 1903# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble: 1904# 1905# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time: 1906# 1907# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP, 1908# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist 1909# 1910# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time: 1911# 1912# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator 1913# 1914# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news. 1915# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to 1916# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not 1917# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally. 1918# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart, 1919# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long. 1920# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to 1921# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with 1922# the current state of affairs. 1923 1924# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the 1925# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19): 1926# http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html 1927# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones, 1928# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time 1929# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then] 1930# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6. 1931 1932# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02): 1933# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories 1934# for these potential new Zones. 1935# 1936# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the 1937# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central 1938# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the 1939# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time. 1940# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of 1941# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not 1942# required to use daylight savings. 1943 1944# From <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html> 1945# Nunavut now has two time zones (2000-11-10): 1946# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and 1947# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them 1948# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter. 1949# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against 1950# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with 1951# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on 1952# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to 1953# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's 1954# unified time zone in 1999. 1955# 1956# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government: 1957# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000. 1958 1959# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 1960# Let's just keep track of the official times for now. 1961 1962# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07): 1963# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising 1964# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert 1965# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the 1966# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that 1967# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm 1968# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with 1969# more. 1970# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] 1971 1972# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): 1973# According to maps at 1974# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SWE.jpg 1975# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SSE.jpg 1976# (both dated 2003), and 1977# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp 1978# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time 1979# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year 1980# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. 1981# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it 1982# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... 1983# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. 1984# 1985# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): 1986# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed 1987# daylight saving only during wartime. 1988 1989# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01): 1990# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in 1991# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November. 1992# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of 1993# daylight saving.... 1994# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html 1995 1996# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21): 1997# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute 1998# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of 1999# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had 2000# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007. 2001# 2002# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay 2003# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008... 2004# 2005# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March 2006# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I 2007# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able 2008# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was 2009# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone 2010# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT). 2011# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks 2012# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in 2013# so they could follow the correct TV schedule... 2014# 2015# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I 2016# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature 2017# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of 2018# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of 2019# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for 2020# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived 2021# and worked in Resolute Bay... 2022# 2023# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that 2024# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of 2025# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead 2026# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay 2027# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not 2028# tell me when the practice had stopped. 2029# 2030# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of 2031# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went 2032# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz 2033# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the 2034# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on 2035# Aziz: 2036# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493 2037# 2038# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using 2039# Eastern Standard Time. 2040# 2041# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the 2042# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way 2043# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in 2044# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs" 2045# 2046# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008. 2047# 2048# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz 2049# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You 2050# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a 2051# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site" 2052# 2053# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would 2054# never have contacted her. I now believe that all the information I 2055# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored... 2056# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008. 2057 2058# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2059Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D 2060Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S 2061Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D 2062Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S 2063Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War 2064Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace 2065Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2066Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD 2067Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2068Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2069Rule NT_YK 1980 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2070Rule NT_YK 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2071# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2072# aka Panniqtuuq 2073Zone America/Pangnirtung 0 - zzz 1921 # trading post est. 2074 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00 2075 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2076 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2077 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2078# formerly Frobisher Bay 2079Zone America/Iqaluit 0 - zzz 1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est. 2080 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2081 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2082 -5:00 Canada E%sT 2083# aka Qausuittuq 2084Zone America/Resolute 0 - zzz 1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded 2085 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2086 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2087 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2006 Oct 29 2:00 2088 -5:00 - EST 2007 Mar 11 3:00 2089 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2090# aka Kangiqiniq 2091Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0 - zzz 1957 # Rankin Inlet founded 2092 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2093 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2094 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2095# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq 2096Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0 - zzz 1920 # trading post est.? 2097 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 2098 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2099 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00 2100 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 2101 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2102Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - zzz 1935 # Yellowknife founded? 2103 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2104 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2105Zone America/Inuvik 0 - zzz 1953 # Inuvik founded 2106 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00 2107 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980 2108 -7:00 Canada M%sT 2109Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2110 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1966 Jul 1 2:00 2111 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2112 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2113Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 2114 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00 2115 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1980 2116 -8:00 Canada P%sT 2117 2118 2119############################################################################### 2120 2121# Mexico 2122 2123# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05): 2124# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the 2125# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a 2126# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish) 2127# http://www.cddhcu.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/ 2128# 2129# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC. 2130# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.) 2131# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. 2132# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. 2133# S&P report no DST during summer 1931. 2134# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. 2135 2136# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20): 2137# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the 2138# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that 2139# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of 2140# the relevant documents. 2141 2142# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): 2143# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree 2144# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. 2145# 2146# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- 2147# 2148# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the 2149# rules for the DST changes. The rules are: 2150# 2151# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones: 2152# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ) 2153# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ) 2154# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ) 2155# 2156# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October 2157# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows: 2158# BajaNorte: GMT+7 2159# BajaSur: GMT+6 2160# General: GMT+5 2161# 2162# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows: 2163# BajaNorte: GMT+8 2164# BajaSur: GMT+7 2165# General: GMT+6 2166# 2167# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th. 2168# 2169# -------------- End Forwarded Message -------------- 2170# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12): 2171# For an English translation of the decree, see 2172# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04). 2173# http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html 2174 2175# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 2176# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times 2177# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). 2178 2179# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10): 2180# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time 2181# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight 2182# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of 2183# Arizona year round. 2184 2185# From Jesper Nørgaard, translating 2186# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17): 2187# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National 2188# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each 2189# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the 2190# whole year. 2191 2192# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19): 2193# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says 2194# (translated):... 2195# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced 2196# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting 2197# this year.... 2198# http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001 2199# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday 2200# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September. 2201 2202# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25): 2203# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one 2204# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."... 2205# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html 2206# ... Mexico City Mayor López Obrador "...is threatening to keep 2207# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than 2208# the rest of the country..." In particular, López Obrador would abolish 2209# observation of Daylight Saving Time. 2210 2211# Official statute published by the Energy Department 2212# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre 2213# (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules, 2214# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Nørgaard (2001-02-03). 2215 2216# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03): 2217# 2218# http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html 2219# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times 2220# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time. 2221# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador decreed that 2222# the Federal District will not adopt DST. 2223# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree. 2224# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including 2225# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools. 2226# 2227# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules. 2228 2229# From Jesper Nørgaard (2001-04-01): 2230# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight 2231# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier 2232# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight 2233# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California 2234# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight 2235# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president 2236# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending 2237# September 30, 2001. 2238# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <http://www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp> 2239# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31) 2240 2241# From Reuters (2001-09-04): 2242# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was 2243# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the 2244# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation 2245# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00 2246# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to 2247# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not 2248# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said. 2249 2250# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12): 2251# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted 2252# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico.... 2253# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20) 2254# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied. 2255 2256# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28): 2257# 2258# Steffen Thorsen wrote: 2259# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern 2260# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as 2261# > the United States. 2262# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from 2263# 2010, some border regions will be the same: 2264# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/ 2265# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939 2266# (Spanish) 2267# 2268# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here: 2269# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf 2270# (Gaceta Parlamentaria) 2271# 2272# There is also a list of the votes here: 2273# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html 2274# 2275# Our page: 2276# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html 2277 2278# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20): 2279# The page 2280# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010 2281# includes this text: 2282# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California; 2283# Juárez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acuña y Piedras Negras en Coahuila; 2284# Anáhuac en Nuevo León; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en 2285# Tamaulipas, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá efecto 2286# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a las dos 2287# horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2288# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja 2289# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la línea 2290# internacional y la línea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte 2291# kilómetros, así como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el 2292# interior del país, la aplicación de este horario estacional surtirá 2293# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluirá a 2294# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre. 2295 2296# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2297Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D 2298Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S 2299Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D 2300Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S 2301Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War 2302Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S 2303Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D 2304Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S 2305Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2306Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2307Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2308Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S 2309Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 2310Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2311# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2312# Quintana Roo; represented by Cancún 2313Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56 2314 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2315 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 2316 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2317# Campeche, Yucatán; represented by Mérida 2318Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32 2319 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23 2320 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2 2321 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2322# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (near US border) 2323Zone America/Matamoros -6:40:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:20:00 2324 -6:00 - CST 1988 2325 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2326 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2010 2327 -6:00 US C%sT 2328# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas (away from US border) 2329Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44 2330 -6:00 - CST 1988 2331 -6:00 US C%sT 1989 2332 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2333# Central Mexico 2334Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 2335 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2336 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2337 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2338 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2339 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2340 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 2:00 2341 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20 2342 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2343# Chihuahua (near US border) 2344Zone America/Ojinaga -6:57:40 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:02:20 2345 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2346 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2347 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2348 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2349 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2350 -6:00 - CST 1996 2351 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2352 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2353 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 2354 -7:00 US M%sT 2355# Chihuahua (away from US border) 2356Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40 2357 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2358 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2359 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2360 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2361 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2362 -6:00 - CST 1996 2363 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998 2364 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00 2365 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2366# Sonora 2367Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08 2368 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2369 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2370 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2371 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2372 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2373 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2374 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2375 -8:00 - PST 1970 2376 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999 2377 -7:00 - MST 2378 2379# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21): 2380# According to news, Bahía de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit) 2381# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to 2382# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco). 2383# 2384# (Spanish) 2385# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del 2386# país, a partir de este domingo 2387# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748 2388# 2389# Bahía de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del 2390# País 2391# http://www.bahiadebanderas.gob.mx/principal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=261:bahia-de-banderas-homologa-su-horario-con-el-del-centro-del-pais&catid=42:comunicacion-social&Itemid=50 2392# 2393# (English) 2394# Puerto Vallarta and Bahía de Banderas: One Time Zone 2395# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml 2396# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html 2397# 2398# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that 2399# will allow Bahía de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time 2400# zone ..." 2401# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa 2402 2403# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01): 2404# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters. 2405 2406# Mazatlán 2407Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20 2408 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2409 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2410 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2411 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2412 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2413 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2414 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2415 -8:00 - PST 1970 2416 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2417 2418# Bahía de Banderas 2419Zone America/Bahia_Banderas -7:01:00 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:59:00 2420 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2421 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15 2422 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00 2423 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct 2424 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1 2425 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24 2426 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14 2427 -8:00 - PST 1970 2428 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00 2429 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2430 2431# Baja California (near US border) 2432Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56 2433 -7:00 - MST 1924 2434 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2435 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2436 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2437 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2438 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2439 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2440 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2441 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2442 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2443 -8:00 - PST 1954 2444 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2445 -8:00 - PST 1976 2446 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2447 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2448 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2449 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2010 2450 -8:00 US P%sT 2451# Baja California (away from US border) 2452Zone America/Santa_Isabel -7:39:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:20:32 2453 -7:00 - MST 1924 2454 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 2455 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15 2456 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1 2457 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30 2458 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24 2459 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u 2460 -8:00 1:00 PPT 1945 Nov 12 # Peace 2461 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5 2462 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14 2463 -8:00 - PST 1954 2464 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961 2465 -8:00 - PST 1976 2466 -8:00 US P%sT 1996 2467 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001 2468 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20 2469 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2470# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2471# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from 2472# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976 2473# through 1995. This was as per Shanks (1999). But Shanks & Pottenger say 2474# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975. Guy Harris reports 2475# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicali, San Felipe and 2476# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that 2477# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns 2478# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone 2479# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its 2480# name or contents should be. 2481# 2482# Revillagigedo Is 2483# no information 2484 2485############################################################################### 2486 2487# Anguilla 2488# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2489 2490# Antigua and Barbuda 2491# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2492Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2493 -5:00 - EST 1951 2494 -4:00 - AST 2495 2496# Bahamas 2497# 2498# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that. 2499# 2500# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07): 2501# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST 2502# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007.... 2503# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412 2504 2505# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2506Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S 2507Rule Bahamas 1964 1975 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 2508# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2509Zone America/Nassau -5:09:30 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 2510 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT 1976 2511 -5:00 US E%sT 2512 2513# Barbados 2514 2515# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that. 2516 2517# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2518Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D 2519Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2520Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 2521Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S 2522Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S 2523# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2524Zone America/Barbados -3:58:29 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown 2525 -3:58:29 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time 2526 -4:00 Barb A%sT 2527 2528# Belize 2529# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2530# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2531Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 HD 2532Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 S 2533Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 D 2534Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 S 2535Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 D 2536Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 S 2537# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2538Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr 2539 -6:00 Belize C%sT 2540 2541# Bermuda 2542 2543# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower, 2544# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that. 2545 2546# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26): 2547 2548# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday 2549# in March, until the first Sunday in November. And, after the Time Zone 2550# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on 2551# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda. 2552# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135 2553 2554# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2555Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton 2556 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2557 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976 2558 -4:00 US A%sT 2559 2560# Cayman Is 2561# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2562Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown 2563 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 2564 -5:00 - EST 2565 2566# Costa Rica 2567 2568# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San José mean time; round to nearest. 2569 2570# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2571Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2572Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2573Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2574# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; 2575# go with Shanks & Pottenger. 2576Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S 2577Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S 2578# There are too many San Josés elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'. 2579# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2580Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San José 2581 -5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San José Mean Time 2582 -6:00 CR C%sT 2583# Coco 2584# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica 2585 2586# Cuba 2587 2588# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 2589# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57 2590# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations. 2591# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger. 2592 2593# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29): 2594# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between 2595# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on 2596# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC. 2597# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that 2598# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving 2599# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of 2600# sleep on 1999-03-28 - when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched 2601# to DST - and one more hour on 1999-04-04 - when the announcers will have 2602# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.) 2603 2604# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11): 2605# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the 2606# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ... 2607# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html 2608 2609# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28): 2610# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year. 2611# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 2612# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html 2613# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras 2614# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return 2615# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)". 2616# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure. 2617 2618# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12): 2619# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone 2620# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time: 2621# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html 2622 2623# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-10-21): 2624# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end 2625# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see 2626# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html 2627# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00, 2628# watches should be set back one hour - going back to 00:00 hours - returning 2629# to the normal schedule.... 2630 2631# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02): 2632# <http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html>, dated yesterday, 2633# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10. 2634# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules, 2635# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual. 2636# 2637# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25): 2638# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week 2639# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006. 2640# 2641# He supplied these references: 2642# 2643# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES 2644# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm 2645# 2646# From Alex Krivenyshev (2007-10-25): 2647# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba): 2648# 2649# Regirá el Horario Normal desde el próximo domingo 28 de octubre 2650# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html 2651# 2652# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html 2653 2654# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09): 2655# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight 2656# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to 2657# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj 2658# a Cuban information station, and heard 2659# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"), 2660# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time. 2661 2662# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12): 2663# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16... 2664# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish): 2665# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm 2666# 2667# Some more background information is posted here: 2668# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html 2669# 2670# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963, 2671# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the 2672# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been 2673# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception 2674# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to 2675# change some historic records as well. 2676# 2677# One example: 2678# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm 2679 2680# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2008-03-13): 2681# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative 2682# web site, the Granma. Please check out 2683# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html 2684# 2685# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsen's information, the change 2686# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday. 2687 2688# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12): 2689# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward. 2690 2691# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04) 2692# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on 2693# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009- 2694# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought. 2695# 2696# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html 2697# (in Spanish) 2698 2699# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09) 2700# I listened over the Internet to 2701# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj 2702# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the 2703# the time was announced as "diez cinco" - the same time as here, indicating 2704# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. 2705 2706# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): 2707# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 2708# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has 2709# changed at all). 2710# 2711# Source: 2712# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html 2713# 2714# Our info: 2715# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html 2716# 2717# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30) 2718# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back 2719# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00. 2720# 2721# One source (Spanish) 2722# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html 2723# 2724# Our page: 2725# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html 2726# 2727# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01) 2728# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March 2729# 31 and April 1. 2730# 2731# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish): 2732# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril 2733# 2734# Our info on it: 2735# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html 2736 2737# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03): 2738# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back 2739# to standard time on 2012-11-04: 2740# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre 2741# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03): 2742# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November. 2743 2744# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2745Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D 2746Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S 2747Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2748Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2749Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2750Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 2751Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D 2752Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S 2753Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D 2754Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S 2755Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D 2756Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2757Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D 2758Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2759Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2760Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S 2761Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2762Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D 2763Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S 2764Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D 2765Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D 2766Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D 2767Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2768Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S 2769Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S 2770Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S 2771Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2772Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2773Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D 2774Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D 2775Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S 2776Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2777Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2778Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2779Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D 2780Rule Cuba 2011 only - Nov 13 0:00s 0 S 2781Rule Cuba 2012 only - Apr 1 0:00s 1:00 D 2782Rule Cuba 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 0:00s 0 S 2783Rule Cuba 2013 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D 2784 2785# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2786Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 2787 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT 2788 -5:00 Cuba C%sT 2789 2790# Dominica 2791# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2792 2793# Dominican Republic 2794 2795# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30): 2796# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the 2797# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am.... 2798# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html 2799 2800# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): 2801# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST. 2802 2803# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 2804# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday, 2805# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the 2806# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date 2807# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they 2808# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going 2809# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president 2810# decided to revert. 2811 2812 2813# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2814Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 D 2815Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 S 2816Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HD 2817Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 S 2818Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 S 2819Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 S 2820# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2821Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890 2822 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT 2823 -5:00 DR E%sT 1974 Oct 27 2824 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 2:00 2825 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 1:00 2826 -4:00 - AST 2827 2828# El Salvador 2829 2830# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2831Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2832Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 2833# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador 2834# instead of America/San_Salvador. 2835# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2836Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador 2837 -6:00 Salv C%sT 2838 2839# Grenada 2840# Guadeloupe 2841# St Barthélemy 2842# St Martin (French part) 2843# See America/Port_of_Spain. 2844 2845# Guatemala 2846# 2847# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen: 2848# Diario Co Latino, at 2849# <http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079>, 2850# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had 2851# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the 2852# impact of the elevated cost of oil.... Daylight saving time will last from 2853# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified). 2854# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22): 2855# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006 2856# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00. See 2857# http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf 2858 2859# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2860Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D 2861Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S 2862Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D 2863Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S 2864Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D 2865Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S 2866Rule Guat 2006 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D 2867Rule Guat 2006 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S 2868# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2869Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 2870 -6:00 Guat C%sT 2871 2872# Haiti 2873# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): 2874# Risto O. Nykänen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. 2875# I searched for confirmation, and I found a press release 2876# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), 2877# <http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc>. Translated from French, it says: 2878# 2879# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general 2880# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior 2881# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the 2882# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next 2883# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. 2884# 2885# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform 2886# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour 2887# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in 2888# October 2005. 2889# 2890# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" 2891# 2892# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04): 2893# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like 2894# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a 2895# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST 2896# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year). 2897# 2898# I have found this article about it (in French): 2899# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612 2900# 2901# The reason seems to be an energy crisis. 2902 2903# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22): 2904# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007. 2905 2906# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11): 2907# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year, 2908# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada. 2909# So this means they have already changed their time. 2910# 2911# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510 2912# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253 2913# 2914# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11): 2915# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to 2916# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight. 2917# Assume a US-style fall back as well. 2918 2919# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10): 2920# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules 2921# as US/Canada. They did it last year as well, and it looks like they 2922# are going to observe DST every year now... 2923# 2924# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/ 2925# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714 2926 2927# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2928Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D 2929Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D 2930Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2931# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. 2932# Go with IATA. 2933Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D 2934Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S 2935Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2936Rule Haiti 2005 2006 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S 2937Rule Haiti 2012 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D 2938Rule Haiti 2012 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 2939# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2940Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 2941 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT 2942 -5:00 Haiti E%sT 2943 2944# Honduras 2945# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1. 2946 2947# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05): 2948# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article 2949# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4 2950# months until September. La Tribuna reported today 2951# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president 2952# of Honduras, refused to back down on this. 2953 2954# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-08-08): 2955# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at 2956# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration). 2957# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html 2958 2959# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08): 2960# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08). 2961# http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12 2962# It mentions executive decree 18-2006. 2963 2964# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17): 2965# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not 2966# published, I have located this authoritative source: 2967# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47 2968 2969# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30): 2970# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386 2971# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year.... 2972 2973# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 2974Rule Hond 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2975Rule Hond 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S 2976Rule Hond 2006 only - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D 2977Rule Hond 2006 only - Aug Mon>=1 0:00 0 S 2978# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2979Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr 2980 -6:00 Hond C%sT 2981# 2982# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 2983 2984# Jamaica 2985# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an 2986# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the 2987# island". Go with Milne. Round to the nearest second as required by zic. 2988# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2989Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:11 - LMT 1890 # Kingston 2990 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 2991 -5:00 - EST 1974 Apr 28 2:00 2992 -5:00 US E%sT 1984 2993 -5:00 - EST 2994 2995# Martinique 2996# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 2997Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France 2998 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT 2999 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6 3000 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28 3001 -4:00 - AST 3002 3003# Montserrat 3004# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3005 3006# Nicaragua 3007# 3008# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005. 3009# 3010# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): 3011# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started 3012# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of 3013# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet 3014# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". 3015# Some background information is available on the President's official site: 3016# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm 3017# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: 3018# 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 3019# 3020# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): 3021# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's 3022# assume that it is daylight saving.... 3023# 3024# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): 3025# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at 3026# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html 3027# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last 3028# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 3029# during the Arnoldo Alemán administration."... 3030# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously 3031# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time 3032# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to 3033# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. 3034# 3035# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2005-11-02): 3036# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time). 3037# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm 3038# (2005-09-26) 3039# 3040# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-05-05): 3041# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410 3042# (my informal translation) 3043# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolaños, Nicaragua 3044# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the 3045# morning, and will stay that way until 30th of September. 3046# 3047# From Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-09-30): 3048# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf 3049# My informal translation runs: 3050# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the 3051# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006. 3052# 3053# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 3054Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D 3055Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S 3056Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D 3057Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S 3058Rule Nic 2006 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D 3059Rule Nic 2006 only - Oct Sun>=1 1:00 0 S 3060# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3061Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 3062 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? 3063 -6:00 - CST 1973 May 3064 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 3065 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1992 Jan 1 4:00 3066 -5:00 - EST 1992 Sep 24 3067 -6:00 - CST 1993 3068 -5:00 - EST 1997 3069 -6:00 Nic C%sT 3070 3071# Panama 3072# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3073Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890 3074 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colón Mean Time 3075 -5:00 - EST 3076 3077# Puerto Rico 3078# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'. 3079# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3080Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan 3081 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3 3082 -4:00 US A%sT 1946 3083 -4:00 - AST 3084 3085# St Kitts-Nevis 3086# St Lucia 3087# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3088 3089# St Pierre and Miquelon 3090# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'. 3091# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3092Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre 3093 -4:00 - AST 1980 May 3094 -3:00 - PMST 1987 # Pierre & Miquelon Time 3095 -3:00 Canada PM%sT 3096 3097# St Vincent and the Grenadines 3098# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3099 3100# Turks and Caicos 3101# 3102# From Chris Dunn in 3103# http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007 3104# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the 3105# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match 3106# the recent U.S. change of dates. 3107# 3108# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28): 3109# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26] 3110# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three 3111# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct: 3112# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007 3113# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time" 3114# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed. 3115# 3116# From Paul Eggert (2014-08-19): 3117# The 2014-08-13 Cabinet meeting decided to stay on UTC-4 year-round. See: 3118# http://tcweeklynews.com/daylight-savings-time-to-be-maintained-p5353-127.htm 3119# Model this as a switch from EST/EDT to AST on 2014-11-02 at 02:00. 3120# 3121# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 3122Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890 3123 -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time 3124 -5:00 - EST 1979 3125 -5:00 US E%sT 2014 Nov 2 2:00 3126 -4:00 - AST 3127 3128# British Virgin Is 3129# Virgin Is 3130# See America/Port_of_Spain. 3131 3132 3133# Local Variables: 3134# coding: utf-8 3135# End: 3136