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1# @(#)northamerica 7.87
2# <pre>
3
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4# also includes Central America and the Caribbean
5
6# This data 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@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
9
4c00c0ae 10# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22):
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11# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
12# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
13
14###############################################################################
15
16# United States
17
18# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
19# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by
20# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904),
21# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY).
22# His pamphlet ``A System of National Time for Railroads'' (1870)
23# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines
24# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC,
25# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich.
26# His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00,
27# and the most of the country soon followed suit.
28
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29# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16):
30# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time.
31# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005).
32
33# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
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34# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is
35# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition),
36# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
37# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it.
4c00c0ae 38# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US and Puerto Rico entries below.
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39
40# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
41# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin
42# in his whimsical essay ``An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost
43# of Light'' published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
44# Not everyone is happy with the results:
45#
46# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some
47# agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving
48# daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind.
49# I even object to the implication that I am wasting something
50# valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer
51# of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to
52# reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving
53# scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager
54# to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make
55# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
56#
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57# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks,
58# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday
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59#
60# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see
61# Robert Garland's <a href="http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html">
62# Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint
63# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927)</a>.
64#
65# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919.
66# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which
67# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently
68# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time".
69
70# From Arthur David Olson:
71# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974.
72# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26
73# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post.
74
75# From Arthur David Olson:
76# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of
77# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime.
78
79# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25):
80# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama.
81# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time."
82# An AltaVista search turned up
83# <a href="http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html">:
84# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace
85# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful."
86# </a> (August 1945) by way of confirmation.
87
4c00c0ae 88# From Joseph Gallant citing
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89# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987):
90# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set
91# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people
92# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account,
93# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender,
94# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word
95# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in
96# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech.
97
98# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout. From
99# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times:
100#
101# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender.
102# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a
103# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news.
104# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out
105# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental
106# importance."
107#
108# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open
109# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell,
110# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over.
111# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms."
112#
113# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters.
114
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115# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22):
116# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations
117# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of
118# U.S. government action. So even though the "US" rules have changed
119# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected.
120
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121# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
122Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
123Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
124Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
125Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
126Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
4c00c0ae 127Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
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128Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
129Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D
130Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D
131Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
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132Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
133Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
134Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
135
136# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19
137# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with
138# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory.
139# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of
140# this time zone package.
141# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if
142# a particular place changes whether it observes DST.
143# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to
144# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to
145# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file.
146
147# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
148Zone EST -5:00 - EST
149Zone MST -7:00 - MST
150Zone HST -10:00 - HST
151Zone EST5EDT -5:00 US E%sT
152Zone CST6CDT -6:00 US C%sT
153Zone MST7MDT -7:00 US M%sT
154Zone PST8PDT -8:00 US P%sT
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155
156# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
157# ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967.
158# old new
159# Pacific Standard Time(PST) -same-
160# Yukon Standard Time(YST) -same-
161# Central Alaska S.T. (CAT) Alaska-Hawaii St[an]dard Time (AHST)
162# Nome Standard Time (NT) Bering Standard Time (BST)
163#
164# ...Alaska's timezone lines were redrawn in 1983 to give only 2 tz.
165# The YST zone now covers nearly all of the state, AHST just part
166# of the Aleutian islands. No DST.
167
168# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
169# The tables below use `NST', not `NT', for Nome Standard Time.
170# I invented `CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time.
171
172# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
173# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON
174# USA EASTERN 4 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
175# USA CENTRAL 6 H BEHIND UTC CHICAGO, HOUSTON
176# USA CENTRAL 5 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
177# USA MOUNTAIN 7 H BEHIND UTC DENVER
178# USA MOUNTAIN 6 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
179# USA PACIFIC 8 H BEHIND UTC L.A., SAN FRANCISCO
180# USA PACIFIC 7 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
181# USA ALASKA STD 9 H BEHIND UTC MOST OF ALASKA (AKST)
182# USA ALASKA STD 8 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT)
183# USA ALEUTIAN 10 H BEHIND UTC ISLANDS WEST OF 170W
184# USA - " - 9 H BEHIND UTC APR 3 - OCT 30
185# USA HAWAII 10 H BEHIND UTC
186# USA BERING 11 H BEHIND UTC SAMOA, MIDWAY
187
188# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21):
189# The above dates are for 1988.
190# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's
191# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the
192# Aleutians.
193
194# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
195# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and
196# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward. First, names
197# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966
198# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261:
199# (none)
200# United States standard eastern time
201# United States standard mountain time
202# United States standard central time
203# United States standard Pacific time
204# (none)
205# United States standard Alaska time
206# (none)
207# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for
208# public law 98-181):
209# Atlantic standard time
210# eastern standard time
211# central standard time
212# mountain standard time
213# Pacific standard time
214# Yukon standard time
215# Alaska-Hawaii standard time
216# Bering standard time
217# And after 1983-11-30:
218# Atlantic standard time
219# eastern standard time
220# central standard time
221# mountain standard time
222# Pacific standard time
223# Alaska standard time
224# Hawaii-Aleutian standard time
225# Samoa standard time
226# The law doesn't give abbreviations.
227#
228# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow:
229# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation
230# "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.
231# See the file "australasia".
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233# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09
234# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08.
235#
236# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
237# (a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
238# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended--
239# (1) by striking `first Sunday of April' and inserting `second
240# Sunday of March'; and
241# (2) by striking `last Sunday of October' and inserting `first
242# Sunday of November'.
243# (b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the
244# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later.
245# (c) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the effective
246# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress
247# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United
248# States.
249# (d) Right to Revert- Congress retains the right to revert the
250# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the
251# Department study is complete.
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252
253# US eastern time, represented by New York
254
255# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida,
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256# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky
257# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
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258# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
259# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee,
260# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
261
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262# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02):
263# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington
264# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH]....
265# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time
266# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their
267# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC.
268
269# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26):
270# According to today's Huntsville Times
271# <http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1>
272# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City
273# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County,
274# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time." It quotes H.H. "Bubba"
275# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central
276# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work
277# in Columbus."
278
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279# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
280Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
281Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
282Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
283Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
284Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
285# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 286Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58
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287 -5:00 US E%sT 1920
288 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942
289 -5:00 US E%sT 1946
290 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1967
291 -5:00 US E%sT
292
293# US central time, represented by Chicago
294
295# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia,
296# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and
297# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana
298# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
299# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western
300# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern
301# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota,
302# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin
303
304# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
305Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D
306Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
307Rule Chicago 1921 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
308Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
309Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
310Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
311# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 312Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24
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313 -6:00 US C%sT 1920
314 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00
315 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00
316 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1942
317 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
318 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967
319 -6:00 US C%sT
320# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25.
4c00c0ae 321Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48
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322 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 02:00
323 -6:00 US C%sT
324
325# US mountain time, represented by Denver
326#
327# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western
328# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City),
329# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, far eastern Oregon,
330# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County,
331# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming
332#
333# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
334Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
335Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
336Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S
337Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
338Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
339# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 340Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04
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341 -7:00 US M%sT 1920
342 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942
343 -7:00 US M%sT 1946
344 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1967
345 -7:00 US M%sT
346
347# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
348#
349# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater,
350# Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties),
351# most of Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington
352#
353# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
354Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D
355Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S
356Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
357Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
358Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
359# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 360Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02
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361 -8:00 US P%sT 1946
362 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967
363 -8:00 US P%sT
364
365# Alaska
366# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO.
367#
368# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30):
369# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,
370# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia.
371# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian,
372# also a Friday. Include only the time zone part of this transition,
373# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent
374# the Julian calendar.
375#
376# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were
377# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar.
378# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement
379# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.) However, there
380# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps
381# it's best to simply use the official transition.
382#
383# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
384Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
385 -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
386 -8:00 - PST 1942
387 -8:00 US P%sT 1946
388 -8:00 - PST 1969
389 -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
390 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30
391 -9:00 US AK%sT
392Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
393 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
394 -9:00 - YST 1942
395 -9:00 US Y%sT 1946
396 -9:00 - YST 1969
397 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30
398 -9:00 US AK%sT
399Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
400 -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
401 -10:00 - CAT 1942
402 -10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1946
403 -10:00 - CAT 1967 Apr
404 -10:00 - AHST 1969
405 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
406 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30
407 -9:00 US AK%sT
408Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
409 -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
410 -11:00 - NST 1942
411 -11:00 US N%sT 1946
412 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr
413 -11:00 - BST 1969
414 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
415 -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30
416 -9:00 US AK%sT
417Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
418 -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
419 -11:00 - NST 1942
420 -11:00 US N%sT 1946
421 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr
422 -11:00 - BST 1969
423 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
424 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30
425 -10:00 US HA%sT
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426# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff.
427#
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428# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak)
429# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00,
430# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later.
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431#
432# From David Flater (2004-11-09):
433# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska
434# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which
435# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967
436# possibly until 1983:
437#
438# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967:
439# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important
440# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was
441# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it
442# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard
443# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday,
444# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with
445# three votes for and one against."
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446
447# Hawaii
448#
449# From Arthur David Olson:
450# And then there's Hawaii.
451# DST was observed for one day in 1933;
452# standard time was changed by half an hour in 1947;
453# it's always standard as of 1986.
454#
455# From Paul Eggert:
456# Shanks says the 1933 experiment lasted for three weeks. Go with Shanks.
457#
458Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1900 Jan 1 12:00
459 -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00
460 -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 2:00
461 -10:30 US H%sT 1947 Jun 8 2:00
462 -10:00 - HST
463
464# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970.
465
466# Arizona mostly uses MST.
467
468# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20):
469#
470# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the
471# <a href="http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm">
472# Daylight Saving Time web page (2002-01-23)</a> maintained by the
473# Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
474# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard
475# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military
476# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to
477# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time. The 1944-03-17 Phoenix
478# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was
479# the date the state's clocks would change. In 1945 the State of
480# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as
481# mandated by federal law. Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona
482# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST.
483#
484# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17.
485# Go with the Arizona State Library instead.
486
4c00c0ae 487Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42
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488 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 00:01
489 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 00:01
490 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 00:01
491 -7:00 - MST 1967
492 -7:00 US M%sT 1968 Mar 21
493 -7:00 - MST
494# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
495# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.,
496# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the
497# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its
498# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other
499# tribal nations don't use DST.)
500
501Link America/Denver America/Shiprock
502
503# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine,
504# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark,
505# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome,
506# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power,
507# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties) and eastern Oregon
508# switched four weeks late in 1974.
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09fd88e4 510# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 511Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11
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512 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00
513 -7:00 US M%sT 1974
514 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00
515 -7:00 US M%sT
516
517# Indiana
518#
519# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see:
520# <a href="http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html">
521# What time is it in Indiana?
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522# </a> (2005-05-03)
523#
524# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-22):
525# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis,
526# with the following exceptions:
527#
528# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
529# Vandenburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago.
530#
531# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York.
532#
533# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like
534# America/Kentucky/Louisville.
535#
536# - Crawford, Starke, and Switzerland counties have their own time zone
537# histories as noted below.
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539# Shanks partitions Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history,
540# and writes ``Even newspaper reports present contradictory information.''
541# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
542#
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543# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript
544# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the `America' level.
545# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory `America/Indiana'.
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547# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
548# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006,
549# and that many counties may switch either to Central or to Eastern time.
550# The county-by-county decisions have not been made yet, so for now assume
551# that no counties will switch: this assumption is most likely wrong,
552# but it's the best we can do for now.
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553
554# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
555Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D
556Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
557Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
558# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 559Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22
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560 -6:00 US C%sT 1920
561 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942
562 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
563 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1955 Apr 24 2:00
564 -5:00 - EST 1957 Sep 29 2:00
565 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00
566 -5:00 - EST 1969
567 -5:00 US E%sT 1971
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568 -5:00 - EST 2006
569 -5:00 US E%sT
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570#
571# Part of Crawford County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1975,
572# and left its clocks alone in 1974.
573# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
574Rule Marengo 1951 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
575Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
576Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
577Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
578# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 579Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37
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580 -6:00 US C%sT 1951
581 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00
582 -5:00 - EST 1969
583 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00
584 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00
585 -5:00 US E%sT 1976
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586 -5:00 - EST 2006
587 -5:00 US E%sT
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588#
589# Starke County, Indiana
590# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28):
591# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post
592# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of
593# 1991-10-27.
594# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
595Rule Starke 1947 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
596Rule Starke 1947 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
597Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
598Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
599Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
600# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 601Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30
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602 -6:00 US C%sT 1947
603 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00
604 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00
605 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00
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606 -5:00 - EST 2006
607 -5:00 US E%sT
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608#
609# Switzerland County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1972.
610# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 611Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44
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612 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00
613 -5:00 - EST 1969
614 -5:00 US E%sT 1973
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615 -5:00 - EST 2006
616 -5:00 US E%sT
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617
618# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974.
4c00c0ae 619# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana.
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620# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
621Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
622Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S
623Rule Louisville 1941 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
624Rule Louisville 1941 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
625Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S
626Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
627Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
628# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
4c00c0ae 629Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58
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630 -6:00 US C%sT 1921
631 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942
632 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
633 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1961 Jul 23 2:00
634 -5:00 - EST 1968
635 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00
636 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00
637 -5:00 US E%sT
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638#
639# Wayne, Clinton, and Russell Counties, Kentucky
640#
641# From
642# <a href="http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml">
643# Lake Cumberland LIFE
644# </a> (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7:
645# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from
646# the Central to the Eastern time zone.... The Wayne County government made
647# the same request in December. And while Russell County officials have not
648# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in
649# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also.
650# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S.
651# location in the Central time zone.
652#
653# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29):
654# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion,
655# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern
656# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley,
657# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400).
658#
659# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16):
660# The final rule was published in the
661# <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22">
662# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158.
663# </a>
664#
4c00c0ae 665Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36
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666 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
667 -6:00 - CST 1968
668 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
669 -5:00 US E%sT
670
671
672# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30):
673# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985.
674# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central;
675# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10
676# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10
677# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10
678# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10
679# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10
680#
681# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17):
682# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS,
683# so omit that change for now.
684# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change.
685# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change.
686# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on
687# 1999-10-31. See the
688# <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=fr21oc99-15">
689# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), page 56705-56707.
690# </a>
691# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated
692# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official;
693# hence a separate tz entry is not needed.
694
695# Michigan
696#
697# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
698# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973.
699#
700# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
701# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18,
702# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01)
703# that Detroit kept
704#
705# local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should
706# be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time. Half the
707# city obeyed, half refused. After considerable debate, the decision
708# was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time. A derisive offer to
709# erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the
710# Committee on Sewers. Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted
711# by city vote.
712#
713# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks.
714#
715# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
716# Garland (1927) writes ``Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks
717# one hour in 1914.'' This change is not in Shanks. We have no more
718# info, so omit this for now.
719#
720# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975.
721# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
722Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
723Rule Detroit 1948 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
724Rule Detroit 1967 only - Jun 14 2:00 1:00 D
725Rule Detroit 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
726# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
727Zone America/Detroit -5:32:11 - LMT 1905
728 -6:00 - CST 1915 May 15 2:00
729 -5:00 - EST 1942
730 -5:00 US E%sT 1946
731 -5:00 Detroit E%sT 1973
732 -5:00 US E%sT 1975
733 -5:00 - EST 1975 Apr 27 2:00
734 -5:00 US E%sT
735#
736# The Michigan border with Wisconsin switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973.
737# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
738Rule Menominee 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
739Rule Menominee 1946 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
740Rule Menominee 1966 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
741Rule Menominee 1966 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
742# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
743Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00
744 -6:00 US C%sT 1946
745 -6:00 Menominee C%sT 1969 Apr 27 2:00
746 -5:00 - EST 1973 Apr 29 2:00
747 -6:00 US C%sT
748
749# Navassa
750# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service
751# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act
752# also claimed by Haiti
753# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co
754# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09
755# currently uninhabited
756# see Mark Fineman, ``An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord'',
757# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites
758# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994).
759
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760################################################################################
761
762
4c00c0ae 763# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
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764# A good source for time zone historical data outside the US is
765# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
766# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
767#
768# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
769# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
770# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
771# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
772# of the IATA's data after 1990.
773#
774# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990,
775# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
776#
777# Other sources occasionally used include:
778#
779# Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
780# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated),
781# which I found in the UCLA library.
782#
783# <a href="http://www.pettswoodvillage.co.uk/Daylight_Savings_William_Willett.pdf">
784# William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition
785# </a> (1914-03)
786#
787# See the `europe' file for Greenland.
788
789# Canada
790
4c00c0ae 791# From Alain LaBont<e'> (1994-11-14):
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792# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada
793# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard....
794#
795# UTC Standard time Daylight savings time
796# offset French English French English
797# -2:30 - - HAT NDT
798# -3 - - HAA ADT
799# -3:30 HNT NST - -
800# -4 HNA AST HAE EDT
801# -5 HNE EST HAC CDT
802# -6 HNC CST HAR MDT
803# -7 HNR MST HAP PDT
804# -8 HNP PST HAY YDT
805# -9 HNY YST - -
806#
807# HN: Heure Normale ST: Standard Time
808# HA: Heure Avanc<e'>e DT: Daylight saving Time
809#
810# A: de l'Atlantique Atlantic
811# C: du Centre Central
812# E: de l'Est Eastern
813# M: Mountain
814# N: Newfoundland
815# P: du Pacifique Pacific
816# R: des Rocheuses
817# T: de Terre-Neuve
818# Y: du Yukon Yukon
819#
4c00c0ae 820# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22):
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821# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software.
822
823# Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks.
824
4c00c0ae 825# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-21):
09fd88e4 826# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map
4c00c0ae 827# <a href="http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp">
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828# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998)
829# </a> contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard
830# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998.
831#
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832# INMS, the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, has <a
833# href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php">
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834# information about standard and daylight saving time zones in Canada.
835# </a> (updated periodically).
836# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent.
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837#
838# CBC News reported that Ontario and Manitoba have announced plans to
839# follow the US change, and that Nova Scotia is considering it; see
840# <http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/daylightsavingtime/> (2005-10-21).
841# CBC news also reported that Prince Edward Island is the first
842# province in Atlantic Canada to follow the US change, and that Quebec
843# had agreed; see <http://www.cbc.ca/pei/story/pe_daylight_20051207.html>
844# (2005-12-07).
845#
846# To reflect all this, the Canada and Winn rules have been adjusted to
847# agree with the 2007 US change. This means we assume most of Canada
848# will fall into line. However, Alberta, British Columbia,
849# Newfoundland, Northwest Territories, and Yukon already have separate
850# rules in our database, so for now we'll leave them alone, which
851# means that we currently assume these regions will not change their
852# rules and will disagree with the US starting in 2007. This
853# assumption is probably incorrect, with the possible exception of
854# Newfoundland. We plan to adjust the Edm, Vanc, StJohns, and NT_YK
855# rules as the corresponding provinces make their announcements.
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856
857# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
858Rule Canada 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
859Rule Canada 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
860Rule Canada 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
861Rule Canada 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
862Rule Canada 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
863Rule Canada 1974 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
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864Rule Canada 1974 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
865Rule Canada 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
866Rule Canada 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
867Rule Canada 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
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868
869
870# Newfoundland (and far southeast Labrador)
871
872# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
873# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Labrador should use NST/NDT,
874# but the only part of Labrador that follows the rules is the
875# southeast corner, including Port Hope Simpson and Mary's Harbour,
876# but excluding, say, Black Tickle.
877
878# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
879Rule StJohns 1917 only - Apr 8 2:00 1:00 D
880Rule StJohns 1917 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S
881# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks.
882Rule StJohns 1919 only - May 5 23:00 1:00 D
883Rule StJohns 1919 only - Aug 12 23:00 0 S
884# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks.
885Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - May Sun>=1 23:00 1:00 D
886Rule StJohns 1920 1935 - Oct lastSun 23:00 0 S
887# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks.
888Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - May Mon>=9 0:00 1:00 D
889Rule StJohns 1936 1941 - Oct Mon>=2 0:00 0 S
890# Whitman gives the following transitions:
891# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07
892# but go with Shanks and assume they used Canadian rules.
893# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives
894# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks.
895Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
896Rule StJohns 1946 1950 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S
897Rule StJohns 1951 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
898Rule StJohns 1951 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
899Rule StJohns 1960 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
900# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
901# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches
902# at 00:01 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987.
903Rule StJohns 1987 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D
904Rule StJohns 1987 max - Oct lastSun 0:01 0 S
905Rule StJohns 1988 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 2:00 DD
906Rule StJohns 1989 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:01 1:00 D
907# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes.
908# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
909Zone America/St_Johns -3:30:52 - LMT 1884
910 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1918
911 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919
912 -3:30:52 StJohns N%sT 1935 Mar 30
913 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11
914 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946
915 -3:30 StJohns N%sT
916
917# most of east Labrador
918
919# The name `Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use `Goose Bay'.
920# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
921Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
922 -3:30:52 - NST 1918
923 -3:30:52 Canada N%sT 1919
924 -3:30:52 - NST 1935 Mar 30
925 -3:30 - NST 1936
926 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1942 May 11
927 -3:30 Canada N%sT 1946
928 -3:30 StJohns N%sT 1966 Mar 15 2:00
929 -4:00 StJohns A%sT
930
931
932# west Labrador, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I
933
934# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
935# Shanks writes that since 1970 most of this region has been like Halifax.
936# Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
937# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of.
938# Shanks also writes that Liverpool, NS was the only town in Canada to observe
939# DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume this is a typo.
940
941# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
942# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, New Brunswick switches
943# at 00:01 local time. FIXME: verify and create a new Zone for this.
944
945
946# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
947Rule Halifax 1916 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
948Rule Halifax 1916 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
949Rule Halifax 1920 only - May 9 0:00 1:00 D
950Rule Halifax 1920 only - Aug 29 0:00 0 S
951Rule Halifax 1921 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D
952Rule Halifax 1921 1922 - Sep 5 0:00 0 S
953Rule Halifax 1922 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
954Rule Halifax 1923 1925 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
955Rule Halifax 1923 only - Sep 4 0:00 0 S
956Rule Halifax 1924 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
957Rule Halifax 1925 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 S
958Rule Halifax 1926 only - May 16 0:00 1:00 D
959Rule Halifax 1926 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
960Rule Halifax 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
961Rule Halifax 1927 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S
962Rule Halifax 1928 1931 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D
963Rule Halifax 1928 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S
964Rule Halifax 1929 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
965Rule Halifax 1930 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
966Rule Halifax 1931 1932 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S
967Rule Halifax 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
968Rule Halifax 1933 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
969Rule Halifax 1933 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S
970Rule Halifax 1934 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D
971Rule Halifax 1934 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S
972Rule Halifax 1935 only - Jun 2 0:00 1:00 D
973Rule Halifax 1935 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
974Rule Halifax 1936 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
975Rule Halifax 1936 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S
976Rule Halifax 1937 1938 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
977Rule Halifax 1937 1941 - Sep Mon>=24 0:00 0 S
978Rule Halifax 1939 only - May 28 0:00 1:00 D
979Rule Halifax 1940 1941 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
980Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
981Rule Halifax 1946 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
982Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
983Rule Halifax 1951 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
984Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
985Rule Halifax 1956 1959 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
986Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
987Rule Halifax 1962 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
988# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
989Zone America/Halifax -4:14:24 - LMT 1902 Jun 15
990 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1918
991 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1919
992 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
993 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1946
994 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974
995 -4:00 Canada A%sT
996Zone America/Glace_Bay -3:59:48 - LMT 1902 Jun 15
997 -4:00 Canada A%sT 1953
998 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1954
999 -4:00 - AST 1972
1000 -4:00 Halifax A%sT 1974
1001 -4:00 Canada A%sT
1002
1003
1004# Ontario, Quebec
1005
1006# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
1007# Shanks writes that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like Toronto,
1008# and most of Quebec has been like Montreal.
1009# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1010# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1011# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1012# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax.
1013
1014# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1015# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST
1016# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that
1017# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw
1018# have already done so. In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday,
1019# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable
1020# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after
1021# only two weeks -- I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but
1022# presumably that should be -07-06. (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters
1023# earlier in June).
1024#
1025# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21).
1026
1027# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17):
1028# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star
1029# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST,
1030# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT.
1031# He also writes that the
1032# <a href="http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html">
1033# Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9)
1034# </a>
1035# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT.
1036# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report
1037# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice.
1038# For what it's worth, Shanks says that Atikokan has agreed with
1039# Rainy River ever since standard time was introduced.
1040
1041# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1042# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and
1043# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes
1044# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in
1045# violation of the official Ontario rules.
1046# They also write that Quebec east of the -63 meridian is supposed to
1047# observe AST, but residents as far east as Natashquan use EST/EDT,
1048# and residents east of Natashquan use AST.
1049# We probably need Zones for far east Quebec and for Atikokan,
1050# but we don't know when their practices started.
1051
1052# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1053Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D
1054Rule Mont 1917 only - Apr 24 0:00 0 S
1055Rule Mont 1919 only - Mar 31 2:30 1:00 D
1056Rule Mont 1919 only - Oct 25 2:30 0 S
1057Rule Mont 1920 only - May 2 2:30 1:00 D
1058Rule Mont 1920 1922 - Oct Sun>=1 2:30 0 S
1059Rule Mont 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
1060Rule Mont 1922 only - Apr 30 2:00 1:00 D
1061Rule Mont 1924 only - May 17 2:00 1:00 D
1062Rule Mont 1924 1926 - Sep lastSun 2:30 0 S
1063Rule Mont 1925 1926 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1064# The 1927-to-1937 rules can be expressed more simply as
1065# Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Apr lastSat 24:00 1:00 D
1066# Rule Mont 1927 1937 - Sep lastSat 24:00 0 S
1067# The rules below avoid use of 24:00
1068# (which pre-1998 versions of zic cannot handle).
1069Rule Mont 1927 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
1070Rule Mont 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
1071Rule Mont 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
1072Rule Mont 1932 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
1073Rule Mont 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
1074Rule Mont 1933 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
1075Rule Mont 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
1076Rule Mont 1946 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1077Rule Mont 1945 1948 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1078Rule Mont 1949 1950 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1079Rule Mont 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1080Rule Mont 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1081
1082Rule Toronto 1919 only - Mar 30 23:30 1:00 D
1083Rule Toronto 1919 only - Oct 26 0:00 0 S
1084Rule Toronto 1920 only - May 2 2:00 1:00 D
1085Rule Toronto 1920 only - Sep 26 0:00 0 S
1086Rule Toronto 1921 only - May 15 2:00 1:00 D
1087Rule Toronto 1921 only - Sep 15 2:00 0 S
1088Rule Toronto 1922 1923 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
1089# Shanks says 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16" was meant.
1090Rule Toronto 1922 1926 - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S
1091Rule Toronto 1924 1927 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1092# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as
1093# Rule Toronto 1927 1937 - Sep Sun>=25 2:00 0 S
1094# Rule Toronto 1928 1937 - Apr Sun>=25 2:00 1:00 D
1095# Rule Toronto 1938 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1096# Rule Toronto 1938 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1097# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25
1098# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle).
1099Rule Toronto 1927 1932 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1100Rule Toronto 1928 1931 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1101Rule Toronto 1932 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
1102Rule Toronto 1933 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1103Rule Toronto 1933 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S
1104Rule Toronto 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1105Rule Toronto 1945 1946 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1106Rule Toronto 1946 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1107Rule Toronto 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
1108Rule Toronto 1947 1948 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
1109Rule Toronto 1949 only - Nov lastSun 0:00 0 S
1110Rule Toronto 1950 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1111Rule Toronto 1950 only - Nov lastSun 2:00 0 S
1112Rule Toronto 1951 1956 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1113# Shanks says Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971, namely on 1971-10-24,
1114# but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that he checked the 1971-10-30 issue
1115# of the Toronto Star, and it said that DST ended 1971-10-31 as usual.
1116Rule Toronto 1957 1973 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1117
1118# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1119# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and
1120# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in
1121# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw,
1122# Saskatchewan, for one year."
1123
1124# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator,
1125# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12):
1126# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight
1127# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur
1128# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central
1129# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to
1130# include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight
1131# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so
1132# already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World
1133# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer
1134# months for the remainder of the war years.
1135
1136# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1137Zone America/Montreal -4:54:16 - LMT 1884
1138 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1918
1139 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919
1140 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1141 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946
1142 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1974
1143 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1144Zone America/Toronto -5:17:32 - LMT 1895
1145 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1919
1146 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1147 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1946
1148 -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1974
1149 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1150Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 - LMT 1895
1151 -6:00 - CST 1910
1152 -5:00 - EST 1942
1153 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1970
1154 -5:00 Mont E%sT 1973
1155 -5:00 - EST 1974
1156 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1157Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895
1158 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1940 Sep 29
1159 -5:00 1:00 EDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1160 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1161Zone America/Rainy_River -6:17:56 - LMT 1895
1162 -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29
1163 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
1164 -6:00 Canada C%sT
1165
1166
1167# Manitoba
1168
1169# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1170Rule Winn 1916 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D
1171Rule Winn 1916 only - Sep 17 0:00 0 S
1172Rule Winn 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
1173Rule Winn 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
1174Rule Winn 1937 only - May 16 2:00 1:00 D
1175Rule Winn 1937 only - Sep 26 2:00 0 S
1176Rule Winn 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1177Rule Winn 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1178Rule Winn 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1179Rule Winn 1946 only - May 12 2:00 1:00 D
1180Rule Winn 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S
1181Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1182Rule Winn 1947 1949 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1183Rule Winn 1950 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
1184Rule Winn 1950 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
1185Rule Winn 1951 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1186Rule Winn 1951 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1187Rule Winn 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1188Rule Winn 1960 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1189Rule Winn 1963 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1190Rule Winn 1963 only - Sep 22 2:00 0 S
1191Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1192Rule Winn 1966 1986 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
4c00c0ae 1193Rule Winn 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
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1194# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1195# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Manitoba switches from
1196# DST at 03:00 local time. For now, assume it started in 1987.
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1197Rule Winn 1987 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 S
1198Rule Winn 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D
1199Rule Winn 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
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1200# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1201Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16
1202 -6:00 Winn C%sT
1203
1204
1205# Saskatchewan
1206
1207# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1208# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal
1209# level. As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people
1210# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight,
1211# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook."
1212# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned:
1213# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of
1214# the summer". The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad
1215# time was noted.
1216
1217# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1218# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the
1219# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year."
1220
1221# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1222# Shanks writes that since 1970 most of this region has been like Regina.
1223# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972.
1224# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton.
1225# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton
1226# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law.
1227
4c00c0ae 1228# From W. Jones (1992-11-06):
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1229# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the
1230# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department.
1231# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and
1232# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother.
1233#
1234# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years
1235# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated
1236# their affiliations in one direction or the other. In 1965 a provincial
1237# referendum favoured legislating common time practices.
1238#
1239# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of
1240# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern
1241# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in
1242# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to
1243# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and
1244# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would
1245# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST.
1246#
1247# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town
1248# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to
1249# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only
1250# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT
1251# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round
1252# since sometime in the 1960s.
1253
1254# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1255Rule Regina 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
1256Rule Regina 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
1257Rule Regina 1930 1934 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1258Rule Regina 1930 1934 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
1259Rule Regina 1937 1941 - Apr Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D
1260Rule Regina 1937 only - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
1261Rule Regina 1938 only - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
1262Rule Regina 1939 1941 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
1263Rule Regina 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1264Rule Regina 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1265Rule Regina 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1266Rule Regina 1946 only - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
1267Rule Regina 1946 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0 S
1268Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1269Rule Regina 1947 1957 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1270Rule Regina 1959 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1271Rule Regina 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1272#
1273Rule Swift 1957 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1274Rule Swift 1957 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1275Rule Swift 1959 1961 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1276Rule Swift 1959 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1277Rule Swift 1960 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1278# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1279Zone America/Regina -6:58:36 - LMT 1905 Sep
1280 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1960 Apr lastSun 2:00
1281 -6:00 - CST
1282Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 - LMT 1905 Sep
1283 -7:00 Canada M%sT 1946 Apr lastSun 2:00
1284 -7:00 Regina M%sT 1950
1285 -7:00 Swift M%sT 1972 Apr lastSun 2:00
1286 -6:00 - CST
1287
1288
1289# Alberta
1290
1291# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1292Rule Edm 1918 1919 - Apr Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
1293Rule Edm 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
1294Rule Edm 1919 only - May 27 2:00 0 S
1295Rule Edm 1920 1923 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1296Rule Edm 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1297Rule Edm 1921 1923 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1298Rule Edm 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1299Rule Edm 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1300Rule Edm 1945 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1301Rule Edm 1947 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1302Rule Edm 1947 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1303Rule Edm 1967 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1304Rule Edm 1967 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1305Rule Edm 1969 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1306Rule Edm 1969 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1307Rule Edm 1972 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1308Rule Edm 1972 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1309Rule Edm 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1310# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1311Zone America/Edmonton -7:33:52 - LMT 1906 Sep
1312 -7:00 Edm M%sT
1313
1314
1315# British Columbia
1316
1317# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1318# Shanks writes that since 1970 most of this region has been like Vancouver.
1319# Dawson Creek uses MST. Much of east BC is like Edmonton.
1320# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek.
1321
1322# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1323Rule Vanc 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
1324Rule Vanc 1918 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 S
1325Rule Vanc 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1326Rule Vanc 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1327Rule Vanc 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
1328Rule Vanc 1946 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1329Rule Vanc 1946 only - Oct 13 2:00 0 S
1330Rule Vanc 1947 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1331Rule Vanc 1962 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1332Rule Vanc 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1333# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1334Zone America/Vancouver -8:12:28 - LMT 1884
1335 -8:00 Vanc P%sT
1336Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884
1337 -8:00 Canada P%sT 1947
1338 -8:00 Vanc P%sT 1972 Aug 30 2:00
1339 -7:00 - MST
1340
1341
1342# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon
1343
1344# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
1345# Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979.
4c00c0ae 1346# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs:
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1347# * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68,
1348# c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid;
1349# see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1).
1350# * C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00.
1351# * O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST.
1352# * O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00.
1353# Shanks says Yukon's 1973-10-28 switch was at 2:00; go with Englander.
1354
1355# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04):
1356# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone.
1357# <a href="http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html">
1358# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31
1359# </a>
1360#
1361# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06):
1362# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut
1363# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region.
1364
1365# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
1366# <a href="http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html">
1367# Basic Facts: The New Territory
1368# </a> (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time,
1369# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when
1370# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995.
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1371
1372# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
1373# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time,
1374# Pangnirtung wobbled. Here is the result of their wobble:
1375#
1376# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time:
1377#
1378# First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP,
1379# Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist
1380#
1381# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time:
1382#
1383# Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator
1384#
1385# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news.
1386# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to
1387# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not
1388# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally.
1389# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart,
1390# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long.
1391# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to
1392# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with
1393# the current state of affairs.
1394
1395# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the
1396# <a href="http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html">
1397# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19)</a>:
1398# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones,
1399# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time
1400# for municipal offices and schools.... Igloolik [was similar but then]
1401# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6.
1402
1403# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1404# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories
1405# for these potential new Zones.
1406#
1407# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the
1408# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central
1409# zone] skip daylight savings. Baffin Island, which is crossed by the
1410# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time.
1411# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of
1412# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not
1413# required to use daylight savings.
1414
1415# From
1416# <a href="http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html">
1417# Nunavut now has two time zones
1418# </a> (2000-11-10):
1419# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and
1420# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them
1421# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter.
1422# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against
1423# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with
1424# the rest of the territory for the winter. Cambridge Bay remained on
1425# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to
1426# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's
1427# unified time zone in 1999.
1428#
1429# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government:
1430# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000.
1431
1432# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
1433# Let's just keep track of the official times for now.
1434
1435# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07):
1436# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising
1437# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert
1438# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern). Of the
1439# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that
1440# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round. I'm
1441# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with
1442# more.
1443# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).]
1444
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1445# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21):
1446# According to maps at
1447# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SWE.jpg
1448# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SSE.jpg
1449# (both dated 2003), and
1450# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp
1451# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time
1452# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year
1453# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this.
1454# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it
1455# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years....
1456# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used.
1457#
1458# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26):
1459# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed
1460# daylight saving only during wartime.
1461
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1462# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1463Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
1464Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S
1465Rule NT_YK 1919 only - May 25 2:00 1:00 D
1466Rule NT_YK 1919 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
1467Rule NT_YK 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
1468Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
1469Rule NT_YK 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
1470Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Apr lastSun 0:00 2:00 DD
1471Rule NT_YK 1965 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1472Rule NT_YK 1980 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1473Rule NT_YK 1980 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1474Rule NT_YK 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1475# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1476Zone America/Pangnirtung -4:22:56 - LMT 1884
1477 -4:00 NT_YK A%sT 1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00
1478 -5:00 Canada E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00
1479 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
1480 -5:00 Canada E%sT
1481Zone America/Iqaluit -4:33:52 - LMT 1884 # Frobisher Bay before 1987
1482 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00
1483 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
1484 -5:00 Canada E%sT
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1485Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 - LMT 1884
1486 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1946
1487 -5:00 - EST
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1488Zone America/Rankin_Inlet -6:08:40 - LMT 1884
1489 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
1490 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00
1491 -6:00 Canada C%sT
1492Zone America/Cambridge_Bay -7:00:20 - LMT 1884
1493 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00
1494 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
1495 -5:00 - EST 2000 Nov 5 0:00
1496 -6:00 - CST 2001 Apr 1 3:00
1497 -7:00 Canada M%sT
1498Zone America/Yellowknife -7:37:24 - LMT 1884
1499 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT
1500Zone America/Inuvik -8:54:00 - LMT 1884
1501 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT 1979 Apr lastSun 2:00
1502 -7:00 NT_YK M%sT
1503Zone America/Whitehorse -9:00:12 - LMT 1900 Aug 20
1504 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1966 Jul 1 2:00
1505 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT
1506Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20
1507 -9:00 NT_YK Y%sT 1973 Oct 28 0:00
1508 -8:00 NT_YK P%sT
1509
1510
1511###############################################################################
1512
1513# Mexico
1514
1515# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05):
1516# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the
1517# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a
1518# <a href="http://www.cddhcu.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/">
1519# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish)
1520# </a>.
1521#
1522# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks and the MLoC.
1523# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.)
1524# Shanks reports that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923.
1525# Shanks says the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16.
1526# Shanks reports no DST during summer 1931.
4c00c0ae 1527# Shanks reports a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01.
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1528# Shanks does not report transitions for Baja in 1945 or 1948.
1529# Shanks reports southern Mexico transitions on 1981-12-01, not 12-23.
1530# Shanks says Quintana Roo switched to -6:00 on 1982-12-02, and to -5:00
1531# on 1997-10-26 at 02:00.
1532
1533# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20):
1534# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the
1535# tz database. I think they can best be explained by supposing that
1536# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of
1537# the relevant documents.
1538
1539# From Paul Eggert (2000-07-26):
1540# Shanks gives 1942-04-01 instead of 1942-04-24, and omits the 1981
1541# and 1988 DST experiments. Go with spin.com.mx.
1542
4c00c0ae 1543# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15):
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1544# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree
1545# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico.
1546#
1547# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
1548#
1549# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the
1550# rules for the DST changes. The rules are:
1551#
1552# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones:
1553# - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ)
1554# - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ)
1555# - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ)
1556#
1557# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October
1558# at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows:
1559# BajaNorte: GMT+7
1560# BajaSur: GMT+6
1561# General: GMT+5
1562#
1563# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows:
1564# BajaNorte: GMT+8
1565# BajaSur: GMT+7
1566# General: GMT+6
1567#
1568# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th.
1569#
1570# -------------- End Forwarded Message --------------
1571# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
1572# For an English translation of the decree, see
1573# <a href="http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html">
1574# ``Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover'' (1996-01-04).
1575# </a>
1576
1577# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
1578# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times
1579# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02).
1580
1581# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
1582# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time
1583# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight
1584# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of
1585# Arizona year round.
1586
1587# From Jesper Norgaard, translating
1588# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17):
1589# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National
1590# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each
1591# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the
1592# whole year.
1593
1594# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19):
1595# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says
1596# (translated):...
1597# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced
1598# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting
1599# this year....
1600# <http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001>
1601# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday
1602# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September.
1603
1604# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25):
1605# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one
1606# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."...
1607# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html
1608# ... Mexico City Mayor Lopez Obrador "...is threatening to keep
1609# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than
1610# the rest of the country..." In particular, Lopez Obrador would abolish
1611# observation of Daylight Saving Time.
1612
1613# <a href="http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre">
1614# Official statute published by the Energy Department
1615# </a> (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules,
1616# and Sonora with no DST. This was reported by Jesper Norgaard (2001-02-03).
1617
1618# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03):
1619#
1620# <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html">
1621# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times
1622# </a>
1623# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time.
1624# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador decreed that
1625# the Federal District will not adopt DST.
1626# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree.
1627# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including
1628# the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools.
1629#
1630# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules.
1631
1632# From Jesper Norgaard (2001-04-01):
1633# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight
1634# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier
1635# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight
1636# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California
1637# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight
1638# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president
1639# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending
1640# September 30, 2001.
1641# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp>
1642# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31)
1643
1644# From Reuters (2001-09-04):
1645# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was
1646# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the
1647# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation
1648# next year.... The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00
1649# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to
1650# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not
1651# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said.
1652
1653# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2002-03-12):
1654# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted
1655# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico....
1656# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20)
1657# confirms this. Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied.
1658
1659# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1660Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D
1661Rule Mexico 1939 only - Jun 25 0:00 0 S
1662Rule Mexico 1940 only - Dec 9 0:00 1:00 D
1663Rule Mexico 1941 only - Apr 1 0:00 0 S
1664Rule Mexico 1943 only - Dec 16 0:00 1:00 W # War
1665Rule Mexico 1944 only - May 1 0:00 0 S
1666Rule Mexico 1950 only - Feb 12 0:00 1:00 D
1667Rule Mexico 1950 only - Jul 30 0:00 0 S
1668Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1669Rule Mexico 1996 2000 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1670Rule Mexico 2001 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1671Rule Mexico 2001 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
1672Rule Mexico 2002 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1673Rule Mexico 2002 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1674# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1675# Quintana Roo
1676Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:12:56
1677 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23
1678 -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00
1679 -6:00 Mexico C%sT
1680# Campeche, Yucatan
1681Zone America/Merida -5:58:28 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:01:32
1682 -6:00 - CST 1981 Dec 23
1683 -5:00 - EST 1982 Dec 2
1684 -6:00 Mexico C%sT
1685# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas
1686Zone America/Monterrey -6:41:16 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:18:44
1687 -6:00 - CST 1988
1688 -6:00 US C%sT 1989
1689 -6:00 Mexico C%sT
1690# Central Mexico
1691Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24
1692 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
1693 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15
1694 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00
1695 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct
1696 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1
1697 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 2001 Sep 30 02:00
1698 -6:00 - CST 2002 Feb 20
1699 -6:00 Mexico C%sT
1700# Chihuahua
1701Zone America/Chihuahua -7:04:20 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:55:40
1702 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
1703 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15
1704 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00
1705 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct
1706 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1
1707 -6:00 - CST 1996
1708 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1998
1709 -6:00 - CST 1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00
1710 -7:00 Mexico M%sT
1711# Sonora
1712Zone America/Hermosillo -7:23:52 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:36:08
1713 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
1714 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15
1715 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00
1716 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct
1717 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1
1718 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24
1719 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14
1720 -8:00 - PST 1970
1721 -7:00 Mexico M%sT 1999
1722 -7:00 - MST
1723# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa
1724Zone America/Mazatlan -7:05:40 - LMT 1921 Dec 31 23:54:20
1725 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
1726 -6:00 - CST 1930 Nov 15
1727 -7:00 - MST 1931 May 1 23:00
1728 -6:00 - CST 1931 Oct
1729 -7:00 - MST 1932 Apr 1
1730 -6:00 - CST 1942 Apr 24
1731 -7:00 - MST 1949 Jan 14
1732 -8:00 - PST 1970
1733 -7:00 Mexico M%sT
1734# Baja California
1735Zone America/Tijuana -7:48:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:11:56
1736 -7:00 - MST 1924
1737 -8:00 - PST 1927 Jun 10 23:00
1738 -7:00 - MST 1930 Nov 15
1739 -8:00 - PST 1931 Apr 1
1740 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1931 Sep 30
1741 -8:00 - PST 1942 Apr 24
1742 -8:00 1:00 PWT 1945 Nov 12
1743 -8:00 - PST 1948 Apr 5
1744 -8:00 1:00 PDT 1949 Jan 14
1745 -8:00 - PST 1954
1746 -8:00 CA P%sT 1961
1747 -8:00 - PST 1976
1748 -8:00 US P%sT 1996
1749 -8:00 Mexico P%sT 2001
1750 -8:00 US P%sT 2002 Feb 20
1751 -8:00 Mexico P%sT
1752# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05):
1753# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from
1754# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976
1755# through 1995. This was as per Shanks. However, Guy Harris reports
1756# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicale, San Felipe and
1757# Tijuana observe DST," which contradicts Shanks but does imply that
1758# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then. This concerns
1759# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone
1760# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its
1761# name or contents should be.
1762#
1763# Revillagigedo Is
1764# no information
1765
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1767
1768# Anguilla
1769# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1770Zone America/Anguilla -4:12:16 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
1771 -4:00 - AST
1772
1773# Antigua and Barbuda
1774# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1775Zone America/Antigua -4:07:12 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
1776 -5:00 - EST 1951
1777 -4:00 - AST
1778
1779# Bahamas
1780# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1781Rule Bahamas 1964 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
1782Rule Bahamas 1964 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1783Rule Bahamas 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1784# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1785Zone America/Nassau -5:09:24 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
1786 -5:00 Bahamas E%sT
1787
1788# Barbados
1789# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1790Rule Barb 1977 only - Jun 12 2:00 1:00 D
1791Rule Barb 1977 1978 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
1792Rule Barb 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D
1793Rule Barb 1979 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
1794Rule Barb 1980 only - Sep 25 2:00 0 S
1795# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1796Zone America/Barbados -3:58:28 - LMT 1924 # Bridgetown
1797 -3:58:28 - BMT 1932 # Bridgetown Mean Time
1798 -4:00 Barb A%sT
1799
1800# Belize
1801# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks.
1802# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1803Rule Belize 1918 1942 - Oct Sun>=2 0:00 0:30 HD
1804Rule Belize 1919 1943 - Feb Sun>=9 0:00 0 S
1805Rule Belize 1973 only - Dec 5 0:00 1:00 D
1806Rule Belize 1974 only - Feb 9 0:00 0 S
1807Rule Belize 1982 only - Dec 18 0:00 1:00 D
1808Rule Belize 1983 only - Feb 12 0:00 0 S
1809# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1810Zone America/Belize -5:52:48 - LMT 1912 Apr
1811 -6:00 Belize C%sT
1812
1813# Bermuda
1814# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1815Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:04 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton
1816 -4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00
1817 -4:00 Bahamas A%sT
1818
1819# Cayman Is
1820# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1821Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown
1822 -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
1823 -5:00 - EST
1824
1825# Costa Rica
1826# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1827Rule CR 1979 1980 - Feb lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
1828Rule CR 1979 1980 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
1829Rule CR 1991 1992 - Jan Sat>=15 0:00 1:00 D
1830# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00; go with Shanks.
1831Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S
1832Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S
1833# There are too many San Joses elsewhere, so we'll use `Costa Rica'.
1834# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1835Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:20 - LMT 1890 # San Jose
1836 -5:36:20 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San Jose Mean Time
1837 -6:00 CR C%sT
1838# Coco
1839# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica
1840
1841# Cuba
1842
1843# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29):
1844# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between
1845# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on
1846# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC.
1847# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that
1848# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving
1849# Time today." (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of
1850# sleep on 1999-03-28--when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched
1851# to DST--and one more hour on 1999-04-04--when the announcers will have
1852# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.)
1853
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1854# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28):
1855# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year.
1856# From Paul Eggert (2004-10-28):
1857# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html
1858# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras
1859# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return
1860# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)".
1861# For now, let's assume that it's a one-year temporary measure.
1862
1863# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12):
1864# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone
1865# adjustment in Cuba. We will stay in daylight saving time:
1866# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html
1867
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1868# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1869Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D
1870Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S
1871Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1872Rule Cuba 1940 1942 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
1873Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Jun Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1874Rule Cuba 1945 1946 - Sep Sun>=1 0:00 0 S
1875Rule Cuba 1965 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
1876Rule Cuba 1965 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
1877Rule Cuba 1966 only - May 29 0:00 1:00 D
1878Rule Cuba 1966 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S
1879Rule Cuba 1967 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 D
1880Rule Cuba 1967 1968 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
1881Rule Cuba 1968 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D
1882Rule Cuba 1969 1977 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
1883Rule Cuba 1969 1971 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S
1884Rule Cuba 1972 1974 - Oct 8 0:00 0 S
1885Rule Cuba 1975 1977 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S
1886Rule Cuba 1978 only - May 7 0:00 1:00 D
1887Rule Cuba 1978 1990 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
1888Rule Cuba 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 D
1889Rule Cuba 1981 1985 - May Sun>=5 0:00 1:00 D
1890Rule Cuba 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=14 0:00 1:00 D
1891Rule Cuba 1990 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1892Rule Cuba 1991 1995 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00s 0 S
1893Rule Cuba 1996 only - Oct 6 0:00s 0 S
1894Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S
1895Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D
4c00c0ae 1896Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S
09fd88e4 1897Rule Cuba 2000 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D
4c00c0ae 1898Rule Cuba 2006 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S
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1899
1900# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1901Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890
1902 -5:29:36 - HMT 1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT
1903 -5:00 Cuba C%sT
1904
1905# Dominica
1906# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1907Zone America/Dominica -4:05:36 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Roseau
1908 -4:00 - AST
1909
1910# Dominican Republic
1911
1912# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30):
1913# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the
1914# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am....
1915# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html
1916
1917# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
1918# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST.
1919
1920# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
1921# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday,
1922# November 28, 2000, with a new decree. On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the
1923# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date
1924# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future. The reason they
1925# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going
1926# to implement DST. When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president
1927# decided to revert.
1928
1929
1930# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1931Rule DR 1966 only - Oct 30 0:00 1:00 D
1932Rule DR 1967 only - Feb 28 0:00 0 S
1933Rule DR 1969 1973 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HD
1934Rule DR 1970 only - Feb 21 0:00 0 S
1935Rule DR 1971 only - Jan 20 0:00 0 S
1936Rule DR 1972 1974 - Jan 21 0:00 0 S
1937# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1938Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 - LMT 1890
1939 -4:40 - SDMT 1933 Apr 1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT
1940 -5:00 DR E%sT 1974 Oct 27
1941 -4:00 - AST 2000 Oct 29 02:00
1942 -5:00 US E%sT 2000 Dec 3 01:00
1943 -4:00 - AST
1944
1945# El Salvador
1946# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1947Rule Salv 1987 1988 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1948Rule Salv 1987 1988 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 S
1949# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador
1950# instead of America/San_Salvador.
1951# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1952Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 - LMT 1921 # San Salvador
1953 -6:00 Salv C%sT
1954
1955# Grenada
1956# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1957Zone America/Grenada -4:07:00 - LMT 1911 Jul # St George's
1958 -4:00 - AST
1959
1960# Guadeloupe
1961# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1962Zone America/Guadeloupe -4:06:08 - LMT 1911 Jun 8 # Pointe a Pitre
1963 -4:00 - AST
1964
1965# Guatemala
1966# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1967Rule Guat 1973 only - Nov 25 0:00 1:00 D
1968Rule Guat 1974 only - Feb 24 0:00 0 S
1969Rule Guat 1983 only - May 21 0:00 1:00 D
1970Rule Guat 1983 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
1971Rule Guat 1991 only - Mar 23 0:00 1:00 D
1972Rule Guat 1991 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S
1973# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1974Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5
1975 -6:00 Guat C%sT
1976
1977# Haiti
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1978# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15):
1979# Risto O. Nykanen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST.
1980# I searched for confirmation, and I found a
1981# <a href="http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc"> press release
1982# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31),
1983# </a>. Translated from French, it says:
1984#
1985# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general
1986# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior
1987# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the
1988# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next
1989# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd.
1990#
1991# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform
1992# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour
1993# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in
1994# October 2005.
1995#
1996# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005"
1997
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1998# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1999Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D
2000Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
2001Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S
2002# Shanks says AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. Go with IATA.
2003Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D
2004Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S
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2005Rule Haiti 2005 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
2006Rule Haiti 2005 only - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S
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2007# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2008Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890
2009 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT
2010 -5:00 Haiti E%sT
2011
2012# Honduras
2013# Shanks says 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1.
2014# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2015Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr
2016 -6:00 Salv C%sT
2017#
2018# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972
2019
2020# Jamaica
2021
2022# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
2023# Follows US rules.
2024
2025# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
2026# JAMAICA 5 H BEHIND UTC
2027
2028# From Shanks:
2029# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2030Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:12 - LMT 1890 # Kingston
2031 -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
2032 -5:00 - EST 1974 Apr 28 2:00
2033 -5:00 US E%sT 1984
2034 -5:00 - EST
2035
2036# Martinique
2037# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2038Zone America/Martinique -4:04:20 - LMT 1890 # Fort-de-France
2039 -4:04:20 - FFMT 1911 May # Fort-de-France MT
2040 -4:00 - AST 1980 Apr 6
2041 -4:00 1:00 ADT 1980 Sep 28
2042 -4:00 - AST
2043
2044# Montserrat
2045# From Paul Eggert (1997-08-31):
2046# Recent volcanic eruptions have forced evacuation of Plymouth, the capital.
2047# Luckily, Olveston, the current de facto capital, has the same longitude.
2048# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2049Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Olveston
2050 -4:00 - AST
2051
2052# Nicaragua
2053#
2054# From Steffen Thorsen (1998-12-29):
2055# Nicaragua seems to be back at -6:00 but I have not been able to find when
2056# they changed from -5:00.
2057#
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2058# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12):
2059# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started
2060# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of
2061# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet
2062# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September".
2063# Some background information is available on the President's official site:
2064# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm
2065# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here:
2066# 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
2067#
2068# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01):
2069# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's
2070# assume that it is daylight saving and that they'll switch back on the
2071# 3rd Sunday in September.
2072#
2073# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21):
2074# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at
2075# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html
2076# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last
2077# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000
2078# during the Arnoldo Aleman administration."...
2079# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously
2080# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time
2081# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to
2082# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000.
2083#
2084# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-11-02):
2085# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time).
2086# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm
2087# (2005-09-26)
2088#
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2089# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2090Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D
2091Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S
4c00c0ae 2092Rule Nic 1992 only - Jan 1 4:00 1:00 D
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2094Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D
2095Rule Nic 2005 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 S
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2096# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2097Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890
2098 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time?
2099 -6:00 - CST 1973 May
2100 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16
2101 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1993 Jan 1 4:00
2102 -5:00 - EST 1998 Dec
4c00c0ae 2103 -6:00 Nic C%sT
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2104
2105# Panama
2106# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2107Zone America/Panama -5:18:08 - LMT 1890
2108 -5:19:36 - CMT 1908 Apr 22 # Colon Mean Time
2109 -5:00 - EST
2110
2111# Puerto Rico
2112# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use `Puerto_Rico'.
2113# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2114Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan
2115 -4:00 - AST 1942 May 3
2116 -4:00 1:00 AWT 1945 Sep 30 2:00
2117 -4:00 - AST
2118
2119# St Kitts-Nevis
2120# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2121Zone America/St_Kitts -4:10:52 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 # Basseterre
2122 -4:00 - AST
2123
2124# St Lucia
2125# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2126Zone America/St_Lucia -4:04:00 - LMT 1890 # Castries
2127 -4:04:00 - CMT 1912 # Castries Mean Time
2128 -4:00 - AST
2129
2130# St Pierre and Miquelon
2131# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use `Miquelon'.
2132# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2133Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre
2134 -4:00 - AST 1980 May
2135 -3:00 - PMST 1987 # Pierre & Miquelon Time
2136 -3:00 Canada PM%sT
2137
2138# St Vincent and the Grenadines
2139# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2140Zone America/St_Vincent -4:04:56 - LMT 1890 # Kingstown
2141 -4:04:56 - KMT 1912 # Kingstown Mean Time
2142 -4:00 - AST
2143
2144# Turks and Caicos
2145# From Paul Eggert (1998-08-06):
2146# Shanks says they use US DST rules, but IATA SSIM (1991/1998)
2147# says they switch at midnight. Go with IATA SSIM.
2148# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2149Rule TC 1979 1986 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D
2150Rule TC 1979 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S
2151Rule TC 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
2152# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2153Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890
2154 -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
2155 -5:00 TC E%sT
2156
2157# British Virgin Is
2158# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2159Zone America/Tortola -4:18:28 - LMT 1911 Jul # Road Town
2160 -4:00 - AST
2161
2162# Virgin Is
2163# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2164Zone America/St_Thomas -4:19:44 - LMT 1911 Jul # Charlotte Amalie
2165 -4:00 - AST