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diff --git a/examples/axes-time-zones/tz/antarctica b/examples/axes-time-zones/tz/antarctica new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f55cbde --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/axes-time-zones/tz/antarctica @@ -0,0 +1,413 @@ +# <pre> +# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of +# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. + +# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): +# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see +# <a href="http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/"> +# COMNAP - Stations and Bases +# </a> +# and +# <a href="http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm"> +# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) +# </a> +# for information. +# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. +# +# Except for the French entries, +# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! +# FORMAT is `zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. + +# These rules are stolen from the `southamerica' file. +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - +Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S +Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - +Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - +Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S +Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 1999 2010 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 2000 2007 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +# N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time, +# which is used below in specifying the transition. +Rule ChileAQ 2008 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 2012 only - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 2012 only - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S +Rule ChileAQ 2013 max - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - +Rule ChileAQ 2013 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S + +# These rules are stolen from the `australasia' file. +Rule AusAQ 1917 only - Jan 1 0:01 1:00 - +Rule AusAQ 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 0 - +Rule AusAQ 1942 only - Jan 1 2:00 1:00 - +Rule AusAQ 1942 only - Mar 29 2:00 0 - +Rule AusAQ 1942 only - Sep 27 2:00 1:00 - +Rule AusAQ 1943 1944 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - +Rule AusAQ 1943 only - Oct 3 2:00 1:00 - +Rule ATAQ 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule ATAQ 1968 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule ATAQ 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule ATAQ 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule ATAQ 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule ATAQ 1991 1999 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule ATAQ 1991 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule ATAQ 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule ATAQ 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule ATAQ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - + +# Argentina - year-round bases +# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 +# Esperanza, San Martin Land, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 +# Jubany, Potter Peninsula, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 +# Marambio, Seymour I, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 +# Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 +# San Martin, Debenham I, -6807-06708, since 1951-03-21 +# (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) + +# Australia - territories +# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) +# previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered +# <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html"> +# Margaret Turner reports +# </a> (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST; +# presumably this is when they have visitors. +# +# year-round bases +# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 +# Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 +# (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) +# Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): +# Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: +# Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 +# Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 +# Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 +# The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). +# +# Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) +# <a href="http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079"> +# http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 +# </a> +# +# We have more background information here: +# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html"> +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html +# </a> + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): +# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: +# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not +# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do +# on 4 April. +# +# - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. +# The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but +# has not been decided yet. +# +# - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 +# 20:00 UTC. +# +# - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. +# +# In addition to the Rule changes for Casey/Davis, it means that Macquarie +# will no longer be like Hobart and will have to have its own Zone created. +# +# Background: +# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html"> +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html +# </a> + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - zzz 1969 + 8:00 - WST 2009 Oct 18 2:00 + # Western (Aus) Standard Time + 11:00 - CAST 2010 Mar 5 2:00 + # Casey Time + 8:00 - WST 2011 Oct 28 2:00 + 11:00 - CAST 2012 Feb 21 17:00u + 8:00 - WST +Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 13 + 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time + 0 - zzz 1969 Feb + 7:00 - DAVT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 + 5:00 - DAVT 2010 Mar 10 20:00u + 7:00 - DAVT 2011 Oct 28 2:00 + 5:00 - DAVT 2012 Feb 21 20:00u + 7:00 - DAVT +Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 + 6:00 - MAWT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 + # Mawson Time + 5:00 - MAWT +Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - zzz 1911 + 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 + 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb + 10:00 AusAQ EST 1967 + 10:00 ATAQ EST 2010 Apr 4 3:00 + 11:00 - MIST # Macquarie Island Time +# References: +# <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html"> +# Casey Weather (1998-02-26) +# </a> +# <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html"> +# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) +# </a> +# <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html"> +# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) +# </a> + +# Brazil - year-round base +# Comandante Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 + +# Chile - year-round bases and towns +# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 +# Presidente Eduadro Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 +# General Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 +# Capitan Arturo Prat, -6230-05941 +# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 +# These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. + +# China - year-round bases +# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 +# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 + +# France - year-round bases +# +# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): +# Time data are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP +# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). +# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adelie bases +# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adelie supplies came +# from Tasmania. +# +# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants +# +# Martin-de-Vivies Base, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 +# Alfred-Faure Base, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964 +# Port-aux-Francais, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; +# whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 +# +# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited +# fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - zzz 1950 # Port-aux-Francais + 5:00 - TFT # ISO code TF Time +# +# year-round base in the main continent +# Dumont-d'Urville, Ile des Petrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 +# +# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. +# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947 + 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time + 0 - zzz 1956 Nov + 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time +# Reference: +# <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station"> +# Dumont d'Urville Station (2005-12-05) +# </a> + +# Germany - year-round base +# Georg von Neumayer, -7039-00815 + +# India - year-round base +# Dakshin Gangotri, -7005+01200 + +# Japan - year-round bases +# Dome Fuji, -7719+03942 +# Syowa, -690022+0393524 +# +# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): +# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. +# +# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, +# was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main +# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29 + 3:00 - SYOT # Syowa Time +# See: +# <a href="http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html"> +# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) +# </a> + +# S Korea - year-round base +# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 + +# New Zealand - claims +# Balleny Islands (never inhabited) +# Scott Island (never inhabited) +# +# year-round base +# Scott, Ross Island, since 1957-01, is like Antarctica/McMurdo. +# +# These rules for New Zealand are stolen from the `australasia' file. +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule NZAQ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule NZAQ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule NZAQ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule NZAQ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule NZAQ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S +Rule NZAQ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S +Rule NZAQ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S +Rule NZAQ 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D +Rule NZAQ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S + +# Norway - territories +# Bouvet (never inhabited) +# +# claims +# Peter I Island (never inhabited) + +# Poland - year-round base +# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 + +# Russia - year-round bases +# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 +# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 +# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, +# year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 +# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, +# year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 + +# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 +# <a href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP"> +# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>: +# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same +# time as Moscow, Russia. +# +# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): +# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is +# what they had to say about time there: +# ``in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) +# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was +# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead +# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The +# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT.'' +# +# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): +# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it +# in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local +# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this +# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean +# solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks +# happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time +# it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6. +# +Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 + 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time + +# S Africa - year-round bases +# Marion Island, -4653+03752 +# Sanae, -7141-00250 + +# UK +# +# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims +# South Orkney Islands +# scientific station from 1903 +# whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 +# South Shetland Islands +# +# year-round bases +# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 +# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, +# scientific station 1943/1967, +# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, +# and a garrison was deployed briefly +# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 +# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated +# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. +# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 +# +# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) +# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 + -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time + +# Uruguay - year round base +# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 + +# USA - year-round bases +# +# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) +# +# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06): +# It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us +# and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line.... +# I verified with someone who was there that since 1980, +# Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War, +# Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina. +# +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 + -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 + -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May + -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT +# +# +# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12 +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956 + 12:00 NZAQ NZ%sT +# +# Amundsen-Scott, South Pole, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 +# +# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): +# Normally it wouldn't have a separate entry, since it's like the +# larger Antarctica/McMurdo since 1970, but it's too famous to omit. +# +# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): +# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, +# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, +# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 +# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, +# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year +# at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) +# +# From Susan Smith +# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html +# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): +# We use the same time as McMurdo does. +# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... +# One last quirk about South Pole time. +# All the electric clocks are usually wrong. +# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something +# makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, +# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. +# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! +# +Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole |