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diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica index 19b635fb2886..61f3f2a4d81d 100644 --- a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica +++ b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ -# @(#)northamerica 7.70 +# @(#)northamerica 7.78 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22): # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). @@ -24,12 +24,16 @@ # His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00, # and the most of the country soon followed suit. -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1995-12-19): +# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16): +# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time. +# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005). + +# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): # A good source for time zone historical data in the US is # Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). # Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it. -# It is the source for the US and Puerto Rico entries below. +# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US and Puerto Rico entries below. # From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06): # Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin @@ -48,7 +52,8 @@ # to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make # them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves. # -# -- Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947), XIX, Sunday +# -- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks, +# Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday # # For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see # Robert Garland's <a href="http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html"> @@ -78,7 +83,7 @@ # Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful." # </a> (August 1945) by way of confirmation. -# From Joseph Gallant <notquite@hotmail.com>, citing +# From Joseph Gallant citing # George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987): # At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set # to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people @@ -111,15 +116,14 @@ Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S -Rule US 1967 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S +Rule US 1967 2006 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -# <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.00177:"> -# H.R.177 -# </a> (introduced 1999-01-06) would change April to March in the above rule. +Rule US 1987 2006 - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule US 2007 max - Mar Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule US 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. @@ -197,7 +201,26 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation # "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas. # See the file "australasia". - + +# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09 +# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08. +# +# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS. +# (a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 +# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended-- +# (1) by striking `first Sunday of April' and inserting `second +# Sunday of March'; and +# (2) by striking `last Sunday of October' and inserting `first +# Sunday of November'. +# (b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the +# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later. +# (c) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the effective +# date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress +# on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United +# States. +# (d) Right to Revert- Congress retains the right to revert the +# Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the +# Department study is complete. # US eastern time, represented by New York @@ -208,6 +231,13 @@ Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D # Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, # Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia +# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02): +# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington +# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH].... +# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time +# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their +# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S @@ -215,7 +245,7 @@ Rule NYC 1921 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule NYC 1921 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule NYC 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/New_York -4:56:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:03:58 -5:00 US E%sT 1920 -5:00 NYC E%sT 1942 -5:00 US E%sT 1946 @@ -241,7 +271,7 @@ Rule Chicago 1922 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Chicago 1922 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Chicago 1955 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:09:24 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1936 Mar 1 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1936 Nov 15 2:00 @@ -250,7 +280,7 @@ Zone America/Chicago -5:50:36 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 Chicago C%sT 1967 -6:00 US C%sT # Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25. -Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:48 -7:00 US M%sT 1992 Oct 25 02:00 -6:00 US C%sT @@ -269,7 +299,7 @@ Rule Denver 1921 only - May 22 2:00 0 S Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Denver 1965 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Denver -6:59:56 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00:04 -7:00 US M%sT 1920 -7:00 Denver M%sT 1942 -7:00 US M%sT 1946 @@ -289,7 +319,7 @@ Rule CA 1950 1966 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule CA 1950 1961 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule CA 1962 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 -8:00 US P%sT 1946 -8:00 CA P%sT 1967 -8:00 US P%sT @@ -355,10 +385,26 @@ Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 -10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Nov 30 -10:00 US HA%sT +# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. +# # Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak) # switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00, # and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later. -# These switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff. +# +# From David Flater (2004-11-09): +# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska +# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which +# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967 +# possibly until 1983: +# +# Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967: +# "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important +# location not on Alaska Standard Time. The following resolution was +# made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson: Be it +# resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard +# Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday, +# January 14, Alaska Standard Time.) This resolution was passed with +# three votes for and one against." # Hawaii # @@ -400,7 +446,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1900 Jan 1 12:00 # Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17. # Go with the Arizona State Library instead. -Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Phoenix -7:28:18 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 11:31:42 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Jan 1 00:01 -7:00 - MST 1944 Apr 1 00:01 -7:00 US M%sT 1944 Oct 1 00:01 @@ -422,9 +468,9 @@ Link America/Denver America/Shiprock # Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, # Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties) and eastern Oregon # switched four weeks late in 1974. -# +# # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:11 -8:00 US P%sT 1923 May 13 2:00 -7:00 US M%sT 1974 -7:00 - MST 1974 Feb 3 2:00 @@ -457,18 +503,19 @@ Zone America/Boise -7:44:49 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 # # Most of EST-only Indiana last observed DST in 1970. -# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06), following a tip by Markus Kuhn: -# Pam Belluck reported in the New York Times (2001-01-31) that the -# Indiana Legislature is considering a bill to adopt DST statewide. -# Her article mentioned Vevay, whose post office observes a different -# time zone from Danner's Hardware across the street. +# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): +# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006, +# and that many counties may switch either to Central or to Eastern time. +# The county-by-county decisions have not been made yet, so for now assume +# that no counties will switch: this assumption is most likely wrong, +# but it's the best we can do for now. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Indianapolis 1946 1954 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22 -6:00 US C%sT 1920 -6:00 Indianapolis C%sT 1942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 @@ -477,8 +524,8 @@ Zone America/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -6:00 - CST 1958 Apr 27 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1971 - -5:00 - EST -Link America/Indianapolis America/Indiana/Indianapolis + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # # Part of Crawford County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1975, # and left its clocks alone in 1974. @@ -488,14 +535,15 @@ Rule Marengo 1951 only - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule Marengo 1954 1960 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:37 -6:00 US C%sT 1951 -6:00 Marengo C%sT 1961 Apr 30 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 -5:00 US E%sT 1976 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # # Starke County, Indiana # From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28): @@ -509,20 +557,22 @@ Rule Starke 1955 1956 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Starke 1957 1958 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Starke 1959 1961 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:13:30 -6:00 US C%sT 1947 -6:00 Starke C%sT 1962 Apr 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1963 Oct 27 2:00 -6:00 US C%sT 1991 Oct 27 2:00 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # # Switzerland County, Indiana, last observed DST in 1972. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:19:44 -6:00 US C%sT 1954 Apr 25 2:00 -5:00 - EST 1969 -5:00 US E%sT 1973 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 2006 + -5:00 US E%sT # Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974. # This also includes a part of Indiana immediately adjacent to Louisville. @@ -535,7 +585,7 @@ Rule Louisville 1946 only - Jun 2 2:00 0 S Rule Louisville 1950 1955 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S Rule Louisville 1956 1960 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone America/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:16:58 -6:00 US C%sT 1921 -6:00 Louisville C%sT 1942 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 @@ -544,7 +594,6 @@ Zone America/Louisville -5:43:02 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 -5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00 -6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00 -5:00 US E%sT -Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville # # Wayne, Clinton, and Russell Counties, Kentucky # @@ -572,7 +621,7 @@ Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville # Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158. # </a> # -Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00 +Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:20:36 -6:00 US C%sT 1946 -6:00 - CST 1968 -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 @@ -681,7 +730,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST ################################################################################ -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29): +# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the US is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999). @@ -709,7 +758,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST # Canada -# From Alain LaBont<e'> <ALB@immedia.ca> (1994-11-14): +# From Alain LaBont<e'> (1994-11-14): # I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada # for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard.... # @@ -738,7 +787,7 @@ Link Pacific/Honolulu HST # T: de Terre-Neuve # Y: du Yukon Yukon # -# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-22): +# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22): # Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software. # Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks. @@ -1123,7 +1172,7 @@ Zone America/Winnipeg -6:28:36 - LMT 1887 Jul 16 # Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton # are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law. -# From W. Jones <jones@skdad.usask.ca> (1992-11-06): +# From W. Jones (1992-11-06): # The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the # provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department. # A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and @@ -1241,7 +1290,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # Dawson switched to PST in 1973. Inuvik switched to MST in 1979. -# Mathew Englander <mathew@io.org> (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: +# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs: # * 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68, # c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9. This is still valid; # see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1). @@ -1266,8 +1315,6 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # </a> (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time, # and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST. We don't know when # Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995. -# We'll ignore the claim about Coral Harbour for now, -# since we have no further info. # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): # On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time, @@ -1342,6 +1389,23 @@ Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 - LMT 1884 # more. # [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).] +# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21): +# According to maps at +# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SWE.jpg +# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SSE.jpg +# (both dated 2003), and +# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp +# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time +# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year +# round. Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this. +# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it +# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years.... +# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26): +# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed +# daylight saving only during wartime. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D Rule NT_YK 1918 only - Oct 27 2:00 0 S @@ -1365,6 +1429,9 @@ Zone America/Iqaluit -4:33:52 - LMT 1884 # Frobisher Bay before 1987 -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1999 Oct 31 2:00 -6:00 Canada C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 Canada E%sT +Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 - LMT 1884 + -5:00 NT_YK E%sT 1946 + -5:00 - EST Zone America/Rankin_Inlet -6:08:40 - LMT 1884 -6:00 NT_YK C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00 -5:00 - EST 2001 Apr 1 3:00 @@ -1404,7 +1471,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # Shanks reports that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923. # Shanks says the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16. # Shanks reports no DST during summer 1931. -# Shanks reports a transition at 1032-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. +# Shanks reports a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01. # Shanks does not report transitions for Baja in 1945 or 1948. # Shanks reports southern Mexico transitions on 1981-12-01, not 12-23. # Shanks says Quintana Roo switched to -6:00 on 1982-12-02, and to -5:00 @@ -1420,7 +1487,7 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # Shanks gives 1942-04-01 instead of 1942-04-24, and omits the 1981 # and 1988 DST experiments. Go with spin.com.mx. -# From Alan Perry <alan.perry@eng.sun.com> (1996-02-15): +# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15): # A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree # outlining the timezone changes in Mexico. # @@ -1850,6 +1917,26 @@ Zone America/Guatemala -6:02:04 - LMT 1918 Oct 5 -6:00 Guat C%sT # Haiti +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15): +# Risto O. Nykanen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST. +# I searched for confirmation, and I found a +# <a href="http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc"> press release +# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31), +# </a>. Translated from French, it says: +# +# "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general +# and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior +# Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the +# provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next +# Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd. +# +# "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform +# the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour +# starting at midnight. This provision will hold until the last Saturday in +# October 2005. +# +# "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005" + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Haiti 1983 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 D Rule Haiti 1984 1987 - Apr lastSun 0:00 1:00 D @@ -1857,6 +1944,8 @@ Rule Haiti 1983 1987 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S # Shanks says AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s. Go with IATA. Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Apr Sun>=1 1:00s 1:00 D Rule Haiti 1988 1997 - Oct lastSun 1:00s 0 S +Rule Haiti 2005 only - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Haiti 2005 only - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 -4:49 - PPMT 1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT @@ -1908,11 +1997,39 @@ Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Olveston # Nicaragua seems to be back at -6:00 but I have not been able to find when # they changed from -5:00. # +# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12): +# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started +# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of +# expensive petroleum. The exact end date for DST is not yet +# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September". +# Some background information is available on the President's official site: +# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm +# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here: +# 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 +# +# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01): +# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's +# assume that it is daylight saving and that they'll switch back on the +# 3rd Sunday in September. +# +# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21): +# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at +# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html +# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish): "The last +# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000 +# during the Arnoldo Aleman administration."... +# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously +# since December 1998. I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time +# changes in 2000. Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to +# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S Rule Nic 1992 only - Jan 1 4:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1992 only - Sep 24 0:00 0 S +Rule Nic 2005 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 D +Rule Nic 2005 only - Sep 18 0:00 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -5:45:12 - MMT 1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time? @@ -1920,7 +2037,7 @@ Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1993 Jan 1 4:00 -5:00 - EST 1998 Dec - -6:00 - CST + -6:00 Nic C%sT # Panama # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |