antarctica revision 307362
1235537Sgber# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
2235537Sgber# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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4235537Sgber# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15):
5235537Sgber# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see
6235537Sgber# COMNAP - Stations and Bases
7235537Sgber# http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/
8235537Sgber# and
9235537Sgber# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23)
10235537Sgber# http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm
11235537Sgber# for information.
12235537Sgber# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information.
13235537Sgber
14235537Sgber# FORMAT is '-00' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited.
15235537Sgber
16235537Sgber# Argentina - year-round bases
17235537Sgber# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05
18235537Sgber# Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01
19235537Sgber# Esperanza, Hope Bay, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17
20235537Sgber# Marambio, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29
21235537Sgber# Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22
22235537Sgber# San Mart��n, Barry I, -6808-06706, since 1951-03-21
23235537Sgber#	(except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21)
24235537Sgber
25235537Sgber# Australia - territories
26235537Sgber# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited)
27235537Sgber#	previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered
28235537Sgber#	Margaret Turner reports
29235537Sgber#	http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html
30235537Sgber#	(1999-09-30) that they're UT +05, with no DST;
31235537Sgber#	presumably this is when they have visitors.
32235537Sgber#
33235537Sgber# year-round bases
34235537Sgber# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969
35235537Sgber# Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13
36235537Sgber#	(except 1964-11 - 1969-02)
37235537Sgber# Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13
38235537Sgber
39235537Sgber# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11):
40235537Sgber# Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone:
41235537Sgber# Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11
42235537Sgber# Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5
43235537Sgber# Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5
44235537Sgber# The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times).
45235537Sgber#
46235537Sgber# Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division)
47235537Sgber# http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079
48235537Sgber#
49235537Sgber# We have more background information here:
50235537Sgber# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html
51235537Sgber
52235537Sgber# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
53235537Sgber# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ...
54235537Sgber#
55235537Sgber# - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010.
56235537Sgber# The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but
57235537Sgber# has not been decided yet.
58235537Sgber#
59235537Sgber# - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010
60235537Sgber# 20:00 UTC.
61235537Sgber#
62235537Sgber# - Mawson station stays on UTC+5.
63235537Sgber#
64235537Sgber# Background:
65235537Sgber# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html
66235537Sgber
67235537Sgber# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
68235537SgberZone Antarctica/Casey	0	-	-00	1969
69235537Sgber			8:00	-	+08	2009 Oct 18  2:00
70235537Sgber			11:00	-	+11	2010 Mar  5  2:00
71235537Sgber			8:00	-	+08	2011 Oct 28  2:00
72235537Sgber			11:00	-	+11	2012 Feb 21 17:00u
73235537Sgber			8:00	-	+08
74235537SgberZone Antarctica/Davis	0	-	-00	1957 Jan 13
75235537Sgber			7:00	-	+07	1964 Nov
76235537Sgber			0	-	-00	1969 Feb
77235537Sgber			7:00	-	+07	2009 Oct 18  2:00
78235537Sgber			5:00	-	+05	2010 Mar 10 20:00u
79235537Sgber			7:00	-	+07	2011 Oct 28  2:00
80235537Sgber			5:00	-	+05	2012 Feb 21 20:00u
81235537Sgber			7:00	-	+07
82235537SgberZone Antarctica/Mawson	0	-	-00	1954 Feb 13
83235537Sgber			6:00	-	+06	2009 Oct 18  2:00
84235537Sgber			5:00	-	+05
85235537Sgber# References:
86235537Sgber# Casey Weather (1998-02-26)
87235537Sgber# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html
88# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26)
89# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html
90# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25)
91# http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html
92
93# Belgium - year-round base
94# Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007
95
96# Brazil - year-round base
97# Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4
98
99# Bulgaria - year-round base
100# St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988
101
102# Chile - year-round bases and towns
103# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994
104# Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07
105# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02
106# Prat, -6230-05941
107# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09
108# These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'.
109
110# China - year-round bases
111# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20
112# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26
113
114# France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy")
115#
116# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20):
117# Time data entries are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP
118# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology).
119# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Ad��lie bases
120# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Ad��lie supplies came
121# from Tasmania.
122#
123# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants
124#
125# Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964;
126#	sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+;
127#	see Indian/Reunion.
128#
129# Martin-de-Vivi��s, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950
130# Port-aux-Fran��ais, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951;
131#	whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956
132#
133# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited
134#	fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931
135#
136# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
137Zone Indian/Kerguelen	0	-	-00	1950 # Port-aux-Fran��ais
138			5:00	-	+05
139#
140# year-round base in the main continent
141# Dumont d'Urville, ��le des P��trels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11
142# <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05)
143#
144# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947.
145# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14.
146#
147# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
148Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 -	-00	1947
149			10:00	-	+10	1952 Jan 14
150			0	-	-00	1956 Nov
151			10:00	-	+10
152
153# France & Italy - year-round base
154# Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005
155
156# Germany - year-round base
157# Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009
158
159# India - year-round bases
160# Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012
161# Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989
162
163# Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy")
164# Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986
165
166# Japan - year-round bases
167# Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957
168#
169# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06):
170# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time.
171#
172# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan,
173# was established on 1957-01-29.  Since Syowa station is still the main
174# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location.
175# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
176Zone Antarctica/Syowa	0	-	-00	1957 Jan 29
177			3:00	-	+03
178# See:
179# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17)
180# http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html
181
182# S Korea - year-round base
183# Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014
184# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988
185
186# New Zealand - claims
187# Balleny Islands (never inhabited)
188# Scott Island (never inhabited)
189#
190# year-round base
191# Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01.
192# See Pacific/Auckland.
193
194# Norway - territories
195# Bouvet (never inhabited)
196#
197# claims
198# Peter I Island (never inhabited)
199#
200# year-round base
201# Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12
202#
203# From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10):
204# I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com.
205# In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones:
206#   GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March
207#   GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October
208#   GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7
209#   GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1
210# The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely
211# correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates.
212#
213# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21):
214# The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tz 2014b or later, so as
215# suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate
216# with only UTC and CEST.  Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent.
217#
218# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
219#Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Mar	 1	1:00u	1:00	+01
220Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Mar	lastSun	1:00u	2:00	+02
221#Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00u	1:00	+01
222#Rule	Troll	2004	max	-	Nov	 7	1:00u	0:00	+00
223# Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines.
224Rule	Troll	2004	max	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00u	0:00	+00
225# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
226Zone Antarctica/Troll	0	-	-00	2005 Feb 12
227			0:00	Troll	%s
228
229# Poland - year-round base
230# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977
231
232# Romania - year-bound base
233# Law-Racovi����, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986
234
235# Russia - year-round bases
236# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22
237# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02
238# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551,
239#	year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01
240# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150,
241#	year-round from 1960/61 to 1992
242
243# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11
244# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15):
245# http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP
246# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same
247# time as Moscow, Russia.
248#
249# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08):
250# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is
251# what they had to say about time there:
252# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo)
253# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was
254# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead
255# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The
256# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT."
257#
258# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04):
259# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it
260# in person.  He said that some Antarctic locations set their local
261# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this
262# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean
263# solar noon.  So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks
264# happened to be during their visit.  So we still don't really know what time
265# it is at Vostok.  But we'll guess +06.
266#
267Zone Antarctica/Vostok	0	-	-00	1957 Dec 16
268			6:00	-	+06
269
270# S Africa - year-round bases
271# Marion Island, -4653+03752
272# SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997
273
274# Ukraine - year-round base
275# Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954
276
277# United Kingdom
278#
279# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims
280# South Orkney Islands
281#	scientific station from 1903
282#	whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926
283# South Shetland Islands
284#
285# year-round bases
286# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983
287# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931,
288#	scientific station 1943/1967,
289#	previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident,
290#	and a garrison was deployed briefly
291# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06
292#	Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated
293#	so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location.
294# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01
295#
296# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22)
297# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year.
298#
299# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
300Zone Antarctica/Rothera	0	-	-00	1976 Dec  1
301			-3:00	-	-03
302
303# Uruguay - year round base
304# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107
305
306# USA - year-round bases
307#
308# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
309# See 'southamerica' for Antarctica/Palmer, since it uses South American DST.
310#
311# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12
312# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20
313#
314# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27):
315# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station,
316# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station,
317# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12
318# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound,
319# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year
320# at that time (1957).  (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.)
321#
322# From Susan Smith
323# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html
324# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available):
325# We use the same time as McMurdo does.
326# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does....
327# One last quirk about South Pole time.
328# All the electric clocks are usually wrong.
329# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something
330# makes all of the clocks run fast.  So every couple of days,
331# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so.
332# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!!
333#
334# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo.
335