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1# <pre>
2# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
3# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
4
5# also includes Central America and the Caribbean
6
7# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
8# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
9# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).
10
11# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-22):
12# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
13# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
14
15###############################################################################
16
17# United States
18
19# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
20# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by
21# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904),
22# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY).
23# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870)
24# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines
25# in New York City (1869-10).  His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC,
26# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich.
27# His proposal was adopted by the railroads on 1883-11-18 at 12:00,
28# and the most of the country soon followed suit.
29
30# From Paul Eggert (2005-04-16):
31# That 1883 transition occurred at 12:00 new time, not at 12:00 old time.
32# See p 46 of David Prerau, Seize the daylight, Thunder's Mouth Press (2005).
33
34# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
35# A good source for time zone historical data in the US is
36# Thomas G. Shanks, The American Atlas (5th edition),
37# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991).
38# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it.
39# It is the source for most of the pre-1991 US entries below.
40
41# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
42# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin
43# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost
44# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
45# Not everyone is happy with the results:
46#
47#	I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some
48#	agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving
49#	daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind.
50#	I even object to the implication that I am wasting something
51#	valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen.  As an admirer
52#	of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to
53#	reduce my time for enjoying it.  At the back of the Daylight Saving
54#	scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager
55#	to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make
56#	them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
57#
58#	-- Robertson Davies, The diary of Samuel Marchbanks,
59#	   Clarke, Irwin (1947), XIX, Sunday
60#
61# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see
62# Robert Garland's <a href="http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html">
63# Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint
64# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927)</a>.
65#
66# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919.
67# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which
68# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently
69# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time".
70
71# From Arthur David Olson:
72# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974.
73# See, for example, the front page of the Saturday, 1974-10-26
74# and Sunday, 1974-10-27 editions of the Washington Post.
75
76# From Arthur David Olson:
77# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of
78# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime.
79
80# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25):
81# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama.
82# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time."
83# An AltaVista search turned up
84# <a href="http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html">:
85# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace
86# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.'  Peace is wonderful."
87# </a> (August 1945) by way of confirmation.
88
89# From Joseph Gallant citing
90# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987):
91# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set
92# to switch to London for Attlee's address, but the American people
93# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account,
94# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender,
95# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word
96# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in
97# London which were to precede Mr. Attlee's speech.
98
99# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09): It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout.  From
100# Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times:
101#
102# ... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender.
103# Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a
104# wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news.
105# Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out
106# typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental
107# importance."
108#
109# On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open
110# microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell,
111# before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over.
112# The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms."
113#
114# He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters.
115
116# From Arthur David Olson (2005-08-22):
117# Paul has been careful to use the "US" rules only in those locations
118# that are part of the United States; this reflects the real scope of
119# U.S. government action.  So even though the "US" rules have changed
120# in the latest release, other countries won't be affected.
121
122# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
123Rule	US	1918	1919	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
124Rule	US	1918	1919	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
125Rule	US	1942	only	-	Feb	9	2:00	1:00	W # War
126Rule	US	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
127Rule	US	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
128Rule	US	1967	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
129Rule	US	1967	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
130Rule	US	1974	only	-	Jan	6	2:00	1:00	D
131Rule	US	1975	only	-	Feb	23	2:00	1:00	D
132Rule	US	1976	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
133Rule	US	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
134Rule	US	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
135Rule	US	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
136
137# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-12-19
138# We generate the files specified below to guard against old files with
139# obsolete information being left in the time zone binary directory.
140# We limit the list to names that have appeared in previous versions of
141# this time zone package.
142# We do these as separate Zones rather than as Links to avoid problems if
143# a particular place changes whether it observes DST.
144# We put these specifications here in the northamerica file both to
145# increase the chances that they'll actually get compiled and to
146# avoid the need to duplicate the US rules in another file.
147
148# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
149Zone	EST		 -5:00	-	EST
150Zone	MST		 -7:00	-	MST
151Zone	HST		-10:00	-	HST
152Zone	EST5EDT		 -5:00	US	E%sT
153Zone	CST6CDT		 -6:00	US	C%sT
154Zone	MST7MDT		 -7:00	US	M%sT
155Zone	PST8PDT		 -8:00	US	P%sT
156
157# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
158# ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967.
159#    old			 new
160#    Pacific Standard Time(PST)  -same-
161#    Yukon Standard Time(YST)    -same-
162#    Central Alaska S.T. (CAT)   Alaska-Hawaii St[an]dard Time (AHST)
163#    Nome Standard Time (NT)     Bering Standard Time (BST)
164#
165# ...Alaska's timezone lines were redrawn in 1983 to give only 2 tz.
166#    The YST zone now covers nearly all of the state, AHST just part
167#    of the Aleutian islands.   No DST.
168
169# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
170# The tables below use 'NST', not 'NT', for Nome Standard Time.
171# I invented 'CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time.
172
173# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
174# USA  EASTERN       5 H  BEHIND UTC    NEW YORK, WASHINGTON
175# USA  EASTERN       4 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
176# USA  CENTRAL       6 H  BEHIND UTC    CHICAGO, HOUSTON
177# USA  CENTRAL       5 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
178# USA  MOUNTAIN      7 H  BEHIND UTC    DENVER
179# USA  MOUNTAIN      6 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
180# USA  PACIFIC       8 H  BEHIND UTC    L.A., SAN FRANCISCO
181# USA  PACIFIC       7 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
182# USA  ALASKA STD    9 H  BEHIND UTC    MOST OF ALASKA     (AKST)
183# USA  ALASKA STD    8 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30 (AKDT)
184# USA  ALEUTIAN     10 H  BEHIND UTC    ISLANDS WEST OF 170W
185# USA  - " -         9 H  BEHIND UTC    APR 3 - OCT 30
186# USA  HAWAII       10 H  BEHIND UTC
187# USA  BERING       11 H  BEHIND UTC    SAMOA, MIDWAY
188
189# From Arthur David Olson (1989-01-21):
190# The above dates are for 1988.
191# Note the "AKST" and "AKDT" abbreviations, the claim that there's
192# no DST in Samoa, and the claim that there is DST in Alaska and the
193# Aleutians.
194
195# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
196# Legal standard time zone names, from United States Code (1982 Edition and
197# Supplement III), Title 15, Chapter 6, Section 260 and forward.  First, names
198# up to 1967-04-01 (when most provisions of the Uniform Time Act of 1966
199# took effect), as explained in sections 263 and 261:
200#	(none)
201#	United States standard eastern time
202#	United States standard mountain time
203#	United States standard central time
204#	United States standard Pacific time
205#	(none)
206#	United States standard Alaska time
207#	(none)
208# Next, names from 1967-04-01 until 1983-11-30 (the date for
209# public law 98-181):
210#	Atlantic standard time
211#	eastern standard time
212#	central standard time
213#	mountain standard time
214#	Pacific standard time
215#	Yukon standard time
216#	Alaska-Hawaii standard time
217#	Bering standard time
218# And after 1983-11-30:
219#	Atlantic standard time
220#	eastern standard time
221#	central standard time
222#	mountain standard time
223#	Pacific standard time
224#	Alaska standard time
225#	Hawaii-Aleutian standard time
226#	Samoa standard time
227# The law doesn't give abbreviations.
228#
229# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow:
230# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation
231# "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.
232# See the file "australasia".
233
234# From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09
235# The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08.
236#
237# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
238#   (a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
239#   U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended--
240#     (1) by striking 'first Sunday of April' and inserting 'second
241#     Sunday of March'; and
242#     (2) by striking 'last Sunday of October' and inserting 'first
243#     Sunday of November'.
244#   (b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the
245#   date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later.
246#   (c) Report to Congress- Not later than 9 months after the effective
247#   date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress
248#   on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United
249#   States.
250#   (d) Right to Revert- Congress retains the right to revert the
251#   Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the
252#   Department study is complete.
253
254# US eastern time, represented by New York
255
256# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida,
257# Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky
258# (except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
259# New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
260# Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee,
261# Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
262
263# From Dave Cantor (2004-11-02):
264# Early this summer I had the occasion to visit the Mount Washington
265# Observatory weather station atop (of course!) Mount Washington [, NH]....
266# One of the staff members said that the station was on Eastern Standard Time
267# and didn't change their clocks for Daylight Saving ... so that their
268# reports will always have times which are 5 hours behind UTC.
269
270# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-26):
271# According to today's Huntsville Times
272# <http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/1125047783228320.xml&coll=1>
273# a few towns on Alabama's "eastern border with Georgia, such as Phenix City
274# in Russell County, Lanett in Chambers County and some towns in Lee County,
275# set their watches and clocks on Eastern time."  It quotes H.H. "Bubba"
276# Roberts, city administrator in Phenix City. as saying "We are in the Central
277# time zone, but we do go by the Eastern time zone because so many people work
278# in Columbus."
279
280# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
281Rule	NYC	1920	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
282Rule	NYC	1920	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
283Rule	NYC	1921	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
284Rule	NYC	1921	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
285Rule	NYC	1955	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
286# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
287Zone America/New_York	-4:56:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:03:58
288			-5:00	US	E%sT	1920
289			-5:00	NYC	E%sT	1942
290			-5:00	US	E%sT	1946
291			-5:00	NYC	E%sT	1967
292			-5:00	US	E%sT
293
294# US central time, represented by Chicago
295
296# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle (Bay, Calhoun, Escambia,
297# Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton, and
298# Washington counties), Illinois, western Indiana
299# (Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
300# Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties), Iowa, most of Kansas, western
301# Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern
302# Nebraska, eastern North Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota,
303# western Tennessee, most of Texas, Wisconsin
304
305# From Larry M. Smith (2006-04-26) re Wisconsin:
306# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/statutes/Stat0175.pdf ...
307# is currently enforced at the 01:00 time of change.  Because the local
308# "bar time" in the state corresponds to 02:00, a number of citations
309# are issued for the "sale of class 'B' alcohol after prohibited
310# hours" within the deviated hour of this change every year....
311#
312# From Douglas R. Bomberg (2007-03-12):
313# Wisconsin has enacted (nearly eleventh-hour) legislation to get WI
314# Statue 175 closer in synch with the US Congress' intent....
315# http://www.legis.state.wi.us/2007/data/acts/07Act3.pdf
316
317# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
318Rule	Chicago	1920	only	-	Jun	13	2:00	1:00	D
319Rule	Chicago	1920	1921	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
320Rule	Chicago	1921	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
321Rule	Chicago	1922	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
322Rule	Chicago	1922	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
323Rule	Chicago	1955	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
324# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
325Zone America/Chicago	-5:50:36 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:09:24
326			-6:00	US	C%sT	1920
327			-6:00	Chicago	C%sT	1936 Mar  1 2:00
328			-5:00	-	EST	1936 Nov 15 2:00
329			-6:00	Chicago	C%sT	1942
330			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
331			-6:00	Chicago	C%sT	1967
332			-6:00	US	C%sT
333# Oliver County, ND switched from mountain to central time on 1992-10-25.
334Zone America/North_Dakota/Center -6:45:12 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:14:48
335			-7:00	US	M%sT	1992 Oct 25 02:00
336			-6:00	US	C%sT
337# Morton County, ND, switched from mountain to central time on
338# 2003-10-26, except for the area around Mandan which was already central time.
339# See <http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p63/135818.pdf>.
340# Officially this switch also included part of Sioux County, and
341# Jones, Mellette, and Todd Counties in South Dakota;
342# but in practice these other counties were already observing central time.
343# See <http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/October/Day-28/i27056.htm>.
344Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21
345			-7:00	US	M%sT	2003 Oct 26 02:00
346			-6:00	US	C%sT
347
348# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21):
349# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the
350# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from
351# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010):
352# <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm">
353# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm
354# </a>
355# <a href="http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html">
356# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html
357# </a>
358
359# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24):
360# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although
361# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next
362# largest city in Mercer County).  Google Maps places Beulah's city hall
363# at 4715'51" north, 10146'40" west, which yields an offset of 6h47'07".
364
365Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53
366			-7:00	US	M%sT	2010 Nov  7 2:00
367			-6:00	US	C%sT
368
369# US mountain time, represented by Denver
370#
371# Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western
372# Nebraska, Nevada border (Jackpot, Owyhee, and Mountain City),
373# New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota,
374# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County,
375# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming
376#
377# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
378Rule	Denver	1920	1921	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
379Rule	Denver	1920	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
380Rule	Denver	1921	only	-	May	22	2:00	0	S
381Rule	Denver	1965	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
382Rule	Denver	1965	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
383# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
384Zone America/Denver	-6:59:56 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:00:04
385			-7:00	US	M%sT	1920
386			-7:00	Denver	M%sT	1942
387			-7:00	US	M%sT	1946
388			-7:00	Denver	M%sT	1967
389			-7:00	US	M%sT
390
391# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
392#
393# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater,
394# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county
395# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren),
396# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern 3/4 of
397# Malheur county), and Washington
398#
399# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
400Rule	CA	1948	only	-	Mar	14	2:00	1:00	D
401Rule	CA	1949	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	0	S
402Rule	CA	1950	1966	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
403Rule	CA	1950	1961	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
404Rule	CA	1962	1966	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
405# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
406Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:07:02
407			-8:00	US	P%sT	1946
408			-8:00	CA	P%sT	1967
409			-8:00	US	P%sT
410
411# Alaska
412# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO.
413#
414# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-30):
415# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,
416# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia.
417# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian,
418# also a Friday.  Include only the time zone part of this transition,
419# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent
420# the Julian calendar.
421#
422# As far as we know, none of the exact locations mentioned below were
423# permanently inhabited in 1867 by anyone using either calendar.
424# (Yakutat was colonized by the Russians in 1799, but the settlement
425# was destroyed in 1805 by a Yakutat-kon war party.)  However, there
426# were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps
427# it's best to simply use the official transition.
428#
429
430# From Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31):
431# The author lives in Alaska and many of the references listed are only
432# available to Alaskan residents.
433#
434# <a href="http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/index.cfm?section=discover%20alaska&page=Glimpses%20of%20the%20Past&viewpost=2&ContentId=98">
435# http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/index.cfm?section=discover%20alaska&page=Glimpses%20of%20the%20Past&viewpost=2&ContentId=98
436# </a>
437
438# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01):
439# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article:
440#
441# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27,
442# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time.
443# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on
444# Pacific Time.
445#
446# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the
447# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in
448# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26.
449#
450# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted
451# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time.
452#
453# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not
454# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions.
455#
456# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo
457# Nation.)
458
459# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09):
460# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian
461# Community office (using contact information available at
462# <a href="http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla">
463# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla
464# </a>).
465# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States;
466# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether
467# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no--they were on their
468# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I
469# did not inquire about practices in the past.
470
471# From Arthur David Olson (2011-08-17):
472# For lack of better information, assume that Metlakatla's
473# abandonment of use of daylight saving resulted from the 1983 vote.
474
475# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
476Zone America/Juneau	 15:02:19 -	LMT	1867 Oct 18
477			 -8:57:41 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
478			 -8:00	-	PST	1942
479			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
480			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
481			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1980 Apr 27 2:00
482			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1980 Oct 26 2:00
483			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30 2:00
484			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
485			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
486Zone America/Sitka	 14:58:47 -	LMT	1867 Oct 18
487			 -9:01:13 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
488			 -8:00	-	PST	1942
489			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
490			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
491			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30 2:00
492			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
493			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
494Zone America/Metlakatla	 15:13:42 -	LMT	1867 Oct 18
495			 -8:46:18 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
496			 -8:00	-	PST	1942
497			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1946
498			 -8:00	-	PST	1969
499			 -8:00	US	P%sT	1983 Oct 30 2:00
500			 -8:00	-	MeST
501Zone America/Yakutat	 14:41:05 -	LMT	1867 Oct 18
502			 -9:18:55 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
503			 -9:00	-	YST	1942
504			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1946
505			 -9:00	-	YST	1969
506			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
507			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
508Zone America/Anchorage	 14:00:24 -	LMT	1867 Oct 18
509			 -9:59:36 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
510			-10:00	-	CAT	1942
511			-10:00	US	CAT/CAWT 1945 Aug 14 23:00u
512			-10:00	US	CAT/CAPT 1946 # Peace
513			-10:00	-	CAT	1967 Apr
514			-10:00	-	AHST	1969
515			-10:00	US	AH%sT	1983 Oct 30 2:00
516			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
517			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
518Zone America/Nome	 12:58:21 -	LMT	1867 Oct 18
519			-11:01:38 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
520			-11:00	-	NST	1942
521			-11:00	US	N%sT	1946
522			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr
523			-11:00	-	BST	1969
524			-11:00	US	B%sT	1983 Oct 30 2:00
525			 -9:00	US	Y%sT	1983 Nov 30
526			 -9:00	US	AK%sT
527Zone America/Adak	 12:13:21 -	LMT	1867 Oct 18
528			-11:46:38 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20 12:00
529			-11:00	-	NST	1942
530			-11:00	US	N%sT	1946
531			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr
532			-11:00	-	BST	1969
533			-11:00	US	B%sT	1983 Oct 30 2:00
534			-10:00	US	AH%sT	1983 Nov 30
535			-10:00	US	HA%sT
536# The following switches don't quite make our 1970 cutoff.
537#
538# Shanks writes that part of southwest Alaska (e.g. Aniak)
539# switched from -11:00 to -10:00 on 1968-09-22 at 02:00,
540# and another part (e.g. Akiak) made the same switch five weeks later.
541#
542# From David Flater (2004-11-09):
543# In e-mail, 2004-11-02, Ray Hudson, historian/liaison to the Unalaska
544# Historic Preservation Commission, provided this information, which
545# suggests that Unalaska deviated from statutory time from early 1967
546# possibly until 1983:
547#
548#  Minutes of the Unalaska City Council Meeting, January 10, 1967:
549#  "Except for St. Paul and Akutan, Unalaska is the only important
550#  location not on Alaska Standard Time.  The following resolution was
551#  made by William Robinson and seconded by Henry Swanson:  Be it
552#  resolved that the City of Unalaska hereby goes to Alaska Standard
553#  Time as of midnight Friday, January 13, 1967 (1 A.M. Saturday,
554#  January 14, Alaska Standard Time.)  This resolution was passed with
555#  three votes for and one against."
556
557# Hawaii
558
559# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09):
560# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225
561# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09,
562# the article is available at
563# <a href="http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf">
564# http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf
565# </a>
566# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January
567# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight
568# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the
569# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the
570# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect
571# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for
572# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes
573# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of
574# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes
575# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933)
576# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)."
577
578# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19):
579# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the
580# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of
581# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act
582# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each
583# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one
584# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th
585# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of
586# Hawaii." Page 172:  "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is
587# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon
588# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to
589# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90.
590# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor
591# of the Territory of Hawaii."
592#
593# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday.
594# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon.
595
596Zone Pacific/Honolulu	-10:31:26 -	LMT	1896 Jan 13 12:00 #Schmitt&Cox
597			-10:30	-	HST	1933 Apr 30 2:00 #Laws 1933
598			-10:30	1:00	HDT	1933 May 21 12:00 #Laws 1933+12
599			-10:30	-	HST	1942 Feb 09 2:00 #Schmitt&Cox+2
600			-10:30	1:00	HDT	1945 Sep 30 2:00 #Schmitt&Cox+2
601			-10:30	-	HST	1947 Jun  8 2:00 #Schmitt&Cox+2
602			-10:00	-	HST
603
604Link Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston
605
606# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970.
607
608# Arizona mostly uses MST.
609
610# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-20):
611#
612# The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the
613# <a href="http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm">
614# Daylight Saving Time web page (2002-01-23)</a> maintained by the
615# Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
616# Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard
617# time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military
618# personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to
619# observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time.  The 1944-03-17 Phoenix
620# Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was
621# the date the state's clocks would change.  In 1945 the State of
622# Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as
623# mandated by federal law.  Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona
624# Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST.
625#
626# Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17.
627# Go with the Arizona State Library instead.
628
629Zone America/Phoenix	-7:28:18 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 11:31:42
630			-7:00	US	M%sT	1944 Jan  1 00:01
631			-7:00	-	MST	1944 Apr  1 00:01
632			-7:00	US	M%sT	1944 Oct  1 00:01
633			-7:00	-	MST	1967
634			-7:00	US	M%sT	1968 Mar 21
635			-7:00	-	MST
636# From Arthur David Olson (1988-02-13):
637# A writer from the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc.,
638# notes in private correspondence dated 1987-12-28 that "Presently, only the
639# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its
640# large size and location in three states."  (The "only" means that other
641# tribal nations don't use DST.)
642#
643# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26):
644# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation.
645
646# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine,
647# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark,
648# Custer, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gem, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome,
649# Lemhi, Lincoln, Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power,
650# Teton, Twin Falls, Valley, Washington counties, and the southern
651# quarter of Idaho county) and eastern Oregon (most of Malheur County)
652# switched four weeks late in 1974.
653#
654# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
655Zone America/Boise	-7:44:49 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:15:11
656			-8:00	US	P%sT	1923 May 13 2:00
657			-7:00	US	M%sT	1974
658			-7:00	-	MST	1974 Feb  3 2:00
659			-7:00	US	M%sT
660
661# Indiana
662#
663# For a map of Indiana's time zone regions, see:
664# <a href="http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html">
665# What time is it in Indiana?
666# </a> (2006-03-01)
667#
668# From Paul Eggert (2007-08-17):
669# Since 1970, most of Indiana has been like America/Indiana/Indianapolis,
670# with the following exceptions:
671#
672# - Gibson, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter, Posey, Spencer,
673#   Vandenburgh, and Warrick counties have been like America/Chicago.
674#
675# - Dearborn and Ohio counties have been like America/New_York.
676#
677# - Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties have been like
678#   America/Kentucky/Louisville.
679#
680# - Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Knox, Martin, Perry, Pike, Pulaski, Starke,
681#   and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below.
682#
683# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history,
684# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information."
685# Those Hoosiers!  Such a flighty and changeable people!
686# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
687#
688# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript
689# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level.
690# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'.
691
692# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
693# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006.
694
695# From Nathan Stratton Treadway (2006-03-30):
696# http://www.dot.gov/affairs/dot0406.htm [3705 B]
697# From Deborah Goldsmith (2006-01-18):
698# http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/pdf95/382329_web.pdf [2.9 MB]
699# From Paul Eggert (2006-01-20):
700# It says "DOT is relocating the time zone boundary in Indiana to move Starke,
701# Pulaski, Knox, Daviess, Martin, Pike, Dubois, and Perry Counties from the
702# Eastern Time Zone to the Central Time Zone.... The effective date of
703# this rule is 2:OO a.m. EST Sunday, April 2, 2006, which is the
704# changeover date from standard time to Daylight Saving Time."
705# Strictly speaking, this means the affected counties will change their
706# clocks twice that night, but this obviously is in error.  The intent
707# is that 01:59:59 EST be followed by 02:00:00 CDT.
708
709# From Gwillim Law (2007-02-10):
710# The Associated Press has been reporting that Pulaski County, Indiana is
711# going to switch from Central to Eastern Time on March 11, 2007....
712# http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/LOCAL190108/702070524/0/LOCAL
713
714# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
715Rule Indianapolis 1941	only	-	Jun	22	2:00	1:00	D
716Rule Indianapolis 1941	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
717Rule Indianapolis 1946	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
718# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
719Zone America/Indiana/Indianapolis -5:44:38 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:15:22
720			-6:00	US	C%sT	1920
721			-6:00 Indianapolis C%sT	1942
722			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
723			-6:00 Indianapolis C%sT	1955 Apr 24 2:00
724			-5:00	-	EST	1957 Sep 29 2:00
725			-6:00	-	CST	1958 Apr 27 2:00
726			-5:00	-	EST	1969
727			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
728			-5:00	-	EST	2006
729			-5:00	US	E%sT
730#
731# Eastern Crawford County, Indiana, left its clocks alone in 1974,
732# as well as from 1976 through 2005.
733# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
734Rule	Marengo	1951	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
735Rule	Marengo	1951	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
736Rule	Marengo	1954	1960	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
737Rule	Marengo	1954	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
738# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
739Zone America/Indiana/Marengo -5:45:23 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:14:37
740			-6:00	US	C%sT	1951
741			-6:00	Marengo	C%sT	1961 Apr 30 2:00
742			-5:00	-	EST	1969
743			-5:00	US	E%sT	1974 Jan  6 2:00
744			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1974 Oct 27 2:00
745			-5:00	US	E%sT	1976
746			-5:00	-	EST	2006
747			-5:00	US	E%sT
748#
749# Daviess, Dubois, Knox, and Martin Counties, Indiana,
750# switched from eastern to central time in April 2006, then switched back
751# in November 2007.
752# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
753Rule Vincennes	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
754Rule Vincennes	1946	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
755Rule Vincennes	1953	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
756Rule Vincennes	1953	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
757Rule Vincennes	1955	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
758Rule Vincennes	1956	1963	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
759Rule Vincennes	1960	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
760Rule Vincennes	1961	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
761Rule Vincennes	1962	1963	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
762# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
763Zone America/Indiana/Vincennes -5:50:07 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:09:53
764			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
765			-6:00 Vincennes	C%sT	1964 Apr 26 2:00
766			-5:00	-	EST	1969
767			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
768			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2 2:00
769			-6:00	US	C%sT	2007 Nov  4 2:00
770			-5:00	US	E%sT
771#
772# Perry County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in April 2006.
773# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
774Rule Perry	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
775Rule Perry	1946	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
776Rule Perry	1953	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
777Rule Perry	1953	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
778Rule Perry	1955	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
779Rule Perry	1956	1963	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
780Rule Perry	1960	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
781Rule Perry	1961	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
782Rule Perry	1962	1963	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
783# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
784Zone America/Indiana/Tell_City -5:47:03 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:12:57
785			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
786			-6:00 Perry	C%sT	1964 Apr 26 2:00
787			-5:00	-	EST	1969
788			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
789			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2 2:00
790			-6:00	US	C%sT
791#
792# Pike County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1977,
793# then switched back in 2006, then switched back again in 2007.
794# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
795Rule	Pike	1955	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
796Rule	Pike	1955	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
797Rule	Pike	1956	1964	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
798Rule	Pike	1961	1964	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
799# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
800Zone America/Indiana/Petersburg -5:49:07 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:10:53
801			-6:00	US	C%sT	1955
802			-6:00	Pike	C%sT	1965 Apr 25 2:00
803			-5:00	-	EST	1966 Oct 30 2:00
804			-6:00	US	C%sT	1977 Oct 30 2:00
805			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2 2:00
806			-6:00	US	C%sT	2007 Nov  4 2:00
807			-5:00	US	E%sT
808#
809# Starke County, Indiana moved from central to eastern time in 1991,
810# then switched back in 2006.
811# From Arthur David Olson (1991-10-28):
812# An article on page A3 of the Sunday, 1991-10-27 Washington Post
813# notes that Starke County switched from Central time to Eastern time as of
814# 1991-10-27.
815# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
816Rule	Starke	1947	1961	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
817Rule	Starke	1947	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
818Rule	Starke	1955	1956	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
819Rule	Starke	1957	1958	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
820Rule	Starke	1959	1961	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
821# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
822Zone America/Indiana/Knox -5:46:30 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:13:30
823			-6:00	US	C%sT	1947
824			-6:00	Starke	C%sT	1962 Apr 29 2:00
825			-5:00	-	EST	1963 Oct 27 2:00
826			-6:00	US	C%sT	1991 Oct 27 2:00
827			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2 2:00
828			-6:00	US	C%sT
829#
830# Pulaski County, Indiana, switched from eastern to central time in
831# April 2006 and then switched back in March 2007.
832# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
833Rule	Pulaski	1946	1960	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
834Rule	Pulaski	1946	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
835Rule	Pulaski	1955	1956	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
836Rule	Pulaski	1957	1960	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
837# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
838Zone America/Indiana/Winamac -5:46:25 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:13:35
839			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
840			-6:00	Pulaski	C%sT	1961 Apr 30 2:00
841			-5:00	-	EST	1969
842			-5:00	US	E%sT	1971
843			-5:00	-	EST	2006 Apr  2 2:00
844			-6:00	US	C%sT	2007 Mar 11 2:00
845			-5:00	US	E%sT
846#
847# Switzerland County, Indiana, did not observe DST from 1973 through 2005.
848# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
849Zone America/Indiana/Vevay -5:40:16 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:19:44
850			-6:00	US	C%sT	1954 Apr 25 2:00
851			-5:00	-	EST	1969
852			-5:00	US	E%sT	1973
853			-5:00	-	EST	2006
854			-5:00	US	E%sT
855
856# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974.
857# This also includes Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana.
858# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
859Rule Louisville	1921	only	-	May	1	2:00	1:00	D
860Rule Louisville	1921	only	-	Sep	1	2:00	0	S
861Rule Louisville	1941	1961	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
862Rule Louisville	1941	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
863Rule Louisville	1946	only	-	Jun	2	2:00	0	S
864Rule Louisville	1950	1955	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
865Rule Louisville	1956	1960	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
866# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
867Zone America/Kentucky/Louisville -5:43:02 -	LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:16:58
868			-6:00	US	C%sT	1921
869			-6:00 Louisville C%sT	1942
870			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
871			-6:00 Louisville C%sT	1961 Jul 23 2:00
872			-5:00	-	EST	1968
873			-5:00	US	E%sT	1974 Jan  6 2:00
874			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1974 Oct 27 2:00
875			-5:00	US	E%sT
876#
877# Wayne County, Kentucky
878#
879# From
880# <a href="http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml">
881# Lake Cumberland LIFE
882# </a> (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7:
883# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from
884# the Central to the Eastern time zone....  The Wayne County government made
885# the same request in December.  And while Russell County officials have not
886# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in
887# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also.
888# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S.
889# location in the Central time zone.
890#
891# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29):
892# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion,
893# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern
894# (-0500) time.  They won't "fall back" this year.  See Sara Shipley,
895# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400).
896#
897# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16):
898# The final rule was published in the
899# <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=2000_register&docid=fr17au00-22">
900# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), page 50154-50158.
901# </a>
902#
903Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 12:20:36
904			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
905			-6:00	-	CST	1968
906			-6:00	US	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
907			-5:00	US	E%sT
908
909
910# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30):
911# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985.
912# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central;
913#	previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10
914# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10
915# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10
916# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10
917# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10
918#
919# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-17):
920# We don't know where the line used to be within Kearny County, KS,
921# so omit that change for now.
922# See America/Indiana/Knox for the Starke County, IN change.
923# See America/North_Dakota/Center for the Oliver County, ND change.
924# West Wendover, NV officially switched from Pacific to mountain time on
925# 1999-10-31.  See the
926# <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=fr21oc99-15">
927# Federal Register 64, 203 (1999-10-21), page 56705-56707.
928# </a>
929# However, the Federal Register says that West Wendover already operated
930# on mountain time, and the rule merely made this official;
931# hence a separate tz entry is not needed.
932
933# Michigan
934#
935# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
936# Michigan didn't observe DST from 1968 to 1973.
937#
938# From Paul Eggert (1999-03-31):
939# Shanks writes that Michigan started using standard time on 1885-09-18,
940# but Howse writes (pp 124-125, referring to Popular Astronomy, 1901-01)
941# that Detroit kept
942#
943#	local time until 1900 when the City Council decreed that clocks should
944#	be put back twenty-eight minutes to Central Standard Time.  Half the
945#	city obeyed, half refused.  After considerable debate, the decision
946#	was rescinded and the city reverted to Sun time.  A derisive offer to
947#	erect a sundial in front of the city hall was referred to the
948#	Committee on Sewers.  Then, in 1905, Central time was adopted
949#	by city vote.
950#
951# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks.
952#
953# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
954# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks
955# one hour in 1914."  This change is not in Shanks.  We have no more
956# info, so omit this for now.
957#
958# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975.
959# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
960Rule	Detroit	1948	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
961Rule	Detroit	1948	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
962Rule	Detroit	1967	only	-	Jun	14	2:00	1:00	D
963Rule	Detroit	1967	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
964# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
965Zone America/Detroit	-5:32:11 -	LMT	1905
966			-6:00	-	CST	1915 May 15 2:00
967			-5:00	-	EST	1942
968			-5:00	US	E%sT	1946
969			-5:00	Detroit	E%sT	1973
970			-5:00	US	E%sT	1975
971			-5:00	-	EST	1975 Apr 27 2:00
972			-5:00	US	E%sT
973#
974# Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, and Menominee Counties, Michigan,
975# switched from EST to CST/CDT in 1973.
976# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER
977Rule Menominee	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
978Rule Menominee	1946	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
979Rule Menominee	1966	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
980Rule Menominee	1966	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
981# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
982Zone America/Menominee	-5:50:27 -	LMT	1885 Sep 18 12:00
983			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
984			-6:00 Menominee	C%sT	1969 Apr 27 2:00
985			-5:00	-	EST	1973 Apr 29 2:00
986			-6:00	US	C%sT
987
988# Navassa
989# administered by the US Fish and Wildlife Service
990# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act
991# also claimed by Haiti
992# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co
993# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09
994# currently uninhabited
995# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord",
996# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites
997# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994).
998
999################################################################################
1000
1001
1002# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1003# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
1004# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
1005# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
1006#
1007# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
1008# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
1009# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
1010# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
1011# of the IATA's data after 1990.
1012#
1013# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
1014# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
1015#
1016# Other sources occasionally used include:
1017#
1018#	Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
1019#	Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated),
1020#	which I found in the UCLA library.
1021#
1022#	William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition
1023#	<http://cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/The-Waste-of-Daylight-19th.pdf>
1024#	[PDF] (1914-03)
1025#
1026#	Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
1027#	<http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
1028#
1029# See the 'europe' file for Greenland.
1030
1031# Canada
1032
1033# From Alain LaBont<e'> (1994-11-14):
1034# I post here the time zone abbreviations standardized in Canada
1035# for both English and French in the CAN/CSA-Z234.4-89 standard....
1036#
1037#	UTC	Standard time	Daylight savings time
1038#	offset	French	English	French	English
1039#	-2:30	-	-	HAT	NDT
1040#	-3	-	-	HAA	ADT
1041#	-3:30	HNT	NST	-	-
1042#	-4	HNA	AST	HAE	EDT
1043#	-5	HNE	EST	HAC	CDT
1044#	-6	HNC	CST	HAR	MDT
1045#	-7	HNR	MST	HAP	PDT
1046#	-8	HNP	PST	HAY	YDT
1047#	-9	HNY	YST	-	-
1048#
1049#	HN: Heure Normale	ST: Standard Time
1050#	HA: Heure Avanc<e'>e	DT: Daylight saving Time
1051#
1052#	A: de l'Atlantique	Atlantic
1053#	C: du Centre		Central
1054#	E: de l'Est		Eastern
1055#	M:			Mountain
1056#	N:			Newfoundland
1057#	P: du Pacifique		Pacific
1058#	R: des Rocheuses
1059#	T: de Terre-Neuve
1060#	Y: du Yukon		Yukon
1061#
1062# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-22):
1063# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software.
1064
1065# Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks
1066# & Pottenger.
1067
1068# From Chris Walton (2006-04-01, 2006-04-25, 2006-06-26, 2007-01-31,
1069# 2007-03-01):
1070# The British Columbia government announced yesterday that it will
1071# adjust daylight savings next year to align with changes in the
1072# U.S. and the rest of Canada....
1073# http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2005-2009/2006AG0014-000330.htm
1074# ...
1075# Nova Scotia
1076# Daylight saving time will be extended by four weeks starting in 2007....
1077# http://www.gov.ns.ca/just/regulations/rg2/2006/ma1206.pdf
1078#
1079# [For New Brunswick] the new legislation dictates that the time change is to
1080# be done at 02:00 instead of 00:01.
1081# http://www.gnb.ca/0062/acts/BBA-2006/Chap-19.pdf
1082# ...
1083# Manitoba has traditionally changed the clock every fall at 03:00.
1084# As of 2006, the transition is to take place one hour earlier at 02:00.
1085# http://web2.gov.mb.ca/laws/statutes/ccsm/o030e.php
1086# ...
1087# [Alberta, Ontario, Quebec] will follow US rules.
1088# http://www.qp.gov.ab.ca/documents/spring/CH03_06.CFM
1089# http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/DBLaws/Source/Regs/English/2006/R06111_e.htm
1090# http://www2.publicationsduquebec.gouv.qc.ca/dynamicSearch/telecharge.php?type=5&file=2006C39A.PDF
1091# ...
1092# P.E.I. will follow US rules....
1093# http://www.assembly.pe.ca/bills/pdf_chapter/62/3/chapter-41.pdf
1094# ...
1095# Province of Newfoundland and Labrador....
1096# http://www.hoa.gov.nl.ca/hoa/bills/Bill0634.htm
1097# ...
1098# Yukon
1099# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic2006_127.pdf
1100# ...
1101# N.W.T. will follow US rules.  Whoever maintains the government web site
1102# does not seem to believe in bookmarks.  To see the news release, click the
1103# following link and search for "Daylight Savings Time Change".  Press the
1104# "Daylight Savings Time Change" link; it will fire off a popup using
1105# JavaScript.
1106# http://www.exec.gov.nt.ca/currentnews/currentPR.asp?mode=archive
1107# ...
1108# Nunavut
1109# An amendment to the Interpretation Act was registered on February 19/2007....
1110# http://action.attavik.ca/home/justice-gn/attach/2007/gaz02part2.pdf
1111
1112# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25):
1113# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map
1114# <a href="http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp">
1115# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998)
1116# </a> contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard
1117# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998.
1118#
1119# INMS, the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, has <a
1120# href="http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/en/time_services/daylight_saving_e.php">
1121# information about standard and daylight saving time zones in Canada.
1122# </a> (updated periodically).
1123# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent.
1124
1125# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27):
1126# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with the
1127# new US DST rules,
1128
1129# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01)
1130# In the first of Tammy Hardwick's articles
1131# <a href="http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260">
1132# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260
1133# </a>
1134# she quotes the Friday November 1/1918 edition of the Creston Review.
1135# The quote includes these two statements:
1136# 'Sunday the CPR went back to the old system of time...'
1137# '... The daylight saving scheme was dropped all over Canada at the same time,'
1138# These statements refer to a transition from daylight time to standard time
1139# that occurred nationally on Sunday October 27/1918.  This transition was
1140# also documented in the Saturday October 26/1918 edition of the Toronto Star.
1141
1142# In light of that evidence, we alter the date from the earlier believed
1143# Oct 31, to Oct 27, 1918 (and Sunday is a more likely transition day
1144# than Thursday) in all Canadian rulesets.
1145
1146# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1147Rule	Canada	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1148Rule	Canada	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1149Rule	Canada	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1150Rule	Canada	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1151Rule	Canada	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
1152Rule	Canada	1974	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1153Rule	Canada	1974	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1154Rule	Canada	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
1155Rule	Canada	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1156Rule	Canada	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
1157
1158
1159# Newfoundland and Labrador
1160
1161# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1162# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Labrador should use NST/NDT,
1163# but the only part of Labrador that follows the rules is the
1164# southeast corner, including Port Hope Simpson and Mary's Harbour,
1165# but excluding, say, Black Tickle.
1166
1167# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1168Rule	StJohns	1917	only	-	Apr	 8	2:00	1:00	D
1169Rule	StJohns	1917	only	-	Sep	17	2:00	0	S
1170# Whitman gives 1919 Apr 5 and 1920 Apr 5; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1171Rule	StJohns	1919	only	-	May	 5	23:00	1:00	D
1172Rule	StJohns	1919	only	-	Aug	12	23:00	0	S
1173# For 1931-1935 Whitman gives Apr same date; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1174Rule	StJohns	1920	1935	-	May	Sun>=1	23:00	1:00	D
1175Rule	StJohns	1920	1935	-	Oct	lastSun	23:00	0	S
1176# For 1936-1941 Whitman gives May Sun>=8 and Oct Sun>=1; go with Shanks &
1177# Pottenger.
1178Rule	StJohns	1936	1941	-	May	Mon>=9	0:00	1:00	D
1179Rule	StJohns	1936	1941	-	Oct	Mon>=2	0:00	0	S
1180# Whitman gives the following transitions:
1181# 1942 03-01/12-31, 1943 05-30/09-05, 1944 07-10/09-02, 1945 01-01/10-07
1182# but go with Shanks & Pottenger and assume they used Canadian rules.
1183# For 1946-9 Whitman gives May 5,4,9,1 - Oct 1,5,3,2, and for 1950 he gives
1184# Apr 30 - Sep 24; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
1185Rule	StJohns	1946	1950	-	May	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1186Rule	StJohns	1946	1950	-	Oct	Sun>=2	2:00	0	S
1187Rule	StJohns	1951	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1188Rule	StJohns	1951	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1189Rule	StJohns	1960	1986	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1190# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1191# INMS (2000-09-12) says that, since 1988 at least, Newfoundland switches
1192# at 00:01 local time.  For now, assume it started in 1987.
1193
1194# From Michael Pelley (2011-09-12):
1195# We received today, Monday, September 12, 2011, notification that the
1196# changes to the Newfoundland Standard Time Act have been proclaimed.
1197# The change in the Act stipulates that the change from Daylight Savings
1198# Time to Standard Time and from Standard Time to Daylight Savings Time
1199# now occurs at 2:00AM.
1200# ...
1201# <a href="http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm">
1202# http://www.assembly.nl.ca/legislation/sr/annualstatutes/2011/1106.chp.htm
1203# </a>
1204# ...
1205# MICHAEL PELLEY  |  Manager of Enterprise Architecture - Solution Delivery
1206# Office of the Chief Information Officer
1207# Executive Council
1208# Government of Newfoundland & Labrador
1209
1210Rule	StJohns	1987	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	1:00	D
1211Rule	StJohns	1987	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	0:01	0	S
1212Rule	StJohns	1988	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	2:00	DD
1213Rule	StJohns	1989	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	1:00	D
1214Rule	StJohns	2007	2011	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:01	1:00	D
1215Rule	StJohns	2007	2010	-	Nov	Sun>=1	0:01	0	S
1216#
1217# St John's has an apostrophe, but Posix file names can't have apostrophes.
1218# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1219Zone America/St_Johns	-3:30:52 -	LMT	1884
1220			-3:30:52 StJohns N%sT	1918
1221			-3:30:52 Canada	N%sT	1919
1222			-3:30:52 StJohns N%sT	1935 Mar 30
1223			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	1942 May 11
1224			-3:30	Canada	N%sT	1946
1225			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	2011 Nov
1226			-3:30	Canada	N%sT
1227
1228# most of east Labrador
1229
1230# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'.
1231# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1232Zone America/Goose_Bay	-4:01:40 -	LMT	1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
1233			-3:30:52 -	NST	1918
1234			-3:30:52 Canada N%sT	1919
1235			-3:30:52 -	NST	1935 Mar 30
1236			-3:30	-	NST	1936
1237			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	1942 May 11
1238			-3:30	Canada	N%sT	1946
1239			-3:30	StJohns	N%sT	1966 Mar 15 2:00
1240			-4:00	StJohns	A%sT	2011 Nov
1241			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1242
1243
1244# west Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward I
1245
1246# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1247# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
1248# Halifax.  Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
1249# Glace Bay, NS is the largest that we know of.
1250# Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
1251# in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
1252# this is a typo.
1253
1254# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1255Rule	Halifax	1916	only	-	Apr	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1256Rule	Halifax	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	S
1257Rule	Halifax	1920	only	-	May	 9	0:00	1:00	D
1258Rule	Halifax	1920	only	-	Aug	29	0:00	0	S
1259Rule	Halifax	1921	only	-	May	 6	0:00	1:00	D
1260Rule	Halifax	1921	1922	-	Sep	 5	0:00	0	S
1261Rule	Halifax	1922	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
1262Rule	Halifax	1923	1925	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1263Rule	Halifax	1923	only	-	Sep	 4	0:00	0	S
1264Rule	Halifax	1924	only	-	Sep	15	0:00	0	S
1265Rule	Halifax	1925	only	-	Sep	28	0:00	0	S
1266Rule	Halifax	1926	only	-	May	16	0:00	1:00	D
1267Rule	Halifax	1926	only	-	Sep	13	0:00	0	S
1268Rule	Halifax	1927	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1269Rule	Halifax	1927	only	-	Sep	26	0:00	0	S
1270Rule	Halifax	1928	1931	-	May	Sun>=8	0:00	1:00	D
1271Rule	Halifax	1928	only	-	Sep	 9	0:00	0	S
1272Rule	Halifax	1929	only	-	Sep	 3	0:00	0	S
1273Rule	Halifax	1930	only	-	Sep	15	0:00	0	S
1274Rule	Halifax	1931	1932	-	Sep	Mon>=24	0:00	0	S
1275Rule	Halifax	1932	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1276Rule	Halifax	1933	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
1277Rule	Halifax	1933	only	-	Oct	 2	0:00	0	S
1278Rule	Halifax	1934	only	-	May	20	0:00	1:00	D
1279Rule	Halifax	1934	only	-	Sep	16	0:00	0	S
1280Rule	Halifax	1935	only	-	Jun	 2	0:00	1:00	D
1281Rule	Halifax	1935	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	S
1282Rule	Halifax	1936	only	-	Jun	 1	0:00	1:00	D
1283Rule	Halifax	1936	only	-	Sep	14	0:00	0	S
1284Rule	Halifax	1937	1938	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1285Rule	Halifax	1937	1941	-	Sep	Mon>=24	0:00	0	S
1286Rule	Halifax	1939	only	-	May	28	0:00	1:00	D
1287Rule	Halifax	1940	1941	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1288Rule	Halifax	1946	1949	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1289Rule	Halifax	1946	1949	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1290Rule	Halifax	1951	1954	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1291Rule	Halifax	1951	1954	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1292Rule	Halifax	1956	1959	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1293Rule	Halifax	1956	1959	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1294Rule	Halifax	1962	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1295Rule	Halifax	1962	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1296# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1297Zone America/Halifax	-4:14:24 -	LMT	1902 Jun 15
1298			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1918
1299			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1919
1300			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1942 Feb  9 2:00s
1301			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1946
1302			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1974
1303			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1304Zone America/Glace_Bay	-3:59:48 -	LMT	1902 Jun 15
1305			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1953
1306			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1954
1307			-4:00	-	AST	1972
1308			-4:00	Halifax	A%sT	1974
1309			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1310
1311# New Brunswick
1312
1313# From Paul Eggert (2007-01-31):
1314# The Time Definition Act <http://www.gnb.ca/0062/PDF-acts/t-06.pdf>
1315# says they changed at 00:01 through 2006, and
1316# <http://www.canlii.org/nb/laws/sta/t-6/20030127/whole.html> makes it
1317# clear that this was the case since at least 1993.
1318# For now, assume it started in 1993.
1319
1320# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1321Rule	Moncton	1933	1935	-	Jun	Sun>=8	1:00	1:00	D
1322Rule	Moncton	1933	1935	-	Sep	Sun>=8	1:00	0	S
1323Rule	Moncton	1936	1938	-	Jun	Sun>=1	1:00	1:00	D
1324Rule	Moncton	1936	1938	-	Sep	Sun>=1	1:00	0	S
1325Rule	Moncton	1939	only	-	May	27	1:00	1:00	D
1326Rule	Moncton	1939	1941	-	Sep	Sat>=21	1:00	0	S
1327Rule	Moncton	1940	only	-	May	19	1:00	1:00	D
1328Rule	Moncton	1941	only	-	May	 4	1:00	1:00	D
1329Rule	Moncton	1946	1972	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1330Rule	Moncton	1946	1956	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1331Rule	Moncton	1957	1972	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1332Rule	Moncton	1993	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:01	1:00	D
1333Rule	Moncton	1993	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	0:01	0	S
1334# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1335Zone America/Moncton	-4:19:08 -	LMT	1883 Dec  9
1336			-5:00	-	EST	1902 Jun 15
1337			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1933
1338			-4:00	Moncton	A%sT	1942
1339			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1946
1340			-4:00	Moncton	A%sT	1973
1341			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1993
1342			-4:00	Moncton	A%sT	2007
1343			-4:00	Canada	A%sT
1344
1345# Quebec
1346
1347# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-30):
1348# Since 1970 most of Quebec has been like Toronto.
1349# However, because earlier versions of the tz database mistakenly relied on data
1350# from Shanks & Pottenger saying that Quebec differed from Ontario after 1970,
1351# a separate entry was created for most of Quebec.  We're loath to lose
1352# its pre-1970 info, even though the tz database is normally limited to
1353# zones that differ after 1970, so keep this otherwise out-of-scope entry.
1354
1355# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63
1356# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as
1357# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST.
1358# The Quebec department of justice writes in
1359# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Cote-Nord"
1360# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm
1361# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon
1362# observes Atlantic standard time all year round.
1363# http://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en
1364# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007.
1365# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to
1366# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT.
1367# for post-1970 data America/Puerto_Rico.
1368
1369# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1370Rule	Mont	1917	only	-	Mar	25	2:00	1:00	D
1371Rule	Mont	1917	only	-	Apr	24	0:00	0	S
1372Rule	Mont	1919	only	-	Mar	31	2:30	1:00	D
1373Rule	Mont	1919	only	-	Oct	25	2:30	0	S
1374Rule	Mont	1920	only	-	May	 2	2:30	1:00	D
1375Rule	Mont	1920	1922	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:30	0	S
1376Rule	Mont	1921	only	-	May	 1	2:00	1:00	D
1377Rule	Mont	1922	only	-	Apr	30	2:00	1:00	D
1378Rule	Mont	1924	only	-	May	17	2:00	1:00	D
1379Rule	Mont	1924	1926	-	Sep	lastSun	2:30	0	S
1380Rule	Mont	1925	1926	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
1381# The 1927-to-1937 rules can be expressed more simply as
1382# Rule	Mont	1927	1937	-	Apr	lastSat	24:00	1:00	D
1383# Rule	Mont	1927	1937	-	Sep	lastSat	24:00	0	S
1384# The rules below avoid use of 24:00
1385# (which pre-1998 versions of zic cannot handle).
1386Rule	Mont	1927	only	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	D
1387Rule	Mont	1927	1932	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
1388Rule	Mont	1928	1931	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
1389Rule	Mont	1932	only	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	D
1390Rule	Mont	1933	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
1391Rule	Mont	1933	only	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	S
1392Rule	Mont	1934	1939	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
1393Rule	Mont	1946	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1394Rule	Mont	1945	1948	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1395Rule	Mont	1949	1950	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1396Rule	Mont	1951	1956	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1397Rule	Mont	1957	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1398
1399# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1400Zone America/Blanc-Sablon -3:48:28 -	LMT	1884
1401			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1970
1402			-4:00	-	AST
1403Zone America/Montreal	-4:54:16 -	LMT	1884
1404			-5:00	Mont	E%sT	1918
1405			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1919
1406			-5:00	Mont	E%sT	1942 Feb  9 2:00s
1407			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1946
1408			-5:00	Mont	E%sT	1974
1409			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1410
1411# Ontario
1412
1413# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1414# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
1415# Toronto.
1416# Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1417# Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1418# Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1419# Far west Ontario is like Winnipeg; far east Quebec is like Halifax.
1420
1421# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1422# [According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST
1423# effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that
1424# Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw
1425# have already done so.  In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday,
1426# 1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable
1427# hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after
1428# only two weeks -- I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but
1429# presumably that should be -07-06.  (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters
1430# earlier in June).
1431#
1432# Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21).
1433
1434# From Paul Eggert (1997-10-17):
1435# Mark Brader writes that an article in the 1997-10-14 Toronto Star
1436# says that Atikokan, Ontario currently does not observe DST,
1437# but will vote on 11-10 whether to use EST/EDT.
1438# He also writes that the
1439# <a href="http://www.gov.on.ca/MBS/english/publications/statregs/conttext.html">
1440# Ontario Time Act (1990, Chapter T.9)
1441# </a>
1442# says that Ontario east of 90W uses EST/EDT, and west of 90W uses CST/CDT.
1443# Officially Atikokan is therefore on CST/CDT, and most likely this report
1444# concerns a non-official time observed as a matter of local practice.
1445#
1446# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1447# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Atikokan, Pickle Lake, and
1448# New Osnaburgh observe CST all year, that Big Trout Lake observes
1449# CST/CDT, and that Upsala and Shebandowan observe EST/EDT, all in
1450# violation of the official Ontario rules.
1451#
1452# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1453# Chris Walton (2006-07-06) mentioned an article by Stephanie MacLellan in the
1454# 2005-07-21 Chronicle-Journal, which said:
1455#
1456#	The clocks in Atikokan stay set on standard time year-round.
1457#	This means they spend about half the time on central time and
1458#	the other half on eastern time.
1459#
1460#	For the most part, the system works, Mayor Dennis Brown said.
1461#
1462#	"The majority of businesses in Atikokan deal more with Eastern
1463#	Canada, but there are some that deal with Western Canada," he
1464#	said.  "I don't see any changes happening here."
1465#
1466# Walton also writes "Supposedly Pickle Lake and Mishkeegogamang
1467# [New Osnaburgh] follow the same practice."
1468
1469# From Garry McKinnon (2006-07-14) via Chris Walton:
1470# I chatted with a member of my board who has an outstanding memory
1471# and a long history in Atikokan (and in the telecom industry) and he
1472# can say for certain that Atikokan has been practicing the current
1473# time keeping since 1952, at least.
1474
1475# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-17):
1476# Shanks & Pottenger say that Atikokan has agreed with Rainy River
1477# ever since standard time was introduced, but the information from
1478# McKinnon sounds more authoritative.  For now, assume that Atikokan
1479# switched to EST immediately after WWII era daylight saving time
1480# ended.  This matches the old (less-populous) America/Coral_Harbour
1481# entry since our cutoff date of 1970, so we can move
1482# America/Coral_Harbour to the 'backward' file.
1483
1484# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06):
1485#
1486# Currently the database has:
1487#
1488# # Ontario
1489#
1490# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
1491# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like
1492# # Toronto.
1493# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.
1494# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;
1495# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.
1496#
1497# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom
1498# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard
1499# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that:
1500#
1501#     The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario,
1502#     except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year.
1503#
1504# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon.
1505#
1506# I only came across this incidentally.  I don't know if Windsor began
1507# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date.
1508#
1509# By the way, the article continues by noting that:
1510#
1511#     Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back
1512#     three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October.
1513
1514# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17):
1515#
1516# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in
1517# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,
1518# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17,
1519# was available at
1520# <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S">
1521# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S
1522# </a>
1523#
1524# It includes the text below (starting on page 57):
1525#
1526#   A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would
1527# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by
1528# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities
1529# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav-
1530# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite,
1531# for the other provinces only approximate:
1532#
1533# 	Province	Daylight saving time used
1534# Prince Edward Island	Not used.
1535# Nova Scotia		In Halifax only.
1536# New Brunswick		In St. John only.
1537# Quebec		In the following places:
1538# 			Montreal	Lachine
1539# 			Quebec		Mont-Royal
1540# 			Levis		Iberville
1541# 			St. Lambert	Cap de la Madeleine
1542# 			Verdun		Loretteville
1543# 			Westmount	Richmond
1544# 			Outremont	St. Jerome
1545# 			Longueuil	Greenfield Park
1546# 			Arvida		Waterloo
1547# 			Chambly-Canton	Beaulieu
1548# 			Melbourne	La Tuque
1549# 			St. Theophile	Buckingham
1550# Ontario		Used generally in the cities and towns along
1551# 			the southerly part of the province. Not
1552# 			used in the northwesterlhy part.
1553# Manitoba		Not used.
1554# Saskatchewan		In Regina only.
1555# Alberta		Not used.
1556# British Columbia	Not used.
1557#
1558#   With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited
1559# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont.
1560
1561# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1562Rule	Toronto	1919	only	-	Mar	30	23:30	1:00	D
1563Rule	Toronto	1919	only	-	Oct	26	0:00	0	S
1564Rule	Toronto	1920	only	-	May	 2	2:00	1:00	D
1565Rule	Toronto	1920	only	-	Sep	26	0:00	0	S
1566Rule	Toronto	1921	only	-	May	15	2:00	1:00	D
1567Rule	Toronto	1921	only	-	Sep	15	2:00	0	S
1568Rule	Toronto	1922	1923	-	May	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1569# Shanks & Pottenger say 1923-09-19; assume it's a typo and that "-16"
1570# was meant.
1571Rule	Toronto	1922	1926	-	Sep	Sun>=15	2:00	0	S
1572Rule	Toronto	1924	1927	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
1573# The 1927-to-1939 rules can be expressed more simply as
1574# Rule	Toronto	1927	1937	-	Sep	Sun>=25	2:00	0	S
1575# Rule	Toronto	1928	1937	-	Apr	Sun>=25	2:00	1:00	D
1576# Rule	Toronto	1938	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1577# Rule	Toronto	1938	1939	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1578# The rules below avoid use of Sun>=25
1579# (which pre-2004 versions of zic cannot handle).
1580Rule	Toronto	1927	1932	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1581Rule	Toronto	1928	1931	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1582Rule	Toronto	1932	only	-	May	1	2:00	1:00	D
1583Rule	Toronto	1933	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1584Rule	Toronto	1933	only	-	Oct	1	2:00	0	S
1585Rule	Toronto	1934	1939	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1586Rule	Toronto	1945	1946	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1587Rule	Toronto	1946	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1588Rule	Toronto	1947	1949	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
1589Rule	Toronto	1947	1948	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
1590Rule	Toronto	1949	only	-	Nov	lastSun	0:00	0	S
1591Rule	Toronto	1950	1973	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1592Rule	Toronto	1950	only	-	Nov	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1593Rule	Toronto	1951	1956	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1594# Shanks & Pottenger say Toronto ended DST a week early in 1971,
1595# namely on 1971-10-24, but Mark Brader wrote (2003-05-31) that this
1596# is wrong, and that he had confirmed it by checking the 1971-10-30
1597# Toronto Star, which said that DST was ending 1971-10-31 as usual.
1598Rule	Toronto	1957	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1599
1600# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1601# Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and
1602# Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in
1603# operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw,
1604# Saskatchewan, for one year."
1605
1606# From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator,
1607# Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12):
1608# There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight
1609# savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur
1610# before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central
1611# Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to
1612# include the Thunder Bay area....  When Canada adopted daylight
1613# savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so
1614# already, did not change their clocks....  During the Second World
1615# War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer
1616# months for the remainder of the war years.
1617
1618# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1619Zone America/Toronto	-5:17:32 -	LMT	1895
1620			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1919
1621			-5:00	Toronto	E%sT	1942 Feb  9 2:00s
1622			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1946
1623			-5:00	Toronto	E%sT	1974
1624			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1625Zone America/Thunder_Bay -5:57:00 -	LMT	1895
1626			-6:00	-	CST	1910
1627			-5:00	-	EST	1942
1628			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1970
1629			-5:00	Toronto	E%sT	1973
1630			-5:00	-	EST	1974
1631			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1632Zone America/Nipigon	-5:53:04 -	LMT	1895
1633			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1940 Sep 29
1634			-5:00	1:00	EDT	1942 Feb  9 2:00s
1635			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
1636Zone America/Rainy_River -6:18:16 -	LMT	1895
1637			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1940 Sep 29
1638			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1942 Feb  9 2:00s
1639			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
1640Zone America/Atikokan	-6:06:28 -	LMT	1895
1641			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1940 Sep 29
1642			-6:00	1:00	CDT	1942 Feb  9 2:00s
1643			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	1945 Sep 30 2:00
1644			-5:00	-	EST
1645
1646
1647# Manitoba
1648
1649# From Rob Douglas (2006-04-06):
1650# the old Manitoba Time Act - as amended by Bill 2, assented to
1651# March 27, 1987 ... said ...
1652# "between two o'clock Central Standard Time in the morning of
1653# the first Sunday of April of each year and two o'clock Central
1654# Standard Time in the morning of the last Sunday of October next
1655# following, one hour in advance of Central Standard Time."...
1656# I believe that the English legislation [of the old time act] had =
1657# been assented to (March 22, 1967)....
1658# Also, as far as I can tell, there was no order-in-council varying
1659# the time of Daylight Saving Time for 2005 and so the provisions of
1660# the 1987 version would apply - the changeover was at 2:00 Central
1661# Standard Time (i.e. not until 3:00 Central Daylight Time).
1662
1663# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-10):
1664# Shanks & Pottenger say Manitoba switched at 02:00 (not 02:00s)
1665# starting 1966.  Since 02:00s is clearly correct for 1967 on, assume
1666# it was also 02:00s in 1966.
1667
1668# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1669Rule	Winn	1916	only	-	Apr	23	0:00	1:00	D
1670Rule	Winn	1916	only	-	Sep	17	0:00	0	S
1671Rule	Winn	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1672Rule	Winn	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1673Rule	Winn	1937	only	-	May	16	2:00	1:00	D
1674Rule	Winn	1937	only	-	Sep	26	2:00	0	S
1675Rule	Winn	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1676Rule	Winn	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1677Rule	Winn	1945	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1678Rule	Winn	1946	only	-	May	12	2:00	1:00	D
1679Rule	Winn	1946	only	-	Oct	13	2:00	0	S
1680Rule	Winn	1947	1949	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1681Rule	Winn	1947	1949	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1682Rule	Winn	1950	only	-	May	 1	2:00	1:00	D
1683Rule	Winn	1950	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
1684Rule	Winn	1951	1960	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1685Rule	Winn	1951	1958	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1686Rule	Winn	1959	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1687Rule	Winn	1960	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1688Rule	Winn	1963	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1689Rule	Winn	1963	only	-	Sep	22	2:00	0	S
1690Rule	Winn	1966	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1691Rule	Winn	1966	2005	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1692Rule	Winn	1987	2005	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1693# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1694Zone America/Winnipeg	-6:28:36 -	LMT	1887 Jul 16
1695			-6:00	Winn	C%sT	2006
1696			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
1697
1698
1699# Saskatchewan
1700
1701# From Mark Brader (2003-07-26):
1702# The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal
1703# level.  As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people
1704# elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight,
1705# the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook."
1706# DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned:
1707# presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of
1708# the summer".  The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad
1709# time was noted.
1710
1711# From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
1712# Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the
1713# City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year."
1714
1715# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1716# Shanks & Pottenger say that since 1970 this region has mostly been as Regina.
1717# Some western towns (e.g. Swift Current) switched from MST/MDT to CST in 1972.
1718# Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton.
1719# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton
1720# are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law.
1721
1722# From W. Jones (1992-11-06):
1723# The. . .below is based on information I got from our law library, the
1724# provincial archives, and the provincial Community Services department.
1725# A precise history would require digging through newspaper archives, and
1726# since you didn't say what you wanted, I didn't bother.
1727#
1728# Saskatchewan is split by a time zone meridian (105W) and over the years
1729# the boundary became pretty ragged as communities near it reevaluated
1730# their affiliations in one direction or the other.  In 1965 a provincial
1731# referendum favoured legislating common time practices.
1732#
1733# On 15 April 1966 the Time Act (c. T-14, Revised Statutes of
1734# Saskatchewan 1978) was proclaimed, and established that the eastern
1735# part of Saskatchewan would use CST year round, that districts in
1736# northwest Saskatchewan would by default follow CST but could opt to
1737# follow Mountain Time rules (thus 1 hour difference in the winter and
1738# zero in the summer), and that districts in southwest Saskatchewan would
1739# by default follow MT but could opt to follow CST.
1740#
1741# It took a few years for the dust to settle (I know one story of a town
1742# on one time zone having its school in another, such that a mom had to
1743# serve her family lunch in two shifts), but presently it seems that only
1744# a few towns on the border with Alberta (e.g. Lloydminster) follow MT
1745# rules any more; all other districts appear to have used CST year round
1746# since sometime in the 1960s.
1747
1748# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26):
1749# The Saskatchewan time act which was last updated in 1996 is about 30 pages
1750# long and rather painful to read.
1751# http://www.qp.gov.sk.ca/documents/English/Statutes/Statutes/T14.pdf
1752
1753# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1754Rule	Regina	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1755Rule	Regina	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1756Rule	Regina	1930	1934	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
1757Rule	Regina	1930	1934	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
1758Rule	Regina	1937	1941	-	Apr	Sun>=8	0:00	1:00	D
1759Rule	Regina	1937	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
1760Rule	Regina	1938	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
1761Rule	Regina	1939	1941	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
1762Rule	Regina	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1763Rule	Regina	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1764Rule	Regina	1945	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1765Rule	Regina	1946	only	-	Apr	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1766Rule	Regina	1946	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00	0	S
1767Rule	Regina	1947	1957	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1768Rule	Regina	1947	1957	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1769Rule	Regina	1959	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1770Rule	Regina	1959	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1771#
1772Rule	Swift	1957	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1773Rule	Swift	1957	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1774Rule	Swift	1959	1961	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1775Rule	Swift	1959	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1776Rule	Swift	1960	1961	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1777# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1778Zone America/Regina	-6:58:36 -	LMT	1905 Sep
1779			-7:00	Regina	M%sT	1960 Apr lastSun 2:00
1780			-6:00	-	CST
1781Zone America/Swift_Current -7:11:20 -	LMT	1905 Sep
1782			-7:00	Canada	M%sT	1946 Apr lastSun 2:00
1783			-7:00	Regina	M%sT	1950
1784			-7:00	Swift	M%sT	1972 Apr lastSun 2:00
1785			-6:00	-	CST
1786
1787
1788# Alberta
1789
1790# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1791Rule	Edm	1918	1919	-	Apr	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
1792Rule	Edm	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1793Rule	Edm	1919	only	-	May	27	2:00	0	S
1794Rule	Edm	1920	1923	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1795Rule	Edm	1920	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1796Rule	Edm	1921	1923	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1797Rule	Edm	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1798Rule	Edm	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1799Rule	Edm	1945	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1800Rule	Edm	1947	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1801Rule	Edm	1947	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1802Rule	Edm	1967	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1803Rule	Edm	1967	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1804Rule	Edm	1969	only	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1805Rule	Edm	1969	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1806Rule	Edm	1972	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1807Rule	Edm	1972	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1808# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1809Zone America/Edmonton	-7:33:52 -	LMT	1906 Sep
1810			-7:00	Edm	M%sT	1987
1811			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
1812
1813
1814# British Columbia
1815
1816# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1817# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has
1818# been like Vancouver.
1819# Dawson Creek uses MST.  Much of east BC is like Edmonton.
1820# Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Creston is like Dawson Creek.
1821
1822# It seems though that (re: Creston) is not entirely correct:
1823
1824# From Chris Walton (2011-12-01):
1825# There are two areas within the Canadian province of British Columbia
1826# that do not currently observe daylight saving:
1827# a) The Creston Valley (includes the town of Creston and surrounding area)
1828# b) The eastern half of the Peace River Regional District
1829# (includes the cities of Dawson Creek and Fort St. John)
1830
1831# Earlier this year I stumbled across a detailed article about the time
1832# keeping history of Creston; it was written by Tammy Hardwick who is the
1833# manager of the Creston & District Museum. The article was written in May 2009.
1834# <a href="http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260">
1835# http://www.ilovecreston.com/?p=articles&t=spec&ar=260
1836# </a>
1837# According to the article, Creston has not changed its clocks since June 1918.
1838# i.e. Creston has been stuck on UTC-7 for 93 years.
1839# Dawson Creek, on the other hand, changed its clocks as recently as April 1972.
1840
1841# Unfortunately the exact date for the time change in June 1918 remains
1842# unknown and will be difficult to ascertain.  I e-mailed Tammy a few months
1843# ago to ask if Sunday June 2 was a reasonable guess.  She said it was just
1844# as plausible as any other date (in June).  She also said that after writing the
1845# article she had discovered another time change in 1916; this is the subject
1846# of another article which she wrote in October 2010.
1847# <a href="http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56">
1848# http://www.creston.museum.bc.ca/index.php?module=comments&uop=view_comment&cm+id=56
1849# </a>
1850
1851# Here is a summary of the three clock change events in Creston's history:
1852# 1. 1884 or 1885: adoption of Mountain Standard Time (GMT-7)
1853# Exact date unknown
1854# 2. Oct 1916: switch to Pacific Standard Time (GMT-8)
1855# Exact date in October unknown;  Sunday October 1 is a reasonable guess.
1856# 3. June 1918: switch to Pacific Daylight Time (GMT-7)
1857# Exact date in June unknown; Sunday June 2 is a reasonable guess.
1858# note#1:
1859# On Oct 27/1918 when daylight saving ended in the rest of Canada,
1860# Creston did not change its clocks.
1861# note#2:
1862# During WWII when the Federal Government legislated a mandatory clock change,
1863# Creston did not oblige.
1864# note#3:
1865# There is no guarantee that Creston will remain on Mountain Standard Time
1866# (UTC-7) forever.
1867# The subject was debated at least once this year by the town Council.
1868# <a href="http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html">
1869# http://www.bclocalnews.com/kootenay_rockies/crestonvalleyadvance/news/116760809.html
1870# </a>
1871
1872# During a period WWII, summer time (Daylight saying) was mandatory in Canada.
1873# In Creston, that was handled by shifting the area to PST (-8:00) then applying
1874# summer time to cause the offset to be -7:00, the same as it had been before
1875# the change.  It can be argued that the timezone abbreviation during this
1876# period should be PDT rather than MST, but that doesn't seem important enough
1877# (to anyone) to further complicate the rules.
1878
1879# The transition dates (and times) are guesses.
1880
1881# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1882Rule	Vanc	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
1883Rule	Vanc	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
1884Rule	Vanc	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
1885Rule	Vanc	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
1886Rule	Vanc	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
1887Rule	Vanc	1946	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1888Rule	Vanc	1946	only	-	Oct	13	2:00	0	S
1889Rule	Vanc	1947	1961	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1890Rule	Vanc	1962	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
1891# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1892Zone America/Vancouver	-8:12:28 -	LMT	1884
1893			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1987
1894			-8:00	Canada	P%sT
1895Zone America/Dawson_Creek -8:00:56 -	LMT	1884
1896			-8:00	Canada	P%sT	1947
1897			-8:00	Vanc	P%sT	1972 Aug 30 2:00
1898			-7:00	-	MST
1899Zone America/Creston	-7:46:04 -	LMT	1884
1900			-7:00	-	MST	1916 Oct 1
1901			-8:00	-	PST	1918 Jun 2
1902			-7:00	-	MST
1903
1904# Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon
1905
1906# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1907# Dawson switched to PST in 1973.  Inuvik switched to MST in 1979.
1908# Mathew Englander (1996-10-07) gives the following refs:
1909#	* 1967. Paragraph 28(34)(g) of the Interpretation Act, S.C. 1967-68,
1910#	c. 7 defines Yukon standard time as UTC-9.  This is still valid;
1911#	see Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, s. 35(1).
1912#	* C.O. 1973/214 switched Yukon to PST on 1973-10-28 00:00.
1913#	* O.I.C. 1980/02 established DST.
1914#	* O.I.C. 1987/056 changed DST to Apr firstSun 2:00 to Oct lastSun 2:00.
1915# Shanks & Pottenger say Yukon's 1973-10-28 switch was at 2:00; go
1916# with Englander.
1917# From Chris Walton (2006-06-26):
1918# Here is a link to the old daylight saving portion of the interpretation
1919# act which was last updated in 1987:
1920# http://www.gov.yk.ca/legislation/regs/oic1987_056.pdf
1921
1922# From Rives McDow (1999-09-04):
1923# Nunavut ... moved ... to incorporate the whole territory into one time zone.
1924# <a href="http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt90903_13.html">
1925# Nunavut moves to single time zone Oct. 31
1926# </a>
1927#
1928# From Antoine Leca (1999-09-06):
1929# We then need to create a new timezone for the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut
1930# to differentiate it from the Yellowknife region.
1931
1932# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
1933# <a href="http://www.nunavut.com/basicfacts/english/basicfacts_1territory.html">
1934# Basic Facts: The New Territory
1935# </a> (1999) reports that Pangnirtung operates on eastern time,
1936# and that Coral Harbour does not observe DST.  We don't know when
1937# Pangnirtung switched to eastern time; we'll guess 1995.
1938
1939# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
1940# On October 31, when the rest of Nunavut went to Central time,
1941# Pangnirtung wobbled.  Here is the result of their wobble:
1942#
1943# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Central Time:
1944#
1945#	First Air, Power Corp, Nunavut Construction, Health Center, RCMP,
1946#	Eastern Arctic National Parks, A & D Specialist
1947#
1948# The following businesses and organizations in Pangnirtung use Eastern Time:
1949#
1950#	Hamlet office, All other businesses, Both schools, Airport operator
1951#
1952# This has made for an interesting situation there, which warranted the news.
1953# No one there that I spoke with seems concerned, or has plans to
1954# change the local methods of keeping time, as it evidently does not
1955# really interfere with any activities or make things difficult locally.
1956# They plan to celebrate New Year's turn-over twice, one hour apart,
1957# so it appears that the situation will last at least that long.
1958# The Nunavut Intergovernmental Affairs hopes that they will "come to
1959# their senses", but the locals evidently don't see any problem with
1960# the current state of affairs.
1961
1962# From Michaela Rodrigue, writing in the
1963# <a href="http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut991130/nvt91119_17.html">
1964# Nunatsiaq News (1999-11-19)</a>:
1965# Clyde River, Pangnirtung and Sanikiluaq now operate with two time zones,
1966# central - or Nunavut time - for government offices, and eastern time
1967# for municipal offices and schools....  Igloolik [was similar but then]
1968# made the switch to central time on Saturday, Nov. 6.
1969
1970# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
1971# Matthews and Vincent (1998) say the following, but we lack histories
1972# for these potential new Zones.
1973#
1974# The Canadian Forces station at Alert uses Eastern Time while the
1975# handful of residents at the Eureka weather station [in the Central
1976# zone] skip daylight savings.  Baffin Island, which is crossed by the
1977# Central, Eastern and Atlantic Time zones only uses Eastern Time.
1978# Gjoa Haven, Taloyoak and Pelly Bay all use Mountain instead of
1979# Central Time and Southampton Island [in the Central zone] is not
1980# required to use daylight savings.
1981
1982# From
1983# <a href="http://www.nunatsiaq.com/archives/nunavut001130/nvt21110_02.html">
1984# Nunavut now has two time zones
1985# </a> (2000-11-10):
1986# The Nunavut government would allow its employees in Kugluktuk and
1987# Cambridge Bay to operate on central time year-round, putting them
1988# one hour behind the rest of Nunavut for six months during the winter.
1989# At the end of October the two communities had rebelled against
1990# Nunavut's unified time zone, refusing to shift to eastern time with
1991# the rest of the territory for the winter.  Cambridge Bay remained on
1992# central time, while Kugluktuk, even farther west, reverted to
1993# mountain time, which they had used before the advent of Nunavut's
1994# unified time zone in 1999.
1995#
1996# From Rives McDow (2001-01-20), quoting the Nunavut government:
1997# The preceding decision came into effect at midnight, Saturday Nov 4, 2000.
1998
1999# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
2000# Let's just keep track of the official times for now.
2001
2002# From Rives McDow (2001-03-07):
2003# The premier of Nunavut has issued a ministerial statement advising
2004# that effective 2001-04-01, the territory of Nunavut will revert
2005# back to three time zones (mountain, central, and eastern).  Of the
2006# cities in Nunavut, Coral Harbor is the only one that I know of that
2007# has said it will not observe dst, staying on EST year round.  I'm
2008# checking for more info, and will get back to you if I come up with
2009# more.
2010# [Also see <http://www.nunatsiaq.com/nunavut/nvt10309_06.html> (2001-03-09).]
2011
2012# From Gwillim Law (2005-05-21):
2013# According to maps at
2014# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SWE.jpg
2015# http://inms-ienm.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/images/time_services/TZ01SSE.jpg
2016# (both dated 2003), and
2017# http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/Magazine/SO98/geomap.asp
2018# (from a 1998 Canadian Geographic article), the de facto and de jure time
2019# for Southampton Island (at the north end of Hudson Bay) is UTC-5 all year
2020# round.  Using Google, it's easy to find other websites that confirm this.
2021# I wasn't able to find how far back this time regimen goes, but since it
2022# predates the creation of Nunavut, it probably goes back many years....
2023# The Inuktitut name of Coral Harbour is Sallit, but it's rarely used.
2024#
2025# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26):
2026# For lack of better information, assume that Southampton Island observed
2027# daylight saving only during wartime.
2028
2029# From Chris Walton (2007-03-01):
2030# ... the community of Resolute (located on Cornwallis Island in
2031# Nunavut) moved from Central Time to Eastern Time last November.
2032# Basically the community did not change its clocks at the end of
2033# daylight saving....
2034# http://www.nnsl.com/frames/newspapers/2006-11/nov13_06none.html
2035
2036# From Chris Walton (2011-03-21):
2037# Back in 2007 I initiated the creation of a new "zone file" for Resolute
2038# Bay. Resolute Bay is a small community located about 900km north of
2039# the Arctic Circle. The zone file was required because Resolute Bay had
2040# decided to use UTC-5 instead of UTC-6 for the winter of 2006-2007.
2041#
2042# According to new information which I received last week, Resolute Bay
2043# went back to using UTC-6 in the winter of 2007-2008...
2044#
2045# On March 11/2007 most of Canada went onto daylight saving. On March
2046# 14/2007 I phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office to do a "time check." I
2047# talked to somebody that was both knowledgeable and helpful. I was able
2048# to confirm that Resolute Bay was still operating on UTC-5. It was
2049# explained to me that Resolute Bay had been on the Eastern Time zone
2050# (EST) in the winter, and was now back on the Central Time zone (CDT).
2051# i.e. the time zone had changed twice in the last year but the clocks
2052# had not moved. The residents had to know which time zone they were in
2053# so they could follow the correct TV schedule...
2054#
2055# On Nov 02/2008 most of Canada went onto standard time. On Nov 03/2008 I
2056# phoned the Resolute Bay hamlet office...[D]ue to the challenging nature
2057# of the phone call, I decided to seek out an alternate source of
2058# information. I found an e-mail address for somebody by the name of
2059# Stephanie Adams whose job was listed as "Inns North Support Officer for
2060# Arctic Co-operatives." I was under the impression that Stephanie lived
2061# and worked in Resolute Bay...
2062#
2063# On March 14/2011 I phoned the hamlet office again. I was told that
2064# Resolute Bay had been using Central Standard Time over the winter of
2065# 2010-2011 and that the clocks had therefore been moved one hour ahead
2066# on March 13/2011. The person I talked to was aware that Resolute Bay
2067# had previously experimented with Eastern Standard Time but he could not
2068# tell me when the practice had stopped.
2069#
2070# On March 17/2011 I searched the Web to find an e-mail address of
2071# somebody that might be able to tell me exactly when Resolute Bay went
2072# off Eastern Standard Time. I stumbled on the name "Aziz Kheraj." Aziz
2073# used to be the mayor of Resolute Bay and he apparently owns half the
2074# businesses including "South Camp Inn." This website has some info on
2075# Aziz:
2076# <a href="http://www.uphere.ca/node/493">
2077# http://www.uphere.ca/node/493
2078# </a>
2079#
2080# I sent Aziz an e-mail asking when Resolute Bay had stopped using
2081# Eastern Standard Time.
2082#
2083# Aziz responded quickly with this: "hi, The time was not changed for the
2084# 1 year only, the following year, the community went back to the old way
2085# of "spring ahead-fall behind" currently we are zulu plus 5 hrs and in
2086# the winter Zulu plus 6 hrs"
2087#
2088# This of course conflicted with everything I had ascertained in November 2008.
2089#
2090# I sent Aziz a copy of my 2008 e-mail exchange with Stephanie. Aziz
2091# responded with this: "Hi, Stephanie lives in Winnipeg. I live here, You
2092# may want to check with the weather office in Resolute Bay or do a
2093# search on the weather through Env. Canada. web site"
2094#
2095# If I had realized the Stephanie did not live in Resolute Bay I would
2096# never have contacted her.  I now believe that all the information I
2097# obtained in November 2008 should be ignored...
2098# I apologize for reporting incorrect information in 2008.
2099
2100# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2101Rule	NT_YK	1918	only	-	Apr	14	2:00	1:00	D
2102Rule	NT_YK	1918	only	-	Oct	27	2:00	0	S
2103Rule	NT_YK	1919	only	-	May	25	2:00	1:00	D
2104Rule	NT_YK	1919	only	-	Nov	 1	0:00	0	S
2105Rule	NT_YK	1942	only	-	Feb	 9	2:00	1:00	W # War
2106Rule	NT_YK	1945	only	-	Aug	14	23:00u	1:00	P # Peace
2107Rule	NT_YK	1945	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
2108Rule	NT_YK	1965	only	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	2:00	DD
2109Rule	NT_YK	1965	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2110Rule	NT_YK	1980	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2111Rule	NT_YK	1980	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2112Rule	NT_YK	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2113# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2114# aka Panniqtuuq
2115Zone America/Pangnirtung 0	-	zzz	1921 # trading post est.
2116			-4:00	NT_YK	A%sT	1995 Apr Sun>=1 2:00
2117			-5:00	Canada	E%sT	1999 Oct 31 2:00
2118			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29 2:00
2119			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
2120# formerly Frobisher Bay
2121Zone America/Iqaluit	0	-	zzz	1942 Aug # Frobisher Bay est.
2122			-5:00	NT_YK	E%sT	1999 Oct 31 2:00
2123			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29 2:00
2124			-5:00	Canada	E%sT
2125# aka Qausuittuq
2126Zone America/Resolute	0	-	zzz	1947 Aug 31 # Resolute founded
2127			-6:00	NT_YK	C%sT	2000 Oct 29 2:00
2128			-5:00	-	EST	2001 Apr  1 3:00
2129			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2006 Oct 29 2:00
2130			-5:00	-	EST	2007 Mar 11 3:00
2131			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
2132# aka Kangiqiniq
2133Zone America/Rankin_Inlet 0	-	zzz	1957 # Rankin Inlet founded
2134			-6:00	NT_YK	C%sT	2000 Oct 29 2:00
2135			-5:00	-	EST	2001 Apr  1 3:00
2136			-6:00	Canada	C%sT
2137# aka Iqaluktuuttiaq
2138Zone America/Cambridge_Bay 0	-	zzz	1920 # trading post est.?
2139			-7:00	NT_YK	M%sT	1999 Oct 31 2:00
2140			-6:00	Canada	C%sT	2000 Oct 29 2:00
2141			-5:00	-	EST	2000 Nov  5 0:00
2142			-6:00	-	CST	2001 Apr  1 3:00
2143			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2144Zone America/Yellowknife 0	-	zzz	1935 # Yellowknife founded?
2145			-7:00	NT_YK	M%sT	1980
2146			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2147Zone America/Inuvik	0	-	zzz	1953 # Inuvik founded
2148			-8:00	NT_YK	P%sT	1979 Apr lastSun 2:00
2149			-7:00	NT_YK	M%sT	1980
2150			-7:00	Canada	M%sT
2151Zone America/Whitehorse	-9:00:12 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20
2152			-9:00	NT_YK	Y%sT	1966 Jul 1 2:00
2153			-8:00	NT_YK	P%sT	1980
2154			-8:00	Canada	P%sT
2155Zone America/Dawson	-9:17:40 -	LMT	1900 Aug 20
2156			-9:00	NT_YK	Y%sT	1973 Oct 28 0:00
2157			-8:00	NT_YK	P%sT	1980
2158			-8:00	Canada	P%sT
2159
2160
2161###############################################################################
2162
2163# Mexico
2164
2165# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-05):
2166# The Investigation and Analysis Service of the
2167# Mexican Library of Congress (MLoC) has published a
2168# <a href="http://www.cddhcu.gob.mx/bibliot/publica/inveyana/polisoc/horver/">
2169# history of Mexican local time (in Spanish)
2170# </a>.
2171#
2172# Here are the discrepancies between Shanks & Pottenger (S&P) and the MLoC.
2173# (In all cases we go with the MLoC.)
2174# S&P report that Baja was at -8:00 in 1922/1923.
2175# S&P say the 1930 transition in Baja was 1930-11-16.
2176# S&P report no DST during summer 1931.
2177# S&P report a transition at 1932-03-30 23:00, not 1932-04-01.
2178
2179# From Gwillim Law (2001-02-20):
2180# There are some other discrepancies between the Decrees page and the
2181# tz database.  I think they can best be explained by supposing that
2182# the researchers who prepared the Decrees page failed to find some of
2183# the relevant documents.
2184
2185# From Alan Perry (1996-02-15):
2186# A guy from our Mexico subsidiary finally found the Presidential Decree
2187# outlining the timezone changes in Mexico.
2188#
2189# ------------- Begin Forwarded Message -------------
2190#
2191# I finally got my hands on the Official Presidential Decree that sets up the
2192# rules for the DST changes. The rules are:
2193#
2194# 1. The country is divided in 3 timezones:
2195#    - Baja California Norte (the Mexico/BajaNorte TZ)
2196#    - Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora (the Mexico/BajaSur TZ)
2197#    - The rest of the country (the Mexico/General TZ)
2198#
2199# 2. From the first Sunday in April at 2:00 AM to the last Sunday in October
2200#    at 2:00 AM, the times in each zone are as follows:
2201#    BajaNorte: GMT+7
2202#    BajaSur:   GMT+6
2203#    General:   GMT+5
2204#
2205# 3. The rest of the year, the times are as follows:
2206#    BajaNorte: GMT+8
2207#    BajaSur:   GMT+7
2208#    General:   GMT+6
2209#
2210# The Decree was published in Mexico's Official Newspaper on January 4th.
2211#
2212# -------------- End Forwarded Message --------------
2213# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
2214# For an English translation of the decree, see
2215# <a href="http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html">
2216# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04).
2217# </a>
2218
2219# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
2220# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times
2221# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02).
2222
2223# From Rives McDow (2000-01-10):
2224# Effective April 4, 1999 at 2:00 AM local time, Sonora changed to the time
2225# zone 5 hours from the International Date Line, and will not observe daylight
2226# savings time so as to stay on the same time zone as the southern part of
2227# Arizona year round.
2228
2229# From Jesper Norgaard, translating
2230# <http://www.reforma.com/nacional/articulo/064327/> (2001-01-17):
2231# In Oaxaca, the 55.000 teachers from the Section 22 of the National
2232# Syndicate of Education Workers, refuse to apply daylight saving each
2233# year, so that the more than 10,000 schools work at normal hour the
2234# whole year.
2235
2236# From Gwillim Law (2001-01-19):
2237# <http://www.reforma.com/negocios_y_dinero/articulo/064481/> ... says
2238# (translated):...
2239# January 17, 2000 - The Energy Secretary, Ernesto Martens, announced
2240# that Summer Time will be reduced from seven to five months, starting
2241# this year....
2242# <http://www.publico.com.mx/scripts/texto3.asp?action=pagina&pag=21&pos=p&secc=naci&date=01/17/2001>
2243# [translated], says "summer time will ... take effect on the first Sunday
2244# in May, and end on the last Sunday of September.
2245
2246# From Arthur David Olson (2001-01-25):
2247# The 2001-01-24 traditional Washington Post contained the page one
2248# story "Timely Issue Divides Mexicans."...
2249# http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37383-2001Jan23.html
2250# ... Mexico City Mayor Lopez Obrador "...is threatening to keep
2251# Mexico City and its 20 million residents on a different time than
2252# the rest of the country..." In particular, Lopez Obrador would abolish
2253# observation of Daylight Saving Time.
2254
2255# <a href="http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/decretohorver2001.html#decre">
2256# Official statute published by the Energy Department
2257# </a> (2001-02-01) shows Baja and Chihauhua as still using US DST rules,
2258# and Sonora with no DST.  This was reported by Jesper Norgaard (2001-02-03).
2259
2260# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03):
2261#
2262# <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010303/t000018766.html">
2263# James F. Smith writes in today's LA Times
2264# </a>
2265# * Sonora will continue to observe standard time.
2266# * Last week Mexico City's mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador decreed that
2267#   the Federal District will not adopt DST.
2268# * 4 of 16 district leaders announced they'll ignore the decree.
2269# * The decree does not affect federal-controlled facilities including
2270#   the airport, banks, hospitals, and schools.
2271#
2272# For now we'll assume that the Federal District will bow to federal rules.
2273
2274# From Jesper Norgaard (2001-04-01):
2275# I found some references to the Mexican application of daylight
2276# saving, which modifies what I had already sent you, stating earlier
2277# that a number of northern Mexican states would go on daylight
2278# saving. The modification reverts this to only cover Baja California
2279# (Norte), while all other states (except Sonora, who has no daylight
2280# saving all year) will follow the original decree of president
2281# Vicente Fox, starting daylight saving May 6, 2001 and ending
2282# September 30, 2001.
2283# References: "Diario de Monterrey" <www.diariodemonterrey.com/index.asp>
2284# Palabra <http://palabra.infosel.com/010331/primera/ppri3101.pdf> (2001-03-31)
2285
2286# From Reuters (2001-09-04):
2287# Mexico's Supreme Court on Tuesday declared that daylight savings was
2288# unconstitutional in Mexico City, creating the possibility the
2289# capital will be in a different time zone from the rest of the nation
2290# next year....  The Supreme Court's ruling takes effect at 2:00
2291# a.m. (0800 GMT) on Sept. 30, when Mexico is scheduled to revert to
2292# standard time. "This is so residents of the Federal District are not
2293# subject to unexpected time changes," a statement from the court said.
2294
2295# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2002-03-12):
2296# ... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted
2297# that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico....
2298# http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20)
2299# confirms this.  Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied.
2300
2301# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-12-28):
2302#
2303# Steffen Thorsen wrote:
2304# > Mexico's House of Representatives has approved a proposal for northern
2305# > Mexico's border cities to share the same daylight saving schedule as
2306# > the United States.
2307# Now this has passed both the Congress and the Senate, so starting from
2308# 2010, some border regions will be the same:
2309# <a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/">
2310# http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/dec/28/clocks-will-match-both-sides-border/
2311# </a>
2312# <a href="http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939">
2313# http://www.elmananarey.com/diario/noticia/nacional/noticias/empatan_horario_de_frontera_con_eu/621939
2314# </a>
2315# (Spanish)
2316#
2317# Could not find the new law text, but the proposed law text changes are here:
2318# <a href="http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf">
2319# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/20091210-V.pdf
2320# </a>
2321# (Gaceta Parlamentaria)
2322#
2323# There is also a list of the votes here:
2324# <a href="http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html">
2325# http://gaceta.diputados.gob.mx/Gaceta/61/2009/dic/V2-101209.html
2326# </a>
2327#
2328# Our page:
2329# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html">
2330# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/north-mexico-dst-change.html
2331# </a>
2332
2333# From Arthur David Olson (2010-01-20):
2334# The page
2335# <a href="http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010">
2336# http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010
2337# </a>
2338# includes this text:
2339# En los municipios fronterizos de Tijuana y Mexicali en Baja California;
2340# Ju&aacute;rez y Ojinaga en Chihuahua; Acu&ntilde;a y Piedras Negras en Coahuila;
2341# An&aacute;huac en Nuevo Le&oacute;n; y Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa y Matamoros en
2342# Tamaulipas, la aplicaci&oacute;n de este horario estacional surtir&aacute; efecto
2343# desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluir&aacute; a las dos
2344# horas del primer domingo de noviembre.
2345# En los municipios fronterizos que se encuentren ubicados en la franja
2346# fronteriza norte en el territorio comprendido entre la l&iacute;nea
2347# internacional y la l&iacute;nea paralela ubicada a una distancia de veinte
2348# kil&oacute;metros, as&iacute; como la Ciudad de Ensenada, Baja California, hacia el
2349# interior del pa&iacute;s, la aplicaci&oacute;n de este horario estacional surtir&aacute;
2350# efecto desde las dos horas del segundo domingo de marzo y concluir&aacute; a
2351# las dos horas del primer domingo de noviembre.
2352
2353# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2354Rule	Mexico	1939	only	-	Feb	5	0:00	1:00	D
2355Rule	Mexico	1939	only	-	Jun	25	0:00	0	S
2356Rule	Mexico	1940	only	-	Dec	9	0:00	1:00	D
2357Rule	Mexico	1941	only	-	Apr	1	0:00	0	S
2358Rule	Mexico	1943	only	-	Dec	16	0:00	1:00	W # War
2359Rule	Mexico	1944	only	-	May	1	0:00	0	S
2360Rule	Mexico	1950	only	-	Feb	12	0:00	1:00	D
2361Rule	Mexico	1950	only	-	Jul	30	0:00	0	S
2362Rule	Mexico	1996	2000	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2363Rule	Mexico	1996	2000	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2364Rule	Mexico	2001	only	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2365Rule	Mexico	2001	only	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2366Rule	Mexico	2002	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2367Rule	Mexico	2002	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2368# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2369# Quintana Roo
2370Zone America/Cancun	-5:47:04 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:12:56
2371			-6:00	-	CST	1981 Dec 23
2372			-5:00	Mexico	E%sT	1998 Aug  2  2:00
2373			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2374# Campeche, Yucatan
2375Zone America/Merida	-5:58:28 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:01:32
2376			-6:00	-	CST	1981 Dec 23
2377			-5:00	-	EST	1982 Dec  2
2378			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2379# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas (near US border)
2380Zone America/Matamoros	-6:40:00 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:20:00
2381			-6:00	-	CST	1988
2382			-6:00	US	C%sT	1989
2383			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	2010
2384			-6:00	US	C%sT
2385# Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas (away from US border)
2386Zone America/Monterrey	-6:41:16 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:18:44
2387			-6:00	-	CST	1988
2388			-6:00	US	C%sT	1989
2389			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2390# Central Mexico
2391Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1 0:23:24
2392			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2393			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2394			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2395			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2396			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2397			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	2001 Sep 30 02:00
2398			-6:00	-	CST	2002 Feb 20
2399			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2400# Chihuahua (near US border)
2401Zone America/Ojinaga	-6:57:40 -	LMT	1922 Jan 1 0:02:20
2402			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2403			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2404			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2405			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2406			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2407			-6:00	-	CST	1996
2408			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	1998
2409			-6:00	-	CST	1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00
2410			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT	2010
2411			-7:00	US	M%sT
2412# Chihuahua (away from US border)
2413Zone America/Chihuahua	-7:04:20 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:55:40
2414			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2415			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2416			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2417			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2418			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2419			-6:00	-	CST	1996
2420			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT	1998
2421			-6:00	-	CST	1998 Apr Sun>=1 3:00
2422			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT
2423# Sonora
2424Zone America/Hermosillo	-7:23:52 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:36:08
2425			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2426			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2427			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2428			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2429			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2430			-6:00	-	CST	1942 Apr 24
2431			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
2432			-8:00	-	PST	1970
2433			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT	1999
2434			-7:00	-	MST
2435
2436# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-04-21):
2437# According to news, Bah&iacute;a de Banderas (Mexican state of Nayarit)
2438# changed time zone UTC-7 to new time zone UTC-6 on April 4, 2010 (to
2439# share the same time zone as nearby city Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco).
2440#
2441# (Spanish)
2442# Bah&iacute;a de Banderas homologa su horario al del centro del
2443# pa&iacute;s, a partir de este domingo
2444# <a href="http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748">
2445# http://www.nayarit.gob.mx/notes.asp?id=20748
2446# </a>
2447#
2448# Bah&iacute;a de Banderas homologa su horario con el del Centro del
2449# Pa&iacute;s
2450# <a href="http://www.bahiadebanderas.gob.mx/principal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=261:bahia-de-banderas-homologa-su-horario-con-el-del-centro-del-pais&catid=42:comunicacion-social&Itemid=50">
2451# http://www.bahiadebanderas.gob.mx/principal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=261:bahia-de-banderas-homologa-su-horario-con-el-del-centro-del-pais&catid=42:comunicacion-social&Itemid=50"
2452# </a>
2453#
2454# (English)
2455# Puerto Vallarta and Bah&iacute;a de Banderas: One Time Zone
2456# <a href="http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml">
2457# http://virtualvallarta.com/puertovallarta/puertovallarta/localnews/2009-12-03-Puerto-Vallarta-and-Bahia-de-Banderas-One-Time-Zone.shtml
2458# </a>
2459#
2460# or
2461# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html">
2462# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_mexico08.html
2463# </a>
2464#
2465# "Mexico's Senate approved the amendments to the Mexican Schedule System that
2466# will allow Bah&iacute;a de Banderas and Puerto Vallarta to share the same time
2467# zone ..."
2468# Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa
2469
2470# From Arthur David Olson (2010-05-01):
2471# Use "Bahia_Banderas" to keep the name to fourteen characters.
2472
2473Zone America/Mazatlan	-7:05:40 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:54:20
2474			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2475			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2476			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2477			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2478			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2479			-6:00	-	CST	1942 Apr 24
2480			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
2481			-8:00	-	PST	1970
2482			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT
2483
2484Zone America/Bahia_Banderas	-7:01:00 -	LMT	1921 Dec 31 23:59:00
2485			-7:00	-	MST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2486			-6:00	-	CST	1930 Nov 15
2487			-7:00	-	MST	1931 May  1 23:00
2488			-6:00	-	CST	1931 Oct
2489			-7:00	-	MST	1932 Apr  1
2490			-6:00	-	CST	1942 Apr 24
2491			-7:00	-	MST	1949 Jan 14
2492			-8:00	-	PST	1970
2493			-7:00	Mexico	M%sT	2010 Apr 4 2:00
2494			-6:00	Mexico	C%sT
2495
2496# Baja California (near US border)
2497Zone America/Tijuana	-7:48:04 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:11:56
2498			-7:00	-	MST	1924
2499			-8:00	-	PST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2500			-7:00	-	MST	1930 Nov 15
2501			-8:00	-	PST	1931 Apr  1
2502			-8:00	1:00	PDT	1931 Sep 30
2503			-8:00	-	PST	1942 Apr 24
2504			-8:00	1:00	PWT	1945 Aug 14 23:00u
2505			-8:00	1:00	PPT	1945 Nov 12 # Peace
2506			-8:00	-	PST	1948 Apr  5
2507			-8:00	1:00	PDT	1949 Jan 14
2508			-8:00	-	PST	1954
2509			-8:00	CA	P%sT	1961
2510			-8:00	-	PST	1976
2511			-8:00	US	P%sT	1996
2512			-8:00	Mexico	P%sT	2001
2513			-8:00	US	P%sT	2002 Feb 20
2514			-8:00	Mexico	P%sT	2010
2515			-8:00	US	P%sT
2516# Baja California (away from US border)
2517Zone America/Santa_Isabel	-7:39:28 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:20:32
2518			-7:00	-	MST	1924
2519			-8:00	-	PST	1927 Jun 10 23:00
2520			-7:00	-	MST	1930 Nov 15
2521			-8:00	-	PST	1931 Apr  1
2522			-8:00	1:00	PDT	1931 Sep 30
2523			-8:00	-	PST	1942 Apr 24
2524			-8:00	1:00	PWT	1945 Aug 14 23:00u
2525			-8:00	1:00	PPT	1945 Nov 12 # Peace
2526			-8:00	-	PST	1948 Apr  5
2527			-8:00	1:00	PDT	1949 Jan 14
2528			-8:00	-	PST	1954
2529			-8:00	CA	P%sT	1961
2530			-8:00	-	PST	1976
2531			-8:00	US	P%sT	1996
2532			-8:00	Mexico	P%sT	2001
2533			-8:00	US	P%sT	2002 Feb 20
2534			-8:00	Mexico	P%sT
2535# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2536# Formerly there was an America/Ensenada zone, which differed from
2537# America/Tijuana only in that it did not observe DST from 1976
2538# through 1995.  This was as per Shanks (1999).  But Shanks & Pottenger say
2539# Ensenada did not observe DST from 1948 through 1975.  Guy Harris reports
2540# that the 1987 OAG says "Only Ensenada, Mexicale, San Felipe and
2541# Tijuana observe DST," which agrees with Shanks & Pottenger but implies that
2542# DST-observance was a town-by-town matter back then.  This concerns
2543# data after 1970 so most likely there should be at least one Zone
2544# other than America/Tijuana for Baja, but it's not clear yet what its
2545# name or contents should be.
2546#
2547# Revillagigedo Is
2548# no information
2549
2550###############################################################################
2551
2552# Anguilla
2553# See 'southamerica'.
2554
2555# Antigua and Barbuda
2556# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2557Zone	America/Antigua	-4:07:12 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
2558			-5:00	-	EST	1951
2559			-4:00	-	AST
2560
2561# Bahamas
2562#
2563# For 1899 Milne gives -5:09:29.5; round that.
2564#
2565# From Sue Williams (2006-12-07):
2566# The Bahamas announced about a month ago that they plan to change their DST
2567# rules to sync with the U.S. starting in 2007....
2568# http://www.jonesbahamas.com/?c=45&a=10412
2569
2570# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2571Rule	Bahamas	1964	1975	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
2572Rule	Bahamas	1964	1975	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2573# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2574Zone	America/Nassau	-5:09:30 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
2575			-5:00	Bahamas	E%sT	1976
2576			-5:00	US	E%sT
2577
2578# Barbados
2579
2580# For 1899 Milne gives -3:58:29.2; round that.
2581
2582# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2583Rule	Barb	1977	only	-	Jun	12	2:00	1:00	D
2584Rule	Barb	1977	1978	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
2585Rule	Barb	1978	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=15	2:00	1:00	D
2586Rule	Barb	1979	only	-	Sep	30	2:00	0	S
2587Rule	Barb	1980	only	-	Sep	25	2:00	0	S
2588# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2589Zone America/Barbados	-3:58:29 -	LMT	1924		# Bridgetown
2590			-3:58:29 -	BMT	1932	  # Bridgetown Mean Time
2591			-4:00	Barb	A%sT
2592
2593# Belize
2594# Whitman entirely disagrees with Shanks; go with Shanks & Pottenger.
2595# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2596Rule	Belize	1918	1942	-	Oct	Sun>=2	0:00	0:30	HD
2597Rule	Belize	1919	1943	-	Feb	Sun>=9	0:00	0	S
2598Rule	Belize	1973	only	-	Dec	 5	0:00	1:00	D
2599Rule	Belize	1974	only	-	Feb	 9	0:00	0	S
2600Rule	Belize	1982	only	-	Dec	18	0:00	1:00	D
2601Rule	Belize	1983	only	-	Feb	12	0:00	0	S
2602# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2603Zone	America/Belize	-5:52:48 -	LMT	1912 Apr
2604			-6:00	Belize	C%sT
2605
2606# Bermuda
2607
2608# For 1899 Milne gives -4:19:18.3 as the meridian of the clock tower,
2609# Bermuda dockyard, Ireland I; round that.
2610
2611# From Dan Jones, reporting in The Royal Gazette (2006-06-26):
2612
2613# Next year, however, clocks in the US will go forward on the second Sunday
2614# in March, until the first Sunday in November.  And, after the Time Zone
2615# (Seasonal Variation) Bill 2006 was passed in the House of Assembly on
2616# Friday, the same thing will happen in Bermuda.
2617# http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060529/NEWS/105290135
2618
2619# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2620Zone Atlantic/Bermuda	-4:19:18 -	LMT	1930 Jan  1 2:00    # Hamilton
2621			-4:00	-	AST	1974 Apr 28 2:00
2622			-4:00	Canada	A%sT	1976
2623			-4:00	US	A%sT
2624
2625# Cayman Is
2626# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2627Zone	America/Cayman	-5:25:32 -	LMT	1890		# Georgetown
2628			-5:07:11 -	KMT	1912 Feb    # Kingston Mean Time
2629			-5:00	-	EST
2630
2631# Costa Rica
2632
2633# Milne gives -5:36:13.3 as San Jose mean time; round to nearest.
2634
2635# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2636Rule	CR	1979	1980	-	Feb	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
2637Rule	CR	1979	1980	-	Jun	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
2638Rule	CR	1991	1992	-	Jan	Sat>=15	0:00	1:00	D
2639# IATA SSIM (1991-09) says the following was at 1:00;
2640# go with Shanks & Pottenger.
2641Rule	CR	1991	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00	0	S
2642Rule	CR	1992	only	-	Mar	15	0:00	0	S
2643# There are too many San Joses elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'.
2644# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2645Zone America/Costa_Rica	-5:36:13 -	LMT	1890		# San Jose
2646			-5:36:13 -	SJMT	1921 Jan 15 # San Jose Mean Time
2647			-6:00	CR	C%sT
2648# Coco
2649# no information; probably like America/Costa_Rica
2650
2651# Cuba
2652
2653# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
2654# Milne gives -5:28:50.45 for the observatory at Havana, -5:29:23.57
2655# for the port, and -5:30 for meteorological observations.
2656# For now, stick with Shanks & Pottenger.
2657
2658# From Arthur David Olson (1999-03-29):
2659# The 1999-03-28 exhibition baseball game held in Havana, Cuba, between
2660# the Cuban National Team and the Baltimore Orioles was carried live on
2661# the Orioles Radio Network, including affiliate WTOP in Washington, DC.
2662# During the game, play-by-play announcer Jim Hunter noted that
2663# "We'll be losing two hours of sleep...Cuba switched to Daylight Saving
2664# Time today."  (The "two hour" remark referred to losing one hour of
2665# sleep on 1999-03-28--when the announcers were in Cuba as it switched
2666# to DST--and one more hour on 1999-04-04--when the announcers will have
2667# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.)
2668
2669# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11):
2670# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the
2671# years before.  The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ...
2672# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html
2673
2674# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28):
2675# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year.
2676# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2677# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2004/septiembre/juev30/41medid-i.html
2678# says that it's due to a problem at the Antonio Guiteras
2679# thermoelectric plant, and says "This October there will be no return
2680# to normal hours (after daylight saving time)".
2681# For now, let's assume that it's a temporary measure.
2682
2683# From Carlos A. Carnero Delgado (2005-11-12):
2684# This year (just like in 2004-2005) there's no change in time zone
2685# adjustment in Cuba.  We will stay in daylight saving time:
2686# http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2005/noviembre/mier9/horario.html
2687
2688# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-10-21):
2689# An article in GRANMA INTERNACIONAL claims that Cuba will end
2690# the 3 years of permanent DST next weekend, see
2691# http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2006/octubre/lun16/43horario.html
2692# "On Saturday night, October 28 going into Sunday, October 29, at 01:00,
2693# watches should be set back one hour -- going back to 00:00 hours -- returning
2694# to the normal schedule....
2695
2696# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-02):
2697# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art89.html, dated yesterday,
2698# says Cuban clocks will advance at midnight on March 10.
2699# For lack of better information, assume Cuba will use US rules,
2700# except that it switches at midnight standard time as usual.
2701#
2702# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-25):
2703# Carlos Alberto Fonseca Arauz informed me that Cuba will end DST one week
2704# earlier - on the last Sunday of October, just like in 2006.
2705#
2706# He supplied these references:
2707#
2708# http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7B4CC32C1B-A9F7-42FB-8A07-8631AFC923AF%7D&language=ES
2709# http://actualidad.terra.es/sociedad/articulo/cuba_llama_ahorrar_energia_cambio_1957044.htm
2710#
2711# From Alex Kryvenishev (2007-10-25):
2712# Here is also article from Granma (Cuba):
2713#
2714# [Regira] el Horario Normal desde el [proximo] domingo 28 de octubre
2715# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2007/10/24/nacional/artic07.html
2716#
2717# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba03.html
2718
2719# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-09):
2720# I'm in Maryland which is now observing United States Eastern Daylight
2721# Time. At 9:44 local time I used RealPlayer to listen to
2722# <a href="http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj">
2723# http://media.enet.cu/radioreloj
2724# </a>, a Cuban information station, and heard
2725# the time announced as "ocho cuarenta y cuatro" ("eight forty-four"),
2726# indicating that Cuba is still on standard time.
2727
2728# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-12):
2729# It seems that Cuba will start DST on Sunday, 2007-03-16...
2730# It was announced yesterday, according to this source (in Spanish):
2731# <a href="http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm">
2732# http://www.nnc.cubaweb.cu/marzo-2008/cien-1-11-3-08.htm
2733# </a>
2734#
2735# Some more background information is posted here:
2736# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html">
2737# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-march-16.html
2738# </a>
2739#
2740# The article also says that Cuba has been observing DST since 1963,
2741# while Shanks (and tzdata) has 1965 as the first date (except in the
2742# 1940's). Many other web pages in Cuba also claim that it has been
2743# observed since 1963, but with the exception of 1970 - an exception
2744# which is not present in tzdata/Shanks. So there is a chance we need to
2745# change some historic records as well.
2746#
2747# One example:
2748# <a href="http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm">
2749# http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/noticias/mar07/11mar/hor.htm
2750# </a>
2751
2752# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2008-03-13):
2753# The Cuban time change has just been confirmed on the most authoritative
2754# web site, the Granma.  Please check out
2755# <a href="http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html">
2756# http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/03/13/nacional/artic10.html
2757# </a>
2758#
2759# Basically as expected after Steffen Thorsens information, the change
2760# will take place midnight between Saturday and Sunday.
2761
2762# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-12):
2763# Assume Sun>=15 (third Sunday) going forward.
2764
2765# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-03-04)
2766# According to the Radio Reloj - Cuba will start Daylight Saving Time on
2767# midnight between Saturday, March 07, 2009 and Sunday, March 08, 2009-
2768# not on midnight March 14 / March 15 as previously thought.
2769#
2770# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html">
2771# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_cuba05.html
2772# (in Spanish)
2773# </a>
2774
2775# From Arthur David Olson (2009-03-09)
2776# I listened over the Internet to
2777# <a href="http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj">
2778# http://media.enet.cu/readioreloj
2779# </a>
2780# this morning; when it was 10:05 a. m. here in Bethesda, Maryland the
2781# the time was announced as "diez cinco"--the same time as here, indicating
2782# that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward.
2783
2784# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08):
2785# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00
2786# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has
2787# changed at all).
2788#
2789# Source:
2790# <a href="http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html">
2791# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html
2792# </a>
2793#
2794# Our info:
2795# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html">
2796# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html
2797# </a>
2798#
2799# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-30)
2800# Cuba will end DST two weeks later this year. Instead of going back
2801# tonight, it has been delayed to 2011-11-13 at 01:00.
2802#
2803# One source (Spanish)
2804# <a href="http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html">
2805# http://www.radioangulo.cu/noticias/cuba/17105-cuba-restablecera-el-horario-del-meridiano-de-greenwich.html
2806# </a>
2807#
2808# Our page:
2809# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html">
2810# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-time-changes-2011.html
2811# </a>
2812#
2813# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-01)
2814# According to Radio Reloj, Cuba will start DST on Midnight between March
2815# 31 and April 1.
2816#
2817# Radio Reloj has the following info (Spanish):
2818# <a href="http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril">
2819# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/71-miscelaneas/7529-cuba-aplicara-el-horario-de-verano-desde-el-1-de-abril
2820# </a>
2821#
2822# Our info on it:
2823# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html">
2824# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2012.html
2825# </a>
2826
2827# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-11-03):
2828# Radio Reloj and many other sources report that Cuba is changing back
2829# to standard time on 2012-11-04:
2830# http://www.radioreloj.cu/index.php/noticias-radio-reloj/36-nacionales/9961-regira-horario-normal-en-cuba-desde-el-domingo-cuatro-de-noviembre
2831# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-03):
2832# For now, assume the future rule is first Sunday in November.
2833
2834# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2835Rule	Cuba	1928	only	-	Jun	10	0:00	1:00	D
2836Rule	Cuba	1928	only	-	Oct	10	0:00	0	S
2837Rule	Cuba	1940	1942	-	Jun	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
2838Rule	Cuba	1940	1942	-	Sep	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
2839Rule	Cuba	1945	1946	-	Jun	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
2840Rule	Cuba	1945	1946	-	Sep	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
2841Rule	Cuba	1965	only	-	Jun	1	0:00	1:00	D
2842Rule	Cuba	1965	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	S
2843Rule	Cuba	1966	only	-	May	29	0:00	1:00	D
2844Rule	Cuba	1966	only	-	Oct	2	0:00	0	S
2845Rule	Cuba	1967	only	-	Apr	8	0:00	1:00	D
2846Rule	Cuba	1967	1968	-	Sep	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
2847Rule	Cuba	1968	only	-	Apr	14	0:00	1:00	D
2848Rule	Cuba	1969	1977	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
2849Rule	Cuba	1969	1971	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
2850Rule	Cuba	1972	1974	-	Oct	8	0:00	0	S
2851Rule	Cuba	1975	1977	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
2852Rule	Cuba	1978	only	-	May	7	0:00	1:00	D
2853Rule	Cuba	1978	1990	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00	0	S
2854Rule	Cuba	1979	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	D
2855Rule	Cuba	1981	1985	-	May	Sun>=5	0:00	1:00	D
2856Rule	Cuba	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=14	0:00	1:00	D
2857Rule	Cuba	1990	1997	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
2858Rule	Cuba	1991	1995	-	Oct	Sun>=8	0:00s	0	S
2859Rule	Cuba	1996	only	-	Oct	 6	0:00s	0	S
2860Rule	Cuba	1997	only	-	Oct	12	0:00s	0	S
2861Rule	Cuba	1998	1999	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00s	1:00	D
2862Rule	Cuba	1998	2003	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00s	0	S
2863Rule	Cuba	2000	2003	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00s	1:00	D
2864Rule	Cuba	2004	only	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00s	1:00	D
2865Rule	Cuba	2006	2010	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00s	0	S
2866Rule	Cuba	2007	only	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00s	1:00	D
2867Rule	Cuba	2008	only	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00s	1:00	D
2868Rule	Cuba	2009	2010	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00s	1:00	D
2869Rule	Cuba	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=15	0:00s	1:00	D
2870Rule	Cuba	2011	only	-	Nov	13	0:00s	0	S
2871Rule	Cuba	2012	only	-	Apr	1	0:00s	1:00	D
2872Rule	Cuba	2012	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	0:00s	0	S
2873Rule	Cuba	2013	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	0:00s	1:00	D
2874
2875# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2876Zone	America/Havana	-5:29:28 -	LMT	1890
2877			-5:29:36 -	HMT	1925 Jul 19 12:00 # Havana MT
2878			-5:00	Cuba	C%sT
2879
2880# Dominica
2881# See 'southamerica'.
2882
2883# Dominican Republic
2884
2885# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-30):
2886# Enrique Morales reported to me that the Dominican Republic has changed the
2887# time zone to Eastern Standard Time as of Sunday 29 at 2 am....
2888# http://www.listin.com.do/antes/261000/republica/princi.html
2889
2890# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
2891# That URL (2000-10-26, in Spanish) says they planned to use US-style DST.
2892
2893# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
2894# Dominican Republic changed its mind and presidential decree on Tuesday,
2895# November 28, 2000, with a new decree.  On Sunday, December 3 at 1:00 AM the
2896# Dominican Republic will be reverting to 8 hours from the International Date
2897# Line, and will not be using DST in the foreseeable future.  The reason they
2898# decided to use DST was to be in synch with Puerto Rico, who was also going
2899# to implement DST.  When Puerto Rico didn't implement DST, the president
2900# decided to revert.
2901
2902
2903# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2904Rule	DR	1966	only	-	Oct	30	0:00	1:00	D
2905Rule	DR	1967	only	-	Feb	28	0:00	0	S
2906Rule	DR	1969	1973	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	HD
2907Rule	DR	1970	only	-	Feb	21	0:00	0	S
2908Rule	DR	1971	only	-	Jan	20	0:00	0	S
2909Rule	DR	1972	1974	-	Jan	21	0:00	0	S
2910# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2911Zone America/Santo_Domingo -4:39:36 -	LMT	1890
2912			-4:40	-	SDMT	1933 Apr  1 12:00 # S. Dom. MT
2913			-5:00	DR	E%sT	1974 Oct 27
2914			-4:00	-	AST	2000 Oct 29 02:00
2915			-5:00	US	E%sT	2000 Dec  3 01:00
2916			-4:00	-	AST
2917
2918# El Salvador
2919
2920# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2921Rule	Salv	1987	1988	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
2922Rule	Salv	1987	1988	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
2923# There are too many San Salvadors elsewhere, so use America/El_Salvador
2924# instead of America/San_Salvador.
2925# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2926Zone America/El_Salvador -5:56:48 -	LMT	1921		# San Salvador
2927			-6:00	Salv	C%sT
2928
2929# Grenada
2930# Guadeloupe
2931# St Barthelemy
2932# St Martin (French part)
2933# See 'southamerica'.
2934
2935# Guatemala
2936#
2937# From Gwillim Law (2006-04-22), after a heads-up from Oscar van Vlijmen:
2938# Diario Co Latino, at
2939# http://www.diariocolatino.com/internacionales/detalles.asp?NewsID=8079,
2940# says in an article dated 2006-04-19 that the Guatemalan government had
2941# decided on that date to advance official time by 60 minutes, to lessen the
2942# impact of the elevated cost of oil....  Daylight saving time will last from
2943# 2006-04-29 24:00 (Guatemalan standard time) to 2006-09-30 (time unspecified).
2944# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-22):
2945# The Ministry of Energy and Mines, press release CP-15/2006
2946# (2006-04-19), says DST ends at 24:00.  See
2947# <http://www.sieca.org.gt/Sitio_publico/Energeticos/Doc/Medidas/Cambio_Horario_Nac_190406.pdf>.
2948
2949# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2950Rule	Guat	1973	only	-	Nov	25	0:00	1:00	D
2951Rule	Guat	1974	only	-	Feb	24	0:00	0	S
2952Rule	Guat	1983	only	-	May	21	0:00	1:00	D
2953Rule	Guat	1983	only	-	Sep	22	0:00	0	S
2954Rule	Guat	1991	only	-	Mar	23	0:00	1:00	D
2955Rule	Guat	1991	only	-	Sep	 7	0:00	0	S
2956Rule	Guat	2006	only	-	Apr	30	0:00	1:00	D
2957Rule	Guat	2006	only	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	S
2958# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2959Zone America/Guatemala	-6:02:04 -	LMT	1918 Oct 5
2960			-6:00	Guat	C%sT
2961
2962# Haiti
2963# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-15):
2964# Risto O. Nykanen wrote me that Haiti is now on DST.
2965# I searched for confirmation, and I found a
2966# <a href="http://www.haitianconsulate.org/time.doc"> press release
2967# on the Web page of the Haitian Consulate in Chicago (2005-03-31),
2968# </a>.  Translated from French, it says:
2969#
2970#  "The Prime Minister's Communication Office notifies the public in general
2971#   and the press in particular that, following a decision of the Interior
2972#   Ministry and the Territorial Collectivities [I suppose that means the
2973#   provinces], Haiti will move to Eastern Daylight Time in the night from next
2974#   Saturday the 2nd to Sunday the 3rd.
2975#
2976#  "Consequently, the Prime Minister's Communication Office wishes to inform
2977#   the population that the country's clocks will be set forward one hour
2978#   starting at midnight.  This provision will hold until the last Saturday in
2979#   October 2005.
2980#
2981#  "Port-au-Prince, March 31, 2005"
2982#
2983# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-04-04):
2984# I have been informed by users that Haiti observes DST this year like
2985# last year, so the current "only" rule for 2005 might be changed to a
2986# "max" rule or to last until 2006. (Who knows if they will observe DST
2987# next year or if they will extend their DST like US/Canada next year).
2988#
2989# I have found this article about it (in French):
2990# http://www.haitipressnetwork.com/news.cfm?articleID=7612
2991#
2992# The reason seems to be an energy crisis.
2993
2994# From Stephen Colebourne (2007-02-22):
2995# Some IATA info: Haiti won't be having DST in 2007.
2996
2997# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-11):
2998# According to several news sources, Haiti will observe DST this year,
2999# apparently using the same start and end date as USA/Canada.
3000# So this means they have already changed their time.
3001#
3002# http://www.alterpresse.org/spip.php?article12510
3003# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/home/?p=13253
3004#
3005# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-11):
3006# The alterpresse.org source seems to show a US-style leap from 2:00 a.m. to
3007# 3:00 a.m. rather than the traditional Haitian jump at midnight.
3008# Assume a US-style fall back as well.
3009
3010# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-03-10):
3011# It appears that Haiti is observing DST this year as well, same rules
3012# as US/Canada.  They did it last year as well, and it looks like they
3013# are going to observe DST every year now...
3014#
3015# http://radiovision2000haiti.net/public/haiti-avis-changement-dheure-dimanche/
3016# http://www.canalplushaiti.net/?p=6714
3017
3018# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3019Rule	Haiti	1983	only	-	May	8	0:00	1:00	D
3020Rule	Haiti	1984	1987	-	Apr	lastSun	0:00	1:00	D
3021Rule	Haiti	1983	1987	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3022# Shanks & Pottenger say AT is 2:00, but IATA SSIM (1991/1997) says 1:00s.
3023# Go with IATA.
3024Rule	Haiti	1988	1997	-	Apr	Sun>=1	1:00s	1:00	D
3025Rule	Haiti	1988	1997	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00s	0	S
3026Rule	Haiti	2005	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3027Rule	Haiti	2005	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3028Rule	Haiti	2012	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
3029Rule	Haiti	2012	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
3030# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3031Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 -	LMT	1890
3032			-4:49	-	PPMT	1917 Jan 24 12:00 # P-a-P MT
3033			-5:00	Haiti	E%sT
3034
3035# Honduras
3036# Shanks & Pottenger say 1921 Jan 1; go with Whitman's more precise Apr 1.
3037
3038# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-05):
3039# worldtimezone.com reports a 2006-05-02 Spanish-language AP article
3040# saying Honduras will start using DST midnight Saturday, effective 4
3041# months until September.  La Tribuna reported today
3042# <http://www.latribuna.hn/99299.html> that Manuel Zelaya, the president
3043# of Honduras, refused to back down on this.
3044
3045# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-08-08):
3046# It seems that Honduras has returned from DST to standard time this Monday at
3047# 00:00 hours (prolonging Sunday to 25 hours duration).
3048# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_honduras04.html
3049
3050# From Paul Eggert (2006-08-08):
3051# Also see Diario El Heraldo, The country returns to standard time (2006-08-08)
3052# <http://www.elheraldo.hn/nota.php?nid=54941&sec=12>.
3053# It mentions executive decree 18-2006.
3054
3055# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17):
3056# Honduras will observe DST from 2007 to 2009, exact dates are not
3057# published, I have located this authoritative source:
3058# http://www.presidencia.gob.hn/noticia.aspx?nId=47
3059
3060# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-03-30):
3061# http://www.laprensahn.com/pais_nota.php?id04962=7386
3062# So it seems that Honduras will not enter DST this year....
3063
3064# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3065Rule	Hond	1987	1988	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3066Rule	Hond	1987	1988	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	S
3067Rule	Hond	2006	only	-	May	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	D
3068Rule	Hond	2006	only	-	Aug	Mon>=1	0:00	0	S
3069# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3070Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 -	LMT	1921 Apr
3071			-6:00	Hond	C%sT
3072#
3073# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972
3074
3075# Jamaica
3076# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an
3077# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the
3078# island".  Go with Milne.  Round to the nearest second as required by zic.
3079# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3080Zone	America/Jamaica	-5:07:11 -	LMT	1890		# Kingston
3081			-5:07:11 -	KMT	1912 Feb    # Kingston Mean Time
3082			-5:00	-	EST	1974 Apr 28 2:00
3083			-5:00	US	E%sT	1984
3084			-5:00	-	EST
3085
3086# Martinique
3087# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3088Zone America/Martinique	-4:04:20 -      LMT	1890		# Fort-de-France
3089			-4:04:20 -	FFMT	1911 May     # Fort-de-France MT
3090			-4:00	-	AST	1980 Apr  6
3091			-4:00	1:00	ADT	1980 Sep 28
3092			-4:00	-	AST
3093
3094# Montserrat
3095# See 'southamerica'.
3096
3097# Nicaragua
3098#
3099# This uses Shanks & Pottenger for times before 2005.
3100#
3101# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-04-12):
3102# I've got reports from 8 different people that Nicaragua just started
3103# DST on Sunday 2005-04-10, in order to save energy because of
3104# expensive petroleum.  The exact end date for DST is not yet
3105# announced, only "September" but some sites also say "mid-September".
3106# Some background information is available on the President's official site:
3107# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/Presidencia/Files_index/Secretaria/Notas%20de%20Prensa/Presidente/2005/ABRIL/Gobierno-de-nicaragua-adelanta-hora-oficial-06abril.htm
3108# The Decree, no 23-2005 is available here:
3109# 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
3110#
3111# From Paul Eggert (2005-05-01):
3112# The decree doesn't say anything about daylight saving, but for now let's
3113# assume that it is daylight saving....
3114#
3115# From Gwillim Law (2005-04-21):
3116# The Associated Press story on the time change, which can be found at
3117# http://www.lapalmainteractivo.com/guias/content/gen/ap/America_Latina/AMC_GEN_NICARAGUA_HORA.html
3118# and elsewhere, says (fifth paragraph, translated from Spanish):  "The last
3119# time that a change of clocks was applied to save energy was in the year 2000
3120# during the Arnoldo Aleman administration."...
3121# The northamerica file says that Nicaragua has been on UTC-6 continuously
3122# since December 1998.  I wasn't able to find any details of Nicaraguan time
3123# changes in 2000.  Perhaps a note could be added to the northamerica file, to
3124# the effect that we have indirect evidence that DST was observed in 2000.
3125#
3126# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2005-11-02):
3127# Nicaragua left DST the 2005-10-02 at 00:00 (local time).
3128# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/presidencia/files_index/secretaria/comunicados/2005/septiembre/26septiembre-cambio-hora.htm
3129# (2005-09-26)
3130#
3131# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-05-05):
3132# http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/2006/05/01/nacionales/18410
3133# (my informal translation)
3134# By order of the president of the republic, Enrique Bolanos, Nicaragua
3135# advanced by sixty minutes their official time, yesterday at 2 in the
3136# morning, and will stay that way until 30.th. of september.
3137#
3138# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-09-30):
3139# http://www.presidencia.gob.ni/buscador_gaceta/BD/DECRETOS/2006/D-063-2006P-PRN-Cambio-Hora.pdf
3140# My informal translation runs:
3141# The natural sun time is restored in all the national territory, in that the
3142# time is returned one hour at 01:00 am of October 1 of 2006.
3143#
3144# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3145Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Mar	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	D
3146Rule	Nic	1979	1980	-	Jun	Mon>=23	0:00	0	S
3147Rule	Nic	2005	only	-	Apr	10	0:00	1:00	D
3148Rule	Nic	2005	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	0	S
3149Rule	Nic	2006	only	-	Apr	30	2:00	1:00	D
3150Rule	Nic	2006	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	1:00	0	S
3151# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3152Zone	America/Managua	-5:45:08 -	LMT	1890
3153			-5:45:12 -	MMT	1934 Jun 23 # Managua Mean Time?
3154			-6:00	-	CST	1973 May
3155			-5:00	-	EST	1975 Feb 16
3156			-6:00	Nic	C%sT	1992 Jan  1 4:00
3157			-5:00	-	EST	1992 Sep 24
3158			-6:00	-	CST	1993
3159			-5:00	-	EST	1997
3160			-6:00	Nic	C%sT
3161
3162# Panama
3163# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3164Zone	America/Panama	-5:18:08 -	LMT	1890
3165			-5:19:36 -	CMT	1908 Apr 22   # Colon Mean Time
3166			-5:00	-	EST
3167
3168# Puerto Rico
3169# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'.
3170# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3171Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 -	LMT	1899 Mar 28 12:00    # San Juan
3172			-4:00	-	AST	1942 May  3
3173			-4:00	US	A%sT	1946
3174			-4:00	-	AST
3175
3176# St Kitts-Nevis
3177# St Lucia
3178# See 'southamerica'.
3179
3180# St Pierre and Miquelon
3181# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'.
3182# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3183Zone America/Miquelon	-3:44:40 -	LMT	1911 May 15	# St Pierre
3184			-4:00	-	AST	1980 May
3185			-3:00	-	PMST	1987 # Pierre & Miquelon Time
3186			-3:00	Canada	PM%sT
3187
3188# St Vincent and the Grenadines
3189# See 'southamerica'.
3190
3191# Turks and Caicos
3192#
3193# From Chris Dunn in
3194# <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=415007>
3195# (2007-03-15): In the Turks & Caicos Islands (America/Grand_Turk) the
3196# daylight saving dates for time changes have been adjusted to match
3197# the recent U.S. change of dates.
3198#
3199# From Brian Inglis (2007-04-28):
3200# http://www.turksandcaicos.tc/calendar/index.htm [2007-04-26]
3201# there is an entry for Nov 4 "Daylight Savings Time Ends 2007" and three
3202# rows before that there is an out of date entry for Oct:
3203# "Eastern Standard Times Begins 2007
3204# Clocks are set back one hour at 2:00 a.m. local Daylight Saving Time"
3205# indicating that the normal ET rules are followed.
3206#
3207# From Paul Eggert (2006-05-01):
3208# Shanks & Pottenger say they use US DST rules, but IATA SSIM (1991/1998)
3209# says they switch at midnight.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger.
3210#
3211# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
3212Rule	TC	1979	1986	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
3213Rule	TC	1979	2006	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0	S
3214Rule	TC	1987	2006	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
3215Rule	TC	2007	max	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	D
3216Rule	TC	2007	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
3217# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3218Zone America/Grand_Turk	-4:44:32 -	LMT	1890
3219			-5:07:11 -	KMT	1912 Feb    # Kingston Mean Time
3220			-5:00	TC	E%sT
3221
3222# British Virgin Is
3223# Virgin Is
3224# See 'southamerica'.
3225