antarctica revision 273439
1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
3
4# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15):
5# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see
6# COMNAP - Stations and Bases
7# <http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/>
8# and
9# Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23)
10# <http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm>
11# for information.
12# Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information.
13#
14# Except for the French entries,
15# I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome!
16# FORMAT is 'zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited.
17
18# These rules are stolen from the 'southamerica' file.
19# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
20Rule	ArgAQ	1964	1966	-	Mar	 1	0:00	0	-
21Rule	ArgAQ	1964	1966	-	Oct	15	0:00	1:00	S
22Rule	ArgAQ	1967	only	-	Apr	 2	0:00	0	-
23Rule	ArgAQ	1967	1968	-	Oct	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
24Rule	ArgAQ	1968	1969	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
25Rule	ArgAQ	1974	only	-	Jan	23	0:00	1:00	S
26Rule	ArgAQ	1974	only	-	May	 1	0:00	0	-
27Rule	ChileAQ	1972	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
28Rule	ChileAQ	1974	1987	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	S
29Rule	ChileAQ	1987	only	-	Apr	12	3:00u	0	-
30Rule	ChileAQ	1988	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
31Rule	ChileAQ	1988	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	4:00u	1:00	S
32Rule	ChileAQ	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	S
33Rule	ChileAQ	1990	only	-	Mar	18	3:00u	0	-
34Rule	ChileAQ	1990	only	-	Sep	16	4:00u	1:00	S
35Rule	ChileAQ	1991	1996	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
36Rule	ChileAQ	1991	1997	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	S
37Rule	ChileAQ	1997	only	-	Mar	30	3:00u	0	-
38Rule	ChileAQ	1998	only	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
39Rule	ChileAQ	1998	only	-	Sep	27	4:00u	1:00	S
40Rule	ChileAQ	1999	only	-	Apr	 4	3:00u	0	-
41Rule	ChileAQ	1999	2010	-	Oct	Sun>=9	4:00u	1:00	S
42Rule	ChileAQ	2000	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
43# N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time,
44# which is used below in specifying the transition.
45Rule	ChileAQ	2008	only	-	Mar	30	3:00u	0	-
46Rule	ChileAQ	2009	only	-	Mar	Sun>=9	3:00u	0	-
47Rule	ChileAQ	2010	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	3:00u	0	-
48Rule	ChileAQ	2011	only	-	May	Sun>=2	3:00u	0	-
49Rule	ChileAQ	2011	only	-	Aug	Sun>=16	4:00u	1:00	S
50Rule	ChileAQ	2012	max	-	Apr	Sun>=23	3:00u	0	-
51Rule	ChileAQ	2012	max	-	Sep	Sun>=2	4:00u	1:00	S
52
53# Argentina - year-round bases
54# Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05
55# Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01
56# Esperanza, Hope Bay, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17
57# Marambio, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29
58# Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22
59# San Mart��n, Barry I, -6808-06706, since 1951-03-21
60#	(except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21)
61
62# Australia - territories
63# Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited)
64#	previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered
65#	Margaret Turner reports
66#	<http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html>
67#	(1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST;
68#	presumably this is when they have visitors.
69#
70# year-round bases
71# Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969
72# Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13
73#	(except 1964-11 - 1969-02)
74# Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13
75
76# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11):
77# Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone:
78# Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11
79# Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5
80# Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5
81# The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times).
82#
83# Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division)
84# http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079
85#
86# We have more background information here:
87# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html
88
89# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
90# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ...
91#
92# - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010.
93# The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but
94# has not been decided yet.
95#
96# - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010
97# 20:00 UTC.
98#
99# - Mawson station stays on UTC+5.
100#
101# Background:
102# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html
103
104# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
105Zone Antarctica/Casey	0	-	zzz	1969
106			8:00	-	AWST	2009 Oct 18 2:00
107						# Australian Western Std Time
108			11:00	-	CAST	2010 Mar 5 2:00
109						# Casey Time
110			8:00	-	AWST	2011 Oct 28 2:00
111			11:00	-	CAST	2012 Feb 21 17:00u
112			8:00	-	AWST
113Zone Antarctica/Davis	0	-	zzz	1957 Jan 13
114			7:00	-	DAVT	1964 Nov # Davis Time
115			0	-	zzz	1969 Feb
116			7:00	-	DAVT	2009 Oct 18 2:00
117			5:00	-	DAVT	2010 Mar 10 20:00u
118			7:00	-	DAVT	2011 Oct 28 2:00
119			5:00	-	DAVT	2012 Feb 21 20:00u
120			7:00	-	DAVT
121Zone Antarctica/Mawson	0	-	zzz	1954 Feb 13
122			6:00	-	MAWT	2009 Oct 18 2:00
123						# Mawson Time
124			5:00	-	MAWT
125# References:
126# Casey Weather (1998-02-26)
127# <http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html>
128# Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26)
129# <http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html>
130# Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25)
131# <http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html>
132
133# Belgium - year-round base
134# Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007
135
136# Brazil - year-round base
137# Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4
138
139# Bulgaria - year-round base
140# St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988
141
142# Chile - year-round bases and towns
143# Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994
144# Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07
145# O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02
146# Prat, -6230-05941
147# Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09
148# These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'.
149
150# China - year-round bases
151# Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20
152# Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26
153
154# France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy")
155#
156# From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20):
157# Time data are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP
158# (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology).
159# She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Ad��lie bases
160# don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Ad��lie supplies came
161# from Tasmania.
162#
163# French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants
164#
165# Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964;
166#	sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+;
167#	see Indian/Reunion.
168#
169# Martin-de-Vivi��s, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950
170# Port-aux-Fran��ais, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951;
171#	whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956
172#
173# St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited
174#	fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931
175#
176# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
177Zone Indian/Kerguelen	0	-	zzz	1950	# Port-aux-Fran��ais
178			5:00	-	TFT	# ISO code TF Time
179#
180# year-round base in the main continent
181# Dumont d'Urville, ��le des P��trels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11
182# <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05)
183#
184# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947.
185# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14.
186#
187# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
188Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 -	zzz	1947
189			10:00	-	PMT	1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time
190			0	-	zzz	1956 Nov
191			10:00	-	DDUT	# Dumont-d'Urville Time
192
193# France & Italy - year-round base
194# Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005
195
196# Germany - year-round base
197# Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009
198
199# India - year-round bases
200# Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012
201# Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989
202
203# Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy")
204# Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986
205
206# Japan - year-round bases
207# Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957
208#
209# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06):
210# In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time.
211#
212# Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan,
213# was established on 1957-01-29.  Since Syowa station is still the main
214# station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location.
215# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
216Zone Antarctica/Syowa	0	-	zzz	1957 Jan 29
217			3:00	-	SYOT	# Syowa Time
218# See:
219# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17)
220# <http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html>
221
222# S Korea - year-round base
223# Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014
224# King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988
225
226# New Zealand - claims
227# Balleny Islands (never inhabited)
228# Scott Island (never inhabited)
229#
230# year-round base
231# Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01.
232# See Pacific/Auckland.
233
234# Norway - territories
235# Bouvet (never inhabited)
236#
237# claims
238# Peter I Island (never inhabited)
239#
240# year-round base
241# Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12
242#
243# From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10):
244# I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com.
245# In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones:
246#   GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March
247#   GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October
248#   GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7
249#   GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1
250# The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely
251# correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates.
252#
253# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21):
254# The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tzcode 2014b or later, so as
255# suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate
256# with only UTC and CEST.  Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent.
257#
258# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
259#Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Mar	 1	1:00u	1:00	CET
260Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Mar	lastSun	1:00u	2:00	CEST
261#Rule	Troll	2005	max	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00u	1:00	CET
262#Rule	Troll	2004	max	-	Nov	 7	1:00u	0:00	UTC
263# Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines.
264Rule	Troll	2004	max	-	Oct	lastSun	1:00u	0:00	UTC
265# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
266Zone Antarctica/Troll	0	-	zzz	2005 Feb 12
267     			0:00	Troll	%s
268
269# Poland - year-round base
270# Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977
271
272# Romania - year-bound base
273# Law-Racovi����, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986
274
275# Russia - year-round bases
276# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22
277# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02
278# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551,
279#	year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01
280# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150,
281#	year-round from 1960/61 to 1992
282
283# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11
284# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)
285# <http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP>:
286# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same
287# time as Moscow, Russia.
288#
289# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08):
290# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is
291# what they had to say about time there:
292# "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo)
293# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was
294# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead
295# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The
296# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT."
297#
298# From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04):
299# This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it
300# in person.  He said that some Antarctic locations set their local
301# time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this
302# changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean
303# solar noon.  So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks
304# happened to be during their visit.  So we still don't really know what time
305# it is at Vostok.  But we'll guess UTC+6.
306#
307Zone Antarctica/Vostok	0	-	zzz	1957 Dec 16
308			6:00	-	VOST	# Vostok time
309
310# S Africa - year-round bases
311# Marion Island, -4653+03752
312# SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997
313
314# Ukraine - year-round base
315# Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954
316
317# United Kingdom
318#
319# British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims
320# South Orkney Islands
321#	scientific station from 1903
322#	whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926
323# South Shetland Islands
324#
325# year-round bases
326# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983
327# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931,
328#	scientific station 1943/1967,
329#	previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident,
330#	and a garrison was deployed briefly
331# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06
332#	Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated
333#	so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location.
334# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01
335#
336# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22)
337# <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year.
338#
339# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
340Zone Antarctica/Rothera	0	-	zzz	1976 Dec  1
341			-3:00	-	ROTT	# Rothera time
342
343# Uruguay - year round base
344# Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107
345
346# USA - year-round bases
347#
348# Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968)
349#
350# From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06):
351# It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us
352# and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line....
353# I verified with someone who was there that since 1980,
354# Palmer has followed Chile.  Prior to that, before the Falklands War,
355# Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina.
356#
357# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
358Zone Antarctica/Palmer	0	-	zzz	1965
359			-4:00	ArgAQ	AR%sT	1969 Oct 5
360			-3:00	ArgAQ	AR%sT	1982 May
361			-4:00	ChileAQ	CL%sT
362#
363#
364# McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12
365# Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20
366#
367# From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27):
368# Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station,
369# stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station,
370# but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12
371# as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound,
372# which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year
373# at that time (1957).  (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.)
374#
375# From Susan Smith
376# http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html
377# (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available):
378# We use the same time as McMurdo does.
379# And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does....
380# One last quirk about South Pole time.
381# All the electric clocks are usually wrong.
382# Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something
383# makes all of the clocks run fast.  So every couple of days,
384# we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so.
385# Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!!
386#
387# See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo.
388