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diff --git a/timezone/asia b/timezone/asia index 70f1515..768850f 100644 --- a/timezone/asia +++ b/timezone/asia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)asia 8.18 +# @(#)asia 8.23 # <pre> # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -229,6 +229,28 @@ Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D # (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two # counties are mistakes in the astro.com data. +# From Paul Eggert (2008-02-11): +# I just now checked Google News for western news sources that talk +# about China's single time zone, and couldn't find anything before 1986 +# talking about China being in one time zone. (That article was: Jim +# Mann, "A clumsy embrace for another western custom: China on daylight +# time--sort of", Los Angeles Times, 1986-05-05. By the way, this +# article confirms the tz database's data claiming that China began +# observing daylight saving time in 1986. +# +# From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11): +# I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated +# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't +# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near +# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a +# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was +# ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s). +# +# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30): +# There seems to be a good chance China switched to a single time zone in 1949 +# rather than in 1980 as Shanks & Pottenger have it, but we don't have a +# reliable documentary source saying so yet, so for now we still go with +# Shanks & Pottenger. # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] # Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area) @@ -1376,6 +1398,42 @@ Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male # They decided not to adopt daylight-saving time.... # http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742 +# From Deborah Goldsmith (2008-03-30): +# We received a bug report claiming that the tz database UTC offset for +# Asia/Choibalsan (GMT+09:00) is incorrect, and that it should be GMT +# +08:00 instead. Different sources appear to disagree with the tz +# database on this, e.g.: +# +# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026"> +# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=1026 +# </a> +# <a href="http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx"> +# http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_MN.aspx +# </a> +# +# both say GMT+08:00. + +# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-31): +# eznis airways, which operates several domestic flights, has a flight +# schedule here: +# <a href="http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112"> +# http://www.eznis.com/Container.jsp?id=112 +# </a> +# (click the English flag for English) +# +# There it appears that flights between Choibalsan and Ulaanbatar arrive +# about 1:35 - 1:50 hours later in local clock time, no matter the +# direction, while Ulaanbaatar-Khvod takes 2 hours in the Eastern +# direction and 3:35 back, which indicates that Ulaanbatar and Khvod are +# in different time zones (like we know about), while Choibalsan and +# Ulaanbatar are in the same time zone (correction needed). + +# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): +# Assume that Choibalsan is indeed offset by 8:00. +# XXX--in the absence of better information, assume that transition +# was at the start of 2008-03-31 (the day of Steffen Thorsen's report); +# this is almost surely wrong. + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 - @@ -1411,7 +1469,8 @@ Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug Zone Asia/Choibalsan 7:38:00 - LMT 1905 Aug 7:00 - ULAT 1978 8:00 - ULAT 1983 Apr - 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT # Choibalsan Time + 9:00 Mongol CHO%sT 2008 Mar 31 # Choibalsan Time + 8:00 Mongol CHO%sT # Nepal # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -1461,10 +1520,45 @@ Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920 # The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather # shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity. +# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-15): +# +# Here is an article that Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time +# on June 1, 2008 for 3 months. +# +# "... The federal cabinet on Wednesday announced a new conservation plan to help +# reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at 9pm and +# moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months. +# ...." +# +# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html"> +# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html +# </a> +# OR +# <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4"> +# http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C15%5Cstory_15-5-2008_pg1_4 +# </a> + +# From Arthur David Olson (2008-05-19): +# XXX--midnight transitions is a guess; 2008 only is a guess. + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): +# Pakistan government has decided to keep the watches one-hour advanced +# for another 2 months--plan to return to Standard Time on October 31 +# instead of August 31. +# +# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html"> +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan02.html +# </a> +# OR +# <a href="http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html"> +# http://dailymailnews.com/200808/28/news/dmbrn03.html +# </a> # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Apr Sun>=2 0:01 1:00 S Rule Pakistan 2002 only - Oct Sun>=2 0:01 0 - +Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S +Rule Pakistan 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep @@ -1584,6 +1678,23 @@ Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907 # For lack of better information, predict that future changes will be # the 2nd Thursday of September at 02:00. +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2008-08-28): +# Here is an article, that Mideast running on different clocks at Ramadan. +# +# Gaza Strip (as Egypt) ended DST at midnight Thursday (Aug 28, 2008), while +# the West Bank will end Daylight Saving Time at midnight Sunday (Aug 31, 2008). +# +# <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001"> +# http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7759001 +# </a> +# <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087"> +# http://www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5676087 +# </a> +# or +# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html"> +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_gazastrip01.html +# </a> + # The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S @@ -1599,7 +1710,8 @@ Rule Palestine 2004 only - Oct 1 1:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2005 only - Oct 4 2:00 0 - Rule Palestine 2006 max - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S Rule Palestine 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 - -Rule Palestine 2007 max - Sep Thu>=8 2:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2007 only - Sep Thu>=8 2:00 0 - +Rule Palestine 2008 max - Aug lastThu 2:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct |