--- a/components/timezone/northamerica Thu Apr 10 09:05:47 2014 -0600
+++ b/components/timezone/northamerica Fri Apr 11 05:53:44 2014 -0700
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
# Howse writes (pp 121-125) that time zones were invented by
# Professor Charles Ferdinand Dowd (1825-1904),
# Principal of Temple Grove Ladies' Seminary (Saratoga Springs, NY).
-# His pamphlet ``A System of National Time for Railroads'' (1870)
+# His pamphlet "A System of National Time for Railroads" (1870)
# was the result of his proposals at the Convention of Railroad Trunk Lines
# in New York City (1869-10). His 1870 proposal was based on Washington, DC,
# but in 1872-05 he moved the proposed origin to Greenwich.
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@
# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin
-# in his whimsical essay ``An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost
-# of Light'' published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
+# in his whimsical essay "An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost
+# of Light" published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
# Not everyone is happy with the results:
#
# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some
@@ -167,8 +167,8 @@
# of the Aleutian islands. No DST.
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
-# The tables below use `NST', not `NT', for Nome Standard Time.
-# I invented `CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time.
+# The tables below use 'NST', not 'NT', for Nome Standard Time.
+# I invented 'CAWT' for Central Alaska War Time.
# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
# USA EASTERN 5 H BEHIND UTC NEW YORK, WASHINGTON
@@ -237,9 +237,9 @@
# H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
# (a) Amendment- Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
# U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended--
-# (1) by striking `first Sunday of April' and inserting `second
+# (1) by striking 'first Sunday of April' and inserting 'second
# Sunday of March'; and
-# (2) by striking `last Sunday of October' and inserting `first
+# (2) by striking 'last Sunday of October' and inserting 'first
# Sunday of November'.
# (b) Effective Date- Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the
# date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later.
@@ -391,9 +391,10 @@
# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
#
# California, northern Idaho (Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater,
-# Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties,
-# and the northern three-quarters of Idaho county),
-# most of Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington
+# Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shoshone counties, Idaho county
+# north of the Salmon River, and the towns of Burgdorf and Warren),
+# Nevada (except West Wendover), Oregon (except the northern 3/4 of
+# Malheur county), and Washington
#
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D
@@ -600,6 +601,8 @@
-10:30 - HST 1947 Jun 8 2:00 #Schmitt&Cox+2
-10:00 - HST
+Link Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston
+
# Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970.
# Arizona mostly uses MST.
@@ -636,8 +639,9 @@
# Navajo Nation participates in the Daylight Saving Time policy, due to its
# large size and location in three states." (The "only" means that other
# tribal nations don't use DST.)
-
-Link America/Denver America/Shiprock
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-26):
+# See America/Denver for a zone appropriate for the Navajo Nation.
# Southern Idaho (Ada, Adams, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine,
# Boise, Bonneville, Butte, Camas, Canyon, Caribou, Cassia, Clark,
@@ -677,13 +681,13 @@
# and Switzerland counties have their own time zone histories as noted below.
#
# Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history,
-# and wrote ``Even newspaper reports present contradictory information.''
+# and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information."
# Those Hoosiers! Such a flighty and changeable people!
# Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
#
# Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript
-# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the `America' level.
-# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory `America/Indiana'.
+# that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level.
+# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'.
# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
# http://www.mccsc.edu/time.html says that Indiana will use DST starting 2006.
@@ -947,8 +951,8 @@
# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks.
#
# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
-# Garland (1927) writes ``Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks
-# one hour in 1914.'' This change is not in Shanks. We have no more
+# Garland (1927) writes "Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks
+# one hour in 1914." This change is not in Shanks. We have no more
# info, so omit this for now.
#
# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975.
@@ -988,7 +992,7 @@
# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co
# US lighthouse 1917/1996-09
# currently uninhabited
-# see Mark Fineman, ``An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord'',
+# see Mark Fineman, "An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord",
# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites
# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994).
@@ -1022,7 +1026,7 @@
# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
#
-# See the `europe' file for Greenland.
+# See the 'europe' file for Greenland.
# Canada
@@ -1223,7 +1227,7 @@
# most of east Labrador
-# The name `Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use `Goose Bay'.
+# The name 'Happy Valley-Goose Bay' is too long; use 'Goose Bay'.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Goose_Bay -4:01:40 - LMT 1884 # Happy Valley-Goose Bay
-3:30:52 - NST 1918
@@ -1340,25 +1344,27 @@
# Quebec
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
-# Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Quebec has been
-# like Montreal.
+# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-30):
+# Since 1970 most of Quebec has been like Toronto.
+# However, because earlier versions of the tz database mistakenly relied on data
+# from Shanks & Pottenger saying that Quebec differed from Ontario after 1970,
+# a separate entry was created for most of Quebec. We're loath to lose
+# its pre-1970 info, even though the tz database is normally limited to
+# zones that differ after 1970, so keep this otherwise out-of-scope entry.
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27):
# Matthews and Vincent (1998) also write that Quebec east of the -63
# meridian is supposed to observe AST, but residents as far east as
# Natashquan use EST/EDT, and residents east of Natashquan use AST.
-# In "Official time in Quebec" the Quebec department of justice writes in
-# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-regl-1-a.htm
-# that "The residents of the Municipality of the
-# Cote-Nord-du-Golfe-Saint-Laurent and the municipalities of Saint-Augustin,
-# Bonne-Esperance and Blanc-Sablon apply the Official Time Act as it is
-# written and use Atlantic standard time all year round. The same applies to
-# the residents of the Native facilities along the lower North Shore."
-# <http://www.assnat.qc.ca/eng/37legislature2/Projets-loi/Publics/06-a002.htm>
+# The Quebec department of justice writes in
+# "The situation in Minganie and Basse-Cote-Nord"
+# http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/english/publications/generale/temps-minganie-a.htm
+# that the coastal strip from just east of Natashquan to Blanc-Sablon
+# observes Atlantic standard time all year round.
+# http://www.assnat.qc.ca/Media/Process.aspx?MediaId=ANQ.Vigie.Bll.DocumentGenerique_8845en
# says this common practice was codified into law as of 2007.
# For lack of better info, guess this practice began around 1970, contra to
# Shanks & Pottenger who have this region observing AST/ADT.
+# for post-1970 data America/Puerto_Rico.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Mont 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 1:00 D
@@ -1402,7 +1408,6 @@
-5:00 Mont E%sT 1974
-5:00 Canada E%sT
-
# Ontario
# From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):
@@ -1621,7 +1626,7 @@
-6:00 - CST 1910
-5:00 - EST 1942
-5:00 Canada E%sT 1970
- -5:00 Mont E%sT 1973
+ -5:00 Toronto E%sT 1973
-5:00 - EST 1974
-5:00 Canada E%sT
Zone America/Nipigon -5:53:04 - LMT 1895
@@ -2208,7 +2213,7 @@
# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
# For an English translation of the decree, see
# <a href="http://mexico-travel.com/extra/timezone_eng.html">
-# ``Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover'' (1996-01-04).
+# "Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover" (1996-01-04).
# </a>
# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
@@ -2545,9 +2550,7 @@
###############################################################################
# Anguilla
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Anguilla -4:12:16 - LMT 1912 Mar 2
- -4:00 - AST
+# See 'southamerica'.
# Antigua and Barbuda
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -2616,13 +2619,13 @@
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Atlantic/Bermuda -4:19:18 - LMT 1930 Jan 1 2:00 # Hamilton
-4:00 - AST 1974 Apr 28 2:00
- -4:00 Bahamas A%sT 1976
+ -4:00 Canada A%sT 1976
-4:00 US A%sT
# Cayman Is
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Cayman -5:25:32 - LMT 1890 # Georgetown
- -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
+ -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
-5:00 - EST
# Costa Rica
@@ -2637,7 +2640,7 @@
# go with Shanks & Pottenger.
Rule CR 1991 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 S
Rule CR 1992 only - Mar 15 0:00 0 S
-# There are too many San Joses elsewhere, so we'll use `Costa Rica'.
+# There are too many San Joses elsewhere, so we'll use 'Costa Rica'.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:13 - LMT 1890 # San Jose
-5:36:13 - SJMT 1921 Jan 15 # San Jose Mean Time
@@ -2663,6 +2666,11 @@
# to DST--and one more hour on 1999-04-04--when the announcers will have
# returned to Baltimore, which switches on that date.)
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-11-11):
+# DST start in Cuba in 2004 ... does not follow the same rules as the
+# years before. The correct date should be Sunday 2004-03-28 00:00 ...
+# https://web.archive.org/web/20040402060750/http://www.granma.cu/espanol/2004/marzo/sab27/reloj.html
+
# From Evert van der Veer via Steffen Thorsen (2004-10-28):
# Cuba is not going back to standard time this year.
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
@@ -2852,7 +2860,8 @@
Rule Cuba 1997 only - Oct 12 0:00s 0 S
Rule Cuba 1998 1999 - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D
Rule Cuba 1998 2003 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S
-Rule Cuba 2000 2004 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D
+Rule Cuba 2000 2003 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D
+Rule Cuba 2004 only - Mar lastSun 0:00s 1:00 D
Rule Cuba 2006 2010 - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S
Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D
Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D
@@ -2869,9 +2878,7 @@
-5:00 Cuba C%sT
# Dominica
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Dominica -4:05:36 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Roseau
- -4:00 - AST
+# See 'southamerica'.
# Dominican Republic
@@ -2920,18 +2927,10 @@
-6:00 Salv C%sT
# Grenada
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Grenada -4:07:00 - LMT 1911 Jul # St George's
- -4:00 - AST
-
# Guadeloupe
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Guadeloupe -4:06:08 - LMT 1911 Jun 8 # Pointe a Pitre
- -4:00 - AST
# St Barthelemy
-Link America/Guadeloupe America/St_Barthelemy
# St Martin (French part)
-Link America/Guadeloupe America/Marigot
+# See 'southamerica'.
# Guatemala
#
@@ -3074,17 +3073,12 @@
# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972
# Jamaica
-
-# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
-# Follows US rules.
-
-# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
-# JAMAICA 5 H BEHIND UTC
-
-# From Shanks & Pottenger:
+# Shanks & Pottenger give -5:07:12, but Milne records -5:07:10.41 from an
+# unspecified official document, and says "This time is used throughout the
+# island". Go with Milne. Round to the nearest second as required by zic.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:12 - LMT 1890 # Kingston
- -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
+Zone America/Jamaica -5:07:11 - LMT 1890 # Kingston
+ -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
-5:00 - EST 1974 Apr 28 2:00
-5:00 US E%sT 1984
-5:00 - EST
@@ -3098,12 +3092,7 @@
-4:00 - AST
# Montserrat
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# In 1995 volcanic eruptions forced evacuation of Plymouth, the capital.
-# world.gazetteer.com says Cork Hill is the most populous location now.
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Cork Hill
- -4:00 - AST
+# See 'southamerica'.
# Nicaragua
#
@@ -3177,7 +3166,7 @@
-5:00 - EST
# Puerto Rico
-# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use `Puerto_Rico'.
+# There are too many San Juans elsewhere, so we'll use 'Puerto_Rico'.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Puerto_Rico -4:24:25 - LMT 1899 Mar 28 12:00 # San Juan
-4:00 - AST 1942 May 3
@@ -3185,18 +3174,11 @@
-4:00 - AST
# St Kitts-Nevis
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/St_Kitts -4:10:52 - LMT 1912 Mar 2 # Basseterre
- -4:00 - AST
-
# St Lucia
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/St_Lucia -4:04:00 - LMT 1890 # Castries
- -4:04:00 - CMT 1912 # Castries Mean Time
- -4:00 - AST
+# See 'southamerica'.
# St Pierre and Miquelon
-# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use `Miquelon'.
+# There are too many St Pierres elsewhere, so we'll use 'Miquelon'.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Miquelon -3:44:40 - LMT 1911 May 15 # St Pierre
-4:00 - AST 1980 May
@@ -3204,10 +3186,7 @@
-3:00 Canada PM%sT
# St Vincent and the Grenadines
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/St_Vincent -4:04:56 - LMT 1890 # Kingstown
- -4:04:56 - KMT 1912 # Kingstown Mean Time
- -4:00 - AST
+# See 'southamerica'.
# Turks and Caicos
#
@@ -3237,15 +3216,9 @@
Rule TC 2007 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone America/Grand_Turk -4:44:32 - LMT 1890
- -5:07:12 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
+ -5:07:11 - KMT 1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
-5:00 TC E%sT
# British Virgin Is
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Tortola -4:18:28 - LMT 1911 Jul # Road Town
- -4:00 - AST
-
# Virgin Is
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/St_Thomas -4:19:44 - LMT 1911 Jul # Charlotte Amalie
- -4:00 - AST
+# See 'southamerica'.