diff -r 87293f3666a2 -r d164df7a8b2d components/timezone/europe --- a/components/timezone/europe Tue Dec 17 21:59:26 2013 -0800 +++ b/components/timezone/europe Fri Dec 20 06:20:23 2013 -0700 @@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ # William Willett, The Waste of Daylight, 19th edition # (1914-03) # +# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 +# . He writes: +# "It is requested that corrections and additions to these tables +# may be sent to Mr. John Milne, Royal Geographical Society, +# Savile Row, London." Nowadays please email them to tz@iana.org. +# # Brazil's Departamento Servico da Hora (DSH), # # History of Summer Time @@ -517,7 +523,7 @@ # It seems that Paris, Monaco, Rule France, Rule Belgium all agree on # 2:00 standard time, e.g. 3:00 local time. However there are no # countries that use C-Eur rules in September 1945, so the only items -# affected are apparently these ficticious zones that translates acronyms +# affected are apparently these fictitious zones that translate acronyms # CET and MET: # # Zone CET 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT @@ -666,6 +672,8 @@ # Austria +# Milne says Vienna time was 1:05:21. + # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): Shanks & Pottenger give 1918-06-16 and # 1945-11-18, but the Austrian Federal Office of Metrology and # Surveying (BEV) gives 1918-09-16 and for Vienna gives the "alleged" @@ -683,7 +691,7 @@ Rule Austria 1980 only - Apr 6 0:00 1:00 S Rule Austria 1980 only - Sep 28 0:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:20 - LMT 1893 Apr +Zone Europe/Vienna 1:05:21 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1920 1:00 Austria CE%sT 1940 Apr 1 2:00s 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 Apr 2 2:00s @@ -1239,6 +1247,21 @@ 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT +# From Tobias Conradi (2011-09-12): +# Busingen , surrounded by the Swiss canton +# Schaffhausen, did not start observing DST in 1980 as the rest of DE +# (West Germany at that time) and DD (East Germany at that time) did. +# DD merged into DE, the area is currently covered by code DE in ISO 3166-1, +# which in turn is covered by the zone Europe/Berlin. +# +# Source for the time in Busingen 1980: +# http://www.srf.ch/player/video?id=c012c029-03b7-4c2b-9164-aa5902cd58d3 + +# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-03): +# Busingen and Zurich have shared clocks since 1970. + +Link Europe/Zurich Europe/Busingen + # Georgia # Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. # Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) @@ -2043,6 +2066,70 @@ # Russia +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2011-09-15): +# Based on last Russian Government Decree # 725 on August 31, 2011 +# (Government document +# +# http://www.government.ru/gov/results/16355/print/ +# +# in Russian) +# there are few corrections have to be made for some Russian time zones... +# All updated Russian Time Zones were placed in table and translated to English +# by WorldTimeZone.com at the link below: +# +# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_russia36.htm +# + +# From Sanjeev Gupta (2011-09-27): +# Scans of [Decree #23 of January 8, 1992] are available at: +# +# http://government.consultant.ru/page.aspx?1223966 +# They are in Cyrillic letters (presumably Russian). + +# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): +# Regarding the instant when clocks in time-zone-shifting parts of Russia +# changed in September 2011: +# +# One source is +# < a href="http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/> +# http://government.ru/gov/results/16355/ +# +# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Decree of August 31, +# 2011 No 725" and contains no other dates or "effective date" information. +# +# Another source is +# +# http://www.rg.ru/2011/09/06/chas-zona-dok.html +# +# which, according to translate.google.com, begins "Resolution of the +# Government of the Russian Federation on August 31, 2011 N 725" and also +# contains "Date first official publication: September 6, 2011 Posted on: +# in the 'RG' - Federal Issue number 5573 September 6, 2011" but which +# does not contain any "effective date" information. +# +# Another source is +# +# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oymyakonsky_District#cite_note-RuTime-7 +# +# which, in note 8, contains "Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011... +# Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication" +# but which does not contain any reference to September 6, 2011. +# +# The Wikipedia article refers to +# +# http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=118896 +# +# which seems to copy the text of the government.ru page. +# +# Tobias Conradi combines Wikipedia's +# "as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication" +# with www.rg.ru's "Date of first official publication: September 6, 2011" to get +# September 13, 2011 as the cutover date (unusually, a Tuesday, as Tobias Conradi notes). +# +# None of the sources indicates a time of day for changing clocks. +# +# Go with 2011-09-13 0:00s. + # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): # Except for Moscow after 1919-07-01, I invented the time zone abbreviations. # Moscow time zone abbreviations after 1919-07-01, and Moscow rules after 1991, @@ -2270,14 +2357,32 @@ # [parts of] Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya). # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): -# The Sakha districts are: Bulunskij, Verkhoyanskij, Tomponskij, Ust'-Majskij, -# Ust'-Yanskij. +# The Sakha districts are: Bulunskij, Verkhoyanskij, ... Ust'-Yanskij. Zone Asia/Vladivostok 8:47:44 - LMT 1922 Nov 15 9:00 - VLAT 1930 Jun 21 # Vladivostok Time 10:00 Russia VLA%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 9:00 Russia VLA%sST 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 10:00 Russia VLA%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 11:00 - VLAT + +# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): +# Tomponskij and Ust'-Majskij switched from Vladivostok time to Yakutsk time +# in 2011. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2012-11-25): +# Shanks and Pottenger (2003) has Khandyga on Yakutsk time. +# Make a wild guess that it switched to Vladivostok time in 2004. +# This transition is no doubt wrong, but we have no better info. +# +Zone Asia/Khandyga 9:02:13 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 + 8:00 - YAKT 1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time + 9:00 Russia YAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 8:00 Russia YAK%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 9:00 Russia YAK%sT 2004 + 10:00 Russia VLA%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 11:00 - VLAT 2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725? + 10:00 - YAKT + # # Sakhalinskaya oblast'. # The Zone name should be Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, but that's too long. @@ -2296,14 +2401,26 @@ # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2009-11-29): # The Sakha districts are: Abyjskij, Allaikhovskij, Verkhhhnekolymskij, Momskij, -# Nizhnekolymskij, Ojmyakonskij, Srednekolymskij. +# Nizhnekolymskij, ... Srednekolymskij. Zone Asia/Magadan 10:03:12 - LMT 1924 May 2 10:00 - MAGT 1930 Jun 21 # Magadan Time 11:00 Russia MAG%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s 10:00 Russia MAG%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s 11:00 Russia MAG%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s 12:00 - MAGT -# + +# From Arthur David Olson (2012-05-09): +# Ojmyakonskij and the Kuril Islands switched from +# Magadan time to Vladivostok time in 2011. +Zone Asia/Ust-Nera 9:32:54 - LMT 1919 Dec 15 + 8:00 - YAKT 1930 Jun 21 # Yakutsk Time + 9:00 Russia YAKT 1981 Apr 1 + 11:00 Russia MAG%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s + 10:00 Russia MAG%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s + 11:00 Russia MAG%sT 2011 Mar 27 2:00s + 12:00 - MAGT 2011 Sep 13 0:00s # Decree 725? + 11:00 - VLAT + # From Oscar van Vlijmen (2001-08-25): [This region consists of] # Kamchatskaya oblast', Koryakskij avtonomnyj okrug. # @@ -2662,9 +2779,9 @@ # Ukraine # -# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukranian Ministry of Justice, +# From Igor Karpov, who works for the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice, # via Garrett Wollman (2003-01-27): -# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's goverment +# BTW, I've found the official document on this matter. It's government # regulations number 509, May 13, 1996. In my poor translation it says: # "Time in Ukraine is set to second timezone (Kiev time). Each last Sunday # of March at 3am the time is changing to 4am and each last Sunday of @@ -2698,7 +2815,7 @@ # time this year after all. # # From Udo Schwedt (2011-10-18): -# As far as I understand, the recent change to the Ukranian time zone +# As far as I understand, the recent change to the Ukrainian time zone # (Europe/Kiev) to introduce permanent daylight saving time (similar # to Russia) was reverted today: #