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-# @(#)asia 8.18
-# <pre>
-
-# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
-# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
-# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-#
-# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
-# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
-# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
-#
-# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
-# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
-# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
-# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
-# of the IATA's data after 1990.
-#
-# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
-# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
-#
-# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
-# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
-# I found in the UCLA library.
-#
-# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
-# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
-#
-# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
-# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
-# Corrections are welcome!
-# std dst
-# LMT Local Mean Time
-# 2:00 EET EEST Eastern European Time
-# 2:00 IST IDT Israel
-# 3:00 AST ADT Arabia*
-# 3:30 IRST IRDT Iran
-# 4:00 GST Gulf*
-# 5:30 IST India
-# 7:00 ICT Indochina*
-# 7:00 WIT west Indonesia
-# 8:00 CIT central Indonesia
-# 8:00 CST China
-# 9:00 CJT Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
-# 9:00 EIT east Indonesia
-# 9:00 JST JDT Japan
-# 9:00 KST KDT Korea
-# 9:30 CST (Australian) Central Standard Time
-#
-# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.
-
-# From Guy Harris:
-# Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
-# additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
-# Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
-# Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses.
-
-###############################################################################
-
-# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule EUAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 1:00 S
-Rule EUAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 1:00u 0 -
-Rule EUAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0 -
-Rule E-EurAsia 1981 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule E-EurAsia 1979 1995 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
-Rule E-EurAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
-Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule RussiaAsia 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule RussiaAsia 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
-Rule RussiaAsia 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
-Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S
-Rule RussiaAsia 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 -
-Rule RussiaAsia 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S
-Rule RussiaAsia 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 -
-Rule RussiaAsia 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 -
-
-# Afghanistan
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Kabul 4:36:48 - LMT 1890
- 4:00 - AFT 1945
- 4:30 - AFT
-
-# Armenia
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# Shanks & Pottenger have Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST)
-# in spring 1991, then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then
-# readopting Russian DST in 1997. Go with Shanks & Pottenger, even
-# when they disagree with others. Edgar Der-Danieliantz
-# reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
-# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
-# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
-# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2
- 3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time
- 4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
- 3:00 1:00 YERST 1991 Sep 23 # independence
- 3:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT 1995 Sep 24 2:00s
- 4:00 - AMT 1997
- 4:00 RussiaAsia AM%sT
-
-# Azerbaijan
-# From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23):
-# According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997
-# Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Azer 1997 max - Mar lastSun 4:00 1:00 S
-Rule Azer 1997 max - Oct lastSun 5:00 0 -
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
- 3:00 - BAKT 1957 Mar # Baku Time
- 4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
- 3:00 1:00 BAKST 1991 Aug 30 # independence
- 3:00 RussiaAsia AZ%sT 1992 Sep lastSat 23:00
- 4:00 - AZT 1996 # Azerbaijan time
- 4:00 EUAsia AZ%sT 1997
- 4:00 Azer AZ%sT
-
-# Bahrain
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Al Manamah
- 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
- 3:00 - AST
-
-# Bangladesh
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Dhaka 6:01:40 - LMT 1890
- 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
- 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
- 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
- 6:30 - BURT 1951 Sep 30
- 6:00 - DACT 1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time
- 6:00 - BDT # Bangladesh Time
-
-# Bhutan
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Thimphu 5:58:36 - LMT 1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu
- 5:30 - IST 1987 Oct
- 6:00 - BTT # Bhutan Time
-
-# British Indian Ocean Territory
-# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the
-# 1997 and later maps say 6:00. Assume the switch occurred in 1996.
-# We have no information as to when standard time was introduced;
-# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which
-# then contained the Chagos Archipelago).
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Indian/Chagos 4:49:40 - LMT 1907
- 5:00 - IOT 1996 # BIOT Time
- 6:00 - IOT
-
-# Brunei
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Brunei 7:39:40 - LMT 1926 Mar # Bandar Seri Begawan
- 7:30 - BNT 1933
- 8:00 - BNT
-
-# Burma / Myanmar
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Rangoon 6:24:40 - LMT 1880 # or Yangon
- 6:24:36 - RMT 1920 # Rangoon Mean Time?
- 6:30 - BURT 1942 May # Burma Time
- 9:00 - JST 1945 May 3
- 6:30 - MMT # Myanmar Time
-
-# Cambodia
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Phnom_Penh 6:59:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
- 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
- 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
- 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
- 7:00 - ICT
-
-# China
-
-# From Guy Harris:
-# People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone.
-
-# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):
-# No they don't. See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 p.52. Even though
-# China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
-# Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China
-# has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
-# the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it.
-#
-# . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
-# painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for
-# DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
-#
-# 1986 May 4 - Sept 14
-# 1987 mid-April - ??
-
-# From U. S. Naval Observatory (1989-01-19):
-# CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
-# CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# Shanks & Pottenger write that China (except for Hong Kong and Macau)
-# has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, observing summer DST
-# from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's
-# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.
-# Go with Shanks & Pottenger for now. I made up names for the other
-# pre-1980 time zones.
-
-# From Shanks & Pottenger:
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Shang 1940 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Shang 1940 1941 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
-Rule Shang 1941 only - Mar 16 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule PRC 1986 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule PRC 1986 1991 - Sep Sun>=11 0:00 0 S
-Rule PRC 1987 1991 - Apr Sun>=10 0:00 1:00 D
-
-# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20):
-# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five
-# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites. And yes, there are official
-# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949).
-#
-# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-07-14):
-# I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the
-# http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county
-# boundaries summarized below].... A few other exceptions were two
-# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border,
-# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are
-# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege
-# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6
-# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two
-# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data.
-
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)
-# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin
-Zone Asia/Harbin 8:26:44 - LMT 1928 # or Haerbin
- 8:30 - CHAT 1932 Mar # Changbai Time
- 8:00 - CST 1940
- 9:00 - CHAT 1966 May
- 8:30 - CHAT 1980 May
- 8:00 PRC C%sT
-# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time")
-# most of China
-Zone Asia/Shanghai 8:05:52 - LMT 1928
- 8:00 Shang C%sT 1949
- 8:00 PRC C%sT
-# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area)
-# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan;
-# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong
-# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing,
-# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu.
-Zone Asia/Chongqing 7:06:20 - LMT 1928 # or Chungking
- 7:00 - LONT 1980 May # Long-shu Time
- 8:00 PRC C%sT
-# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time")
-# The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai;
-# the Guangdong counties Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang,
-# Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi;
-# east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi;
-# east Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe,
-# Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin,
-# Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami,
-# Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan.
-Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # or Urumchi
- 6:00 - URUT 1980 May # Urumqi Time
- 8:00 PRC C%sT
-# Kunlun Time
-# West Tibet, including Pulan, Aheqi, Shufu, Shule;
-# West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke,
-# Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding,
-# and Yarkand.
-Zone Asia/Kashgar 5:03:56 - LMT 1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar
- 5:30 - KAST 1940 # Kashgar Time
- 5:00 - KAST 1980 May
- 8:00 PRC C%sT
-
-# Hong Kong (Xianggang)
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule HK 1946 only - Apr 20 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule HK 1946 only - Dec 1 3:30 0 -
-Rule HK 1947 only - Apr 13 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule HK 1947 only - Dec 30 3:30 0 -
-Rule HK 1948 only - May 2 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule HK 1948 1952 - Oct lastSun 3:30 0 -
-Rule HK 1949 1953 - Apr Sun>=1 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule HK 1953 only - Nov 1 3:30 0 -
-Rule HK 1954 1964 - Mar Sun>=18 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule HK 1954 only - Oct 31 3:30 0 -
-Rule HK 1955 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
-Rule HK 1965 1977 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule HK 1965 1977 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
-Rule HK 1979 1980 - May Sun>=8 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule HK 1979 1980 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:36 - LMT 1904 Oct 30
- 8:00 HK HK%sT
-
-
-###############################################################################
-
-# Taiwan
-
-# Shanks & Pottenger write that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it
-# was still controlled by Japan. This is hard to believe, but we don't
-# have any other information.
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Taiwan 1945 1951 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
-Rule Taiwan 1952 only - Mar 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Taiwan 1952 1954 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
-Rule Taiwan 1953 1959 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Taiwan 1955 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
-Rule Taiwan 1960 1961 - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Taiwan 1974 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
-Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Jun 30 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Taiwan 1980 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Taipei 8:06:00 - LMT 1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei
- 8:00 Taiwan C%sT
-
-# Macau (Macao, Aomen)
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Macau 1961 1962 - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule Macau 1961 1964 - Nov Sun>=1 3:30 0 -
-Rule Macau 1963 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Macau 1964 only - Mar Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule Macau 1965 only - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Macau 1965 only - Oct 31 0:00 0 -
-Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule Macau 1966 1971 - Oct Sun>=16 3:30 0 -
-Rule Macau 1972 1974 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Macau 1972 1973 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
-Rule Macau 1974 1977 - Oct Sun>=15 3:30 0 -
-Rule Macau 1975 1977 - Apr Sun>=15 3:30 1:00 S
-Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Apr Sun>=15 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Macau 1978 1980 - Oct Sun>=15 0:00 0 -
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Macau 7:34:20 - LMT 1912
- 8:00 Macau MO%sT 1999 Dec 20 # return to China
- 8:00 PRC C%sT
-
-
-###############################################################################
-
-# Cyprus
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Apr 13 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Cyprus 1975 only - Oct 12 0:00 0 -
-Rule Cyprus 1976 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Cyprus 1976 only - Oct 11 0:00 0 -
-Rule Cyprus 1977 1980 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Cyprus 1977 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
-Rule Cyprus 1978 only - Oct 2 0:00 0 -
-Rule Cyprus 1979 1997 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
-Rule Cyprus 1981 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Nicosia 2:13:28 - LMT 1921 Nov 14
- 2:00 Cyprus EE%sT 1998 Sep
- 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT
-# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time.
-
-# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.
-# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.
-Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia
-
-# Georgia
-# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19):
-# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward
-# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,
-# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!
-# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.
-#
-# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):
-# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia
-# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,
-# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.
-#
-# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27):
-#
-# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday... The former Soviet
-# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow. As a result it
-# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours
-# ahead. The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia,
-# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process
-# of integration into Europe.
-
-# From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07):
-# Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on
-# [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years.
-# Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT
-# +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document
-# about it. As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document,
-# because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time....
-# I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our
-# DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month.
-
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Tbilisi 2:59:16 - LMT 1880
- 2:59:16 - TBMT 1924 May 2 # Tbilisi Mean Time
- 3:00 - TBIT 1957 Mar # Tbilisi Time
- 4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
- 3:00 1:00 TBIST 1991 Apr 9 # independence
- 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 1992 # Georgia Time
- 3:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1994 Sep lastSun
- 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 1996 Oct lastSun
- 4:00 1:00 GEST 1997 Mar lastSun
- 4:00 E-EurAsia GE%sT 2004 Jun 27
- 3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT 2005 Mar lastSun 2:00
- 4:00 - GET
-
-# East Timor
-
-# See Indonesia for the 1945 transition.
-
-# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in
-# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">
-# East Timor may be late for its millennium
-# </a> (1999-12-26/31):
-# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun
-# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the
-# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it
-# conflicts with their way of life.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
-# We don't have any record of the above attempt.
-# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data.
-
-# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html">
-# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General
-# (2000-08-16)</a>:
-# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided
-# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change,
-# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at
-# midnight on Saturday, September 16.
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Dili 8:22:20 - LMT 1912
- 8:00 - TLT 1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
- 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23
- 9:00 - TLT 1976 May 3
- 8:00 - CIT 2000 Sep 17 00:00
- 9:00 - TLT
-
-# India
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Kolkata 5:53:28 - LMT 1880 # Kolkata
- 5:53:20 - HMT 1941 Oct # Howrah Mean Time?
- 6:30 - BURT 1942 May 15 # Burma Time
- 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
- 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
- 5:30 - IST
-# The following are like Asia/Kolkata:
-# Andaman Is
-# Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)
-# Nicobar Is
-
-# Indonesia
-#
-# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks & Pottenger:
-# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime>
-# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01. Looking at some
-# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat
-# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7.
-#
-# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-10):
-# Here is another correction to Shanks & Pottenger.
-# JohnTWB writes that Japanese forces did not surrender control in
-# Indonesia until 1945-09-01 00:00 at the earliest (in Jakarta) and
-# other formal surrender ceremonies were September 9, 11, and 13, plus
-# September 12 for the regional surrender to Mountbatten in Singapore.
-# These would be the earliest possible times for a change.
-# Regimes horaires pour le monde entier, by Henri Le Corre, (Editions
-# Traditionnelles, 1987, Paris) says that Java and Madura switched
-# from JST to UTC+07:30 on 1945-09-23, and gives 1944-09-01 for Jayapura
-# (Hollandia). For now, assume all Indonesian locations other than Jayapura
-# switched on 1945-09-23.
-#
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Jakarta 7:07:12 - LMT 1867 Aug 10
-# Shanks & Pottenger say the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13,
-# but this must be a typo.
- 7:07:12 - JMT 1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta
- 7:20 - JAVT 1932 Nov # Java Time
- 7:30 - WIT 1942 Mar 23
- 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23
- 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
- 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
- 7:30 - WIT 1964
- 7:00 - WIT
-Zone Asia/Pontianak 7:17:20 - LMT 1908 May
- 7:17:20 - PMT 1932 Nov # Pontianak MT
- 7:30 - WIT 1942 Jan 29
- 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23
- 7:30 - WIT 1948 May
- 8:00 - WIT 1950 May
- 7:30 - WIT 1964
- 8:00 - CIT 1988 Jan 1
- 7:00 - WIT
-Zone Asia/Makassar 7:57:36 - LMT 1920
- 7:57:36 - MMT 1932 Nov # Macassar MT
- 8:00 - CIT 1942 Feb 9
- 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23
- 8:00 - CIT
-Zone Asia/Jayapura 9:22:48 - LMT 1932 Nov
- 9:00 - EIT 1944 Sep 1
- 9:30 - CST 1964
- 9:00 - EIT
-
-# Iran
-
-# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15):
-# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian).
-# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine:
-#
-# Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16]
-# No. 16760/T233 H 1370/6/10 [1991-09-01]
-#
-# The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country
-#
-# The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14],
-# based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13]
-# of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs,
-# and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers
-# and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and
-# for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that:
-#
-# The official time of the country will should move forward one hour
-# at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return
-# to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of
-# Shahrivar.
-#
-# First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi
-#
-# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed
-# for at least the last 5 years. Before that, for a few years, the
-# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last
-# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates....
-# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct
-# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time.
-#
-# From Roozbeh Pournader (2005-04-05):
-# The text of the Iranian law, in effect since 1925, clearly mentions
-# that the true solar year is the measure, and there is no arithmetic
-# leap year calculation involved. There has never been any serious
-# plan to change that law....
-#
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# Go with Shanks & Pottenger before Sept. 1991, and with Pournader thereafter.
-# I used Ed Reingold's cal-persia in GNU Emacs 21.2 to check Persian dates,
-# stopping after 2037 when 32-bit time_t's overflow.
-# That cal-persia used Birashk's approximation, which disagrees with the solar
-# calendar predictions for the year 2025, so I corrected those dates by hand.
-#
-# From Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-03-30), writing about future
-# discrepancies between cal-persia and the Iranian calendar:
-# For 2091 solar-longitude-after yields 2091-03-20 08:40:07.7 UT for
-# the vernal equinox and that gets so close to 12:00 some local
-# Iranian time that the definition of the correct location needs to be
-# known exactly, amongst other factors. 2157 is even closer:
-# 2157-03-20 08:37:15.5 UT. But the Gregorian year 2025 should give
-# no interpretation problem whatsoever. By the way, another instant
-# in the near future where there will be a discrepancy between
-# arithmetical and astronomical Iranian calendars will be in 2058:
-# vernal equinox on 2058-03-20 09:03:05.9 UT. The Java version of
-# Reingold's/Dershowitz' calculator gives correctly the Gregorian date
-# 2058-03-21 for 1 Farvardin 1437 (astronomical).
-#
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-03-22):
-# Several of my users have reported that Iran will not observe DST anymore:
-# http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-17/0603193812164948.htm
-#
-# From Reuters (2007-09-16), with a heads-up from Jesper Norgaard Welen:
-# ... the Guardian Council ... approved a law on Sunday to re-introduce
-# daylight saving time ...
-# http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKBLA65048420070916
-#
-# From Roozbeh Pournader (2007-11-05):
-# This is quoted from Official Gazette of the Islamic Republic of
-# Iran, Volume 63, Number 18242, dated Tuesday 1386/6/24
-# [2007-10-16]. I am doing the best translation I can:...
-# The official time of the country will be moved forward for one hour
-# on the 24 hours of the first day of the month of Farvardin and will
-# be changed back to its previous state on the 24 hours of the
-# thirtieth day of Shahrivar.
-#
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Iran 1978 1980 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 1978 only - Oct 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 1979 only - Sep 19 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 1980 only - Sep 23 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 1991 only - May 3 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 1992 1995 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 1991 1995 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 1996 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 1996 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 1997 1999 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2000 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2000 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2001 2003 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2004 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2004 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2005 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2005 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2008 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2009 2011 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2012 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2012 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2013 2015 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2016 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2016 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2017 2019 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2020 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2020 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2021 2023 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2024 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2024 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2025 2027 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2028 2029 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2030 2031 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2032 2033 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2034 2035 - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iran 2036 2037 - Sep 21 0:00 0 S
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Tehran 3:25:44 - LMT 1916
- 3:25:44 - TMT 1946 # Tehran Mean Time
- 3:30 - IRST 1977 Nov
- 4:00 Iran IR%sT 1979
- 3:30 Iran IR%sT
-
-
-# Iraq
-#
-# From Jonathan Lennox (2000-06-12):
-# An article in this week's Economist ("Inside the Saddam-free zone", p. 50 in
-# the U.S. edition) on the Iraqi Kurds contains a paragraph:
-# "The three northern provinces ... switched their clocks this spring and
-# are an hour ahead of Baghdad."
-#
-# But Rives McDow (2000-06-18) quotes a contact in Iraqi-Kurdistan as follows:
-# In the past, some Kurdish nationalists, as a protest to the Iraqi
-# Government, did not adhere to daylight saving time. They referred
-# to daylight saving as Saddam time. But, as of today, the time zone
-# in Iraqi-Kurdistan is on standard time with Baghdad, Iraq.
-#
-# So we'll ignore the Economist's claim.
-
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2008-03-10):
-# The cabinet in Iraq abolished DST last week, according to the following
-# news sources (in Arabic):
-# <a href="http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html">
-# http://www.aljeeran.net/wesima_articles/news-20080305-98602.html
-# </a>
-# <a href="http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10">
-# http://www.aswataliraq.info/look/article.tpl?id=2047&IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=71743&NrIssue=1&NrSection=10
-# </a>
-#
-# We have published a short article in English about the change:
-# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html">
-# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/iraq-dumps-daylight-saving.html
-# </a>
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Iraq 1982 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iraq 1982 1984 - Oct 1 0:00 0 S
-Rule Iraq 1983 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iraq 1984 1985 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Iraq 1985 1990 - Sep lastSun 1:00s 0 S
-Rule Iraq 1986 1990 - Mar lastSun 1:00s 1:00 D
-# IATA SSIM (1991/1996) says Apr 1 12:01am UTC; guess the `:01' is a typo.
-# Shanks & Pottenger say Iraq did not observe DST 1992/1997; ignore this.
-#
-Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Apr 1 3:00s 1:00 D
-Rule Iraq 1991 2007 - Oct 1 3:00s 0 S
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Baghdad 2:57:40 - LMT 1890
- 2:57:36 - BMT 1918 # Baghdad Mean Time?
- 3:00 - AST 1982 May
- 3:00 Iraq A%sT
-
-
-###############################################################################
-
-# Israel
-
-# From Ephraim Silverberg (2001-01-11):
-#
-# I coined "IST/IDT" circa 1988. Until then there were three
-# different abbreviations in use:
-#
-# JST Jerusalem Standard Time [Danny Braniss, Hebrew University]
-# IZT Israel Zonal (sic) Time [Prof. Haim Papo, Technion]
-# EEST Eastern Europe Standard Time [used by almost everyone else]
-#
-# Since timezones should be called by country and not capital cities,
-# I ruled out JST. As Israel is in Asia Minor and not Eastern Europe,
-# EEST was equally unacceptable. Since "zonal" was not compatible with
-# any other timezone abbreviation, I felt that 'IST' was the way to go
-# and, indeed, it has received almost universal acceptance in timezone
-# settings in Israeli computers.
-#
-# In any case, I am happy to share timezone abbreviations with India,
-# high on my favorite-country list (and not only because my wife's
-# family is from India).
-
-# From Shanks & Pottenger:
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Zion 1940 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1942 1944 - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1943 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1944 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1945 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1945 only - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1946 only - Apr 16 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1946 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1948 only - May 23 0:00 2:00 DD
-Rule Zion 1948 only - Sep 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1948 1949 - Nov 1 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1949 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1950 only - Apr 16 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1950 only - Sep 15 3:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1951 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1951 only - Nov 11 3:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1952 only - Apr 20 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1952 only - Oct 19 3:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1953 only - Apr 12 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1953 only - Sep 13 3:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1954 only - Jun 13 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1954 only - Sep 12 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1955 only - Jun 11 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1955 only - Sep 11 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1956 only - Jun 3 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1956 only - Sep 30 3:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1957 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1957 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1974 only - Jul 7 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1974 only - Oct 13 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1975 only - Apr 20 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1975 only - Aug 31 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1985 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1985 only - Sep 15 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1986 only - May 18 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1986 only - Sep 7 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1987 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1987 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1988 only - Apr 9 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1988 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
-
-# From Ephraim Silverberg
-# (1997-03-04, 1998-03-16, 1998-12-28, 2000-01-17, 2000-07-25, 2004-12-22,
-# and 2005-02-17):
-
-# According to the Office of the Secretary General of the Ministry of
-# Interior, there is NO set rule for Daylight-Savings/Standard time changes.
-# One thing is entrenched in law, however: that there must be at least 150
-# days of daylight savings time annually. From 1993-1998, the change to
-# daylight savings time was on a Friday morning from midnight IST to
-# 1 a.m IDT; up until 1998, the change back to standard time was on a
-# Saturday night from midnight daylight savings time to 11 p.m. standard
-# time. 1996 is an exception to this rule where the change back to standard
-# time took place on Sunday night instead of Saturday night to avoid
-# conflicts with the Jewish New Year. In 1999, the change to
-# daylight savings time was still on a Friday morning but from
-# 2 a.m. IST to 3 a.m. IDT; furthermore, the change back to standard time
-# was also on a Friday morning from 2 a.m. IDT to 1 a.m. IST for
-# 1999 only. In the year 2000, the change to daylight savings time was
-# similar to 1999, but although the change back will be on a Friday, it
-# will take place from 1 a.m. IDT to midnight IST. Starting in 2001, all
-# changes to/from will take place at 1 a.m. old time, but now there is no
-# rule as to what day of the week it will take place in as the start date
-# (except in 2003) is the night after the Passover Seder (i.e. the eve
-# of the 16th of Nisan in the lunar Hebrew calendar) and the end date
-# (except in 2002) is three nights before Yom Kippur [Day of Atonement]
-# (the eve of the 7th of Tishrei in the lunar Hebrew calendar).
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1990 only - Mar 25 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1990 only - Aug 26 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1991 only - Mar 24 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1992 only - Mar 29 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 2 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 5 0:00 0 S
-
-# The dates for 1994-1995 were obtained from Office of the Spokeswoman for the
-# Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem, Israel. The spokeswoman can be reached by
-# calling the office directly at 972-2-6701447 or 972-2-6701448.
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1995 only - Mar 31 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 3 0:00 0 S
-
-# The dates for 1996 were determined by the Minister of Interior of the
-# time, Haim Ramon. The official announcement regarding 1996-1998
-# (with the dates for 1997-1998 no longer being relevant) can be viewed at:
-#
-# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/1996-1998.ramon.ps.gz
-#
-# The dates for 1997-1998 were altered by his successor, Rabbi Eli Suissa.
-#
-# The official announcements for the years 1997-1999 can be viewed at:
-#
-# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/YYYY.ps.gz
-#
-# where YYYY is the relevant year.
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Zion 1996 only - Mar 15 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1997 only - Mar 21 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 14 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1998 only - Mar 20 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 6 0:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 2 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 3 2:00 0 S
-
-# The Knesset Interior Committee has changed the dates for 2000 for
-# the third time in just over a year and have set new dates for the
-# years 2001-2004 as well.
-#
-# The official announcement for the start date of 2000 can be viewed at:
-#
-# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-start.ps.gz
-#
-# The official announcement for the end date of 2000 and the dates
-# for the years 2001-2004 can be viewed at:
-#
-# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2000-2004.ps.gz
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 14 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2000 only - Oct 6 1:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 9 1:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 24 1:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2002 only - Mar 29 1:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2002 only - Oct 7 1:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2003 only - Mar 28 1:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2003 only - Oct 3 1:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 7 1:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 22 1:00 0 S
-
-# The proposed law agreed upon by the Knesset Interior Committee on
-# 2005-02-14 is that, for 2005 and beyond, DST starts at 02:00 the
-# last Friday before April 2nd (i.e. the last Friday in March or April
-# 1st itself if it falls on a Friday) and ends at 02:00 on the Saturday
-# night _before_ the fast of Yom Kippur.
-#
-# Those who can read Hebrew can view the announcement at:
-#
-# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2005-02-22):
-# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program
-# <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (2005-02-20)
-# along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4,
-# to generate the transitions in this list.
-# (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.)
-# The spring transitions below all correspond to the following Rule:
-#
-# Rule Zion 2005 max - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
-#
-# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support
-# "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the
-# springtime transitions explicitly.
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Zion 2005 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2005 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2006 2010 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2006 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2007 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2008 only - Oct 5 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2009 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2010 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2011 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2011 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2012 2015 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2012 only - Sep 23 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2013 only - Sep 8 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2014 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2015 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2016 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2016 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2017 2021 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2017 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2018 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2019 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2020 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2021 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2022 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2022 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2023 2032 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2023 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2024 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2025 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2026 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2027 only - Oct 10 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2028 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2029 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2030 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2031 only - Sep 21 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2032 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2033 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2033 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2034 2037 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Zion 2034 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2035 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2036 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S
-Rule Zion 2037 only - Sep 13 2:00 0 S
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880
- 2:20:40 - JMT 1918 # Jerusalem Mean Time?
- 2:00 Zion I%sT
-
-
-
-###############################################################################
-
-# Japan
-
-# `9:00' and `JST' is from Guy Harris.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (1995-03-06):
-# Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
-# daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued
-# because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.''
-
-# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times
-# <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm>:
-# Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on
-# [1948-05-01].... But lack of prior debate and the execution of
-# daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated
-# deep hatred of the concept.... The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to
-# dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San
-# Francisco Peace Treaty was signed. (A government poll in 1951 showed 53%
-# of the Japanese wanted to scrap daylight-saving time, as opposed to 30% who
-# wanted to keep it.)
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# Shanks & Pottenger write that DST in Japan during those years was as follows:
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S
-Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
-# but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since
-# their audience is astrologers) were US military bases. For now, assume
-# that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what
-# would have been the point of the 1951 poll?
-
-# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09):
-# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical
-# Observatory: E 139 44' 40".90 (9h 18m 58s.727), N 35 39' 16".0.
-# This data is from 'Rika Nenpyou (Chronological Scientific Tables) 1996'
-# edited by National Astronomical Observatory of Japan....
-# JST (Japan Standard Time) has been used since 1888-01-01 00:00 (JST).
-# The law is enacted on 1886-07-07.
-
-# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-16):
-# The ordinance No. 51 (1886) established "standard time" in Japan,
-# which stands for the time on E 135 degree.
-# In the ordinance No. 167 (1895), "standard time" was renamed to "central
-# standard time". And the same ordinance also established "western standard
-# time", which stands for the time on E 120 degree.... But "western standard
-# time" was abolished in the ordinance No. 529 (1937). In the ordinance No.
-# 167, there is no mention regarding for what place western standard time is
-# standard....
-#
-# I wrote "ordinance" above, but I don't know how to translate.
-# In Japanese it's "chokurei", which means ordinance from emperor.
-
-# Shanks & Pottenger claim JST in use since 1896, and that a few
-# places (e.g. Ishigaki) use +0800; go with Suzuki. Guess that all
-# ordinances took effect on Jan 1.
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Tokyo 9:18:59 - LMT 1887 Dec 31 15:00u
- 9:00 - JST 1896
- 9:00 - CJT 1938
- 9:00 Japan J%sT
-# Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
-
-# Jordan
-#
-# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990701/JO9.html">
-# Jordan Week (1999-07-01) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
-# Clocks in Jordan were forwarded one hour on Wednesday at midnight,
-# in accordance with the government's decision to implement summer time
-# all year round.
-#
-# From <a href="http://star.arabia.com/990930/JO9.html">
-# Jordan Week (1999-09-30) </a> via Steffen Thorsen (1999-11-09):
-# Winter time starts today Thursday, 30 September. Clocks will be turned back
-# by one hour. This is the latest government decision and it's final!
-# The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in
-# government's departments from six to seven hours.
-#
-# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22):
-# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com.
-#
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23):
-# For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year
-# about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year.
-#
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-10-01), after a heads-up from Hilal Malawi:
-# http://www.petranews.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Sep/05/4000.htm
-# "Jordan will switch to winter time on Friday, October 27".
-#
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1974 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1976 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1977 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1985 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1985 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1986 1988 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1986 1990 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1989 only - May 8 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1990 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1991 only - Apr 17 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1991 only - Sep 27 0:00 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1992 only - Apr 10 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1992 1993 - Oct Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1993 1998 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1994 only - Sep Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1995 1998 - Sep Fri>=15 0:00s 0 -
-Rule Jordan 1999 only - Jul 1 0:00s 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 1999 2002 - Sep lastThu 0:00s 0 -
-Rule Jordan 2000 max - Mar lastThu 0:00s 1:00 S
-Rule Jordan 2003 only - Oct 24 0:00s 0 -
-Rule Jordan 2004 only - Oct 15 0:00s 0 -
-Rule Jordan 2005 only - Sep lastFri 0:00s 0 -
-Rule Jordan 2006 max - Oct lastFri 0:00s 0 -
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Amman 2:23:44 - LMT 1931
- 2:00 Jordan EE%sT
-
-
-# Kazakhstan
-
-# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
-# Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
-# stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk)
-# and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones.
-# Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time
-# IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses
-# RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it.
-# Go with Shanks & Pottenger, who have them always using RussiaAsia rules.
-# Also go with the following claims of Shanks & Pottenger:
-#
-# - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991.
-# - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00.
-# - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989.
-
-# <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm">
-# From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21):
-# </a>
-# The Government of Kazakhstan passed a resolution March 15 abolishing
-# daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health
-# complications coupled with a decrease in productivity.
-#
-# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28):
-# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone
-# was "blended" with the Central zone. Therefore, Kazakhstan now has
-# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour. The zone
-# closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the
-# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau,
-# Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan. The other zone encompasses
-# everything else.... I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones
-# de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively.
-
-#
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-#
-# Almaty (formerly Alma-Ata), representing most locations in Kazakhstan
-Zone Asia/Almaty 5:07:48 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Alma-Ata
- 5:00 - ALMT 1930 Jun 21 # Alma-Ata Time
- 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 1991
- 6:00 - ALMT 1992
- 6:00 RussiaAsia ALM%sT 2005 Mar 15
- 6:00 - ALMT
-# Qyzylorda (aka Kyzylorda, Kizilorda, Kzyl-Orda, etc.)
-Zone Asia/Qyzylorda 4:21:52 - LMT 1924 May 2
- 4:00 - KIZT 1930 Jun 21 # Kizilorda Time
- 5:00 - KIZT 1981 Apr 1
- 5:00 1:00 KIZST 1981 Oct 1
- 6:00 - KIZT 1982 Apr 1
- 5:00 RussiaAsia KIZ%sT 1991
- 5:00 - KIZT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
- 5:00 - QYZT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
- 6:00 RussiaAsia QYZ%sT 2005 Mar 15
- 6:00 - QYZT
-# Aqtobe (aka Aktobe, formerly Akt'ubinsk)
-Zone Asia/Aqtobe 3:48:40 - LMT 1924 May 2
- 4:00 - AKTT 1930 Jun 21 # Aktyubinsk Time
- 5:00 - AKTT 1981 Apr 1
- 5:00 1:00 AKTST 1981 Oct 1
- 6:00 - AKTT 1982 Apr 1
- 5:00 RussiaAsia AKT%sT 1991
- 5:00 - AKTT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
- 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Aqtobe Time
- 5:00 - AQTT
-# Mangghystau
-# Aqtau was not founded until 1963, but it represents an inhabited region,
-# so include time stamps before 1963.
-Zone Asia/Aqtau 3:21:04 - LMT 1924 May 2
- 4:00 - FORT 1930 Jun 21 # Fort Shevchenko T
- 5:00 - FORT 1963
- 5:00 - SHET 1981 Oct 1 # Shevchenko Time
- 6:00 - SHET 1982 Apr 1
- 5:00 RussiaAsia SHE%sT 1991
- 5:00 - SHET 1991 Dec 16 # independence
- 5:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time
- 4:00 RussiaAsia AQT%sT 2005 Mar 15
- 5:00 - AQTT
-# West Kazakhstan
-Zone Asia/Oral 3:25:24 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ural'sk
- 4:00 - URAT 1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time
- 5:00 - URAT 1981 Apr 1
- 5:00 1:00 URAST 1981 Oct 1
- 6:00 - URAT 1982 Apr 1
- 5:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1989 Mar 26 2:00
- 4:00 RussiaAsia URA%sT 1991
- 4:00 - URAT 1991 Dec 16 # independence
- 4:00 RussiaAsia ORA%sT 2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time
- 5:00 - ORAT
-
-# Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan)
-# Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks & Pottenger.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15):
-# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway
-# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml>
-# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system. I take the article
-# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC.
-# From Malik Abdugaliev (2005-09-21):
-# Our government cancels daylight saving time 6th of August 2005.
-# From 2005-08-12 our GMT-offset is +6, w/o any daylight saving.
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Apr Sun>=7 0:00s 1:00 S
-Rule Kyrgyz 1992 1996 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
-Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:30 1:00 S
-Rule Kyrgyz 1997 2004 - Oct lastSun 2:30 0 -
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
- 5:00 - FRUT 1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time
- 6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
- 5:00 1:00 FRUST 1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence
- 5:00 Kyrgyz KG%sT 2005 Aug 12 # Kyrgyzstan Time
- 6:00 - KGT
-
-###############################################################################
-
-# Korea (North and South)
-
-# From Annie I. Bang (2006-07-10) in
-# <http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/07/10/200607100012.asp>:
-# The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy has already
-# commissioned a research project [to reintroduce DST] and has said
-# the system may begin as early as 2008.... Korea ran a daylight
-# saving program from 1949-61 but stopped it during the 1950-53 Korean War.
-
-# From Shanks & Pottenger:
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
-Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D
-Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890
- 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
- 9:00 - KST 1928
- 8:30 - KST 1932
- 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
- 8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10
- 8:30 - KST 1968 Oct
- 9:00 ROK K%sT
-Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890
- 8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
- 9:00 - KST 1928
- 8:30 - KST 1932
- 9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
- 8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10
- 9:00 - KST
-
-###############################################################################
-
-# Kuwait
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-# From the Arab Times (2007-03-14):
-# The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has approved a proposal forwarded
-# by MP Ahmad Baqer on implementing the daylight saving time (DST) in
-# Kuwait starting from April until the end of Sept this year, reports Al-Anba.
-# <http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/kuwait/Viewdet.asp?ID=9950>.
-# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29):
-# We don't know the details, or whether the approval means it'll happen,
-# so for now we assume no DST.
-Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950
- 3:00 - AST
-
-# Laos
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Vientiane 6:50:24 - LMT 1906 Jun 9 # or Viangchan
- 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
- 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
- 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
- 7:00 - ICT
-
-# Lebanon
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Mar 28 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1920 only - Oct 25 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1921 only - Oct 3 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1922 only - Oct 8 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1923 only - Sep 16 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1957 1961 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1972 only - Jun 22 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1972 1977 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1973 1977 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1978 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1984 1987 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1984 1991 - Oct 16 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1988 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1989 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1990 1992 - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1992 only - Oct 4 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1993 max - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Lebanon 1993 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
-Rule Lebanon 1999 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0 -
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Beirut 2:22:00 - LMT 1880
- 2:00 Lebanon EE%sT
-
-# Malaysia
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Sep 14 0:00 0:20 TS # one-Third Summer
-Rule NBorneo 1935 1941 - Dec 14 0:00 0 -
-#
-# peninsular Malaysia
-# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
-# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur 6:46:46 - LMT 1901 Jan 1
- 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
- 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time
- 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1
- 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1
- 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16
- 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
- 7:30 - MALT 1982 Jan 1
- 8:00 - MYT # Malaysia Time
-# Sabah & Sarawak
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# The data here are mostly from Shanks & Pottenger, but the 1942, 1945 and 1982
-# transition dates are from Mok Ly Yng.
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Kuching 7:21:20 - LMT 1926 Mar
- 7:30 - BORT 1933 # Borneo Time
- 8:00 NBorneo BOR%sT 1942 Feb 16
- 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
- 8:00 - BORT 1982 Jan 1
- 8:00 - MYT
-
-# Maldives
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
- 4:54:00 - MMT 1960 # Male Mean Time
- 5:00 - MVT # Maldives Time
-
-# Mongolia
-
-# Shanks & Pottenger say that Mongolia has three time zones, but
-# usno1995 and the CIA map Standard Time Zones of the World (2005-03)
-# both say that it has just one.
-
-# From Oscar van Vlijmen (1999-12-11):
-# <a href="http://www.mongoliatourism.gov.mn/general.htm">
-# General Information Mongolia
-# </a> (1999-09)
-# "Time: Mongolia has two time zones. Three westernmost provinces of
-# Bayan-Ulgii, Uvs, and Hovd are one hour earlier than the capital city, and
-# the rest of the country follows the Ulaanbaatar time, which is UTC/GMT plus
-# eight hours."
-
-# From Rives McDow (1999-12-13):
-# Mongolia discontinued the use of daylight savings time in 1999; 1998
-# being the last year it was implemented. The dates of implementation I am
-# unsure of, but most probably it was similar to Russia, except for the time
-# of implementation may have been different....
-# Some maps in the past have indicated that there was an additional time
-# zone in the eastern part of Mongolia, including the provinces of Dornod,
-# Suhbaatar, and possibly Khentij.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (1999-12-15):
-# Naming and spelling is tricky in Mongolia.
-# We'll use Hovd (also spelled Chovd and Khovd) to represent the west zone;
-# the capital of the Hovd province is sometimes called Hovd, sometimes Dund-Us,
-# and sometimes Jirgalanta (with variant spellings), but the name Hovd
-# is good enough for our purposes.
-
-# From Rives McDow (2001-05-13):
-# In addition to Mongolia starting daylight savings as reported earlier
-# (adopted DST on 2001-04-27 02:00 local time, ending 2001-09-28),
-# there are three time zones.
-#
-# Provinces [at 7:00]: Bayan-ulgii, Uvs, Khovd, Zavkhan, Govi-Altai
-# Provinces [at 8:00]: Khovsgol, Bulgan, Arkhangai, Khentii, Tov,
-# Bayankhongor, Ovorkhangai, Dundgovi, Dornogovi, Omnogovi
-# Provinces [at 9:00]: Dornod, Sukhbaatar
-#
-# [The province of Selenge is omitted from the above lists.]
-
-# From Ganbold Ts., Ulaanbaatar (2004-04-17):
-# Daylight saving occurs at 02:00 local time last Saturday of March.
-# It will change back to normal at 02:00 local time last Saturday of
-# September.... As I remember this rule was changed in 2001.
-#
-# From Paul Eggert (2004-04-17):
-# For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs
-# Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26):
-# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones.
-# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says
-# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft
-# Windows XP as the source. Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that
-# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST.
-# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in
-# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed.
-# He also found
-# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&>
-# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius"
-# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones.
-# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT
-# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT.
-# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the
-# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session."
-# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation.
-
-# From Ganbold Ts. (2007-02-26):
-# Parliament of Mongolia has just changed the daylight-saving rule in February.
-# They decided not to adopt daylight-saving time....
-# http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742
-
-# 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 -
-# Shanks & Pottenger and IATA SSIM say 1990s switches occurred at 00:00,
-# but McDow says the 2001 switches occurred at 02:00. Also, IATA SSIM
-# (1996-09) says 1996-10-25. Go with Shanks & Pottenger through 1998.
-#
-# Shanks & Pottenger say that the Sept. 1984 through Sept. 1990 switches
-# in Choibalsan (more precisely, in Dornod and Sukhbaatar) took place
-# at 02:00 standard time, not at 00:00 local time as in the rest of
-# the country. That would be odd, and possibly is a result of their
-# correction of 02:00 (in the previous edition) not being done correctly
-# in the latest edition; so ignore it for now.
-
-Rule Mongol 1985 1998 - Mar lastSun 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
-# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says Mongolia no longer observes DST.
-Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Mongol 2001 2006 - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 -
-Rule Mongol 2002 2006 - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
-Zone Asia/Hovd 6:06:36 - LMT 1905 Aug
- 6:00 - HOVT 1978 # Hovd Time
- 7:00 Mongol HOV%sT
-# Ulaanbaatar, a.k.a. Ulan Bataar, Ulan Bator, Urga
-Zone Asia/Ulaanbaatar 7:07:32 - LMT 1905 Aug
- 7:00 - ULAT 1978 # Ulaanbaatar Time
- 8:00 Mongol ULA%sT
-# Choibalsan, a.k.a. Bajan Tuemen, Bajan Tumen, Chojbalsan,
-# Choybalsan, Sanbejse, Tchoibalsan
-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
-
-# Nepal
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Katmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
- 5:30 - IST 1986
- 5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time
-
-# Oman
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:20 - LMT 1920
- 4:00 - GST
-
-# Pakistan
-
-# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13):
-# I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a
-# TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002
-# and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002. This is what I was
-# told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the
-# 00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2002-03-15):
-# Jesper Norgaard found this URL:
-# http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm
-# (dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to
-# advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first
-# Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on
-# 15th October each year". This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00,
-# but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like
-# it's not on a trial basis. Also, the "between the first Saturday
-# and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the
-# transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2003-02-09):
-# DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05
-# that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight. Go with McDow for now.
-
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14):
-# According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm
-# there will be no DST in Pakistan this year:
-#
-# ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh
-# Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous
-# decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by
-# one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy.
-#
-# The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather
-# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity.
-
-
-# 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 -
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
- 5:30 - IST 1942 Sep
- 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 15
- 5:30 - IST 1951 Sep 30
- 5:00 - KART 1971 Mar 26 # Karachi Time
- 5:00 Pakistan PK%sT # Pakistan Time
-
-# Palestine
-
-# From Amos Shapir (1998-02-15):
-#
-# From 1917 until 1948-05-15, all of Palestine, including the parts now
-# known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, was under British rule.
-# Therefore the rules given for Israel for that period, apply there too...
-#
-# The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian rule between 1948-05-15 until 1967-06-05
-# (except a short occupation by Israel from 1956-11 till 1957-03, but no
-# time zone was affected then). It was never formally annexed to Egypt,
-# though.
-#
-# The rest of Palestine was under Jordanian rule at that time, formally
-# annexed in 1950 as the West Bank (and the word "Trans" was dropped from
-# the country's previous name of "the Hashemite Kingdom of the
-# Trans-Jordan"). So the rules for Jordan for that time apply. Major
-# towns in that area are Nablus (Shchem), El-Halil (Hebron), Ramallah, and
-# East Jerusalem.
-#
-# Both areas were occupied by Israel in June 1967, but not annexed (except
-# for East Jerusalem). They were on Israel time since then; there might
-# have been a Military Governor's order about time zones, but I'm not aware
-# of any (such orders may have been issued semi-annually whenever summer
-# time was in effect, but maybe the legal aspect of time was just neglected).
-#
-# The Palestinian Authority was established in 1993, and got hold of most
-# towns in the West Bank and Gaza by 1995. I know that in order to
-# demonstrate...independence, they have been switching to
-# summer time and back on a different schedule than Israel's, but I don't
-# know when this was started, or what algorithm is used (most likely the
-# Jordanian one).
-#
-# To summarize, the table should probably look something like that:
-#
-# Area \ when | 1918-1947 | 1948-1967 | 1967-1995 | 1996-
-# ------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------
-# Israel | Zion | Zion | Zion | Zion
-# West bank | Zion | Jordan | Zion | Jordan
-# Gaza | Zion | Egypt | Zion | Jordan
-#
-# I guess more info may be available from the PA's web page (if/when they
-# have one).
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# Shanks & Pottenger write that Gaza did not observe DST until 1957, but go
-# with Shapir and assume that it observed DST from 1940 through 1947,
-# and that it used Jordanian rules starting in 1996.
-# We don't yet need a separate entry for the West Bank, since
-# the only differences between it and Gaza that we know about
-# occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
-# However, as we get more information, we may need to add entries
-# for parts of the West Bank as they transitioned from Israel's rules
-# to Palestine's rules. If you have more info about this, please
-# send it to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for incorporation into future editions.
-
-# From IINS News Service - Israel - 1998-03-23 10:38:07 Israel time,
-# forwarded by Ephraim Silverberg:
-#
-# Despite the fact that Israel changed over to daylight savings time
-# last week, the PLO Authority (PA) has decided not to turn its clocks
-# one-hour forward at this time. As a sign of independence from Israeli rule,
-# the PA has decided to implement DST in April.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-20):
-# Daoud Kuttab writes in
-# <a href="http://www.jpost.com/com/Archive/22.Apr.1999/Opinion/Article-2.html">
-# Holiday havoc
-# </a> (Jerusalem Post, 1999-04-22) that
-# the Palestinian National Authority changed to DST on 1999-04-15.
-# I vaguely recall that they switch back in October (sorry, forgot the source).
-# For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
-# and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22):
-# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com.
-
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23):
-# A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of
-# the Ramadan. Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think
-# there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks
-# earlier--the same goes for Jordan.
-
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-08-17):
-# I was informed by a user in Bethlehem that in Bethlehem it started the
-# same day as Israel, and after checking with other users in the area, I
-# was informed that they started DST one day after Israel. I was not
-# able to find any authoritative sources at the time, nor details if
-# Gaza changed as well, but presumed Gaza to follow the same rules as
-# the West Bank.
-
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2006-09-26):
-# according to the Palestine News Network (2006-09-19):
-# http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=596&Itemid=5
-# > The Council of Ministers announced that this year its winter schedule
-# > will begin early, as of midnight Thursday. It is also time to turn
-# > back the clocks for winter. Friday will begin an hour late this week.
-# I guess it is likely that next year's date will be moved as well,
-# because of the Ramadan.
-
-# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2007-09-18):
-# According to Steffen Thorsen's web site the Gaza Strip and the rest of the
-# Palestinian territories left DST early on 13.th. of September at 2:00.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2007-09-20):
-# My understanding is that Gaza and the West Bank disagree even over when
-# the weekend is (Thursday+Friday versus Friday+Saturday), so I'd be a bit
-# surprised if they agreed about DST. But for now, assume they agree.
-# For lack of better information, predict that future changes will be
-# the 2nd Thursday of September at 02:00.
-
-# 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
-Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule EgyptAsia 1958 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1967 - May 1 1:00 1:00 S
-Rule EgyptAsia 1959 1965 - Sep 30 3:00 0 -
-Rule EgyptAsia 1966 only - Oct 1 3:00 0 -
-
-Rule Palestine 1999 2005 - Apr Fri>=15 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Palestine 1999 2003 - Oct Fri>=15 0:00 0 -
-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 -
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
- 2:00 Zion EET 1948 May 15
- 2:00 EgyptAsia EE%sT 1967 Jun 5
- 2:00 Zion I%sT 1996
- 2:00 Jordan EE%sT 1999
- 2:00 Palestine EE%sT
-
-# Paracel Is
-# no information
-
-# Philippines
-# On 1844-08-16, Narciso Claveria, governor-general of the
-# Philippines, issued a proclamation announcing that 1844-12-30 was to
-# be immediately followed by 1845-01-01. Robert H. van Gent has a
-# transcript of the decree in <http://www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/idl/idl.htm>.
-# The rest of the data are from Shanks & Pottenger.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25):
-# Tomorrow's Manila Standard reports that the Philippines Department of
-# Trade and Industry is considering adopting DST this June when the
-# rainy season begins. See
-# <http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=politics02_april26_2006>.
-# For now, we'll ignore this, since it's not definite and we lack details.
-#
-# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-26):
-# ... claims that Philippines had DST last time in 1990:
-# http://story.philippinetimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/145be20cc6b121c0/cid/3e5bbccc730d258c/
-# [a story dated 2006-04-25 by Cris Larano of Dow Jones Newswires,
-# but no details]
-
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Phil 1936 only - Nov 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Phil 1937 only - Feb 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Phil 1954 only - Apr 12 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Phil 1954 only - Jul 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Phil 1978 only - Mar 22 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Phil 1978 only - Sep 21 0:00 0 -
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
- 8:04:00 - LMT 1899 May 11
- 8:00 Phil PH%sT 1942 May
- 9:00 - JST 1944 Nov
- 8:00 Phil PH%sT
-
-# Qatar
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha
- 4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
- 3:00 - AST
-
-# Saudi Arabia
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1950
- 3:00 - AST
-
-# Singapore
-# The data here are taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
-# <http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html>.
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Singapore 6:55:25 - LMT 1901 Jan 1
- 6:55:25 - SMT 1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.
- 7:00 - MALT 1933 Jan 1 # Malaya Time
- 7:00 0:20 MALST 1936 Jan 1
- 7:20 - MALT 1941 Sep 1
- 7:30 - MALT 1942 Feb 16
- 9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 12
- 7:30 - MALT 1965 Aug 9 # independence
- 7:30 - SGT 1982 Jan 1 # Singapore Time
- 8:00 - SGT
-
-# Spratly Is
-# no information
-
-# Sri Lanka
-# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
-# "Sri Lanka advances clock by an hour to avoid blackout"
-# (www.virtual-pc.com/lankaweb/news/items/240596-2.html, 1996-05-24,
-# no longer available as of 1999-08-17)
-# reported ``the country's standard time will be put forward by one hour at
-# midnight Friday (1830 GMT) `in the light of the present power crisis'.''
-#
-# From Dharmasiri Senanayake, Sri Lanka Media Minister (1996-10-24), as quoted
-# by Shamindra in
-# <a href="news:54rka5$m5h@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net">
-# Daily News - Hot News Section (1996-10-26)
-# </a>:
-# With effect from 12.30 a.m. on 26th October 1996
-# Sri Lanka will be six (06) hours ahead of GMT.
-
-# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-04-14), quoting Sri Lanka News Online
-# <http://news.sinhalaya.com/wmview.php?ArtID=11002> (2006-04-13):
-# 0030 hrs on April 15, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006 +30 minutes)
-# at present, become 2400 hours of April 14, 2006 (midnight of April 14, 2006).
-
-# From Peter Apps and Ranga Sirila of Reuters (2006-04-12) in:
-# <http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-04-12T172228Z_01_COL295762_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SRILANKA-TIME-DC.XML>
-# [The Tamil Tigers] never accepted the original 1996 time change and simply
-# kept their clocks set five and a half hours ahead of Greenwich Mean
-# Time (GMT), in line with neighbor India.
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-18):
-# People who live in regions under Tamil control can use [TZ='Asia/Kolkata'],
-# as that zone has agreed with the Tamil areas since our cutoff date of 1970.
-
-# From K Sethu (2006-04-25):
-# I think the abbreviation LKT originated from the world of computers at
-# the time of or subsequent to the time zone changes by SL Government
-# twice in 1996 and probably SL Government or its standardization
-# agencies never declared an abbreviation as a national standard.
-#
-# I recollect before the recent change the government annoucemments
-# mentioning it as simply changing Sri Lanka Standard Time or Sri Lanka
-# Time and no mention was made about the abbreviation.
-#
-# If we look at Sri Lanka Department of Government's "Official News
-# Website of Sri Lanka" ... http://www.news.lk/ we can see that they
-# use SLT as abbreviation in time stamp at the beginning of each news
-# item....
-#
-# Within Sri Lanka I think LKT is well known among computer users and
-# adminsitrators. In my opinion SLT may not be a good choice because the
-# nation's largest telcom / internet operator Sri Lanka Telcom is well
-# known by that abbreviation - simply as SLT (there IP domains are
-# slt.lk and sltnet.lk).
-#
-# But if indeed our government has adopted SLT as standard abbreviation
-# (that we have not known so far) then it is better that it be used for
-# all computers.
-
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-04-25):
-# One possibility is that we wait for a bit for the dust to settle down
-# and then see what people actually say in practice.
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Colombo 5:19:24 - LMT 1880
- 5:19:32 - MMT 1906 # Moratuwa Mean Time
- 5:30 - IST 1942 Jan 5
- 5:30 0:30 IHST 1942 Sep
- 5:30 1:00 IST 1945 Oct 16 2:00
- 5:30 - IST 1996 May 25 0:00
- 6:30 - LKT 1996 Oct 26 0:30
- 6:00 - LKT 2006 Apr 15 0:30
- 5:30 - IST
-
-# Syria
-# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Apr Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1920 1923 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1962 only - Apr 29 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1962 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1963 1965 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1963 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1964 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1965 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1966 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1966 1976 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1967 1978 - May 1 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1977 1978 - Sep 1 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Apr 9 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1983 1984 - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1986 only - Feb 16 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1986 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1987 only - Mar 1 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1987 1988 - Oct 31 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1988 only - Mar 15 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1989 only - Mar 31 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1989 only - Oct 1 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1990 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1990 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1991 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1991 1992 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1992 only - Apr 8 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1993 only - Mar 26 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1993 only - Sep 25 0:00 0 -
-# IATA SSIM (1998-02) says 1998-04-02;
-# (1998-09) says 1999-03-29 and 1999-09-29; (1999-02) says 1999-04-02,
-# 2000-04-02, and 2001-04-02; (1999-09) says 2000-03-31 and 2001-03-31;
-# (2006) says 2006-03-31 and 2006-09-22;
-# for now ignore all these claims and go with Shanks & Pottenger,
-# except for the 2006-09-22 claim (which seems right for Ramadan).
-Rule Syria 1994 1996 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1994 2005 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-Rule Syria 1997 1998 - Mar lastMon 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 1999 2006 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
-# From Stephen Colebourne (2006-09-18):
-# According to IATA data, Syria will change DST on 21st September [21:00 UTC]
-# this year [only].... This is probably related to Ramadan, like Egypt.
-Rule Syria 2006 only - Sep 22 0:00 0 -
-# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29):
-# Today the AP reported "Syria will switch to summertime at midnight Thursday."
-# http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Time-Change.php
-Rule Syria 2007 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S
-# From Jesper Norgard (2007-10-27):
-# The sister center ICARDA of my work CIMMYT is confirming that Syria DST will
-# not take place 1.st November at 0:00 o'clock but 1.st November at 24:00 or
-# rather Midnight between Thursday and Friday. This does make more sence than
-# having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the
-# weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now
-# it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend...
-#
-# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-27):
-# Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote:
-#
-# > "Winter local time in Syria will be observed at midnight of Thursday 1
-# > November 2007, and the clock will be put back 1 hour."
-#
-# I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic):
-# http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_print_veiw.asp?FileName=12521710520070926111247
-#
-# which using Google's translate tools says:
-# Council of Ministers also approved the commencement of work on
-# identifying the winter time as of Friday, 2/11/2007 where the 60th
-# minute delay at midnight Thursday 1/11/2007.
-Rule Syria 2007 only - Nov Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
-
-# From Stephen Colebourne (2008-03-17):
-# For everyone's info, I saw an IATA time zone change for [Syria] for
-# this month (March 2008) in the last day or so...This is the data IATA
-# are now using:
-# Country Time Standard --- DST Start --- --- DST End --- DST
-# Name Zone Variation Time Date Time Date
-# Variation
-# Syrian Arab
-# Republic SY +0200 2200 03APR08 2100 30SEP08 +0300
-# 2200 02APR09 2100 30SEP09 +0300
-# 2200 01APR10 2100 30SEP10 +0300
-
-# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-17):
-# Here's a link to English-language coverage by the Syrian Arab News
-# Agency (SANA)...
-# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm">
-# http://www.sana.sy/eng/21/2008/03/11/165173.htm
-# </a>...which reads (in part) "The Cabinet approved the suggestion of the
-# Ministry of Electricity to begin daylight savings time on Friday April
-# 4th, advancing clocks one hour ahead on midnight of Thursday April 3rd."
-# Since Syria is two hours east of UTC, the 2200 and 2100 transition times
-# shown above match up with midnight in Syria.
-
-# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18):
-# My buest guess at a Syrian rule is "the Friday nearest April 1";
-# coding that involves either using a "Mar Fri>=29" construct that old time zone
-# compilers can't handle or having multiple Rules (a la Israel).
-# For now, use "Apr Fri>=1", and go with IATA on a uniform Sep 30 end.
-
-Rule Syria 2008 max - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
-Rule Syria 2008 max - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
-
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Damascus 2:25:12 - LMT 1920 # Dimashq
- 2:00 Syria EE%sT
-
-# Tajikistan
-# From Shanks & Pottenger.
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Dushanbe 4:35:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
- 5:00 - DUST 1930 Jun 21 # Dushanbe Time
- 6:00 RussiaAsia DUS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
- 5:00 1:00 DUSST 1991 Sep 9 2:00s
- 5:00 - TJT # Tajikistan Time
-
-# Thailand
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Bangkok 6:42:04 - LMT 1880
- 6:42:04 - BMT 1920 Apr # Bangkok Mean Time
- 7:00 - ICT
-
-# Turkmenistan
-# From Shanks & Pottenger.
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashkhabad
- 4:00 - ASHT 1930 Jun 21 # Ashkhabad Time
- 5:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00
- 4:00 RussiaAsia ASH%sT 1991 Oct 27 # independence
- 4:00 RussiaAsia TM%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00
- 5:00 - TMT
-
-# United Arab Emirates
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920
- 4:00 - GST
-
-# Uzbekistan
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Samarkand 4:27:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
- 4:00 - SAMT 1930 Jun 21 # Samarkand Time
- 5:00 - SAMT 1981 Apr 1
- 5:00 1:00 SAMST 1981 Oct 1
- 6:00 - TAST 1982 Apr 1 # Tashkent Time
- 5:00 RussiaAsia SAM%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
- 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
- 5:00 - UZT
-Zone Asia/Tashkent 4:37:12 - LMT 1924 May 2
- 5:00 - TAST 1930 Jun 21 # Tashkent Time
- 6:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Mar 31 2:00
- 5:00 RussiaAsia TAS%sT 1991 Sep 1 # independence
- 5:00 RussiaAsia UZ%sT 1992
- 5:00 - UZT
-
-# Vietnam
-
-# From Arthur David Olson (2008-03-18):
-# The English-language name of Vietnam's most populous city is "Ho Chi Min City";
-# we use Ho_Chi_Minh below to avoid a name of more than 14 characters.
-
-# From Shanks & Pottenger:
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jun 9
- 7:06:20 - SMT 1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?
- 7:00 - ICT 1912 May
- 8:00 - ICT 1931 May
- 7:00 - ICT
-
-# Yemen
-# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Asia/Aden 3:00:48 - LMT 1950
- 3:00 - AST