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