1 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2 # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4 # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): 5 # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see 6 # COMNAP - Stations and Bases 7 # http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/ 8 # and 9 # Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) 10 # http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm 11 # for information. 12 # Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. 13 14 # FORMAT is '-00' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. 15 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 25 # Australia - territories 26 # Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 27 # previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered 28 # Margaret Turner reports 29 # https://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html 30 # (1999-09-30) that they're UT +05, with no DST; 31 # presumably this is when they have visitors. 32 # 33 # year-round bases 34 # Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 35 # Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 36 # (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) 37 # Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 38 39 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): 40 # Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: 41 # Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 42 # Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 43 # Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 44 # The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). 45 # 46 # Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) 47 # http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 48 # 49 # We have more background information here: 50 # https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html 51 52 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 53 # We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ... 54 # 55 # - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. 56 # The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but 57 # has not been decided yet. 58 # 59 # - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 60 # 20:00 UTC. 61 # 62 # - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. 63 # 64 # Background: 65 # https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html 66 67 # From Steffen Thorsen (2016-10-28): 68 # Australian Antarctica Division informed us that Casey changed time 69 # zone to UTC+11 in "the morning of 22nd October 2016". 70 71 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 72 Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - -00 1969 73 8:00 - +08 2009 Oct 18 2:00 74 11:00 - +11 2010 Mar 5 2:00 75 8:00 - +08 2011 Oct 28 2:00 76 11:00 - +11 2012 Feb 21 17:00u 77 8:00 - +08 2016 Oct 22 78 11:00 - +11 2018 Mar 11 4:00 79 8:00 - +08 80 Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - -00 1957 Jan 13 81 7:00 - +07 1964 Nov 82 0 - -00 1969 Feb 83 7:00 - +07 2009 Oct 18 2:00 84 5:00 - +05 2010 Mar 10 20:00u 85 7:00 - +07 2011 Oct 28 2:00 86 5:00 - +05 2012 Feb 21 20:00u 87 7:00 - +07 88 Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - -00 1954 Feb 13 89 6:00 - +06 2009 Oct 18 2:00 90 5:00 - +05 91 # References: 92 # Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 93 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html 94 # Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 95 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html 96 # Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 97 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html 98 99 # Belgium - year-round base 100 # Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 101 102 # Brazil - year-round base 103 # Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 104 105 # Bulgaria - year-round base 106 # St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988 107 108 # Chile - year-round bases and towns 109 # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 110 # Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 111 # O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 112 # Prat, -6230-05941 113 # Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 114 # These locations employ Region of Magallanes time; use 115 # TZ='America/Punta_Arenas'. 116 117 # China - year-round bases 118 # Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 119 # Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 120 121 # France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy") 122 # 123 # From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): 124 # Time data entries are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP 125 # (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). 126 # She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adélie bases 127 # don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adélie supplies came 128 # from Tasmania. 129 # 130 # French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 131 # 132 # Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964; 133 # sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+; 134 # see Indian/Reunion. 135 # 136 # Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 137 # Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; 138 # whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 139 # 140 # St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited 141 # fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 142 # 143 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 144 Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - -00 1950 # Port-aux-Français 145 5:00 - +05 146 # 147 # year-round base in the main continent 148 # Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 149 # <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) 150 # 151 # Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 152 # It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 153 # 154 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 155 Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - -00 1947 156 10:00 - +10 1952 Jan 14 157 0 - -00 1956 Nov 158 10:00 - +10 159 160 # France & Italy - year-round base 161 # Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005 162 163 # Germany - year-round base 164 # Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009 165 166 # India - year-round bases 167 # Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012 168 # Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989 169 170 # Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy") 171 # Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986 172 173 # Japan - year-round bases 174 # Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957 175 # 176 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 177 # In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 178 # 179 # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 180 # was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 181 # station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 182 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 183 Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - -00 1957 Jan 29 184 3:00 - +03 185 # See: 186 # NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 187 # http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html 188 189 # S Korea - year-round base 190 # Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 191 # King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 192 193 # New Zealand - claims 194 # Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 195 # Scott Island (never inhabited) 196 # 197 # year-round base 198 # Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 199 # See Pacific/Auckland. 200 201 # Norway - territories 202 # Bouvet (never inhabited) 203 # 204 # claims 205 # Peter I Island (never inhabited) 206 # 207 # year-round base 208 # Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 209 # 210 # From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): 211 # I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. 212 # In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: 213 # GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March 214 # GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October 215 # GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 216 # GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 217 # The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely 218 # correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. 219 # 220 # From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): 221 # The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tz 2014b or later, so as 222 # suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate 223 # with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. 224 # 225 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 226 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 +01 227 Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 +02 228 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 +01 229 #Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 +00 230 # Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. 231 Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 +00 232 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 233 Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - -00 2005 Feb 12 234 0:00 Troll %s 235 236 # Poland - year-round base 237 # Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 238 239 # Romania - year-bound base 240 # Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 241 242 # Russia - year-round bases 243 # Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 244 # Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 245 # Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, 246 # year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 247 # Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, 248 # year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 249 250 # Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 251 # From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): 252 # http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP 253 # Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 254 # time as Moscow, Russia. 255 # 256 # From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 257 # I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 258 # what they had to say about time there: 259 # "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) 260 # time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 261 # 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 262 # of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The 263 # natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." 264 # 265 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 266 # This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 267 # in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local 268 # time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 269 # changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 270 # solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 271 # happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time 272 # it is at Vostok. But we'll guess +06. 273 # 274 Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - -00 1957 Dec 16 275 6:00 - +06 276 277 # S Africa - year-round bases 278 # Marion Island, -4653+03752 279 # SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997 280 281 # Ukraine - year-round base 282 # Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954 283 284 # United Kingdom 285 # 286 # British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 287 # South Orkney Islands 288 # scientific station from 1903 289 # whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 290 # South Shetland Islands 291 # 292 # year-round bases 293 # Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 294 # Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, 295 # scientific station 1943/1967, 296 # previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, 297 # and a garrison was deployed briefly 298 # Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 299 # Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated 300 # so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. 301 # Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 302 # 303 # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) 304 # <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. 305 # 306 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 307 Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - -00 1976 Dec 1 308 -3:00 - -03 309 310 # Uruguay - year round base 311 # Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 312 313 # USA - year-round bases 314 # 315 # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) 316 # See 'southamerica' for Antarctica/Palmer, since it uses South American DST. 317 # 318 # McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 319 # Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 320 # 321 # From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 322 # Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 323 # stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 324 # but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 325 # as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 326 # which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 327 # at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.) 328 # 329 # From Susan Smith 330 # http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 331 # (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 332 # We use the same time as McMurdo does. 333 # And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 334 # One last quirk about South Pole time. 335 # All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 336 # Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 337 # makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 338 # we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 339 # Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 340 # 341 # See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo.