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 # Except for the French entries, 15 # I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! 16 # FORMAT is 'zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. 17 18 # Argentina - year-round bases 19 # Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 20 # Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 21 # Esperanza, Hope Bay, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 22 # Marambio, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 23 # Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 24 # San Martín, Barry I, -6808-06706, since 1951-03-21 25 # (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) 26 27 # Australia - territories 28 # Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 29 # previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered 30 # Margaret Turner reports 31 # http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html 32 # (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST; 33 # presumably this is when they have visitors. 34 # 35 # year-round bases 36 # Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 37 # Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 38 # (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) 39 # Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 40 41 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): 42 # Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: 43 # Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 44 # Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 45 # Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 46 # The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). 47 # 48 # Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) 49 # http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 50 # 51 # We have more background information here: 52 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html 53 54 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 55 # We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ... 56 # 57 # - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. 58 # The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but 59 # has not been decided yet. 60 # 61 # - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 62 # 20:00 UTC. 63 # 64 # - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. 65 # 66 # Background: 67 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html 68 69 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 70 Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - zzz 1969 71 8:00 - AWST 2009 Oct 18 2:00 72 # Australian Western Std Time 73 11:00 - CAST 2010 Mar 5 2:00 # Casey Time 74 8:00 - AWST 2011 Oct 28 2:00 75 11:00 - CAST 2012 Feb 21 17:00u 76 8:00 - AWST 77 Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 13 78 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time 79 0 - zzz 1969 Feb 80 7:00 - DAVT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 81 5:00 - DAVT 2010 Mar 10 20:00u 82 7:00 - DAVT 2011 Oct 28 2:00 83 5:00 - DAVT 2012 Feb 21 20:00u 84 7:00 - DAVT 85 Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 86 6:00 - MAWT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 # Mawson Time 87 5:00 - MAWT 88 # References: 89 # Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 90 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html 91 # Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 92 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html 93 # Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 94 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html 95 96 # Belgium - year-round base 97 # Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 98 99 # Brazil - year-round base 100 # Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 101 102 # Bulgaria - year-round base 103 # St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988 104 105 # Chile - year-round bases and towns 106 # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 107 # Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 108 # O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 109 # Prat, -6230-05941 110 # Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 111 # These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. 112 113 # China - year-round bases 114 # Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 115 # Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 116 117 # France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy") 118 # 119 # From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): 120 # Time data entries are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP 121 # (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). 122 # She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adélie bases 123 # don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adélie supplies came 124 # from Tasmania. 125 # 126 # French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 127 # 128 # Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964; 129 # sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+; 130 # see Indian/Reunion. 131 # 132 # Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 133 # Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; 134 # whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 135 # 136 # St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited 137 # fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 138 # 139 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 140 Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - zzz 1950 # Port-aux-Français 141 5:00 - TFT # ISO code TF Time 142 # 143 # year-round base in the main continent 144 # Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 145 # <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) 146 # 147 # Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 148 # It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 149 # 150 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 151 Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947 152 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time 153 0 - zzz 1956 Nov 154 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time 155 156 # France & Italy - year-round base 157 # Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005 158 159 # Germany - year-round base 160 # Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009 161 162 # India - year-round bases 163 # Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012 164 # Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989 165 166 # Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy") 167 # Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986 168 169 # Japan - year-round bases 170 # Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957 171 # 172 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 173 # In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 174 # 175 # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 176 # was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 177 # station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 178 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 179 Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29 180 3:00 - SYOT # Syowa Time 181 # See: 182 # NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 183 # http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html 184 185 # S Korea - year-round base 186 # Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 187 # King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 188 189 # New Zealand - claims 190 # Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 191 # Scott Island (never inhabited) 192 # 193 # year-round base 194 # Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 195 # See Pacific/Auckland. 196 197 # Norway - territories 198 # Bouvet (never inhabited) 199 # 200 # claims 201 # Peter I Island (never inhabited) 202 # 203 # year-round base 204 # Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 205 # 206 # From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): 207 # I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. 208 # In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: 209 # GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March 210 # GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October 211 # GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 212 # GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 213 # The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely 214 # correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. 215 # 216 # From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): 217 # The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tzcode 2014b or later, so as 218 # suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate 219 # with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. 220 # 221 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 222 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 CET 223 Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 CEST 224 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 CET 225 #Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 UTC 226 # Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. 227 Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 UTC 228 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 229 Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - zzz 2005 Feb 12 230 0:00 Troll %s 231 232 # Poland - year-round base 233 # Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 234 235 # Romania - year-bound base 236 # Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 237 238 # Russia - year-round bases 239 # Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 240 # Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 241 # Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, 242 # year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 243 # Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, 244 # year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 245 246 # Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 247 # From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): 248 # http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP 249 # Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 250 # time as Moscow, Russia. 251 # 252 # From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 253 # I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 254 # what they had to say about time there: 255 # "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) 256 # time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 257 # 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 258 # of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The 259 # natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." 260 # 261 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 262 # This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 263 # in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local 264 # time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 265 # changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 266 # solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 267 # happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time 268 # it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6. 269 # 270 Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 271 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time 272 273 # S Africa - year-round bases 274 # Marion Island, -4653+03752 275 # SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997 276 277 # Ukraine - year-round base 278 # Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954 279 280 # United Kingdom 281 # 282 # British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 283 # South Orkney Islands 284 # scientific station from 1903 285 # whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 286 # South Shetland Islands 287 # 288 # year-round bases 289 # Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 290 # Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, 291 # scientific station 1943/1967, 292 # previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, 293 # and a garrison was deployed briefly 294 # Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 295 # Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated 296 # so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. 297 # Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 298 # 299 # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) 300 # <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. 301 # 302 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 303 Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 304 -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time 305 306 # Uruguay - year round base 307 # Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 308 309 # USA - year-round bases 310 # 311 # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) 312 # See 'southamerica' for Antarctica/Palmer, since it uses South American DST. 313 # 314 # McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 315 # Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 316 # 317 # From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 318 # Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 319 # stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 320 # but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 321 # as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 322 # which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 323 # at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.) 324 # 325 # From Susan Smith 326 # http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 327 # (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 328 # We use the same time as McMurdo does. 329 # And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 330 # One last quirk about South Pole time. 331 # All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 332 # Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 333 # makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 334 # we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 335 # Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 336 # 337 # See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo.