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 # These rules are stolen from the 'southamerica' file. 19 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 20 Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - 21 Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S 22 Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - 23 Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 24 Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 25 Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S 26 Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - 27 Rule ChileAQ 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 28 Rule ChileAQ 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 29 Rule ChileAQ 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 - 30 Rule ChileAQ 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 31 Rule ChileAQ 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S 32 Rule ChileAQ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 33 Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 - 34 Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S 35 Rule ChileAQ 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 36 Rule ChileAQ 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 37 Rule ChileAQ 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - 38 Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 39 Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S 40 Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - 41 Rule ChileAQ 1999 2010 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S 42 Rule ChileAQ 2000 2007 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 43 # N.B.: the end of March 29 in Chile is March 30 in Universal time, 44 # which is used below in specifying the transition. 45 Rule ChileAQ 2008 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - 46 Rule ChileAQ 2009 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - 47 Rule ChileAQ 2010 only - Apr Sun>=1 3:00u 0 - 48 Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - May Sun>=2 3:00u 0 - 49 Rule ChileAQ 2011 only - Aug Sun>=16 4:00u 1:00 S 50 Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Apr Sun>=23 3:00u 0 - 51 Rule ChileAQ 2012 max - Sep Sun>=2 4:00u 1:00 S 52 53 # Argentina - year-round bases 54 # Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 55 # Carlini, Potter Cove, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 56 # Esperanza, Hope Bay, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 57 # Marambio, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 58 # Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 59 # San Martín, Barry I, -6808-06706, since 1951-03-21 60 # (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) 61 62 # Australia - territories 63 # Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) 64 # previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered 65 # Margaret Turner reports 66 # http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html 67 # (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST; 68 # presumably this is when they have visitors. 69 # 70 # year-round bases 71 # Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 72 # Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 73 # (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) 74 # Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 75 76 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-03-11): 77 # Three Australian stations in Antarctica have changed their time zone: 78 # Casey moved from UTC+8 to UTC+11 79 # Davis moved from UTC+7 to UTC+5 80 # Mawson moved from UTC+6 to UTC+5 81 # The changes occurred on 2009-10-18 at 02:00 (local times). 82 # 83 # Government source: (Australian Antarctic Division) 84 # http://www.aad.gov.au/default.asp?casid=37079 85 # 86 # We have more background information here: 87 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antarctica-new-times.html 88 89 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 90 # We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ... 91 # 92 # - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010. 93 # The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but 94 # has not been decided yet. 95 # 96 # - Davis station will revert to its normal time of UTC+7 at 10 March 2010 97 # 20:00 UTC. 98 # 99 # - Mawson station stays on UTC+5. 100 # 101 # Background: 102 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html 103 104 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 105 Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - zzz 1969 106 8:00 - AWST 2009 Oct 18 2:00 107 # Australian Western Std Time 108 11:00 - CAST 2010 Mar 5 2:00 # Casey Time 109 8:00 - AWST 2011 Oct 28 2:00 110 11:00 - CAST 2012 Feb 21 17:00u 111 8:00 - AWST 112 Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 13 113 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time 114 0 - zzz 1969 Feb 115 7:00 - DAVT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 116 5:00 - DAVT 2010 Mar 10 20:00u 117 7:00 - DAVT 2011 Oct 28 2:00 118 5:00 - DAVT 2012 Feb 21 20:00u 119 7:00 - DAVT 120 Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 121 6:00 - MAWT 2009 Oct 18 2:00 # Mawson Time 122 5:00 - MAWT 123 # References: 124 # Casey Weather (1998-02-26) 125 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html 126 # Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) 127 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html 128 # Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) 129 # http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html 130 131 # Belgium - year-round base 132 # Princess Elisabeth, Queen Maud Land, -713412+0231200, since 2007 133 134 # Brazil - year-round base 135 # Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 136 137 # Bulgaria - year-round base 138 # St. Kliment Ohridski, Livingston Island, -623829-0602153, since 1988 139 140 # Chile - year-round bases and towns 141 # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 142 # Frei Montalva, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 143 # O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 144 # Prat, -6230-05941 145 # Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 146 # These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. 147 148 # China - year-round bases 149 # Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 150 # Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 151 152 # France - year-round bases (also see "France & Italy") 153 # 154 # From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): 155 # Time data entries are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP 156 # (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). 157 # She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adélie bases 158 # don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adélie supplies came 159 # from Tasmania. 160 # 161 # French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants 162 # 163 # Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964; 164 # sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+; 165 # see Indian/Reunion. 166 # 167 # Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 168 # Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; 169 # whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 170 # 171 # St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited 172 # fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 173 # 174 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 175 Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - zzz 1950 # Port-aux-Français 176 5:00 - TFT # ISO code TF Time 177 # 178 # year-round base in the main continent 179 # Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 180 # <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05) 181 # 182 # Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. 183 # It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. 184 # 185 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 186 Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947 187 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time 188 0 - zzz 1956 Nov 189 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time 190 191 # France & Italy - year-round base 192 # Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005 193 194 # Germany - year-round base 195 # Neumayer III, -704080-0081602, since 2009 196 197 # India - year-round bases 198 # Bharati, -692428+0761114, since 2012 199 # Maitri, -704558+0114356, since 1989 200 201 # Italy - year-round base (also see "France & Italy") 202 # Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986 203 204 # Japan - year-round bases 205 # Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957 206 # 207 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): 208 # In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. 209 # 210 # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, 211 # was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main 212 # station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. 213 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 214 Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29 215 3:00 - SYOT # Syowa Time 216 # See: 217 # NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) 218 # http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html 219 220 # S Korea - year-round base 221 # Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014 222 # King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 223 224 # New Zealand - claims 225 # Balleny Islands (never inhabited) 226 # Scott Island (never inhabited) 227 # 228 # year-round base 229 # Scott Base, Ross Island, since 1957-01. 230 # See Pacific/Auckland. 231 232 # Norway - territories 233 # Bouvet (never inhabited) 234 # 235 # claims 236 # Peter I Island (never inhabited) 237 # 238 # year-round base 239 # Troll, Queen Maud Land, -720041+0023206, since 2005-02-12 240 # 241 # From Paul-Inge Flakstad (2014-03-10): 242 # I recently had a long dialog about this with the developer of timegenie.com. 243 # In the absence of specific dates, he decided to choose some likely ones: 244 # GMT +1 - From March 1 to the last Sunday in March 245 # GMT +2 - From the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October 246 # GMT +1 - From the last Sunday in October until November 7 247 # GMT +0 - From November 7 until March 1 248 # The dates for switching to and from UTC+0 will probably not be absolutely 249 # correct, but they should be quite close to the actual dates. 250 # 251 # From Paul Eggert (2014-03-21): 252 # The CET-switching Troll rules require zic from tzcode 2014b or later, so as 253 # suggested by Bengt-Inge Larsson comment them out for now, and approximate 254 # with only UTC and CEST. Uncomment them when 2014b is more prevalent. 255 # 256 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 257 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar 1 1:00u 1:00 CET 258 Rule Troll 2005 max - Mar lastSun 1:00u 2:00 CEST 259 #Rule Troll 2005 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 1:00 CET 260 #Rule Troll 2004 max - Nov 7 1:00u 0:00 UTC 261 # Remove the following line when uncommenting the above '#Rule' lines. 262 Rule Troll 2004 max - Oct lastSun 1:00u 0:00 UTC 263 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 264 Zone Antarctica/Troll 0 - zzz 2005 Feb 12 265 0:00 Troll %s 266 267 # Poland - year-round base 268 # Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 269 270 # Romania - year-bound base 271 # Law-Racoviță, Larsemann Hills, -692319+0762251, since 1986 272 273 # Russia - year-round bases 274 # Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 275 # Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 276 # Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, 277 # year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 278 # Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, 279 # year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 280 281 # Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 282 # From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15): 283 # http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP 284 # Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same 285 # time as Moscow, Russia. 286 # 287 # From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): 288 # I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is 289 # what they had to say about time there: 290 # "in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) 291 # time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was 292 # 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead 293 # of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The 294 # natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT." 295 # 296 # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): 297 # This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it 298 # in person. He said that some Antarctic locations set their local 299 # time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this 300 # changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean 301 # solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks 302 # happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time 303 # it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6. 304 # 305 Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 306 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time 307 308 # S Africa - year-round bases 309 # Marion Island, -4653+03752 310 # SANAE IV, Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land, -714022-0025026, since 1997 311 312 # Ukraine - year-round base 313 # Vernadsky (formerly Faraday), Galindez Island, -651445-0641526, since 1954 314 315 # United Kingdom 316 # 317 # British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims 318 # South Orkney Islands 319 # scientific station from 1903 320 # whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 321 # South Shetland Islands 322 # 323 # year-round bases 324 # Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 325 # Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, 326 # scientific station 1943/1967, 327 # previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, 328 # and a garrison was deployed briefly 329 # Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 330 # Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated 331 # so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. 332 # Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 333 # 334 # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) 335 # <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. 336 # 337 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 338 Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 339 -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time 340 341 # Uruguay - year round base 342 # Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 343 344 # USA - year-round bases 345 # 346 # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) 347 # 348 # From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06): 349 # It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us 350 # and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line.... 351 # I verified with someone who was there that since 1980, 352 # Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War, 353 # Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina. 354 # 355 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 356 Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 357 -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 358 -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May 359 -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT 360 # 361 # 362 # McMurdo Station, Ross Island, since 1955-12 363 # Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 364 # 365 # From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): 366 # Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, 367 # stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, 368 # but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 369 # as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, 370 # which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year 371 # at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 Degrees South.) 372 # 373 # From Susan Smith 374 # http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html 375 # (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): 376 # We use the same time as McMurdo does. 377 # And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... 378 # One last quirk about South Pole time. 379 # All the electric clocks are usually wrong. 380 # Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something 381 # makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, 382 # we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. 383 # Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! 384 # 385 # See 'australasia' for Antarctica/McMurdo.