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# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995. IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that
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# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,
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# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.
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# From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15):
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# While Russia abandoned DST in 2011, Armenia may choose to
99
# follow Russia's "old" rules.
101
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2012-02-10):
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# According to News Armenia, on Feb 9, 2012,
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# http://newsarmenia.ru/society/20120209/42609695.html
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# The Armenia National Assembly adopted final reading of Amendments to the
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# Law "On procedure of calculation time on the territory of the Republic of
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# Armenia" according to which Armenia [is] abolishing Daylight Saving Time.
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# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_armenia03.html
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# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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Zone Asia/Yerevan 2:58:00 - LMT 1924 May 2
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113
3:00 - YERT 1957 Mar # Yerevan Time
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# From A. N. M. Kamrus Saadat (2009-06-15):
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# Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start
173
# time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh
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# Telecommunication Regulatory Commission).
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# Finally we've got the official mail regarding DST start time where DST start
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# time is mentioned as Jun 19 2009, 23:00 from BTRC (Bangladesh
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# Telecommunication Regulatory Commission).
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# No DST end date has been announced yet.
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# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-09-25):
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# Bangladesh won't go back to Standard Time from October 1, 2009,
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# instead it will continue DST measure till the cabinet makes a fresh decision.
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# Bangladesh won't go back to Standard Time from October 1, 2009,
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# instead it will continue DST measure till the cabinet makes a fresh decision.
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# Following report by same newspaper-"The Daily Star Friday":
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# "DST change awaits cabinet decision-Clock won't go back by 1-hr from Oct 1"
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# observing daylight saving time in 1986.
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# From Thomas S. Mullaney (2008-02-11):
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# I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated
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# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't
353
# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near
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# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a
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# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
363
# I think you're combining two subjects that need to treated
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# separately: daylight savings (which, you're correct, wasn't
365
# implemented until the 1980s) and the unified time zone centered near
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# Beijing (which was implemented in 1949). Briefly, there was also a
367
# "Lhasa Time" in Tibet and "Urumqi Time" in Xinjiang. The first was
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# ceased, and the second eventually recognized (again, in the 1980s).
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# From Paul Eggert (2008-06-30):
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# From Arthur David Olson (2010-04-07):
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# Here's Google's translation of the table at the bottom of the "summert.htm" page:
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# Decade Name Start and end date
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# Republic of China 34 years to 40 years (AD 1945-1951 years) Summer Time May 1 to September 30
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# 41 years of the Republic of China (AD 1952) Daylight Saving Time March 1 to October 31
585
# Republic of China 42 years to 43 years (AD 1953-1954 years) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to October 31
586
# In the 44 years to 45 years (AD 1955-1956 years) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to September 30
587
# Republic of China 46 years to 48 years (AD 1957-1959) Summer Time April 1 to September 30
588
# Republic of China 49 years to 50 years (AD 1960-1961) Summer Time June 1 to September 30
589
# Republic of China 51 years to 62 years (AD 1962-1973 years) Stop Summer Time
590
# Republic of China 63 years to 64 years (1974-1975 AD) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to September 30
591
# Republic of China 65 years to 67 years (1976-1978 AD) Stop Daylight Saving Time
592
# Republic of China 68 years (AD 1979) Daylight Saving Time July 1 to September 30
595
# Republic of China 34 years to 40 years (AD 1945-1951 years) Summer Time May 1 to September 30
596
# 41 years of the Republic of China (AD 1952) Daylight Saving Time March 1 to October 31
597
# Republic of China 42 years to 43 years (AD 1953-1954 years) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to October 31
598
# In the 44 years to 45 years (AD 1955-1956 years) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to September 30
599
# Republic of China 46 years to 48 years (AD 1957-1959) Summer Time April 1 to September 30
600
# Republic of China 49 years to 50 years (AD 1960-1961) Summer Time June 1 to September 30
601
# Republic of China 51 years to 62 years (AD 1962-1973 years) Stop Summer Time
602
# Republic of China 63 years to 64 years (1974-1975 AD) Daylight Saving Time April 1 to September 30
603
# Republic of China 65 years to 67 years (1976-1978 AD) Stop Daylight Saving Time
604
# Republic of China 68 years (AD 1979) Daylight Saving Time July 1 to September 30
593
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# Republic of China since 69 years (AD 1980) Stop Daylight Saving Time
595
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# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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# ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/announcements/2005+beyond.ps
1161
# From Paul Eggert (2005-02-22):
1173
# From Paul Eggert (2012-10-26):
1162
1174
# I used Ephraim Silverberg's dst-israel.el program
1163
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# <ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/pub/tz/software/dst-israel.el> (2005-02-20)
1164
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# along with Ed Reingold's cal-hebrew in GNU Emacs 21.4,
1165
# to generate the transitions in this list.
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# to generate the transitions from 2005 through 2012.
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# (I replaced "lastFri" with "Fri>=26" by hand.)
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# The spring transitions below all correspond to the following Rule:
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# The spring transitions all correspond to the following Rule:
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# Rule Zion 2005 max - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
1181
# Rule Zion 2005 2012 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
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# but older zic implementations (e.g., Solaris 8) do not support
1172
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# "Fri>=26" to mean April 1 in years like 2005, so for now we list the
1183
1195
Rule Zion 2010 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S
1184
1196
Rule Zion 2011 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
1185
1197
Rule Zion 2011 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S
1186
Rule Zion 2012 2015 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
1198
Rule Zion 2012 only - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
1187
1199
Rule Zion 2012 only - Sep 23 2:00 0 S
1188
Rule Zion 2013 only - Sep 8 2:00 0 S
1189
Rule Zion 2014 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S
1190
Rule Zion 2015 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S
1191
Rule Zion 2016 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
1192
Rule Zion 2016 only - Oct 9 2:00 0 S
1193
Rule Zion 2017 2021 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
1194
Rule Zion 2017 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S
1195
Rule Zion 2018 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S
1196
Rule Zion 2019 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S
1197
Rule Zion 2020 only - Sep 27 2:00 0 S
1198
Rule Zion 2021 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S
1199
Rule Zion 2022 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
1200
Rule Zion 2022 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S
1201
Rule Zion 2023 2032 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
1202
Rule Zion 2023 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S
1203
Rule Zion 2024 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S
1204
Rule Zion 2025 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S
1205
Rule Zion 2026 only - Sep 20 2:00 0 S
1206
Rule Zion 2027 only - Oct 10 2:00 0 S
1207
Rule Zion 2028 only - Sep 24 2:00 0 S
1208
Rule Zion 2029 only - Sep 16 2:00 0 S
1209
Rule Zion 2030 only - Oct 6 2:00 0 S
1210
Rule Zion 2031 only - Sep 21 2:00 0 S
1211
Rule Zion 2032 only - Sep 12 2:00 0 S
1212
Rule Zion 2033 only - Apr 1 2:00 1:00 D
1213
Rule Zion 2033 only - Oct 2 2:00 0 S
1214
Rule Zion 2034 2037 - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D
1215
Rule Zion 2034 only - Sep 17 2:00 0 S
1216
Rule Zion 2035 only - Oct 7 2:00 0 S
1217
Rule Zion 2036 only - Sep 28 2:00 0 S
1218
Rule Zion 2037 only - Sep 13 2:00 0 S
1201
# From Ephraim Silverberg (2012-10-18):
1202
# Yesterday, the Interior Ministry Committee, after more than a year
1203
# past, approved sending the proposed June 2011 changes to the Time
1204
# Decree Law back to the Knesset for second and third (final) votes
1205
# before the upcoming elections on Jan. 22, 2013. Hence, although the
1206
# changes are not yet law, they are expected to be so before February 2013.
1208
# As of 2013, DST starts at 02:00 on the Friday before the last Sunday in March.
1209
# DST ends at 02:00 on the first Sunday after October 1, unless it occurs on the
1210
# second day of the Jewish Rosh Hashana holiday, in which case DST ends a day
1211
# later (i.e. at 02:00 the first Monday after October 2).
1212
# [Rosh Hashana holidays are factored in until 2100.]
1214
# From Ephraim Silverberg (2012-11-05):
1215
# The Knesset passed today (in second and final readings) the amendment to the
1216
# Time Decree Law making the changes ... law.
1218
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1219
Rule Zion 2013 max - Mar Fri>=23 2:00 1:00 D
1220
Rule Zion 2013 2026 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S
1221
Rule Zion 2027 only - Oct Mon>=3 2:00 0 S
1222
Rule Zion 2028 max - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S
1223
# The following rules are commented out for now, as they break older
1224
# versions of zic that support only signed 32-bit timestamps, i.e.,
1225
# through 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC.
1226
#Rule Zion 2028 2053 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S
1227
#Rule Zion 2054 only - Oct Mon>=3 2:00 0 S
1228
#Rule Zion 2055 2080 - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S
1229
#Rule Zion 2081 only - Oct Mon>=3 2:00 0 S
1230
#Rule Zion 2082 max - Oct Sun>=2 2:00 0 S
1220
1232
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1221
1233
Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:56 - LMT 1880
1350
1362
# From Arthur David Olson (2009-04-06):
1351
1363
# We still have Jordan switching to DST on Thursdays in 2000 and 2001.
1365
# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-10-25):
1366
# Yesterday the government in Jordan announced that they will not
1367
# switch back to standard time this winter, so the will stay on DST
1368
# until about the same time next year (at least).
1369
# http://www.petra.gov.jo/Public_News/Nws_NewsDetails.aspx?NewsID=88950
1371
# From Paul Eggert (2012-10-25):
1372
# For now, assume this is just a one-year measure. If it becomes
1373
# permanent, we should move Jordan from EET to AST effective tomorrow.
1353
1375
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1354
1376
Rule Jordan 1973 only - Jun 6 0:00 1:00 S
1355
1377
Rule Jordan 1973 1975 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
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# shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity.
1825
1848
# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-15):
1827
# Here is an article that Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time
1850
# Here is an article that Pakistan plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time
1828
1851
# on June 1, 2008 for 3 months.
1830
# "... The federal cabinet on Wednesday announced a new conservation plan to help
1831
# reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at 9pm and
1832
# moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months.
1853
# "... The federal cabinet on Wednesday announced a new conservation plan to help
1854
# reduce load shedding by approving the closure of commercial centres at 9pm and
1855
# moving clocks forward by one hour for the next three months.
1835
1858
# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html">
1836
1859
# http://www.worldtimezone.net/dst_news/dst_news_pakistan01.html
2235
2257
# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=424808
2260
# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-26):
2261
# Palestinian news sources tell that both Gaza and West Bank will start DST
2262
# on Friday (Thursday midnight, 2012-03-29 24:00).
2263
# Some of many sources in Arabic:
2264
# <a href="http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=122638">
2265
# http://www.samanews.com/index.php?act=Show&id=122638
2268
# <a href="http://safa.ps/details/news/74352/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9.html">
2269
# http://safa.ps/details/news/74352/%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%82%D9%8A%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B6%D9%81%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A9.html
2272
# Our brief summary:
2273
# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-west-bank-dst-2012.html">
2274
# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/gaza-west-bank-dst-2012.html
2277
# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-27):
2278
# The timeanddate article for 2012 says that "the end date has not yet been
2279
# announced" and that "Last year, both...paused daylight saving time during...
2280
# Ramadan. It is not yet known [for] 2012."
2281
# For now, assume both switch back on the last Friday in September. XXX
2238
2283
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2239
2284
Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
2240
2285
Rule EgyptAsia 1957 1958 - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
2473
2524
# having it between Wednesday and Thursday (two workdays in Syria) since the
2474
2525
# weekend in Syria is not Saturday and Sunday, but Friday and Saturday. So now
2475
2526
# it is implemented at midnight of the last workday before weekend...
2477
2528
# From Steffen Thorsen (2007-10-27):
2478
2529
# Jesper Norgaard Welen wrote:
2480
2531
# > "Winter local time in Syria will be observed at midnight of Thursday 1
2481
2532
# > November 2007, and the clock will be put back 1 hour."
2483
2534
# I found confirmation on this in this gov.sy-article (Arabic):
2484
2535
# http://wehda.alwehda.gov.sy/_print_veiw.asp?FileName=12521710520070926111247
2486
2537
# which using Google's translate tools says:
2487
# Council of Ministers also approved the commencement of work on
2488
# identifying the winter time as of Friday, 2/11/2007 where the 60th
2538
# Council of Ministers also approved the commencement of work on
2539
# identifying the winter time as of Friday, 2/11/2007 where the 60th
2489
2540
# minute delay at midnight Thursday 1/11/2007.
2490
2541
Rule Syria 2007 only - Nov Fri>=1 0:00 0 -
2571
2622
# http://sns.sy/sns/?path=news/read/11421 (Arabic)
2625
# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-03-26):
2626
# Today, Syria's government announced that they will start DST early on Friday
2627
# (00:00). This is a bit earlier than the past two years.
2629
# From Syrian Arab News Agency, in Arabic:
2630
# <a href="http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2012/03/26/408215.htm">
2631
# http://www.sana.sy/ara/2/2012/03/26/408215.htm
2634
# Our brief summary:
2635
# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html">
2636
# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/syria-dst-2012.html
2639
# From Arthur David Olson (2012-03-27):
2640
# Assume last Friday in March going forward XXX.
2574
2642
Rule Syria 2008 only - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
2575
2643
Rule Syria 2008 only - Nov 1 0:00 0 -
2576
2644
Rule Syria 2009 only - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S
2577
Rule Syria 2010 max - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
2645
Rule Syria 2010 2011 - Apr Fri>=1 0:00 1:00 S
2646
Rule Syria 2012 max - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S
2578
2647
Rule Syria 2009 max - Oct lastFri 0:00 0 -
2580
2649
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]