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[src/netbsd-1-5]: src/share/zoneinfo Pull up revisions 1.1.1.16-1.1.1.19 (req...
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/97dd7c908c73
branches: netbsd-1-5
changeset: 491260:97dd7c908c73
user: he <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Sat Apr 21 19:18:14 2001 +0000
description:
Pull up revisions 1.1.1.16-1.1.1.19 (requested by kleink):
Update to tzdata2001b; includes fix for current DST in Mexico.
diffstat:
share/zoneinfo/northamerica | 472 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 files changed, 382 insertions(+), 90 deletions(-)
diffs (truncated from 826 to 300 lines):
diff -r 9df7de3b57b4 -r 97dd7c908c73 share/zoneinfo/northamerica
--- a/share/zoneinfo/northamerica Sat Apr 21 19:17:54 2001 +0000
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/northamerica Sat Apr 21 19:18:14 2001 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)northamerica 7.52
+# @(#)northamerica 7.58
# also includes Central America and the Caribbean
# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
@@ -31,9 +31,10 @@
# Make sure you have the errata sheet; the book is somewhat useless without it.
# It is the source for the US and Puerto Rico entries below.
-# From Paul Eggert (1996-06-12):
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
# Daylight Saving Time was first suggested as a joke by Benjamin Franklin
-# in his whimsical essay ``Turkey vs Eagle, McCauley is my Beagle'' (1784).
+# in his whimsical essay ``An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost
+# of Light'' published in the Journal de Paris (1784-04-26).
# Not everyone is happy with the results:
#
# I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some
@@ -48,6 +49,16 @@
# them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
#
# -- Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks (1947), XIX, Sunday
+#
+# For more about the first ten years of DST in the United States, see
+# Robert Garland's <a href="http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/dst.html";>
+# Ten years of daylight saving from the Pittsburgh standpoint
+# (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1927)</a>.
+#
+# Shanks says that DST was called "War Time" in the US in 1918 and 1919.
+# However, DST was imposed by the Standard Time Act of 1918, which
+# was the first nationwide legal time standard, and apparently
+# time was just called "Standard Time" or "Daylight Saving Time".
# From Arthur David Olson:
# US Daylight Saving Time ended on the last Sunday of *October* in 1974.
@@ -58,10 +69,30 @@
# Before the Uniform Time Act of 1966 took effect in 1967, observance of
# Daylight Saving Time in the US was by local option, except during wartime.
+# From Arthur David Olson (2000-09-25):
+# Last night I heard part of a rebroadcast of a 1945 Arch Oboler radio drama.
+# In the introduction, Oboler spoke of "Eastern Peace Time."
+# An AltaVista search turned up
+# <a href="http://rowayton.org/rhs/hstaug45.html";>:
+# "When the time is announced over the radio now, it is 'Eastern Peace
+# Time' instead of the old familiar 'Eastern War Time.' Peace is wonderful."
+# </a> (August 1945) by way of confirmation.
+
+# From Joseph Gallant <notquite%hotmail.com@localhost>, citing
+# George H. Douglas, _The Early Days of Radio Broadcasting_ (1987):
+# At 7 P.M. (Eastern War Time) [on 1945-08-14], the networks were set
+# to switch to London for Atlee's address, but the American people
+# never got to hear his speech live. According to one press account,
+# CBS' Bob Trout was first to announce the word of Japan's surrender,
+# but a few seconds later, NBC, ABC and Mutual also flashed the word
+# of surrender, all of whom interrupting the bells of Big Ben in
+# London which were to precede Mr. Atlee's speech.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 W # War
+Rule US 1918 1919 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
Rule US 1918 1919 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
Rule US 1942 only - Feb 9 2:00 1:00 W # War
+Rule US 1945 only - Aug 14 23:00u 1:00 P # Peace
Rule US 1945 only - Sep 30 2:00 0 S
Rule US 1967 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
Rule US 1967 1973 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
@@ -148,8 +179,28 @@
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
# Shanks uses 1983-10-30, not 1983-11-30, for the 1983 transitions.
# Go with Shanks.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08), following a heads-up from Rives McDow:
+# Public law 106-564 (2000-12-23) introduced the abbreviation
+# "Chamorro Standard Time" for time in Guam and the Northern Marianas.
+# See the file "australasia".
+
+# From Ryan Alessi of the Thousand Oaks Star (2001-02-15) via Rives McDow:
+# Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, introduced a bill in Congress on
+# Wednesday that could have California operating on Denver time as
+# early as this summer.... The options include keeping
+# daylight-saving time all year long, or setting clocks back two hours
+# -- instead of just one -- during the existing daylight-saving time.
+
# US Eastern time, represented by New York
+
+# Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida,
+# Georgia, far southeastern Indiana, eastern Kentucky, Maine,
+# Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North
+# Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern
+# Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule NYC 1920 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
Rule NYC 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
@@ -165,6 +216,13 @@
-5:00 US E%sT
# US Central time, represented by Chicago
+
+# Alabama, Arkansas, Florida panhandle, Illinois, western Indiana
+# corners, Iowa, most of Kansas, western Kentucky, Louisiana,
+# Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, eastern Nebraska, eastern North
+# Dakota, Oklahoma, eastern South Dakota, western Tennessee, most of
+# Texas, Wisconsin
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule Chicago 1920 only - Jun 13 2:00 1:00 D
Rule Chicago 1920 1921 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
@@ -183,6 +241,12 @@
-6:00 US C%sT
# US Mountain time, represented by Denver
+#
+# Colorado, southern Idaho, far western Kansas, Montana, western
+# Nebraska, New Mexico, southwestern North Dakota, far eastern Oregon,
+# western South Dakota, far western Texas (El Paso County, Hudspeth County,
+# and Pine Springs and Nickel Creek in Culberson County), Utah, Wyoming
+#
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule Denver 1920 1921 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
Rule Denver 1920 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S
@@ -198,6 +262,9 @@
-7:00 US M%sT
# US Pacific time, represented by Los Angeles
+#
+# California, northern Idaho, Nevada, most of Oregon, and Washington
+#
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule CA 1948 only - Mar 14 2:00 1:00 D
Rule CA 1949 only - Jan 1 2:00 0 S
@@ -213,40 +280,47 @@
# Alaska
# AK%sT is the modern abbreviation for -9:00 per USNO.
#
-# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-01):
# Howse writes that Alaska switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar,
# and from east-of-GMT to west-of-GMT days, when the US bought it from Russia.
-# This was on 1867-10-18. We omit this transition, since we can't represent
-# changes from Julian to Gregorian.
+# This was on 1867-10-18, a Friday; the previous day was 1867-10-06 Julian,
+# also a Friday. Include only the time zone part of this transition,
+# ignoring the switch from Julian to Gregorian, since we can't represent
+# the Julian calendar.
#
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone America/Juneau -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
+Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
+ -8:57:41 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
-8:00 - PST 1942
-8:00 US P%sT 1946
-8:00 - PST 1969
-8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
-9:00 US AK%sT
-Zone America/Yakutat -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
+Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
+ -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
-9:00 - YST 1942
-9:00 US Y%sT 1946
-9:00 - YST 1969
-9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
-9:00 US AK%sT
-Zone America/Anchorage -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
+Zone America/Anchorage 14:00:24 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
+ -9:59:36 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
-10:00 - CAT 1942
-10:00 US CAT/CAWT 1946
-10:00 - CAT 1967 Apr
-10:00 - AHST 1969
-10:00 US AH%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
-9:00 US AK%sT
-Zone America/Nome -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
+Zone America/Nome 12:58:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
+ -11:01:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
-11:00 - NST 1942
-11:00 US N%sT 1946
-11:00 - NST 1967 Apr
-11:00 - BST 1969
-11:00 US B%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00
-9:00 US AK%sT
-Zone America/Adak -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
+Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
+ -11:46:38 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00
-11:00 - NST 1942
-11:00 US N%sT 1946
-11:00 - NST 1967 Apr
@@ -328,6 +402,13 @@
# So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory `America/Indiana'.
#
# Most of EST-only Indiana last observed DST in 1970.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06), following a tip by Markus Kuhn:
+# Pam Belluck reported in the New York Times (2001-01-31) that the
+# Indiana Legislature is considering a bill to adopt DST statewide.
+# Her article mentioned Vevay, whose post office observes a different
+# time zone than Danner's Hardware across the street.
+
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule Indianapolis 1941 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D
Rule Indianapolis 1941 1954 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0 S
@@ -390,6 +471,7 @@
-5:00 - EST
# Part of Kentucky left its clocks alone in 1974.
+# This also includes a part of Indiana immediately adjacent to Louisville.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule Louisville 1921 only - May 1 2:00 1:00 D
Rule Louisville 1921 only - Sep 1 2:00 0 S
@@ -408,16 +490,9 @@
-5:00 US E%sT 1974 Jan 6 2:00
-6:00 1:00 CDT 1974 Oct 27 2:00
-5:00 US E%sT
+Link America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Louisville
+#
# Wayne, Clinton, and Russell Counties, Kentucky
-# From
-# <a href="http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=1999_register&docid=99-26945-filed";>
-# Federal Register Doc. 99-26945
-# </a> (1999-10-14 08:45-04)
-# In response to a petition by the Wayne County, Kentucky, Fiscal Court,
-# the Department of Transportation (DOT) proposed to move Wayne County,
-# Kentucky, from the Central Time Zone to the Eastern Time Zone.... Now
-# the earliest date that the proposed change might take effect is
-# October 29, 2000.
#
# From
# <a href="http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml";>
@@ -430,6 +505,34 @@
# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also.
# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S.
# location in the Central time zone.
+#
+# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29):
+# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion,
+# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern
+# (-0500) time. They won't "fall back" this year. See Sara Shipley,
+# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400).
+Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:00
+ -6:00 US C%sT 1946
+ -6:00 - CST 1968
+ -6:00 US C%sT 2000 Oct 29 2:00
+ -5:00 US E%sT
+
+
+# From Rives McDow (2000-08-30):
+# Here ... are all the changes in the US since 1985.
+# Kearny County, KS (put all of county on central;
+# previously split between MST and CST) ... 1990-10
+# Starke County, IN (from CST to EST) ... 1991-10
+# Oliver County, ND (from MST to CST) ... 1992-10
+# West Wendover, NV (from PST TO MST) ... 1999-10
+# Wayne County, KY (from CST to EST) ... 2000-10
+# There is another change in the offing; Mercer County, ND is looking
+# to change from MT to CT. It is possible that two other ND counties
+# (Sioux and Morton) will look to change also. If made, the earliest
+# a change would be effective is October 2001.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
+# FIXME: I haven't yet had time to incorporate all the above changes.
# Michigan
#
@@ -451,6 +554,11 @@
#
# This story is too entertaining to be false, so go with Howse over Shanks.
#
+# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-06):
+# Garland (1927) writes ``Cleveland and Detroit advanced their clocks
+# one hour in 1914.'' This change is not in Shanks. We have no more
+# info, so omit this for now.
+#
# Most of Michigan observed DST from 1973 on, but was a bit late in 1975.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER
Rule Detroit 1948 only - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
@@ -558,20 +666,38 @@
# From Paul Eggert <eggert%twinsun.com@localhost> (1994-11-22):
# Alas, this sort of thing must be handled by localization software.
-# The data for Canada are all from Shanks.
+# Unless otherwise specified, the data for Canada are all from Shanks.
+# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
+# H. David Matthews and Mary Vincent's map
+# <a href="http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/SO98/geomap.htm";>
+# "It's about TIME", _Canadian Geographic_ (September-October 1998)
+# </a> contains detailed boundaries for regions observing nonstandard
+# time and daylight saving time arrangements in Canada circa 1998.
+#
+# INMS, the Institute for National Measurement Standards in Ottawa, has
+# <a href="http://www.nrc.ca/inms/time/tze.html";>
+# information about standard and daylight saving time zones in Canada.
+# </a> (updated periodically).
+# Its unofficial information is often taken from Matthews and Vincent.
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