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- # @(#)asia 7.1
-
- # From Guy Harris:
- # Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
- # additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
- # Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
- # Worldwide Edition). The names for time zones are guesses.
-
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-
- # People's Republic of China
-
- # From Guy Harris:
- # People's Republic of China. Yes, they really have only one time zone.
-
- # From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
- # No they don't. See TIME mag, February 17, 1986 p.52. Even though
- # China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
- # Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized. Since that date, China
- # has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
- # the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region). I don't know about DST for it.
- #
- # . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
- # painful to suck in another copy.. So, here is what I have for
- # DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
- #
- # 1986 May 4 - Sept 14
- # 1987 mid-April - ??
-
- # From U. S. Naval Observatory (January 19, 1989):
- # CHINA 8 H AHEAD OF UTC ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
- # CHINA 9 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 17 - SEP 10
-
- # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
- Rule PRC 1970 max - Apr Sun<=14 2:00 1:00 D
- Rule PRC 1970 max - Sep Sun<=14 3:00 0 S
-
- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL]
- Zone PRC 8:00 PRC C%sT
-
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-
- # Republic of China
-
- # From Guy Harris
-
- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL]
- Zone ROC 8:00 - CST
-
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-
- # Hongkong
-
- # From Guy Harris
-
- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL]
- Zone Hongkong 8:00 - HKT
-
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-
- # Iran
-
- # From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
- # Iran: Last Sunday in March to third (?) Sunday in
- # September. Since the revolution, the official calendar is Monarchic
- # calendar; I have no idea what the correspondence between dates are.
-
- # From U. S. Naval Observatory (January 19, 1989):
- # IRAN 3.5H AHEAD OF UTC
-
- # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
- Rule Iran 1988 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
- Rule Iran 1988 max - Sep Sun>=15 2:00 0 S
-
- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL]
- Zone Iran 3:30 Iran I%sT
-
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-
- # Israel
-
- # From U. S. Naval Observatory (January 19, 1989):
- # ISRAEL 2 H AHEAD OF UTC
- # ISRAEL 3 H AHEAD OF UTC APR 10 - SEP 3
-
- # From Ephraim Silverberg (April 18, 1989):
-
- # Prior to 1989, the rules concerning Daylight Savings Time changed every
- # year; as information, regarding exact times and dates during this period,
- # is not readily available at the present time, the rules commence starting
- # with the year 1989.
-
- # From 1989 onwards the rules are as follows:
- #
- # 1. Daylight Savings Time commences midnight of the first Saturday night
- # following the seven-day festival of Pesach (Passover). The transition
- # is from midnight Israel Standard Time to 1 a.m. Israel Daylight Savings
- # time. As the Pesach festival is dependent on the Lunar calendar (the
- # first day is always on the 15th day of the month of Nisan), the rule
- # changes every year on the Gregorian calendar.
- #
- # 2. Standard Time is reinstated on the Saturday night whereupon Jews
- # following the Ashkenazi (European) rite begin to recite the Selichot
- # (forgiveness) prayers prior to the Jewish Lunar New Year. The transition
- # is from midnight Israel Daylight Savings time to 11 p.m. Israel Standard
- # Time. The law (according to the Ashkenazi custom) concerning the
- # commencement of the Selichot prayers is described in chapter 128, section
- # 5 of the "Code of Jewish Law," by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried (translated by
- # Hyman E. Goldin):
- #
- # Beginning with the Sunday [**] before Rosh Hashanah [***],
- # we rise early for the service of Selichot (supplications for
- # forgiveness). If Rosh Hashanah occurs on Monday or Tuesday, we
- # begin saying the Selichot from the Sunday of the preceding week.
- #
- # This, too, varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar and, thus,
- # two explicit timezone rules are required for each Gregorian year.
- #
- # [**] actually Saturday night as the Jewish day commences at nightfall.
- # [***] the Jewish Lunar New Year.
-
- # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
- Rule Zion 1989 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1989 only - Sep 24 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1990 only - Apr 22 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1990 only - Sep 16 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1991 only - Apr 7 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1991 only - Sep 1 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1992 only - Apr 26 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1992 only - Sep 20 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1993 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1993 only - Sep 12 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1994 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1994 only - Aug 28 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1995 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1995 only - Sep 17 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1996 only - Apr 14 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1996 only - Sep 8 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1997 only - May 4 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1997 only - Sep 28 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1998 only - Apr 19 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1998 only - Sep 13 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 1999 only - Apr 11 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 1999 only - Sep 5 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2000 only - Apr 30 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2000 only - Sep 24 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2001 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2001 only - Sep 9 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2002 only - Apr 7 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2002 only - Sep 1 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2003 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2003 only - Sep 21 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2004 only - Apr 18 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2004 only - Sep 12 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2005 only - May 1 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2005 only - Sep 25 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2006 only - Apr 23 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2006 only - Sep 17 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2007 only - Apr 15 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2007 only - Sep 9 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2008 only - Apr 27 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2008 only - Sep 21 0:00 0:00 S
- Rule Zion 2009 only - Apr 19 0:00 1:00 D
- Rule Zion 2009 only - Sep 13 0:00 0:00 S
-
- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL]
- Zone Israel 2:00 Zion I%sT
-
- # The following is a chart of the day of the week and Gregorian date of
- # the first day of Pesach and the first day of Rosh Hashanah for the years
- # 1989 through 2009 inclusive.
- #
- # First Day of Passover
- # ---------------------
- # Gregorian Year Day of Week Month Day
- # -------------- ----------- ----- ---
- # 1989 Thursday April 20
- # 1990 Tuesday April 10
- # 1991 Saturday March 30
- # 1992 Saturday April 18
- # 1993 Tuesday April 6
- # 1994 Sunday March 27
- # 1995 Saturday April 15
- # 1996 Thursday April 4
- # 1997 Tuesday April 22
- # 1998 Saturday April 11
- # 1999 Thursday April 1
- # 2000 Thursday April 20
- # 2001 Sunday April 8
- # 2002 Thursday March 28
- # 2003 Thursday April 17
- # 2004 Tuesday April 6
- # 2005 Sunday April 24
- # 2006 Thursday April 13
- # 2007 Tuesday April 3
- # 2008 Sunday April 20
- # 2009 Thursday April 9
- #
- # First Day of Rosh Hashanah
- # --------------------------
- # Gregorian Year Day of Week Month Day
- # -------------- ----------- ----- ---
- # 1989 Saturday September 30
- # 1990 Thursday September 20
- # 1991 Monday September 9
- # 1992 Monday September 28
- # 1993 Thursday September 16
- # 1994 Tuesday September 6
- # 1995 Monday September 25
- # 1996 Saturday September 14
- # 1997 Thursday October 2
- # 1998 Monday September 21
- # 1999 Saturday September 11
- # 2000 Saturday September 30
- # 2001 Tuesday September 18
- # 2002 Saturday September 7
- # 2003 Saturday September 27
- # 2004 Thursday September 16
- # 2005 Tuesday October 4
- # 2006 Saturday September 23
- # 2007 Thursday September 13
- # 2008 Tuesday September 30
- # 2009 Saturday September 19
-
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-
- # Japan
-
- # From Guy Harris
-
- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL]
- Zone Japan 9:00 - JST
-
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-
- # Republic of Korea
-
- # From Guy Harris:
- # According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco,
- # Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987. He did not know
- # at what time of day DST starts or ends.
-
- # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
- Rule ROK 1987 max - May Sun<=14 2:00 1:00 D
- Rule ROK 1987 max - Oct Sun<=14 3:00 0 S
-
- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL]
- Zone ROK 9:00 ROK K%sT
-
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-
- # Lebanon
-
- # From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
- # Lebanon: They do have DST but I don't know the dates.
-
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-
- # Singapore
-
- # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL]
- Zone Singapore 8:00 - SST
-