Annotation of 43BSDReno/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/asia, revision 1.1

1.1     ! root        1: # @(#)asia     7.1
        !             2: 
        !             3: # From Guy Harris:
        !             4: # Incorporates data for Singapore from Robert Elz' asia 1.1, as well as
        !             5: # additional information from Tom Yap, Sun Microsystems Intercontinental
        !             6: # Technical Support (including a page from the Official Airline Guide -
        !             7: # Worldwide Edition).  The names for time zones are guesses.
        !             8: 
        !             9: ###############################################################################
        !            10: 
        !            11: # People's Republic of China
        !            12: 
        !            13: # From Guy Harris:
        !            14: # People's Republic of China.  Yes, they really have only one time zone.
        !            15: 
        !            16: # From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
        !            17: # No they don't.  See TIME mag, February 17, 1986 p.52.  Even though
        !            18: # China is across 4 physical time zones, before Feb 1, 1986 only the
        !            19: # Peking (Bejing) time zone was recognized.  Since that date, China
        !            20: # has two of 'em -- Peking's and Urumqi (named after the capital of
        !            21: # the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region).  I don't know about DST for it.
        !            22: #
        !            23: # . . .I just deleted the DST table and this editor makes it too
        !            24: # painful to suck in another copy..  So, here is what I have for
        !            25: # DST start/end dates for Peking's time zone (info from AP):
        !            26: #
        !            27: #     1986 May 4 - Sept 14
        !            28: #     1987 mid-April - ??
        !            29: 
        !            30: # From U. S. Naval Observatory (January 19, 1989):
        !            31: # CHINA               8 H  AHEAD OF UTC  ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN
        !            32: # CHINA               9 H  AHEAD OF UTC  APR 17 - SEP 10
        !            33: 
        !            34: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
        !            35: Rule   PRC     1970    max     -       Apr     Sun<=14 2:00    1:00    D
        !            36: Rule   PRC     1970    max     -       Sep     Sun<=14 3:00    0       S
        !            37: 
        !            38: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES/SAVE      FORMAT  [UNTIL]
        !            39: Zone   PRC             8:00    PRC             C%sT
        !            40: 
        !            41: ###############################################################################
        !            42: 
        !            43: # Republic of China
        !            44: 
        !            45: # From Guy Harris
        !            46: 
        !            47: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES/SAVE      FORMAT  [UNTIL]
        !            48: Zone   ROC             8:00    -               CST
        !            49: 
        !            50: ###############################################################################
        !            51: 
        !            52: # Hongkong
        !            53: 
        !            54: # From Guy Harris
        !            55: 
        !            56: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES/SAVE      FORMAT  [UNTIL]
        !            57: Zone   Hongkong        8:00    -               HKT
        !            58: 
        !            59: ###############################################################################
        !            60: 
        !            61: # Iran
        !            62: 
        !            63: # From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
        !            64: # Iran: Last Sunday in March to third (?) Sunday in
        !            65: # September.  Since the revolution, the official calendar is Monarchic
        !            66: # calendar; I have no idea what the correspondence between dates are.
        !            67: 
        !            68: # From U. S. Naval Observatory (January 19, 1989):
        !            69: # IRAN                3.5H AHEAD OF UTC
        !            70: 
        !            71: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
        !            72: Rule   Iran    1988    max     -       Mar     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
        !            73: Rule   Iran    1988    max     -       Sep     Sun>=15 2:00    0       S
        !            74: 
        !            75: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES/SAVE      FORMAT  [UNTIL]
        !            76: Zone   Iran            3:30    Iran            I%sT
        !            77: 
        !            78: ###############################################################################
        !            79: 
        !            80: # Israel
        !            81: 
        !            82: # From U. S. Naval Observatory (January 19, 1989):
        !            83: # ISRAEL              2 H  AHEAD OF UTC
        !            84: # ISRAEL              3 H  AHEAD OF UTC  APR 10 - SEP 3
        !            85: 
        !            86: # From Ephraim Silverberg (April 18, 1989):
        !            87: 
        !            88: # Prior to 1989, the rules concerning Daylight Savings Time changed every
        !            89: # year; as information, regarding exact times and dates during this period,
        !            90: # is not readily available at the present time, the rules commence starting
        !            91: # with the year 1989.
        !            92: 
        !            93: # From 1989 onwards the rules are as follows:
        !            94: #
        !            95: # 1. Daylight Savings Time commences midnight of the first Saturday night
        !            96: #    following the seven-day festival of Pesach (Passover).  The transition
        !            97: #    is from midnight Israel Standard Time to 1 a.m. Israel Daylight Savings
        !            98: #    time.  As the Pesach festival is dependent on the Lunar calendar (the
        !            99: #    first day is always on the 15th day of the month of Nisan), the rule
        !           100: #    changes every year on the Gregorian calendar.
        !           101: #
        !           102: # 2. Standard Time is reinstated on the Saturday night whereupon Jews
        !           103: #    following the Ashkenazi (European) rite begin to recite the Selichot
        !           104: #    (forgiveness) prayers prior to the Jewish Lunar New Year.  The transition
        !           105: #    is from midnight Israel Daylight Savings time to 11 p.m. Israel Standard
        !           106: #    Time.  The law (according to the Ashkenazi custom) concerning the
        !           107: #    commencement of the Selichot prayers is described in chapter 128, section
        !           108: #    5 of the "Code of Jewish Law," by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried (translated by
        !           109: #    Hyman E. Goldin):
        !           110: #
        !           111: #       Beginning with the Sunday [**] before Rosh Hashanah [***],
        !           112: #       we rise early for the service of Selichot (supplications for
        !           113: #       forgiveness).  If Rosh Hashanah occurs on Monday or Tuesday, we
        !           114: #       begin saying the Selichot from the Sunday of the preceding week.
        !           115: #
        !           116: #    This, too, varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar and, thus,
        !           117: #    two explicit timezone rules are required for each Gregorian year.
        !           118: #
        !           119: #    [**] actually Saturday night as the Jewish day commences at nightfall.
        !           120: #    [***] the Jewish Lunar New Year.
        !           121: 
        !           122: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
        !           123: Rule   Zion    1989    only    -       Apr     30      0:00    1:00    D
        !           124: Rule   Zion    1989    only    -       Sep     24      0:00    0:00    S
        !           125: Rule   Zion    1990    only    -       Apr     22      0:00    1:00    D
        !           126: Rule   Zion    1990    only    -       Sep     16      0:00    0:00    S
        !           127: Rule   Zion    1991    only    -       Apr      7      0:00    1:00    D
        !           128: Rule   Zion    1991    only    -       Sep      1      0:00    0:00    S
        !           129: Rule   Zion    1992    only    -       Apr     26      0:00    1:00    D
        !           130: Rule   Zion    1992    only    -       Sep     20      0:00    0:00    S
        !           131: Rule   Zion    1993    only    -       Apr     18      0:00    1:00    D
        !           132: Rule   Zion    1993    only    -       Sep     12      0:00    0:00    S
        !           133: Rule   Zion    1994    only    -       Apr      3      0:00    1:00    D
        !           134: Rule   Zion    1994    only    -       Aug     28      0:00    0:00    S
        !           135: Rule   Zion    1995    only    -       Apr     23      0:00    1:00    D
        !           136: Rule   Zion    1995    only    -       Sep     17      0:00    0:00    S
        !           137: Rule   Zion    1996    only    -       Apr     14      0:00    1:00    D
        !           138: Rule   Zion    1996    only    -       Sep      8      0:00    0:00    S
        !           139: Rule   Zion    1997    only    -       May      4      0:00    1:00    D
        !           140: Rule   Zion    1997    only    -       Sep     28      0:00    0:00    S
        !           141: Rule   Zion    1998    only    -       Apr     19      0:00    1:00    D
        !           142: Rule   Zion    1998    only    -       Sep     13      0:00    0:00    S
        !           143: Rule   Zion    1999    only    -       Apr     11      0:00    1:00    D
        !           144: Rule   Zion    1999    only    -       Sep      5      0:00    0:00    S
        !           145: Rule   Zion    2000    only    -       Apr     30      0:00    1:00    D
        !           146: Rule   Zion    2000    only    -       Sep     24      0:00    0:00    S
        !           147: Rule   Zion    2001    only    -       Apr     15      0:00    1:00    D
        !           148: Rule   Zion    2001    only    -       Sep      9      0:00    0:00    S
        !           149: Rule   Zion    2002    only    -       Apr      7      0:00    1:00    D
        !           150: Rule   Zion    2002    only    -       Sep      1      0:00    0:00    S
        !           151: Rule   Zion    2003    only    -       Apr     27      0:00    1:00    D
        !           152: Rule   Zion    2003    only    -       Sep     21      0:00    0:00    S
        !           153: Rule   Zion    2004    only    -       Apr     18      0:00    1:00    D
        !           154: Rule   Zion    2004    only    -       Sep     12      0:00    0:00    S
        !           155: Rule   Zion    2005    only    -       May      1      0:00    1:00    D
        !           156: Rule   Zion    2005    only    -       Sep     25      0:00    0:00    S
        !           157: Rule   Zion    2006    only    -       Apr     23      0:00    1:00    D
        !           158: Rule   Zion    2006    only    -       Sep     17      0:00    0:00    S
        !           159: Rule   Zion    2007    only    -       Apr     15      0:00    1:00    D
        !           160: Rule   Zion    2007    only    -       Sep      9      0:00    0:00    S
        !           161: Rule   Zion    2008    only    -       Apr     27      0:00    1:00    D
        !           162: Rule   Zion    2008    only    -       Sep     21      0:00    0:00    S
        !           163: Rule   Zion    2009    only    -       Apr     19      0:00    1:00    D
        !           164: Rule   Zion    2009    only    -       Sep     13      0:00    0:00    S
        !           165: 
        !           166: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES/SAVE      FORMAT  [UNTIL]
        !           167: Zone   Israel          2:00    Zion            I%sT
        !           168: 
        !           169: # The following is a chart of the day of the week and Gregorian date of
        !           170: # the first day of Pesach and the first day of Rosh Hashanah for the years
        !           171: # 1989 through 2009 inclusive.
        !           172: #
        !           173: # First Day of Passover
        !           174: # ---------------------
        !           175: # Gregorian Year       Day of Week     Month           Day
        !           176: # --------------       -----------     -----           ---
        !           177: #      1989            Thursday        April           20
        !           178: #      1990            Tuesday         April           10
        !           179: #      1991            Saturday        March           30
        !           180: #      1992            Saturday        April           18
        !           181: #      1993            Tuesday         April            6
        !           182: #      1994            Sunday          March           27
        !           183: #      1995            Saturday        April           15
        !           184: #      1996            Thursday        April            4
        !           185: #      1997            Tuesday         April           22
        !           186: #      1998            Saturday        April           11
        !           187: #      1999            Thursday        April            1
        !           188: #      2000            Thursday        April           20
        !           189: #      2001            Sunday          April            8
        !           190: #      2002            Thursday        March           28
        !           191: #      2003            Thursday        April           17
        !           192: #      2004            Tuesday         April            6
        !           193: #      2005            Sunday          April           24
        !           194: #      2006            Thursday        April           13
        !           195: #      2007            Tuesday         April            3
        !           196: #      2008            Sunday          April           20
        !           197: #      2009            Thursday        April            9
        !           198: #
        !           199: # First Day of Rosh Hashanah
        !           200: # --------------------------
        !           201: # Gregorian Year       Day of Week     Month           Day
        !           202: # --------------       -----------     -----           ---
        !           203: #      1989            Saturday        September       30
        !           204: #      1990            Thursday        September       20
        !           205: #      1991            Monday          September        9
        !           206: #      1992            Monday          September       28
        !           207: #      1993            Thursday        September       16
        !           208: #      1994            Tuesday         September        6
        !           209: #      1995            Monday          September       25
        !           210: #      1996            Saturday        September       14
        !           211: #      1997            Thursday        October          2
        !           212: #      1998            Monday          September       21
        !           213: #      1999            Saturday        September       11
        !           214: #      2000            Saturday        September       30
        !           215: #      2001            Tuesday         September       18
        !           216: #      2002            Saturday        September        7
        !           217: #      2003            Saturday        September       27
        !           218: #      2004            Thursday        September       16
        !           219: #      2005            Tuesday         October          4
        !           220: #      2006            Saturday        September       23
        !           221: #      2007            Thursday        September       13
        !           222: #      2008            Tuesday         September       30
        !           223: #      2009            Saturday        September       19
        !           224: 
        !           225: ###############################################################################
        !           226: 
        !           227: # Japan
        !           228: 
        !           229: # From Guy Harris
        !           230: 
        !           231: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES/SAVE      FORMAT  [UNTIL]
        !           232: Zone   Japan           9:00    -               JST
        !           233: 
        !           234: ###############################################################################
        !           235: 
        !           236: # Republic of Korea
        !           237: 
        !           238: # From Guy Harris:
        !           239: # According to someone at the Korean Times in San Francisco,
        !           240: # Daylight Savings Time was not observed until 1987.  He did not know
        !           241: # at what time of day DST starts or ends.
        !           242: 
        !           243: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
        !           244: Rule   ROK     1987    max     -       May     Sun<=14 2:00    1:00    D
        !           245: Rule   ROK     1987    max     -       Oct     Sun<=14 3:00    0       S
        !           246: 
        !           247: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES/SAVE      FORMAT  [UNTIL]
        !           248: Zone   ROK             9:00    ROK             K%sT
        !           249: 
        !           250: ###############################################################################
        !           251: 
        !           252: # Lebanon
        !           253: 
        !           254: # From Bob Devine (January 28, 1988):
        !           255: # Lebanon: They do have DST but I don't know the dates.
        !           256: 
        !           257: ###############################################################################
        !           258: 
        !           259: # Singapore
        !           260: 
        !           261: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES/SAVE      FORMAT  [UNTIL]
        !           262: Zone   Singapore       8:00    -               SST

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