# @(#)asia	8.8

# <pre>

# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,

# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to

# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).

# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):

#

# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is

# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),

# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).

#

# Gwillim Law writes that a good source

# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport

# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),

# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries

# of the IATA's data after 1990.

#

# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for

# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.

#

# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,

# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which

# I found in the UCLA library.

#

# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is

# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).

#

# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;

# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.

# Corrections are welcome!

#	     std  dst

#	     LMT	Local Mean Time

#	2:00 EET  EEST	Eastern European Time

#	2:00 IST  IDT	Israel

#	3:00 AST  ADT	Arabia*

#	3:30 IRST IRDT	Iran

#	4:00 GST	Gulf*

#	5:30 IST	India

#	7:00 ICT	Indochina*

#	7:00 WIT	west Indonesia

#	8:00 CIT	central Indonesia

#	8:00 CST	China

#	9:00 CJT	Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*

#	9:00 EIT	east Indonesia

#	9:00 JST  JDT	Japan

#	9:00 KST  KDT	Korea

#	9:30 CST	(Australian) Central Standard Time

#

# See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia.

# 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.

###############################################################################

# These rules are stolen from the `europe' file.

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Rule	EUAsia	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 1:00u	1:00	S

Rule	EUAsia	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 1:00u	0	-

Rule	EUAsia	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 1:00u	0	-

Rule E-EurAsia	1981	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 0:00	1:00	S

Rule E-EurAsia	1979	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 0:00	0	-

Rule E-EurAsia	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 0:00	0	-

Rule RussiaAsia	1981	1984	-	Apr	1	 0:00	1:00	S

Rule RussiaAsia	1981	1983	-	Oct	1	 0:00	0	-

Rule RussiaAsia	1984	1991	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-

Rule RussiaAsia	1985	1991	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S

Rule RussiaAsia	1992	only	-	Mar	lastSat	23:00	1:00	S

Rule RussiaAsia	1992	only	-	Sep	lastSat	23:00	0	-

Rule RussiaAsia	1993	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 2:00s	1:00	S

Rule RussiaAsia	1993	1995	-	Sep	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-

Rule RussiaAsia	1996	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 2:00s	0	-

# Afghanistan

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Kabul	4:36:48 -	LMT	1890

			4:00	-	AFT	1945

			4:30	-	AFT

# Armenia

# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):

# Shanks & Pottenger have Yerevan switching to 3:00 (with Russian DST)

# in spring 1991, then to 4:00 with no DST in fall 1995, then

# readopting Russian DST in 1997.  Go with Shanks & Pottenger, even

# when they disagree with others.  Edgar Der-Danieliantz

# reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST

# in 1996, though it did use DST in 1995.  IATA SSIM (1991/1998) reports that

# Armenia switched from 3:00 to 4:00 in 1998 and observed DST after 1991,

# but started switching at 3:00s in 1998.

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Yerevan	2:58:00 -	LMT	1924 May  2

			3:00	-	YERT	1957 Mar    # Yerevan Time

			4:00 RussiaAsia YER%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s

			3:00	1:00	YERST	1991 Sep 23 # independence

			3:00 RussiaAsia	AM%sT	1995 Sep 24 2:00s

			4:00	-	AMT	1997

			4:00 RussiaAsia	AM%sT

# Azerbaijan

# From Rustam Aliyev of the Azerbaijan Internet Forum (2005-10-23):

# According to the resolution of Cabinet of Ministers, 1997

# Resolution available at: http://aif.az/docs/daylight_res.pdf

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Rule	Azer	1997	max	-	Mar	lastSun	 4:00	1:00	S

Rule	Azer	1997	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 5:00	0	-

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Baku	3:19:24 -	LMT	1924 May  2

			3:00	-	BAKT	1957 Mar    # Baku Time

			4:00 RussiaAsia BAK%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s

			3:00	1:00	BAKST	1991 Aug 30 # independence

			3:00 RussiaAsia	AZ%sT	1992 Sep lastSat 23:00

			4:00	-	AZT	1996 # Azerbaijan time

			4:00	EUAsia	AZ%sT	1997

			4:00	Azer	AZ%sT

# Bahrain

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Bahrain	3:22:20 -	LMT	1920		# Al Manamah

			4:00	-	GST	1972 Jun

			3:00	-	AST

# Bangladesh

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Dhaka	6:01:40 -	LMT	1890

			5:53:20	-	HMT	1941 Oct    # Howrah Mean Time?

			6:30	-	BURT	1942 May 15 # Burma Time

			5:30	-	IST	1942 Sep

			6:30	-	BURT	1951 Sep 30

			6:00	-	DACT	1971 Mar 26 # Dacca Time

			6:00	-	BDT	# Bangladesh Time

# Bhutan

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Thimphu	5:58:36 -	LMT	1947 Aug 15 # or Thimbu

			5:30	-	IST	1987 Oct

			6:00	-	BTT	# Bhutan Time

# British Indian Ocean Territory

# Whitman and the 1995 CIA time zone map say 5:00, but the

# 1997 and later maps say 6:00.  Assume the switch occurred in 1996.

# We have no information as to when standard time was introduced;

# assume it occurred in 1907, the same year as Mauritius (which

# then contained the Chagos Archipelago).

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Indian/Chagos	4:49:40	-	LMT	1907

			5:00	-	IOT	1996 # BIOT Time

			6:00	-	IOT

# Brunei

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Brunei	7:39:40 -	LMT	1926 Mar   # Bandar Seri Begawan

			7:30	-	BNT	1933

			8:00	-	BNT

# Burma / Myanmar

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Rangoon	6:24:40 -	LMT	1880		# or Yangon

			6:24:36	-	RMT	1920	   # Rangoon Mean Time?

			6:30	-	BURT	1942 May   # Burma Time

			9:00	-	JST	1945 May 3

			6:30	-	MMT		   # Myanmar Time

# Cambodia

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Phnom_Penh	6:59:40 -	LMT	1906 Jun  9

			7:06:20	-	SMT	1911 Mar 11 0:01 # Saigon MT?

			7:00	-	ICT	1912 May

			8:00	-	ICT	1931 May

			7:00	-	ICT

# China

# From Guy Harris:

# People's Republic of China.  Yes, they really have only one time zone.

# From Bob Devine (1988-01-28):

# No they don't.  See TIME mag, 1986-02-17 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 Uyghur 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 (1989-01-19):

# CHINA               8 H  AHEAD OF UTC  ALL OF CHINA, INCL TAIWAN

# CHINA               9 H  AHEAD OF UTC  APR 17 - SEP 10

# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):

# Shanks & Pottenger write that China (except for Hong Kong and Macau)

# has had a single time zone since 1980 May 1, observing summer DST

# from 1986 through 1991; this contradicts Devine's

# note about Time magazine, though apparently _something_ happened in 1986.

# Go with Shanks & Pottenger for now.  I made up names for the other

# pre-1980 time zones.

# From Shanks & Pottenger:

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Rule	Shang	1940	only	-	Jun	 3	0:00	1:00	D

Rule	Shang	1940	1941	-	Oct	 1	0:00	0	S

Rule	Shang	1941	only	-	Mar	16	0:00	1:00	D

Rule	PRC	1986	only	-	May	 4	0:00	1:00	D

Rule	PRC	1986	1991	-	Sep	Sun>=11	0:00	0	S

Rule	PRC	1987	1991	-	Apr	Sun>=10	0:00	1:00	D

# From Anthony Fok (2001-12-20):

# BTW, I did some research on-line and found some info regarding these five

# historic timezones from some Taiwan websites.  And yes, there are official

# Chinese names for these locales (before 1949).

# 

# From Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-07-14):

# I have investigated the timezones around 1970 on the

# http://www.astro.com/atlas site [with provinces and county

# boundaries summarized below]....  A few other exceptions were two

# counties on the Sichuan side of the Xizang-Sichuan border,

# counties Dege and Baiyu which lies on the Sichuan side and are

# therefore supposed to be GMT+7, Xizang region being GMT+6, but Dege

# county is GMT+8 according to astro.com while Baiyu county is GMT+6

# (could be true), for the moment I am assuming that those two

# counties are mistakes in the astro.com data.

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

# Changbai Time ("Long-white Time", Long-white = Heilongjiang area)

# Heilongjiang (except Mohe county), Jilin

Zone	Asia/Harbin	8:26:44	-	LMT	1928 # or Haerbin

			8:30	-	CHAT	1932 Mar # Changbai Time

			8:00	-	CST	1940

			9:00	-	CHAT	1966 May

			8:30	-	CHAT	1980 May

			8:00	PRC	C%sT

# Zhongyuan Time ("Central plain Time")

# most of China

Zone	Asia/Shanghai	8:05:52	-	LMT	1928

			8:00	Shang	C%sT	1949

			8:00	PRC	C%sT

# Long-shu Time (probably due to Long and Shu being two names of that area)

# Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Ningxia, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Yunnan;

# most of Gansu; west Inner Mongolia; west Qinghai; and the Guangdong

# counties Deqing, Enping, Kaiping, Luoding, Taishan, Xinxing,

# Yangchun, Yangjiang, Yu'nan, and Yunfu.

Zone	Asia/Chongqing	7:06:20	-	LMT	1928 # or Chungking

			7:00	-	LONT	1980 May # Long-shu Time

			8:00	PRC	C%sT

# Xin-zang Time ("Xinjiang-Tibet Time")

# The Gansu counties Aksay, Anxi, Dunhuang, Subei; west Qinghai;

# the Guangdong counties  Xuwen, Haikang, Suixi, Lianjiang,

# Zhanjiang, Wuchuan, Huazhou, Gaozhou, Maoming, Dianbai, and Xinyi;

# east Tibet, including Lhasa, Chamdo, Shigaise, Jimsar, Shawan and Hutubi;

# east Xinjiang, including Urumqi, Turpan, Karamay, Korla, Minfeng, Jinghe,

# Wusu, Qiemo, Xinyan, Wulanwusu, Jinghe, Yumin, Tacheng, Tuoli, Emin,

# Shihezi, Changji, Yanqi, Heshuo, Tuokexun, Tulufan, Shanshan, Hami,

# Fukang, Kuitun, Kumukuli, Miquan, Qitai, and Turfan.

Zone	Asia/Urumqi	5:50:20	-	LMT	1928 # or Urumchi

			6:00	-	URUT	1980 May # Urumqi Time

			8:00	PRC	C%sT

# Kunlun Time

# West Tibet, including Pulan, Aheqi, Shufu, Shule;

# West Xinjiang, including Aksu, Atushi, Yining, Hetian, Cele, Luopu, Nileke,

# Zhaosu, Tekesi, Gongliu, Chabuchaer, Huocheng, Bole, Pishan, Suiding,

# and Yarkand.

Zone	Asia/Kashgar	5:03:56	-	LMT	1928 # or Kashi or Kaxgar

			5:30	-	KAST	1940	 # Kashgar Time

			5:00	-	KAST	1980 May

			8:00	PRC	C%sT

# Hong Kong (Xianggang)

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Rule	HK	1946	only	-	Apr	20	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	HK	1946	only	-	Dec	1	3:30	0	-

Rule	HK	1947	only	-	Apr	13	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	HK	1947	only	-	Dec	30	3:30	0	-

Rule	HK	1948	only	-	May	2	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	HK	1948	1952	-	Oct	lastSun	3:30	0	-

Rule	HK	1949	1953	-	Apr	Sun>=1	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	HK	1953	only	-	Nov	1	3:30	0	-

Rule	HK	1954	1964	-	Mar	Sun>=18	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	HK	1954	only	-	Oct	31	3:30	0	-

Rule	HK	1955	1964	-	Nov	Sun>=1	3:30	0	-

Rule	HK	1965	1977	-	Apr	Sun>=16	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	HK	1965	1977	-	Oct	Sun>=16	3:30	0	-

Rule	HK	1979	1980	-	May	Sun>=8	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	HK	1979	1980	-	Oct	Sun>=16	3:30	0	-

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Hong_Kong	7:36:36 -	LMT	1904 Oct 30

			8:00	HK	HK%sT

###############################################################################

# Taiwan

# Shanks & Pottenger write that Taiwan observed DST during 1945, when it

# was still controlled by Japan.  This is hard to believe, but we don't

# have any other information.

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Rule	Taiwan	1945	1951	-	May	1	0:00	1:00	D

Rule	Taiwan	1945	1951	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	S

Rule	Taiwan	1952	only	-	Mar	1	0:00	1:00	D

Rule	Taiwan	1952	1954	-	Nov	1	0:00	0	S

Rule	Taiwan	1953	1959	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	D

Rule	Taiwan	1955	1961	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	S

Rule	Taiwan	1960	1961	-	Jun	1	0:00	1:00	D

Rule	Taiwan	1974	1975	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	D

Rule	Taiwan	1974	1975	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	S

Rule	Taiwan	1980	only	-	Jun	30	0:00	1:00	D

Rule	Taiwan	1980	only	-	Sep	30	0:00	0	S

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Taipei	8:06:00 -	LMT	1896 # or Taibei or T'ai-pei

			8:00	Taiwan	C%sT

# Macau (Macao, Aomen)

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Rule	Macau	1961	1962	-	Mar	Sun>=16	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	Macau	1961	1964	-	Nov	Sun>=1	3:30	0	-

Rule	Macau	1963	only	-	Mar	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Macau	1964	only	-	Mar	Sun>=16	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	Macau	1965	only	-	Mar	Sun>=16	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Macau	1965	only	-	Oct	31	0:00	0	-

Rule	Macau	1966	1971	-	Apr	Sun>=16	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	Macau	1966	1971	-	Oct	Sun>=16	3:30	0	-

Rule	Macau	1972	1974	-	Apr	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Macau	1972	1973	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-

Rule	Macau	1974	1977	-	Oct	Sun>=15	3:30	0	-

Rule	Macau	1975	1977	-	Apr	Sun>=15	3:30	1:00	S

Rule	Macau	1978	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=15	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Macau	1978	1980	-	Oct	Sun>=15	0:00	0	-

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Macau	7:34:20 -	LMT	1912

			8:00	Macau	MO%sT	1999 Dec 20 # return to China

			8:00	PRC	C%sT

###############################################################################

# Cyprus

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S

Rule	Cyprus	1975	only	-	Apr	13	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Cyprus	1975	only	-	Oct	12	0:00	0	-

Rule	Cyprus	1976	only	-	May	15	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Cyprus	1976	only	-	Oct	11	0:00	0	-

Rule	Cyprus	1977	1980	-	Apr	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S

Rule	Cyprus	1977	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	0	-

Rule	Cyprus	1978	only	-	Oct	2	0:00	0	-

Rule	Cyprus	1979	1997	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-

Rule	Cyprus	1981	1998	-	Mar	lastSun	0:00	1:00	S

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Nicosia	2:13:28 -	LMT	1921 Nov 14

			2:00	Cyprus	EE%sT	1998 Sep

			2:00	EUAsia	EE%sT

# IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time.

# Classically, Cyprus belongs to Asia; e.g. see Herodotus, Histories, I.72.

# However, for various reasons many users expect to find it under Europe.

Link	Asia/Nicosia	Europe/Nicosia

# Georgia

# From Paul Eggert (1994-11-19):

# Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward

# an hour recently, due to a law proposed by Zurab Murvanidze,

# an MP who went on a hunger strike for 11 days to force discussion about it!

# We have no details, but we'll guess they didn't move the clocks back in fall.

#

# From Mathew Englander, quoting AP (1996-10-23 13:05-04):

# Instead of putting back clocks at the end of October, Georgia

# will stay on daylight savings time this winter to save energy,

# President Eduard Shevardnadze decreed Wednesday.

#

# From the BBC via Joseph S. Myers (2004-06-27):

#

# Georgia moved closer to Western Europe on Sunday...  The former Soviet

# republic has changed its time zone back to that of Moscow.  As a result it

# is now just four hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time, rather than five hours

# ahead.  The switch was decreed by the pro-Western president of Georgia,

# Mikhail Saakashvili, who said the change was partly prompted by the process

# of integration into Europe.

# From Teimuraz Abashidze (2005-11-07):

# Government of Georgia ... decided to NOT CHANGE daylight savings time on

# [Oct.] 30, as it was done before during last more than 10 years.

# Currently, we are in fact GMT +4:00, as before 30 October it was GMT

# +3:00.... The problem is, there is NO FORMAL LAW or governmental document

# about it.  As far as I can find, I was told, that there is no document,

# because we just DIDN'T ISSUE document about switching to winter time....

# I don't know what can be done, especially knowing that some years ago our

# DST rules where changed THREE TIMES during one month.

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Tbilisi	2:59:16 -	LMT	1880

			2:59:16	-	TBMT	1924 May  2 # Tbilisi Mean Time

			3:00	-	TBIT	1957 Mar    # Tbilisi Time

			4:00 RussiaAsia TBI%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s

			3:00	1:00	TBIST	1991 Apr  9 # independence

			3:00 RussiaAsia GE%sT	1992 # Georgia Time

			3:00 E-EurAsia	GE%sT	1994 Sep lastSun

			4:00 E-EurAsia	GE%sT	1996 Oct lastSun

			4:00	1:00	GEST	1997 Mar lastSun

			4:00 E-EurAsia	GE%sT	2004 Jun 27

			3:00 RussiaAsia	GE%sT	2005 Mar lastSun 2:00

			4:00	-	GET

# East Timor

# From Joao Carrascalao, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in

# <a href="http://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm">

# East Timor may be late for its millennium

# </a> (1999-12-26/31):

# Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun

# rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the

# Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it

# conflicts with their way of life.

# From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):

# We don't have any record of the above attempt.

# Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data.

# <a href="http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/last/00-08-16.undh.html">

# From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General

# (2000-08-16)</a>:

# The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided

# today to advance East Timor's time by one hour.  The time change,

# which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at

# midnight on Saturday, September 16.

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Dili	8:22:20 -	LMT	1912

			8:00	-	TLT	1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time

			9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug

			9:00	-	TLT	1976 May  3

			8:00	-	CIT	2000 Sep 17 00:00

			9:00	-	TLT

# India

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone	Asia/Calcutta	5:53:28 -	LMT	1880	# Kolkata

			5:53:20	-	HMT	1941 Oct    # Howrah Mean Time?

			6:30	-	BURT	1942 May 15 # Burma Time

			5:30	-	IST	1942 Sep

			5:30	1:00	IST	1945 Oct 15

			5:30	-	IST

# The following are like Asia/Calcutta:

#	Andaman Is

#	Lakshadweep (Laccadive, Minicoy and Amindivi Is)

#	Nicobar Is

# Indonesia

#

# From Gwillim Law (2001-05-28), overriding Shanks & Pottenger:

# <http://www.sumatera-inc.com/go_to_invest/about_indonesia.asp#standtime>

# says that Indonesia's time zones changed on 1988-01-01.  Looking at some

# time zone maps, I think that must refer to Western Borneo (Kalimantan Barat

# and Kalimantan Tengah) switching from UTC+8 to UTC+7.

#

# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Zone Asia/Jakarta	7:07:12 -	LMT	1867 Aug 10

# Shanks & Pottenger say the next transition was at 1924 Jan 1 0:13,

# but this must be a typo.

			7:07:12	-	JMT	1923 Dec 31 23:47:12 # Jakarta

			7:20	-	JAVT	1932 Nov	 # Java Time

			7:30	-	WIT	1942 Mar 23

			9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug

			7:30	-	WIT	1948 May

			8:00	-	WIT	1950 May

			7:30	-	WIT	1964

			7:00	-	WIT

Zone Asia/Pontianak	7:17:20	-	LMT	1908 May

			7:17:20	-	PMT	1932 Nov    # Pontianak MT

			7:30	-	WIT	1942 Jan 29

			9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug

			7:30	-	WIT	1948 May

			8:00	-	WIT	1950 May

			7:30	-	WIT	1964

			8:00	-	CIT	1988 Jan  1

			7:00	-	WIT

Zone Asia/Makassar	7:57:36 -	LMT	1920

			7:57:36	-	MMT	1932 Nov    # Macassar MT

			8:00	-	CIT	1942 Feb  9

			9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug

			8:00	-	CIT

Zone Asia/Jayapura	9:22:48 -	LMT	1932 Nov

			9:00	-	EIT	1944

			9:30	-	CST	1964

			9:00	-	EIT

# Iran

# From Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15):

# This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian).

# The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine:

#

#	Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16]

#	No. 16760/T233 H				1370/6/10 [1991-09-01]

#

#	The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country

#

#	The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14],

#	based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13]

#	of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs,

#	and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers

#	and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and

#	for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that:

#

#	The official time of the country will should move forward one hour

#	at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return

#	to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of

#	Shahrivar.

#

#	First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi

#

# From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed

# for at least the last 5 years.  Before that, for a few years, the

# date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last

# Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates....

# I have also changed the abbreviations to what is considered correct

# here in Iran, IRST for regular time and IRDT for daylight saving time.

#