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diff --git a/src/timezone/data/northamerica b/src/timezone/data/northamerica index 7dfd064f23f..0dcdafb9d82 100644 --- a/src/timezone/data/northamerica +++ b/src/timezone/data/northamerica @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # <pre> -# @(#)northamerica 8.34 +# @(#)northamerica 8.42 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -346,6 +346,27 @@ Zone America/North_Dakota/New_Salem -6:45:39 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:14:21 -7:00 US M%sT 2003 Oct 26 02:00 -6:00 US C%sT +# From Josh Findley (2011-01-21): +# ...it appears that Mercer County, North Dakota, changed from the +# mountain time zone to the central time zone at the last transition from +# daylight-saving to standard time (on Nov. 7, 2010): +# <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm"> +# http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-09-29/html/2010-24376.htm +# </a> +# <a href="http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html"> +# http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_1eb1b588-c758-11df-b472-001cc4c03286.html +# </a> + +# From Andy Lipscomb (2011-01-24): +# ...according to the Census Bureau, the largest city is Beulah (although +# it's commonly referred to as Beulah-Hazen, with Hazen being the next +# largest city in Mercer County). Google Maps places Beulah's city hall +# at 4715'51" north, 10146'40" west, which yields an offset of 6h47'07". + +Zone America/North_Dakota/Beulah -6:47:07 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:12:53 + -7:00 US M%sT 2010 Nov 7 2:00 + -6:00 US C%sT + # US mountain time, represented by Denver # # Colorado, far western Kansas, Montana, western @@ -405,15 +426,74 @@ Zone America/Los_Angeles -7:52:58 - LMT 1883 Nov 18 12:07:02 # were nearby inhabitants in some cases and for our purposes perhaps # it's best to simply use the official transition. # + +# From Steve Ferguson (2011-01-31): +# The author lives in Alaska and many of the references listed are only +# available to Alaskan residents. +# +# <a href="http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/index.cfm?section=discover%20alaska&page=Glimpses%20of%20the%20Past&viewpost=2&ContentId=98"> +# http://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.org/index.cfm?section=discover%20alaska&page=Glimpses%20of%20the%20Past&viewpost=2&ContentId=98 +# </a> + +# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-01): +# Here's database-relevant material from the 2001 "Alaska History" article: +# +# On September 20 [1979]...DOT...officials decreed that on April 27, +# 1980, Juneau and other nearby communities would move to Yukon Time. +# Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, and Ketchikan, however, would remain on +# Pacific Time. +# +# ...on September 22, 1980, DOT Secretary Neil E. Goldschmidt rescinded the +# Department's September 1979 decision. Juneau and other communities in +# northern Southeast reverted to Pacific Time on October 26. +# +# On October 28 [1983]...the Metlakatla Indian Community Council voted +# unanimously to keep the reservation on Pacific Time. +# +# According to DOT official Joanne Petrie, Indian reservations are not +# bound to follow time zones imposed by neighboring jurisdictions. +# +# (The last is consistent with how the database now handles the Navajo +# Nation.) + +# From Arthur David Olson (2011-02-09): +# I just spoke by phone with a staff member at the Metlakatla Indian +# Community office (using contact information available at +# <a href="http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla"> +# http://www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_name=Metlakatla +# </a>). +# It's shortly after 1:00 here on the east coast of the United States; +# the staffer said it was shortly after 10:00 there. When I asked whether +# that meant they were on Pacific time, they said no--they were on their +# own time. I asked about daylight saving; they said it wasn't used. I +# did not inquire about practices in the past. + # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 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 1980 Apr 27 2:00 + -9:00 US Y%sT 1980 Oct 26 2:00 + -8:00 US P%sT 1983 Oct 30 2:00 + -9:00 US Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 + -9:00 US AK%sT +Zone America/Sitka -14:58:47 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 + -9:01:13 - 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 Y%sT 1983 Nov 30 -9:00 US AK%sT +Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 + -8:46:18 - 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 + -8:00 US MeST Zone America/Yakutat 14:41:05 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 -9:18:55 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 12:00 -9:00 - YST 1942 @@ -471,20 +551,50 @@ Zone America/Adak 12:13:21 - LMT 1867 Oct 18 # three votes for and one against." # Hawaii -# -# From Arthur David Olson: -# And then there's Hawaii. -# DST was observed for one day in 1933; -# standard time was changed by half an hour in 1947; -# it's always standard as of 1986. -# -# From Paul Eggert: -# Shanks says the 1933 experiment lasted for three weeks. Go with Shanks. -# -Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1900 Jan 1 12:00 - -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 - -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 2:00 - -10:30 US H%sT 1947 Jun 8 2:00 + +# From Arthur David Olson (2010-12-09): +# "Hawaiian Time" by Robert C. Schmitt and Doak C. Cox appears on pages 207-225 +# of volume 26 of The Hawaiian Journal of History (1992). As of 2010-12-09, +# the article is available at +# <a href="http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf"> +# http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/239/2/JL26215.pdf +# </a> +# and indicates that standard time was adopted effective noon, January +# 13, 1896 (page 218), that in "1933, the Legislature decreed daylight +# saving for the period between the last Sunday of each April and the +# last Sunday of each September, but less than a month later repealed the +# act," (page 220), that year-round daylight saving time was in effect +# from 1942-02-09 to 1945-09-30 (page 221, with no time of day given for +# when clocks changed) and that clocks were changed by 30 minutes +# effective the second Sunday of June, 1947 (page 219, with no time of +# day given for when clocks changed). A footnote for the 1933 changes +# cites Session Laws of Hawaii 1933, "Act. 90 (approved 26 Apr. 1933) +# and Act 163 (approved 21 May 1933)." + +# From Arthur David Olson (2011-01-19): +# The following is from "Laws of the Territory of Hawaii Passed by the +# Seventeenth Legislature: Regular Session 1933," available (as of +# 2011-01-19) at American University's Pence Law Library. Page 85: "Act +# 90...At 2 o'clock ante meridian of the last Sunday in April of each +# year, the standard time of this Territory shall be advanced one +# hour...This Act shall take effect upon its approval. Approved this 26th +# day of April, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M JUDD, Governor of the Territory of +# Hawaii." Page 172: "Act 163...Act 90 of the Session Laws of 1933 is +# hereby repealed...This Act shall take effect upon its approval, upon +# which date the standard time of this Territory shall be restored to +# that existing immediately prior to the taking effect of said Act 90. +# Approved this 21st day of May, A. D. 1933. LAWRENCE M. JUDD, Governor +# of the Territory of Hawaii." +# +# Note that 1933-05-21 was a Sunday. +# We're left to guess the time of day when Act 163 was approved; guess noon. + +Zone Pacific/Honolulu -10:31:26 - LMT 1896 Jan 13 12:00 #Schmitt&Cox + -10:30 - HST 1933 Apr 30 2:00 #Laws 1933 + -10:30 1:00 HDT 1933 May 21 12:00 #Laws 1933+12 + -10:30 - HST 1942 Feb 09 2:00 #Schmitt&Cox+2 + -10:30 1:00 HDT 1945 Sep 30 2:00 #Schmitt&Fox+2 + -10:30 US H%sT 1947 Jun 8 2:00 #Schmitt&Fox+2 -10:00 - HST # Now we turn to US areas that have diverged from the consensus since 1970. @@ -2496,6 +2606,21 @@ Zone America/Costa_Rica -5:36:20 - LMT 1890 # San Jose # the time was announced as "diez cinco"--the same time as here, indicating # that has indeed switched to DST. Assume second Sunday from 2009 forward. +# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-03-08): +# Granma announced that Cuba is going to start DST on 2011-03-20 00:00:00 +# this year. Nothing about the end date known so far (if that has +# changed at all). +# +# Source: +# <a href="http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html"> +# http://granma.co.cu/2011/03/08/nacional/artic01.html +# </a> +# +# Our info: +# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html"> +# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/cuba-starts-dst-2011.html +# </a> + # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Cuba 1928 only - Jun 10 0:00 1:00 D Rule Cuba 1928 only - Oct 10 0:00 0 S @@ -2529,7 +2654,9 @@ Rule Cuba 2000 2004 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00s 1:00 D Rule Cuba 2006 max - Oct lastSun 0:00s 0 S Rule Cuba 2007 only - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D Rule Cuba 2008 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D -Rule Cuba 2009 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D +Rule Cuba 2009 2010 - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D +Rule Cuba 2011 only - Mar Sun>=15 0:00s 1:00 D +Rule Cuba 2012 max - Mar Sun>=8 0:00s 1:00 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Havana -5:29:28 - LMT 1890 |