| # <pre> |
| # @(#)antarctica 8.5 |
| # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of |
| # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. |
| |
| # From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15): |
| # To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see |
| # <a href="http://www.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/Stations/"> |
| # COMNAP - Stations and Bases |
| # </a> |
| # and |
| # <a href="http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/bob/periant.htm"> |
| # Summary of the Peri-Antarctic Islands (1998-07-23) |
| # </a> |
| # for information. |
| # Unless otherwise specified, we have no time zone information. |
| # |
| # Except for the French entries, |
| # I made up all time zone abbreviations mentioned here; corrections welcome! |
| # FORMAT is `zzz' and GMTOFF is 0 for locations while uninhabited. |
| |
| # These rules are stolen from the `europe' file. |
| # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| Rule RussAQ 1981 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S |
| Rule RussAQ 1981 1983 - Oct 1 0:00 0 - |
| Rule RussAQ 1984 1991 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - |
| Rule RussAQ 1985 1991 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S |
| Rule RussAQ 1992 only - Mar lastSat 23:00 1:00 S |
| Rule RussAQ 1992 only - Sep lastSat 23:00 0 - |
| Rule RussAQ 1993 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S |
| Rule RussAQ 1993 1995 - Sep lastSun 2:00s 0 - |
| Rule RussAQ 1996 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0 - |
| |
| # These rules are stolen from the `southamerica' file. |
| # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Mar 1 0:00 0 - |
| Rule ArgAQ 1964 1966 - Oct 15 0:00 1:00 S |
| Rule ArgAQ 1967 only - Apr 2 0:00 0 - |
| Rule ArgAQ 1967 1968 - Oct Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S |
| Rule ArgAQ 1968 1969 - Apr Sun>=1 0:00 0 - |
| Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - Jan 23 0:00 1:00 S |
| Rule ArgAQ 1974 only - May 1 0:00 0 - |
| Rule ChileAQ 1972 1986 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - |
| Rule ChileAQ 1974 1987 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S |
| Rule ChileAQ 1987 only - Apr 12 3:00u 0 - |
| Rule ChileAQ 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - |
| Rule ChileAQ 1988 only - Oct Sun>=1 4:00u 1:00 S |
| Rule ChileAQ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S |
| Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Mar 18 3:00u 0 - |
| Rule ChileAQ 1990 only - Sep 16 4:00u 1:00 S |
| Rule ChileAQ 1991 1996 - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - |
| Rule ChileAQ 1991 1997 - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S |
| Rule ChileAQ 1997 only - Mar 30 3:00u 0 - |
| Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - |
| Rule ChileAQ 1998 only - Sep 27 4:00u 1:00 S |
| Rule ChileAQ 1999 only - Apr 4 3:00u 0 - |
| Rule ChileAQ 1999 max - Oct Sun>=9 4:00u 1:00 S |
| Rule ChileAQ 2000 max - Mar Sun>=9 3:00u 0 - |
| |
| |
| # Argentina - year-round bases |
| # Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05 |
| # Esperanza, San Martin Land, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17 |
| # Jubany, Potter Peninsula, King George Island, -6414-0602320, since 1982-01 |
| # Marambio, Seymour I, -6414-05637, since 1969-10-29 |
| # Orcadas, Laurie I, -6016-04444, since 1904-02-22 |
| # San Martin, Debenham I, -6807-06708, since 1951-03-21 |
| # (except 1960-03 / 1976-03-21) |
| |
| # Australia - territories |
| # Heard Island, McDonald Islands (uninhabited) |
| # previously sealers and scientific personnel wintered |
| # <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20021204222245/http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html"> |
| # Margaret Turner reports |
| # </a> (1999-09-30) that they're UTC+5, with no DST; |
| # presumably this is when they have visitors. |
| # |
| # year-round bases |
| # Casey, Bailey Peninsula, -6617+11032, since 1969 |
| # Davis, Vestfold Hills, -6835+07759, since 1957-01-13 |
| # (except 1964-11 - 1969-02) |
| # Mawson, Holme Bay, -6736+06253, since 1954-02-13 |
| # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| Zone Antarctica/Casey 0 - zzz 1969 |
| 8:00 - WST # Western (Aus) Standard Time |
| Zone Antarctica/Davis 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 13 |
| 7:00 - DAVT 1964 Nov # Davis Time |
| 0 - zzz 1969 Feb |
| 7:00 - DAVT |
| Zone Antarctica/Mawson 0 - zzz 1954 Feb 13 |
| 6:00 - MAWT # Mawson Time |
| # References: |
| # <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html"> |
| # Casey Weather (1998-02-26) |
| # </a> |
| # <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/davis/video.html"> |
| # Davis Station, Antarctica (1998-02-26) |
| # </a> |
| # <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/mawson/video.html"> |
| # Mawson Station, Antarctica (1998-02-25) |
| # </a> |
| |
| # Brazil - year-round base |
| # Comandante Ferraz, King George Island, -6205+05824, since 1983/4 |
| |
| # Chile - year-round bases and towns |
| # Escudero, South Shetland Is, -621157-0585735, since 1994 |
| # Presidente Eduadro Frei, King George Island, -6214-05848, since 1969-03-07 |
| # General Bernardo O'Higgins, Antarctic Peninsula, -6319-05704, since 1948-02 |
| # Capitan Arturo Prat, -6230-05941 |
| # Villa Las Estrellas (a town), around the Frei base, since 1984-04-09 |
| # These locations have always used Santiago time; use TZ='America/Santiago'. |
| |
| # China - year-round bases |
| # Great Wall, King George Island, -6213-05858, since 1985-02-20 |
| # Zhongshan, Larsemann Hills, Prydz Bay, -6922+07623, since 1989-02-26 |
| |
| # France - year-round bases |
| # |
| # From Antoine Leca (1997-01-20): |
| # Time data are from Nicole Pailleau at the IFRTP |
| # (French Institute for Polar Research and Technology). |
| # She confirms that French Southern Territories and Terre Adelie bases |
| # don't observe daylight saving time, even if Terre Adelie supplies came |
| # from Tasmania. |
| # |
| # French Southern Territories with year-round inhabitants |
| # |
| # Martin-de-Vivies Base, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950 |
| # Alfred-Faure Base, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964 |
| # Port-aux-Francais, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951; |
| # whaling & sealing station operated 1908/1914, 1920/1929, and 1951/1956 |
| # |
| # St Paul Island - near Amsterdam, uninhabited |
| # fishing stations operated variously 1819/1931 |
| # |
| # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| Zone Indian/Kerguelen 0 - zzz 1950 # Port-aux-Francais |
| 5:00 - TFT # ISO code TF Time |
| # |
| # year-round base in the main continent |
| # Dumont-d'Urville, Ile des Petrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11 |
| # |
| # Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947. |
| # It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14. |
| # |
| # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 - zzz 1947 |
| 10:00 - PMT 1952 Jan 14 # Port-Martin Time |
| 0 - zzz 1956 Nov |
| 10:00 - DDUT # Dumont-d'Urville Time |
| # Reference: |
| # <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station"> |
| # Dumont d'Urville Station (2005-12-05) |
| # </a> |
| |
| # Germany - year-round base |
| # Georg von Neumayer, -7039-00815 |
| |
| # India - year-round base |
| # Dakshin Gangotri, -7005+01200 |
| |
| # Japan - year-round bases |
| # Dome Fuji, -7719+03942 |
| # Syowa, -690022+0393524 |
| # |
| # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1999-02-06): |
| # In all Japanese stations, +0300 is used as the standard time. |
| # |
| # Syowa station, which is the first antarctic station of Japan, |
| # was established on 1957-01-29. Since Syowa station is still the main |
| # station of Japan, it's appropriate for the principal location. |
| # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| Zone Antarctica/Syowa 0 - zzz 1957 Jan 29 |
| 3:00 - SYOT # Syowa Time |
| # See: |
| # <a href="http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html"> |
| # NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17) |
| # </a> |
| |
| # S Korea - year-round base |
| # King Sejong, King George Island, -6213-05847, since 1988 |
| |
| # New Zealand - claims |
| # Balleny Islands (never inhabited) |
| # Scott Island (never inhabited) |
| # |
| # year-round base |
| # Scott, Ross Island, since 1957-01, is like Antarctica/McMurdo. |
| # |
| # These rules for New Zealand are stolen from the `australasia' file. |
| # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
| Rule NZAQ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D |
| Rule NZAQ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D |
| Rule NZAQ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D |
| Rule NZAQ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D |
| Rule NZAQ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S |
| Rule NZAQ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S |
| Rule NZAQ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S |
| Rule NZAQ 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D |
| Rule NZAQ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S |
| |
| # Norway - territories |
| # Bouvet (never inhabited) |
| # |
| # claims |
| # Peter I Island (never inhabited) |
| |
| # Poland - year-round base |
| # Arctowski, King George Island, -620945-0582745, since 1977 |
| |
| # Russia - year-round bases |
| # Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22 |
| # Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02 |
| # Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, -6740+04551, |
| # year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01 |
| # Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150, |
| # year-round from 1960/61 to 1992 |
| |
| # Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11 |
| # <a href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP"> |
| # From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>: |
| # Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same |
| # time as Moscow, Russia. |
| # |
| # From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08): |
| # I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is |
| # what they had to say about time there: |
| # ``in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo) |
| # time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was |
| # 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead |
| # of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The |
| # natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT.'' |
| # |
| # From Paul Eggert (2001-05-04): |
| # This seems to be hopelessly confusing, so I asked Lee Hotz about it |
| # in person. He said that some Antartic locations set their local |
| # time so that noon is the warmest part of the day, and that this |
| # changes during the year and does not necessarily correspond to mean |
| # solar noon. So the Vostok time might have been whatever the clocks |
| # happened to be during their visit. So we still don't really know what time |
| # it is at Vostok. But we'll guess UTC+6. |
| # |
| Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16 |
| 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time |
| |
| # S Africa - year-round bases |
| # Marion Island, -4653+03752 |
| # Sanae, -7141-00250 |
| |
| # UK |
| # |
| # British Antarctic Territories (BAT) claims |
| # South Orkney Islands |
| # scientific station from 1903 |
| # whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926 |
| # South Shetland Islands |
| # |
| # year-round bases |
| # Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983 |
| # Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931, |
| # scientific station 1943/1967, |
| # previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident, |
| # and a garrison was deployed briefly |
| # Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06 |
| # Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated |
| # so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location. |
| # Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01 |
| # |
| # From Paul Eggert (2002-10-22) |
| # <http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html> says Rothera is -03 all year. |
| # |
| # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| Zone Antarctica/Rothera 0 - zzz 1976 Dec 1 |
| -3:00 - ROTT # Rothera time |
| |
| # Uruguay - year round base |
| # Artigas, King George Island, -621104-0585107 |
| |
| # USA - year-round bases |
| # |
| # Palmer, Anvers Island, since 1965 (moved 2 miles in 1968) |
| # |
| # From Ethan Dicks (1996-10-06): |
| # It keeps the same time as Punta Arenas, Chile, because, just like us |
| # and the South Pole, that's the other end of their supply line.... |
| # I verified with someone who was there that since 1980, |
| # Palmer has followed Chile. Prior to that, before the Falklands War, |
| # Palmer used to be supplied from Argentina. |
| # |
| # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965 |
| -4:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1969 Oct 5 |
| -3:00 ArgAQ AR%sT 1982 May |
| -4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT |
| # |
| # |
| # McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12 |
| # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956 |
| 12:00 NZAQ NZ%sT |
| # |
| # Amundsen-Scott, South Pole, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20 |
| # |
| # From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03): |
| # Normally it wouldn't have a separate entry, since it's like the |
| # larger Antarctica/McMurdo since 1970, but it's too famous to omit. |
| # |
| # From Chris Carrier (1996-06-27): |
| # Siple, the first commander of the South Pole station, |
| # stated that he would have liked to have kept GMT at the station, |
| # but that he found it more convenient to keep GMT+12 |
| # as supplies for the station were coming from McMurdo Sound, |
| # which was on GMT+12 because New Zealand was on GMT+12 all year |
| # at that time (1957). (Source: Siple's book 90 degrees SOUTH.) |
| # |
| # From Susan Smith |
| # http://www.cybertours.com/whs/pole10.html |
| # (1995-11-13 16:24:56 +1300, no longer available): |
| # We use the same time as McMurdo does. |
| # And they use the same time as Christchurch, NZ does.... |
| # One last quirk about South Pole time. |
| # All the electric clocks are usually wrong. |
| # Something about the generators running at 60.1hertz or something |
| # makes all of the clocks run fast. So every couple of days, |
| # we have to go around and set them back 5 minutes or so. |
| # Maybe if we let them run fast all of the time, we'd get to leave here sooner!! |
| # |
| Link Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/South_Pole |