# @(#)africa 8.28

# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-07-20):

# According to News from Egypt - Al-Masry Al-Youm Egypt's cabinet has

# decided that Daylight Saving Time will not be used in Egypt during

# Ramadan.

#

# Arabic translation:

# "Clocks to go back during Ramadan--and then forward again"

# <a href="http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again">

# http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/clocks-go-back-during-ramadan-and-then-forward-again

# </a>

# or

# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html">

# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_egypt02.html

# </a>

Rule Egypt 2010 only - Aug 11 0:00 0 -

Rule Egypt 2010 only - Sep 10 0:00 1:00 S

# @(#)asia 8.61

# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-08-11):

# According to several sources, including

# <a href="http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306795">

# http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=306795

# </a>

# the clocks were set back one hour at 2010-08-11 00:00:00 local time in

# Gaza and the West Bank.

# Some more background info:

# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-end-dst-2010.html">

# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/westbank-gaza-end-dst-2010.html

# </a>

Rule Palestine 2010 only - Aug 11 0:00 0 -

# @(#)australasia 8.18

Zone Pacific/Chuuk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901

10:00 - CHUT # Chuuk Time

Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia

11:00 - PONT # Pohnpei Time

# @(#)backward 8.9

Link Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Yap

Link Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Truk

Link Pacific/Pohnpei Pacific/Ponape

# @(#)europe 8.27

# From Janne Snabb (2010-0715):

# I noticed that the Finland data is not accurate for years 1981 and 1982.

# During these two first trial years the DST adjustment was made one hour

# earlier than in forthcoming years. Starting 1983 the adjustment was made

# according to the central European standards.

#

# This is documented in Heikki Oja: Aikakirja 2007, published by The Almanac

# Office of University of Helsinki, ISBN 952-10-3221-9, available online (in

# Finnish) at

#

# <a href="http://almanakka.helsinki.fi/aikakirja/Aikakirja2007kokonaan.pdf">

# http://almanakka.helsinki.fi/aikakirja/Aikakirja2007kokonaan.pdf

# </a>

#

# Page 105 (56 in PDF version) has a handy table of all past daylight savings

# transitions. It is easy enough to interpret without Finnish skills.

#

# This is also confirmed by Finnish Broadcasting Company's archive at:

# <a href="http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=5&t=&a=3401">

# http://www.yle.fi/elavaarkisto/?s=s&g=1&ag=5&t=&a=3401

# </a>

#

# The news clip from 1981 says that "the time between 2 and 3 o'clock does not

# exist tonight."

Rule Finland 1981 1982 - Mar lastSun 2:00 1:00 S

Rule Finland 1981 1982 - Sep lastSun 3:00 0 -

2:00 Finland EE%sT 1983

# @(#)leapseconds 8.10

# Paris, 14 July 2010

# Bulletin C 40

# NO positive leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2010.

# International Atomic Time TAI is :

# Director

# @(#)northamerica 8.34

# From Mark Brader (2010-03-06):

#

# Currently the database has:

#

# # Ontario

#

# # From Paul Eggert (2006-07-09):

# # Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of Ontario has been like

# # Toronto.

# # Thunder Bay skipped DST in 1973.

# # Many smaller locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1974;

# # Nipigon (EST) and Rainy River (CST) are the largest that we know of.

#

# In the (Toronto) Globe and Mail for Saturday, 1955-09-24, in the bottom

# right corner of page 1, it says that Toronto will return to standard

# time at 2 am Sunday morning (which agrees with the database), and that:

#

# The one-hour setback will go into effect throughout most of Ontario,

# except in areas like Windsor which remains on standard time all year.

#

# Windsor is, of course, a lot larger than Nipigon.

#

# I only came across this incidentally. I don't know if Windsor began

# observing DST when Detroit did, or in 1974, or on some other date.

#

# By the way, the article continues by noting that:

#

# Some cities in the United States have pushed the deadline back

# three weeks and will change over from daylight saving in October.

# From Arthur David Olson (2010-07-17):

#

# "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" appeared in

# The Journal of The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada,

# volume 26, number 2 (February 1932) and, as of 2010-07-17,

# was available at

# <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S">

# http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1932JRASC..26...49S

# </a>

#

# It includes the text below (starting on page 57):

#

# A list of the places in Canada using daylight saving time would

# require yearly revision. From information kindly furnished by

# the provincial governments and by the postmasters in many cities

# and towns, it is found that the following places used daylight sav-

# ing in 1930. The information for the province of Quebec is definite,

# for the other provinces only approximate:

#

# Province Daylight saving time used

# Prince Edward Island Not used.

# Nova Scotia In Halifax only.

# New Brunswick In St. John only.

# Quebec In the following places:

# Montreal Lachine

# Quebec Mont-Royal

# Levis Iberville

# St. Lambert Cap de la Madeleine

# Verdun Loretteville

# Westmount Richmond

# Outremont St. Jerome

# Longueuil Greenfield Park

# Arvida Waterloo

# Chambly-Canton Beaulieu

# Melbourne La Tuque

# St. Theophile Buckingham

# Ontario Used generally in the cities and towns along

# the southerly part of the province. Not

# used in the northwesterlhy part.

# Manitoba Not used.

# Saskatchewan In Regina only.

# Alberta Not used.

# British Columbia Not used.

#

# With some exceptions, the use of daylight saving may be said to be limited

# to those cities and towns lying between Quebec city and Windsor, Ont.

-7:00 Mexico M%sT 2010 Apr 4 2:00