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6		# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see
7		# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
8
9	<	# From Paul Eggert (2013-08-11):
9	>	# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
10		#
11	<	# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
11	>	# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
12		# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
13		# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
14	+	# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
15		#
16		# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
17		# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
18		# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
19		# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
20	<	# of the IATA's data after 1990.
20	>	# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted,
21	>	# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
22		#
21	–	# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
22	–	# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
23	–	#
23		# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
24		# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
25		# I found in the UCLA library.
#	Line 146 \| Line 145 \| Zone Asia/Baku 3:19:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
145		4:00 Azer AZ%sT
146
147		# Bahrain
148	<	# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
150	<	Zone Asia/Bahrain 3:22:20 - LMT 1920 # Manamah
151	<	4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
152	<	3:00 - AST
148	>	# See Asia/Qatar.
149
150		# Bangladesh
151		# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-05-13):
#	Line 1663 \| Line 1659 \| Zone Asia/Bishkek 4:58:24 - LMT 1924 May 2
1659		# Korea (North and South)
1660
1661		# From Annie I. Bang (2006-07-10):
1662	<	# http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/07/10/200607100012.asp
1663	<	# The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy has already
1664	<	# commissioned a research project [to reintroduce DST] and has said
1665	<	# the system may begin as early as 2008.... Korea ran a daylight
1670	<	# saving program from 1949-61 but stopped it during the 1950-53 Korean War.
1662	>	# http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=200607100012
1663	>	# Korea ran a daylight saving program from 1949-61 but stopped it
1664	>	# during the 1950-53 Korean War. The system was temporarily enforced
1665	>	# between 1987 and 1988 ...
1666
1667	<	# From Shanks & Pottenger:
1667	>	# From Sanghyuk Jung (2014-10-29):
1668	>	# http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021830.html
1669	>	# According to the Korean Wikipedia
1670	>	# http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/한국_표준시
1671	>	# [oldid=12896437 2014-09-04 08:03 UTC]
1672	>	# DST in Republic of Korea was as follows.... And I checked old
1673	>	# newspapers in Korean, all articles correspond with data in Wikipedia.
1674	>	# For example, the article in 1948 (Korean Language) proved that DST
1675	>	# started at June 1 in that year. For another example, the article in
1676	>	# 1988 said that DST started at 2:00 AM in that year.
1677	>
1678		# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1679	<	Rule ROK 1960 only - May 15 0:00 1:00 D
1680	<	Rule ROK 1960 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
1681	<	Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun>=8 0:00 1:00 D
1682	<	Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
1679	>	Rule ROK 1948 only - Jun 1 0:00 1:00 D
1680	>	Rule ROK 1948 only - Sep 13 0:00 0 S
1681	>	Rule ROK 1949 only - Apr 3 0:00 1:00 D
1682	>	Rule ROK 1949 1951 - Sep Sun>=8 0:00 0 S
1683	>	Rule ROK 1950 only - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 D
1684	>	Rule ROK 1951 only - May 6 0:00 1:00 D
1685	>	Rule ROK 1955 only - May 5 0:00 1:00 D
1686	>	Rule ROK 1955 only - Sep 9 0:00 0 S
1687	>	Rule ROK 1956 only - May 20 0:00 1:00 D
1688	>	Rule ROK 1956 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 S
1689	>	Rule ROK 1957 1960 - May Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 D
1690	>	Rule ROK 1957 1960 - Sep Sun>=18 0:00 0 S
1691	>	Rule ROK 1987 1988 - May Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
1692	>	Rule ROK 1987 1988 - Oct Sun>=8 3:00 0 S
1693
1694	<	# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-01):
1695	<	# The following entries are from Shanks & Pottenger, except that I
1696	<	# guessed that time zone abbreviations through 1945 followed the same
1694	>	# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-30):
1695	>	# The Korean Wikipedia entry gives the following sources for UT offsets:
1696	>	#
1697	>	# 1908: Official Journal Article No. 3994 (Edict No. 5)
1698	>	# 1912: Governor-General of Korea Official Gazette Issue No. 367
1699	>	# (Announcement No. 338)
1700	>	# 1954: Presidential Decree No. 876 (1954-03-17)
1701	>	# 1961: Law No. 676 (1961-08-07)
1702	>	# 1987: Law No. 3919 (1986-12-31)
1703	>	#
1704	>	# The Wikipedia entry also has confusing information about a change
1705	>	# to UT+9 in April 1910, but then what would be the point of the later change
1706	>	# to UT+9 on 1912-01-01? Omit the 1910 change for now.
1707	>	#
1708	>	# I guessed that time zone abbreviations through 1945 followed the same
1709		# rules as discussed under Taiwan, with nominal switches from JST to KST
1710		# when the respective cities were taken over by the Allies after WWII.
1711	+	#
1712	+	# For Pyongyang we have no information; guess no changes since World War II.
1713
1714		# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1715	<	Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1890
1716	<	8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
1688	<	9:00 - JCST 1928
1689	<	8:30 - KST 1932
1715	>	Zone Asia/Seoul 8:27:52 - LMT 1908 Apr 1
1716	>	8:30 - KST 1912 Jan 1
1717		9:00 - JCST 1937 Oct 1
1718		9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 8
1719		9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
1720	<	8:00 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10
1694	<	8:30 - KST 1968 Oct
1720	>	8:30 ROK K%sT 1961 Aug 10
1721		9:00 ROK K%sT
1722	<	Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1890
1723	<	8:30 - KST 1904 Dec
1698	<	9:00 - JCST 1928
1699	<	8:30 - KST 1932
1722	>	Zone Asia/Pyongyang 8:23:00 - LMT 1908 Apr 1
1723	>	8:30 - KST 1912 Jan 1
1724		9:00 - JCST 1937 Oct 1
1725		9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 24
1702	–	9:00 - KST 1954 Mar 21
1703	–	8:00 - KST 1961 Aug 10
1726		9:00 - KST
1727
1728		###############################################################################
1729
1730		# Kuwait
1731	<	# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1710	<	Zone Asia/Kuwait 3:11:56 - LMT 1950
1711	<	3:00 - AST
1731	>	# See Asia/Riyadh.
1732
1733		# Laos
1734		# See Asia/Bangkok.
#	Line 1884 \| Line 1904 \| Zone Indian/Maldives 4:54:00 - LMT 1880 # Male
1904		# was at the start of 2008-03-31 (the day of Steffen Thorsen's report);
1905		# this is almost surely wrong.
1906
1907	+	# From Ganbold Tsagaankhuu (2015-03-10):
1908	+	# It seems like yesterday Mongolian Government meeting has concluded to use
1909	+	# daylight saving time in Mongolia.... Starting at 2:00AM of last Saturday of
1910	+	# March 2015, daylight saving time starts. And 00:00AM of last Saturday of
1911	+	# September daylight saving time ends. Source:
1912	+	# http://zasag.mn/news/view/8969
1913	+
1914		# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
1915		Rule Mongol 1983 1984 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S
1916		Rule Mongol 1983 only - Oct 1 0:00 0 -
#	Line 1904 \| Line 1931 \| Rule Mongol 1984 1998 - Sep lastSun 0:00 0 -
1931		Rule Mongol 2001 only - Apr lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
1932		Rule Mongol 2001 2006 - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 -
1933		Rule Mongol 2002 2006 - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
1934	+	Rule Mongol 2015 max - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S
1935	+	Rule Mongol 2015 max - Sep lastSat 0:00 0 -
1936
1937		# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1938		# Hovd, a.k.a. Chovd, Dund-Us, Dzhargalant, Khovd, Jirgalanta
#	Line 1929 \| Line 1958 \| Zone Asia/Kathmandu 5:41:16 - LMT 1920
1958		5:45 - NPT # Nepal Time
1959
1960		# Oman
1961	+	# See Asia/Dubai.
1962
1933	–	# Milne says 3:54:24 was the meridian of the Muscat Tidal Observatory.
1934	–
1935	–	# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
1936	–	Zone Asia/Muscat 3:54:24 - LMT 1920
1937	–	4:00 - GST
1938	–
1963		# Pakistan
1964
1965		# From Rives McDow (2002-03-13):
#	Line 2327 \| Line 2351 \| Zone Asia/Karachi 4:28:12 - LMT 1907
2351		# official source...:
2352		# http://www.palestinecabinet.gov.ps/ar/Views/ViewDetails.aspx?pid=1252
2353
2354	<	# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-24):
2355	<	# For future dates, guess the last Thursday in March at 24:00 through
2356	<	# the first Friday on or after September 21 at 00:00. This is consistent with
2357	<	# the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs,
2358	<	# which are for Gaza and Hebron respectively:
2359	<	# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=702
2360	<	# http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=2364
2354	>	# From Steffen Thorsen (2015-03-03):
2355	>	# Sources such as http://www.alquds.com/news/article/view/id/548257
2356	>	# and http://www.raya.ps/ar/news/890705.html say Palestine areas will
2357	>	# start DST on 2015-03-28 00:00 which is one day later than expected.
2358	>	#
2359	>	# From Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):
2360	>	# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014
2361	>	# says that the fall 2014 transition was Oct 23 at 24:00.
2362	>	# For future dates, guess the last Friday in March at 24:00 through
2363	>	# the first Friday on or after October 21 at 00:00. This is consistent with
2364	>	# the predictions in today's editions of the following URLs:
2365	>	# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/gaza-strip/gaza
2366	>	# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/hebron
2367
2368		# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
2369		Rule EgyptAsia 1957 only - May 10 0:00 1:00 S
#	Line 2359 \| Line 2389 \| Rule Palestine 2011 only - Apr 1 0:01 1:00 S
2389		Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 1 0:00 0 -
2390		Rule Palestine 2011 only - Aug 30 0:00 1:00 S
2391		Rule Palestine 2011 only - Sep 30 0:00 0 -
2392	<	Rule Palestine 2012 max - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S
2392	>	Rule Palestine 2012 2014 - Mar lastThu 24:00 1:00 S
2393		Rule Palestine 2012 only - Sep 21 1:00 0 -
2394	<	Rule Palestine 2013 max - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 -
2394	>	Rule Palestine 2013 only - Sep Fri>=21 0:00 0 -
2395	>	Rule Palestine 2014 max - Oct Fri>=21 0:00 0 -
2396	>	Rule Palestine 2015 max - Mar lastFri 24:00 1:00 S
2397
2398		# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2399		Zone Asia/Gaza 2:17:52 - LMT 1900 Oct
#	Line 2428 \| Line 2460 \| Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
2460		Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / Doha
2461		4:00 - GST 1972 Jun
2462		3:00 - AST
2463	+	Link Asia/Qatar Asia/Bahrain
2464
2465		# Saudi Arabia
2466		#
#	Line 2454 \| Line 2487 \| Zone Asia/Qatar 3:26:08 - LMT 1920 # Al Dawhah / D
2487		# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2488		Zone Asia/Riyadh 3:06:52 - LMT 1947 Mar 14
2489		3:00 - AST
2490	+	Link Asia/Riyadh Asia/Aden # Yemen
2491	+	Link Asia/Riyadh Asia/Kuwait
2492
2493		# Singapore
2494		# taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)
#	Line 2742 \| Line 2777 \| Zone Asia/Ashgabat 3:53:32 - LMT 1924 May 2 # or Ashk
2777		# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2778		Zone Asia/Dubai 3:41:12 - LMT 1920
2779		4:00 - GST
2780	+	Link Asia/Dubai Asia/Muscat # Oman
2781
2782		# Uzbekistan
2783		# Byalokoz 1919 says Uzbekistan was 4:27:53.
#	Line 2826 \| Line 2862 \| Zone Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh 7:06:40 - LMT 1906 Jul 1
2862		7:00 - ICT
2863
2864		# Yemen
2865	<
2830	<	# Milne says 2:59:54 was the meridian of the saluting battery at Aden,
2831	<	# and that Yemen was at 1:55:56, the meridian of the Hagia Sophia.
2832	<
2833	<	# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
2834	<	Zone Asia/Aden 2:59:54 - LMT 1950
2835	<	3:00 - AST
2865	>	# See Asia/Riyadh.

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