Update to tzdata2006a with the US DST changes commented out for now.

1 files changed, 121 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/asia b/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/asia
index 492c653f94f..51b14261b08 100644
--- a/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/asia
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/asia
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-# $OpenBSD: asia,v 1.23 2005/07/19 15:48:36 millert Exp $
-# @(#)asia	7.83
+# $OpenBSD: asia,v 1.24 2006/02/18 19:47:24 millert Exp $
+# @(#)asia	7.91
+# <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
@@ -44,8 +45,8 @@
 #	8:00 CST	China
 #	9:00 CJT	Central Japanese Time (1896/1937)*
 #	9:00 EIT	east Indonesia
-#	9:00 JST	Japan
-#	9:00 KST	Korea
+#	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.
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Kabul	4:36:48 -	LMT	1890
 # Shanks has 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, even when he disagrees with others.  Edgar Der-Danieliantz
-# <edd@AIC.NET> reported (1996-05-04) that Yerevan probably wouldn't use DST
+# 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.
@@ -100,9 +101,12 @@ Zone	Asia/Yerevan	2:58:00 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			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	 1:00	1:00	S
-Rule	Azer	1997	max	-	Oct	lastSun	 1:00	0	-
+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
@@ -202,7 +206,6 @@ Zone	Asia/Phnom_Penh	6:59:40 -	LMT	1906 Jun  9
 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	1949	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	S
 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
@@ -350,6 +353,17 @@ Link	Asia/Nicosia	Europe/Nicosia
 # 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
@@ -361,7 +375,8 @@ Zone	Asia/Tbilisi	2:59:16 -	LMT	1880
 			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
+			3:00 RussiaAsia	GE%sT	2005 Mar lastSun 2:00
+			4:00	-	GET
 
 # East Timor
 
@@ -388,11 +403,11 @@ Zone	Asia/Tbilisi	2:59:16 -	LMT	1880
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Dili	8:22:20 -	LMT	1912
-			8:00	-	TPT	1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
+			8:00	-	TLT	1942 Feb 21 23:00 # E Timor Time
 			9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug
-			9:00	-	TPT	1976 May  3
+			9:00	-	TLT	1976 May  3
 			8:00	-	CIT	2000 Sep 17 00:00
-			9:00	-	TPT
+			9:00	-	TLT
 
 # India
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -848,14 +863,28 @@ Zone	Asia/Jerusalem	2:20:56 -	LMT	1880
 # Today's _Asahi Evening News_ (page 4) reports that Japan had
 # daylight saving between 1948 and 1951, but ``the system was discontinued
 # because the public believed it would lead to longer working hours.''
+
+# From Mayumi Negishi in the 2005-08-10 Japan Times
+# <http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050810f2.htm>:
+# Occupation authorities imposed daylight-saving time on Japan on
+# [1948-05-01]....  But lack of prior debate and the execution of
+# daylight-saving time just three days after the bill was passed generated
+# deep hatred of the concept....  The Diet unceremoniously passed a bill to
+# dump the unpopular system in October 1951, less than a month after the San
+# Francisco Peace Treaty was signed.  (A government poll in 1951 showed 53%
+# of the Japanese wanted to scrap daylight-saving time, as opposed to 30% who
+# wanted to keep it.)
+
 # Shanks writes that daylight saving in Japan during those years was as follows:
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
-#Rule	Japan	1948	only	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
-#Rule	Japan	1948	1951	-	Sep	Sat>=8	2:00	0	S
-#Rule	Japan	1949	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
-#Rule	Japan	1950	1951	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
-# but the only locations using it were US military bases.
-# We go with Shanks and omit daylight saving in those years for Asia/Tokyo.
+Rule	Japan	1948	only	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
+Rule	Japan	1948	1951	-	Sep	Sat>=8	2:00	0	S
+Rule	Japan	1949	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
+Rule	Japan	1950	1951	-	May	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
+# but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since
+# Shanks's audience is astrologers) were US military bases.  For now, assume
+# that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what
+# would have been the point of the 1951 poll?
 
 # From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09):
 # 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical
@@ -885,7 +914,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Jerusalem	2:20:56 -	LMT	1880
 Zone	Asia/Tokyo	9:18:59	-	LMT	1887 Dec 31 15:00u
 			9:00	-	JST	1896
 			9:00	-	CJT	1938
-			9:00	-	JST
+			9:00	Japan	J%sT
 # Since 1938, all Japanese possessions have been like Asia/Tokyo.
 
 # Jordan
@@ -903,6 +932,13 @@ Zone	Asia/Tokyo	9:18:59	-	LMT	1887 Dec 31 15:00u
 # The decision was taken because of the increase in working hours in
 # government's departments from six to seven hours.
 #
+# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22):
+# Starting 2003 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com.
+#
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23):
+# For Jordan I have received multiple independent user reports every year
+# about DST end dates, as the end-rule is different every year.
+#
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Jordan	1973	only	-	Jun	6	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Jordan	1973	1975	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
@@ -925,20 +961,25 @@ Rule	Jordan	1993	1998	-	Apr	Fri>=1	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Jordan	1994	only	-	Sep	Fri>=15	0:00	0	-
 Rule	Jordan	1995	1998	-	Sep	Fri>=15	0:00s	0	-
 Rule	Jordan	1999	only	-	Jul	 1	0:00s	1:00	S
-Rule	Jordan	1999	max	-	Sep	lastThu	0:00s	0	-
+Rule	Jordan	1999	2002	-	Sep	lastThu	0:00s	0	-
 Rule	Jordan	2000	max	-	Mar	lastThu	0:00s	1:00	S
+Rule	Jordan	2003	only	-	Oct	24	0:00s	0	-
+Rule	Jordan	2004	only	-	Oct	15	0:00s	0	-
+Rule	Jordan	2005	max	-	Sep	lastFri	0:00s	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Amman	2:23:44 -	LMT	1931
 			2:00	Jordan	EE%sT
 
+
 # Kazakhstan
+
 # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
 # Andrew Evtichov (1996-04-13) writes that Kazakhstan
 # stayed in sync with Moscow after 1990, and that Aqtobe (formerly Aktyubinsk)
 # and Aqtau (formerly Shevchenko) are the largest cities in their zones.
 # Guess that Aqtau and Aqtobe diverged in 1995, since that's the first time
 # IATA SSIM mentions a third time zone in Kazakhstan.
-#
+
 # From Paul Eggert (2001-10-18):
 # German Iofis, ELSI, Almaty (2001-10-09) reports that Kazakhstan uses
 # RussiaAsia rules, instead of switching at 00:00 as the IATA has it.
@@ -948,7 +989,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Amman	2:23:44 -	LMT	1931
 # - Kazakhstan did not observe DST in 1991.
 # - Qyzylorda switched from +5:00 to +6:00 on 1992-01-19 02:00.
 # - Oral switched from +5:00 to +4:00 in spring 1989.
-#
+
 # <a href="http://www.kazsociety.org.uk/news/2005/03/30.htm">
 # From Kazakhstan Embassy's News Bulletin #11 (2005-03-21):
 # </a>
@@ -956,6 +997,16 @@ Zone	Asia/Amman	2:23:44 -	LMT	1931
 # daylight saving time citing lack of economic benefits and health
 # complications coupled with a decrease in productivity.
 #
+# From Branislav Kojic (in Astana) via Gwillim Law (2005-06-28):
+# ... what happened was that the former Kazakhstan Eastern time zone
+# was "blended" with the Central zone.  Therefore, Kazakhstan now has
+# two time zones, and difference between them is one hour.  The zone
+# closer to UTC is the former Western zone (probably still called the
+# same), encompassing four provinces in the west: Aqtobe, Atyrau,
+# Mangghystau, and West Kazakhstan.  The other zone encompasses
+# everything else....  I guess that would make Kazakhstan time zones
+# de jure UTC+5 and UTC+6 respectively.
+
 #
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 #
@@ -999,7 +1050,7 @@ Zone	Asia/Aqtau	3:21:04	-	LMT	1924 May  2
 			5:00	-	SHET	1991 Dec 16 # independence
 			5:00 RussiaAsia	AQT%sT	1995 Mar lastSun 2:00 # Aqtau Time
 			4:00 RussiaAsia	AQT%sT	2005 Mar 15
-			4:00	-	AQTT
+			5:00	-	AQTT
 # West Kazakhstan
 Zone	Asia/Oral	3:25:24	-	LMT	1924 May  2 # or Ural'sk
 			4:00	-	URAT	1930 Jun 21 # Ural'sk time
@@ -1010,21 +1061,32 @@ Zone	Asia/Oral	3:25:24	-	LMT	1924 May  2 # or Ural'sk
 			4:00 RussiaAsia	URA%sT	1991
 			4:00	-	URAT	1991 Dec 16 # independence
 			4:00 RussiaAsia	ORA%sT	2005 Mar 15 # Oral Time
-			4:00	-	ORAT
+			5:00	-	ORAT
 
 # Kyrgyzstan (Kirgizstan)
 # Transitions through 1991 are from Shanks.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-15):
+# According to an article dated today in the Kyrgyzstan Development Gateway
+# <http://eng.gateway.kg/cgi-bin/page.pl?id=1&story_name=doc9979.shtml>
+# Kyrgyzstan is canceling the daylight saving time system.  I take the article
+# to mean that they will leave their clocks at 6 hours ahead of UTC.
+# From Malik Abdugaliev (2005-09-21):
+# Our government cancels daylight saving time 6th of August 2005.
+# From 2005-08-12 our GMT-offset is +6, w/o any daylight saving.
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
-Rule	Kirgiz	1992	1996	-	Apr	Sun>=7	0:00s	1:00	S
-Rule	Kirgiz	1992	1996	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
-Rule	Kirgiz	1997	max	-	Mar	lastSun	2:30	1:00	S
-Rule	Kirgiz	1997	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:30	0	-
+Rule	Kyrgyz	1992	1996	-	Apr	Sun>=7	0:00s	1:00	S
+Rule	Kyrgyz	1992	1996	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	0	-
+Rule	Kyrgyz	1997	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:30	1:00	S
+Rule	Kyrgyz	1997	2004	-	Oct	lastSun	2:30	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Bishkek	4:58:24 -	LMT	1924 May  2
 			5:00	-	FRUT	1930 Jun 21 # Frunze Time
 			6:00 RussiaAsia FRU%sT	1991 Mar 31 2:00s
 			5:00	1:00	FRUST	1991 Aug 31 2:00 # independence
-			5:00	Kirgiz	KG%sT		    # Kirgizstan Time
+			5:00	Kyrgyz	KG%sT	2005 Aug 12    # Kyrgyzstan Time
+			6:00	-	KGT
 
 ###############################################################################
 
@@ -1192,6 +1254,24 @@ Zone	Indian/Maldives	4:54:00 -	LMT	1880	# Male
 # For now, assume Rives McDow's informant got confused about Friday vs
 # Saturday, and that his 2001 dates should have 1 added to them.
 
+# From Paul Eggert (2005-07-26):
+# We have wildly conflicting information about Mongolia's time zones.
+# Bill Bonnet (2005-05-19) reports that the US Embassy in Ulaanbaatar says
+# there is only one time zone and that DST is observed, citing Microsoft
+# Windows XP as the source.  Risto Nykanen (2005-05-16) reports that
+# travelmongolia.org says there are two time zones (UTC+7, UTC+8) with no DST.
+# Oscar van Vlijmen (2005-05-20) reports that the Mongolian Embassy in
+# Washington, DC says there are two time zones, with DST observed.
+# He also found
+# <http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?subaction=showcomments&id=1111634894&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1&>
+# which also says that there is DST, and which has a comment by "Toddius"
+# (2005-03-31 06:05 +0700) saying "Mongolia actually has 3.5 time zones.
+# The West (OLGII) is +7 GMT, most of the country is ULAT is +8 GMT
+# and some Eastern provinces are +9 GMT but Sukhbaatar Aimag is SUHK +8.5 GMT.
+# The SUKH timezone is new this year, it is one of the few things the
+# parliament passed during the tumultuous winter session."
+# For now, let's ignore this information, until we have more confirmation.
+
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Mongol	1983	1984	-	Apr	1	0:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Mongol	1983	only	-	Oct	1	0:00	0	-
@@ -1355,6 +1435,15 @@ Zone	Asia/Karachi	4:28:12 -	LMT	1907
 # For now, let's assume that the spring switch was at 24:00,
 # and that they switch at 0:00 on the 3rd Fridays of April and October.
 
+# From Paul Eggert (2005-11-22):
+# Starting 2004 transitions are from Steffen Thorsen's web site timeanddate.com.
+
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2005-11-23):
+# A user from Gaza reported that Gaza made the change early because of
+# the Ramadan.  Next year Ramadan will be even earlier, so I think
+# there is a good chance next year's end date will be around two weeks
+# earlier--the same goes for Jordan.
+
 # The rules for Egypt are stolen from the `africa' file.
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule EgyptAsia	1957	only	-	May	10	0:00	1:00	S
@@ -1365,7 +1454,9 @@ Rule EgyptAsia	1959	1965	-	Sep	30	3:00	0	-
 Rule EgyptAsia	1966	only	-	Oct	 1	3:00	0	-
 
 Rule Palestine	1999	max	-	Apr	Fri>=15	0:00	1:00	S
-Rule Palestine	1999	max	-	Oct	Fri>=15	0:00	0	-
+Rule Palestine	1999	2003	-	Oct	Fri>=15	0:00	0	-
+Rule Palestine	2004	only	-	Oct	 1	1:00	0	-
+Rule Palestine	2005	max	-	Oct	 4	2:00	0	-
 
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Asia/Gaza	2:17:52	-	LMT	1900 Oct