# or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any

# questions.

#

# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.

# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359

#

# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is

# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).

#

# European-style abbreviations are commonly used along the Mediterranean.

# For sub-Saharan Africa abbreviations were less standardized.

# Previous editions of this database used WAT, CAT, SAT, and EAT

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

ZoneAfrica/Abidjan-0:16:08 -LMT1912

0:00-GMT

Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Accra# Ghana

Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Bamako# Mali

Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Banjul# Gambia

Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Banjul#TheGambia

Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Conakry# Guinea

Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Dakar# Senegal

Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Freetown# Sierra Leone

# Gabon

# See Africa/Lagos.

# Gambia

# See Africa/Abidjan.

# The Gambia

# Ghana

# From P Chan (2020-11-20):

# Interpretation Amendment Ordinance, 1915 (No.24 of 1915) [1915-11-02]

# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1915, p 69-71

# https://books.google.com/books?id=ErA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA70

# This Ordinance added "'Time' shall mean Greenwich Mean Time" to the

# Interpretation Ordinance, 1876.

#

# Determination of the Time Ordinance, 1919 (No. 18 of 1919) [1919-11-24]

# Ordinances of the Gold Coast, Ashanti, Northern Territories 1919, p 75-76

# https://books.google.com/books?id=MbA-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA75

# This Ordinance removed the previous definition of time and introduced DST.

#

# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 214)

# The Laws of the Gold Coast (including Togoland Under British Mandate)

# Vol. II (1937), p 2328

# https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7M-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA2328

# Revised edition of the 1919 Ordinance.

#

# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1940 (No. 9 of 1940) [1940-04-06]

# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:

# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1940, p 22

# https://books.google.com/books?id=1ao-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA22

# This Ordinance changed the forward transition from September to May.

#

# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment) Regulations, 1942

# (Regulations No. 6 of 1942) [1942-01-31, commenced on 1942-02-08]

# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:

# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 48

# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA48

# These regulations advanced the [standard] time by thirty minutes.

#

# Defence (Time Determination Ordinance Amendment (No.2)) Regulations,

# 1942 (Regulations No. 28 of 1942) [1942-04-25]

# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:

# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1942, p 87

# https://books.google.com/books?id=Das-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA87

# These regulations abolished DST and changed the time to GMT+0:30.

#

# Defence (Revocation) (No.4) Regulations, 1945 (Regulations No. 45 of

# 1945) [1945-10-24, commenced on 1946-01-06]

# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:

# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 256

# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA256

# These regulations revoked the previous two sets of Regulations.

#

# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1945 (No. 18 of 1945) [1946-01-06]

# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:

# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1945, p 69

# https://books.google.com/books?id=9as-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA69

# This Ordinance abolished DST.

#

# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950 (No. 26 of 1950) [1950-07-22]

# Annual Volume of the Laws of the Gold Coast:

# Containing All Legislation Enacted During Year 1950, p 35

# https://books.google.com/books?id=e60-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA35

# This Ordinance restored DST but with thirty minutes offset.

#

# Time Determination Ordinance (Cap. 264)

# The Laws of the Gold Coast, Vol. V (1954), p 380

# https://books.google.com/books?id=Mqc-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA380

# Revised edition of the Time Determination Ordinance.

#

# Time Determination (Amendment) Ordinance, 1956 (No. 21 of 1956) [1956-08-29]

# Annual Volume of the Ordinances of the Gold Coast Enacted During the

# Year 1956, p 83

# https://books.google.com/books?id=VLE-AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA83

# This Ordinance abolished DST.

# RuleNAMEFROMTO-INONATSAVELETTER/S

RuleGhana1919only-Nov240:000:20+0020

RuleGhana19201942-Jan 12:000GMT

RuleGhana19201939-Sep 12:000:20+0020

RuleGhana19401941-May 12:000:20+0020

RuleGhana19501955-Sep 12:000:30+0030

RuleGhana19511956-Jan 12:000GMT

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

ZoneAfrica/Accra-0:00:52 -LMT1915 Nov 2

0:00Ghana%s1942 Feb 8

0:30-+00301946 Jan 6

0:00Ghana%s

# Guinea

# See Africa/Abidjan.

# See Africa/Nairobi.

# Morocco

# Seethe 'europe' filefor Spanish Morocco (Africa/Ceuta).

# SeeAfrica/Ceutafor Spanish Morocco.

# From Alex Krivenyshev (2008-05-09):

# Here is an article that Morocco plan to introduce Daylight Saving Time between

0:13:35-LMT1914 Jan 1

0:30-+00301919 Sep 1

1:00-WAT

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Bangui# Central African Republic

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Brazzaville# Rep. of the Congo

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Douala# Cameroon

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Kinshasa# Dem. Rep. of the Congo (west)

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville# Gabon

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda# Angola

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo# Equatorial Guinea

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Niamey# Niger

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Porto-Novo# Benin

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Bangui# Central African Republic

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Brazzaville# Rep. of the Congo

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Douala# Cameroon

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Kinshasa# Dem. Rep. of the Congo (west)

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville# Gabon

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Luanda# Angola

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Malabo# Equatorial Guinea

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Niamey# Niger

Link Africa/Lagos Africa/Porto-Novo# Benin

# Réunion

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

ZoneIndian/Reunion3:41:52 -LMT1911 Jun # Saint-Denis

4:00-+04

#

# Crozet Islands also observes Réunion time; see the 'antarctica' file.

#

# Scattered Islands (Îles Éparses) administered from Réunion are as follows.

# The following information about them is taken from

# Îles Éparses (<http://www.outre-mer.gouv.fr/domtom/ile.htm>, 1997-07-22,

Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 -LMT1892 Feb 8

1:30-SAST1903 Mar

2:00SASAST

Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maseru# Lesotho

Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane# Eswatini

Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maseru# Lesotho

Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane# Eswatini

#

# Marion and Prince Edward Is

# scientific station since 1947

3:00-EAT2017 Nov 1

2:00-CAT

# South Sudan

# From Steffen Thorsen (2021-01-18):

# "South Sudan will change its time zone by setting the clock back 1

# hour on February 1, 2021...."

# from https://eyeradio.org/south-sudan-adopts-new-time-zone-makuei/

# South Sudan

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

ZoneAfrica/Juba2:06:28 -LMT1931

2:00SudanCA%sT2000 Jan 15 12:00

RuleTunisia20062008-MarlastSun 2:00s1:00S

RuleTunisia20062008-OctlastSun 2:00s0-

# See Europe/Paris for PMT-related transitions.

# See Europe/Pariscommentaryfor PMT-related transitions.

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

ZoneAfrica/Tunis0:40:44 -LMT1881 May 12

0:09:21-PMT1911 Mar 11 # Paris Mean Time

#

# Alfred Faure, Possession Island, Crozet Islands, -462551+0515152, since 1964;

#sealing & whaling stations operated variously 1802/1911+;

#seeIndian/Reunion.

#seeAsia/Dubai.

#

# Martin-de-Viviès, Amsterdam Island, -374105+0773155, since 1950

# Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen Islands, -492110+0701303, since 1951;

5:00-+05

#

# year-round base in the main continent

# Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11

# <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05)

#

# Another base at Port-Martin, 50km east, began operation in 1947.

# It was destroyed by fire on 1952-01-14.

#

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

Zone Antarctica/DumontDUrville 0 --001947

10:00-+101952 Jan 14

0--001956 Nov

10:00-+10

# Dumont d'Urville - see Pacific/Port_Moresby.

# France & Italy - year-round base

# Concordia, -750600+1232000, since 2005

# Zuchelli, Terra Nova Bay, -744140+1640647, since 1986

# Japan - year-round bases

# Syowa (also known as Showa), -690022+0393524, since 1957

#

# 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.

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

Zone Antarctica/Syowa0--001957 Jan 29

3:00-+03

# See:

# NIPR Antarctic Research Activities (1999-08-17)

# http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/ara01.html

# See Asia/Riyadh.

# S Korea - year-round base

# Jang Bogo, Terra Nova Bay, -743700+1641205 since 2014

# Byalokoz EL. New Counting of Time in Russia since July 1, 1919.

# (See the 'europe' file for a fuller citation.)

#

# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is

# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).

#

# The following alphabetic abbreviations appear in these tables

# (corrections are welcome):

# std dst

# From Paul Eggert (2013-12-11):

# As Steffen suggested, consider the past 21-month experiment to be DST.

# From Steffen Thorsen (2021-09-24):

# The Jordanian Government announced yesterday that they will start DST

# in February instead of March:

# https://petra.gov.jo/Include/InnerPage.jsp?ID=37683&lang=en&name=en_news (English)

# https://petra.gov.jo/Include/InnerPage.jsp?ID=189969&lang=ar&name=news (Arabic)

# From the Arabic version, it seems to say it would be at midnight

# (assume 24:00) on the last Thursday in February, starting from 2022.

# RuleNAMEFROMTO-INONATSAVELETTER/S

RuleJordan1973only-Jun60:001:00S

RuleJordan19731975-Oct10:000-

RuleJordan2005only-SeplastFri0:00s0-

RuleJordan20062011-OctlastFri0:00s0-

RuleJordan2013only-Dec200:000-

RuleJordan2014max-MarlastThu24:001:00S

RuleJordan20142021-MarlastThu24:001:00S

RuleJordan2014max-OctlastFri0:00s0-

RuleJordan2022max-FeblastThu24:001:00S

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

ZoneAsia/Amman2:23:44 -LMT1931

2:00JordanEE%sT

#

# peninsular Malaysia

# taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)

# http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html

# https://web.archive.org/web/20190822231045/http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~mathelmr/teaching/timezone.html

# This agrees with Singapore since 1905-06-01.

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

Zone Asia/Kuala_Lumpur6:46:46 -LMT1901 Jan 1

6:55:25-SMT1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.

# influence of the sources. There is no current abbreviation for DST,

# so use "PDT", the usual American style.

# From P Chan (2021-05-10):

# Here's a fairly comprehensive article in Japanese:

# https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/Philippine%20Time

# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-10):

# The info in the Japanese table has not been absorbed (yet) below.

# RuleNAMEFROMTO-INONATSAVELETTER/S

RulePhil1936only-Nov10:001:00D

RulePhil1937only-Feb10:000S

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

ZoneAsia/Riyadh3:06:52 -LMT1947 Mar 14

3:00-+03

Link Asia/Riyadh Antarctica/Syowa

Link Asia/Riyadh Asia/Aden# Yemen

Link Asia/Riyadh Asia/Kuwait

# Singapore

# taken from Mok Ly Yng (2003-10-30)

# http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/teaching/timezone.html

#https://web.archive.org/web/20190822231045/http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/~mathelmr/teaching/timezone.html

# ZoneNAMESTDOFFRULESFORMAT[UNTIL]

ZoneAsia/Singapore6:55:25 -LMT1901 Jan 1

6:55:25-SMT1905 Jun 1 # Singapore M.T.