Time Zone Changes in 2002

Rives McDow (2002-03-13):

I have been advised that Pakistan has decided to adopt dst on a
TRIAL basis for one year, starting 00:01 local time on April 7, 2002
and ending at 00:01 local time October 6, 2002.  This is what I was
told, but I believe that the actual time of change may be 00:00; the
00:01 was to make it clear which day it was on.

Attached to: Pakistan (asia)

Paul Eggert (2002-03-15):

Jesper Nørgaard found this URL:
http://www.pak.gov.pk/public/news/app/app06_dec.htm
(dated 2001-12-06) which says that the Cabinet adopted a scheme "to
advance the clocks by one hour on the night between the first
Saturday and Sunday of April and revert to the original position on
15th October each year".  This agrees with McDow's 04-07 at 00:00,
but disagrees about the October transition, and makes it sound like
it's not on a trial basis.  Also, the "between the first Saturday
and Sunday of April" phrase, if taken literally, means that the
transition takes place at 00:00 on the first Sunday on or after 04-02.

Attached to: Pakistan (asia)

Rives McDow (2002-04-09):

The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
southern coast....  South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
Australia does not.  The two states are one and a half hours apart.  The
residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
Australia and Western Australia....

Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):

This is confirmed by the section entitled
"What's the deal with time zones???" in
http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html

Pulu ʻAnau (2002-11-05):

The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed.  It wasn't.

Toomas Soome (2002-02-21):

The Estonian government has changed once again timezone politics.
Now we are using again EU rules.

Attached to: Europe/Tallinn (europe)

Urmet Jänes (2002-03-28):

The legislative reference is Government decree No. 84 on 2002-02-21.

Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Attached to: Europe/Tallinn (europe)

Jörg Schilling (2002-10-23):

In 1945, Berlin was switched to Moscow Summer time (GMT+4) by
https://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/biografien/BersarinNikolai/
General [Nikolai] Bersarin.

Attached to: Germany (europe)

Paul Eggert (2002-10-20):

The information in the rest of this paragraph is derived from the
Daylight Saving Time web page
<http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/links/daylight.htm> (2002-01-23)
maintained by the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
Between 1944-01-01 and 1944-04-01 the State of Arizona used standard
time, but by federal law railroads, airlines, bus lines, military
personnel, and some engaged in interstate commerce continued to
observe war (i.e., daylight saving) time.  The 1944-03-17 Phoenix
Gazette says that was the date the law changed, and that 04-01 was
the date the state's clocks would change.  In 1945 the State of
Arizona used standard time all year, again with exceptions only as
mandated by federal law.  Arizona observed DST in 1967, but Arizona
Laws 1968, ch. 183 (effective 1968-03-21) repealed DST.

Shanks says the 1944 experiment came to an end on 1944-03-17.
Go with the Arizona State Library instead.

Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Attached to: America/Phoenix (northamerica)

Mark Schapiro, writing in The Nation (2002-10-28):

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/sowing-disaster/
When Mexican clocks were turned back for daylight saving time in the spring,
the Zapotecs refused to make the adjustment, insisting that they live in
"God's time," not in what they derisively call "Fox time," referring to
President Vicente Fox in far-off Mexico City.

Attached to: Mexico (northamerica)

Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2002-03-12):

... consulting my local grocery store(!) and my coworkers, they all insisted
that a new decision had been made to reinstate US style DST in Mexico....
http://www.conae.gob.mx/ahorro/horaver2001_m1_2002.html (2002-02-20)
confirms this.  Sonora as usual is the only state where DST is not applied.

Attached to: Mexico (northamerica)

Celso Doria via David Madeo (2002-10-09):

The reason for the delay this year has to do with elections in Brazil.

Unlike in the United States, elections in Brazil are 100% computerized and
the results are known almost immediately.  Yesterday, it was the first
round of the elections when 115 million Brazilians voted for President,
Governor, Senators, Federal Deputies, and State Deputies.  Nobody is
counting (or re-counting) votes anymore and we know there will be a second
round for the Presidency and also for some Governors.  The 2nd round will
take place on October 27th.

The reason why the DST will only begin November 3rd is that the thousands
of electoral machines used cannot have their time changed, and since the
Constitution says the elections must begin at 8:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM,
the Government decided to postpone DST, instead of changing the Constitution
(maybe, for the next elections, it will be possible to change the clock)...

Attached to: Brazil (southamerica)

Paul Eggert (2002-10-10):

The official decrees referenced below are mostly taken from
Decretos sobre o Horário de Verão no Brasil.
http://pcdsh01.on.br/DecHV.html

Attached to: Brazil (southamerica)

Rives McDow (2002-02-28):