Time Zone Changes in 2003

Roozbeh Pournader (2003-03-15):

This is an English translation of what I just found (originally in Persian).
The Gregorian dates in brackets are mine:

Official Newspaper No. 13548-1370/6/25 [1991-09-16]
No. 16760/T233 H				1370/6/10 [1991-09-01]

The Rule About Change of the Official Time of the Country

The Board of Ministers, in the meeting dated 1370/5/23 [1991-08-14],
based on the suggestion number 2221/D dated 1370/4/22 [1991-07-13]
of the Country's Organization for Official and Employment Affairs,
and referring to the law for equating the working hours of workers
and officers in the whole country dated 1359/4/23 [1980-07-14], and
for synchronizing the official times of the country, agreed that:

The official time of the country will should move forward one hour
at the 24[:00] hours of the first day of Farvardin and should return
to its previous state at the 24[:00] hours of the 30th day of
Shahrivar.

First Deputy to the President - Hassan Habibi

From personal experience, that agrees with what has been followed
for at least the last 5 years.  Before that, for a few years, the
date used was the first Thursday night of Farvardin and the last
Thursday night of Shahrivar, but I can't give exact dates....

Attached to: Iran (asia)

Paul Eggert (2003-02-09):

DAWN <http://www.dawn.com/2002/10/06/top13.htm> reported on 2002-10-05
that 2002 DST ended that day at midnight.  Go with McDow for now.

Attached to: Pakistan (asia)

Steffen Thorsen (2003-03-14):

According to http://www.dawn.com/2003/03/07/top15.htm
there will be no DST in Pakistan this year:

ISLAMABAD, March 6: Information and Media Development Minister Sheikh
Rashid Ahmed on Thursday said the cabinet had reversed a previous
decision to advance clocks by one hour in summer and put them back by
one hour in winter with the aim of saving light hours and energy.

The minister told a news conference that the experiment had rather
shown 8 per cent higher consumption of electricity.

Attached to: Pakistan (asia)

Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):

We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
started DST on June 3.  Possibly DST was observed other years
in Midway, but we have no record of it.

Nauru

Paul Eggert (2003-03-08):

http://www.parlament-berlin.de/pds-fraktion.nsf/727459127c8b66ee8525662300459099/defc77cb784f180ac1256c2b0030274b/$FILE/bersarint.pdf
says that Bersarin issued an order to use Moscow time on May 20.
However, Moscow did not observe daylight saving in 1945, so
this was equivalent to UT +03, not +04.

Svalbard & Jan Mayen

Attached to: Germany (europe)

a user via Klaus Marten (2003-02-07):

As a candidate for membership of the European Union, Lithuania will
observe Summer Time in 2003, changing its clocks at the times laid
down in EU Directive 2000/84 of 19.I.01 (i.e. at the same times as its
neighbour Latvia). The text of the Lithuanian government Order of
7.XI.02 to this effect can be found at
http://www.lrvk.lt/nut/11/n1749.htm


Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]

Attached to: Europe/Vilnius (europe)

Paul Eggert (2003-02-09):

It was Robert St John, not Bob Trout.  From
Myrna Oliver's obituary of St John on page B16 of today's Los Angeles Times:

... a war-weary U.S. clung to radios, awaiting word of Japan's surrender.
Any announcement from Asia would reach St. John's New York newsroom on a
wire service teletype machine, which had prescribed signals for major news.
Associated Press, for example, would ring five bells before spewing out
typed copy of an important story, and 10 bells for news "of transcendental
importance."

On Aug. 14, stalling while talking steadily into the NBC networks' open
microphone, St. John heard five bells and waited only to hear a sixth bell,
before announcing confidently: "Ladies and gentlemen, World War II is over.
The Japanese have agreed to our surrender terms."

He had scored a 20-second scoop on other broadcasters.

Attached to: US (northamerica)

Mark Brader (2003-07-26):

[According to the Toronto Star] Orillia, Ontario, adopted DST
effective Saturday, 1912-06-22, 22:00; the article mentions that
Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay, Ontario) as well as Moose Jaw
have already done so.  In Orillia DST was to run until Saturday,
1912-08-31 (no time mentioned), but it was met with considerable
hostility from certain segments of the public, and was revoked after
only two weeks - I copied it as Saturday, 1912-07-07, 22:00, but
presumably that should be -07-06.  (1912-06-19, -07-12; also letters
earlier in June).

Kenora, Ontario, was to abandon DST on 1914-06-01 (-05-21).

Attached to: Toronto (northamerica)

Mark Brader (2003-07-26):

The first actual adoption of DST in Canada was at the municipal
level.  As the [Toronto] Star put it (1912-06-07), "While people
elsewhere have long been talking of legislation to save daylight,
the city of Moose Jaw [Saskatchewan] has acted on its own hook."
DST in Moose Jaw began on Saturday, 1912-06-01 (no time mentioned:
presumably late evening, as below), and would run until "the end of
the summer".  The discrepancy between municipal time and railroad
time was noted.

Attached to: Regina (northamerica)

Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):

Willett (1914-03) notes that DST "has been in operation ... in the
City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year."

Attached to: Regina (northamerica)

Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):

Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and
Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in
operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, for one year."

From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator,
Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12):
There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight
savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur
before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central
Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to
include the Thunder Bay area....  When Canada adopted daylight
savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so
already, did not change their clocks....  During the Second World
War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer
months for the remainder of the war years.

Attached to: America/Thunder_Bay (backzone)

Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):

We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.

Also see commentary for Micronesia in 'australasia'.

Attached to: Pacific/Wake (backzone)