Time Zone Changes in 2015

Steffen Thorsen (2015-04-08):

Egypt will start DST on midnight after Thursday, April 30, 2015.
This is based on a law (no 35) from May 15, 2014 saying it starts the last
Thursday of April....  Clocks will still be turned back for Ramadan, but
dates not yet announced....
http://almogaz.com/news/weird-news/2015/04/05/1947105 ...
https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/egypt-starts-dst-2015.html

Attached to: Egypt (africa)

Ahmed Nazmy (2015-04-20):

Egypt's ministers cabinet just announced ... that it will cancel DST at
least for 2015.

Attached to: Egypt (africa)

Tim Parenti (2015-04-20):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/WriterArticles/NewsContentP/1/128195/Egypt/No-daylight-saving-this-summer-Egypts-prime-minist.aspx
"Egypt's cabinet agreed on Monday not to switch clocks for daylight saving
time this summer, and carry out studies on the possibility of canceling the
practice altogether in future years."

Attached to: Egypt (africa)

Paul Eggert (2015-04-24):

Yesterday the office of Egyptian President El-Sisi announced his
decision to abandon DST permanently.  See Ahram Online 2015-04-24.
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/128509/Egypt/Politics-/Sisi-cancels-daylight-saving-time-in-Egypt.aspx

Attached to: Egypt (africa)

Milamber (2015-06-08):

(Google Translation) The hour will thus be delayed 60 minutes
Sunday, June 14 at 3:00, the ministry said in a statement, adding
that the time will be advanced again 60 minutes Sunday, July 19,
2015 at 2:00.  The move comes under 2.12.126 Decree of 26 Jumada I
1433 (18 April 2012) and the decision of the Head of Government of
16 N. 3-29-15 Chaaban 1435 (4 June 2015).
Source (french):
https://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/

Attached to: Morocco (africa)

Milamber (2015-06-09):

http://www.mmsp.gov.ma/fr/actualites.aspx?id=863

Attached to: Morocco (africa)

Michael Deckers (2015-06-09):

[The gov.ma announcement] would (probably) make the switch on 2015-07-19 go
from 03:00 to 04:00 rather than from 02:00 to 03:00, as in the patch....
I think the patch is correct and the quoted text is wrong; the text in
<https://lnt.ma/le-maroc-reculera-dune-heure-le-dimanche-14-juin/> agrees
with the patch.

Attached to: Morocco (africa)

Paul Eggert (2015-09-17):

It was Resolution No. 21 (1997-03-17).
http://code.az/files/daylight_res.pdf

Attached to: Azer (asia)

Steffen Thorsen (2015-08-07):

According to many news sources, North Korea is going to change to
the 8:30 time zone on August 15, one example:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33815049

Attached to: Asia/Seoul (asia)

Paul Eggert (2015-08-15):

Bells rang out midnight (00:00) Friday as part of the celebrations.  See:
Talmadge E. North Korea celebrates new time zone, 'Pyongyang Time'
http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-celebrates-time-zone-pyongyang-time-164038128.html
There is no common English-language abbreviation for this time zone.
Use KST, as that's what we already use for 1954-1961 in ROK.

Attached to: Asia/Seoul (asia)

Ganbold Tsagaankhuu (2015-03-10):

It seems like yesterday Mongolian Government meeting has concluded to use
daylight saving time in Mongolia....  Starting at 2:00AM of last Saturday of
March 2015, daylight saving time starts.  And 00:00AM of last Saturday of
September daylight saving time ends.  Source:
http://zasag.mn/news/view/8969

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Attached to: Mongol (asia)

Steffen Thorsen (2015-03-03):

Sources such as http://www.alquds.com/news/article/view/id/548257
and https://www.raya.ps/ar/news/890705.html say Palestine areas will
start DST on 2015-03-28 00:00 which is one day later than expected.

Attached to: EgyptAsia (asia)

Paul Eggert (2015-03-03):

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/west-bank/ramallah?year=2014
says that the fall 2014 transition was Oct 23 at 24:00.

Attached to: EgyptAsia (asia)

Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23):

Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100:
https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015.
http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf

Paul Eggert (2015-08-08):

The OED Supplement says that the English originally said "Daylight Saving"
when they were debating the adoption of DST in 1908; but by 1916 this
term appears only in quotes taken from DST's opponents, whereas the
proponents (who eventually won the argument) are quoted as using "Summer".
The term "Summer Time" was introduced by Herbert Samuel, Home Secretary; see:
Viscount Samuel. Leisure in a Democracy. Cambridge University Press
ISBN 978-1-107-49471-8 (1949, reissued 2015), p 8.

Attached to: GB-Eire (europe)

Roman Tudos (2015-07-02):

http://lex.justice.md/index.php?action=view&view=doc&lang=1&id=355077

Attached to: Moldova (europe)

Paul Eggert (2015-07-01):

The above-mentioned official link to IGO1445-868/2014 states that
2014-10-26's fallback transition occurred at 03:00 local time.  Also,
https://www.trm.md/en/social/la-30-martie-vom-trece-la-ora-de-vara
says the 2014-03-30 spring-forward transition was at 02:00 local time.
Guess that since 1997 Moldova has switched one hour before the EU.

Attached to: Moldova (europe)

Fatih (2015-09-29):

It's officially announced now by the Ministry of Energy.
Turkey delays winter time to 8th of November 04:00
http://www.aa.com.tr/tr/turkiye/yaz-saati-uygulamasi-8-kasimda-sona-erecek/362217

Attached to: Turkey (europe)

BBC News (2015-10-25):

Confused Turks are asking "what's the time?" after automatic clocks defied a
government decision ... "For the next two weeks #Turkey is on EEST... Erdogan
Engineered Standard Time," said Twitter user @aysekarahasan.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34631326

Attached to: Turkey (europe)

Paul Eggert (2015-04-17):

HST and HDT are standardized abbreviations for Hawaii-Aleutian
standard and daylight times.  See section 9.47 (p 234) of the
U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual (2008)
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008/pdf/GPO-STYLEMANUAL-2008.pdf

From Arthur David Olson, 2005-08-09
The following was signed into law on 2005-08-08.

H.R. 6, Energy Policy Act of 2005, SEC. 110. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS.
(a) Amendment.--Section 3(a) of the Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15
U.S.C. 260a(a)) is amended--
(1) by striking "first Sunday of April" and inserting "second
Sunday of March"; and
(2) by striking "last Sunday of October" and inserting "first
Sunday of November'.
(b) Effective Date.--Subsection (a) shall take effect 1 year after the
date of enactment of this Act or March 1, 2007, whichever is later.
(c) Report to Congress.--Not later than 9 months after the effective
date stated in subsection (b), the Secretary shall report to Congress
on the impact of this section on energy consumption in the United
States.
(d) Right to Revert.--Congress retains the right to revert the
Daylight Saving Time back to the 2005 time schedules once the
Department study is complete.

US eastern time, represented by New York

Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, most of Florida,
Georgia, southeast Indiana (Dearborn and Ohio counties), eastern Kentucky
(except America/Kentucky/Louisville below), Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, eastern Tennessee,
Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia

Attached to: NYC (northamerica)

an email administrator of the City of Fort Pierre, SD (2015-12-21):

Fort Pierre is technically located in the Mountain time zone as is
the rest of Stanley County.  Most of Stanley County and Fort Pierre
uses the Central time zone due to doing most of their business in
Pierre so it simplifies schedules.  I have lived in Stanley County
all my life and it has been that way since I can remember.  (43 years!)

Attached to: Chicago (northamerica)

Paul Eggert (2015-12-25):

Assume this practice predates 1970, so Fort Pierre can use America/Chicago.

Attached to: Chicago (northamerica)

Paul Eggert (2015-04-06):

In 1950s Nashville a public clock had dueling faces, one for conservatives
and the other for liberals; the two sides didn't agree about the time of day.
I haven't found a photo of this clock, nor have I tracked down the TIME
magazine report cited below, but here's the story as told by the late
American journalist John Seigenthaler, who was there:

"The two [newspaper] owners held strongly contrasting political and
ideological views.  Evans was a New South liberal, Stahlman an Old South
conservative, and their two papers frequently clashed editorially, often on
the same day....  In the 1950s as the state legislature was grappling with
the question of whether to approve daylight saving time for the entire state,
TIME magazine reported:

"'The Nashville Banner and The Nashville Tennessean rarely agree on anything
but the time of day - and last week they couldn't agree on that.'

"It was all too true. The clock on the front of the building had two faces -
The Tennessean side of the building facing west, the other, east.  When it
was high noon Banner time, it was 11 a.m. Tennessean time."

Seigenthaler J. For 100 years, Tennessean had it covered.
The Tennessean 2007-05-11, republished 2015-04-06.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/insider/extras/2015/04/06/archives-seigenthaler-for-100-years-the-tennessean-had-it-covered/25348545/

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Attached to: Chicago (northamerica)

Steffen Thorsen (2015-11-09):

It seems Metlakatla did go off PST on Sunday, November 1, changing
their time to AKST and are going to follow Alaska's DST, switching
between AKST and AKDT from now on....
https://www.krbd.org/2015/10/30/annette-island-times-they-are-a-changing/

Attached to: America/Juneau (northamerica)

Brian Inglis (2015-07-20):

From the historical weather station records available at:
https://weatherspark.com/history/28351/1971/Sydney-Nova-Scotia-Canada
Sydney shares the same time history as Glace Bay, so was
likely to be the same across the island....
Sydney, as the capital and most populous location, or Cape Breton, would
have been better names for the zone had we known this in 1996.

Attached to: Halifax (northamerica)

Paul Eggert (2015-07-20):

Shanks & Pottenger write that since 1970 most of this region has been like
Halifax.  Many locales did not observe peacetime DST until 1972;
the Cape Breton area, represented by Glace Bay, is the largest we know of
(Glace Bay was perhaps not the best name choice but no point changing now).
Shanks & Pottenger also write that Liverpool, NS was the only town
in Canada to observe DST in 1971 but not 1970; for now we'll assume
this is a typo.

Attached to: Halifax (northamerica)

Matt Johnson (2015-09-21):

Fort Nelson, BC, Canada will cancel DST this year.  So while previously they
were aligned with America/Vancouver, they're now aligned with
America/Dawson_Creek.
http://www.northernrockies.ca/EN/meta/news/archives/2015/northern-rockies-time-change.html

Attached to: Vanc (northamerica)

Tim Parenti (2015-09-23):

This requires a new zone for the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality,
America/Fort_Nelson.  The resolution of 2014-12-08 was reached following a
2014-11-15 poll with nearly 75% support.  Effectively, the municipality has
been on MST (-0700) like Dawson Creek since it advanced its clocks on
2015-03-08.

Attached to: Vanc (northamerica)

Brian Inglis (2015-04-14):

I tried to trace the history of Yukon time and found the following
regulations, giving the reference title and URL if found, regulation name,
and relevant quote if available.  Each regulation specifically revokes its
predecessor.  The final reference is to the current Interpretation Act
authorizing and resulting from these regulatory changes.

Only recent regulations were retrievable via Yukon government site search or
index, and only some via Canadian legal sources.  Other sources used include
articles titled "Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada" from JRASC via ADS
Abstracts, cited by ADO for 1932 ..., and updated versions from 1958 and
1970 quoted below; each article includes current extracts from provincial
and territorial ST and DST regulations at the end, summaries and details of
standard times and daylight saving time at many locations across Canada,
with time zone maps, tables and calculations for Canadian Sunrise, Sunset,
and LMST; they also cover many countries and global locations, with a chart
and table showing current Universal Time offsets, and may be useful as
another source of information for 1970 and earlier.

* Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; JRASC, Vol. 26,
pp.49-77; February 1932; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1932JRASC..26...49S from p.75:
Yukon Interpretation Ordinance
Yukon standard time is the local mean time at the one hundred and
thirty-fifth meridian.

* Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Smith, C.C.; Thomson, Malcolm M.;
JRASC, Vol. 52, pp.193-223; October 1958; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System
(ADS) http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1958JRASC..52..193S from pp.220-1:
Yukon Interpretation Ordinance, 1955, Chap. 16.

(1) Subject to this section, standard time shall be reckoned as nine
hours behind Greenwich Time and called Yukon Standard Time.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Commissioner may make regulations
varying the manner of reckoning standard time.

* Yukon Territory Commissioner's Order 1966-20 Interpretation Ordinance
[no online source found]

* Standard Time and Time Zones in Canada; Thomson, Malcolm M.; JRASC,
Vol. 64, pp.129-162; June 1970; SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1970JRASC..64..129T from p.156: Yukon
Territory Commissioner's Order 1967-59 Interpretation Ordinance ...

1. Commissioner's Order 1966-20 dated at Whitehorse in the Yukon
Territory on 27th January, 1966, is hereby revoked.

2. Yukon (East) Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the
Interpretation Ordinance from and after mid-night on the 28th day of May,
1967 shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that
is to say, eight hours behind Greenwich Time in the area of the Yukon
Territory lying east of the 138th degree longitude west.

3. In the remainder of the Territory, lying west of the 138th degree
longitude west, Yukon (West) Standard Time shall be reckoned as nine
hours behind Greenwich Time.

* Yukon Standard Time defined as Pacific Standard Time, YCO 1973/214
https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yco-1973-214/latest/yco-1973-214.html
C.O. 1973/214 INTERPRETATION ACT ...

1. Effective October 28, 1973 Commissioner's Order 1967/59 is hereby
revoked.

2. Yukon Standard Time as defined by section 36 of the Interpretation
Act from and after midnight on the twenty-eighth day of October, 1973
shall be reckoned in the same manner as Pacific Standard Time, that is
to say eight hours behind Greenwich Time.

* O.I.C. 1980/02 INTERPRETATION ACT
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/attachments/20201125/d5adc93b/CAYTOIC1980-02DST1980-01-04-0001.pdf

* Yukon Daylight Saving Time, YOIC 1987/56
https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-1987-56/latest/yoic-1987-56.html
O.I.C. 1987/056 INTERPRETATION ACT ...

In every year between
(a) two o'clock in the morning in the first Sunday in April, and
(b) two o'clock in the morning in the last Sunday in October,
Standard Time shall be reckoned as seven hours behind Greenwich Time and
called Yukon Daylight Saving Time.
...
Dated ... 9th day of March, A.D., 1987.

* Yukon Daylight Saving Time 2006, YOIC 2006/127
https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/regu/yoic-2006-127/latest/yoic-2006-127.html
O.I.C. 2006/127 INTERPRETATION ACT ...

1. In Yukon each year the time for general purposes shall be 7 hours
behind Greenwich mean time during the period commencing at two o'clock
in the forenoon on the second Sunday of March and ending at two o'clock
in the forenoon on the first Sunday of November and shall be called
Yukon Daylight Saving Time.

2. Order-in-Council 1987/56 is revoked.

3. This order comes into force January 1, 2007.

* Interpretation Act, RSY 2002, c 125
https://www.canlii.org/en/yk/laws/stat/rsy-2002-c-125/latest/rsy-2002-c-125.html

Attached to: NT_YK (northamerica)

Steffen Thorsen (2015-01-14):

http://sipse.com/novedades/confirman-aplicacion-de-nueva-zona-horaria-para-quintana-roo-132331.html
"...the new time zone will come into effect at two o'clock on the first Sunday
of February, when we will have to advance the clock one hour from its current
time..."
Also, the new zone will not use DST.

Attached to: Mexico (northamerica)

Carlos Raúl Perasso (2015-02-02):

The decree that modifies the Mexican Hour System Law has finally
been published at the Diario Oficial de la Federación
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5380123&fecha=31/01/2015
It establishes 5 zones for Mexico:
1- Zona Centro (Central Zone): Corresponds to longitude 90 W,
includes most of Mexico, excluding what's mentioned below.
2- Zona Pacífico (Pacific Zone): Longitude 105 W, includes the
states of Baja California Sur; Chihuahua; Nayarit (excluding Bahía
de Banderas which lies in Central Zone); Sinaloa and Sonora.
3- Zona Noroeste (Northwest Zone): Longitude 120 W, includes the
state of Baja California.
4- Zona Sureste (Southeast Zone): Longitude 75 W, includes the state
of Quintana Roo.
5- The islands, reefs and keys shall take their timezone from the
longitude they are located at.

Attached to: Mexico (northamerica)

Paul Eggert (2015-10-08):

Formerly there was an America/Santa_Isabel zone, but this appears to
have come from a misreading of
http://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5127480&fecha=06/01/2010
It has been moved to the 'backward' file.

Attached to: Barb (northamerica)

Eduardo Romero Urra (2015-03-03):

Today has been published officially that Chile will use the DST time
permanently until March 25 of 2017

Attached to: Chile (southamerica)

Steffen Thorsen (2015-06-30):

... it looks like they will not be using DST the coming summer:
http://www.elobservador.com.uy/gobierno-resolvio-que-no-habra-cambio-horario-verano-n656787
http://www.republica.com.uy/este-ano-no-se-modificara-el-huso-horario-en-uruguay/523760/

Attached to: America/Montevideo (southamerica)

Paul Eggert (2015-06-30):

Apparently restaurateurs complained that DST caused people to go to the beach
instead of out to dinner.

Attached to: America/Montevideo (southamerica)

Pablo Camargo (2015-07-13):

http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/sci/decretos/2015/06/cons_min_201.pdf

Attached to: America/Montevideo (southamerica)

Paul Eggert (2015-07-28):

For the 1965 transition see Gaceta Oficial No. 27.619 (1964-12-15), p 205.533
http://www.pgr.gob.ve/dmdocuments/1964/27619.pdf

Attached to: America/Caracas (southamerica)

Paul Eggert (2015-03-24):

Since 1970 most of Quebec has been like Toronto; see
America/Toronto.  However, earlier versions of the tz database
mistakenly relied on data from Shanks & Pottenger saying that Quebec
differed from Ontario after 1970, and the following rules and zone
were created for most of Quebec from the incorrect Shanks &
Pottenger data.  The post-1970 entries have been corrected, but the
pre-1970 entries are unchecked and probably have errors.

Attached to: Mont (backzone)