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diff --git a/timezone/northamerica b/timezone/northamerica index 150ba3d67e..5568a95c1d 100644 --- a/timezone/northamerica +++ b/timezone/northamerica @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)northamerica 7.41 +# @(#)northamerica 7.42 # also includes Central America and the Caribbean # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, @@ -59,6 +59,9 @@ Rule US 1974 only - Jan 6 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1976 1986 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D Rule US 1987 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +# <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d106:h.r.00177:"> +# H.R.177 +# </a> (introduced 1999-01-06) would change April to March in the above rule. # From Bob Devine (1988-01-28): # ...Alaska (and Hawaii) had the timezone names changed in 1967. @@ -440,8 +443,14 @@ Zone America/Menominee -5:50:27 - LMT 1885 Sep 18 12:00 -6:00 US C%sT # Navassa -# uninhabited - +# claimed by US under the provisions of the 1856 Guano Islands Act +# also claimed by Haiti +# occupied 1857/1900 by the Navassa Phosphate Co +# US lighthouse 1917/1997-01 +# currently uninhabited +# see Mark Fineman, ``An Isle Rich in Guano and Discord'', +# _Los Angeles Times_ (1998-11-10), A1, A10; it cites +# Jimmy Skaggs, _The Great Guano Rush_ (1994). # Old names, for S5 users @@ -985,6 +994,10 @@ Zone America/Dawson -9:17:40 - LMT 1900 Aug 20 # ``Diario Oficial: Time Zone Changeover'' (1996-01-04). # </a> +# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): +# The State of Quintana Roo has reverted back to central STD and DST times +# (i.e. UTC -0600 and -0500 as of 1998-08-02). + # From Shanks (1991): # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Mexico 1939 only - Feb 5 0:00 1:00 D @@ -1006,7 +1019,8 @@ Rule BajaN 1961 1966 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0 S Zone America/Cancun -5:47:04 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 1:12:42 -6:00 - CST 1996 -6:00 Mexico C%sT 1997 Oct lastSun 2:00 - -5:00 Mexico E%sT + -5:00 Mexico E%sT 1998 Aug 2 2:00 + -6:00 Mexico C%sT # Central Mexico Zone America/Mexico_City -6:36:36 - LMT 1922 Jan 1 0:23:24 -7:00 - MST 1927 Jun 10 23:00 @@ -1251,6 +1265,8 @@ Zone America/Port-au-Prince -4:49:20 - LMT 1890 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone America/Tegucigalpa -5:48:52 - LMT 1921 Apr -6:00 Salv C%sT +# +# Great Swan I ceded by US to Honduras in 1972 # Jamaica @@ -1285,6 +1301,11 @@ Zone America/Montserrat -4:08:52 - LMT 1911 Jul 1 0:01 # Olveston -4:00 - AST # Nicaragua +# +# From Steffen Thorsen (1998-12-29): +# Nicaragua seems to be back at -6:00 but I have not been able to find when +# they changed from -5:00. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Mar Sun>=16 0:00 1:00 D Rule Nic 1979 1980 - Jun Mon>=23 0:00 0 S @@ -1296,7 +1317,8 @@ Zone America/Managua -5:45:08 - LMT 1890 -6:00 - CST 1973 May -5:00 - EST 1975 Feb 16 -6:00 Nic C%sT 1993 Jan 1 4:00 - -5:00 - EST + -5:00 - EST 1998 Dec + -6:00 - CST # Panama # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |