aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/timezone/antarctica
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'timezone/antarctica')
-rw-r--r--timezone/antarctica43
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/timezone/antarctica b/timezone/antarctica
index 3a2b64abf3..c98e528c1e 100644
--- a/timezone/antarctica
+++ b/timezone/antarctica
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)antarctica 7.20
+# @(#)antarctica 7.21
# From Paul Eggert (1999-11-15):
# To keep things manageable, we list only locations occupied year-round; see
@@ -200,25 +200,27 @@ Rule NZAQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S
# Russia - year-round bases
# Bellingshausen, King George Island, -621159-0585337, since 1968-02-22
# Mirny, Davis coast, -6633+09301, since 1956-02
-# Molodezhnaya
-# Novolazarevskaya
+# Molodezhnaya, Alasheyev Bay, year-round from 1962-02 to 1999-07-01
+# Novolazarevskaya, Queen Maud Land, -7046+01150,
+# year-round from 1960/61 to 1992
-# Vostok, since 1957-12-16
+# Vostok, since 1957-12-16, temporarily closed 1994-02/1994-11
# <a href="http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/QA/computers/Directions,Time,ZIP">
# From Craig Mundell (1994-12-15)</a>:
# Vostok, which is one of the Russian stations, is set on the same
# time as Moscow, Russia.
#
-# From Paul Eggert (2001-03-03):
-# Today I talked with a neighbor Robert Lee Hotz, a neighbor who
-# recently returned from Vostok. He said that the Americans have a
-# substation next to Vostok that keeps New Zealand time.
-# He thought the Russians still use Moscow time, but wasn't sure.
+# From Lee Hotz (2001-03-08):
+# I queried the folks at Columbia who spent the summer at Vostok and this is
+# what they had to say about time there:
+# ``in the US Camp (East Camp) we have been on New Zealand (McMurdo)
+# time, which is 12 hours ahead of GMT. The Russian Station Vostok was
+# 6 hours behind that (although only 2 miles away, i.e. 6 hours ahead
+# of GMT). This is a time zone I think two hours east of Moscow. The
+# natural time zone is in between the two: 8 hours ahead of GMT.''
#
Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16
- 3:00 RussAQ MSK/MSD 1991 Mar 31 2:00s
- 2:00 RussAQ EE%sT 1992 Jan 19 2:00s
- 3:00 RussAQ MSK/MSD
+ 6:00 - VOST # Vostok time
# S Africa - year-round bases
# Marion Island
@@ -231,14 +233,16 @@ Zone Antarctica/Vostok 0 - zzz 1957 Dec 16
# scientific station from 1903
# whaling station at Signy I 1920/1926
# South Shetland Islands
-# whaling station at Deception I 1912/1931
-# scientific station from 1943;
-# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident,
-# and a garrison was deployed briefly
#
# year-round bases
# Bird Island, South Georgia, -5400-03803, since 1983
-# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-2619, since 1956-01-06
+# Deception Island, -6259-06034, whaling station 1912/1931,
+# scientific station 1943/1967,
+# previously sealers and a scientific expedition wintered by accident,
+# and a garrison was deployed briefly
+# Halley, Coates Land, -7535-02604, since 1956-01-06
+# Halley is on a moving ice shelf and is periodically relocated
+# so that it is never more than 10km from its nominal location.
# Rothera, Adelaide Island, -6734-6808, since 1976-12-01
# Uruguay - year round base
@@ -262,12 +266,13 @@ Zone Antarctica/Palmer 0 - zzz 1965
-4:00 ChileAQ CL%sT
#
#
-# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1956
+# McMurdo, Ross Island, since 1955-12
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Antarctica/McMurdo 0 - zzz 1956
12:00 NZAQ NZ%sT
#
-# Amundsen-Scott, South Pole, since 1957-01-23
+# Amundsen-Scott, South Pole, continuously occupied since 1956-11-20
+#
# From Paul Eggert (1996-09-03):
# Normally it wouldn't have a separate entry, since it's like the
# larger Antarctica/McMurdo since 1970, but it's too famous to omit.