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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. |