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diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/australasia b/contrib/tzdata/australasia index 5c272db..0bca53e 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/australasia +++ b/contrib/tzdata/australasia @@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec # Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria, # so use Lindeman. # +# From J William Piggott (2016-02-20): +# There is no location named Holiday Islands in Queensland Australia; holiday +# islands is a colloquial term used globally. Hayman and Lindeman are at the +# north and south extremes of the Whitsunday Islands archipelago, and +# Hamilton is in between; it is reasonable to believe that this time zone +# applies to all of the Whitsundays. +# http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-islands +# # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S @@ -235,11 +243,11 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # will produce a binary file with an [A]EST-type as the first 32-bit type; # this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by # pre-2013 versions of localtime. -Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - zzz 1899 Nov +Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - -00 1899 Nov 10:00 - AEST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 10:00 1:00 AEDT 1917 Feb 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1919 Apr 1 0:00s - 0 - zzz 1948 Mar 25 + 0 - -00 1948 Mar 25 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1967 10:00 AT AE%sT 2010 Apr 4 3:00 11:00 - MIST # Macquarie I Standard Time @@ -342,7 +350,13 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 # commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at # 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016. -# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-01): +# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04): +# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx +# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when +# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will +# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017." + +# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03): # For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to # 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches # transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future @@ -537,7 +551,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 # Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have # the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War. # -# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for JST, these dates +# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for UT +09, these dates # are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns. # The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta. # The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942, @@ -545,8 +559,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 # http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm # and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender. # -# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11 -# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00. They call UTC+11 "Bougainville Standard Time"; +# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville switched from UT +10 to +11 +# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00. They call +11 "Bougainville Standard Time"; # abbreviate this as BST. See: # http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/ # @@ -612,7 +626,7 @@ Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands # From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27): # The International Date Line Act 2011 # http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf -# changed Samoa from UTC-11 to UTC+13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on +# changed Samoa from UT -11 to +13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on # Thursday 29th December 2011". The International Date Line was adjusted # accordingly. @@ -688,11 +702,13 @@ Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - +Rule Tonga 2016 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Tonga 2017 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 - 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time - 13:00 - TOT 1999 - 13:00 Tonga TO%sT + 12:20 - +1220 1941 + 13:00 - +13 1999 + 13:00 Tonga +13/+14 # Tuvalu # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -707,7 +723,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 # 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known. # Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944; # uninhabited thereafter. -# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT-10:30) in 1937; +# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT -10:30) in 1937; # see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long, # Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000). # So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935 @@ -1465,7 +1481,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Zealand time. I understand that is the time they keep locally, anyhow." # For now, assume this practice goes back to the introduction of standard time # in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match -# LMT back when New Zealand was at UTC+11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did +# LMT back when New Zealand was at UT +11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did # not observe New Zealand's prewar DST. ############################################################################### @@ -1521,7 +1537,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines; # see Asia/Manila. -# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UTC+10 the official standard time, +# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UT +10 the official standard time, # under the name "Chamorro Standard Time". There is no official abbreviation, # but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law, # wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST". @@ -1533,15 +1549,15 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # "I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that 'Truk' # (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10." # -# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11 +# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UT +10 to +11 # on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now. # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): # The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in # The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information (1999-01-26) # http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html -# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11. -# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now. +# that Truk and Yap are UT +10, and Ponape and Kosrae are +11. +# We don't know when Kosrae switched from +12; assume January 1 for now. # Midway @@ -1607,11 +1623,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that # the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year." -# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UTC-11:30 -# in 1911, and to UTC-11 in 1950. many earlier sources give UTC-11 +# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30 +# in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11 # for American Samoa, e.g., the US National Bureau of Standards # circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932. -# Assume American Samoa switched to UTC-11 in 1911, not 1950, +# Assume American Samoa switched to -11 in 1911, not 1950, # and that after 1950 they agreed until (western) Samoa skipped a # day in 2011. Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New # Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations. @@ -1698,9 +1714,17 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one # hour to 1:00am. -# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05): +# From Pulu ʻAnau (2002-11-05): # The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. +# From Pulu ʻAnau (2016-10-27): +# http://mic.gov.to/news-today/press-releases/6375-daylight-saving-set-to-run-from-6-november-2016-to-15-january-2017 +# Cannot find anyone who knows the rules, has seen the duration or has seen +# the cabinet decision, but it appears we are following Fiji's rule set. +# +# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-26): +# Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00 +# through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now. # Wake |