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diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/australasia b/contrib/tzdata/australasia index 797f81c..8685d00 100644 --- a/contrib/tzdata/australasia +++ b/contrib/tzdata/australasia @@ -352,16 +352,25 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 # today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st # October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013. # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155 + +# From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler: +# Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 and end at 3am +# on Sunday 19th January, 2014.... move clocks forward by one hour from 2am +# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx # -# From Paul Eggert (2012-08-31): -# For now, guess a pattern of the penultimate Sundays in October and January. +# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-09): +# For now, guess that Fiji springs forward the Sunday before the fourth +# Monday in October. This matches both recent practice and +# timeanddate.com's current spring-forward prediction. +# For the January 2014 transition we guessed right while timeanddate.com +# guessed wrong, so leave the fall-back prediction alone. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 - -Rule Fiji 2010 max - Oct Sun>=18 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Fiji 2010 max - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - Rule Fiji 2012 max - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -487,6 +496,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1957 Jan 1 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT +Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo # Auckland Is # uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, @@ -736,7 +746,7 @@ 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 (UTC-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 @@ -749,8 +759,17 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 # no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati # Johnston -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST +# +# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-03): +# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945 +# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes, +# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM +# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time." This was in June 1945, and +# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945. +# We have no better information, so for now, assume this has been true +# indefinitely into the past. +# +# See 'northamerica' for Pacific/Johnston. # Kingman # uninhabited |
