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diff --git a/contrib/tzdata/australasia b/contrib/tzdata/australasia index 4911e8d..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 @@ -101,7 +109,7 @@ Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # Tasmania # # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): -# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml> +# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml # says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971. # # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S @@ -126,12 +134,12 @@ Rule AT 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S Rule AT 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep - 10:00 - AEST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 + 10:00 - AEST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 10:00 1:00 AEDT 1917 Feb 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1967 10:00 AT AE%sT Zone Australia/Currie 9:35:28 - LMT 1895 Sep - 10:00 - AEST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 + 10:00 - AEST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 10:00 1:00 AEDT 1917 Feb 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1971 Jul 10:00 AT AE%sT @@ -220,8 +228,8 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948; # sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919. See the # Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island -# <http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828> -# <http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831>. +# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828 +# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831 # Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010. # # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): @@ -235,13 +243,13 @@ 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 - 10:00 - AEST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 +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 + 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1919 Apr 1 0:00s + 0 - -00 1948 Mar 25 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1967 - 10:00 AT AE%sT 2010 Apr 4 3:00 + 10:00 AT AE%sT 2010 Apr 4 3:00 11:00 - MIST # Macquarie I Standard Time # Christmas @@ -331,31 +339,51 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 # Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx -# From Paul Eggert (2014-01-10): -# For now, guess that Fiji springs forward the Sunday before the fourth -# Monday in October, and springs back the penultimate Sunday in January. -# This is ad hoc, but matches recent practice. +# From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20): +# DST will start Nov. 2 this year. +# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx + +# From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77 +# in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28), +# via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02): +# the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time +# commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at +# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016. + +# 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 +# practice than guessing no DST. # 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>=21 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Fiji 2010 2013 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 - -Rule Fiji 2014 max - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 - +Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 - +Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva +Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time # French Polynesia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea +Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time -Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete +Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time # Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia; # it is uninhabited. @@ -363,14 +391,15 @@ Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete # Guam # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 - 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana - 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam + 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana + 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time +Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is # Kiribati # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki - 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time +Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki + 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901 -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time -11:00 - PHOT 1995 @@ -381,12 +410,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 14:00 - LINT # N Mariana Is -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 - 9:43:00 - LMT 1901 - 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time - 10:00 - MPT 2000 Dec 23 - 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time +# See Pacific/Guam. # Marshall Is # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -395,24 +419,24 @@ Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901 12:00 - MHT Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct - -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time + -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time 12:00 - MHT # Micronesia # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Chuuk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 - 10:00 - CHUT # Chuuk Time -Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia - 11:00 - PONT # Pohnpei Time + 10:00 - CHUT # Chuuk Time +Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia + 11:00 - PONT # Pohnpei Time Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901 - 11:00 - KOST 1969 Oct # Kosrae Time + 11:00 - KOST 1969 Oct # Kosrae Time 12:00 - KOST 1999 11:00 - KOST # Nauru # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe - 11:30 - NRT 1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time +Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe + 11:30 - NRT 1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time 9:00 - JST 1944 Aug 15 11:30 - NRT 1979 May 12:00 - NRT @@ -489,8 +513,8 @@ Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua - -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time +Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua + -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time -10:00 Cook CK%sT ############################################################################### @@ -498,40 +522,68 @@ Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua # Niue # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi - -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time - -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1 +Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi + -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time + -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1 -11:00 - NUT # Norfolk # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston - 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time - 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time +Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston + 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time + 11:30 - NFT 1974 Oct 27 02:00 # Norfolk T. + 11:30 1:00 NFST 1975 Mar 2 02:00 + 11:30 - NFT 2015 Oct 4 02:00 + 11:00 - NFT # Palau (Belau) # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror +Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time # Papua New Guinea # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 - 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time - 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time + 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time + 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time +# +# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13): +# 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 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, +# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia +# 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 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/ +# +Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 - LMT 1880 + 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 + 10:00 - PGT 1942 Jul + 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 21 + 10:00 - PGT 2014 Dec 28 2:00 + 11:00 - BST # Pitcairn # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown - -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 00:00 +Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown + -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 0:00 -8:00 - PST # Pitcairn Standard Time # American Samoa Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 - -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome - -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering - -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa + -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome + -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering + -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa +Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa) @@ -574,7 +626,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 # 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. @@ -617,7 +669,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 # Solomon Is # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara +Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time # Tokelau Is @@ -641,7 +693,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 - -11:00 - TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time + -11:00 - TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time 13:00 - TKT # Tonga @@ -650,11 +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] @@ -669,7 +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 @@ -701,8 +755,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 # time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last # Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin, # "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the -# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976 -# <http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf>. +# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976. +# http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf # See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a # footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time # Minus One Hour". @@ -713,23 +767,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 # uninhabited # Midway -# -# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): -# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, -# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3] -# reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly -# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting -# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone -# designations that I've never seen before:.... -# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun. -# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A " -# -Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 - -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 - -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 - -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome - -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering - -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa +# See Pacific/Pago_Pago. # Palmyra # uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati @@ -749,7 +787,7 @@ Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 - Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila +Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time # Wallis and Futuna @@ -761,31 +799,32 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # NOTES -# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, +# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to -# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). +# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see +# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. -# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): -# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is +# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): +# +# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). +# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. # # Gwillim Law writes that a good source # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries -# of the IATA's data after 1990. -# -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for -# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. +# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, +# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. # # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which # I found in the UCLA library. # # For data circa 1899, a common source is: -# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 -# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. +# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. +# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 # # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). @@ -802,6 +841,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 10:00 AEST AEDT Eastern Australia # 10:00 ChST Chamorro # 10:30 LHST LHDT Lord Howe* +# 11:00 BST Bougainville* # 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945 # 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present # 12:15 CHAST Chatham through 1945* @@ -834,12 +874,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08): # Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia -# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml> +# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml # summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia. # From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12): # Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales -# <http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving> +# http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving # covers New South Wales in particular. # From John Mackin (1991-03-06): @@ -976,13 +1016,13 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # # NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): # Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) -# <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html> +# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html # ACT # Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 -# <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html> +# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html # SA # Standard Time Act, 1898 -# <http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html> +# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html # From David Grosz (2005-06-13): # It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by @@ -1048,7 +1088,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # it matches what was used in the past. # The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ -# <http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm> +# http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm # (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses # South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia. @@ -1092,7 +1132,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning # from Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-11-01): # WA are trialing DST for three years. -# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf> +# http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf # From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): # The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the @@ -1106,7 +1146,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): # This is confirmed by the section entitled # "What's the deal with time zones???" in -# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>. +# http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html # # From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07): # ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway, @@ -1262,33 +1302,32 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): # DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual -# October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore, -# Two months more daylight saving -# Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26) -# <http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html>] +# October in 2000. See: Matthew Moore, +# Two months more daylight saving, Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26). +# http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html # From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27): # See the following official NSW source: # Daylight Saving in New South Wales. -# <http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ> +# http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ # # Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of # daylight saving next year. See: # Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving -# <http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm> +# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm # (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens. # # Victoria will following NSW. See: # Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28) -# <http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm> +# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm # # However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See: # South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19) -# <http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm> +# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm # # Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See: # Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics -# <http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm> +# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm # (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying # "Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time # I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very @@ -1298,7 +1337,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # # Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000. See: # Broken Hill to be behind the times (1999-07-21) -# <http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm> +# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm # IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian # Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken @@ -1434,15 +1473,15 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14): # Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by -# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26) -# <http://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf>. +# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26). +# http://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf # According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand # parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard # time in the Chatham Islands. The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New # 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. ############################################################################### @@ -1498,7 +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". @@ -1510,15 +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. +# http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html +# 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 @@ -1537,6 +1576,20 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years # in Midway, but we have no record of it. +# Norfolk + +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23): +# Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100: +# https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text +# ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015. +# http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf + +# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23): +# Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted +# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's +# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST +# other than in 1974/5. See: +# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html # Pitcairn @@ -1570,11 +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. @@ -1587,9 +1640,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do. # Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle -# How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins' -# <http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm>: - +# How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins': +# http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm +# # Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST # 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT. When New Zealand adjusted its # standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its @@ -1661,9 +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 @@ -1723,6 +1784,6 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # (2005-03-20): # # The American Practical Navigator (2002) -# <http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187> +# http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187 # talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in # international waters; it ignores the international date line. |
