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diff --git a/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/australasia b/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/australasia new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8aad7e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/zoneinfo/datfiles/australasia @@ -0,0 +1,110 @@ +# @(#)australasia 4.4 + +# Incorporates updates for Australia from Robert Elz' australia 1.1 +# and further updates from the Australian consulate. + +############################################################################### + +# Australia + +# Australian Data (for states with DST), standard rules +# Includes shift in 1987 to follow Vic/NSW rules for ending DST, +# and shift in 1986 to start DST earlier. + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule Oz 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - +Rule Oz 1986 max - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - +Rule Oz 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 - +Rule Oz 1973 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - +Rule Oz 1987 max - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 Oz EST +Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 - EST # No DST here +Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST # No DST here +Zone Australia/West 8:00 - WST # No DST here +Zone Australia/South 9:30 Oz CST + +# Victoria jumped to a later ending date for DST in 1986 rather than 1987. + +Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 Oz EST 1985 Oct lastSun 2:00 + 10:00 1:00 EST 1986 Mar Sun<=21 3:00 + 10:00 Oz EST + +# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. +# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz), +# who notes: +# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the +# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' +# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common +# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the +# legislation. This is very important to understand. +# I have researched New South Wales time only; . . .I hope that perhaps a +# resident of each state could be found to do it for their own state. +# (And I can guarantee that Victoria and NSW are different, so the link +# between them in the current australasia file must be broken.) + +# From Robert Elz (May 5, 1989): +# +# From next year (1990) NSW will revert to ending DST on the 1st +# Sunday in March (rather than the third, which it appears will +# continue to be what everyone else uses). + +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule NSW 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - +Rule NSW 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - +Rule NSW 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - +Rule NSW 1982 only - Apr 4 3:00 0 - +Rule NSW 1983 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - +Rule NSW 1986 only - Mar 16 3:00 0 - +Rule NSW 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 1:00 - +Rule NSW 1987 only - Mar 15 3:00 0 - +Rule NSW 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - +Rule NSW 1988 1989 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - +Rule NSW 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone Australia/NSW 10:00 NSW EST +# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna. [john@basser.cs.su.oz.au,1/4/89] +Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 NSW ??? +Zone Australia/LHI 10:30 NSW ??? + +# A footnote here: +# +# . . . +# Date: Thu, j19 Feb 87 12:02:17 EST +# From: Bradley White <seismo!k.cs.cmu.edu!bww> +# . . . +# I am including a description of Australian time zones. . . +# this stuff is definitely accurate. +# . . . +# a) Australian Eastern Time: (EST = GMT+10:00, EDT = GMT+11:00) +# . . . +# Summer of 86/87 - present (current legislation): +# third Sun Oct 02:00 EST -> third [S]un Mar 02:00 EST +# +# If this turns out to be true, substitute Sun<=21 (third Sunday in October) +# for Sun<=24 (next-to-last Sunday in October) above. . .some time before +# October 1988, the first time it makes a difference. + +############################################################################### + +# New Zealand + +# New Zealand, from Elz' asia 1.1 +# Elz says "no guarantees" +# +# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. +# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for +# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). +# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office. +# Mark Davies <mark@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, 3 Oct 1990. +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D +Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00 1:00 D +Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D +Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S +Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 S + +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES/SAVE FORMAT [UNTIL] +Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand |
