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# DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
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# This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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# Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
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# or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
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# questions.
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#
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# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
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# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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# This file also includes Pacific islands.
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# Notes are at the end of this file
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###############################################################################
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# Australia
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# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc.
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	Aus	1917	only	-	Jan	 1	0:01	1:00	D
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Rule	Aus	1917	only	-	Mar	25	2:00	0	S
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Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	1:00	D
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Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Mar	29	2:00	0	S
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Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Sep	27	2:00	1:00	D
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Rule	Aus	1943	1944	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
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Rule	Aus	1943	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00	1:00	D
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# Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which
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# says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944.  Ignore Whitman's claim that
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# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944.
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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# Northern Territory
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Zone Australia/Darwin	 8:43:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			 9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
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			 9:30	Aus	AC%sT
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# Western Australia
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Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AW	1991	only	-	Nov	17	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AW	1992	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AW	2006	only	-	Dec	 3	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AW	2007	2009	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AW	2007	2008	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Zone Australia/Perth	 7:43:24 -	LMT	1895 Dec
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			 8:00	Aus	AW%sT	1943 Jul
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			 8:00	AW	AW%sT
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Zone Australia/Eucla	 8:35:28 -	LMT	1895 Dec
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# Queensland
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#
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# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
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# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
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# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
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# Queensland ceased to.
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# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
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# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman,
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# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped.
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# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria,
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# so use Lindeman.
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Rule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AQ	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AQ	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	Holiday	1992	1993	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	Holiday	1993	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Zone Australia/Brisbane	10:12:08 -	LMT	1895
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Zone Australia/Lindeman  9:55:56 -	LMT	1895
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# South Australia
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Rule	AS	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AS	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AS	1987	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	1991	only	-	Mar	3	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	1993	only	-	Mar	7	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Adelaide	9:14:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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# Tasmania
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#
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# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
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# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
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# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971.
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Rule	AT	1967	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1968	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1968	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1969	1971	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1982	1983	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1984	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1986	only	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1987	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1987	only	-	Oct	Sun>=22	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1988	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1991	1999	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1991	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	2001	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Hobart	9:49:16	-	LMT	1895 Sep
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			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
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			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1967
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			10:00	AT	AE%sT
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Zone Australia/Currie	9:35:28	-	LMT	1895 Sep
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			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
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			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971 Jul
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			10:00	AT	AE%sT
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# Victoria
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AV	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	1986	1987	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	1988	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	1991	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
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			10:00	AV	AE%sT
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# New South Wales
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AN	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1982	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1983	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Sydney	10:04:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
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			10:00	AN	AE%sT
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Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	-	AEST	1896 Aug 23
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			9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
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			9:30	Aus	AC%sT	1971
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			9:30	AN	AC%sT	2000
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			9:30	AS	AC%sT
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# Lord Howe Island
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	LH	1981	1984	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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Rule	LH	1982	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	1985	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	0:30	D
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Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	-	AEST	1981 Mar
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			10:30	LH	LH%sT
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# Australian miscellany
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#
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# Ashmore Is, Cartier
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# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers
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# no times are set
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#
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# Coral Sea Is
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# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists
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# no times are set
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#
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# Macquarie
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# Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948;
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# sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919.  See the
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# Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island
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# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828
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# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831
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# Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010.
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#
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
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# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division:
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# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not
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# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do
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# on 4 April.
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#
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# From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23):
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# The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics
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# will produce a binary file with an [A]EST-type as the first 32-bit type;
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# this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by
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# pre-2013 versions of localtime.
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Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0	-	zzz	1899 Nov
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			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
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			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1919 Apr  1  0:00s
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			0	-	zzz	1948 Mar 25
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1967
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			10:00	AT	AE%sT	2010 Apr  4  3:00
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			11:00	-	MIST	# Macquarie I Standard Time
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# Christmas
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Indian/Christmas	7:02:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			7:00	-	CXT	# Christmas Island Time
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# Cocos (Keeling) Is
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# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
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# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
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Zone	Indian/Cocos	6:27:40	-	LMT	1900
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			6:30	-	CCT	# Cocos Islands Time
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# Fiji
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# Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva.
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# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10):
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# According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation,  Fiji plans to re-introduce DST
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# from November 29th 2009  to April 25th 2010.
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#
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# "Daylight savings to commence this month"
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# http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719
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# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-11-10):
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# The Fiji Government has posted some more details about the approved
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# amendments:
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-03):
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# The Cabinet in Fiji has decided to end DST about a month early, on
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# 2010-03-28 at 03:00.
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# The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March
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# 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?).
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#
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# Official source:
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1096:3310-cabinet-approves-change-in-daylight-savings-dates&catid=49:cabinet-releases&Itemid=166
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#
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# A bit more background info here:
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# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html
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# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24):
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# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3
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# weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011...
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# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands,
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# Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site:
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
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# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03):
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# Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date
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# assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong).
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#
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
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# which says
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# Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in
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# advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to
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# 2am on February 26 next year.
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# From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24)
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# Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for
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# Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22.
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#
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
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# states:
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#
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# The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
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# has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
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# The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
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# on the  23rd of October, 2011.
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# From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
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# The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
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# today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
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# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
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# From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
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# Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
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# move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
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# Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
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# From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
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# DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx
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# From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77
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# in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28),
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# via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02):
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# the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time
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# commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
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# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
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# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-01):
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# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
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# 03:00 the third Sunday in January.  Although ad hoc, it matches
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# transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future
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# practice than guessing no DST.
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	Fiji	1998	1999	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
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Rule	Fiji	1999	2000	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	-
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Rule	Fiji	2009	only	-	Nov	29	2:00	1:00	S
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Rule	Fiji	2010	only	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	-
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Rule	Fiji	2010	2013	-	Oct	Sun>=21	2:00	1:00	S
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Rule	Fiji	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
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Rule	Fiji	2012	2013	-	Jan	Sun>=18	3:00	0	-
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Rule	Fiji	2014	only	-	Jan	Sun>=18	2:00	0	-
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Rule	Fiji	2014	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
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Rule	Fiji	2015	max	-	Jan	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Fiji	11:55:44 -	LMT	1915 Oct 26 # Suva
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			12:00	Fiji	FJ%sT	# Fiji Time
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# French Polynesia
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Zone	Pacific/Gambier	 -8:59:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Rikitea
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			 -9:00	-	GAMT	# Gambier Time
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Zone	Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 -	LMT	1912 Oct
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			 -9:30	-	MART	# Marquesas Time
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Zone	Pacific/Tahiti	 -9:58:16 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Papeete
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			-10:00	-	TAHT	# Tahiti Time
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# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
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# it is uninhabited.
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# Guam
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Guam	-14:21:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
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			 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901        # Agana
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			10:00	-	GST	2000 Dec 23 # Guam
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			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
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Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
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# Kiribati
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Tarawa	 11:32:04 -	LMT	1901 # Bairiki
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   411
			 12:00	-	GILT	# Gilbert Is Time
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   412
Zone Pacific/Enderbury	-11:24:20 -	LMT	1901
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   413
			-12:00	-	PHOT	1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time
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   414
			-11:00	-	PHOT	1995
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   415
			 13:00	-	PHOT
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   416
Zone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
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   417
			-10:40	-	LINT	1979 Oct # Line Is Time
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   418
			-10:00	-	LINT	1995
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   419
			 14:00	-	LINT
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   420
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   421
# N Mariana Is
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   422
# See Pacific/Guam.
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# Marshall Is
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   425
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   426
Zone Pacific/Majuro	11:24:48 -	LMT	1901
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parents:
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   427
			11:00	-	MHT	1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time
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parents:
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			12:00	-	MHT
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parents:
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   429
Zone Pacific/Kwajalein	11:09:20 -	LMT	1901
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parents:
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   430
			11:00	-	MHT	1969 Oct
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			-12:00	-	KWAT	1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time
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   432
			12:00	-	MHT
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   433
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# Micronesia
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Chuuk	10:07:08 -	LMT	1901
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			10:00	-	CHUT	# Chuuk Time
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   438
Zone Pacific/Pohnpei	10:32:52 -	LMT	1901 # Kolonia
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   439
			11:00	-	PONT	# Pohnpei Time
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   440
Zone Pacific/Kosrae	10:51:56 -	LMT	1901
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   441
			11:00	-	KOST	1969 Oct # Kosrae Time
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   442
			12:00	-	KOST	1999
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   443
			11:00	-	KOST
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   444
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# Nauru
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   447
Zone	Pacific/Nauru	11:07:40 -	LMT	1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe
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   448
			11:30	-	NRT	1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time
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   449
			9:00	-	JST	1944 Aug 15
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   450
			11:30	-	NRT	1979 May
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   451
			12:00	-	NRT
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   452
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   453
# New Caledonia
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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   455
Rule	NC	1977	1978	-	Dec	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
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   456
Rule	NC	1978	1979	-	Feb	27	0:00	0	-
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parents:
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   457
Rule	NC	1996	only	-	Dec	 1	2:00s	1:00	S
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parents:
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   458
# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA.
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parents:
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   459
Rule	NC	1997	only	-	Mar	 2	2:00s	0	-
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parents:
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   460
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Noumea	11:05:48 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Nouméa
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			11:00	NC	NC%sT
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   463
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   464
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   465
###############################################################################
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   467
# New Zealand
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parents:
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   468
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   469
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	NZ	1927	only	-	Nov	 6	2:00	1:00	S
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parents:
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   471
Rule	NZ	1928	only	-	Mar	 4	2:00	0	M
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parents:
diff changeset
   472
Rule	NZ	1928	1933	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00	0:30	S
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parents:
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   473
Rule	NZ	1929	1933	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	M
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   474
Rule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	0	M
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   475
Rule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0:30	S
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   476
Rule	NZ	1946	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	S
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parents:
diff changeset
   477
# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no
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   478
# convenient single notation for the date and time of this transition
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   479
# so we must duplicate the Rule lines.
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parents:
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   480
Rule	NZ	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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parents:
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   481
Rule	Chatham	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	D
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parents:
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   482
Rule	NZ	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   483
Rule	Chatham	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:45s	0	S
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parents:
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   484
Rule	NZ	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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parents:
diff changeset
   485
Rule	Chatham	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	D
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parents:
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   486
Rule	NZ	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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parents:
diff changeset
   487
Rule	Chatham	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	S
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parents:
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   488
Rule	NZ	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00s	1:00	D
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   489
Rule	Chatham	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:45s	1:00	D
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
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parents:
diff changeset
   490
Rule	NZ	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   491
Rule	Chatham	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	D
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   492
Rule	NZ	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   493
Rule	Chatham	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:45s	0	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   494
Rule	NZ	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   495
Rule	Chatham	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	D
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parents:
diff changeset
   496
Rule	NZ	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   497
Rule	Chatham	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	S
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sherman
parents:
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   498
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents:
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   499
Zone Pacific/Auckland	11:39:04 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
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parents:
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   500
			11:30	NZ	NZ%sT	1946 Jan  1
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parents:
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   501
			12:00	NZ	NZ%sT
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   502
Zone Pacific/Chatham	12:13:48 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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   503
			12:15	-	CHAST	1946 Jan  1
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sherman
parents:
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   504
			12:45	Chatham	CHA%sT
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   505
20867
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aefimov
parents: 19382
diff changeset
   506
Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   507
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parents:
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   508
# Auckland Is
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   509
# uninhabited; Māori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
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parents:
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   510
# and scientific personnel have wintered
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   511
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sherman
parents:
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   512
# Campbell I
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sherman
parents:
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   513
# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   514
# scientific station operated 1941/1995;
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   515
# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
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sherman
parents:
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   516
# was probably like Pacific/Auckland
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   517
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   518
# Cook Is
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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   519
# From Shanks & Pottenger:
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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   520
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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parents: 23719
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   521
Rule	Cook	1978	only	-	Nov	12	0:00	0:30	HS
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   522
Rule	Cook	1979	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   523
Rule	Cook	1979	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	HS
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   524
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   525
Zone Pacific/Rarotonga	-10:39:04 -	LMT	1901        # Avarua
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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   526
			-10:30	-	CKT	1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   527
			-10:00	Cook	CK%sT
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   528
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parents:
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   529
###############################################################################
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   530
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   531
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   532
# Niue
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   533
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents: 23719
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   534
Zone	Pacific/Niue	-11:19:40 -	LMT	1901        # Alofi
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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   535
			-11:20	-	NUT	1951        # Niue Time
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   536
			-11:30	-	NUT	1978 Oct  1
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   537
			-11:00	-	NUT
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   538
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   539
# Norfolk
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parents:
diff changeset
   540
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents: 23719
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   541
Zone	Pacific/Norfolk	11:11:52 -	LMT	1901 # Kingston
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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   542
			11:12	-	NMT	1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
32853
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
   543
			11:30	-	NFT	1974 Oct 27 02:00 # Norfolk T.
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
   544
			11:30	1:00	NFST	1975 Mar  2 02:00
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
   545
			11:30	-	NFT	2015 Oct  4 02:00
15bb8b5dd10e 8138716: (tz) Support tzdata2015g
aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
   546
			11:00	-	NFT
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   547
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   548
# Palau (Belau)
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   549
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Palau	8:57:56 -	LMT	1901 # Koror
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   551
			9:00	-	PWT	# Palau Time
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   552
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   553
# Papua New Guinea
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   554
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   555
Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -	LMT	1880
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   556
			9:48:32	-	PMMT	1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
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   557
			10:00	-	PGT	# Papua New Guinea Time
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   558
#
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   559
# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
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   560
# Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have
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# the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War.
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   562
#
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   563
# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for JST, these dates
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# are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns.
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   565
# The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta.
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   566
# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
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# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
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   568
# http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm
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   569
# and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender.
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   570
#
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   571
# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11
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   572
# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.  They call UTC+11 "Bougainville Standard Time";
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   573
# abbreviate this as BST.  See:
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   574
# http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/
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   575
#
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   576
Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 -	LMT	1880
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parents: 26452
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   577
			 9:48:32 -	PMMT	1895
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   578
			10:00	-	PGT	1942 Jul
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   579
			 9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug 21
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   580
			10:00	-	PGT	2014 Dec 28  2:00
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   581
			11:00	-	BST
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   582
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   583
# Pitcairn
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   584
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   585
Zone Pacific/Pitcairn	-8:40:20 -	LMT	1901        # Adamstown
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   586
			-8:30	-	PNT	1998 Apr 27  0:00
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   587
			-8:00	-	PST	# Pitcairn Standard Time
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   588
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   589
# American Samoa
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   590
Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
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   591
			-11:22:48 -	LMT	1911
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   592
			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr    # N=Nome
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   593
			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
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   594
			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
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   595
Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
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   596
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# Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
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   598
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   599
# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
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   600
# We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
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   601
# the following info:
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   602
#
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   603
# "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year
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   604
# commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first
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   605
# Sunday of April 2011."
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   606
#
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   607
# Background info:
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   608
# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html
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#
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   610
# Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not
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   611
# contain any dates:
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   612
# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf
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   613
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   614
# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07):
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   615
# Please see
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   616
# http://www.mcil.gov.ws
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parents:
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   617
# the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday
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parents:
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   618
# September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight
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sherman
parents:
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   619
# to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks
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sherman
parents:
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   620
# backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am"
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parents:
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   621
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   622
# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-03-07):
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   623
# [http://www.mcil.gov.ws/ftcd/daylight_saving_2011.pdf]
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#
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   625
# ... when the standard time strikes the hour of four o'clock (4.00am
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   626
# or 0400 Hours) on the 2nd April 2011, then all instruments used to
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   627
# measure standard time are to be adjusted/changed to three o'clock
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# (3:00am or 0300Hrs).
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   629
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   630
# From David Zülke (2011-05-09):
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   631
# Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line
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   632
#
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   633
# http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963
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   634
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   635
# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27):
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   636
# The International Date Line Act 2011
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   637
# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf
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   638
# changed Samoa from UTC-11 to UTC+13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on
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   639
# Thursday 29th December 2011".  The International Date Line was adjusted
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   640
# accordingly.
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   641
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   642
# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02):
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parents:
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   643
# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
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   644
#
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   645
# here is the official website publication for Samoa DST and dateline change
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   646
#
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   647
# DST
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   648
# Year  End      Time              Start        Time
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   649
# 2011  - - -    - - -             24 September 3:00am to 4:00am
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   650
# 2012  01 April 4:00am to 3:00am  - - -        - - -
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   651
#
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   652
# Dateline Change skip Friday 30th Dec 2011
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   653
# Thursday 29th December 2011	23:59:59 Hours
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   654
# Saturday 31st December 2011	00:00:00 Hours
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   655
#
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   656
# From Nicholas Pereira (2012-09-10):
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   657
# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and
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   658
# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013....
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   659
# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
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   660
#
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   661
# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08):
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   662
# That web page currently lists transitions for 2012/3 and 2013/4.
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   663
# Assume the pattern instituted in 2012 will continue indefinitely.
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   664
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   665
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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   666
Rule	WS	2010	only	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1	D
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   667
Rule	WS	2011	only	-	Apr	Sat>=1	4:00	0	S
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   668
Rule	WS	2011	only	-	Sep	lastSat	3:00	1	D
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   669
Rule	WS	2012	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	4:00	0	S
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   670
Rule	WS	2012	max	-	Sep	lastSun	3:00	1	D
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   671
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   672
Zone Pacific/Apia	 12:33:04 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
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   673
			-11:26:56 -	LMT	1911
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   674
			-11:30	-	WSST	1950
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parents: 23719
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   675
			-11:00	WS	S%sT	2011 Dec 29 24:00 # S=Samoa
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   676
			 13:00	WS	WS%sT
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diff changeset
   677
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   678
# Solomon Is
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   679
# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
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parents:
diff changeset
   680
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   681
Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Honiara
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   682
			11:00	-	SBT	# Solomon Is Time
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parents:
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   683
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   684
# Tokelau Is
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parents:
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   685
#
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   686
# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29)
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parents:
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   687
# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping
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parents:
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   688
# December 31 this year ...
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parents:
diff changeset
   689
#
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parents:
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   690
# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25)
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parents:
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   691
# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking
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parents:
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   692
# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13....
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parents:
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   693
# Shanks says UTC-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change
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parents:
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   694
# actually was to UTC-11 back then.
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parents:
diff changeset
   695
#
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parents:
diff changeset
   696
# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
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parents:
diff changeset
   697
# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of
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parents:
diff changeset
   698
# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
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parents:
diff changeset
   699
# <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau
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parents:
diff changeset
   700
# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T."  Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger
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parents:
diff changeset
   701
# are off by an hour starting in 1901.
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parents:
diff changeset
   702
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parents:
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   703
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents:
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   704
Zone	Pacific/Fakaofo	-11:24:56 -	LMT	1901
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			-11:00	-	TKT	2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time
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   706
			13:00	-	TKT
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parents:
diff changeset
   707
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   708
# Tonga
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parents:
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   709
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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   710
Rule	Tonga	1999	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	1:00	S
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   711
Rule	Tonga	2000	only	-	Mar	19	2:00s	0	-
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   712
Rule	Tonga	2000	2001	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
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parents:
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   713
Rule	Tonga	2001	2002	-	Jan	lastSun	2:00	0	-
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parents:
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   714
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   715
Zone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
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sherman
parents:
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   716
			12:20	-	TOT	1941 # Tonga Time
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sherman
parents:
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   717
			13:00	-	TOT	1999
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parents:
diff changeset
   718
			13:00	Tonga	TO%sT
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parents:
diff changeset
   719
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parents:
diff changeset
   720
# Tuvalu
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parents:
diff changeset
   721
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   722
Zone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   723
			12:00	-	TVT	# Tuvalu Time
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   724
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   725
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sherman
parents:
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   726
# US minor outlying islands
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parents:
diff changeset
   727
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parents:
diff changeset
   728
# Howland, Baker
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parents:
diff changeset
   729
# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British
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parents:
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   730
# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known.
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parents:
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   731
# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944;
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parents:
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   732
# uninhabited thereafter.
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   733
# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT-10:30) in 1937;
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parents:
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   734
# see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long,
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sherman
parents:
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   735
# Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000).
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   736
# So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935
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parents:
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   737
# until they were abandoned after the war.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   738
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parents:
diff changeset
   739
# Jarvis
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parents:
diff changeset
   740
# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   741
# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958;
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   742
# uninhabited thereafter.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   743
# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
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parents:
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   744
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parents:
diff changeset
   745
# Johnston
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parents: 19382
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   746
#
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parents: 23348
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   747
# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-11):
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aefimov
parents: 23348
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   748
# Sometimes Johnston kept Hawaii time, and sometimes it was an hour behind.
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aefimov
parents: 23348
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   749
# Details are uncertain.  We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so
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parents: 23348
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   750
# treat it like Hawaii for now.
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parents: 23348
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   751
#
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   752
# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945
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parents: 19382
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   753
# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes,
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aefimov
parents: 19382
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   754
# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM
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aefimov
parents: 19382
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   755
# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time."  This was in June 1945, and
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aefimov
parents: 19382
diff changeset
   756
# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945.
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parents: 23348
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   757
#
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aefimov
parents: 23348
diff changeset
   758
# From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11):
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aefimov
parents: 23348
diff changeset
   759
# [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used
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aefimov
parents: 23348
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   760
# was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships,
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aefimov
parents: 23348
diff changeset
   761
# which had a GMT offset of -11 hours.  This apparently applied to at least the
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aefimov
parents: 23348
diff changeset
   762
# time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last
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aefimov
parents: 23348
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   763
# Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin,
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aefimov
parents: 23348
diff changeset
   764
# "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the
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parents: 23719
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   765
# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976.
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   766
# http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf
23719
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parents: 23348
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   767
# See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a
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aefimov
parents: 23348
diff changeset
   768
# footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time
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aefimov
parents: 23348
diff changeset
   769
# Minus One Hour".
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aefimov
parents: 19382
diff changeset
   770
#
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parents: 19382
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   771
# See 'northamerica' for Pacific/Johnston.
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parents:
diff changeset
   772
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parents:
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   773
# Kingman
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parents:
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   774
# uninhabited
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   775
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parents:
diff changeset
   776
# Midway
29722
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   777
# See Pacific/Pago_Pago.
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parents:
diff changeset
   778
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   779
# Palmyra
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   780
# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   781
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   782
# Wake
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   783
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   784
Zone	Pacific/Wake	11:06:28 -	LMT	1901
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   785
			12:00	-	WAKT	# Wake Time
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   786
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   787
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   788
# Vanuatu
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   789
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   790
Rule	Vanuatu	1983	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	1:00	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   791
Rule	Vanuatu	1984	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   792
Rule	Vanuatu	1984	only	-	Oct	23	0:00	1:00	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   793
Rule	Vanuatu	1985	1991	-	Sep	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   794
Rule	Vanuatu	1992	1993	-	Jan	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   795
Rule	Vanuatu	1992	only	-	Oct	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   796
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents: 23719
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   797
Zone	Pacific/Efate	11:13:16 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Vila
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   798
			11:00	Vanuatu	VU%sT	# Vanuatu Time
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   799
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   800
# Wallis and Futuna
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   801
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   802
Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   803
			12:00	-	WFT	# Wallis & Futuna Time
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   804
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   805
###############################################################################
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   806
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   807
# NOTES
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   808
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parents: 23719
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   809
# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   810
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   811
# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   812
# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   813
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aefimov
parents: 26452
diff changeset
   814
# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
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aefimov
parents: 26452
diff changeset
   815
#
ac74c0c65910 8064560: (tz) Support tzdata2014j
aefimov
parents: 26452
diff changeset
   816
# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   817
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   818
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
27727
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aefimov
parents: 26452
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   819
# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   820
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   821
# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   822
# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   823
# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   824
# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
27727
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aefimov
parents: 26452
diff changeset
   825
# of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
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aefimov
parents: 26452
diff changeset
   826
# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   827
#
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   828
# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   829
# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   830
# I found in the UCLA library.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   831
#
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parents: 15658
diff changeset
   832
# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   833
# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   834
# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
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parents: 15658
diff changeset
   835
#
15658
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sherman
parents:
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   836
# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   837
# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
   838
#
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   839
# I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table;
15658
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sherman
parents:
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   840
# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
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# Corrections are welcome!
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#		std	dst
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#		LMT		Local Mean Time
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#	  8:00	AWST	AWDT	Western Australia
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#	  8:45	ACWST	ACWDT	Central Western Australia*
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#	  9:00	JST		Japan
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#	  9:30	ACST	ACDT	Central Australia
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#	 10:00	AEST	AEDT	Eastern Australia
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#	 10:00	ChST		Chamorro
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#	 10:30	LHST	LHDT	Lord Howe*
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#	 11:00	BST		Bougainville*
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#	 11:30	NZMT	NZST	New Zealand through 1945
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#	 12:00	NZST	NZDT	New Zealand 1946-present
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#	 12:15	CHAST		Chatham through 1945*
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#	 12:45	CHAST	CHADT	Chatham 1946-present*
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#	 13:00	WSST	WSDT	(western) Samoa 2011-present*
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#	-11:30	WSST		Western Samoa through 1950*
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   858
#	-11:00	SST		Samoa
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   859
#	-10:00	HST		Hawaii
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#	- 8:00	PST		Pitcairn*
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#
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# See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
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# See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galápagos Is.
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###############################################################################
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   866
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   867
# Australia
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   868
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   869
# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
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   870
# Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting
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# region against region, rural against urban, and local against global.
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   872
# For example, in her review of Graeme Davison's _The Unforgiving
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   873
# Minute: how Australians learned to tell the time_ (1993), Perth native
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   874
# Phillipa J Martyr wrote, "The section entitled 'Saving Daylight' was
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   875
# very informative, but was (as can, sadly, only be expected from a
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   876
# Melbourne-based study) replete with the usual chuckleheaded
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   877
# Queenslanders and straw-chewing yokels from the West prattling fables
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   878
# about fading curtains and crazed farm animals."
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   879
# Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History (1997-03-03)
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   880
# http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/reviews/davison.htm
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   881
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# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08):
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# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia
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# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
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# summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
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   886
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   887
# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12):
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# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales
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# http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving
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# covers New South Wales in particular.
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   892
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
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   893
# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as 'daylight' time.
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   894
# It is called 'summer' time.  Now by a happy coincidence, 'summer'
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   895
# and 'standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the
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# abbreviation does _not_ change...
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   897
# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least
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# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the
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# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses
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# the phrase 'summer time' and does not use the phrase 'daylight
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# time'.
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# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian
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# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases 'Eastern Standard Time'
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# or 'Eastern Summer Time'.  (Note, though, that as I say in the
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   905
# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.)  Announcers
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   906
# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases
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   907
# prefixed by the word 'Australian' when referring to local times;
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# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
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   909
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   910
# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
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#
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   912
# Inspired by Mackin's remarks quoted above, earlier versions of this
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   913
# file used "EST" for both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Summer
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# Time in Australia, and similarly for "CST", "CWST", and "WST".
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   915
# However, these abbreviations were confusing and were not common
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   916
# practice among Australians, and there were justifiable complaints
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   917
# about them, so I attempted to survey current Australian usage.
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   918
# For the tz database, the full English phrase is not that important;
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   919
# what matters is the abbreviation.  It's difficult to survey the web
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   920
# directly for abbreviation usage, as there are so many false hits for
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   921
# strings like "EST" and "EDT", so I looked for pages that defined an
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# abbreviation for eastern or central DST in Australia, and got the
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   923
# following numbers of unique hits for the listed Google queries:
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#
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#   10 "Eastern Daylight Time AEST" site:au [some are false hits]
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   926
#   10 "Eastern Summer Time AEST" site:au
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   927
#   10 "Summer Time AEDT" site:au
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   928
#   13 "EDST Eastern Daylight Saving Time" site:au
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   929
#   18 "Summer Time ESST" site:au
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   930
#   28 "Eastern Daylight Saving Time EDST" site:au
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   931
#   39 "EDT Eastern Daylight Time" site:au [some are false hits]
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   932
#   53 "Eastern Daylight Time EDT" site:au [some are false hits]
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   933
#   54 "AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time" site:au
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   934
#  182 "Eastern Daylight Time AEDT" site:au
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   935
#
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   936
#   17 "Central Daylight Time CDT" site:au [some are false hits]
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#   46 "Central Daylight Time ACDT" site:au
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   938
#
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   939
# I tried several other variants (e.g., "Eastern Summer Time EST") but
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   940
# they all returned fewer than 10 unique hits.  I also looked for pages
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   941
# mentioning both "western standard time" and an abbreviation, since
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   942
# there is no WST in the US to generate false hits, and found:
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   943
#
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   944
#  156 "western standard time" AWST site:au
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   945
#  226 "western standard time" WST site:au
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   946
#
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   947
# I then surveyed the top ten newspapers in Australia by circulation as
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   948
# listed in Wikipedia, using Google queries like "AEDT site:heraldsun.com.au"
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   949
# and obtaining estimated counts from the initial page of search results.
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   950
# All ten papers greatly preferred "AEDT" to "EDT".  The papers
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   951
# surveyed were the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail,
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   952
# The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, The Age, The Advertiser,
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   953
# The Australian, The Financial Review, and The Herald (Newcastle).
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   954
#
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   955
# I also searched for historical usage, to see whether abbreviations
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   956
# like "AEDT" are new.  A Trove search <http://trove.nla.gov.au/>
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   957
# found only one newspaper (The Canberra Times) with a house style
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   958
# dating back to the 1970s, I expect because other newspapers weren't
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   959
# fully indexed.  The Canberra Times strongly preferred abbreviations
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   960
# like "AEDT".  The first occurrence of "AEDT" was a World Weather
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   961
# column (1971-11-17, page 24), and of "ACDT" was a Scoreboard column
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   962
# (1993-01-24, p 16).  The style was the typical usage but was not
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   963
# strictly enforced; for example, "Welcome to the twilight zones ..."
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   964
# (1994-10-29, p 1) uses the abbreviations AEST/AEDT, CST/CDT, and
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   965
# WST, and goes on to say, "The confusion and frustration some feel
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   966
# about the lack of uniformity among Australia's six states and two
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   967
# territories has prompted one group to form its very own political
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   968
# party -- the Sydney-based Daylight Saving Extension Party."
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#
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   970
# I also surveyed federal government sources.  They did not agree:
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   971
#
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   972
#   The Australian Government (2014-03-26)
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   973
#   http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time
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   974
#   (This document was produced by the Department of Finance.)
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   975
#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
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   976
#
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   977
#   Bureau of Meteorology (2012-11-08)
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   978
#   http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml
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   979
#   EST CST WST EDT CDT
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   980
#
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   981
#   Civil Aviation Safety Authority (undated)
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diff changeset
   982
#   http://services.casa.gov.au/outnback/inc/pages/episode3/episode-3_time_zones.shtml
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   983
#   EST CST WST (no abbreviations given for DST)
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parents:
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   984
#
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   985
#   Geoscience Australia (2011-11-24)
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   986
#   http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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   987
#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   988
#
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   989
#   Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10)
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
   990
#   http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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   991
#   EST CST WST preferred for standard time; AEST AEDT ACST ACDT also used
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parents:
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   992
#
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   993
#   The Transport Safety Bureau has an extensive series of accident reports,
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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   994
#   and investigators seem to use whatever abbreviation they like.
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   995
#   Googling site:atsb.gov.au found the following number of unique hits:
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parents: 23719
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   996
#   311 "ESuT", 195 "EDT", 26 "AEDT", 83 "CSuT", 46 "CDT".
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parents: 23719
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   997
#   "_SuT" tended to appear in older reports, and "A_DT" tended to
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aefimov
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   998
#   appear in reports of events with international implications.
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parents:
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   999
#
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  1000
# From the above it appears that there is a working consensus in
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
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  1001
# Australia to use trailing "DT" for daylight saving time; although
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1002
# some sources use trailing "SST" or "ST" or "SuT" they are by far in
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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  1003
# the minority.  The case for leading "A" is weaker, but since it
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1004
# seems to be preferred in the overall web and is preferred in all
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1005
# the leading newspaper websites and in many government departments,
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1006
# it has a stronger case than omitting the leading "A".  The current
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1007
# version of the database therefore uses abbreviations like "AEST" and
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parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1008
# "AEDT" for Australian time zones.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1009
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1010
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1011
# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1012
# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1013
# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1014
# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
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  1015
# and perhaps the newspaper's '2:00' is referring to standard time.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1016
# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1017
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1018
# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1019
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1020
# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1021
# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
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sherman
parents:
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  1022
# relevant entries in this database.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1023
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1024
# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill):
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sherman
parents:
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  1025
# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04)
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  1026
# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html
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diff changeset
  1027
# ACT
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parents:
diff changeset
  1028
# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972
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  1029
# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html
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  1030
# SA
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parents:
diff changeset
  1031
# Standard Time Act, 1898
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  1032
# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html
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parents:
diff changeset
  1033
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1034
# From David Grosz (2005-06-13):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1035
# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1036
# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1037
# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1038
# in April instead of the last Sunday in March.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1039
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1040
# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1041
# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1042
# to extend DST together in 2006.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1043
# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1044
# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1045
# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1046
# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1047
# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1048
# allude to it.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1049
# But not Queensland
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diff changeset
  1050
# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html
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parents:
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  1051
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parents:
diff changeset
  1052
# Northern Territory
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1053
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1054
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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parents:
diff changeset
  1055
# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY..  [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
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parents:
diff changeset
  1056
# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
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parents:
diff changeset
  1057
# #	N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1058
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1059
# Zone        Australia/North         9:30    -       CST
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1060
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1061
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1062
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1063
# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1064
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1065
# Western Australia
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1066
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1067
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1068
# #  The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA..  [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1069
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1070
# #	W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1071
# #	DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1072
# #	usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1073
# #	before reaching parliament.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1074
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1075
# Zone	Australia/West		8:00	AW	%sST
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1076
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1077
# Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1078
# Rule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1079
# Rule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1080
# Rule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1081
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1082
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1083
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1084
# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1085
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1086
# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1087
# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1088
# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1089
# work at 9.00am.)
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1090
# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1091
# everybody again.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1092
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1093
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1094
# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1095
# it matches what was used in the past.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1096
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1097
# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1098
# http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1099
# (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1100
# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1101
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1102
# Queensland
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1103
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1104
# #   The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1105
# #						[ Dec 1990 ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1106
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1107
# Zone	Australia/Queensland	10:00	AQ	%sST
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1108
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1109
# Rule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1110
# Rule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	E
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1111
# Rule	AQ	1989	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1112
# Rule	AQ	1990	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	E
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1113
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1114
# From Bradley White (1989-12-24):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1115
# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1116
# October 1989).
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1117
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1118
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1119
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1120
# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1121
# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1122
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1123
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1124
# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1125
# end on Sunday, 3 March.  I don't know at what hour, though.  (It surprised
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1126
# me.)
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1127
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1128
# From Bradley White (1992-03-08):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1129
# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1130
# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1131
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1132
# Rule	QLD	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1133
# Rule	QLD	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1134
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1135
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1136
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1137
# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1138
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1139
# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning
26452
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1140
# from Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-11-01):
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1141
# WA are trialing DST for three years.
26452
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1142
# http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1143
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1144
# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1145
# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1146
# southern coast....  South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1147
# Australia does not.  The two states are one and a half hours apart.  The
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1148
# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1149
# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1150
# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1151
# Australia and Western Australia....
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1152
#
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1153
# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1154
# This is confirmed by the section entitled
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1155
# "What's the deal with time zones???" in
26452
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1156
# http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1157
#
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1158
# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1159
# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1160
# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1161
# coast of the continent.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1162
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1163
# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1164
# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1165
# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1166
# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1167
# the largest population centre in this zone....
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1168
#
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1169
# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1170
# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1171
# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1172
# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1173
#
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1174
# (2006-12-09):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1175
# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1176
# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1177
# of this time zone.  My hunch is that it's been around since well
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1178
# before 1975.  I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1179
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1180
# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1181
# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1182
# introduction of standard time in 1895.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1183
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1184
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1185
# southeast Australia
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1186
#
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1187
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1188
# Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1189
# end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1190
# http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1191
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1192
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1193
# South Australia
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1194
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1195
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1196
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1197
# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1198
# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1199
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1200
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1201
# #   The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1202
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1203
# ...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1204
# Zone	Australia/South		9:30	AS	%sST
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1205
# ...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1206
# Rule	 AS	1971	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1207
# Rule	 AS	1972	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1208
# Rule	 AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	C
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1209
# Rule	 AS	1991	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1210
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1211
# From Bradley White (1992-03-11):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1212
# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1213
# contained the following exchange:  "Due to the Adelaide Festival,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1214
# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks."
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1215
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1216
# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1217
# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that)
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1218
# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1219
# numbered year (from 1990).  That's when the Adelaide Festival
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1220
# is on...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1221
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1222
# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1223
# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1224
# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1225
# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1226
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1227
# From Bradley White (1994-04-11):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1228
# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1229
# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1230
# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1231
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1232
# From John Warburton (1994-10-07):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1233
# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1234
# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1235
# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1236
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1237
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1238
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1239
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1240
# Tasmania
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1241
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1242
# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1243
# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1244
# #  The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1245
# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1246
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1247
# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1248
# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1249
# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1250
# (but nothing new about that).
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1251
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1252
# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1253
# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1254
# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1255
# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1256
# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1257
# instead of the first Sunday in October.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1258
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1259
# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules:
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1260
# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1261
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1262
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1263
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1264
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1265
# Victoria
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1266
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1267
# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1268
# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1269
# #   The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1270
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1271
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1272
# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1273
# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1274
# interesting story about daylight savings time.  Dr. John Heilbron was
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1275
# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1276
# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1277
# in Melbourne, Australia.
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parents:
diff changeset
  1278
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1279
# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1280
# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1281
# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1282
# fallen WWI soldiers.  And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time,
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1283
# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1284
# expected time.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1285
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1286
# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1287
# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1288
# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?).  Perhaps
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1289
# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1290
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1291
# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1292
# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1293
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1294
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1295
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1296
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1297
# New South Wales
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1298
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1299
# From Arthur David Olson:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1300
# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1301
# Based on law library research by John Mackin,
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1302
# who notes:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1303
#	In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
26452
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parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1304
#	individual states.  Thus, while such terms as "Eastern Standard Time"
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1305
#	[I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1306
#	use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1307
#	legislation.  This is very important to understand.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1308
#	I have researched New South Wales time only...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1309
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1310
# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1311
# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1312
# October in 2000.  See: Matthew Moore,
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1313
# Two months more daylight saving, Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1314
# http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1315
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1316
# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1317
# See the following official NSW source:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1318
# Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1319
# http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1320
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1321
# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1322
# daylight saving next year.  See:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1323
# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1324
# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1325
# (1999-07-22).  For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1326
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1327
# Victoria will following NSW.  See:
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1328
# Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28)
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1329
# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1330
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1331
# However, South Australia rejected the DST request.  See:
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1332
# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19)
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1333
# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1334
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1335
# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics.  See:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1336
# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1337
# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1338
# (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1339
# "Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1340
# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1341
# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1342
# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night.
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1343
# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules."
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1344
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1345
# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000.  See:
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1346
# Broken Hill to be behind the times (1999-07-21)
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1347
# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1348
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1349
# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1350
# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1351
# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1352
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1353
# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1354
# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1355
# towns to use Queensland time.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1356
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1357
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1358
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1359
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1360
# Yancowinna
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1361
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1362
# From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1363
# 'Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1364
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1365
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1366
# # YANCOWINNA..  [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1367
# #					[ Dec 1990 ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1368
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1369
# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1370
# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1371
# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1372
# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1373
# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1374
# # presently available.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1375
# Zone	Australia/Yancowinna	9:30	 AY	%sST
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1376
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1377
# Rule	 AY	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1378
# Rule	 AY	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	C
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1379
# [followed by other Rules]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1380
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1381
# Lord Howe Island
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1382
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1383
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1384
# LHI...		[ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1385
#					[ Dec 1990 ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1386
# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1387
# hour ahead of NSW time.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1388
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1389
# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1390
# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1391
# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27).  For your information the
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1392
# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1393
# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1394
# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1395
# instead of only 30 minutes.  [Dependent] on the wishes of residents
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1396
# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1397
# arrangements.  The starting date for summer time on the Island will
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1398
# however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1399
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1400
# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1401
# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1402
# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1403
# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1404
# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1405
# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1406
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1407
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1408
# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1409
# Lonergan thereafter.  For times we use Lonergan.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1410
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1411
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1412
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1413
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1414
# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1415
# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1416
# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1417
# summer (southern hemisphere).
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1418
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1419
# From
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1420
# http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1421
# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1422
# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1423
# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1424
# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1425
# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1426
# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1427
# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1428
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1429
# We have a wrap-up here:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1430
# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1431
###############################################################################
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1432
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1433
# New Zealand
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1434
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1435
# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1436
# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1437
# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1438
# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start).
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1439
# source - phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office.
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1440
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1441
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1442
# # The Country of New Zealand   (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1443
# #				   or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1444
# #	[ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1445
# #				[ Nov 1990 ]
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1446
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1447
# Rule	NZ      1974    1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1448
# Rule	NZ	1989	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1449
# Rule	NZ      1975    1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1450
# Rule	NZ	1990	max	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	S
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1451
# ...
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1452
# Zone	NZ			12:00	NZ		NZ%sT	# New Zealand
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1453
# Zone	NZ-CHAT			12:45	-		NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1454
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1455
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1456
# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1457
# rather than the October 1 value.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1458
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1459
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1460
# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1461
# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1462
# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1463
# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1464
# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1465
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1466
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1467
# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history,
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1468
# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1469
# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1470
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1471
# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1472
# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1473
# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1474
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1475
# From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1476
# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1477
# first Sunday in April.  The changes take effect this year, meaning
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1478
# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1479
# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1480
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1481
# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14):
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1482
# Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1483
# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26).
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1484
# http://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1485
# According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1486
# parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1487
# time in the Chatham Islands.  The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1488
# Zealand time.  I understand that is the time they keep locally, anyhow."
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1489
# For now, assume this practice goes back to the introduction of standard time
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1490
# in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1491
# LMT back when New Zealand was at UTC+11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1492
# not observe New Zealand's prewar DST.
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1493
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1494
###############################################################################
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1495
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1496
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1497
# Fiji
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1498
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1499
# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1500
# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1501
# instead of the American system (which was one day behind).
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1502
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1503
# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1504
# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1505
# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28.  Each year the DST period will
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1506
# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1507
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1508
# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1509
# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time.  Go with McDow.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1510
19382
fdb8e07fdaee 8020054: (tz) Support tzdata2013d
sherman
parents: 17464
diff changeset
  1511
# From the BBC World Service in
fdb8e07fdaee 8020054: (tz) Support tzdata2013d
sherman
parents: 17464
diff changeset
  1512
# http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/205226.stm (1998-10-31 16:03 UTC):
26452
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1513
# The Fijian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
19382
fdb8e07fdaee 8020054: (tz) Support tzdata2013d
sherman
parents: 17464
diff changeset
  1514
# improve productivity and reduce road accidents.... [T]he move is also
fdb8e07fdaee 8020054: (tz) Support tzdata2013d
sherman
parents: 17464
diff changeset
  1515
# intended to boost Fiji's ability to attract tourists to witness the dawning
fdb8e07fdaee 8020054: (tz) Support tzdata2013d
sherman
parents: 17464
diff changeset
  1516
# of the new millennium.
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1517
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1518
# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1519
# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1520
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1521
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1522
# Kiribati
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1523
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1524
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1525
# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati
26452
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1526
# "declared it the same day [throughout] the country as of Jan. 1, 1995"
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1527
# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1528
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1529
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1530
# Kwajalein
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1531
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1532
# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1533
# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1534
# 1993-08-20.  Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1535
# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1536
# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1537
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1538
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1539
# N Mariana Is, Guam
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1540
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1541
# Howse writes (p 153) "The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1542
# Philippines and the Ladrones from America," and implies that the Ladrones
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1543
# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1544
# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1545
# see Asia/Manila.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1546
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1547
# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UTC+10 the official standard time,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1548
# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time".  There is no official abbreviation,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1549
# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1550
# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1551
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1552
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1553
# Micronesia
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1554
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1555
# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
26452
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1556
# "I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that 'Truk'
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1557
# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10."
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1558
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1559
# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1560
# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1561
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1562
# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1563
# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in
26452
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1564
# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information (1999-01-26)
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1565
# http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1566
# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1567
# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1568
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1569
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1570
# Midway
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1571
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1572
# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1573
# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1574
# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1575
# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1576
# Saving Time.  This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1577
# your time down there in New Zealand.  Starting September 2, 1956
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1578
# we'll again go back to Standard Time.  This'll mean that we'll go to
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1579
# air at 6am your time.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1580
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1581
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1582
# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1583
# started DST on June 3.  Possibly DST was observed other years
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1584
# in Midway, but we have no record of it.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1585
32853
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aefimov
parents: 29722
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  1586
# Norfolk
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1587
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1588
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23):
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1589
# Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100:
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1590
# https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1591
# ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015.
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1592
# http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1593
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1594
# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23):
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1595
# Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1596
# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1597
# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1598
# other than in 1974/5.  See:
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aefimov
parents: 29722
diff changeset
  1599
# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html
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parents:
diff changeset
  1600
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1601
# Pitcairn
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1602
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1603
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1604
# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1605
# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time.  The Proclamation is as follows.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1606
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1607
#	The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1608
#	Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1609
#	as Pitcairn Standard Time.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1610
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1611
# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1612
# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1613
# somehow in light of this proclamation.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1614
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1615
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1616
# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1617
# ... at midnight.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1618
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1619
# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1620
# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1621
# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1622
# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1623
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1624
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1625
# (Western) Samoa and American Samoa
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1626
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1627
# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald)
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1628
# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1629
# "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1630
# ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1631
# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year."
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1632
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1633
# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UTC-11:30
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1634
# in 1911, and to UTC-11 in 1950. many earlier sources give UTC-11
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1635
# for American Samoa, e.g., the US National Bureau of Standards
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1636
# circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932.
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1637
# Assume American Samoa switched to UTC-11 in 1911, not 1950,
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1638
# and that after 1950 they agreed until (western) Samoa skipped a
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1639
# day in 2011.  Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1640
# Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations.
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1641
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1642
# Tonga
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1643
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1644
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1645
# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1646
# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time."
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1647
# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1648
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1649
# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1650
# How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins':
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1651
# http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm
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aefimov
parents: 23719
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  1652
#
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1653
# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1654
# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT.  When New Zealand adjusted its
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1655
# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1656
# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1657
# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13 degrees
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1658
# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1659
#
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1660
# Because His Majesty King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince
04bfc550f2b4 8049343: (tz) Support tzdata2014g
aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1661
# Tungī, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1662
# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1663
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1664
# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1665
# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1666
# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1667
# minutes we have lost?"
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1668
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1669
# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1670
# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1671
# to say your prayers in the morning."
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1672
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1673
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1674
# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1675
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1676
# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
19382
fdb8e07fdaee 8020054: (tz) Support tzdata2013d
sherman
parents: 17464
diff changeset
  1677
# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium
15658
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1678
# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1679
# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1680
# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1681
# Government.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1682
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1683
# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1684
# * Tonga will introduce DST in November
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1685
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1686
# I was given this link by John Letts:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1687
# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1688
#
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1689
# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1690
# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1691
# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1692
# (12 + 1 hour DST).
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1693
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1694
# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1695
# According to <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>:
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1696
# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1697
# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1698
# third Saturday of April.  Under the system approved by Privy Council on
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1699
# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1700
# set back an hour on the closing date."
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1701
# Alas, no indication of the time of day.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1702
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1703
# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1704
# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1705
# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1706
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1707
# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
55b829ca2334 8007392: JSR 310: DateTime API Updates
sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1708
# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1709
# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1710
# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1711
# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1712
# text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
26452
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aefimov
parents: 23719
diff changeset
  1713
# (Original URL was <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm>)
15658
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1714
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1715
# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1716
# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1717
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1718
# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1719
# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
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sherman
parents:
diff changeset
  1720
# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am.  At 2:00am on the last Sunday
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# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
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  1722
# hour to 1:00am.
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  1723
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  1724
# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05):
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  1725
# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed.  It wasn't.
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  1726
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  1727
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# Wake
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  1729
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  1730
# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
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  1731
# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
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#
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# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ...  The time was all the
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  1734
# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
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  1735
# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays.  Furthermore, we
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  1736
# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
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  1737
# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
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  1738
# impossible.
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  1739
#
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  1740
# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm
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  1741
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  1742
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
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  1743
# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
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  1744
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  1745
###############################################################################
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  1746
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  1747
# The International Date Line
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  1748
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  1749
# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
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  1750
#
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  1751
# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
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  1752
# convention, or treaty.  Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
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  1753
# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
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  1754
# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
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  1755
#
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  1756
# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
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  1757
# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
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  1758
# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
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  1759
# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati.  Even that line
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  1760
# has a rather arbitrary nature.  The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
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  1761
# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
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  1762
# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is
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  1763
# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
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  1764
# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC.  And, since the IDL is not
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  1765
# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
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  1766
# correct date is ambiguous.
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  1767
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  1768
# From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31):
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  1769
# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting
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  1770
# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's
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  1771
# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's
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  1772
# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon).  During 1917, at the
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  1773
# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all
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  1774
# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones
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  1775
# on the high seas.  Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any
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  1776
# nation it would use that nation's standard time.  The captain was permitted
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  1777
# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's
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  1778
# entry into another zone time - he often chose midnight.  These zones were
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  1779
# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many
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  1780
# independent merchant ships until World War II.
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  1781
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  1782
# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
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  1783
# (2005-03-20):
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  1784
#
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  1785
# The American Practical Navigator (2002)
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# http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187
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  1787
# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
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  1788
# international waters; it ignores the international date line.