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# DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
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#  
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# This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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# questions.
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#
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# <pre>
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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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# 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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# Western Australia
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#
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Zone Australia/Perth	 7:43:24 -	LMT	1895 Dec
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# Queensland
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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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# 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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# South Australia
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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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# 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	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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# Victoria
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Rule	AV	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AV	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AV	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	-
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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	EST	1971
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			10:00	AV	EST
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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	-
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Rule	AN	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1982	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1983	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AN	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AN	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AN	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AN	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	-
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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	EST	1971
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			10:00	AN	EST
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Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	-	EST	1896 Aug 23
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			9:00	-	CST	1899 May
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			9:30	Aus	CST	1971
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			9:30	AN	CST	2000
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			9:30	AS	CST
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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	-
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Rule	LH	1982	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	1985	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	0:30	-
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Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	-	EST	1981 Mar
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			10:30	LH	LHST
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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) since 1948;
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# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917
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# like Australia/Hobart
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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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# Cook Is
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# From Shanks & Pottenger:
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	Cook	1978	only	-	Nov	12	0:00	0:30	HS
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Rule	Cook	1979	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
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Rule	Cook	1979	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	HS
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Rarotonga	-10:39:04 -	LMT	1901		# Avarua
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			-10:30	-	CKT	1978 Nov 12	# Cook Is Time
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			-10:00	Cook	CK%sT
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# Cocos
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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	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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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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# 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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# <a href="http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719">
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# http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719
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# </a>
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# or
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# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html">
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# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html
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# </a>
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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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# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml">
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml
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# </a>
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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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# <a href="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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# 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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# </a>
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#
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# A bit more background info here:
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# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html">
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# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html
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# </a>
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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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# <a href="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.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
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# </a>
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# or
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# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html">
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# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html
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# </a>
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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	only	-	Oct	24	2:00	1:00	S
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Rule	Fiji	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
2
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Fiji	11:53:40 -	LMT	1915 Oct 26	# Suva
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			12:00	Fiji	FJ%sT	# Fiji Time
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   331
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# French Polynesia
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   333
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   334
Zone	Pacific/Gambier	 -8:59:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct	# Rikitea
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   335
			 -9:00	-	GAMT	# Gambier Time
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parents:
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   336
Zone	Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 -	LMT	1912 Oct
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parents:
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   337
			 -9:30	-	MART	# Marquesas Time
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parents:
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   338
Zone	Pacific/Tahiti	 -9:58:16 -	LMT	1912 Oct	# Papeete
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parents:
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   339
			-10:00	-	TAHT	# Tahiti Time
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   340
# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
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# it is uninhabited.
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   342
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# Guam
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parents:
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   344
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   345
Zone	Pacific/Guam	-14:21:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
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   346
			 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901		# Agana
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   347
			10:00	-	GST	2000 Dec 23	# Guam
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   348
			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
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   349
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   350
# Kiribati
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parents:
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   351
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   352
Zone Pacific/Tarawa	 11:32:04 -	LMT	1901		# Bairiki
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duke
parents:
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   353
			 12:00	-	GILT		 # Gilbert Is Time
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duke
parents:
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   354
Zone Pacific/Enderbury	-11:24:20 -	LMT	1901
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duke
parents:
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   355
			-12:00	-	PHOT	1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time
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parents:
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   356
			-11:00	-	PHOT	1995
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parents:
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   357
			 13:00	-	PHOT
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parents:
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   358
Zone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
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parents:
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   359
			-10:40	-	LINT	1979 Oct # Line Is Time
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duke
parents:
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   360
			-10:00	-	LINT	1995
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   361
			 14:00	-	LINT
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parents:
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   362
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parents:
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   363
# N Mariana Is
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parents:
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   364
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   365
Zone Pacific/Saipan	-14:17:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
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parents:
diff changeset
   366
			 9:43:00 -	LMT	1901
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duke
parents:
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   367
			 9:00	-	MPT	1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time
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parents:
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   368
			10:00	-	MPT	2000 Dec 23
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parents:
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   369
			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
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parents:
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   370
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parents:
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   371
# Marshall Is
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parents:
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   372
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents:
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   373
Zone Pacific/Majuro	11:24:48 -	LMT	1901
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parents:
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   374
			11:00	-	MHT	1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   375
			12:00	-	MHT
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duke
parents:
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   376
Zone Pacific/Kwajalein	11:09:20 -	LMT	1901
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parents:
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   377
			11:00	-	MHT	1969 Oct
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parents:
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   378
			-12:00	-	KWAT	1993 Aug 20	# Kwajalein Time
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parents:
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   379
			12:00	-	MHT
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parents:
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   380
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duke
parents:
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   381
# Micronesia
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parents:
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   382
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
6290
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   383
Zone Pacific/Chuuk	10:07:08 -	LMT	1901
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parents: 5506
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   384
			10:00	-	CHUT			# Chuuk Time
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   385
Zone Pacific/Pohnpei	10:32:52 -	LMT	1901		# Kolonia
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			11:00	-	PONT			# Pohnpei Time
2
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parents:
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   387
Zone Pacific/Kosrae	10:51:56 -	LMT	1901
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duke
parents:
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   388
			11:00	-	KOST	1969 Oct	# Kosrae Time
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duke
parents:
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   389
			12:00	-	KOST	1999
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   390
			11:00	-	KOST
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   391
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duke
parents:
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   392
# Nauru
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   393
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   394
Zone	Pacific/Nauru	11:07:40 -	LMT	1921 Jan 15	# Uaobe
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   395
			11:30	-	NRT	1942 Mar 15	# Nauru Time
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   396
			9:00	-	JST	1944 Aug 15
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   397
			11:30	-	NRT	1979 May
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   398
			12:00	-	NRT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   399
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   400
# New Caledonia
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   401
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   402
Rule	NC	1977	1978	-	Dec	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   403
Rule	NC	1978	1979	-	Feb	27	0:00	0	-
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   404
Rule	NC	1996	only	-	Dec	 1	2:00s	1:00	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   405
# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   406
Rule	NC	1997	only	-	Mar	 2	2:00s	0	-
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   407
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   408
Zone	Pacific/Noumea	11:05:48 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   409
			11:00	NC	NC%sT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   410
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   411
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parents:
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   412
###############################################################################
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   413
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   414
# New Zealand
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   415
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   416
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   417
Rule	NZ	1927	only	-	Nov	 6	2:00	1:00	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   418
Rule	NZ	1928	only	-	Mar	 4	2:00	0	M
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   419
Rule	NZ	1928	1933	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00	0:30	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   420
Rule	NZ	1929	1933	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	M
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   421
Rule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	0	M
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   422
Rule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0:30	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   423
Rule	NZ	1946	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   424
# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   425
# convenient notation for this so we must duplicate the Rule lines.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   426
Rule	NZ	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   427
Rule	Chatham	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   428
Rule	NZ	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   429
Rule	Chatham	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:45s	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   430
Rule	NZ	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   431
Rule	Chatham	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   432
Rule	NZ	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   433
Rule	Chatham	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   434
Rule	NZ	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00s	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   435
Rule	Chatham	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:45s	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   436
Rule	NZ	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   437
Rule	Chatham	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   438
Rule	NZ	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   439
Rule	Chatham	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:45s	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   440
Rule	NZ	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   441
Rule	Chatham	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   442
Rule	NZ	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   443
Rule	Chatham	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   444
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   445
Zone Pacific/Auckland	11:39:04 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   446
			11:30	NZ	NZ%sT	1946 Jan  1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   447
			12:00	NZ	NZ%sT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   448
Zone Pacific/Chatham	12:13:48 -	LMT	1957 Jan  1
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   449
			12:45	Chatham	CHA%sT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   450
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   451
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   452
# Auckland Is
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   453
# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   454
# and scientific personnel have wintered
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   455
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   456
# Campbell I
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   457
# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   458
# scientific station operated 1941/1995;
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   459
# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   460
# was probably like Pacific/Auckland
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   461
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duke
parents:
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   462
###############################################################################
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   463
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   464
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   465
# Niue
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   466
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   467
Zone	Pacific/Niue	-11:19:40 -	LMT	1901		# Alofi
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   468
			-11:20	-	NUT	1951	# Niue Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   469
			-11:30	-	NUT	1978 Oct 1
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   470
			-11:00	-	NUT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   471
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   472
# Norfolk
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   473
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   474
Zone	Pacific/Norfolk	11:11:52 -	LMT	1901		# Kingston
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   475
			11:12	-	NMT	1951	# Norfolk Mean Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   476
			11:30	-	NFT		# Norfolk Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   477
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   478
# Palau (Belau)
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   479
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   480
Zone Pacific/Palau	8:57:56 -	LMT	1901		# Koror
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   481
			9:00	-	PWT	# Palau Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   482
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   483
# Papua New Guinea
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   484
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   485
Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -	LMT	1880
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   486
			9:48:32	-	PMMT	1895	# Port Moresby Mean Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   487
			10:00	-	PGT		# Papua New Guinea Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   488
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   489
# Pitcairn
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   490
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   491
Zone Pacific/Pitcairn	-8:40:20 -	LMT	1901		# Adamstown
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   492
			-8:30	-	PNT	1998 Apr 27 00:00
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   493
			-8:00	-	PST	# Pitcairn Standard Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   494
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   495
# American Samoa
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   496
Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   497
			-11:22:48 -	LMT	1911
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   498
			-11:30	-	SAMT	1950		# Samoa Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   499
			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr	# N=Nome
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   500
			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30	# B=Bering
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   501
			-11:00	-	SST			# S=Samoa
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   502
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   503
# Samoa
3739
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peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
   504
5130
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parents: 4959
diff changeset
   505
# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
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peytoia
parents: 4959
diff changeset
   506
# We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
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peytoia
parents: 4959
diff changeset
   507
# the following info:
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parents: 3739
diff changeset
   508
#
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parents: 4959
diff changeset
   509
# "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year
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   510
# commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first
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   511
# Sunday of April 2011."
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peytoia
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   512
#
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   513
# Background info:
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# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html">
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# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html
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# </a>
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#
5130
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   518
# Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not
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parents: 4959
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   519
# contain any dates:
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   520
# <a href="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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   521
# 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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# </a>
4279
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   523
7013
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parents: 6290
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   524
# From Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07):
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peytoia
parents: 6290
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   525
# Please see
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   526
# <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws">
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peytoia
parents: 6290
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   527
# http://www.mcil.gov.ws
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peytoia
parents: 6290
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   528
# </a>,
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peytoia
parents: 6290
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   529
# the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday
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peytoia
parents: 6290
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   530
# September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight
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peytoia
parents: 6290
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   531
# to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks
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   532
# backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am"
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peytoia
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   533
8761
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parents: 8371
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   534
# From Raymond Hughes (2011-03-07)
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peytoia
parents: 8371
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   535
# I believe this will be posted shortly on the website
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peytoia
parents: 8371
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   536
# <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws">
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peytoia
parents: 8371
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   537
# www.mcil.gov.ws
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peytoia
parents: 8371
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   538
# </a>
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peytoia
parents: 8371
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   539
#
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   540
# PUBLIC NOTICE ON DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
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peytoia
parents: 8371
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   541
#
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parents: 8371
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   542
# Pursuant to the Daylight Saving Act 2009 and Cabinets decision,
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peytoia
parents: 8371
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   543
# businesses and the general public are hereby advised that daylight
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peytoia
parents: 8371
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   544
# saving time is on the first Saturday of April 2011 (02/04/11).
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   545
#
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   546
# The public is therefore advised that when the standard time strikes
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parents: 8371
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   547
# the hour of four oclock (4.00am or 0400 Hours) on the 2nd April 2011,
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   548
# then all instruments used to measure standard time are to be
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peytoia
parents: 8371
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   549
# adjusted/changed to three oclock (3:00am or 0300Hrs).
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   550
#
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   551
# Margaret Fruean ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MINISTRY OF COMMERCE,
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# INDUSTRY AND LABOUR 28th February 2011
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2
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Zone Pacific/Apia	 12:33:04 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
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   555
			-11:26:56 -	LMT	1911
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   556
			-11:30	-	SAMT	1950		# Samoa Time
5137
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   557
			-11:00	-	WST	2010 Sep 26
8761
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			-11:00	1:00	WSDT	2011 Apr 2 4:00
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			-11:00	-	WST
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# Solomon Is
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# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
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   563
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct	# Honiara
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   565
			11:00	-	SBT	# Solomon Is Time
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   566
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   567
# Tokelau Is
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   568
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   569
Zone	Pacific/Fakaofo	-11:24:56 -	LMT	1901
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   570
			-10:00	-	TKT	# Tokelau Time
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   571
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   572
# Tonga
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   573
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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   574
Rule	Tonga	1999	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	1:00	S
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   575
Rule	Tonga	2000	only	-	Mar	19	2:00s	0	-
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   576
Rule	Tonga	2000	2001	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
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   577
Rule	Tonga	2001	2002	-	Jan	lastSun	2:00	0	-
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   578
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   579
Zone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
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   580
			12:20	-	TOT	1941 # Tonga Time
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   581
			13:00	-	TOT	1999
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   582
			13:00	Tonga	TO%sT
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   583
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   584
# Tuvalu
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   585
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   586
Zone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
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   587
			12:00	-	TVT	# Tuvalu Time
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   588
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   589
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   590
# US minor outlying islands
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   591
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   592
# Howland, Baker
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   593
# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British
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   594
# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known.
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   595
# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944;
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# uninhabited thereafter.
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   597
# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UTC-10:30) in 1937;
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   598
# see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long,
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   599
# Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000).
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   600
# So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935
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# until they were abandoned after the war.
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   602
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# Jarvis
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   604
# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?.
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   605
# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958;
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   606
# uninhabited thereafter.
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   607
# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
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   608
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   609
# Johnston
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   610
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   611
Zone Pacific/Johnston	-10:00	-	HST
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   612
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   613
# Kingman
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parents:
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   614
# uninhabited
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   615
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   616
# Midway
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   617
#
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   618
# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
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   619
# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
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   620
# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
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   621
# reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly
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duke
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   622
# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
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duke
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   623
# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast.  As it uses some time zone
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duke
parents:
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   624
# designations that I've never seen before:....
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duke
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# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I.   H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
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#  "   3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A  "
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#
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   628
Zone Pacific/Midway	-11:49:28 -	LMT	1901
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duke
parents:
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   629
			-11:00	-	NST	1956 Jun  3
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parents:
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   630
			-11:00	1:00	NDT	1956 Sep  2
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duke
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   631
			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr	# N=Nome
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duke
parents:
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   632
			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30	# B=Bering
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   633
			-11:00	-	SST			# S=Samoa
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   634
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   635
# Palmyra
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   636
# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   637
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   638
# Wake
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   639
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   640
Zone	Pacific/Wake	11:06:28 -	LMT	1901
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duke
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   641
			12:00	-	WAKT	# Wake Time
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   642
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   643
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duke
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   644
# Vanuatu
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   645
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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   646
Rule	Vanuatu	1983	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	1:00	S
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duke
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diff changeset
   647
Rule	Vanuatu	1984	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
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diff changeset
   648
Rule	Vanuatu	1984	only	-	Oct	23	0:00	1:00	S
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duke
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   649
Rule	Vanuatu	1985	1991	-	Sep	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	S
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parents:
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   650
Rule	Vanuatu	1992	1993	-	Jan	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
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duke
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   651
Rule	Vanuatu	1992	only	-	Oct	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   652
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
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   653
Zone	Pacific/Efate	11:13:16 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13		# Vila
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duke
parents:
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   654
			11:00	Vanuatu	VU%sT	# Vanuatu Time
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   655
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duke
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diff changeset
   656
# Wallis and Futuna
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   657
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   658
Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   659
			12:00	-	WFT	# Wallis & Futuna Time
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   660
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duke
parents:
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   661
###############################################################################
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   662
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duke
parents:
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   663
# NOTES
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parents:
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   664
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duke
parents:
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   665
# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   666
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   667
# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   668
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   669
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   670
# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
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duke
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diff changeset
   671
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   672
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
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duke
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diff changeset
   673
#
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duke
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diff changeset
   674
# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
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duke
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diff changeset
   675
# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
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duke
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diff changeset
   676
# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
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duke
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   677
# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   678
# of the IATA's data after 1990.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   679
#
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duke
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diff changeset
   680
# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   681
# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   682
#
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duke
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diff changeset
   683
# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
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parents:
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   684
# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
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duke
parents:
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   685
# I found in the UCLA library.
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duke
parents:
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   686
#
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duke
parents:
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   687
# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
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duke
parents:
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   688
# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
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duke
parents:
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   689
#
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duke
parents:
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   690
# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
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duke
parents:
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   691
# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
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duke
parents:
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   692
# Corrections are welcome!
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duke
parents:
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   693
#		std dst
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duke
parents:
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   694
#		LMT	Local Mean Time
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duke
parents:
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   695
#	  8:00	WST WST	Western Australia
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duke
parents:
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   696
#	  8:45	CWST CWST Central Western Australia*
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duke
parents:
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   697
#	  9:00	JST	Japan
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duke
parents:
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   698
#	  9:30	CST CST	Central Australia
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duke
parents:
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   699
#	 10:00	EST EST	Eastern Australia
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duke
parents:
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   700
#	 10:00	ChST	Chamorro
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duke
parents:
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   701
#	 10:30	LHST LHST Lord Howe*
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duke
parents:
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   702
#	 11:30	NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945
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duke
parents:
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   703
#	 12:00	NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present
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duke
parents:
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   704
#	 12:45	CHAST CHADT Chatham*
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duke
parents:
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   705
#	-11:00	SST	Samoa
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parents:
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   706
#	-10:00	HST	Hawaii
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duke
parents:
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   707
#	- 8:00	PST	Pitcairn*
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duke
parents:
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   708
#
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duke
parents:
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   709
# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii.
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duke
parents:
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   710
# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is.
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duke
parents:
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   711
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parents:
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   712
###############################################################################
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duke
parents:
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   713
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duke
parents:
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   714
# Australia
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duke
parents:
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   715
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duke
parents:
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   716
# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   717
# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml">
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duke
parents:
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   718
# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   719
# </a> summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   720
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   721
# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   722
# <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving">
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duke
parents:
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   723
# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales
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duke
parents:
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   724
# </a> covers New South Wales in particular.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   725
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   726
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   727
# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   728
# It is called `summer' time.  Now by a happy coincidence, `summer'
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   729
# and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   730
# abbreviation does _not_ change...
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duke
parents:
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   731
# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least
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duke
parents:
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   732
# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the
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duke
parents:
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   733
# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   734
# the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   735
# time'.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   736
# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   737
# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time'
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   738
# or `Eastern Summer Time'.  (Note, though, that as I say in the
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   739
# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.)  Announcers
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   740
# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   741
# prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times;
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   742
# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   743
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   744
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   745
# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   746
#	CST	for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   747
#	WST	for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   748
#	EST	for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   749
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   750
# From Chuck Soper (2006-06-01):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   751
# I recently found this Australian government web page on time zones:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   752
# <http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-13time>
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   753
# And this government web page lists time zone names and abbreviations:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   754
# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml>
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   755
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   756
# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-05), summarizing a long discussion about "EST"
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   757
# versus "AEST" etc.:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   758
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   759
# I see the following points of dispute:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   760
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   761
# * How important are unique time zone abbreviations?
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   762
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   763
#   Here I tend to agree with the point (most recently made by Chris
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   764
#   Newman) that unique abbreviations should not be essential for proper
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   765
#   operation of software.  We have other instances of ambiguity
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   766
#   (e.g. "IST" denoting both "Israel Standard Time" and "Indian
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   767
#   Standard Time"), and they are not likely to go away any time soon.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   768
#   In the old days, some software mistakenly relied on unique
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   769
#   abbreviations, but this is becoming less true with time, and I don't
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   770
#   think it's that important to cater to such software these days.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   771
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   772
#   On the other hand, there is another motivation for unambiguous
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   773
#   abbreviations: it cuts down on human confusion.  This is
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   774
#   particularly true for Australia, where "EST" can mean one thing for
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   775
#   time T and a different thing for time T plus 1 second.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   776
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   777
# * Does the relevant legislation indicate which abbreviations should be used?
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   778
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   779
#   Here I tend to think that things are a mess, just as they are in
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   780
#   many other countries.  We Americans are currently disagreeing about
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   781
#   which abbreviation to use for the newly legislated Chamorro Standard
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   782
#   Time, for example.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   783
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   784
#   Personally, I would prefer to use common practice; I would like to
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   785
#   refer to legislation only for examples of common practice, or as a
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   786
#   tiebreaker.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   787
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   788
# * Do Australians more often use "Eastern Daylight Time" or "Eastern
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   789
#   Summer Time"?  Do they typically prefix the time zone names with
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   790
#   the word "Australian"?
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   791
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   792
#   My own impression is that both "Daylight Time" and "Summer Time" are
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   793
#   common and are widely understood, but that "Summer Time" is more
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   794
#   popular; and that the leading "A" is also common but is omitted more
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   795
#   often than not.  I just used AltaVista advanced search and got the
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   796
#   following count of page hits:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   797
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   798
#     1,103 "Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   799
#       971 "Australian Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   800
#       613 "Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   801
#       127 "Australian Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   802
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   803
#   Here "Summer" seems quite a bit more popular than "Daylight",
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   804
#   particularly when we know the time zone is Australian and not US,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   805
#   say.  The "Australian" prefix seems to be popular for Eastern Summer
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   806
#   Time, but unpopular for Eastern Daylight Time.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   807
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   808
#   For abbreviations, tools like AltaVista are less useful because of
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   809
#   ambiguity.  Many hits are not really time zones, unfortunately, and
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   810
#   many hits denote US time zones and not Australian ones.  But here
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   811
#   are the hit counts anyway:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   812
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   813
#     161,304 "EST" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   814
#      25,156 "EDT" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   815
#      18,263 "AEST" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   816
#      10,416 "AEDT" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   817
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   818
#      14,538 "CST" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   819
#       5,728 "CDT" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   820
#         176 "ACST" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   821
#          29 "ACDT" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   822
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   823
#       7,539 "WST" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   824
#          68 "AWST" and domain:au
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   825
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   826
#   This data suggest that Australians tend to omit the "A" prefix in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   827
#   practice.  The situation for "ST" versus "DT" is less clear, given
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   828
#   the ambiguities involved.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   829
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   830
# * How do Australians feel about the abbreviations in the tz database?
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   831
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   832
#   If you just count Australians on this list, I count 2 in favor and 3
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   833
#   against.  One of the "against" votes (David Keegel) counseled delay,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   834
#   saying that both AEST/AEDT and EST/EST are widely used and
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   835
#   understood in Australia.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   836
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   837
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   838
# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   839
# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   840
# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   841
# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   842
# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   843
# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   844
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   845
# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   846
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   847
# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   848
# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   849
# relevant entries in this database.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   850
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   851
# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   852
# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html">
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   853
# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04)
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   854
# </a>
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   855
# ACT
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   856
# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html">
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   857
# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   858
# </a>
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   859
# SA
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   860
# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html">
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   861
# Standard Time Act, 1898
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   862
# </a>
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   863
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   864
# From David Grosz (2005-06-13):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   865
# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   866
# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   867
# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   868
# in April instead of the last Sunday in March.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   869
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   870
# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   871
# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   872
# to extend DST together in 2006.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   873
# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   874
# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   875
# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   876
# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   877
# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   878
# allude to it.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   879
# But not Queensland
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   880
# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   881
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   882
# Northern Territory
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   883
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   884
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   885
# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY..  [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   886
# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   887
# #	N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   888
# ...
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   889
# Zone        Australia/North         9:30    -       CST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   890
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   891
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   892
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   893
# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   894
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   895
# Western Australia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   896
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   897
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   898
# #  The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA..  [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   899
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   900
# #	W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   901
# #	DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   902
# #	usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   903
# #	before reaching parliament.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   904
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   905
# Zone	Australia/West		8:00	AW	%sST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   906
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   907
# Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   908
# Rule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   909
# Rule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   910
# Rule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   911
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   912
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   913
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   914
# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   915
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   916
# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   917
# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   918
# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   919
# work at 9.00am.)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   920
# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   921
# everybody again.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   922
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   923
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   924
# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   925
# it matches what was used in the past.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   926
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   927
# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm">
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
   928
# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   929
# </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   930
# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   931
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   932
# Queensland
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   933
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   934
# #   The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   935
# #						[ Dec 1990 ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   936
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   937
# Zone	Australia/Queensland	10:00	AQ	%sST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   938
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   939
# Rule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   940
# Rule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	E
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   941
# Rule	AQ	1989	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   942
# Rule	AQ	1990	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	E
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   943
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   944
# From Bradley White (1989-12-24):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   945
# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   946
# October 1989).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   947
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   948
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   949
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   950
# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   951
# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   952
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   953
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   954
# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   955
# end on Sunday, 3 March.  I don't know at what hour, though.  (It surprised
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   956
# me.)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   957
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   958
# From Bradley White (1992-03-08):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   959
# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   960
# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   961
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   962
# Rule	QLD	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   963
# Rule	QLD	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   964
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   965
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   966
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   967
# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   968
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   969
# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   970
# from Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-11-01):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   971
# WA are trialing DST for three years.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   972
# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf>
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   973
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   974
# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   975
# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   976
# southern coast....  South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   977
# Australia does not.  The two states are one and a half hours apart.  The
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   978
# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   979
# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   980
# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   981
# Australia and Western Australia....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   982
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   983
# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   984
# This is confirmed by the section entitled
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   985
# "What's the deal with time zones???" in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   986
# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   987
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   988
# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   989
# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   990
# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   991
# coast of the continent.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   992
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   993
# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   994
# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   995
# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   996
# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   997
# the largest population centre in this zone....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   998
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
   999
# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1000
# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1001
# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1002
# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1003
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1004
# (2006-12-09):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1005
# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1006
# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1007
# of this time zone.  My hunch is that it's been around since well
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1008
# before 1975.  I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1009
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1010
# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1011
# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1012
# introduction of standard time in 1895.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1013
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1014
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1015
# southeast Australia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1016
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1017
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1018
# Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1019
# end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1020
# http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1021
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1022
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1023
# South Australia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1024
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1025
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1026
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1027
# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1028
# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1029
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1030
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1031
# #   The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1032
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1033
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1034
# Zone	Australia/South		9:30	AS	%sST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1035
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1036
# Rule	 AS	1971	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1037
# Rule	 AS	1972	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1038
# Rule	 AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	C
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1039
# Rule	 AS	1991	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1040
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1041
# From Bradley White (1992-03-11):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1042
# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1043
# contained the following exchange:  "Due to the Adelaide Festival,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1044
# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks."
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1045
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1046
# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1047
# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1048
# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1049
# numbered year (from 1990).  That's when the Adelaide Festival
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1050
# is on...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1051
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1052
# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1053
# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1054
# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1055
# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1056
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1057
# From Bradley White (1994-04-11):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1058
# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1059
# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1060
# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1061
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1062
# From John Warburton (1994-10-07):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1063
# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1064
# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1065
# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1066
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1067
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1068
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1069
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1070
# Tasmania
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1071
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1072
# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1073
# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1074
# #  The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1075
# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1076
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1077
# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1078
# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1079
# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1080
# (but nothing new about that).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1081
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1082
# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1083
# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1084
# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1085
# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1086
# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1087
# instead of the first Sunday in October.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1088
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1089
# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1090
# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1091
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1092
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1093
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1094
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1095
# Victoria
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1096
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1097
# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1098
# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1099
# #   The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1100
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1101
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1102
# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1103
# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1104
# interesting story about daylight savings time.  Dr. John Heilbron was
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1105
# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1106
# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1107
# in Melbourne, Australia.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1108
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1109
# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1110
# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1111
# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1112
# fallen WWI soldiers.  And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1113
# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1114
# expected time.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1115
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1116
# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1117
# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1118
# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?).  Perhaps
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1119
# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1120
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1121
# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1122
# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1123
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1124
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1125
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1126
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1127
# New South Wales
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1128
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1129
# From Arthur David Olson:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1130
# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1131
# Based on law library research by John Mackin,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1132
# who notes:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1133
#	In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1134
#	individual states.  Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time''
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1135
#	[I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1136
#	use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1137
#	legislation.  This is very important to understand.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1138
#	I have researched New South Wales time only...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1139
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1140
# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1141
# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1142
# October in 2000.  [See: Matthew Moore,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1143
# <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html">
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1144
# Two months more daylight saving
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1145
# </a>
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1146
# Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1147
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1148
# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1149
# See the following official NSW source:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1150
# <a href="http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ">
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1151
# Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1152
# </a>
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1153
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1154
# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1155
# daylight saving next year.  See:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1156
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1157
# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1158
# </a> (1999-07-22).  For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1159
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1160
# Victoria will following NSW.  See:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1161
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1162
# Vic to extend daylight saving
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1163
# </a> (1999-07-28).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1164
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1165
# However, South Australia rejected the DST request.  See:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1166
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1167
# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1168
# </a> (1999-07-19).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1169
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1170
# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics.  See:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1171
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1172
# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1173
# </a> (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1174
# ``Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1175
# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1176
# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1177
# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1178
# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules.''
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1179
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1180
# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000.  See:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1181
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1182
# Broken Hill to be behind the times
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1183
# </a> (1999-07-21).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1184
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1185
# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1186
# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1187
# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1188
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1189
# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1190
# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1191
# towns to use Queensland time.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1192
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1193
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1194
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1195
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1196
# Yancowinna
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1197
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1198
# From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1199
# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1200
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1201
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1202
# # YANCOWINNA..  [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1203
# #					[ Dec 1990 ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1204
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1205
# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1206
# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1207
# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1208
# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1209
# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1210
# # presently available.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1211
# Zone	Australia/Yancowinna	9:30	 AY	%sST
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1212
# ...
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1213
# Rule	 AY	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1214
# Rule	 AY	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	C
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1215
# [followed by other Rules]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1216
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1217
# Lord Howe Island
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1218
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1219
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1220
# LHI...		[ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1221
#					[ Dec 1990 ]
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1222
# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1223
# hour ahead of NSW time.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1224
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1225
# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1226
# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1227
# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27).  For your information the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1228
# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1229
# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1230
# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1231
# instead of only 30 minutes.  Dependant on the wishes of residents
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1232
# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1233
# arrangements.  The starting date for summer time on the Island will
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1234
# however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1235
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1236
# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1237
# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1238
# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1239
# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1240
# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1241
# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1242
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1243
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1244
# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1245
# Lonergan thereafter.  For times we use Lonergan.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1246
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1247
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1248
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1249
3739
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peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1250
# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28):
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1251
# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight 
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1252
# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009 
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1253
# summer (southern hemisphere).
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1254
# 
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1255
# From
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1256
# <a href="http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf">
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1257
# http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1258
# </a>
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1259
# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling 
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1260
# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing.
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1261
# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each 
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1262
# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year.
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1263
# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia 
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1264
# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and 
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1265
# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year...
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1266
# 
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1267
# We have a wrap-up here:
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1268
# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html">
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1269
# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html
0825ce592b81 6872467: (tz) Support tzdata2009l
peytoia
parents: 1316
diff changeset
  1270
# </a>
2
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parents:
diff changeset
  1271
###############################################################################
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1272
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1273
# New Zealand
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1274
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1275
# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1276
# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1277
# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1278
# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start).
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1279
# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1280
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1281
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1282
# # The Country of New Zealand   (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1283
# #				   or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1284
# #	[ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1285
# #				[ Nov 1990 ]
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1286
# ...
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1287
# Rule	NZ      1974    1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1288
# Rule	NZ	1989	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1289
# Rule	NZ      1975    1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1290
# Rule	NZ	1990	max	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	S
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1291
# ...
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1292
# Zone	NZ			12:00	NZ		NZ%sT	# New Zealand
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1293
# Zone	NZ-CHAT			12:45	-		NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1294
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1295
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1296
# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1297
# rather than the October 1 value.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1298
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1299
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1300
# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1301
# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1302
# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1303
# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1304
# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1305
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1306
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1307
# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history,
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1308
# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1309
# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1310
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1311
# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1312
# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1313
# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1314
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1315
# From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1316
# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1317
# first Sunday in April.  The changes take effect this year, meaning
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1318
# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1319
# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1320
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1321
###############################################################################
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1322
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1323
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1324
# Fiji
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1325
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1326
# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1327
# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1328
# instead of the American system (which was one day behind).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1329
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1330
# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1331
# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1332
# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28.  Each year the DST period will
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1333
# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1334
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1335
# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1336
# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time.  Go with McDow.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1337
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1338
# From the BBC World Service (1998-10-31 11:32 UTC):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1339
# The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1340
# improve productivity and reduce road accidents.  But correspondents say it
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1341
# also hopes the move will boost Fiji's ability to compete with other pacific
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1342
# islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1343
# millenium.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1344
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1345
# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1346
# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1347
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1348
# Johnston
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1349
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1350
# Johnston data is from usno1995.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1351
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1352
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1353
# Kiribati
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1354
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1355
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1356
# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1357
# ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995''
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1358
# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1359
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1360
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1361
# Kwajalein
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1362
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1363
# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1364
# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1365
# 1993-08-20.  Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1366
# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1367
# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1368
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1369
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1370
# N Mariana Is, Guam
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1371
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1372
# Howse writes (p 153) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1373
# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1374
# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1375
# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1376
# see Asia/Manila.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1377
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1378
# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UTC+10 the official standard time,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1379
# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time".  There is no official abbreviation,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1380
# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1381
# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1382
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1383
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1384
# Micronesia
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1385
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1386
# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1387
# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk"
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1388
# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.''
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1389
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1390
# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1391
# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1392
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1393
# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1394
# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1395
# <a href="http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html">
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1396
# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1397
# </a> (1999-01-26)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1398
# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1399
# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1400
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1401
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1402
# Midway
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1403
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1404
# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1405
# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1406
# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1407
# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1408
# Saving Time.  This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1409
# your time down there in New Zealand.  Starting September 2, 1956
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1410
# we'll again go back to Standard Time.  This'll mean that we'll go to
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1411
# air at 6am your time.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1412
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1413
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1414
# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1415
# started DST on June 3.  Possibly DST was observed other years
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1416
# in Midway, but we have no record of it.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1417
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1418
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1419
# Pitcairn
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1420
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1421
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1422
# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1423
# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time.  The Proclamation is as follows.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1424
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1425
#	The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1426
#	Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1427
#	as Pitcairn Standard Time.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1428
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1429
# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1430
# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1431
# somehow in light of this proclamation.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1432
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1433
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1434
# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1435
# ... at midnight.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1436
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1437
# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1438
# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1439
# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1440
# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1441
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1442
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1443
# Samoa
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1444
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1445
# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald)
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1446
# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1447
# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1448
# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that
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duke
parents:
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  1449
# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.''
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1450
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1451
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duke
parents:
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  1452
# Tonga
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1453
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1454
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1455
# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting
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parents:
diff changeset
  1456
# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.''
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1457
# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1458
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duke
parents:
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  1459
# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1460
# <a href="http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm">
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1461
# How Tonga became `The Land where Time Begins'
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1462
# </a>:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1463
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1464
# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1465
# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT.  When New Zealand adjusted its
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1466
# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1467
# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1468
# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13 degrees
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1469
# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1470
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1471
# Because His Majesty King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1472
# Tungi, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1473
# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1474
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1475
# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1476
# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1477
# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1478
# minutes we have lost?"
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1479
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1480
# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1481
# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1482
# to say your prayers in the morning."
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1483
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1484
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1485
# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1486
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1487
# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1488
# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millenium
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1489
# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1490
# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1491
# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1492
# Government.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1493
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1494
# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1495
# * Tonga will introduce DST in November
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1496
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1497
# I was given this link by John Letts:
1316
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1498
# <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm">
2
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1499
# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1500
# </a>
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1501
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1502
# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1503
# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1504
# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1505
# (12 + 1 hour DST).
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1506
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1507
# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
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peytoia
parents: 2
diff changeset
  1508
# According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html">
2
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1509
# http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1510
# </a>:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1511
# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1512
# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1513
# third Saturday of April.  Under the system approved by Privy Council on
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1514
# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1515
# set back an hour on the closing date."
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1516
# Alas, no indication of the time of day.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1517
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1518
# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1519
# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1520
# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1521
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1522
# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1523
# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1524
# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1525
# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1526
# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1527
# text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1528
# (Original URL was: http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm )
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1529
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1530
# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1531
# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1532
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1533
# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1534
# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1535
# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am.  At 2:00am on the last Sunday
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1536
# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1537
# hour to 1:00am.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1538
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1539
# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1540
# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed.  It wasn't.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1541
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1542
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1543
# Wake
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1544
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1545
# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1546
# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1547
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1548
# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] -- ...  The time was all the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1549
# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1550
# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays.  Furthermore, we
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1551
# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1552
# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1553
# impossible.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1554
#
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1555
# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1556
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1557
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1558
# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1559
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1560
###############################################################################
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1561
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1562
# The International Date Line
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1563
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1564
# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1565
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1566
# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1567
# convention, or treaty.  Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1568
# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1569
# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1570
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1571
# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1572
# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1573
# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1574
# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati.  Even that line
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1575
# has a rather arbitrary nature.  The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1576
# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1577
# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1578
# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1579
# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC.  And, since the IDL is not
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1580
# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1581
# correct date is ambiguous.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1582
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1583
# From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31):
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1584
# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1585
# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1586
# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1587
# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon).  During 1917, at the
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1588
# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1589
# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1590
# on the high seas.  Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1591
# nation it would use that nation's standard time.  The captain was permitted
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1592
# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1593
# entry into another zone time--he often chose midnight.  These zones were
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1594
# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1595
# independent merchant ships until World War II.
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1596
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1597
# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1598
# (2005-03-20):
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1599
#
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1600
# The American Practical Navigator (2002)
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1601
# <http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187>
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duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1602
# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
90ce3da70b43 Initial load
duke
parents:
diff changeset
  1603
# international waters; it ignores the international date line.