diff -r e6278add9ff2 -r 6b374b7fdc3d make/data/tzdata/australasia --- a/make/data/tzdata/australasia Tue Nov 07 23:18:16 2017 +0100 +++ b/make/data/tzdata/australasia Thu Nov 09 14:38:54 2017 +0530 @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ # 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 # # A bit more background info here: -# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html +# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24): # According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3 @@ -380,9 +380,12 @@ # clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will # end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017." -# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03): -# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to -# 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches +# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-21): +# Dominic Fok writes (2017-08-20) that DST ends 2018-01-14, citing +# Extraordinary Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 21 (2017-08-27), +# [Legal Notice No. 41] of an order of the previous day by J Usamate. +# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to 03:00 +# the first Sunday on or after January 14. Although ad hoc, it matches # transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future # practice than guessing no DST. @@ -396,7 +399,7 @@ Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 - Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 - Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - +Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=14 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 12:00 Fiji +12/+13 @@ -580,7 +583,7 @@ # The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta. # The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942, # according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia -# http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm +# https://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm # and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender. # # The Autonomous Region of Bougainville switched from UT +10 to +11 @@ -602,7 +605,7 @@ -8:00 - -08 # American Samoa -Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 +Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands @@ -618,7 +621,7 @@ # Sunday of April 2011." # # Background info: -# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html +# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html # # Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not # contain any dates: @@ -682,7 +685,7 @@ Rule WS 2012 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 S Rule WS 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 +Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - -1130 1950 -11:00 WS -11/-10 2011 Dec 29 24:00 @@ -709,7 +712,7 @@ # From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25) # A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of # Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948, -# , page 65, says Tokelau +# , page 65, says Tokelau # was "11 hours slow on G.M.T." Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger # are off by an hour starting in 1901. @@ -724,8 +727,8 @@ Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - -Rule Tonga 2016 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Tonga 2017 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - +Rule Tonga 2016 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Tonga 2017 only - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - +1220 1941 @@ -779,7 +782,7 @@ # Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin, # "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the # Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976. -# http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf +# https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf # See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a # footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time # Minus One Hour". @@ -845,7 +848,7 @@ # # For data circa 1899, a common source is: # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. -# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 +# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 # # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). @@ -992,7 +995,7 @@ # AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT # # Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10) -# http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf +# https://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf # EST CST WST preferred for standard time; AEST AEDT ACST ACDT also used # # The Transport Safety Bureau has an extensive series of accident reports, @@ -1028,13 +1031,13 @@ # # NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): # Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) -# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html +# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html # ACT # Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 -# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html +# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html # SA # Standard Time Act, 1898 -# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html +# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html # From David Grosz (2005-06-13): # It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by @@ -1329,7 +1332,7 @@ # http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm # (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens. # -# Victoria will following NSW. See: +# Victoria will follow NSW. See: # Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28) # http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm # @@ -1432,7 +1435,7 @@ # the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year... # # We have a wrap-up here: -# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html +# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html ############################################################################### # New Zealand @@ -1486,7 +1489,7 @@ # From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14): # Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by # New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26). -# http://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf +# https://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf # According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand # parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard # time in the Chatham Islands. The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New @@ -1601,7 +1604,7 @@ # the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's # Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST # other than in 1974/5. See: -# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html +# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html # Pitcairn @@ -1629,11 +1632,13 @@ # (Western) Samoa and American Samoa -# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald) -# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change +# Howse writes (p 153) that after the 1879 standardization on Antipodean +# time by the British governor of Fiji, the King of Samoa decided to change # "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, # ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that # the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year." +# This happened in 1892, according to the Evening News (Sydney) of 1892-07-20. +# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm # Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30 # in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11 @@ -1644,6 +1649,7 @@ # day in 2011. Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New # Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations. + # Tonga # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): @@ -1738,6 +1744,15 @@ # Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00 # through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now. +# From David Wade (2017-10-18): +# In August government was disolved by the King. The current prime minister +# continued in office in care taker mode. It is easy to see that few +# decisions will be made until elections 16th November. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18): +# For now, guess that DST is discontinued. That's what the IATA is guessing. + + # Wake # From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, @@ -1750,7 +1765,7 @@ # making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost # impossible. # -# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm +# https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/andrsonv.htm # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): # We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now. @@ -1778,7 +1793,7 @@ # an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the # correct date is ambiguous. -# From Wikipedia (2005-08-31): +# From Wikipedia (2005-08-31): # Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting # their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's # speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's