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Annotation of src/external/public-domain/tz/dist/australasia, Revision 1.1.1.11

1.1       apb         1: # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
                      2: # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
                      3:
                      4: # This file also includes Pacific islands.
                      5:
                      6: # Notes are at the end of this file
                      7:
                      8: ###############################################################################
                      9:
                     10: # Australia
                     11:
                     12: # Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc.
                     13:
                     14: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                     15: Rule   Aus     1917    only    -       Jan      1      0:01    1:00    D
                     16: Rule   Aus     1917    only    -       Mar     25      2:00    0       S
                     17: Rule   Aus     1942    only    -       Jan      1      2:00    1:00    D
                     18: Rule   Aus     1942    only    -       Mar     29      2:00    0       S
                     19: Rule   Aus     1942    only    -       Sep     27      2:00    1:00    D
                     20: Rule   Aus     1943    1944    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00    0       S
                     21: Rule   Aus     1943    only    -       Oct      3      2:00    1:00    D
                     22: # Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which
                     23: # says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944.  Ignore Whitman's claim that
                     24: # 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944.
                     25:
                     26: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                     27: # Northern Territory
                     28: Zone Australia/Darwin   8:43:20 -      LMT     1895 Feb
                     29:                         9:00   -       ACST    1899 May
                     30:                         9:30   Aus     AC%sT
                     31: # Western Australia
                     32: #
                     33: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                     34: Rule   AW      1974    only    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                     35: Rule   AW      1975    only    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                     36: Rule   AW      1983    only    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                     37: Rule   AW      1984    only    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                     38: Rule   AW      1991    only    -       Nov     17      2:00s   1:00    D
                     39: Rule   AW      1992    only    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                     40: Rule   AW      2006    only    -       Dec      3      2:00s   1:00    D
                     41: Rule   AW      2007    2009    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                     42: Rule   AW      2007    2008    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                     43: Zone Australia/Perth    7:43:24 -      LMT     1895 Dec
                     44:                         8:00   Aus     AW%sT   1943 Jul
                     45:                         8:00   AW      AW%sT
                     46: Zone Australia/Eucla    8:35:28 -      LMT     1895 Dec
1.1.1.11! kre        47:                         8:45   Aus +0845/+0945 1943 Jul
        !            48:                         8:45   AW  +0845/+0945
1.1       apb        49:
                     50: # Queensland
                     51: #
                     52: # From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
                     53: # I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
                     54: # of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
                     55: # Queensland ceased to.
                     56: #
                     57: # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
                     58: # IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman,
                     59: # Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped.
                     60: # Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria,
                     61: # so use Lindeman.
                     62: #
1.1.1.6   christos   63: # From J William Piggott (2016-02-20):
                     64: # There is no location named Holiday Islands in Queensland Australia; holiday
                     65: # islands is a colloquial term used globally.  Hayman and Lindeman are at the
                     66: # north and south extremes of the Whitsunday Islands archipelago, and
                     67: # Hamilton is in between; it is reasonable to believe that this time zone
                     68: # applies to all of the Whitsundays.
                     69: # http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-islands
                     70: #
1.1       apb        71: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                     72: Rule   AQ      1971    only    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                     73: Rule   AQ      1972    only    -       Feb     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                     74: Rule   AQ      1989    1991    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                     75: Rule   AQ      1990    1992    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                     76: Rule   Holiday 1992    1993    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                     77: Rule   Holiday 1993    1994    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                     78: Zone Australia/Brisbane        10:12:08 -      LMT     1895
                     79:                        10:00   Aus     AE%sT   1971
                     80:                        10:00   AQ      AE%sT
                     81: Zone Australia/Lindeman  9:55:56 -     LMT     1895
                     82:                        10:00   Aus     AE%sT   1971
                     83:                        10:00   AQ      AE%sT   1992 Jul
                     84:                        10:00   Holiday AE%sT
                     85:
                     86: # South Australia
                     87: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                     88: Rule   AS      1971    1985    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                     89: Rule   AS      1986    only    -       Oct     19      2:00s   1:00    D
                     90: Rule   AS      1987    2007    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                     91: Rule   AS      1972    only    -       Feb     27      2:00s   0       S
                     92: Rule   AS      1973    1985    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                     93: Rule   AS      1986    1990    -       Mar     Sun>=15 2:00s   0       S
                     94: Rule   AS      1991    only    -       Mar     3       2:00s   0       S
                     95: Rule   AS      1992    only    -       Mar     22      2:00s   0       S
                     96: Rule   AS      1993    only    -       Mar     7       2:00s   0       S
                     97: Rule   AS      1994    only    -       Mar     20      2:00s   0       S
                     98: Rule   AS      1995    2005    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                     99: Rule   AS      2006    only    -       Apr     2       2:00s   0       S
                    100: Rule   AS      2007    only    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    101: Rule   AS      2008    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    102: Rule   AS      2008    max     -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:00s   1:00    D
                    103: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    104: Zone Australia/Adelaide        9:14:20 -       LMT     1895 Feb
                    105:                        9:00    -       ACST    1899 May
                    106:                        9:30    Aus     AC%sT   1971
                    107:                        9:30    AS      AC%sT
                    108:
                    109: # Tasmania
                    110: #
                    111: # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
1.1.1.2   apb       112: # http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
1.1       apb       113: # says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971.
                    114: #
                    115: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    116: Rule   AT      1967    only    -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:00s   1:00    D
                    117: Rule   AT      1968    only    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    118: Rule   AT      1968    1985    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    119: Rule   AT      1969    1971    -       Mar     Sun>=8  2:00s   0       S
                    120: Rule   AT      1972    only    -       Feb     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    121: Rule   AT      1973    1981    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    122: Rule   AT      1982    1983    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    123: Rule   AT      1984    1986    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    124: Rule   AT      1986    only    -       Oct     Sun>=15 2:00s   1:00    D
                    125: Rule   AT      1987    1990    -       Mar     Sun>=15 2:00s   0       S
                    126: Rule   AT      1987    only    -       Oct     Sun>=22 2:00s   1:00    D
                    127: Rule   AT      1988    1990    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    128: Rule   AT      1991    1999    -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:00s   1:00    D
                    129: Rule   AT      1991    2005    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    130: Rule   AT      2000    only    -       Aug     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    131: Rule   AT      2001    max     -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:00s   1:00    D
                    132: Rule   AT      2006    only    -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    133: Rule   AT      2007    only    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    134: Rule   AT      2008    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    135: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    136: Zone Australia/Hobart  9:49:16 -       LMT     1895 Sep
1.1.1.2   apb       137:                        10:00   -       AEST    1916 Oct  1  2:00
1.1       apb       138:                        10:00   1:00    AEDT    1917 Feb
                    139:                        10:00   Aus     AE%sT   1967
                    140:                        10:00   AT      AE%sT
                    141: Zone Australia/Currie  9:35:28 -       LMT     1895 Sep
1.1.1.2   apb       142:                        10:00   -       AEST    1916 Oct  1  2:00
1.1       apb       143:                        10:00   1:00    AEDT    1917 Feb
                    144:                        10:00   Aus     AE%sT   1971 Jul
                    145:                        10:00   AT      AE%sT
                    146:
                    147: # Victoria
                    148: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    149: Rule   AV      1971    1985    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    150: Rule   AV      1972    only    -       Feb     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    151: Rule   AV      1973    1985    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    152: Rule   AV      1986    1990    -       Mar     Sun>=15 2:00s   0       S
                    153: Rule   AV      1986    1987    -       Oct     Sun>=15 2:00s   1:00    D
                    154: Rule   AV      1988    1999    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    155: Rule   AV      1991    1994    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    156: Rule   AV      1995    2005    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    157: Rule   AV      2000    only    -       Aug     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    158: Rule   AV      2001    2007    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    159: Rule   AV      2006    only    -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    160: Rule   AV      2007    only    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    161: Rule   AV      2008    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    162: Rule   AV      2008    max     -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:00s   1:00    D
                    163: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    164: Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 -     LMT     1895 Feb
                    165:                        10:00   Aus     AE%sT   1971
                    166:                        10:00   AV      AE%sT
                    167:
                    168: # New South Wales
                    169: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    170: Rule   AN      1971    1985    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    171: Rule   AN      1972    only    -       Feb     27      2:00s   0       S
                    172: Rule   AN      1973    1981    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    173: Rule   AN      1982    only    -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    174: Rule   AN      1983    1985    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    175: Rule   AN      1986    1989    -       Mar     Sun>=15 2:00s   0       S
                    176: Rule   AN      1986    only    -       Oct     19      2:00s   1:00    D
                    177: Rule   AN      1987    1999    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    178: Rule   AN      1990    1995    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    179: Rule   AN      1996    2005    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    180: Rule   AN      2000    only    -       Aug     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    181: Rule   AN      2001    2007    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    182: Rule   AN      2006    only    -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    183: Rule   AN      2007    only    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    184: Rule   AN      2008    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    185: Rule   AN      2008    max     -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:00s   1:00    D
                    186: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    187: Zone Australia/Sydney  10:04:52 -      LMT     1895 Feb
                    188:                        10:00   Aus     AE%sT   1971
                    189:                        10:00   AN      AE%sT
                    190: Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 -   LMT     1895 Feb
                    191:                        10:00   -       AEST    1896 Aug 23
                    192:                        9:00    -       ACST    1899 May
                    193:                        9:30    Aus     AC%sT   1971
                    194:                        9:30    AN      AC%sT   2000
                    195:                        9:30    AS      AC%sT
                    196:
                    197: # Lord Howe Island
                    198: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    199: Rule   LH      1981    1984    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
                    200: Rule   LH      1982    1985    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00    0       S
                    201: Rule   LH      1985    only    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    0:30    D
                    202: Rule   LH      1986    1989    -       Mar     Sun>=15 2:00    0       S
                    203: Rule   LH      1986    only    -       Oct     19      2:00    0:30    D
                    204: Rule   LH      1987    1999    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    0:30    D
                    205: Rule   LH      1990    1995    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00    0       S
                    206: Rule   LH      1996    2005    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00    0       S
                    207: Rule   LH      2000    only    -       Aug     lastSun 2:00    0:30    D
                    208: Rule   LH      2001    2007    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    0:30    D
                    209: Rule   LH      2006    only    -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00    0       S
                    210: Rule   LH      2007    only    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00    0       S
                    211: Rule   LH      2008    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00    0       S
                    212: Rule   LH      2008    max     -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:00    0:30    D
                    213: Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -    LMT     1895 Feb
                    214:                        10:00   -       AEST    1981 Mar
1.1.1.11! kre       215:                        10:30   LH      +1030/+1130 1985 Jul
        !           216:                        10:30   LH      +1030/+11
1.1       apb       217:
                    218: # Australian miscellany
                    219: #
                    220: # Ashmore Is, Cartier
                    221: # no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers
                    222: # no times are set
                    223: #
                    224: # Coral Sea Is
                    225: # no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists
                    226: # no times are set
                    227: #
                    228: # Macquarie
                    229: # Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948;
                    230: # sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919.  See the
                    231: # Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island
1.1.1.2   apb       232: # http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828
                    233: # http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831
1.1       apb       234: # Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010.
                    235: #
                    236: # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
                    237: # We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division:
                    238: # - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not
                    239: # switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do
                    240: # on 4 April.
                    241: #
                    242: # From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23):
                    243: # The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics
                    244: # will produce a binary file with an [A]EST-type as the first 32-bit type;
                    245: # this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by
                    246: # pre-2013 versions of localtime.
1.1.1.7   kre       247: Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0    -       -00     1899 Nov
1.1.1.2   apb       248:                        10:00   -       AEST    1916 Oct  1  2:00
1.1       apb       249:                        10:00   1:00    AEDT    1917 Feb
1.1.1.2   apb       250:                        10:00   Aus     AE%sT   1919 Apr  1  0:00s
1.1.1.7   kre       251:                        0       -       -00     1948 Mar 25
1.1       apb       252:                        10:00   Aus     AE%sT   1967
1.1.1.2   apb       253:                        10:00   AT      AE%sT   2010 Apr  4  3:00
1.1.1.11! kre       254:                        11:00   -       +11
1.1       apb       255:
                    256: # Christmas
                    257: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    258: Zone Indian/Christmas  7:02:52 -       LMT     1895 Feb
1.1.1.11! kre       259:                        7:00    -       +07
1.1       apb       260:
                    261: # Cocos (Keeling) Is
                    262: # These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
                    263: # We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
                    264: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    265: Zone   Indian/Cocos    6:27:40 -       LMT     1900
1.1.1.11! kre       266:                        6:30    -       +0630
1.1       apb       267:
                    268:
                    269: # Fiji
                    270:
                    271: # Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva.
                    272:
                    273: # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10):
                    274: # According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation,  Fiji plans to re-introduce DST
                    275: # from November 29th 2009  to April 25th 2010.
                    276: #
                    277: # "Daylight savings to commence this month"
                    278: # http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719
                    279: # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html
                    280:
                    281: # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-11-10):
                    282: # The Fiji Government has posted some more details about the approved
                    283: # amendments:
                    284: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml
                    285:
                    286: # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-03):
                    287: # The Cabinet in Fiji has decided to end DST about a month early, on
                    288: # 2010-03-28 at 03:00.
                    289: # The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March
                    290: # 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?).
                    291: #
                    292: # Official source:
                    293: # 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
                    294: #
                    295: # A bit more background info here:
                    296: # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html
                    297:
                    298: # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24):
                    299: # According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3
                    300: # weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011...
                    301: # Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands,
                    302: # Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site:
                    303: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
                    304: # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html
                    305:
                    306: # From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03):
                    307: # Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date
                    308: # assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong).
                    309: #
                    310: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
                    311: # which says
                    312: # Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in
                    313: # advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to
                    314: # 2am on February 26 next year.
                    315:
                    316: # From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24)
                    317: # Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for
                    318: # Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22.
                    319: #
                    320: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
                    321: # states:
                    322: #
                    323: # The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
                    324: # has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
                    325: # The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
                    326: # on the  23rd of October, 2011.
                    327:
                    328: # From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
                    329: # The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
                    330: # today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
                    331: # October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
                    332: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
                    333:
                    334: # From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
                    335: # Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
                    336: # move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
                    337: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
                    338:
                    339: # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
                    340: # Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
                    341: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
                    342:
1.1.1.3   apb       343: # From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
                    344: # DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
                    345: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx
                    346:
1.1.1.6   christos  347: # From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77
                    348: # in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28),
                    349: # via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02):
                    350: # the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time
                    351: # commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
                    352: # 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
                    353:
1.1.1.9   kre       354: # From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04):
                    355: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx
                    356: # "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when
                    357: # clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am....  Daylight Saving will
                    358: # end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017."
                    359:
                    360: # From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03):
1.1.1.3   apb       361: # For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
1.1.1.6   christos  362: # 03:00 the third Sunday in January.  Although ad hoc, it matches
                    363: # transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future
1.1.1.3   apb       364: # practice than guessing no DST.
1.1       apb       365:
                    366: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    367: Rule   Fiji    1998    1999    -       Nov     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    S
                    368: Rule   Fiji    1999    2000    -       Feb     lastSun 3:00    0       -
                    369: Rule   Fiji    2009    only    -       Nov     29      2:00    1:00    S
                    370: Rule   Fiji    2010    only    -       Mar     lastSun 3:00    0       -
1.1.1.3   apb       371: Rule   Fiji    2010    2013    -       Oct     Sun>=21 2:00    1:00    S
1.1       apb       372: Rule   Fiji    2011    only    -       Mar     Sun>=1  3:00    0       -
                    373: Rule   Fiji    2012    2013    -       Jan     Sun>=18 3:00    0       -
1.1.1.3   apb       374: Rule   Fiji    2014    only    -       Jan     Sun>=18 2:00    0       -
                    375: Rule   Fiji    2014    max     -       Nov     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    S
1.1.1.6   christos  376: Rule   Fiji    2015    max     -       Jan     Sun>=15 3:00    0       -
1.1       apb       377: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       378: Zone   Pacific/Fiji    11:55:44 -      LMT     1915 Oct 26 # Suva
1.1.1.11! kre       379:                        12:00   Fiji    +12/+13
1.1       apb       380:
                    381: # French Polynesia
                    382: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       383: Zone   Pacific/Gambier  -8:59:48 -     LMT     1912 Oct # Rikitea
1.1.1.11! kre       384:                         -9:00  -       -09
1.1       apb       385: Zone   Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 -    LMT     1912 Oct
1.1.1.11! kre       386:                         -9:30  -       -0930
1.1.1.2   apb       387: Zone   Pacific/Tahiti   -9:58:16 -     LMT     1912 Oct # Papeete
1.1.1.11! kre       388:                        -10:00  -       -10
1.1       apb       389: # Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
                    390: # it is uninhabited.
                    391:
                    392: # Guam
                    393: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    394: Zone   Pacific/Guam    -14:21:00 -     LMT     1844 Dec 31
1.1.1.2   apb       395:                         9:39:00 -      LMT     1901        # Agana
                    396:                        10:00   -       GST     2000 Dec 23 # Guam
1.1       apb       397:                        10:00   -       ChST    # Chamorro Standard Time
1.1.1.5   apb       398: Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
1.1       apb       399:
                    400: # Kiribati
                    401: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       402: Zone Pacific/Tarawa     11:32:04 -     LMT     1901 # Bairiki
1.1.1.11! kre       403:                         12:00  -       +12
1.1       apb       404: Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 -     LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       405:                        -12:00  -       -12     1979 Oct
        !           406:                        -11:00  -       -11     1995
        !           407:                         13:00  -       +13
1.1       apb       408: Zone Pacific/Kiritimati        -10:29:20 -     LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       409:                        -10:40  -       -1040   1979 Oct
        !           410:                        -10:00  -       -10     1995
        !           411:                         14:00  -       +14
1.1       apb       412:
                    413: # N Mariana Is
1.1.1.5   apb       414: # See Pacific/Guam.
1.1       apb       415:
                    416: # Marshall Is
                    417: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    418: Zone Pacific/Majuro    11:24:48 -      LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       419:                        11:00   -       +11     1969 Oct
        !           420:                        12:00   -       +12
1.1       apb       421: Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 -      LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       422:                        11:00   -       +11     1969 Oct
        !           423:                        -12:00  -       -12     1993 Aug 20
        !           424:                        12:00   -       +12
1.1       apb       425:
                    426: # Micronesia
                    427: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    428: Zone Pacific/Chuuk     10:07:08 -      LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       429:                        10:00   -       +10
1.1.1.2   apb       430: Zone Pacific/Pohnpei   10:32:52 -      LMT     1901 # Kolonia
1.1.1.11! kre       431:                        11:00   -       +11
1.1       apb       432: Zone Pacific/Kosrae    10:51:56 -      LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       433:                        11:00   -       +11     1969 Oct
        !           434:                        12:00   -       +12     1999
        !           435:                        11:00   -       +11
1.1       apb       436:
                    437: # Nauru
                    438: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       439: Zone   Pacific/Nauru   11:07:40 -      LMT     1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe
1.1.1.11! kre       440:                        11:30   -       +1130   1942 Mar 15
        !           441:                        9:00    -       +09     1944 Aug 15
        !           442:                        11:30   -       +1130   1979 May
        !           443:                        12:00   -       +12
1.1       apb       444:
                    445: # New Caledonia
                    446: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    447: Rule   NC      1977    1978    -       Dec     Sun>=1  0:00    1:00    S
                    448: Rule   NC      1978    1979    -       Feb     27      0:00    0       -
                    449: Rule   NC      1996    only    -       Dec      1      2:00s   1:00    S
                    450: # Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA.
                    451: Rule   NC      1997    only    -       Mar      2      2:00s   0       -
                    452: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    453: Zone   Pacific/Noumea  11:05:48 -      LMT     1912 Jan 13 # Nouméa
1.1.1.11! kre       454:                        11:00   NC      +11/+12
1.1       apb       455:
                    456:
                    457: ###############################################################################
                    458:
                    459: # New Zealand
                    460:
                    461: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    462: Rule   NZ      1927    only    -       Nov      6      2:00    1:00    S
                    463: Rule   NZ      1928    only    -       Mar      4      2:00    0       M
                    464: Rule   NZ      1928    1933    -       Oct     Sun>=8  2:00    0:30    S
                    465: Rule   NZ      1929    1933    -       Mar     Sun>=15 2:00    0       M
                    466: Rule   NZ      1934    1940    -       Apr     lastSun 2:00    0       M
                    467: Rule   NZ      1934    1940    -       Sep     lastSun 2:00    0:30    S
                    468: Rule   NZ      1946    only    -       Jan      1      0:00    0       S
                    469: # Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no
                    470: # convenient single notation for the date and time of this transition
                    471: # so we must duplicate the Rule lines.
                    472: Rule   NZ      1974    only    -       Nov     Sun>=1  2:00s   1:00    D
                    473: Rule   Chatham 1974    only    -       Nov     Sun>=1  2:45s   1:00    D
                    474: Rule   NZ      1975    only    -       Feb     lastSun 2:00s   0       S
                    475: Rule   Chatham 1975    only    -       Feb     lastSun 2:45s   0       S
                    476: Rule   NZ      1975    1988    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    477: Rule   Chatham 1975    1988    -       Oct     lastSun 2:45s   1:00    D
                    478: Rule   NZ      1976    1989    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    479: Rule   Chatham 1976    1989    -       Mar     Sun>=1  2:45s   0       S
                    480: Rule   NZ      1989    only    -       Oct     Sun>=8  2:00s   1:00    D
                    481: Rule   Chatham 1989    only    -       Oct     Sun>=8  2:45s   1:00    D
                    482: Rule   NZ      1990    2006    -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:00s   1:00    D
                    483: Rule   Chatham 1990    2006    -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:45s   1:00    D
                    484: Rule   NZ      1990    2007    -       Mar     Sun>=15 2:00s   0       S
                    485: Rule   Chatham 1990    2007    -       Mar     Sun>=15 2:45s   0       S
                    486: Rule   NZ      2007    max     -       Sep     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    D
                    487: Rule   Chatham 2007    max     -       Sep     lastSun 2:45s   1:00    D
                    488: Rule   NZ      2008    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:00s   0       S
                    489: Rule   Chatham 2008    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  2:45s   0       S
                    490: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    491: Zone Pacific/Auckland  11:39:04 -      LMT     1868 Nov  2
                    492:                        11:30   NZ      NZ%sT   1946 Jan  1
                    493:                        12:00   NZ      NZ%sT
                    494: Zone Pacific/Chatham   12:13:48 -      LMT     1868 Nov  2
1.1.1.11! kre       495:                        12:15   -       +1215   1946 Jan  1
        !           496:                        12:45   Chatham +1245/+1345
1.1       apb       497:
                    498: Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo
                    499:
                    500: # Auckland Is
                    501: # uninhabited; Māori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
                    502: # and scientific personnel have wintered
                    503:
                    504: # Campbell I
                    505: # minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
                    506: # scientific station operated 1941/1995;
                    507: # previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
                    508: # was probably like Pacific/Auckland
                    509:
                    510: # Cook Is
                    511: # From Shanks & Pottenger:
                    512: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    513: Rule   Cook    1978    only    -       Nov     12      0:00    0:30    HS
                    514: Rule   Cook    1979    1991    -       Mar     Sun>=1  0:00    0       -
                    515: Rule   Cook    1979    1990    -       Oct     lastSun 0:00    0:30    HS
                    516: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       517: Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 -     LMT     1901        # Avarua
1.1.1.11! kre       518:                        -10:30  -       -1030   1978 Nov 12
        !           519:                        -10:00  Cook    -10/-0930
1.1       apb       520:
                    521: ###############################################################################
                    522:
                    523:
                    524: # Niue
                    525: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       526: Zone   Pacific/Niue    -11:19:40 -     LMT     1901        # Alofi
1.1.1.11! kre       527:                        -11:20  -       -1120   1951
        !           528:                        -11:30  -       -1130   1978 Oct  1
        !           529:                        -11:00  -       -11
1.1       apb       530:
                    531: # Norfolk
                    532: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       533: Zone   Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 -      LMT     1901 # Kingston
1.1.1.11! kre       534:                        11:12   -       +1112   1951
        !           535:                        11:30   -       +1130   1974 Oct 27 02:00
        !           536:                        11:30   1:00    +1230   1975 Mar  2 02:00
        !           537:                        11:30   -       +1130   2015 Oct  4 02:00
        !           538:                        11:00   -       +11
1.1       apb       539:
                    540: # Palau (Belau)
                    541: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       542: Zone Pacific/Palau     8:57:56 -       LMT     1901 # Koror
1.1.1.11! kre       543:                        9:00    -       +09
1.1       apb       544:
                    545: # Papua New Guinea
                    546: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    547: Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -    LMT     1880
1.1.1.2   apb       548:                        9:48:32 -       PMMT    1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
1.1.1.11! kre       549:                        10:00   -       +10
1.1.1.3   apb       550: #
                    551: # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
                    552: # Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have
                    553: # the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War.
                    554: #
1.1.1.8   kre       555: # Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for UT +09, these dates
1.1.1.3   apb       556: # are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns.
                    557: # The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta.
                    558: # The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
                    559: # according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
                    560: # http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm
                    561: # and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender.
                    562: #
1.1.1.8   kre       563: # The Autonomous Region of Bougainville switched from UT +10 to +11
1.1.1.11! kre       564: # on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.  They call +11 "Bougainville Standard Time".
        !           565: # See:
1.1.1.3   apb       566: # http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/
                    567: #
                    568: Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 -   LMT     1880
                    569:                         9:48:32 -      PMMT    1895
1.1.1.11! kre       570:                        10:00   -       +10     1942 Jul
        !           571:                         9:00   -       +09     1945 Aug 21
        !           572:                        10:00   -       +10     2014 Dec 28  2:00
        !           573:                        11:00   -       +11
1.1       apb       574:
                    575: # Pitcairn
                    576: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       577: Zone Pacific/Pitcairn  -8:40:20 -      LMT     1901        # Adamstown
1.1.1.11! kre       578:                        -8:30   -       -0830   1998 Apr 27  0:00
        !           579:                        -8:00   -       -08
1.1       apb       580:
                    581: # American Samoa
                    582: Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago  12:37:12 -     LMT     1879 Jul  5
                    583:                        -11:22:48 -     LMT     1911
1.1.1.2   apb       584:                        -11:00  -       SST                 # S=Samoa
1.1.1.5   apb       585: Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
1.1       apb       586:
                    587: # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
                    588:
                    589: # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
                    590: # We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
                    591: # the following info:
                    592: #
                    593: # "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year
                    594: # commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first
                    595: # Sunday of April 2011."
                    596: #
                    597: # Background info:
                    598: # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html
                    599: #
                    600: # Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not
                    601: # contain any dates:
                    602: # http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf
                    603:
                    604: # From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07):
                    605: # Please see
                    606: # http://www.mcil.gov.ws
                    607: # the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday
                    608: # September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight
                    609: # to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks
                    610: # backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am"
                    611:
                    612: # From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-03-07):
                    613: # [http://www.mcil.gov.ws/ftcd/daylight_saving_2011.pdf]
                    614: #
                    615: # ... when the standard time strikes the hour of four o'clock (4.00am
                    616: # or 0400 Hours) on the 2nd April 2011, then all instruments used to
                    617: # measure standard time are to be adjusted/changed to three o'clock
                    618: # (3:00am or 0300Hrs).
                    619:
                    620: # From David Zülke (2011-05-09):
                    621: # Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line
                    622: #
                    623: # http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963
                    624:
                    625: # From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27):
                    626: # The International Date Line Act 2011
                    627: # http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf
1.1.1.8   kre       628: # changed Samoa from UT -11 to +13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on
1.1       apb       629: # Thursday 29th December 2011".  The International Date Line was adjusted
                    630: # accordingly.
                    631:
                    632: # From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02):
                    633: # http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
                    634: #
                    635: # here is the official website publication for Samoa DST and dateline change
                    636: #
                    637: # DST
                    638: # Year  End      Time              Start        Time
                    639: # 2011  - - -    - - -             24 September 3:00am to 4:00am
                    640: # 2012  01 April 4:00am to 3:00am  - - -        - - -
                    641: #
                    642: # Dateline Change skip Friday 30th Dec 2011
                    643: # Thursday 29th December 2011  23:59:59 Hours
                    644: # Saturday 31st December 2011  00:00:00 Hours
                    645: #
                    646: # From Nicholas Pereira (2012-09-10):
                    647: # Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and
                    648: # ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013....
                    649: # http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
                    650: #
                    651: # From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08):
                    652: # That web page currently lists transitions for 2012/3 and 2013/4.
                    653: # Assume the pattern instituted in 2012 will continue indefinitely.
                    654:
                    655: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    656: Rule   WS      2010    only    -       Sep     lastSun 0:00    1       D
                    657: Rule   WS      2011    only    -       Apr     Sat>=1  4:00    0       S
                    658: Rule   WS      2011    only    -       Sep     lastSat 3:00    1       D
                    659: Rule   WS      2012    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  4:00    0       S
                    660: Rule   WS      2012    max     -       Sep     lastSun 3:00    1       D
                    661: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    662: Zone Pacific/Apia       12:33:04 -     LMT     1879 Jul  5
                    663:                        -11:26:56 -     LMT     1911
1.1.1.11! kre       664:                        -11:30  -       -1130   1950
        !           665:                        -11:00  WS      -11/-10 2011 Dec 29 24:00
        !           666:                         13:00  WS      +13/+14
1.1       apb       667:
                    668: # Solomon Is
                    669: # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
                    670: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       671: Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 -    LMT     1912 Oct # Honiara
1.1.1.11! kre       672:                        11:00   -       +11
1.1       apb       673:
1.1.1.11! kre       674: # Tokelau
1.1       apb       675: #
                    676: # From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29)
                    677: # A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping
                    678: # December 31 this year ...
                    679: #
                    680: # From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25)
                    681: # ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking
                    682: # about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13....
                    683: # Shanks says UTC-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change
                    684: # actually was to UTC-11 back then.
                    685: #
                    686: # From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
                    687: # A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of
                    688: # Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
                    689: # <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau
                    690: # was "11 hours slow on G.M.T."  Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger
                    691: # are off by an hour starting in 1901.
                    692:
                    693: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    694: Zone   Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 -     LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       695:                        -11:00  -       -11     2011 Dec 30
        !           696:                        13:00   -       +13
1.1       apb       697:
                    698: # Tonga
                    699: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    700: Rule   Tonga   1999    only    -       Oct      7      2:00s   1:00    S
                    701: Rule   Tonga   2000    only    -       Mar     19      2:00s   0       -
                    702: Rule   Tonga   2000    2001    -       Nov     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    S
                    703: Rule   Tonga   2001    2002    -       Jan     lastSun 2:00    0       -
1.1.1.10  kre       704: Rule   Tonga   2016    max     -       Nov     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    S
                    705: Rule   Tonga   2017    max     -       Jan     Sun>=15 3:00    0       -
1.1       apb       706: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    707: Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 -      LMT     1901
1.1.1.10  kre       708:                        12:20   -       +1220   1941
                    709:                        13:00   -       +13     1999
                    710:                        13:00   Tonga   +13/+14
1.1       apb       711:
                    712: # Tuvalu
                    713: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    714: Zone Pacific/Funafuti  11:56:52 -      LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       715:                        12:00   -       +12
1.1       apb       716:
                    717:
                    718: # US minor outlying islands
                    719:
                    720: # Howland, Baker
                    721: # Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British
                    722: # 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known.
                    723: # Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944;
                    724: # uninhabited thereafter.
1.1.1.8   kre       725: # Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT -10:30) in 1937;
1.1       apb       726: # see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long,
                    727: # Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000).
                    728: # So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935
                    729: # until they were abandoned after the war.
                    730:
                    731: # Jarvis
                    732: # Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?.
                    733: # Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958;
                    734: # uninhabited thereafter.
                    735: # no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
                    736:
                    737: # Johnston
                    738: #
1.1.1.11! kre       739: # From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
1.1       apb       740: # Sometimes Johnston kept Hawaii time, and sometimes it was an hour behind.
                    741: # Details are uncertain.  We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so
1.1.1.11! kre       742: # treat it like Hawaii for now.  Since Johnston is now uninhabited,
        !           743: # its link to Pacific/Honolulu is in the 'backward' file.
1.1       apb       744: #
                    745: # In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945
                    746: # <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes,
                    747: # "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM
                    748: # Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time."  This was in June 1945, and
                    749: # confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945.
                    750: #
                    751: # From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11):
                    752: # [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used
                    753: # was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships,
                    754: # which had a GMT offset of -11 hours.  This apparently applied to at least the
                    755: # time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last
                    756: # Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin,
                    757: # "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the
1.1.1.2   apb       758: # Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976.
                    759: # http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf
1.1       apb       760: # See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a
                    761: # footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time
                    762: # Minus One Hour".
                    763:
                    764: # Kingman
                    765: # uninhabited
                    766:
                    767: # Midway
1.1.1.5   apb       768: # See Pacific/Pago_Pago.
1.1       apb       769:
                    770: # Palmyra
                    771: # uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
                    772:
                    773: # Wake
                    774: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    775: Zone   Pacific/Wake    11:06:28 -      LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       776:                        12:00   -       +12
1.1       apb       777:
                    778:
                    779: # Vanuatu
                    780: # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
                    781: Rule   Vanuatu 1983    only    -       Sep     25      0:00    1:00    S
                    782: Rule   Vanuatu 1984    1991    -       Mar     Sun>=23 0:00    0       -
                    783: Rule   Vanuatu 1984    only    -       Oct     23      0:00    1:00    S
                    784: Rule   Vanuatu 1985    1991    -       Sep     Sun>=23 0:00    1:00    S
                    785: Rule   Vanuatu 1992    1993    -       Jan     Sun>=23 0:00    0       -
                    786: Rule   Vanuatu 1992    only    -       Oct     Sun>=23 0:00    1:00    S
                    787: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
1.1.1.2   apb       788: Zone   Pacific/Efate   11:13:16 -      LMT     1912 Jan 13 # Vila
1.1.1.11! kre       789:                        11:00   Vanuatu +11/+12
1.1       apb       790:
                    791: # Wallis and Futuna
                    792: # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
                    793: Zone   Pacific/Wallis  12:15:20 -      LMT     1901
1.1.1.11! kre       794:                        12:00   -       +12
1.1       apb       795:
                    796: ###############################################################################
                    797:
                    798: # NOTES
                    799:
1.1.1.2   apb       800: # This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
1.1       apb       801: # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
1.1.1.2   apb       802: # tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
                    803: # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
1.1       apb       804:
1.1.1.11! kre       805: # From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
1.1.1.4   apb       806: #
                    807: # Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
1.1       apb       808: # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
                    809: # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
1.1.1.4   apb       810: # Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
1.1       apb       811: #
1.1.1.11! kre       812: # Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source
        !           813: # for time zone data was the International Air Transport
1.1       apb       814: # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
                    815: # published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
1.1.1.4   apb       816: # of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
                    817: # IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
1.1       apb       818: #
                    819: # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
                    820: # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
                    821: # I found in the UCLA library.
                    822: #
                    823: # For data circa 1899, a common source is:
1.1.1.2   apb       824: # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
                    825: # http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
1.1       apb       826: #
                    827: # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
                    828: # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
                    829: #
1.1.1.11! kre       830: # The following abbreviations are from other sources.
1.1       apb       831: # Corrections are welcome!
                    832: #              std     dst
                    833: #              LMT             Local Mean Time
                    834: #        8:00  AWST    AWDT    Western Australia
                    835: #        9:30  ACST    ACDT    Central Australia
                    836: #       10:00  AEST    AEDT    Eastern Australia
1.1.1.11! kre       837: #       10:00  GST             Guam through 2000
1.1       apb       838: #       10:00  ChST            Chamorro
                    839: #       11:30  NZMT    NZST    New Zealand through 1945
                    840: #       12:00  NZST    NZDT    New Zealand 1946-present
                    841: #      -11:00  SST             Samoa
                    842: #      -10:00  HST             Hawaii
                    843: #
                    844: # See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
                    845: # See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galápagos Is.
                    846:
                    847: ###############################################################################
                    848:
                    849: # Australia
                    850:
                    851: # From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
                    852: # Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting
                    853: # region against region, rural against urban, and local against global.
                    854: # For example, in her review of Graeme Davison's _The Unforgiving
                    855: # Minute: how Australians learned to tell the time_ (1993), Perth native
                    856: # Phillipa J Martyr wrote, "The section entitled 'Saving Daylight' was
                    857: # very informative, but was (as can, sadly, only be expected from a
                    858: # Melbourne-based study) replete with the usual chuckleheaded
                    859: # Queenslanders and straw-chewing yokels from the West prattling fables
                    860: # about fading curtains and crazed farm animals."
                    861: # Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History (1997-03-03)
                    862: # http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/reviews/davison.htm
                    863:
                    864: # From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08):
                    865: # Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia
1.1.1.2   apb       866: # http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
1.1       apb       867: # summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
                    868:
                    869: # From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12):
                    870: # Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales
1.1.1.2   apb       871: # http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving
1.1       apb       872: # covers New South Wales in particular.
                    873:
                    874: # From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
                    875: # We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as 'daylight' time.
                    876: # It is called 'summer' time.  Now by a happy coincidence, 'summer'
                    877: # and 'standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the
                    878: # abbreviation does _not_ change...
                    879: # The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least
                    880: # in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the
                    881: # initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses
                    882: # the phrase 'summer time' and does not use the phrase 'daylight
                    883: # time'.
                    884: # Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian
                    885: # Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases 'Eastern Standard Time'
                    886: # or 'Eastern Summer Time'.  (Note, though, that as I say in the
                    887: # current australasia file, there is really no such thing.)  Announcers
                    888: # on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases
                    889: # prefixed by the word 'Australian' when referring to local times;
                    890: # time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
                    891:
                    892: # From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
                    893: #
                    894: # Inspired by Mackin's remarks quoted above, earlier versions of this
                    895: # file used "EST" for both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Summer
                    896: # Time in Australia, and similarly for "CST", "CWST", and "WST".
                    897: # However, these abbreviations were confusing and were not common
                    898: # practice among Australians, and there were justifiable complaints
                    899: # about them, so I attempted to survey current Australian usage.
                    900: # For the tz database, the full English phrase is not that important;
                    901: # what matters is the abbreviation.  It's difficult to survey the web
                    902: # directly for abbreviation usage, as there are so many false hits for
                    903: # strings like "EST" and "EDT", so I looked for pages that defined an
                    904: # abbreviation for eastern or central DST in Australia, and got the
                    905: # following numbers of unique hits for the listed Google queries:
                    906: #
                    907: #   10 "Eastern Daylight Time AEST" site:au [some are false hits]
                    908: #   10 "Eastern Summer Time AEST" site:au
                    909: #   10 "Summer Time AEDT" site:au
                    910: #   13 "EDST Eastern Daylight Saving Time" site:au
                    911: #   18 "Summer Time ESST" site:au
                    912: #   28 "Eastern Daylight Saving Time EDST" site:au
                    913: #   39 "EDT Eastern Daylight Time" site:au [some are false hits]
                    914: #   53 "Eastern Daylight Time EDT" site:au [some are false hits]
                    915: #   54 "AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time" site:au
                    916: #  182 "Eastern Daylight Time AEDT" site:au
                    917: #
                    918: #   17 "Central Daylight Time CDT" site:au [some are false hits]
                    919: #   46 "Central Daylight Time ACDT" site:au
                    920: #
                    921: # I tried several other variants (e.g., "Eastern Summer Time EST") but
                    922: # they all returned fewer than 10 unique hits.  I also looked for pages
                    923: # mentioning both "western standard time" and an abbreviation, since
                    924: # there is no WST in the US to generate false hits, and found:
                    925: #
                    926: #  156 "western standard time" AWST site:au
                    927: #  226 "western standard time" WST site:au
                    928: #
                    929: # I then surveyed the top ten newspapers in Australia by circulation as
                    930: # listed in Wikipedia, using Google queries like "AEDT site:heraldsun.com.au"
                    931: # and obtaining estimated counts from the initial page of search results.
                    932: # All ten papers greatly preferred "AEDT" to "EDT".  The papers
                    933: # surveyed were the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail,
                    934: # The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, The Age, The Advertiser,
                    935: # The Australian, The Financial Review, and The Herald (Newcastle).
                    936: #
                    937: # I also searched for historical usage, to see whether abbreviations
                    938: # like "AEDT" are new.  A Trove search <http://trove.nla.gov.au/>
                    939: # found only one newspaper (The Canberra Times) with a house style
                    940: # dating back to the 1970s, I expect because other newspapers weren't
                    941: # fully indexed.  The Canberra Times strongly preferred abbreviations
                    942: # like "AEDT".  The first occurrence of "AEDT" was a World Weather
                    943: # column (1971-11-17, page 24), and of "ACDT" was a Scoreboard column
                    944: # (1993-01-24, p 16).  The style was the typical usage but was not
                    945: # strictly enforced; for example, "Welcome to the twilight zones ..."
                    946: # (1994-10-29, p 1) uses the abbreviations AEST/AEDT, CST/CDT, and
                    947: # WST, and goes on to say, "The confusion and frustration some feel
                    948: # about the lack of uniformity among Australia's six states and two
                    949: # territories has prompted one group to form its very own political
                    950: # party -- the Sydney-based Daylight Saving Extension Party."
                    951: #
                    952: # I also surveyed federal government sources.  They did not agree:
                    953: #
                    954: #   The Australian Government (2014-03-26)
                    955: #   http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time
                    956: #   (This document was produced by the Department of Finance.)
                    957: #   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
                    958: #
                    959: #   Bureau of Meteorology (2012-11-08)
                    960: #   http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml
                    961: #   EST CST WST EDT CDT
                    962: #
                    963: #   Civil Aviation Safety Authority (undated)
                    964: #   http://services.casa.gov.au/outnback/inc/pages/episode3/episode-3_time_zones.shtml
                    965: #   EST CST WST (no abbreviations given for DST)
                    966: #
                    967: #   Geoscience Australia (2011-11-24)
                    968: #   http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp
                    969: #   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
                    970: #
                    971: #   Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10)
                    972: #   http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf
                    973: #   EST CST WST preferred for standard time; AEST AEDT ACST ACDT also used
                    974: #
                    975: #   The Transport Safety Bureau has an extensive series of accident reports,
                    976: #   and investigators seem to use whatever abbreviation they like.
                    977: #   Googling site:atsb.gov.au found the following number of unique hits:
                    978: #   311 "ESuT", 195 "EDT", 26 "AEDT", 83 "CSuT", 46 "CDT".
                    979: #   "_SuT" tended to appear in older reports, and "A_DT" tended to
                    980: #   appear in reports of events with international implications.
                    981: #
                    982: # From the above it appears that there is a working consensus in
                    983: # Australia to use trailing "DT" for daylight saving time; although
                    984: # some sources use trailing "SST" or "ST" or "SuT" they are by far in
                    985: # the minority.  The case for leading "A" is weaker, but since it
                    986: # seems to be preferred in the overall web and is preferred in all
                    987: # the leading newspaper websites and in many government departments,
                    988: # it has a stronger case than omitting the leading "A".  The current
                    989: # version of the database therefore uses abbreviations like "AEST" and
                    990: # "AEDT" for Australian time zones.
                    991:
                    992: # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
                    993: # Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
                    994: # Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
                    995: # reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
                    996: # but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
                    997: # and perhaps the newspaper's '2:00' is referring to standard time.
                    998: # For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
                    999:
                   1000: # From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
                   1001: #
                   1002: # Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
                   1003: # and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
                   1004: # relevant entries in this database.
                   1005: #
                   1006: # NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill):
                   1007: # Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04)
1.1.1.2   apb      1008: # http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html
1.1       apb      1009: # ACT
                   1010: # Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972
1.1.1.2   apb      1011: # http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html
1.1       apb      1012: # SA
                   1013: # Standard Time Act, 1898
1.1.1.2   apb      1014: # http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html
1.1       apb      1015:
                   1016: # From David Grosz (2005-06-13):
                   1017: # It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by
                   1018: # one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
                   1019: # Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday
                   1020: # in April instead of the last Sunday in March.
                   1021: #
                   1022: # From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14):
                   1023: # I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan
                   1024: # to extend DST together in 2006.
                   1025: # ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt
                   1026: # New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html
                   1027: # South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html
                   1028: # Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772
                   1029: # Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles
                   1030: # allude to it.
                   1031: # But not Queensland
                   1032: # http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html
                   1033:
                   1034: # Northern Territory
                   1035:
                   1036: # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
                   1037: # # The NORTHERN TERRITORY..  [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
                   1038: # #                                    [ Nov 1990 ]
                   1039: # #    N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
                   1040: # ...
                   1041: # Zone        Australia/North         9:30    -       CST
                   1042:
                   1043: # From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
                   1044: # A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
                   1045: # the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
                   1046:
                   1047: # Western Australia
                   1048:
                   1049: # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
                   1050: # #  The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA..  [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
                   1051: # #                                            [ Nov 1990 ]
                   1052: # #    W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
                   1053: # #    DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
                   1054: # #    usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
                   1055: # #    before reaching parliament.
                   1056: # ...
                   1057: # Zone Australia/West          8:00    AW      %sST
                   1058: # ...
                   1059: # Rule AW      1974    only    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
                   1060: # Rule AW      1975    only    -       Mar     Sun>=1  3:00    0       W
                   1061: # Rule AW      1983    only    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
                   1062: # Rule AW      1984    only    -       Mar     Sun>=1  3:00    0       W
                   1063:
                   1064: # From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
                   1065: # A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
                   1066: # Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving.
                   1067:
                   1068: # From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02):
                   1069: # Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney
                   1070: # rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at
                   1071: # work at 9.00am.)
                   1072: # W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
                   1073: # everybody again.
                   1074:
                   1075: # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
                   1076: # The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
                   1077: # it matches what was used in the past.
                   1078:
                   1079: # The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
1.1.1.2   apb      1080: # http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm
1.1       apb      1081: # (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
                   1082: # South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia.
                   1083:
                   1084: # Queensland
                   1085: # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
                   1086: # #   The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
                   1087: # #                                            [ Dec 1990 ]
                   1088: # ...
                   1089: # Zone Australia/Queensland    10:00   AQ      %sST
                   1090: # ...
                   1091: # Rule AQ      1971    only    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
                   1092: # Rule AQ      1972    only    -       Feb     lastSun 3:00    0       E
                   1093: # Rule AQ      1989    max     -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
                   1094: # Rule AQ      1990    max     -       Mar     Sun>=1  3:00    0       E
                   1095:
                   1096: # From Bradley White (1989-12-24):
                   1097: # "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from
                   1098: # October 1989).
                   1099:
                   1100: # From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
                   1101: # A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
                   1102: # ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
                   1103: # at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
                   1104:
                   1105: # From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
                   1106: # I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact
                   1107: # end on Sunday, 3 March.  I don't know at what hour, though.  (It surprised
                   1108: # me.)
                   1109:
                   1110: # From Bradley White (1992-03-08):
                   1111: # ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted
                   1112: # in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ...
                   1113: # ...
                   1114: # Rule QLD     1989    1991    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
                   1115: # Rule QLD     1990    1992    -       Mar     Sun>=1  3:00    0       S
                   1116: # ...
                   1117:
                   1118: # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
                   1119: # The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
                   1120:
                   1121: # From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning
                   1122: # from Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-11-01):
                   1123: # WA are trialing DST for three years.
1.1.1.2   apb      1124: # http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf
1.1       apb      1125:
                   1126: # From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
                   1127: # The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
                   1128: # southern coast....  South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
                   1129: # Australia does not.  The two states are one and a half hours apart.  The
                   1130: # residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
                   1131: # much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
                   1132: # international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
                   1133: # Australia and Western Australia....
                   1134: #
                   1135: # From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
                   1136: # This is confirmed by the section entitled
                   1137: # "What's the deal with time zones???" in
1.1.1.2   apb      1138: # http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html
1.1       apb      1139: #
                   1140: # From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07):
                   1141: # ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway,
                   1142: # which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern
                   1143: # coast of the continent.
                   1144: #
                   1145: # I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no
                   1146: # dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border
                   1147: # village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west
                   1148: # as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is
                   1149: # the largest population centre in this zone....
                   1150: #
                   1151: # Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the
                   1152: # question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I
                   1153: # just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have,
                   1154: # meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45.
                   1155: #
                   1156: # (2006-12-09):
                   1157: # I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving
                   1158: # in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis
                   1159: # of this time zone.  My hunch is that it's been around since well
                   1160: # before 1975.  I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago.
                   1161:
                   1162: # From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15):
                   1163: # For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the
                   1164: # introduction of standard time in 1895.
                   1165:
                   1166:
                   1167: # southeast Australia
                   1168: #
                   1169: # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
                   1170: # Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT
                   1171: # end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October.
                   1172: # http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html
                   1173:
                   1174:
                   1175: # South Australia
                   1176:
                   1177: # From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
                   1178: # A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
                   1179: # ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
                   1180: # at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
                   1181:
                   1182: # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
                   1183: # #   The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]
                   1184: # #                                            [ Nov 1990 ]
                   1185: # ...
                   1186: # Zone Australia/South         9:30    AS      %sST
                   1187: # ...
                   1188: # Rule  AS     1971    max     -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
                   1189: # Rule  AS     1972    1985    -       Mar     Sun>=1  3:00    0       C
                   1190: # Rule  AS     1986    1990    -       Mar     Sun>=15 3:00    0       C
                   1191: # Rule  AS     1991    max     -       Mar     Sun>=1  3:00    0       C
                   1192:
                   1193: # From Bradley White (1992-03-11):
                   1194: # Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide
                   1195: # contained the following exchange:  "Due to the Adelaide Festival,
                   1196: # South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks."
                   1197:
                   1198: # From Robert Elz (1992-03-13):
                   1199: # I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that)
                   1200: # South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even
                   1201: # numbered year (from 1990).  That's when the Adelaide Festival
                   1202: # is on...
                   1203:
                   1204: # From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000):
                   1205: # DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
                   1206: # But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
                   1207: # (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
                   1208:
                   1209: # From Bradley White (1994-04-11):
                   1210: # If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
                   1211: # 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
                   1212: # only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
                   1213:
                   1214: # From John Warburton (1994-10-07):
                   1215: # The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
                   1216: # was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
                   1217: # start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
                   1218:
                   1219: # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
                   1220: # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
                   1221:
                   1222: # Tasmania
                   1223:
                   1224: # The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
                   1225: # via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
                   1226: # #  The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
                   1227: # #                                    [ Nov 1990 ]
                   1228:
                   1229: # From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10):
                   1230: # Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
                   1231: # 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
                   1232: # (but nothing new about that).
                   1233:
                   1234: # From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04):
                   1235: # I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the
                   1236: # (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard,
                   1237: # has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria
                   1238: # (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000
                   1239: # instead of the first Sunday in October.
                   1240:
                   1241: # Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules:
                   1242: # http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300
                   1243:
                   1244: # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
                   1245: # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
                   1246:
                   1247: # Victoria
                   1248:
                   1249: # The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
                   1250: # via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
                   1251: # #   The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
                   1252: # #                                            [ Nov 1990 ]
                   1253:
                   1254: # From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29):
                   1255: # On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an
                   1256: # interesting story about daylight savings time.  Dr. John Heilbron was
                   1257: # discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar
                   1258: # Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located
                   1259: # in Melbourne, Australia.
                   1260: #
                   1261: # Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which
                   1262: # illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day
                   1263: # of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's
                   1264: # fallen WWI soldiers.  And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time,
                   1265: # you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the
                   1266: # expected time.
                   1267: #
                   1268: # However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had
                   1269: # to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of
                   1270: # the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?).  Perhaps
                   1271: # someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more.
                   1272: #
                   1273: # [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html
                   1274: # [2] http://www.shrine.org.au
                   1275:
                   1276: # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
                   1277: # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
                   1278:
                   1279: # New South Wales
                   1280:
                   1281: # From Arthur David Olson:
                   1282: # New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
                   1283: # Based on law library research by John Mackin,
                   1284: # who notes:
                   1285: #      In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
                   1286: #      individual states.  Thus, while such terms as "Eastern Standard Time"
                   1287: #      [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common
                   1288: #      use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the
                   1289: #      legislation.  This is very important to understand.
                   1290: #      I have researched New South Wales time only...
                   1291:
                   1292: # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
                   1293: # DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
1.1.1.2   apb      1294: # October in 2000.  See: Matthew Moore,
                   1295: # Two months more daylight saving, Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).
                   1296: # http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html
1.1       apb      1297:
                   1298: # From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
                   1299: # See the following official NSW source:
                   1300: # Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
1.1.1.2   apb      1301: # http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ
1.1       apb      1302: #
                   1303: # Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of
                   1304: # daylight saving next year.  See:
                   1305: # Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
1.1.1.2   apb      1306: # http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm
1.1       apb      1307: # (1999-07-22).  For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
                   1308: #
                   1309: # Victoria will following NSW.  See:
                   1310: # Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28)
1.1.1.2   apb      1311: # http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm
1.1       apb      1312: #
                   1313: # However, South Australia rejected the DST request.  See:
                   1314: # South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19)
1.1.1.2   apb      1315: # http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm
1.1       apb      1316: #
                   1317: # Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics.  See:
                   1318: # Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics
1.1.1.2   apb      1319: # http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm
1.1       apb      1320: # (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying
                   1321: # "Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time
                   1322: # I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very
                   1323: # well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of
                   1324: # bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night.
                   1325: # I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules."
                   1326: #
                   1327: # Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000.  See:
                   1328: # Broken Hill to be behind the times (1999-07-21)
1.1.1.2   apb      1329: # http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm
1.1       apb      1330:
                   1331: # IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian
                   1332: # Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken
                   1333: # Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
                   1334:
                   1335: # From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
                   1336: # The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
                   1337: # towns to use Queensland time.
                   1338:
                   1339: # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
                   1340: # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
                   1341:
                   1342: # Yancowinna
                   1343:
                   1344: # From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
                   1345: # 'Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
                   1346:
                   1347: # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
                   1348: # # YANCOWINNA..  [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
                   1349: # #                                    [ Dec 1990 ]
                   1350: # ...
                   1351: # # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the
                   1352: # # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings
                   1353: # # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government
                   1354: # # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have
                   1355: # # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
                   1356: # # presently available.
                   1357: # Zone Australia/Yancowinna    9:30     AY     %sST
                   1358: # ...
                   1359: # Rule  AY     1971    1985    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
                   1360: # Rule  AY     1972    only    -       Feb     lastSun 3:00    0       C
                   1361: # [followed by other Rules]
                   1362:
                   1363: # Lord Howe Island
                   1364:
                   1365: # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
                   1366: # LHI...               [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ]
                   1367: #                                      [ Dec 1990 ]
                   1368: # Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
                   1369: # hour ahead of NSW time.
                   1370:
                   1371: # From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27):
                   1372: # Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same
                   1373: # date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27).  For your information the
                   1374: # Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is
                   1375: # seeking the community's views on various options for summer time
                   1376: # arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour
                   1377: # instead of only 30 minutes.  [Dependent] on the wishes of residents
                   1378: # the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing
                   1379: # arrangements.  The starting date for summer time on the Island will
                   1380: # however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
                   1381:
                   1382: # From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
                   1383: # Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
                   1384: # clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
                   1385: # introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
                   1386: # shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
                   1387: # of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
                   1388:
                   1389: # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
                   1390: # For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and
                   1391: # Lonergan thereafter.  For times we use Lonergan.
                   1392:
                   1393: # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
                   1394: # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
                   1395:
                   1396: # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28):
                   1397: # According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight
                   1398: # saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009
                   1399: # summer (southern hemisphere).
                   1400: #
                   1401: # From
                   1402: # http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf
                   1403: # The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling
                   1404: # for over the last year is now set to be ongoing.
                   1405: # Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each
                   1406: # year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year.
                   1407: # Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia
                   1408: # with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and
                   1409: # the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year...
                   1410: #
                   1411: # We have a wrap-up here:
                   1412: # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html
                   1413: ###############################################################################
                   1414:
                   1415: # New Zealand
                   1416:
                   1417: # From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
                   1418: # the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
                   1419: # This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for
                   1420: # subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start).
                   1421: # source - phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office.
                   1422:
                   1423: # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
                   1424: # # The Country of New Zealand   (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
                   1425: # #                               or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
                   1426: # #    [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ]
                   1427: # #                            [ Nov 1990 ]
                   1428: # ...
                   1429: # Rule NZ      1974    1988    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00    1:00    D
                   1430: # Rule NZ      1989    max     -       Oct     Sun>=1  2:00    1:00    D
                   1431: # Rule NZ      1975    1989    -       Mar     Sun>=1  3:00    0       S
                   1432: # Rule NZ      1990    max     -       Mar     lastSun 3:00    0       S
                   1433: # ...
                   1434: # Zone NZ                      12:00   NZ              NZ%sT   # New Zealand
                   1435: # Zone NZ-CHAT                 12:45   -               NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island
                   1436:
                   1437: # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
                   1438: # The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989
                   1439: # rather than the October 1 value.
                   1440:
                   1441: # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
                   1442: # Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
                   1443: # Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
                   1444: # Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
                   1445: # time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
                   1446: # As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
                   1447: #
                   1448: # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
                   1449: # The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history,
                   1450: # as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references.
                   1451: # Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger.
                   1452: #
                   1453: # For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with
                   1454: # transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham
                   1455: # is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland.
                   1456:
                   1457: # From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30):
                   1458: # DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the
                   1459: # first Sunday in April.  The changes take effect this year, meaning
                   1460: # that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06.
                   1461: # http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended
                   1462:
                   1463: # From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14):
                   1464: # Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by
1.1.1.2   apb      1465: # New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26).
                   1466: # http://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf
1.1       apb      1467: # According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand
                   1468: # parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard
                   1469: # time in the Chatham Islands.  The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New
                   1470: # Zealand time.  I understand that is the time they keep locally, anyhow."
                   1471: # For now, assume this practice goes back to the introduction of standard time
                   1472: # in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match
1.1.1.8   kre      1473: # LMT back when New Zealand was at UT +11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did
1.1       apb      1474: # not observe New Zealand's prewar DST.
                   1475:
                   1476: ###############################################################################
                   1477:
                   1478:
                   1479: # Fiji
                   1480:
                   1481: # Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
                   1482: # enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time
                   1483: # instead of the American system (which was one day behind).
                   1484:
                   1485: # From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
                   1486: # Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01
                   1487: # until 0300 local time 1999-02-28.  Each year the DST period will
                   1488: # be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
                   1489:
                   1490: # From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
                   1491: # IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time.  Go with McDow.
                   1492:
                   1493: # From the BBC World Service in
                   1494: # http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/205226.stm (1998-10-31 16:03 UTC):
                   1495: # The Fijian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
                   1496: # improve productivity and reduce road accidents.... [T]he move is also
                   1497: # intended to boost Fiji's ability to attract tourists to witness the dawning
                   1498: # of the new millennium.
                   1499:
                   1500: # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
                   1501: # reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
                   1502:
                   1503:
                   1504: # Kiribati
                   1505:
                   1506: # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
                   1507: # Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati
                   1508: # "declared it the same day [throughout] the country as of Jan. 1, 1995"
                   1509: # as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
                   1510:
                   1511:
                   1512: # Kwajalein
                   1513:
                   1514: # In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
                   1515: # I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday,
                   1516: # 1993-08-20.  Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
                   1517: # respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
                   1518: # going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
                   1519:
                   1520:
                   1521: # N Mariana Is, Guam
                   1522:
                   1523: # Howse writes (p 153) "The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
                   1524: # Philippines and the Ladrones from America," and implies that the Ladrones
                   1525: # (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
                   1526: # For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
                   1527: # see Asia/Manila.
                   1528:
1.1.1.8   kre      1529: # US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UT +10 the official standard time,
1.1       apb      1530: # under the name "Chamorro Standard Time".  There is no official abbreviation,
                   1531: # but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
                   1532: # wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
                   1533:
                   1534:
                   1535: # Micronesia
                   1536:
                   1537: # Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
                   1538: # "I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that 'Truk'
                   1539: # (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10."
                   1540: #
1.1.1.8   kre      1541: # Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UT +10 to +11
1.1       apb      1542: # on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now.
                   1543:
                   1544: # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
                   1545: # The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in
                   1546: # The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information (1999-01-26)
1.1.1.2   apb      1547: # http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html
1.1.1.8   kre      1548: # that Truk and Yap are UT +10, and Ponape and Kosrae are +11.
                   1549: # We don't know when Kosrae switched from +12; assume January 1 for now.
1.1       apb      1550:
                   1551:
                   1552: # Midway
                   1553:
                   1554: # From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
                   1555: # quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
                   1556: # <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
                   1557: # For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
                   1558: # Saving Time.  This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
                   1559: # your time down there in New Zealand.  Starting September 2, 1956
                   1560: # we'll again go back to Standard Time.  This'll mean that we'll go to
                   1561: # air at 6am your time.
                   1562: #
                   1563: # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
                   1564: # We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
                   1565: # started DST on June 3.  Possibly DST was observed other years
                   1566: # in Midway, but we have no record of it.
                   1567:
1.1.1.6   christos 1568: # Norfolk
                   1569:
                   1570: # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23):
                   1571: # Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100:
                   1572: # https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
                   1573: # ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015.
                   1574: # http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf
                   1575:
                   1576: # From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23):
                   1577: # Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted
                   1578: # the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's
                   1579: # Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST
                   1580: # other than in 1974/5.  See:
                   1581: # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html
1.1       apb      1582:
                   1583: # Pitcairn
                   1584:
                   1585: # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
                   1586: # A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
                   1587: # with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time.  The Proclamation is as follows.
                   1588: #
                   1589: #      The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
                   1590: #      Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
                   1591: #      as Pitcairn Standard Time.
                   1592: #
                   1593: # ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
                   1594: # references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
                   1595: # somehow in light of this proclamation.
                   1596:
                   1597: # From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
                   1598: # The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
                   1599: # ... at midnight.
                   1600:
                   1601: # From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
                   1602: # Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
                   1603: # Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in
                   1604: # Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
                   1605:
                   1606:
                   1607: # (Western) Samoa and American Samoa
                   1608:
                   1609: # Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald)
                   1610: # that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
                   1611: # "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
                   1612: # ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that
                   1613: # the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year."
                   1614:
1.1.1.8   kre      1615: # Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30
                   1616: # in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11
1.1       apb      1617: # for American Samoa, e.g., the US National Bureau of Standards
                   1618: # circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932.
1.1.1.8   kre      1619: # Assume American Samoa switched to -11 in 1911, not 1950,
1.1       apb      1620: # and that after 1950 they agreed until (western) Samoa skipped a
                   1621: # day in 2011.  Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New
                   1622: # Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations.
                   1623:
                   1624: # Tonga
                   1625:
                   1626: # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
                   1627: # Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting
                   1628: # to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time."
                   1629: # Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
                   1630:
                   1631: # Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle
1.1.1.2   apb      1632: # How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins':
                   1633: # http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm
                   1634: #
1.1       apb      1635: # Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST
                   1636: # 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT.  When New Zealand adjusted its
                   1637: # standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its
                   1638: # local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of
                   1639: # advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13 degrees
                   1640: # (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).
                   1641: #
                   1642: # Because His Majesty King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince
                   1643: # Tungī, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time
                   1644: # begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change.
                   1645: #
                   1646: # But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer
                   1647: # islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40
                   1648: # minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40
                   1649: # minutes we have lost?"
                   1650: #
                   1651: # The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
                   1652: # on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
                   1653: # to say your prayers in the morning."
                   1654:
                   1655: # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
                   1656: # Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
                   1657:
                   1658: # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
                   1659: # Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium
                   1660: # Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
                   1661: # He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
                   1662: # October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
                   1663: # Government.
                   1664:
                   1665: # From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
                   1666: # * Tonga will introduce DST in November
                   1667: #
                   1668: # I was given this link by John Letts:
                   1669: # http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
                   1670: #
                   1671: # I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November
                   1672: # yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead
                   1673: # of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
                   1674: # (12 + 1 hour DST).
                   1675:
                   1676: # From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
                   1677: # According to <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>:
                   1678: # "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000
                   1679: # and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the
                   1680: # third Saturday of April.  Under the system approved by Privy Council on
                   1681: # Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and
                   1682: # set back an hour on the closing date."
                   1683: # Alas, no indication of the time of day.
                   1684:
                   1685: # From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
                   1686: # Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
                   1687: # Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
                   1688:
                   1689: # From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
                   1690: # Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
                   1691: # that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
                   1692: # instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
                   1693: # is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
                   1694: # text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
                   1695: # (Original URL was <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm>)
                   1696:
                   1697: # From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
                   1698: # Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
                   1699:
                   1700: # From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
                   1701: # At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
                   1702: # shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am.  At 2:00am on the last Sunday
                   1703: # of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
                   1704: # hour to 1:00am.
                   1705:
1.1.1.10  kre      1706: # From Pulu ʻAnau (2002-11-05):
1.1       apb      1707: # The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed.  It wasn't.
                   1708:
1.1.1.10  kre      1709: # From Pulu ʻAnau (2016-10-27):
                   1710: # http://mic.gov.to/news-today/press-releases/6375-daylight-saving-set-to-run-from-6-november-2016-to-15-january-2017
                   1711: # Cannot find anyone who knows the rules, has seen the duration or has seen
                   1712: # the cabinet decision, but it appears we are following Fiji's rule set.
                   1713: #
                   1714: # From Tim Parenti (2016-10-26):
                   1715: # Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00
                   1716: # through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now.
1.1       apb      1717:
                   1718: # Wake
                   1719:
                   1720: # From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
                   1721: # US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
                   1722: #
                   1723: # Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ...  The time was all the
                   1724: # more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
                   1725: # International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays.  Furthermore, we
                   1726: # discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
                   1727: # making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
                   1728: # impossible.
                   1729: #
                   1730: # http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm
                   1731:
                   1732: # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
                   1733: # We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
                   1734:
                   1735: ###############################################################################
                   1736:
                   1737: # The International Date Line
                   1738:
                   1739: # From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
                   1740: #
                   1741: # The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
                   1742: # convention, or treaty.  Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
                   1743: # Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
                   1744: # the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
                   1745: #
                   1746: # When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
                   1747: # Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
                   1748: # to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
                   1749: # mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati.  Even that line
                   1750: # has a rather arbitrary nature.  The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
                   1751: # island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
                   1752: # convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is
                   1753: # governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
                   1754: # places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC.  And, since the IDL is not
                   1755: # an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
                   1756: # correct date is ambiguous.
                   1757:
                   1758: # From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31):
                   1759: # Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting
                   1760: # their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's
                   1761: # speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's
                   1762: # meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon).  During 1917, at the
                   1763: # Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all
                   1764: # ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones
                   1765: # on the high seas.  Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any
                   1766: # nation it would use that nation's standard time.  The captain was permitted
                   1767: # to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's
                   1768: # entry into another zone time - he often chose midnight.  These zones were
                   1769: # adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many
                   1770: # independent merchant ships until World War II.
                   1771:
                   1772: # From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
                   1773: # (2005-03-20):
                   1774: #
                   1775: # The American Practical Navigator (2002)
1.1.1.2   apb      1776: # http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187
1.1       apb      1777: # talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
                   1778: # international waters; it ignores the international date line.

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