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+ # <pre>
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+ # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
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+ # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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+
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+ # This file also includes Pacific islands.
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+
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+ # Notes are at the end of this file
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+
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+ ###############################################################################
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+
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+ # Australia
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+
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+ # Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc.
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+
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+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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+ Rule Aus 1917 only - Jan 1 0:01 1:00 -
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+ Rule Aus 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 0 -
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+ Rule Aus 1942 only - Jan 1 2:00 1:00 -
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+ Rule Aus 1942 only - Mar 29 2:00 0 -
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+ Rule Aus 1942 only - Sep 27 2:00 1:00 -
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+ Rule Aus 1943 1944 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
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+ Rule Aus 1943 only - Oct 3 2:00 1:00 -
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+ # Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which
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+ # says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944. Ignore Whitman's claim that
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+ # 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944.
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+
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+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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+ # Northern Territory
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+ Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
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+ 9:00 - CST 1899 May
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+ 9:30 Aus CST
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+ # Western Australia
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+ #
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+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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+ Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AW 1991 only - Nov 17 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AW 1992 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec
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+ 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul
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+ 8:00 AW WST
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+ Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec
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+ 8:45 Aus CWST 1943 Jul
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+ 8:45 AW CWST
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+
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+ # Queensland
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+ #
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+ # From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
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+ # I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
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+ # of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
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+ # Queensland ceased to.
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+ #
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+ # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
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+ # IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman,
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+ # Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped.
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+ # Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria,
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+ # so use Lindeman.
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+ #
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+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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+ Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AQ 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AQ 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule Holiday 1992 1993 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule Holiday 1993 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895
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+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971
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+ 10:00 AQ EST
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+ Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895
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+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971
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+ 10:00 AQ EST 1992 Jul
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+ 10:00 Holiday EST
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+
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+ # South Australia
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+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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+ Rule AS 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AS 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AS 1987 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AS 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 1991 only - Mar 3 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 1992 only - Mar 22 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 1993 only - Mar 7 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 1994 only - Mar 20 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 2006 only - Apr 2 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AS 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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+ Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
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+ 9:00 - CST 1899 May
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+ 9:30 Aus CST 1971
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+ 9:30 AS CST
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+
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+ # Tasmania
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+ #
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+ # From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
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+ # <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml>
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+ # says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971.
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+ #
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+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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+ Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AT 1991 1999 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AT 1991 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AT 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AT 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AT 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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+ Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep
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+ 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00
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+ 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb
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+ 10:00 Aus EST 1967
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+ 10:00 AT EST
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+ Zone Australia/Currie 9:35:28 - LMT 1895 Sep
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+ 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00
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+ 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb
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+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Jul
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+ 10:00 AT EST
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+
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+ # Victoria
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+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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+ Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AV 1988 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AV 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AV 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AV 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ Rule AV 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AV 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AV 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
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+ Rule AV 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
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+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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+ Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
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+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971
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+ 10:00 AV EST
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+
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+ # New South Wales
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+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
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+ Rule AN 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
164
+ Rule AN 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 -
165
+ Rule AN 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
166
+ Rule AN 1982 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
167
+ Rule AN 1983 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
168
+ Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
169
+ Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 -
170
+ Rule AN 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
171
+ Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
172
+ Rule AN 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
173
+ Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
174
+ Rule AN 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
175
+ Rule AN 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
176
+ Rule AN 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
177
+ Rule AN 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
178
+ Rule AN 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
179
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
180
+ Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
181
+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971
182
+ 10:00 AN EST
183
+ Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 - LMT 1895 Feb
184
+ 10:00 - EST 1896 Aug 23
185
+ 9:00 - CST 1899 May
186
+ 9:30 Aus CST 1971
187
+ 9:30 AN CST 2000
188
+ 9:30 AS CST
189
+
190
+ # Lord Howe Island
191
+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
192
+ Rule LH 1981 1984 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
193
+ Rule LH 1982 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
194
+ Rule LH 1985 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
195
+ Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 -
196
+ Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 0:30 -
197
+ Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
198
+ Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
199
+ Rule LH 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
200
+ Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
201
+ Rule LH 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
202
+ Rule LH 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
203
+ Rule LH 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
204
+ Rule LH 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
205
+ Rule LH 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0:30 -
206
+ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
207
+ 10:00 - EST 1981 Mar
208
+ 10:30 LH LHST
209
+
210
+ # Australian miscellany
211
+ #
212
+ # Ashmore Is, Cartier
213
+ # no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers
214
+ # no times are set
215
+ #
216
+ # Coral Sea Is
217
+ # no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists
218
+ # no times are set
219
+ #
220
+ # Macquarie
221
+ # permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948;
222
+ # sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917
223
+ # like Australia/Hobart
224
+
225
+ # Christmas
226
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
227
+ Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
228
+ 7:00 - CXT # Christmas Island Time
229
+
230
+ # Cook Is
231
+ # From Shanks & Pottenger:
232
+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
233
+ Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS
234
+ Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 -
235
+ Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS
236
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
237
+ Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua
238
+ -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time
239
+ -10:00 Cook CK%sT
240
+
241
+ # Cocos
242
+ # These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
243
+ # We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
244
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
245
+ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900
246
+ 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time
247
+
248
+ # Fiji
249
+ # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10):
250
+ # According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Fiji plans to re-introduce DST
251
+ # from November 29th 2009 to April 25th 2010.
252
+ #
253
+ # "Daylight savings to commence this month"
254
+ # <a href="http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719">
255
+ # http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719
256
+ # </a>
257
+ # or
258
+ # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html">
259
+ # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html
260
+ # </a>
261
+
262
+ # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-11-10):
263
+ # The Fiji Government has posted some more details about the approved
264
+ # amendments:
265
+ # <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml">
266
+ # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml
267
+ # </a>
268
+
269
+ # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-03):
270
+ # The Cabinet in Fiji has decided to end DST about a month early, on
271
+ # 2010-03-28 at 03:00.
272
+ # The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March
273
+ # 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?).
274
+ #
275
+ # Official source:
276
+ # <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1096:3310-cabinet-approves-change-in-daylight-savings-dates&catid=49:cabinet-releases&Itemid=166">
277
+ # 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
278
+ # </a>
279
+ #
280
+ # A bit more background info here:
281
+ # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html">
282
+ # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html
283
+ # </a>
284
+
285
+ # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24):
286
+ # According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3
287
+ # weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011...
288
+ # Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands,
289
+ # Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site:
290
+ # <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155">
291
+ # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
292
+ # </a>
293
+ # or
294
+ # <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html">
295
+ # http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html
296
+ # </a>
297
+
298
+ # From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03):
299
+ # Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date
300
+ # assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong).
301
+ #
302
+ # <a href="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">
303
+ # www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
304
+ # </a>
305
+ # which says
306
+ # Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in
307
+ # advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to
308
+ # 2am on February 26 next year.
309
+
310
+ # From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24)
311
+ # Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for
312
+ # Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22.
313
+ #
314
+ # <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155">
315
+ # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
316
+ # </a>
317
+ # states:
318
+ #
319
+ # The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
320
+ # has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
321
+ # The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
322
+ # on the 23rd of October, 2011.
323
+
324
+ # From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
325
+ # The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
326
+ # today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
327
+ # October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
328
+ # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
329
+ #
330
+ # From Paul Eggert (2012-08-31):
331
+ # For now, guess a pattern of the penultimate Sundays in October and January.
332
+
333
+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
334
+ Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
335
+ Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -
336
+ Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S
337
+ Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
338
+ Rule Fiji 2010 max - Oct Sun>=18 2:00 1:00 S
339
+ Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
340
+ Rule Fiji 2012 max - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
341
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
342
+ Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
343
+ 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
344
+
345
+ # French Polynesia
346
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
347
+ Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea
348
+ -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time
349
+ Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct
350
+ -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time
351
+ Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete
352
+ -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time
353
+ # Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
354
+ # it is uninhabited.
355
+
356
+ # Guam
357
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
358
+ Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
359
+ 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana
360
+ 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam
361
+ 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
362
+
363
+ # Kiribati
364
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
365
+ Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki
366
+ 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time
367
+ Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901
368
+ -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time
369
+ -11:00 - PHOT 1995
370
+ 13:00 - PHOT
371
+ Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901
372
+ -10:40 - LINT 1979 Oct # Line Is Time
373
+ -10:00 - LINT 1995
374
+ 14:00 - LINT
375
+
376
+ # N Mariana Is
377
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
378
+ Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
379
+ 9:43:00 - LMT 1901
380
+ 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time
381
+ 10:00 - MPT 2000 Dec 23
382
+ 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
383
+
384
+ # Marshall Is
385
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
386
+ Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901
387
+ 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time
388
+ 12:00 - MHT
389
+ Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901
390
+ 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct
391
+ -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time
392
+ 12:00 - MHT
393
+
394
+ # Micronesia
395
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
396
+ Zone Pacific/Chuuk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901
397
+ 10:00 - CHUT # Chuuk Time
398
+ Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia
399
+ 11:00 - PONT # Pohnpei Time
400
+ Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901
401
+ 11:00 - KOST 1969 Oct # Kosrae Time
402
+ 12:00 - KOST 1999
403
+ 11:00 - KOST
404
+
405
+ # Nauru
406
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
407
+ Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe
408
+ 11:30 - NRT 1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time
409
+ 9:00 - JST 1944 Aug 15
410
+ 11:30 - NRT 1979 May
411
+ 12:00 - NRT
412
+
413
+ # New Caledonia
414
+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
415
+ Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S
416
+ Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 -
417
+ Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 S
418
+ # Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA.
419
+ Rule NC 1997 only - Mar 2 2:00s 0 -
420
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
421
+ Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13
422
+ 11:00 NC NC%sT
423
+
424
+
425
+ ###############################################################################
426
+
427
+ # New Zealand
428
+
429
+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
430
+ Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S
431
+ Rule NZ 1928 only - Mar 4 2:00 0 M
432
+ Rule NZ 1928 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 S
433
+ Rule NZ 1929 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 M
434
+ Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 M
435
+ Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 S
436
+ Rule NZ 1946 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S
437
+ # Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no
438
+ # convenient notation for this so we must duplicate the Rule lines.
439
+ Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
440
+ Rule Chatham 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D
441
+ Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S
442
+ Rule Chatham 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:45s 0 S
443
+ Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
444
+ Rule Chatham 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D
445
+ Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
446
+ Rule Chatham 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S
447
+ Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D
448
+ Rule Chatham 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:45s 1:00 D
449
+ Rule NZ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
450
+ Rule Chatham 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D
451
+ Rule NZ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S
452
+ Rule Chatham 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S
453
+ Rule NZ 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
454
+ Rule Chatham 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D
455
+ Rule NZ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
456
+ Rule Chatham 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S
457
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
458
+ Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2
459
+ 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1
460
+ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT
461
+ Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1957 Jan 1
462
+ 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT
463
+
464
+
465
+ # Auckland Is
466
+ # uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
467
+ # and scientific personnel have wintered
468
+
469
+ # Campbell I
470
+ # minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
471
+ # scientific station operated 1941/1995;
472
+ # previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
473
+ # was probably like Pacific/Auckland
474
+
475
+ ###############################################################################
476
+
477
+
478
+ # Niue
479
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
480
+ Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi
481
+ -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time
482
+ -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1
483
+ -11:00 - NUT
484
+
485
+ # Norfolk
486
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
487
+ Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston
488
+ 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
489
+ 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time
490
+
491
+ # Palau (Belau)
492
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
493
+ Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror
494
+ 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time
495
+
496
+ # Papua New Guinea
497
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
498
+ Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880
499
+ 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
500
+ 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time
501
+
502
+ # Pitcairn
503
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
504
+ Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown
505
+ -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 00:00
506
+ -8:00 - PST # Pitcairn Standard Time
507
+
508
+ # American Samoa
509
+ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
510
+ -11:22:48 - LMT 1911
511
+ -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time
512
+ -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
513
+ -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
514
+ -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
515
+
516
+ # Samoa
517
+
518
+ # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
519
+ # We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
520
+ # the following info:
521
+ #
522
+ # "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year
523
+ # commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first
524
+ # Sunday of April 2011."
525
+ #
526
+ # Background info:
527
+ # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html">
528
+ # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html
529
+ # </a>
530
+ #
531
+ # Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not
532
+ # contain any dates:
533
+ # <a href="http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf">
534
+ # http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf
535
+ # </a>
536
+
537
+ # From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07):
538
+ # Please see
539
+ # <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws">
540
+ # http://www.mcil.gov.ws
541
+ # </a>,
542
+ # the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday
543
+ # September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight
544
+ # to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks
545
+ # backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am"
546
+
547
+ # From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-03-07):
548
+ # I believe this will be posted shortly on the website
549
+ # <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws">
550
+ # www.mcil.gov.ws
551
+ # </a>
552
+ #
553
+ # PUBLIC NOTICE ON DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME
554
+ #
555
+ # Pursuant to the Daylight Saving Act 2009 and Cabinets decision,
556
+ # businesses and the general public are hereby advised that daylight
557
+ # saving time is on the first Saturday of April 2011 (02/04/11).
558
+ #
559
+ # The public is therefore advised that when the standard time strikes
560
+ # the hour of four oclock (4.00am or 0400 Hours) on the 2nd April 2011,
561
+ # then all instruments used to measure standard time are to be
562
+ # adjusted/changed to three oclock (3:00am or 0300Hrs).
563
+ #
564
+ # Margaret Fruean ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MINISTRY OF COMMERCE,
565
+ # INDUSTRY AND LABOUR 28th February 2011
566
+
567
+ # From David Zuelke (2011-05-09):
568
+ # Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line
569
+ #
570
+ # <a href="http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963">
571
+ # http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963
572
+ # </a>
573
+
574
+ # From Mark Sim-Smith (2011-08-17):
575
+ # I have been in contact with Leilani Tuala Warren from the Samoa Law
576
+ # Reform Commission, and she has sent me a copy of the Bill that she
577
+ # confirmed has been passed...Most of the sections are about maps rather
578
+ # than the time zone change, but I'll paste the relevant bits below. But
579
+ # the essence is that at midnight 29 Dec (UTC-11 I suppose), Samoa
580
+ # changes from UTC-11 to UTC+13:
581
+ #
582
+ # International Date Line Bill 2011
583
+ #
584
+ # AN ACT to provide for the change to standard time in Samoa and to make
585
+ # consequential amendments to the position of the International Date
586
+ # Line, and for related purposes.
587
+ #
588
+ # BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament
589
+ # assembled as follows:
590
+ #
591
+ # 1. Short title and commencement-(1) This Act may be cited as the
592
+ # International Date Line Act 2011. (2) Except for section 5(3) this Act
593
+ # commences at 12 o'clock midnight, on Thursday 29th December 2011. (3)
594
+ # Section 5(3) commences on the date of assent by the Head of State.
595
+ #
596
+ # [snip]
597
+ #
598
+ # 3. Interpretation - [snip] "Samoa standard time" in this Act and any
599
+ # other statute of Samoa which refers to 'Samoa standard time' means the
600
+ # time 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated Universal Time.
601
+ #
602
+ # 4. Samoa standard time - (1) Upon the commencement of this Act, Samoa
603
+ # standard time shall be set at 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated
604
+ # Universal Time for the whole of Samoa. (2) All references to Samoa's
605
+ # time zone and to Samoa standard time in Samoa in all legislation and
606
+ # instruments after the commencement of this Act shall be references to
607
+ # Samoa standard time as provided for in this Act. (3) Nothing in this
608
+ # Act affects the provisions of the Daylight Saving Act 2009, except that
609
+ # it defines Samoa standard time....
610
+
611
+ # From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02):
612
+ # <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html">
613
+ # http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
614
+ # </a>
615
+ #
616
+ # here is the official website publication for Samoa DST and dateline change
617
+ #
618
+ # DST
619
+ # Year End Time Start Time
620
+ # 2011 - - - - - - 24 September 3:00am to 4:00am
621
+ # 2012 01 April 4:00am to 3:00am - - - - - -
622
+ #
623
+ # Dateline Change skip Friday 30th Dec 2011
624
+ # Thursday 29th December 2011 23:59:59 Hours
625
+ # Saturday 31st December 2011 00:00:00 Hours
626
+ #
627
+ # Clarification by Tim Parenti (2012-01-03):
628
+ # Although Samoa has used Daylight Saving Time in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012
629
+ # seasons, there is not yet any indication that this trend will continue on
630
+ # a regular basis. For now, we have explicitly listed the transitions below.
631
+ #
632
+ # From Nicky (2012-09-10):
633
+ # Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and
634
+ # ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013.
635
+ #
636
+ # Please find link below for more information.
637
+ # http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
638
+ #
639
+ # That publication also includes dates for Summer of 2013/4 as well
640
+ # which give the impression of a pattern in selecting dates for the
641
+ # future, so for now, we will guess this will continue.
642
+
643
+ # Western Samoa
644
+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
645
+ Rule WS 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 D
646
+ Rule WS 2012 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 -
647
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
648
+ Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
649
+ -11:26:56 - LMT 1911
650
+ -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time
651
+ -11:00 - WST 2010 Sep 26
652
+ -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Apr 2 4:00
653
+ -11:00 - WST 2011 Sep 24 3:00
654
+ -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Dec 30
655
+ 13:00 1:00 WSDT 2012 Apr Sun>=1 4:00
656
+ 13:00 WS WS%sT
657
+
658
+ # Solomon Is
659
+ # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
660
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
661
+ Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara
662
+ 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time
663
+
664
+ # Tokelau Is
665
+ #
666
+ # From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29)
667
+ # A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping
668
+ # December 31 this year ...
669
+ #
670
+ # From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25)
671
+ # ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking
672
+ # about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13....
673
+ # Shanks says UTC-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change
674
+ # actually was to UTC-11 back then.
675
+ #
676
+ # From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
677
+ # A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of
678
+ # Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
679
+ # <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau
680
+ # was "11 hours slow on G.M.T." Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger
681
+ # are off by an hour starting in 1901.
682
+
683
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
684
+ Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901
685
+ -11:00 - TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time
686
+ 13:00 - TKT
687
+
688
+ # Tonga
689
+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
690
+ Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S
691
+ Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 -
692
+ Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
693
+ Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 -
694
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
695
+ Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901
696
+ 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time
697
+ 13:00 - TOT 1999
698
+ 13:00 Tonga TO%sT
699
+
700
+ # Tuvalu
701
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
702
+ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901
703
+ 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time
704
+
705
+
706
+ # US minor outlying islands
707
+
708
+ # Howland, Baker
709
+ # Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British
710
+ # 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known.
711
+ # Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944;
712
+ # uninhabited thereafter.
713
+ # Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UTC-10:30) in 1937;
714
+ # see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long,
715
+ # Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000).
716
+ # So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935
717
+ # until they were abandoned after the war.
718
+
719
+ # Jarvis
720
+ # Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?.
721
+ # Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958;
722
+ # uninhabited thereafter.
723
+ # no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
724
+
725
+ # Johnston
726
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
727
+ Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST
728
+
729
+ # Kingman
730
+ # uninhabited
731
+
732
+ # Midway
733
+ #
734
+ # From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
735
+ # [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
736
+ # published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
737
+ # reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly
738
+ # "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
739
+ # flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone
740
+ # designations that I've never seen before:....
741
+ # Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
742
+ # " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A "
743
+ #
744
+ Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901
745
+ -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3
746
+ -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2
747
+ -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
748
+ -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
749
+ -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
750
+
751
+ # Palmyra
752
+ # uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
753
+
754
+ # Wake
755
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
756
+ Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901
757
+ 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time
758
+
759
+
760
+ # Vanuatu
761
+ # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
762
+ Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S
763
+ Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 -
764
+ Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S
765
+ Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S
766
+ Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 -
767
+ Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S
768
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
769
+ Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila
770
+ 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time
771
+
772
+ # Wallis and Futuna
773
+ # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
774
+ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
775
+ 12:00 - WFT # Wallis & Futuna Time
776
+
777
+ ###############################################################################
778
+
779
+ # NOTES
780
+
781
+ # This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
782
+ # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
783
+ # tz@iana.org for general use in the future).
784
+
785
+ # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
786
+ # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
787
+ # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
788
+ # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
789
+ #
790
+ # Gwillim Law writes that a good source
791
+ # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
792
+ # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
793
+ # published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries
794
+ # of the IATA's data after 1990.
795
+ #
796
+ # Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
797
+ # entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
798
+ #
799
+ # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
800
+ # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
801
+ # I found in the UCLA library.
802
+ #
803
+ # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
804
+ # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
805
+ #
806
+ # I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
807
+ # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
808
+ # Corrections are welcome!
809
+ # std dst
810
+ # LMT Local Mean Time
811
+ # 8:00 WST WST Western Australia
812
+ # 8:45 CWST CWST Central Western Australia*
813
+ # 9:00 JST Japan
814
+ # 9:30 CST CST Central Australia
815
+ # 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia
816
+ # 10:00 ChST Chamorro
817
+ # 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe*
818
+ # 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945
819
+ # 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present
820
+ # 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham*
821
+ # -11:00 SST Samoa
822
+ # -10:00 HST Hawaii
823
+ # - 8:00 PST Pitcairn*
824
+ #
825
+ # See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii.
826
+ # See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is.
827
+
828
+ ###############################################################################
829
+
830
+ # Australia
831
+
832
+ # From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08):
833
+ # <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml">
834
+ # Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia
835
+ # </a> summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
836
+
837
+ # From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12):
838
+ # <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving">
839
+ # Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales
840
+ # </a> covers New South Wales in particular.
841
+
842
+ # From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
843
+ # We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time.
844
+ # It is called `summer' time. Now by a happy coincidence, `summer'
845
+ # and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the
846
+ # abbreviation does _not_ change...
847
+ # The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least
848
+ # in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the
849
+ # initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses
850
+ # the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight
851
+ # time'.
852
+ # Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian
853
+ # Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time'
854
+ # or `Eastern Summer Time'. (Note, though, that as I say in the
855
+ # current australasia file, there is really no such thing.) Announcers
856
+ # on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases
857
+ # prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times;
858
+ # time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
859
+
860
+ # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
861
+ # Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is:
862
+ # CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30
863
+ # WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00
864
+ # EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00
865
+
866
+ # From Chuck Soper (2006-06-01):
867
+ # I recently found this Australian government web page on time zones:
868
+ # <http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-13time>
869
+ # And this government web page lists time zone names and abbreviations:
870
+ # <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml>
871
+
872
+ # From Paul Eggert (2001-04-05), summarizing a long discussion about "EST"
873
+ # versus "AEST" etc.:
874
+ #
875
+ # I see the following points of dispute:
876
+ #
877
+ # * How important are unique time zone abbreviations?
878
+ #
879
+ # Here I tend to agree with the point (most recently made by Chris
880
+ # Newman) that unique abbreviations should not be essential for proper
881
+ # operation of software. We have other instances of ambiguity
882
+ # (e.g. "IST" denoting both "Israel Standard Time" and "Indian
883
+ # Standard Time"), and they are not likely to go away any time soon.
884
+ # In the old days, some software mistakenly relied on unique
885
+ # abbreviations, but this is becoming less true with time, and I don't
886
+ # think it's that important to cater to such software these days.
887
+ #
888
+ # On the other hand, there is another motivation for unambiguous
889
+ # abbreviations: it cuts down on human confusion. This is
890
+ # particularly true for Australia, where "EST" can mean one thing for
891
+ # time T and a different thing for time T plus 1 second.
892
+ #
893
+ # * Does the relevant legislation indicate which abbreviations should be used?
894
+ #
895
+ # Here I tend to think that things are a mess, just as they are in
896
+ # many other countries. We Americans are currently disagreeing about
897
+ # which abbreviation to use for the newly legislated Chamorro Standard
898
+ # Time, for example.
899
+ #
900
+ # Personally, I would prefer to use common practice; I would like to
901
+ # refer to legislation only for examples of common practice, or as a
902
+ # tiebreaker.
903
+ #
904
+ # * Do Australians more often use "Eastern Daylight Time" or "Eastern
905
+ # Summer Time"? Do they typically prefix the time zone names with
906
+ # the word "Australian"?
907
+ #
908
+ # My own impression is that both "Daylight Time" and "Summer Time" are
909
+ # common and are widely understood, but that "Summer Time" is more
910
+ # popular; and that the leading "A" is also common but is omitted more
911
+ # often than not. I just used AltaVista advanced search and got the
912
+ # following count of page hits:
913
+ #
914
+ # 1,103 "Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au
915
+ # 971 "Australian Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au
916
+ # 613 "Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au
917
+ # 127 "Australian Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au
918
+ #
919
+ # Here "Summer" seems quite a bit more popular than "Daylight",
920
+ # particularly when we know the time zone is Australian and not US,
921
+ # say. The "Australian" prefix seems to be popular for Eastern Summer
922
+ # Time, but unpopular for Eastern Daylight Time.
923
+ #
924
+ # For abbreviations, tools like AltaVista are less useful because of
925
+ # ambiguity. Many hits are not really time zones, unfortunately, and
926
+ # many hits denote US time zones and not Australian ones. But here
927
+ # are the hit counts anyway:
928
+ #
929
+ # 161,304 "EST" and domain:au
930
+ # 25,156 "EDT" and domain:au
931
+ # 18,263 "AEST" and domain:au
932
+ # 10,416 "AEDT" and domain:au
933
+ #
934
+ # 14,538 "CST" and domain:au
935
+ # 5,728 "CDT" and domain:au
936
+ # 176 "ACST" and domain:au
937
+ # 29 "ACDT" and domain:au
938
+ #
939
+ # 7,539 "WST" and domain:au
940
+ # 68 "AWST" and domain:au
941
+ #
942
+ # This data suggest that Australians tend to omit the "A" prefix in
943
+ # practice. The situation for "ST" versus "DT" is less clear, given
944
+ # the ambiguities involved.
945
+ #
946
+ # * How do Australians feel about the abbreviations in the tz database?
947
+ #
948
+ # If you just count Australians on this list, I count 2 in favor and 3
949
+ # against. One of the "against" votes (David Keegel) counseled delay,
950
+ # saying that both AEST/AEDT and EST/EST are widely used and
951
+ # understood in Australia.
952
+
953
+ # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
954
+ # Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
955
+ # Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
956
+ # reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
957
+ # but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
958
+ # and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time.
959
+ # For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
960
+
961
+ # From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
962
+ #
963
+ # Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
964
+ # and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
965
+ # relevant entries in this database.
966
+ #
967
+ # NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill):
968
+ # <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html">
969
+ # Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04)
970
+ # </a>
971
+ # ACT
972
+ # <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html">
973
+ # Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972
974
+ # </a>
975
+ # SA
976
+ # <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html">
977
+ # Standard Time Act, 1898
978
+ # </a>
979
+
980
+ # From David Grosz (2005-06-13):
981
+ # It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by
982
+ # one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
983
+ # Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday
984
+ # in April instead of the last Sunday in March.
985
+ #
986
+ # From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14):
987
+ # I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan
988
+ # to extend DST together in 2006.
989
+ # ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt
990
+ # New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html
991
+ # South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html
992
+ # Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772
993
+ # Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles
994
+ # allude to it.
995
+ # But not Queensland
996
+ # http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html.
997
+
998
+ # Northern Territory
999
+
1000
+ # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1001
+ # # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
1002
+ # # [ Nov 1990 ]
1003
+ # # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
1004
+ # ...
1005
+ # Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST
1006
+
1007
+ # From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
1008
+ # A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
1009
+ # the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
1010
+
1011
+ # Western Australia
1012
+
1013
+ # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1014
+ # # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
1015
+ # # [ Nov 1990 ]
1016
+ # # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
1017
+ # # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
1018
+ # # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
1019
+ # # before reaching parliament.
1020
+ # ...
1021
+ # Zone Australia/West 8:00 AW %sST
1022
+ # ...
1023
+ # Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1024
+ # Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W
1025
+ # Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1026
+ # Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W
1027
+
1028
+ # From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
1029
+ # A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
1030
+ # Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving.
1031
+
1032
+ # From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02):
1033
+ # Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney
1034
+ # rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at
1035
+ # work at 9.00am.)
1036
+ # W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
1037
+ # everybody again.
1038
+
1039
+ # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
1040
+ # The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
1041
+ # it matches what was used in the past.
1042
+
1043
+ # <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm">
1044
+ # The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
1045
+ # </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
1046
+ # South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia.
1047
+
1048
+ # Queensland
1049
+ # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1050
+ # # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
1051
+ # # [ Dec 1990 ]
1052
+ # ...
1053
+ # Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST
1054
+ # ...
1055
+ # Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1056
+ # Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E
1057
+ # Rule AQ 1989 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1058
+ # Rule AQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E
1059
+
1060
+ # From Bradley White (1989-12-24):
1061
+ # "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from
1062
+ # October 1989).
1063
+
1064
+ # From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
1065
+ # A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
1066
+ # ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
1067
+ # at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
1068
+
1069
+ # From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
1070
+ # I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact
1071
+ # end on Sunday, 3 March. I don't know at what hour, though. (It surprised
1072
+ # me.)
1073
+
1074
+ # From Bradley White (1992-03-08):
1075
+ # ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted
1076
+ # in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ...
1077
+ # ...
1078
+ # Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1079
+ # Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S
1080
+ # ...
1081
+
1082
+ # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
1083
+ # The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
1084
+
1085
+ # From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning
1086
+ # from Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-11-01):
1087
+ # WA are trialing DST for three years.
1088
+ # <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf>
1089
+
1090
+ # From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
1091
+ # The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
1092
+ # southern coast.... South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
1093
+ # Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The
1094
+ # residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
1095
+ # much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
1096
+ # international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
1097
+ # Australia and Western Australia....
1098
+ #
1099
+ # From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
1100
+ # This is confirmed by the section entitled
1101
+ # "What's the deal with time zones???" in
1102
+ # <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>.
1103
+ #
1104
+ # From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07):
1105
+ # ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway,
1106
+ # which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern
1107
+ # coast of the continent.
1108
+ #
1109
+ # I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no
1110
+ # dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border
1111
+ # village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west
1112
+ # as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is
1113
+ # the largest population centre in this zone....
1114
+ #
1115
+ # Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the
1116
+ # question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I
1117
+ # just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have,
1118
+ # meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45.
1119
+ #
1120
+ # (2006-12-09):
1121
+ # I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving
1122
+ # in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis
1123
+ # of this time zone. My hunch is that it's been around since well
1124
+ # before 1975. I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago.
1125
+
1126
+ # From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15):
1127
+ # For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the
1128
+ # introduction of standard time in 1895.
1129
+
1130
+
1131
+ # southeast Australia
1132
+ #
1133
+ # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1134
+ # Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT
1135
+ # end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October.
1136
+ # http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html
1137
+
1138
+
1139
+ # South Australia
1140
+
1141
+ # From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
1142
+ # A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
1143
+ # ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
1144
+ # at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
1145
+
1146
+ # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1147
+ # # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]
1148
+ # # [ Nov 1990 ]
1149
+ # ...
1150
+ # Zone Australia/South 9:30 AS %sST
1151
+ # ...
1152
+ # Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1153
+ # Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C
1154
+ # Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 C
1155
+ # Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C
1156
+
1157
+ # From Bradley White (1992-03-11):
1158
+ # Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide
1159
+ # contained the following exchange: "Due to the Adelaide Festival,
1160
+ # South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks."
1161
+
1162
+ # From Robert Elz (1992-03-13):
1163
+ # I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that)
1164
+ # South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even
1165
+ # numbered year (from 1990). That's when the Adelaide Festival
1166
+ # is on...
1167
+
1168
+ # From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000):
1169
+ # DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
1170
+ # But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
1171
+ # (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
1172
+
1173
+ # From Bradley White (1994-04-11):
1174
+ # If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
1175
+ # 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
1176
+ # only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
1177
+
1178
+ # From John Warburton (1994-10-07):
1179
+ # The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
1180
+ # was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
1181
+ # start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
1182
+
1183
+ # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1184
+ # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1185
+
1186
+ # Tasmania
1187
+
1188
+ # The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
1189
+ # via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1190
+ # # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
1191
+ # # [ Nov 1990 ]
1192
+
1193
+ # From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10):
1194
+ # Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
1195
+ # 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
1196
+ # (but nothing new about that).
1197
+
1198
+ # From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04):
1199
+ # I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the
1200
+ # (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard,
1201
+ # has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria
1202
+ # (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000
1203
+ # instead of the first Sunday in October.
1204
+
1205
+ # Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules:
1206
+ # http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300
1207
+
1208
+ # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1209
+ # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1210
+
1211
+ # Victoria
1212
+
1213
+ # The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
1214
+ # via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1215
+ # # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
1216
+ # # [ Nov 1990 ]
1217
+
1218
+ # From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29):
1219
+ # On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an
1220
+ # interesting story about daylight savings time. Dr. John Heilbron was
1221
+ # discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar
1222
+ # Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located
1223
+ # in Melbourne, Australia.
1224
+ #
1225
+ # Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which
1226
+ # illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day
1227
+ # of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's
1228
+ # fallen WWI soldiers. And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time,
1229
+ # you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the
1230
+ # expected time.
1231
+ #
1232
+ # However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had
1233
+ # to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of
1234
+ # the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?). Perhaps
1235
+ # someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more.
1236
+ #
1237
+ # [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html
1238
+ # [2] http://www.shrine.org.au
1239
+
1240
+ # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1241
+ # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1242
+
1243
+ # New South Wales
1244
+
1245
+ # From Arthur David Olson:
1246
+ # New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
1247
+ # Based on law library research by John Mackin,
1248
+ # who notes:
1249
+ # In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
1250
+ # individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time''
1251
+ # [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common
1252
+ # use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the
1253
+ # legislation. This is very important to understand.
1254
+ # I have researched New South Wales time only...
1255
+
1256
+ # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
1257
+ # DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
1258
+ # October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore,
1259
+ # <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html">
1260
+ # Two months more daylight saving
1261
+ # </a>
1262
+ # Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).]
1263
+
1264
+ # From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
1265
+ # See the following official NSW source:
1266
+ # <a href="http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ">
1267
+ # Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
1268
+ # </a>
1269
+ #
1270
+ # Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of
1271
+ # daylight saving next year. See:
1272
+ # <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm">
1273
+ # Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
1274
+ # </a> (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
1275
+ #
1276
+ # Victoria will following NSW. See:
1277
+ # <a href="http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm">
1278
+ # Vic to extend daylight saving
1279
+ # </a> (1999-07-28).
1280
+ #
1281
+ # However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See:
1282
+ # <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm">
1283
+ # South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request
1284
+ # </a> (1999-07-19).
1285
+ #
1286
+ # Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See:
1287
+ # <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm">
1288
+ # Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics
1289
+ # </a> (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying
1290
+ # ``Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time
1291
+ # I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very
1292
+ # well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of
1293
+ # bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night.
1294
+ # I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules.''
1295
+ #
1296
+ # Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000. See:
1297
+ # <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm">
1298
+ # Broken Hill to be behind the times
1299
+ # </a> (1999-07-21).
1300
+
1301
+ # IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian
1302
+ # Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken
1303
+ # Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
1304
+
1305
+ # From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
1306
+ # The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
1307
+ # towns to use Queensland time.
1308
+
1309
+ # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1310
+ # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1311
+
1312
+ # Yancowinna
1313
+
1314
+ # From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
1315
+ # `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
1316
+
1317
+ # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1318
+ # # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
1319
+ # # [ Dec 1990 ]
1320
+ # ...
1321
+ # # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the
1322
+ # # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings
1323
+ # # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government
1324
+ # # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have
1325
+ # # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
1326
+ # # presently available.
1327
+ # Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST
1328
+ # ...
1329
+ # Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1330
+ # Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C
1331
+ # [followed by other Rules]
1332
+
1333
+ # Lord Howe Island
1334
+
1335
+ # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1336
+ # LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ]
1337
+ # [ Dec 1990 ]
1338
+ # Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
1339
+ # hour ahead of NSW time.
1340
+
1341
+ # From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27):
1342
+ # Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same
1343
+ # date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27). For your information the
1344
+ # Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is
1345
+ # seeking the community's views on various options for summer time
1346
+ # arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour
1347
+ # instead of only 30 minutes. [Dependent] on the wishes of residents
1348
+ # the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing
1349
+ # arrangements. The starting date for summer time on the Island will
1350
+ # however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
1351
+
1352
+ # From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
1353
+ # Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
1354
+ # clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
1355
+ # introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
1356
+ # shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
1357
+ # of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
1358
+
1359
+ # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1360
+ # For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and
1361
+ # Lonergan thereafter. For times we use Lonergan.
1362
+
1363
+ # From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1364
+ # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1365
+
1366
+ # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28):
1367
+ # According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight
1368
+ # saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009
1369
+ # summer (southern hemisphere).
1370
+ #
1371
+ # From
1372
+ # <a href="http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf">
1373
+ # http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf
1374
+ # </a>
1375
+ # The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling
1376
+ # for over the last year is now set to be ongoing.
1377
+ # Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each
1378
+ # year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year.
1379
+ # Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia
1380
+ # with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and
1381
+ # the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year...
1382
+ #
1383
+ # We have a wrap-up here:
1384
+ # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html">
1385
+ # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html
1386
+ # </a>
1387
+ ###############################################################################
1388
+
1389
+ # New Zealand
1390
+
1391
+ # From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
1392
+ # the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
1393
+ # This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for
1394
+ # subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start).
1395
+ # source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office.
1396
+
1397
+ # From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1398
+ # # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
1399
+ # # or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
1400
+ # # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ]
1401
+ # # [ Nov 1990 ]
1402
+ # ...
1403
+ # Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
1404
+ # Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
1405
+ # Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S
1406
+ # Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 S
1407
+ # ...
1408
+ # Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand
1409
+ # Zone NZ-CHAT 12:45 - NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island
1410
+
1411
+ # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
1412
+ # The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989
1413
+ # rather than the October 1 value.
1414
+
1415
+ # From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
1416
+ # Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
1417
+ # Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
1418
+ # Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
1419
+ # time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
1420
+ # As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
1421
+ #
1422
+ # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1423
+ # The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history,
1424
+ # as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references.
1425
+ # Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger.
1426
+ #
1427
+ # For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with
1428
+ # transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham
1429
+ # is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland.
1430
+
1431
+ # From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30):
1432
+ # DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the
1433
+ # first Sunday in April. The changes take effect this year, meaning
1434
+ # that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06.
1435
+ # http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended
1436
+
1437
+ ###############################################################################
1438
+
1439
+
1440
+ # Fiji
1441
+
1442
+ # Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
1443
+ # enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time
1444
+ # instead of the American system (which was one day behind).
1445
+
1446
+ # From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
1447
+ # Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01
1448
+ # until 0300 local time 1999-02-28. Each year the DST period will
1449
+ # be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
1450
+
1451
+ # From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
1452
+ # IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time. Go with McDow.
1453
+
1454
+ # From the BBC World Service (1998-10-31 11:32 UTC):
1455
+ # The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
1456
+ # improve productivity and reduce road accidents. But correspondents say it
1457
+ # also hopes the move will boost Fiji's ability to compete with other pacific
1458
+ # islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new
1459
+ # millenium.
1460
+
1461
+ # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
1462
+ # reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
1463
+
1464
+ # Johnston
1465
+
1466
+ # Johnston data is from usno1995.
1467
+
1468
+
1469
+ # Kiribati
1470
+
1471
+ # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
1472
+ # Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati
1473
+ # ``declared it the same day [throughout] the country as of Jan. 1, 1995''
1474
+ # as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
1475
+
1476
+
1477
+ # Kwajalein
1478
+
1479
+ # In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
1480
+ # I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday,
1481
+ # 1993-08-20. Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
1482
+ # respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
1483
+ # going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
1484
+
1485
+
1486
+ # N Mariana Is, Guam
1487
+
1488
+ # Howse writes (p 153) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
1489
+ # Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones
1490
+ # (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
1491
+ # For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
1492
+ # see Asia/Manila.
1493
+
1494
+ # US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UTC+10 the official standard time,
1495
+ # under the name "Chamorro Standard Time". There is no official abbreviation,
1496
+ # but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
1497
+ # wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
1498
+
1499
+
1500
+ # Micronesia
1501
+
1502
+ # Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
1503
+ # ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk"
1504
+ # (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.''
1505
+ #
1506
+ # Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11
1507
+ # on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now.
1508
+
1509
+ # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
1510
+ # The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in
1511
+ # <a href="http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html">
1512
+ # The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information
1513
+ # </a> (1999-01-26)
1514
+ # that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11.
1515
+ # We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now.
1516
+
1517
+
1518
+ # Midway
1519
+
1520
+ # From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
1521
+ # quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
1522
+ # <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
1523
+ # For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
1524
+ # Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
1525
+ # your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956
1526
+ # we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to
1527
+ # air at 6am your time.
1528
+ #
1529
+ # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1530
+ # We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
1531
+ # started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years
1532
+ # in Midway, but we have no record of it.
1533
+
1534
+
1535
+ # Pitcairn
1536
+
1537
+ # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
1538
+ # A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
1539
+ # with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows.
1540
+ #
1541
+ # The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
1542
+ # Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
1543
+ # as Pitcairn Standard Time.
1544
+ #
1545
+ # ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
1546
+ # references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
1547
+ # somehow in light of this proclamation.
1548
+
1549
+ # From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
1550
+ # The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
1551
+ # ... at midnight.
1552
+
1553
+ # From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
1554
+ # Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
1555
+ # Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in
1556
+ # Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
1557
+
1558
+
1559
+ # Samoa
1560
+
1561
+ # Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald)
1562
+ # that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
1563
+ # ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
1564
+ # ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that
1565
+ # the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.''
1566
+
1567
+
1568
+ # Tonga
1569
+
1570
+ # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
1571
+ # Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting
1572
+ # to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.''
1573
+ # Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
1574
+
1575
+ # Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle
1576
+ # <a href="http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm">
1577
+ # How Tonga became `The Land where Time Begins'
1578
+ # </a>:
1579
+
1580
+ # Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST
1581
+ # 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT. When New Zealand adjusted its
1582
+ # standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its
1583
+ # local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of
1584
+ # advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13 degrees
1585
+ # (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).
1586
+ #
1587
+ # Because His Majesty King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince
1588
+ # Tungi, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time
1589
+ # begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change.
1590
+ #
1591
+ # But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer
1592
+ # islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40
1593
+ # minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40
1594
+ # minutes we have lost?"
1595
+ #
1596
+ # The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
1597
+ # on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
1598
+ # to say your prayers in the morning."
1599
+
1600
+ # From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1601
+ # Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
1602
+
1603
+ # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
1604
+ # Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millenium
1605
+ # Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
1606
+ # He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
1607
+ # October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
1608
+ # Government.
1609
+
1610
+ # From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
1611
+ # * Tonga will introduce DST in November
1612
+ #
1613
+ # I was given this link by John Letts:
1614
+ # <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm">
1615
+ # http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
1616
+ # </a>
1617
+ #
1618
+ # I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November
1619
+ # yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead
1620
+ # of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
1621
+ # (12 + 1 hour DST).
1622
+
1623
+ # From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
1624
+ # According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html">
1625
+ # http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html
1626
+ # </a>:
1627
+ # "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000
1628
+ # and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the
1629
+ # third Saturday of April. Under the system approved by Privy Council on
1630
+ # Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and
1631
+ # set back an hour on the closing date."
1632
+ # Alas, no indication of the time of day.
1633
+
1634
+ # From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
1635
+ # Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
1636
+ # Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
1637
+
1638
+ # From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
1639
+ # Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
1640
+ # that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
1641
+ # instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
1642
+ # is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
1643
+ # text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
1644
+ # (Original URL was: http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm )
1645
+
1646
+ # From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
1647
+ # Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
1648
+
1649
+ # From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
1650
+ # At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
1651
+ # shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday
1652
+ # of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
1653
+ # hour to 1:00am.
1654
+
1655
+ # From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05):
1656
+ # The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't.
1657
+
1658
+
1659
+ # Wake
1660
+
1661
+ # From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
1662
+ # US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
1663
+ #
1664
+ # Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] -- ... The time was all the
1665
+ # more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
1666
+ # International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we
1667
+ # discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
1668
+ # making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
1669
+ # impossible.
1670
+ #
1671
+ # http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm
1672
+
1673
+ # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1674
+ # We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
1675
+
1676
+ ###############################################################################
1677
+
1678
+ # The International Date Line
1679
+
1680
+ # From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
1681
+ #
1682
+ # The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
1683
+ # convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
1684
+ # Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
1685
+ # the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
1686
+ #
1687
+ # When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
1688
+ # Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
1689
+ # to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
1690
+ # mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati. Even that line
1691
+ # has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
1692
+ # island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
1693
+ # convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is
1694
+ # governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
1695
+ # places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not
1696
+ # an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
1697
+ # correct date is ambiguous.
1698
+
1699
+ # From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31):
1700
+ # Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting
1701
+ # their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's
1702
+ # speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's
1703
+ # meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon). During 1917, at the
1704
+ # Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all
1705
+ # ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones
1706
+ # on the high seas. Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any
1707
+ # nation it would use that nation's standard time. The captain was permitted
1708
+ # to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's
1709
+ # entry into another zone time--he often chose midnight. These zones were
1710
+ # adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many
1711
+ # independent merchant ships until World War II.
1712
+
1713
+ # From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
1714
+ # (2005-03-20):
1715
+ #
1716
+ # The American Practical Navigator (2002)
1717
+ # <http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187>
1718
+ # talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
1719
+ # international waters; it ignores the international date line.