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diff --git a/libkcal/libical/tzdata/australasia b/libkcal/libical/tzdata/australasia deleted file mode 100644 index 30d695ff5..000000000 --- a/libkcal/libical/tzdata/australasia +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1454 +0,0 @@ -# @(#)australasia 8.8 -# <pre> - -# This file also includes Pacific islands. - -# Notes are at the end of this file - -############################################################################### - -# Australia - -# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc. - -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Aus 1917 only - Jan 1 0:01 1:00 - -Rule Aus 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 0 - -Rule Aus 1942 only - Jan 1 2:00 1:00 - -Rule Aus 1942 only - Mar 29 2:00 0 - -Rule Aus 1942 only - Sep 27 2:00 1:00 - -Rule Aus 1943 1944 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - -Rule Aus 1943 only - Oct 3 2:00 1:00 - -# Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which -# says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944. Ignore Whitman's claim that -# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944. - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -# Northern Territory -Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb - 9:00 - CST 1899 May - 9:30 Aus CST -# Western Australia -# -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AW 1991 only - Nov 17 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AW 1992 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec - 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul - 8:00 AW WST -Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec - 8:45 Aus CWST 1943 Jul - 8:45 AW CWST - -# Queensland -# -# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): -# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast -# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after -# Queensland ceased to. -# -# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): -# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman, -# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped. -# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria, -# so use Lindeman. -# -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AQ 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AQ 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule Holiday 1992 1993 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule Holiday 1993 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895 - 10:00 Aus EST 1971 - 10:00 AQ EST -Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895 - 10:00 Aus EST 1971 - 10:00 AQ EST 1992 Jul - 10:00 Holiday EST - -# South Australia -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule AS 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AS 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AS 1987 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AS 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1990 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1991 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1992 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1993 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1994 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AS 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb - 9:00 - CST 1899 May - 9:30 Aus CST 1971 - 9:30 AS CST - -# Tasmania -# -# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): -# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml> -# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971. -# -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 1991 1999 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 1991 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AT 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AT 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep - 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 - 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb - 10:00 Aus EST 1967 - 10:00 AT EST -Zone Australia/Currie 9:35:28 - LMT 1895 Sep - 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 - 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb - 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Jul - 10:00 AT EST - -# Victoria -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AV 1988 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AV 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AV 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb - 10:00 Aus EST 1971 - 10:00 AV EST - -# New South Wales -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule AN 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AN 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 1982 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 1983 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AN 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AN 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - -Rule AN 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb - 10:00 Aus EST 1971 - 10:00 AN EST -Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 - LMT 1895 Feb - 10:00 - EST 1896 Aug 23 - 9:00 - CST 1899 May - 9:30 Aus CST 1971 - 9:30 AN CST 2000 - 9:30 AS CST - -# Lord Howe Island -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule LH 1981 1984 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - -Rule LH 1982 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 - -Rule LH 1985 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - -Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 - -Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 0:30 - -Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - -Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 - -Rule LH 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - -Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 - -Rule LH 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - -Rule LH 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - -Rule LH 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - -Rule LH 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - -Rule LH 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0:30 - -Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb - 10:00 - EST 1981 Mar - 10:30 LH LHST - -# Australian miscellany -# -# Ashmore Is, Cartier -# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers -# no times are set -# -# Coral Sea Is -# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists -# no times are set -# -# Macquarie -# permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948; -# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917 -# like Australia/Hobart - -# Christmas -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb - 7:00 - CXT # Christmas Island Time - -# Cook Is -# From Shanks & Pottenger: -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS -Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - -Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua - -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time - -10:00 Cook CK%sT - -# Cocos -# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978. -# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 - 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time - -# Fiji -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva - 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time - -# French Polynesia -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea - -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time -Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct - -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time -Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete - -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time -# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia; -# it is uninhabited. - -# Guam -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 - 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana - 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam - 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time - -# Kiribati -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki - 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time -Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901 - -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time - -11:00 - PHOT 1995 - 13:00 - PHOT -Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 - -10:40 - LINT 1979 Oct # Line Is Time - -10:00 - LINT 1995 - 14:00 - LINT - -# N Mariana Is -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 - 9:43:00 - LMT 1901 - 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time - 10:00 - MPT 2000 Dec 23 - 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time - -# Marshall Is -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901 - 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time - 12:00 - MHT -Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 - 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct - -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time - 12:00 - MHT - -# Micronesia -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Truk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 - 10:00 - TRUT # Truk Time -Zone Pacific/Ponape 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia - 11:00 - PONT # Ponape Time -Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901 - 11:00 - KOST 1969 Oct # Kosrae Time - 12:00 - KOST 1999 - 11:00 - KOST - -# Nauru -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe - 11:30 - NRT 1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time - 9:00 - JST 1944 Aug 15 - 11:30 - NRT 1979 May - 12:00 - NRT - -# New Caledonia -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S -Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 - -Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 S -# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA. -Rule NC 1997 only - Mar 2 2:00s 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 - 11:00 NC NC%sT - - -############################################################################### - -# New Zealand - -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S -Rule NZ 1928 only - Mar 4 2:00 0 M -Rule NZ 1928 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 S -Rule NZ 1929 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 M -Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 M -Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 S -Rule NZ 1946 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S -# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no -# convenient notation for this so we must duplicate the Rule lines. -Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule Chatham 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S -Rule Chatham 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:45s 0 S -Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule Chatham 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S -Rule Chatham 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S -Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule Chatham 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:45s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule Chatham 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S -Rule Chatham 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S -Rule NZ 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule Chatham 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S -Rule Chatham 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 - 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1 - 12:00 NZ NZ%sT -Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1957 Jan 1 - 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT - - -# Auckland Is -# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, -# and scientific personnel have wintered - -# Campbell I -# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914 -# scientific station operated 1941/1995; -# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered -# was probably like Pacific/Auckland - -############################################################################### - - -# Niue -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi - -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time - -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1 - -11:00 - NUT - -# Norfolk -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston - 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time - 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time - -# Palau (Belau) -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror - 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time - -# Papua New Guinea -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 - 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time - 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time - -# Pitcairn -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown - -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 00:00 - -8:00 - PST # Pitcairn Standard Time - -# American Samoa -Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 - -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 - -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time - -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome - -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering - -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa - -# Samoa -Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 - -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 - -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time - -11:00 - WST # Samoa Time - -# Solomon Is -# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara - 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time - -# Tokelau Is -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 - -10:00 - TKT # Tokelau Time - -# Tonga -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S -Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - -Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 - 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time - 13:00 - TOT 1999 - 13:00 Tonga TO%sT - -# Tuvalu -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 - 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time - - -# US minor outlying islands - -# Howland, Baker -# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British -# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known. -# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944; -# uninhabited thereafter. -# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UTC-10:30) in 1937; -# see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long, -# Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000). -# So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935 -# until they were abandoned after the war. - -# Jarvis -# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?. -# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958; -# uninhabited thereafter. -# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati - -# Johnston -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST - -# Kingman -# uninhabited - -# Midway -# -# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): -# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, -# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3] -# reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly -# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting -# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone -# designations that I've never seen before:.... -# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun. -# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A " -# -Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 - -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 - -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 - -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome - -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering - -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa - -# Palmyra -# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati - -# Wake -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 - 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time - - -# Vanuatu -# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 - -Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S -Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 - -Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila - 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time - -# Wallis and Futuna -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 - 12:00 - WFT # Wallis & Futuna Time - -############################################################################### - -# NOTES - -# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, -# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to -# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). - -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is -# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), -# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). -# -# Gwillim Law writes that a good source -# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport -# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), -# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries -# of the IATA's data after 1990. -# -# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for -# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. -# -# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, -# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which -# I found in the UCLA library. -# -# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is -# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). -# -# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; -# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. -# Corrections are welcome! -# std dst -# LMT Local Mean Time -# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia -# 8:45 CWST CWST Central Western Australia* -# 9:00 JST Japan -# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia -# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia -# 10:00 ChST Chamorro -# 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* -# 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945 -# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present -# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* -# -11:00 SST Samoa -# -10:00 HST Hawaii -# - 8:00 PST Pitcairn* -# -# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii. -# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is. - -############################################################################### - -# Australia - -# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08): -# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml"> -# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia -# </a> summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia. - -# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12): -# <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving"> -# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales -# </a> covers New South Wales in particular. - -# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): -# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time. -# It is called `summer' time. Now by a happy coincidence, `summer' -# and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the -# abbreviation does _not_ change... -# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least -# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the -# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses -# the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight -# time'. -# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian -# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time' -# or `Eastern Summer Time'. (Note, though, that as I say in the -# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.) Announcers -# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases -# prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times; -# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC. - -# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): -# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is: -# CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30 -# WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00 -# EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00 - -# From Chuck Soper (2006-06-01): -# I recently found this Australian government web page on time zones: -# <http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-13time> -# And this government web page lists time zone names and abbreviations: -# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml> - -# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-05), summarizing a long discussion about "EST" -# versus "AEST" etc.: -# -# I see the following points of dispute: -# -# * How important are unique time zone abbreviations? -# -# Here I tend to agree with the point (most recently made by Chris -# Newman) that unique abbreviations should not be essential for proper -# operation of software. We have other instances of ambiguity -# (e.g. "IST" denoting both "Israel Standard Time" and "Indian -# Standard Time"), and they are not likely to go away any time soon. -# In the old days, some software mistakenly relied on unique -# abbreviations, but this is becoming less true with time, and I don't -# think it's that important to cater to such software these days. -# -# On the other hand, there is another motivation for unambiguous -# abbreviations: it cuts down on human confusion. This is -# particularly true for Australia, where "EST" can mean one thing for -# time T and a different thing for time T plus 1 second. -# -# * Does the relevant legislation indicate which abbreviations should be used? -# -# Here I tend to think that things are a mess, just as they are in -# many other countries. We Americans are currently disagreeing about -# which abbreviation to use for the newly legislated Chamorro Standard -# Time, for example. -# -# Personally, I would prefer to use common practice; I would like to -# refer to legislation only for examples of common practice, or as a -# tiebreaker. -# -# * Do Australians more often use "Eastern Daylight Time" or "Eastern -# Summer Time"? Do they typically prefix the time zone names with -# the word "Australian"? -# -# My own impression is that both "Daylight Time" and "Summer Time" are -# common and are widely understood, but that "Summer Time" is more -# popular; and that the leading "A" is also common but is omitted more -# often than not. I just used AltaVista advanced search and got the -# following count of page hits: -# -# 1,103 "Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au -# 971 "Australian Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au -# 613 "Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au -# 127 "Australian Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au -# -# Here "Summer" seems quite a bit more popular than "Daylight", -# particularly when we know the time zone is Australian and not US, -# say. The "Australian" prefix seems to be popular for Eastern Summer -# Time, but unpopular for Eastern Daylight Time. -# -# For abbreviations, tools like AltaVista are less useful because of -# ambiguity. Many hits are not really time zones, unfortunately, and -# many hits denote US time zones and not Australian ones. But here -# are the hit counts anyway: -# -# 161,304 "EST" and domain:au -# 25,156 "EDT" and domain:au -# 18,263 "AEST" and domain:au -# 10,416 "AEDT" and domain:au -# -# 14,538 "CST" and domain:au -# 5,728 "CDT" and domain:au -# 176 "ACST" and domain:au -# 29 "ACDT" and domain:au -# -# 7,539 "WST" and domain:au -# 68 "AWST" and domain:au -# -# This data suggest that Australians tend to omit the "A" prefix in -# practice. The situation for "ST" versus "DT" is less clear, given -# the ambiguities involved. -# -# * How do Australians feel about the abbreviations in the tz database? -# -# If you just count Australians on this list, I count 2 in favor and 3 -# against. One of the "against" votes (David Keegel) counseled delay, -# saying that both AEST/AEDT and EST/EST are widely used and -# understood in Australia. - -# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): -# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ. -# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper -# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, -# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 -# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. -# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. - -# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): -# -# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, -# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more -# relevant entries in this database. -# -# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): -# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html"> -# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) -# </a> -# ACT -# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html"> -# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 -# </a> -# SA -# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html"> -# Standard Time Act, 1898 -# </a> - -# From David Grosz (2005-06-13): -# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by -# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. -# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday -# in April instead of the last Sunday in March. -# -# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14): -# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan -# to extend DST together in 2006. -# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt -# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html -# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html -# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772 -# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles -# allude to it. -# But not Queensland -# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html. - -# Northern Territory - -# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ] -# # [ Nov 1990 ] -# # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location. -# ... -# Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST - -# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): -# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... -# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving. - -# Western Australia - -# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ] -# # [ Nov 1990 ] -# # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to -# # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but -# # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus -# # before reaching parliament. -# ... -# Zone Australia/West 8:00 AW %sST -# ... -# Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -# Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W -# Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -# Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W - -# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): -# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... -# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving. - -# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02): -# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney -# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at -# work at 9.00am.) -# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse -# everybody again. - -# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): -# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess; -# it matches what was used in the past. - -# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm"> -# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ -# </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses -# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia. - -# Queensland -# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ] -# # [ Dec 1990 ] -# ... -# Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST -# ... -# Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -# Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E -# Rule AQ 1989 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -# Rule AQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E - -# From Bradley White (1989-12-24): -# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from -# October 1989). - -# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): -# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... -# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving -# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... - -# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): -# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact -# end on Sunday, 3 March. I don't know at what hour, though. (It surprised -# me.) - -# From Bradley White (1992-03-08): -# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted -# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ... -# ... -# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S -# ... - -# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): -# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. - -# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning -# from Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-11-01): -# WA are trialing DST for three years. -# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf> - -# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): -# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the -# southern coast.... South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western -# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The -# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so -# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the -# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South -# Australia and Western Australia.... -# -# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): -# This is confirmed by the section entitled -# "What's the deal with time zones???" in -# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>. -# -# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07): -# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway, -# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern -# coast of the continent. -# -# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no -# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border -# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west -# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is -# the largest population centre in this zone.... -# -# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the -# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I -# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have, -# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45. -# -# (2006-12-09): -# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving -# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis -# of this time zone. My hunch is that it's been around since well -# before 1975. I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago. - -# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15): -# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the -# introduction of standard time in 1895. - - -# southeast Australia -# -# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): -# Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT -# end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October. -# http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html - - -# South Australia - -# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): -# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... -# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving -# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... - -# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ] -# # [ Nov 1990 ] -# ... -# Zone Australia/South 9:30 AS %sST -# ... -# Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -# Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C -# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 C -# Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C - -# From Bradley White (1992-03-11): -# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide -# contained the following exchange: "Due to the Adelaide Festival, -# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks." - -# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13): -# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that) -# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even -# numbered year (from 1990). That's when the Adelaide Festival -# is on... - -# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000): -# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday).... -# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever... -# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...). - -# From Bradley White (1994-04-11): -# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March, -# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can -# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... - -# From John Warburton (1994-10-07): -# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... -# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... -# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. - -# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): -# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. - -# Tasmania - -# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd -# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] -# # [ Nov 1990 ] - -# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10): -# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have -# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia -# (but nothing new about that). - -# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04): -# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the -# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard, -# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria -# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000 -# instead of the first Sunday in October. - -# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules: -# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300 - -# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): -# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. - -# Victoria - -# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd -# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] -# # [ Nov 1990 ] - -# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29): -# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an -# interesting story about daylight savings time. Dr. John Heilbron was -# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar -# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located -# in Melbourne, Australia. -# -# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which -# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day -# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's -# fallen WWI soldiers. And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time, -# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the -# expected time. -# -# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had -# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of -# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?). Perhaps -# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more. -# -# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html -# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au - -# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): -# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. - -# New South Wales - -# From Arthur David Olson: -# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. -# Based on law library research by John Mackin, -# who notes: -# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the -# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' -# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common -# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the -# legislation. This is very important to understand. -# I have researched New South Wales time only... - -# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): -# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual -# October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore, -# <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html"> -# Two months more daylight saving -# </a> -# Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).] - -# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27): -# See the following official NSW source: -# <a href="http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ"> -# Daylight Saving in New South Wales. -# </a> -# -# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of -# daylight saving next year. See: -# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm"> -# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving -# </a> (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens. -# -# Victoria will following NSW. See: -# <a href="http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm"> -# Vic to extend daylight saving -# </a> (1999-07-28). -# -# However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See: -# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm"> -# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request -# </a> (1999-07-19). -# -# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See: -# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm"> -# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics -# </a> (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying -# ``Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time -# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very -# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of -# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night. -# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules.'' -# -# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000. See: -# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm"> -# Broken Hill to be behind the times -# </a> (1999-07-21). - -# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian -# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken -# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics. - -# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29: -# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW -# towns to use Queensland time. - -# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): -# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. - -# Yancowinna - -# From John Mackin (1989-01-04): -# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna. - -# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ] -# # [ Dec 1990 ] -# ... -# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the -# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings -# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government -# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have -# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not -# # presently available. -# Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST -# ... -# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -# Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C -# [followed by other Rules] - -# Lord Howe Island - -# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ] -# [ Dec 1990 ] -# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an -# hour ahead of NSW time. - -# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27): -# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same -# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27). For your information the -# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is -# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time -# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour -# instead of only 30 minutes. Dependant on the wishes of residents -# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing -# arrangements. The starting date for summer time on the Island will -# however always coincide with the rest of NSW. - -# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25): -# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards -# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently -# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as -# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start -# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW. - -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and -# Lonergan thereafter. For times we use Lonergan. - -# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): -# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. - -############################################################################### - -# New Zealand - -# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): -# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. -# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for -# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). -# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office. - -# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): -# # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that! -# # or is Australia the west island of N.Z. -# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ] -# # [ Nov 1990 ] -# ... -# Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D -# Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D -# Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S -# Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 S -# ... -# Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand -# Zone NZ-CHAT 12:45 - NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island - -# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): -# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989 -# rather than the October 1 value. - -# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); -# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ. -# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight -# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard -# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. -# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. -# -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history, -# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references. -# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger. -# -# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with -# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham -# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland. - -# From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30): -# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the -# first Sunday in April. The changes take effect this year, meaning -# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06. -# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended - -############################################################################### - - -# Fiji - -# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji -# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time -# instead of the American system (which was one day behind). - -# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): -# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01 -# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28. Each year the DST period will -# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February. - -# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08): -# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time. Go with McDow. - -# From the BBC World Service (1998-10-31 11:32 UTC): -# The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to -# improve productivity and reduce road accidents. But correspondents say it -# also hopes the move will boost Fiji's ability to compete with other pacific -# islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new -# millenium. - -# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13) -# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST. - -# Johnston - -# Johnston data is from usno1995. - - -# Kiribati - -# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): -# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati -# ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995'' -# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century. - - -# Kwajalein - -# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes: -# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday, -# 1993-08-20. Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with -# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands, -# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink. - - -# N Mariana Is, Guam - -# Howse writes (p 153) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the -# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones -# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time. -# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines; -# see Asia/Manila. - -# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UTC+10 the official standard time, -# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time". There is no official abbreviation, -# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law, -# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST". - - -# Micronesia - -# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16), -# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" -# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.'' -# -# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11 -# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now. - -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): -# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in -# <a href="http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html"> -# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information -# </a> (1999-01-26) -# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11. -# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now. - - -# Midway - -# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956), -# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection -# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31): -# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight -# Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning, -# your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956 -# we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to -# air at 6am your time. -# -# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): -# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they -# started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years -# in Midway, but we have no record of it. - - -# Pitcairn - -# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): -# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998 -# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows. -# -# The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be -# Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known -# as Pitcairn Standard Time. -# -# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several -# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation -# somehow in light of this proclamation. - -# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09): -# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998 -# ... at midnight. - -# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave: -# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as -# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in -# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago. - - -# Samoa - -# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald) -# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change -# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, -# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that -# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.'' - - -# Tonga - -# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): -# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting -# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.'' -# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do. - -# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle -# <a href="http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm"> -# How Tonga became `The Land where Time Begins' -# </a>: - -# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST -# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT. When New Zealand adjusted its -# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its -# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of -# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13 degrees -# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time). -# -# Because His Majesty King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince -# Tungi, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time -# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change. -# -# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer -# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40 -# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40 -# minutes we have lost?" -# -# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that -# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth -# to say your prayers in the morning." - -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell. - -# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03): -# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millenium -# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front. -# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from -# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan -# Government. - -# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): -# * Tonga will introduce DST in November -# -# I was given this link by John Letts: -# <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> -# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm -# </a> -# -# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November -# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead -# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead -# (12 + 1 hour DST). - -# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20): -# According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html> -# http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html -# </a>: -# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000 -# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the -# third Saturday of April. Under the system approved by Privy Council on -# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and -# set back an hour on the closing date." -# Alas, no indication of the time of day. - -# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06): -# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am. -# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning. - -# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31): -# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com -# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19 -# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article -# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the -# text, and I have forgotten to report it here. -# (Original URL was: http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm ) - -# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): -# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27. - -# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow: -# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom -# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday -# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one -# hour to 1:00am. - -# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05): -# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. - - -# Wake - -# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, -# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02): -# -# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] -- ... The time was all the -# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the -# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we -# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time -# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost -# impossible. -# -# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm - -# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): -# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now. - -############################################################################### - -# The International Date Line - -# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03): -# -# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard, -# convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please. -# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on -# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there. -# -# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and -# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL -# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most -# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati. Even that line -# has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific -# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international -# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is -# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some -# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not -# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the -# correct date is ambiguous. - -# From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31): -# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting -# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's -# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's -# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon). During 1917, at the -# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all -# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones -# on the high seas. Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any -# nation it would use that nation's standard time. The captain was permitted -# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's -# entry into another zone time--he often chose midnight. These zones were -# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many -# independent merchant ships until World War II. - -# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen -# (2005-03-20): -# -# The American Practical Navigator (2002) -# <http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187> -# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in -# international waters; it ignores the international date line. |