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diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia index 1782558de7..a841574a79 100644 --- a/timezone/australasia +++ b/timezone/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.52 +# @(#)australasia 7.53 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -362,7 +362,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 # Pitcairn # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown - -8:30 - PNT # Pitcairn Time + -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 @@ -392,7 +393,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 # Tonga # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Tonga 1999 max - Oct Sat>=1 2:00s 1:00 S -Rule Tonga 2000 max - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s - - +Rule Tonga 2000 max - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time @@ -498,6 +499,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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. @@ -944,7 +946,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # ``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 writes that Truk switched from GMT+10 to GMT+11 on 1978-10-01; +# Shanks writes that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11 on 1978-10-01; # ignore this for now. # From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): @@ -952,8 +954,31 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # <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 GMT+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are GMT+11. -# We don't know when Kosrae switched from GMT+12; assume January 1 for now. +# 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. + +# 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 |