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diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia index d97a3c6ae6..c5b018e952 100644 --- a/timezone/australasia +++ b/timezone/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.45 +# @(#)australasia 7.46 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # # Macquarie # permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948; -# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888-1917 +# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917 # no information # # Manihiki, Penrhyn, Rakehanga @@ -319,11 +319,13 @@ Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT # Auckland Is -# uninhabited +# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, +# and scientific personnel have wintered # Campbell I -# minor whaling stations operated 1909-14 -# scientific station operated 1941-1995 +# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914 +# scientific station operated 1941/1995; +# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered # was probably like Pacific/Auckland ############################################################################### @@ -452,7 +454,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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 <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22): +# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22): # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (4th edition), # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1995). @@ -471,8 +473,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # I found in the UCLA library. # # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is -# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude, -# Oxford University Press (1980). +# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Antique Collectors Club (1997). # # I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. @@ -896,7 +897,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Fiji -# Howse writes (p 162) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji +# Howse writes that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji # enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on +12:00. # Perhaps it didn't take. We go with Shanks's more precise date in 1915. @@ -933,7 +934,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # N Mariana Is, Guam -# Howse writes (p 162) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the +# Howse writes ``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. # Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data. See also Asia/Manila. |