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diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia index c5b018e952..e75edd5053 100644 --- a/timezone/australasia +++ b/timezone/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.46 +# @(#)australasia 7.48 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -68,13 +68,15 @@ Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895 # 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 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AS 1987 1999 - 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 1994 even Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1990 1994 odd Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule AS 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AS 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AS 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 9:00 - CST 1899 May @@ -113,7 +115,7 @@ Rule AV 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AV 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Rule AV 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AV 2000 only - Aug 26 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AV 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AV 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb @@ -133,7 +135,7 @@ 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 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - -Rule AN 2000 only - Aug 26 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Rule AN 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb @@ -388,7 +390,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 # Tonga # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 - 12:20 - TOT 1968 Oct # Tonga Time + 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time 13:00 - TOT # Tuvalu @@ -473,7 +475,7 @@ 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 longitude, Antique Collectors Club (1997). +# 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. @@ -541,7 +543,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) # </a> # ACT -# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html"> +# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html"> # Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 # </a> # SA @@ -806,15 +808,23 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Prem Bob Carr announced NSW will fall into line with other E states # and SA and continue daylight savings to the last Sun in Mar. -# From Eric Ulevik <eau@ozemail.com.au> (1997-06-12): -# The NSW state government in Australia is talking about bringing the start -# of daylight savings time forward in the year 2000 to cater for the Olympics. -# This is going to take some time to be negotiated, because the plan is to do -# this in multiple states due to soccer games (which are not just in Sydney). +# From Eric Ulevik <eau@ozemail.com.au> (1999-05-26): +# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual +# October in 2000. Victoria and South Australia are expected to adopt this +# change, Queensland is unlikely. [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).] + +# Also 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> # 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 26, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics. +# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics. # Yancowinna @@ -897,9 +907,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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. +# 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 @@ -934,7 +944,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # N Mariana Is, Guam -# Howse writes ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the +# 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. # Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data. See also Asia/Manila. @@ -950,7 +960,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Samoa -# Howse writes that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change +# 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.'' @@ -961,3 +972,38 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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 th 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 (1999-08-12): +# Shanks says 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. |