From 921a93b92676ed11767a0462927f7363bc158b05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Drepper Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:48:42 +0000 Subject: Update. 2003-10-06 Ulrich Drepper * timezone/asia: Update from tzdata2003d. * australasia: Likewise. * backward: Likewise. * europe: Likewise. * iso3166.tab: Likewise. * northamerica: Likewise. * southamerica: Likewise. * zone.tab: Likewise. modified after comments from Ulrich Drepper. --- timezone/australasia | 101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 67 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-) (limited to 'timezone/australasia') diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia index 5fc7b1b58b..d8a8e36d53 100644 --- a/timezone/australasia +++ b/timezone/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.68 +# @(#)australasia 7.69 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -297,45 +297,37 @@ Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 ############################################################################### # New Zealand -# -# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-23): -# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history; -# see tz-link.htm for the full reference. -# -# Shanks gives 1868 for the introduction of standard time; go with the -# DIA's more-precise 1868-11-02. The DIA says that clocks were -# advanced by half an hour in 1941; go with Shanks's more-precise -# 1940-09-29 02:00. The DIA says that starting in 1933 DST began the -# first Sunday in September; go with Shanks's last Sunday starting in -# 1934. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S -# Shanks gives 1927 Nov 6 - 1928 Mar 4, 1928 Oct 14 - 1929 Mar 17, -# 1929 Oct 13 - 1930 Mar 16; go with Whitman. -Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 26 2:00 0:30 HD -Rule NZ 1928 1929 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 S -Rule NZ 1928 only - Nov 4 2:00 0:30 HD -Rule NZ 1929 only - Oct 30 2:00 0:30 HD -Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 S -Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 HD -# Whitman says DST went on and off during war years, and the base UT offset -# didn't change until 1945 Apr 30; go with Shanks. -Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S -Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD +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 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D -Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D -Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S +Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S +Rule Chatham 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 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 1940 Sep 29 2:00 + 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1 12:00 NZ NZ%sT -Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT +Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1957 Jan 1 + 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT # Auckland Is @@ -443,6 +435,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST # Midway 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 @@ -513,7 +507,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia # 10:00 ChST Chamorro # 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* -# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand +# 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 @@ -1067,11 +1062,14 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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 (1999-10-29): -# Shanks gives no time data for Chatham; usno1989 says it's +12:45, -# usno1995 says it's +12:45/+13:45, and IATA SSIM (1991/1999) -# gives the NZ rules but with transitions at 2:45 local standard time. -# Guess that they have been in lock-step with NZ since 1990. +# From Paul Eggert (2003-05-26): +# 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. +# +# 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. ############################################################################### @@ -1154,6 +1152,23 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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 +# (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): @@ -1277,6 +1292,24 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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 -- cgit 1.4.1