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# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
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# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
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# This file also includes Pacific islands.
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# Notes are at the end of this file
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# Australia
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# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc.
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Rule	Aus	1917	only	-	Jan	 1	0:01	1:00	D
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Rule	Aus	1917	only	-	Mar	25	2:00	0	S
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Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	1:00	D
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Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Mar	29	2:00	0	S
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Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Sep	27	2:00	1:00	D
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Rule	Aus	1943	1944	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
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Rule	Aus	1943	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00	1:00	D
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# Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which
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# says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944.  Ignore Whitman's claim that
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# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944.
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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# Northern Territory
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Zone Australia/Darwin	 8:43:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			 9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
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# Western Australia
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#
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Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AW	1991	only	-	Nov	17	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AW	1992	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AW	2006	only	-	Dec	 3	2:00s	1:00	D
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Zone Australia/Perth	 7:43:24 -	LMT	1895 Dec
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			 8:00	Aus	AW%sT	1943 Jul
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			 8:00	AW	AW%sT
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Zone Australia/Eucla	 8:35:28 -	LMT	1895 Dec
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			 8:45	Aus	ACW%sT	1943 Jul
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# Queensland
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# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
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# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
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# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
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# Queensland ceased to.
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# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
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# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman,
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# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped.
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# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria,
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# so use Lindeman.
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Rule	AQ	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AQ	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	Holiday	1992	1993	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	Holiday	1993	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Zone Australia/Brisbane	10:12:08 -	LMT	1895
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Zone Australia/Lindeman  9:55:56 -	LMT	1895
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# South Australia
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Rule	AS	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AS	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AS	1987	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AS	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	1991	only	-	Mar	3	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	1992	only	-	Mar	22	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	1993	only	-	Mar	7	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AS	1994	only	-	Mar	20	2:00s	0	S
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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# Tasmania
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# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
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# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971.
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#
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AT	1967	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   109
Rule	AT	1968	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   110
Rule	AT	1968	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   111
Rule	AT	1969	1971	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   112
Rule	AT	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   113
Rule	AT	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   114
Rule	AT	1982	1983	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   115
Rule	AT	1984	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   116
Rule	AT	1986	only	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   117
Rule	AT	1987	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   118
Rule	AT	1987	only	-	Oct	Sun>=22	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   119
Rule	AT	1988	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   120
Rule	AT	1991	1999	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   121
Rule	AT	1991	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   122
Rule	AT	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   123
Rule	AT	2001	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   124
Rule	AT	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   125
Rule	AT	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   126
Rule	AT	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Hobart	9:49:16	-	LMT	1895 Sep
2185
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
2125
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			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1967
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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			10:00	AT	AE%sT
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
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Zone Australia/Currie	9:35:28	-	LMT	1895 Sep
2185
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			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
2125
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971 Jul
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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			10:00	AT	AE%sT
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Victoria
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2125
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Rule	AV	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AV	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   143
Rule	AV	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AV	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AV	1986	1987	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   146
Rule	AV	1988	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   147
Rule	AV	1991	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   148
Rule	AV	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   149
Rule	AV	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AV	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   151
Rule	AV	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   152
Rule	AV	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AV	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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Rule	AV	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
2125
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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			10:00	AV	AE%sT
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# New South Wales
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2125
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Rule	AN	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AN	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   164
Rule	AN	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AN	1982	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AN	1983	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   167
Rule	AN	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   168
Rule	AN	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   169
Rule	AN	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   170
Rule	AN	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   171
Rule	AN	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   172
Rule	AN	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AN	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   174
Rule	AN	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AN	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   176
Rule	AN	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	AN	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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Zone Australia/Sydney	10:04:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
2125
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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			10:00	AN	AE%sT
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 -	LMT	1895 Feb
2125
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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			10:00	-	AEST	1896 Aug 23
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
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			9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
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			9:30	Aus	AC%sT	1971
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
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			9:30	AN	AC%sT	2000
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
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			9:30	AS	AC%sT
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Lord Howe Island
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2125
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Rule	LH	1981	1984	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	LH	1982	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	LH	1985	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   194
Rule	LH	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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   195
Rule	LH	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	0:30	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	LH	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	LH	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	LH	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	LH	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	LH	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	LH	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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Rule	LH	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
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Rule	LH	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
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Rule	LH	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	0:30	D
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
2125
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
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			10:00	-	AEST	1981 Mar
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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			10:30	LH	LH%sT
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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# Australian miscellany
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#
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# Ashmore Is, Cartier
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# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers
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# no times are set
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# Coral Sea Is
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# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists
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# no times are set
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# Macquarie
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# Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948;
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# sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919.  See the
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# Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island
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# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828
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# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831
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# Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010.
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#
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
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# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division:
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# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not
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# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do
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# on 4 April.
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#
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# From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23):
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# The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics
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# will produce a binary file with an [A]EST-type as the first 32-bit type;
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# this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by
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# pre-2013 versions of localtime.
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Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0	-	zzz	1899 Nov
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			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
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			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1919 Apr  1  0:00s
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			0	-	zzz	1948 Mar 25
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1967
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			10:00	AT	AE%sT	2010 Apr  4  3:00
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			11:00	-	MIST	# Macquarie I Standard Time
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# Christmas
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Indian/Christmas	7:02:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			7:00	-	CXT	# Christmas Island Time
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1956
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# Cocos (Keeling) Is
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# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
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# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Indian/Cocos	6:27:40	-	LMT	1900
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			6:30	-	CCT	# Cocos Islands Time
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# Fiji
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# Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva.
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# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10):
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# According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation,  Fiji plans to re-introduce DST
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# from November 29th 2009  to April 25th 2010.
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#
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# "Daylight savings to commence this month"
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# http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719
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# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-11-10):
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# The Fiji Government has posted some more details about the approved
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# amendments:
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-03):
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# The Cabinet in Fiji has decided to end DST about a month early, on
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# 2010-03-28 at 03:00.
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# The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March
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# 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?).
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#
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# Official source:
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1096:3310-cabinet-approves-change-in-daylight-savings-dates&catid=49:cabinet-releases&Itemid=166
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#
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# A bit more background info here:
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# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html
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# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24):
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# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3
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# weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011...
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# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands,
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# Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site:
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
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# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03):
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# Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date
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# assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong).
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#
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
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# which says
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# Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in
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# advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to
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# 2am on February 26 next year.
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# From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24)
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# Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for
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# Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22.
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#
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
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# states:
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#
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# The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
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# has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
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# The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
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# on the  23rd of October, 2011.
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994
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# From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
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# The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
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# today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
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# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
1822
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# From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
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parents: 1610
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# Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
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parents: 1610
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# move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
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parents: 1610
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
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parents: 1610
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
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parents: 1610
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# Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
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parents: 1610
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
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parents: 1610
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# From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
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parents: 2125
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# DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
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parents: 2125
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx
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parents: 2125
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# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-20):
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parents: 2125
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# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
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parents: 2125
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# 03:00 the first Sunday on or after January 18.  Although ad hoc, it
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parents: 2125
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# matches this year's plan and seems more likely to match future
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parents: 2125
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# practice than guessing no DST.
994
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parents: 941
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454
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	Fiji	1998	1999	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
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Rule	Fiji	1999	2000	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	-
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Rule	Fiji	2009	only	-	Nov	29	2:00	1:00	S
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Rule	Fiji	2010	only	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	-
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Rule	Fiji	2010	2013	-	Oct	Sun>=21	2:00	1:00	S
454
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parents:
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Rule	Fiji	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
1822
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parents: 1610
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Rule	Fiji	2012	2013	-	Jan	Sun>=18	3:00	0	-
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parents: 2125
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Rule	Fiji	2014	only	-	Jan	Sun>=18	2:00	0	-
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parents: 2125
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Rule	Fiji	2014	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
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parents: 2125
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Rule	Fiji	2015	max	-	Jan	Sun>=18	3:00	0	-
454
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parents:
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Fiji	11:55:44 -	LMT	1915 Oct 26 # Suva
454
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parents:
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			12:00	Fiji	FJ%sT	# Fiji Time
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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# French Polynesia
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Gambier	 -8:59:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Rikitea
454
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parents:
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			 -9:00	-	GAMT	# Gambier Time
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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Zone	Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 -	LMT	1912 Oct
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			 -9:30	-	MART	# Marquesas Time
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parents: 2125
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Zone	Pacific/Tahiti	 -9:58:16 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Papeete
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			-10:00	-	TAHT	# Tahiti Time
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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# it is uninhabited.
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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# Guam
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Guam	-14:21:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
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			 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901        # Agana
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parents: 2125
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			10:00	-	GST	2000 Dec 23 # Guam
454
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			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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   377
# Kiribati
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
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Zone Pacific/Tarawa	 11:32:04 -	LMT	1901 # Bairiki
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
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			 12:00	-	GILT	# Gilbert Is Time
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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Zone Pacific/Enderbury	-11:24:20 -	LMT	1901
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			-12:00	-	PHOT	1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			-11:00	-	PHOT	1995
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			 13:00	-	PHOT
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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   385
Zone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			-10:40	-	LINT	1979 Oct # Line Is Time
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			-10:00	-	LINT	1995
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			 14:00	-	LINT
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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   389
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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# N Mariana Is
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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   392
Zone Pacific/Saipan	-14:17:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			 9:43:00 -	LMT	1901
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parents: 2125
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			 9:00	-	MPT	1969 Oct    # N Mariana Is Time
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			10:00	-	MPT	2000 Dec 23
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   397
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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   398
# Marshall Is
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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   399
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   400
Zone Pacific/Majuro	11:24:48 -	LMT	1901
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			11:00	-	MHT	1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			12:00	-	MHT
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   403
Zone Pacific/Kwajalein	11:09:20 -	LMT	1901
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			11:00	-	MHT	1969 Oct
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parents: 2125
diff changeset
   405
			-12:00	-	KWAT	1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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			12:00	-	MHT
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   407
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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   408
# Micronesia
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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Zone Pacific/Chuuk	10:07:08 -	LMT	1901
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parents: 2125
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			10:00	-	CHUT	# Chuuk Time
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parents: 2125
diff changeset
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Zone Pacific/Pohnpei	10:32:52 -	LMT	1901 # Kolonia
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
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			11:00	-	PONT	# Pohnpei Time
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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Zone Pacific/Kosrae	10:51:56 -	LMT	1901
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parents: 2125
diff changeset
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			11:00	-	KOST	1969 Oct # Kosrae Time
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
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			12:00	-	KOST	1999
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   417
			11:00	-	KOST
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   418
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   419
# Nauru
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   420
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   421
Zone	Pacific/Nauru	11:07:40 -	LMT	1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   422
			11:30	-	NRT	1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   423
			9:00	-	JST	1944 Aug 15
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   424
			11:30	-	NRT	1979 May
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   425
			12:00	-	NRT
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   426
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   427
# New Caledonia
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   428
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   429
Rule	NC	1977	1978	-	Dec	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   430
Rule	NC	1978	1979	-	Feb	27	0:00	0	-
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   431
Rule	NC	1996	only	-	Dec	 1	2:00s	1:00	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   432
# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   433
Rule	NC	1997	only	-	Mar	 2	2:00s	0	-
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   434
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   435
Zone	Pacific/Noumea	11:05:48 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Nouméa
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   436
			11:00	NC	NC%sT
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   437
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   438
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   439
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   440
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   441
# New Zealand
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   442
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   443
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   444
Rule	NZ	1927	only	-	Nov	 6	2:00	1:00	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   445
Rule	NZ	1928	only	-	Mar	 4	2:00	0	M
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   446
Rule	NZ	1928	1933	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00	0:30	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   447
Rule	NZ	1929	1933	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	M
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   448
Rule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	0	M
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   449
Rule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0:30	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   450
Rule	NZ	1946	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   451
# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no
1956
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   452
# convenient single notation for the date and time of this transition
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   453
# so we must duplicate the Rule lines.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   454
Rule	NZ	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   455
Rule	Chatham	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   456
Rule	NZ	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   457
Rule	Chatham	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:45s	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   458
Rule	NZ	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   459
Rule	Chatham	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   460
Rule	NZ	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   461
Rule	Chatham	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   462
Rule	NZ	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   463
Rule	Chatham	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:45s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   464
Rule	NZ	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   465
Rule	Chatham	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   466
Rule	NZ	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   467
Rule	Chatham	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:45s	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   468
Rule	NZ	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   469
Rule	Chatham	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   470
Rule	NZ	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   471
Rule	Chatham	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   472
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   473
Zone Pacific/Auckland	11:39:04 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   474
			11:30	NZ	NZ%sT	1946 Jan  1
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   475
			12:00	NZ	NZ%sT
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   476
Zone Pacific/Chatham	12:13:48 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   477
			12:15	-	CHAST	1946 Jan  1
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   478
			12:45	Chatham	CHA%sT
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   479
1822
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   480
Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   481
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   482
# Auckland Is
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   483
# uninhabited; Māori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   484
# and scientific personnel have wintered
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   485
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   486
# Campbell I
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   487
# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   488
# scientific station operated 1941/1995;
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   489
# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   490
# was probably like Pacific/Auckland
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   491
1956
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   492
# Cook Is
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   493
# From Shanks & Pottenger:
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   494
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   495
Rule	Cook	1978	only	-	Nov	12	0:00	0:30	HS
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   496
Rule	Cook	1979	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   497
Rule	Cook	1979	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	HS
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   498
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   499
Zone Pacific/Rarotonga	-10:39:04 -	LMT	1901        # Avarua
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   500
			-10:30	-	CKT	1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time
1956
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   501
			-10:00	Cook	CK%sT
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   502
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   503
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   504
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   505
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   506
# Niue
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   507
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   508
Zone	Pacific/Niue	-11:19:40 -	LMT	1901        # Alofi
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   509
			-11:20	-	NUT	1951        # Niue Time
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   510
			-11:30	-	NUT	1978 Oct  1
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   511
			-11:00	-	NUT
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   512
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   513
# Norfolk
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   514
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   515
Zone	Pacific/Norfolk	11:11:52 -	LMT	1901 # Kingston
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   516
			11:12	-	NMT	1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   517
			11:30	-	NFT	# Norfolk Time
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   518
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   519
# Palau (Belau)
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   520
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   521
Zone Pacific/Palau	8:57:56 -	LMT	1901 # Koror
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   522
			9:00	-	PWT	# Palau Time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   523
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   524
# Papua New Guinea
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   525
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   526
Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -	LMT	1880
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   527
			9:48:32	-	PMMT	1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   528
			10:00	-	PGT	# Papua New Guinea Time
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   529
#
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   530
# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   531
# Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   532
# the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War.
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   533
#
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   534
# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for JST, these dates
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   535
# are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns.
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   536
# The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta.
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   537
# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   538
# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   539
# http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   540
# and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender.
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   541
#
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   542
# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   543
# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.  They call UTC+11 "Bougainville Standard Time";
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   544
# abbreviate this as BST.  See:
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   545
# http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   546
#
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   547
Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 -	LMT	1880
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   548
			 9:48:32 -	PMMT	1895
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   549
			10:00	-	PGT	1942 Jul
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   550
			 9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug 21
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   551
			10:00	-	PGT	2014 Dec 28  2:00
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   552
			11:00	-	BST
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   553
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   554
# Pitcairn
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   555
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   556
Zone Pacific/Pitcairn	-8:40:20 -	LMT	1901        # Adamstown
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   557
			-8:30	-	PNT	1998 Apr 27  0:00
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   558
			-8:00	-	PST	# Pitcairn Standard Time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   559
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   560
# American Samoa
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   561
Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   562
			-11:22:48 -	LMT	1911
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   563
			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr    # N=Nome
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   564
			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   565
			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   566
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   567
# Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   568
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   569
# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   570
# We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   571
# the following info:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   572
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   573
# "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   574
# commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   575
# Sunday of April 2011."
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   576
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   577
# Background info:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   578
# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   579
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   580
# Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   581
# contain any dates:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   582
# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   583
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   584
# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07):
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   585
# Please see
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   586
# http://www.mcil.gov.ws
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   587
# the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   588
# September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   589
# to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   590
# backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am"
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   591
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   592
# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-03-07):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   593
# [http://www.mcil.gov.ws/ftcd/daylight_saving_2011.pdf]
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   594
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   595
# ... when the standard time strikes the hour of four o'clock (4.00am
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   596
# or 0400 Hours) on the 2nd April 2011, then all instruments used to
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   597
# measure standard time are to be adjusted/changed to three o'clock
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   598
# (3:00am or 0300Hrs).
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   599
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   600
# From David Zülke (2011-05-09):
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   601
# Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   602
#
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   603
# http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   604
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   605
# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27):
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   606
# The International Date Line Act 2011
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   607
# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   608
# changed Samoa from UTC-11 to UTC+13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   609
# Thursday 29th December 2011".  The International Date Line was adjusted
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   610
# accordingly.
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   612
# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02):
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   613
# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   614
#
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   615
# here is the official website publication for Samoa DST and dateline change
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   616
#
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   617
# DST
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   618
# Year  End      Time              Start        Time
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   619
# 2011  - - -    - - -             24 September 3:00am to 4:00am
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   620
# 2012  01 April 4:00am to 3:00am  - - -        - - -
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   621
#
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   622
# Dateline Change skip Friday 30th Dec 2011
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   623
# Thursday 29th December 2011	23:59:59 Hours
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   624
# Saturday 31st December 2011	00:00:00 Hours
737
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   625
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   626
# From Nicholas Pereira (2012-09-10):
1153
984eb3d32e04 15823417 SUNBT7205219 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012g (Palestine, Samoa)
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 994
diff changeset
   627
# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   628
# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013....
1153
984eb3d32e04 15823417 SUNBT7205219 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012g (Palestine, Samoa)
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 994
diff changeset
   629
# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
984eb3d32e04 15823417 SUNBT7205219 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012g (Palestine, Samoa)
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 994
diff changeset
   630
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   631
# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08):
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   632
# That web page currently lists transitions for 2012/3 and 2013/4.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   633
# Assume the pattern instituted in 2012 will continue indefinitely.
1153
984eb3d32e04 15823417 SUNBT7205219 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012g (Palestine, Samoa)
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 994
diff changeset
   634
984eb3d32e04 15823417 SUNBT7205219 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012g (Palestine, Samoa)
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 994
diff changeset
   635
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   636
Rule	WS	2010	only	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   637
Rule	WS	2011	only	-	Apr	Sat>=1	4:00	0	S
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   638
Rule	WS	2011	only	-	Sep	lastSat	3:00	1	D
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   639
Rule	WS	2012	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	4:00	0	S
1153
984eb3d32e04 15823417 SUNBT7205219 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012g (Palestine, Samoa)
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 994
diff changeset
   640
Rule	WS	2012	max	-	Sep	lastSun	3:00	1	D
984eb3d32e04 15823417 SUNBT7205219 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012g (Palestine, Samoa)
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 994
diff changeset
   641
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   642
Zone Pacific/Apia	 12:33:04 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   643
			-11:26:56 -	LMT	1911
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   644
			-11:30	-	WSST	1950
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   645
			-11:00	WS	S%sT	2011 Dec 29 24:00 # S=Samoa
1153
984eb3d32e04 15823417 SUNBT7205219 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012g (Palestine, Samoa)
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 994
diff changeset
   646
			 13:00	WS	WS%sT
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   647
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   648
# Solomon Is
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   649
# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   650
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   651
Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Honiara
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   652
			11:00	-	SBT	# Solomon Is Time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   653
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   654
# Tokelau Is
737
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   655
#
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   656
# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29)
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   657
# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   658
# December 31 this year ...
737
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   659
#
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   660
# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25)
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   661
# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   662
# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13....
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   663
# Shanks says UTC-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   664
# actually was to UTC-11 back then.
737
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   665
#
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   666
# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   667
# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   668
# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   669
# <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   670
# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T."  Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   671
# are off by an hour starting in 1901.
737
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   672
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   673
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   674
Zone	Pacific/Fakaofo	-11:24:56 -	LMT	1901
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   675
			-11:00	-	TKT	2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   676
			13:00	-	TKT
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   677
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   678
# Tonga
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   679
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   680
Rule	Tonga	1999	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	1:00	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   681
Rule	Tonga	2000	only	-	Mar	19	2:00s	0	-
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   682
Rule	Tonga	2000	2001	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   683
Rule	Tonga	2001	2002	-	Jan	lastSun	2:00	0	-
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   684
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   685
Zone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   686
			12:20	-	TOT	1941 # Tonga Time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   687
			13:00	-	TOT	1999
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   688
			13:00	Tonga	TO%sT
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   689
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   690
# Tuvalu
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   691
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   692
Zone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   693
			12:00	-	TVT	# Tuvalu Time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   694
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   695
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   696
# US minor outlying islands
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   697
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   698
# Howland, Baker
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   699
# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   700
# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   701
# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944;
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   702
# uninhabited thereafter.
1822
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   703
# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT-10:30) in 1937;
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   704
# see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   705
# Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000).
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   706
# So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   707
# until they were abandoned after the war.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   708
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   709
# Jarvis
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   710
# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   711
# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958;
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   712
# uninhabited thereafter.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   713
# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   714
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   715
# Johnston
1822
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   716
#
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   717
# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-11):
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   718
# Sometimes Johnston kept Hawaii time, and sometimes it was an hour behind.
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   719
# Details are uncertain.  We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   720
# treat it like Hawaii for now.
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   721
#
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   722
# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   723
# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes,
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   724
# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   725
# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time."  This was in June 1945, and
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   726
# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945.
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   727
#
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   728
# From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11):
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   729
# [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   730
# was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships,
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   731
# which had a GMT offset of -11 hours.  This apparently applied to at least the
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   732
# time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   733
# Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin,
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   734
# "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   735
# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976.
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   736
# http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf
1822
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   737
# See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   738
# footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   739
# Minus One Hour".
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   740
#
b9fc8aa825e4 18394993 update timezone to 2014b (Turkey postpone switch to DST for 2014 for 1 day)
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1610
diff changeset
   741
# See 'northamerica' for Pacific/Johnston.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   742
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   743
# Kingman
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   744
# uninhabited
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   745
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   746
# Midway
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   747
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   748
# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   749
# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   750
# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
2185
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   751
# reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   752
# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   753
# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast.  As it uses some time zone
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   754
# designations that I've never seen before:....
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   755
# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I.   H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   756
#  "   3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A  "
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   757
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   758
Zone Pacific/Midway	-11:49:28 -	LMT	1901
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   759
			-11:00	-	NST	1956 Jun  3
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   760
			-11:00	1:00	NDT	1956 Sep  2
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   761
			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr    # N=Nome
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   762
			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   763
			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   764
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   765
# Palmyra
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   766
# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   767
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   768
# Wake
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   769
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   770
Zone	Pacific/Wake	11:06:28 -	LMT	1901
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   771
			12:00	-	WAKT	# Wake Time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   772
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   773
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   774
# Vanuatu
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   775
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   776
Rule	Vanuatu	1983	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	1:00	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   777
Rule	Vanuatu	1984	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   778
Rule	Vanuatu	1984	only	-	Oct	23	0:00	1:00	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   779
Rule	Vanuatu	1985	1991	-	Sep	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   780
Rule	Vanuatu	1992	1993	-	Jan	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   781
Rule	Vanuatu	1992	only	-	Oct	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   782
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   783
Zone	Pacific/Efate	11:13:16 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Vila
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   784
			11:00	Vanuatu	VU%sT	# Vanuatu Time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   785
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   786
# Wallis and Futuna
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   787
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   788
Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   789
			12:00	-	WFT	# Wallis & Futuna Time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   790
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   791
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   792
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   793
# NOTES
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   794
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   795
# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   796
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   797
# [email protected] for general use in the future).  For more, please see
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   798
# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   799
3756
dce353ed563a 20381845 update timezone data to 2015a
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
   800
# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
dce353ed563a 20381845 update timezone data to 2015a
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
   801
#
dce353ed563a 20381845 update timezone data to 2015a
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
   802
# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   803
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   804
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
3756
dce353ed563a 20381845 update timezone data to 2015a
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
   805
# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   806
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   807
# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   808
# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   809
# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   810
# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
3756
dce353ed563a 20381845 update timezone data to 2015a
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
   811
# of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
dce353ed563a 20381845 update timezone data to 2015a
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
   812
# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   813
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   814
# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   815
# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   816
# I found in the UCLA library.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   817
#
1610
d164df7a8b2d 16429300 update zoneinfo timezones to 2013a
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 1228
diff changeset
   818
# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   819
# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   820
# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
1610
d164df7a8b2d 16429300 update zoneinfo timezones to 2013a
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 1228
diff changeset
   821
#
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   822
# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   823
# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   824
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   825
# I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table;
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   826
# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   827
# Corrections are welcome!
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   828
#		std	dst
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   829
#		LMT		Local Mean Time
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   830
#	  8:00	AWST	AWDT	Western Australia
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   831
#	  8:45	ACWST	ACWDT	Central Western Australia*
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   832
#	  9:00	JST		Japan
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   833
#	  9:30	ACST	ACDT	Central Australia
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   834
#	 10:00	AEST	AEDT	Eastern Australia
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   835
#	 10:00	ChST		Chamorro
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   836
#	 10:30	LHST	LHDT	Lord Howe*
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   837
#	 11:00	BST		Bougainville*
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   838
#	 11:30	NZMT	NZST	New Zealand through 1945
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   839
#	 12:00	NZST	NZDT	New Zealand 1946-present
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   840
#	 12:15	CHAST		Chatham through 1945*
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   841
#	 12:45	CHAST	CHADT	Chatham 1946-present*
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   842
#	 13:00	WSST	WSDT	(western) Samoa 2011-present*
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   843
#	-11:30	WSST		Western Samoa through 1950*
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   844
#	-11:00	SST		Samoa
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   845
#	-10:00	HST		Hawaii
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   846
#	- 8:00	PST		Pitcairn*
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   847
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   848
# See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   849
# See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galápagos Is.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   850
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   851
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   852
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   853
# Australia
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   854
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   855
# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   856
# Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   857
# region against region, rural against urban, and local against global.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   858
# For example, in her review of Graeme Davison's _The Unforgiving
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   859
# Minute: how Australians learned to tell the time_ (1993), Perth native
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   860
# Phillipa J Martyr wrote, "The section entitled 'Saving Daylight' was
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   861
# very informative, but was (as can, sadly, only be expected from a
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   862
# Melbourne-based study) replete with the usual chuckleheaded
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   863
# Queenslanders and straw-chewing yokels from the West prattling fables
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   864
# about fading curtains and crazed farm animals."
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   865
# Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History (1997-03-03)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   866
# http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/reviews/davison.htm
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   867
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   868
# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   869
# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   870
# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   871
# summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   872
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   873
# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   874
# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   875
# http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   876
# covers New South Wales in particular.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   877
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   878
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   879
# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as 'daylight' time.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   880
# It is called 'summer' time.  Now by a happy coincidence, 'summer'
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   881
# and 'standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   882
# abbreviation does _not_ change...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   883
# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   884
# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   885
# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   886
# the phrase 'summer time' and does not use the phrase 'daylight
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   887
# time'.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   888
# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   889
# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases 'Eastern Standard Time'
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   890
# or 'Eastern Summer Time'.  (Note, though, that as I say in the
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   891
# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.)  Announcers
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   892
# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   893
# prefixed by the word 'Australian' when referring to local times;
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   894
# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   895
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   896
# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   897
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   898
# Inspired by Mackin's remarks quoted above, earlier versions of this
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   899
# file used "EST" for both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Summer
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   900
# Time in Australia, and similarly for "CST", "CWST", and "WST".
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   901
# However, these abbreviations were confusing and were not common
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   902
# practice among Australians, and there were justifiable complaints
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   903
# about them, so I attempted to survey current Australian usage.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   904
# For the tz database, the full English phrase is not that important;
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   905
# what matters is the abbreviation.  It's difficult to survey the web
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   906
# directly for abbreviation usage, as there are so many false hits for
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   907
# strings like "EST" and "EDT", so I looked for pages that defined an
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   908
# abbreviation for eastern or central DST in Australia, and got the
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   909
# following numbers of unique hits for the listed Google queries:
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   910
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   911
#   10 "Eastern Daylight Time AEST" site:au [some are false hits]
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   912
#   10 "Eastern Summer Time AEST" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   913
#   10 "Summer Time AEDT" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   914
#   13 "EDST Eastern Daylight Saving Time" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   915
#   18 "Summer Time ESST" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   916
#   28 "Eastern Daylight Saving Time EDST" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   917
#   39 "EDT Eastern Daylight Time" site:au [some are false hits]
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   918
#   53 "Eastern Daylight Time EDT" site:au [some are false hits]
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   919
#   54 "AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   920
#  182 "Eastern Daylight Time AEDT" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   921
#
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   922
#   17 "Central Daylight Time CDT" site:au [some are false hits]
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   923
#   46 "Central Daylight Time ACDT" site:au
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   924
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   925
# I tried several other variants (e.g., "Eastern Summer Time EST") but
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   926
# they all returned fewer than 10 unique hits.  I also looked for pages
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   927
# mentioning both "western standard time" and an abbreviation, since
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   928
# there is no WST in the US to generate false hits, and found:
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   929
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   930
#  156 "western standard time" AWST site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   931
#  226 "western standard time" WST site:au
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   932
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   933
# I then surveyed the top ten newspapers in Australia by circulation as
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   934
# listed in Wikipedia, using Google queries like "AEDT site:heraldsun.com.au"
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   935
# and obtaining estimated counts from the initial page of search results.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   936
# All ten papers greatly preferred "AEDT" to "EDT".  The papers
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   937
# surveyed were the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail,
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   938
# The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, The Age, The Advertiser,
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   939
# The Australian, The Financial Review, and The Herald (Newcastle).
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   940
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   941
# I also searched for historical usage, to see whether abbreviations
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   942
# like "AEDT" are new.  A Trove search <http://trove.nla.gov.au/>
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   943
# found only one newspaper (The Canberra Times) with a house style
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   944
# dating back to the 1970s, I expect because other newspapers weren't
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   945
# fully indexed.  The Canberra Times strongly preferred abbreviations
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   946
# like "AEDT".  The first occurrence of "AEDT" was a World Weather
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   947
# column (1971-11-17, page 24), and of "ACDT" was a Scoreboard column
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   948
# (1993-01-24, p 16).  The style was the typical usage but was not
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   949
# strictly enforced; for example, "Welcome to the twilight zones ..."
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   950
# (1994-10-29, p 1) uses the abbreviations AEST/AEDT, CST/CDT, and
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   951
# WST, and goes on to say, "The confusion and frustration some feel
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   952
# about the lack of uniformity among Australia's six states and two
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   953
# territories has prompted one group to form its very own political
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   954
# party -- the Sydney-based Daylight Saving Extension Party."
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   955
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   956
# I also surveyed federal government sources.  They did not agree:
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   957
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   958
#   The Australian Government (2014-03-26)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   959
#   http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   960
#   (This document was produced by the Department of Finance.)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   961
#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   962
#
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   963
#   Bureau of Meteorology (2012-11-08)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   964
#   http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   965
#   EST CST WST EDT CDT
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   966
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   967
#   Civil Aviation Safety Authority (undated)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   968
#   http://services.casa.gov.au/outnback/inc/pages/episode3/episode-3_time_zones.shtml
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   969
#   EST CST WST (no abbreviations given for DST)
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   970
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   971
#   Geoscience Australia (2011-11-24)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   972
#   http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   973
#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   974
#
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   975
#   Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   976
#   http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   977
#   EST CST WST preferred for standard time; AEST AEDT ACST ACDT also used
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   978
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   979
#   The Transport Safety Bureau has an extensive series of accident reports,
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   980
#   and investigators seem to use whatever abbreviation they like.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   981
#   Googling site:atsb.gov.au found the following number of unique hits:
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   982
#   311 "ESuT", 195 "EDT", 26 "AEDT", 83 "CSuT", 46 "CDT".
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   983
#   "_SuT" tended to appear in older reports, and "A_DT" tended to
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   984
#   appear in reports of events with international implications.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   985
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   986
# From the above it appears that there is a working consensus in
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   987
# Australia to use trailing "DT" for daylight saving time; although
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   988
# some sources use trailing "SST" or "ST" or "SuT" they are by far in
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   989
# the minority.  The case for leading "A" is weaker, but since it
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   990
# seems to be preferred in the overall web and is preferred in all
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   991
# the leading newspaper websites and in many government departments,
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   992
# it has a stronger case than omitting the leading "A".  The current
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   993
# version of the database therefore uses abbreviations like "AEST" and
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   994
# "AEDT" for Australian time zones.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   995
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   996
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   997
# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   998
# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   999
# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1000
# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1001
# and perhaps the newspaper's '2:00' is referring to standard time.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1002
# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1003
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1004
# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1005
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1006
# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1007
# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1008
# relevant entries in this database.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1009
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1010
# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1011
# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04)
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1012
# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1013
# ACT
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1014
# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1015
# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1016
# SA
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1017
# Standard Time Act, 1898
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1018
# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1019
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1020
# From David Grosz (2005-06-13):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1021
# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1022
# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1023
# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1024
# in April instead of the last Sunday in March.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1025
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1026
# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1027
# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1028
# to extend DST together in 2006.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1029
# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1030
# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1031
# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1032
# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1033
# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1034
# allude to it.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1035
# But not Queensland
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1036
# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1037
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1038
# Northern Territory
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1039
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1040
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1041
# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY..  [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1042
# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1043
# #	N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1044
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1045
# Zone        Australia/North         9:30    -       CST
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1046
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1047
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1048
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1049
# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1050
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1051
# Western Australia
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1052
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1053
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1054
# #  The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA..  [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1055
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1056
# #	W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1057
# #	DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1058
# #	usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1059
# #	before reaching parliament.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1060
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1061
# Zone	Australia/West		8:00	AW	%sST
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1062
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1063
# Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1064
# Rule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1065
# Rule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1066
# Rule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1067
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1068
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1069
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1070
# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1071
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1072
# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1073
# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1074
# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1075
# work at 9.00am.)
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1076
# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1077
# everybody again.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1078
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1079
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1080
# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1081
# it matches what was used in the past.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1082
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1083
# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1084
# http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1085
# (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1086
# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1087
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1088
# Queensland
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1089
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1090
# #   The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1091
# #						[ Dec 1990 ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1092
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1093
# Zone	Australia/Queensland	10:00	AQ	%sST
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1094
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1095
# Rule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1096
# Rule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	E
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1097
# Rule	AQ	1989	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1098
# Rule	AQ	1990	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	E
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1099
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1100
# From Bradley White (1989-12-24):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1101
# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1102
# October 1989).
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1103
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1104
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1105
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1106
# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1107
# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1108
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1109
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1110
# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1111
# end on Sunday, 3 March.  I don't know at what hour, though.  (It surprised
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1112
# me.)
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1113
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1114
# From Bradley White (1992-03-08):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1115
# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1116
# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1117
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1118
# Rule	QLD	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1119
# Rule	QLD	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1120
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1121
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1122
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1123
# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1124
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1125
# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1126
# from Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-11-01):
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1127
# WA are trialing DST for three years.
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1128
# http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1129
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1130
# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1131
# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1132
# southern coast....  South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1133
# Australia does not.  The two states are one and a half hours apart.  The
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1134
# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1135
# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1136
# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1137
# Australia and Western Australia....
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1138
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1139
# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1140
# This is confirmed by the section entitled
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1141
# "What's the deal with time zones???" in
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1142
# http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1143
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1144
# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1145
# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1146
# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1147
# coast of the continent.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1148
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1149
# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1150
# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1151
# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1152
# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1153
# the largest population centre in this zone....
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1154
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1155
# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1156
# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1157
# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1158
# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1159
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1160
# (2006-12-09):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1161
# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1162
# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1163
# of this time zone.  My hunch is that it's been around since well
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1164
# before 1975.  I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1165
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1166
# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1167
# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1168
# introduction of standard time in 1895.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1169
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1170
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1171
# southeast Australia
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1172
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1173
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1174
# Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1175
# end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1176
# http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1177
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1178
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1179
# South Australia
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1180
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1181
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1182
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1183
# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1184
# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1185
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1186
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1187
# #   The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1188
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1189
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1190
# Zone	Australia/South		9:30	AS	%sST
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1191
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1192
# Rule	 AS	1971	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1193
# Rule	 AS	1972	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1194
# Rule	 AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	C
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1195
# Rule	 AS	1991	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1196
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1197
# From Bradley White (1992-03-11):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1198
# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1199
# contained the following exchange:  "Due to the Adelaide Festival,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1200
# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks."
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1201
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1202
# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1203
# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that)
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1204
# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1205
# numbered year (from 1990).  That's when the Adelaide Festival
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1206
# is on...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1207
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1208
# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1209
# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1210
# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1211
# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1212
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1213
# From Bradley White (1994-04-11):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1214
# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1215
# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1216
# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1217
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1218
# From John Warburton (1994-10-07):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1219
# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1220
# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1221
# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1222
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1223
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1224
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1225
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1226
# Tasmania
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1227
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1228
# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1229
# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1230
# #  The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1231
# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1232
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1233
# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1234
# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1235
# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1236
# (but nothing new about that).
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1237
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1238
# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1239
# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1240
# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1241
# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1242
# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1243
# instead of the first Sunday in October.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1244
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1245
# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1246
# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1247
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1248
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1249
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1250
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1251
# Victoria
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1252
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1253
# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1254
# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1255
# #   The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1256
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1257
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1258
# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1259
# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1260
# interesting story about daylight savings time.  Dr. John Heilbron was
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1261
# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1262
# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1263
# in Melbourne, Australia.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1264
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1265
# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1266
# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1267
# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1268
# fallen WWI soldiers.  And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1269
# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1270
# expected time.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1271
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1272
# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1273
# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1274
# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?).  Perhaps
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1275
# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1276
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1277
# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1278
# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1279
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1280
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1281
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1282
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1283
# New South Wales
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1284
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1285
# From Arthur David Olson:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1286
# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1287
# Based on law library research by John Mackin,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1288
# who notes:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1289
#	In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1290
#	individual states.  Thus, while such terms as "Eastern Standard Time"
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1291
#	[I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1292
#	use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1293
#	legislation.  This is very important to understand.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1294
#	I have researched New South Wales time only...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1295
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1296
# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1297
# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1298
# October in 2000.  See: Matthew Moore,
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1299
# Two months more daylight saving, Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1300
# http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1301
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1302
# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1303
# See the following official NSW source:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1304
# Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1305
# http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1306
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1307
# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1308
# daylight saving next year.  See:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1309
# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1310
# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1311
# (1999-07-22).  For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1312
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1313
# Victoria will following NSW.  See:
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1314
# Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28)
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1315
# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1316
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1317
# However, South Australia rejected the DST request.  See:
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1318
# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19)
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1319
# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1320
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1321
# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics.  See:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1322
# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1323
# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1324
# (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1325
# "Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1326
# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1327
# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1328
# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night.
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1329
# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules."
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1330
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1331
# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000.  See:
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1332
# Broken Hill to be behind the times (1999-07-21)
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1333
# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1334
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1335
# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1336
# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1337
# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1338
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1339
# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1340
# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1341
# towns to use Queensland time.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1342
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1343
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1344
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1345
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1346
# Yancowinna
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1347
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1348
# From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1349
# 'Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1350
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1351
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1352
# # YANCOWINNA..  [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1353
# #					[ Dec 1990 ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1354
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1355
# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1356
# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1357
# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1358
# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1359
# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1360
# # presently available.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1361
# Zone	Australia/Yancowinna	9:30	 AY	%sST
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1362
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1363
# Rule	 AY	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1364
# Rule	 AY	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	C
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1365
# [followed by other Rules]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1366
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1367
# Lord Howe Island
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1368
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1369
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1370
# LHI...		[ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1371
#					[ Dec 1990 ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1372
# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1373
# hour ahead of NSW time.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1374
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1375
# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1376
# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1377
# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27).  For your information the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1378
# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1379
# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1380
# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
  1381
# instead of only 30 minutes.  [Dependent] on the wishes of residents
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1382
# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1383
# arrangements.  The starting date for summer time on the Island will
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1384
# however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1385
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1386
# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1387
# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1388
# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1389
# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1390
# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1391
# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1392
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1393
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1394
# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1395
# Lonergan thereafter.  For times we use Lonergan.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1396
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1397
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1398
# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1399
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1400
# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28):
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
  1401
# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
  1402
# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1403
# summer (southern hemisphere).
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
  1404
#
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1405
# From
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1406
# http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
  1407
# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1408
# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing.
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
  1409
# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1410
# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year.
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
  1411
# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
  1412
# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1413
# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year...
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
  1414
#
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1415
# We have a wrap-up here:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1416
# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1417
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1418
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1419
# New Zealand
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1420
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1421
# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1422
# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1423
# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1424
# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start).
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1425
# source - phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1426
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1427
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1428
# # The Country of New Zealand   (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1429
# #				   or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1430
# #	[ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1431
# #				[ Nov 1990 ]
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1432
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1433
# Rule	NZ      1974    1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1434
# Rule	NZ	1989	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1435
# Rule	NZ      1975    1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1436
# Rule	NZ	1990	max	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	S
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1437
# ...
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1438
# Zone	NZ			12:00	NZ		NZ%sT	# New Zealand
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1439
# Zone	NZ-CHAT			12:45	-		NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1440
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1441
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1442
# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1443
# rather than the October 1 value.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1444
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1445
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1446
# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1447
# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1448
# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1449
# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1450
# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1451
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1452
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1453
# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1454
# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1455
# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1456
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1457
# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1458
# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1459
# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1460
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1461
# From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1462
# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1463
# first Sunday in April.  The changes take effect this year, meaning
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1464
# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1465
# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1466
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1467
# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14):
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1468
# Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1469
# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26).
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1470
# http://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1471
# According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1472
# parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1473
# time in the Chatham Islands.  The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1474
# Zealand time.  I understand that is the time they keep locally, anyhow."
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1475
# For now, assume this practice goes back to the introduction of standard time
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1476
# in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1477
# LMT back when New Zealand was at UTC+11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1478
# not observe New Zealand's prewar DST.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1479
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1480
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1481
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1482
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1483
# Fiji
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1484
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1485
# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1486
# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1487
# instead of the American system (which was one day behind).
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1488
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1489
# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1490
# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1491
# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28.  Each year the DST period will
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1492
# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1493
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1494
# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1495
# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time.  Go with McDow.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1496
1610
d164df7a8b2d 16429300 update zoneinfo timezones to 2013a
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 1228
diff changeset
  1497
# From the BBC World Service in
d164df7a8b2d 16429300 update zoneinfo timezones to 2013a
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 1228
diff changeset
  1498
# http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/205226.stm (1998-10-31 16:03 UTC):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1499
# The Fijian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
1610
d164df7a8b2d 16429300 update zoneinfo timezones to 2013a
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 1228
diff changeset
  1500
# improve productivity and reduce road accidents.... [T]he move is also
d164df7a8b2d 16429300 update zoneinfo timezones to 2013a
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 1228
diff changeset
  1501
# intended to boost Fiji's ability to attract tourists to witness the dawning
d164df7a8b2d 16429300 update zoneinfo timezones to 2013a
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 1228
diff changeset
  1502
# of the new millennium.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1503
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1504
# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1505
# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1506
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1507
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1508
# Kiribati
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1509
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1510
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1511
# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1512
# "declared it the same day [throughout] the country as of Jan. 1, 1995"
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1513
# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1514
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1515
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1516
# Kwajalein
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1517
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1518
# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1519
# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1520
# 1993-08-20.  Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1521
# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1522
# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1523
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1524
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1525
# N Mariana Is, Guam
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1526
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1527
# Howse writes (p 153) "The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1528
# Philippines and the Ladrones from America," and implies that the Ladrones
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1529
# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1530
# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1531
# see Asia/Manila.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1532
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1533
# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UTC+10 the official standard time,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1534
# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time".  There is no official abbreviation,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1535
# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1536
# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1537
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1538
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1539
# Micronesia
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1540
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1541
# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1542
# "I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that 'Truk'
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1543
# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10."
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1544
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1545
# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1546
# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1547
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1548
# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1549
# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1550
# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information (1999-01-26)
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1551
# http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1552
# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1553
# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1554
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1555
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1556
# Midway
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1557
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1558
# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1559
# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1560
# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1561
# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1562
# Saving Time.  This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1563
# your time down there in New Zealand.  Starting September 2, 1956
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1564
# we'll again go back to Standard Time.  This'll mean that we'll go to
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1565
# air at 6am your time.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1566
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1567
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1568
# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1569
# started DST on June 3.  Possibly DST was observed other years
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1570
# in Midway, but we have no record of it.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1571
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1572
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1573
# Pitcairn
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1574
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1575
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1576
# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1577
# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time.  The Proclamation is as follows.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1578
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1579
#	The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1580
#	Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1581
#	as Pitcairn Standard Time.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1582
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1583
# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1584
# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1585
# somehow in light of this proclamation.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1586
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1587
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1588
# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1589
# ... at midnight.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1590
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1591
# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1592
# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1593
# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1594
# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1595
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1596
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1597
# (Western) Samoa and American Samoa
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1598
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1599
# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald)
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1600
# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1601
# "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1602
# ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1603
# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year."
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1604
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1605
# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UTC-11:30
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1606
# in 1911, and to UTC-11 in 1950. many earlier sources give UTC-11
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1607
# for American Samoa, e.g., the US National Bureau of Standards
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1608
# circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1609
# Assume American Samoa switched to UTC-11 in 1911, not 1950,
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1610
# and that after 1950 they agreed until (western) Samoa skipped a
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1611
# day in 2011.  Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1612
# Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations.
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1613
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1614
# Tonga
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1615
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1616
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1617
# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1618
# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time."
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1619
# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1620
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1621
# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1622
# How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins':
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1623
# http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1624
#
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1625
# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1626
# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT.  When New Zealand adjusted its
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1627
# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1628
# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1629
# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13 degrees
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1630
# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1631
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1632
# Because His Majesty King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1633
# Tungī, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1634
# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1635
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1636
# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1637
# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1638
# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1639
# minutes we have lost?"
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1640
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1641
# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1642
# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1643
# to say your prayers in the morning."
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1644
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1645
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1646
# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1647
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1648
# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
1610
d164df7a8b2d 16429300 update zoneinfo timezones to 2013a
Sunil Kumar H G - Oracle Corporation - Bangalore India <sunil.kumar.h.g@oracle.com>
parents: 1228
diff changeset
  1649
# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1650
# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1651
# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1652
# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1653
# Government.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1654
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1655
# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1656
# * Tonga will introduce DST in November
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1657
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1658
# I was given this link by John Letts:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1659
# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1660
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1661
# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1662
# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1663
# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1664
# (12 + 1 hour DST).
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1665
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1666
# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1667
# According to <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>:
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1668
# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1669
# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1670
# third Saturday of April.  Under the system approved by Privy Council on
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1671
# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1672
# set back an hour on the closing date."
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1673
# Alas, no indication of the time of day.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1674
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1675
# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1676
# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1677
# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1678
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1679
# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1680
# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1681
# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1682
# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1683
# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1684
# text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1685
# (Original URL was <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm>)
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1686
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1687
# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1688
# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1689
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1690
# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1691
# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1692
# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am.  At 2:00am on the last Sunday
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1693
# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1694
# hour to 1:00am.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1695
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1696
# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1697
# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed.  It wasn't.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1698
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1699
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1700
# Wake
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1701
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1702
# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1703
# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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  1704
#
2125
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parents: 2098
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  1705
# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ...  The time was all the
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1706
# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1707
# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays.  Furthermore, we
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1708
# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1709
# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1710
# impossible.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1711
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1712
# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1713
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1714
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1715
# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1716
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1717
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1718
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1719
# The International Date Line
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1720
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1721
# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1722
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1723
# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1724
# convention, or treaty.  Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1725
# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1726
# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1727
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1728
# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1729
# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1730
# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1731
# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati.  Even that line
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1732
# has a rather arbitrary nature.  The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1733
# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1734
# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1735
# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1736
# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC.  And, since the IDL is not
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1737
# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1738
# correct date is ambiguous.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1739
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1740
# From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1741
# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1742
# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1743
# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1744
# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon).  During 1917, at the
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1745
# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1746
# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1747
# on the high seas.  Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1748
# nation it would use that nation's standard time.  The captain was permitted
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1749
# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1750
# entry into another zone time - he often chose midnight.  These zones were
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1751
# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1752
# independent merchant ships until World War II.
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1753
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1754
# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1755
# (2005-03-20):
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1756
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1757
# The American Practical Navigator (2002)
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
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  1758
# http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187
454
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1759
# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1760
# international waters; it ignores the international date line.