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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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			 9:30	Aus	AC%sT
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# Western Australia
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#
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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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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Rule	AW	2007	2009	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AW	2007	2008	-	Oct	lastSun	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 +0845/+0945	1943 Jul
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# Queensland
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#
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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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#
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# From J William Piggott (2016-02-20):
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# There is no location named Holiday Islands in Queensland Australia; holiday
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# islands is a colloquial term used globally.  Hayman and Lindeman are at the
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# north and south extremes of the Whitsunday Islands archipelago, and
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# Hamilton is in between; it is reasonable to believe that this time zone
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# applies to all of the Whitsundays.
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# http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-islands
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#
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Rule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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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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			10:00	AQ	AE%sT	1992 Jul
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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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			9:30	Aus	AC%sT	1971
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			9:30	AS	AC%sT
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# Tasmania
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#
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# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
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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
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Rule	AT	1968	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1968	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1969	1971	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1982	1983	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1984	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1986	only	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1987	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	1987	only	-	Oct	Sun>=22	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1988	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1991	1999	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	1991	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	2001	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AT	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AT	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Hobart	9:49:16	-	LMT	1895 Sep
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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	1967
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			10:00	AT	AE%sT
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Zone Australia/Currie	9:35:28	-	LMT	1895 Sep
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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	1971 Jul
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			10:00	AT	AE%sT
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# Victoria
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AV	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	1986	1987	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	1988	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	1991	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AV	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AV	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
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			10:00	AV	AE%sT
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# New South Wales
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AN	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1982	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1983	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Rule	AN	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Rule	AN	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Sydney	10:04:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
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			10:00	AN	AE%sT
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Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	-	AEST	1896 Aug 23
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			9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
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			9:30	Aus	AC%sT	1971
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			9:30	AN	AC%sT	2000
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			9:30	AS	AC%sT
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# Lord Howe Island
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	LH	1981	1984	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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Rule	LH	1982	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	1985	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	D
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Rule	LH	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
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Rule	LH	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
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Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	-	AEST	1981 Mar
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			10:30	LH	+1030/+1130 1985 Jul
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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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#
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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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#
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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	-	-00	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	-	-00	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	-	+11
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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	-	+07
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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	-	+0630
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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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parents: 454
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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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Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
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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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parents: 941
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# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
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Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
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parents: 1610
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parents: 1610
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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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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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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# From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
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# DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
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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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# From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77
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# in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28),
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parents: 4008
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# via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02):
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# the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time
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# commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
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# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
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thejaswini.k@oracle.com
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7244
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parents: 6258
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# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04):
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parents: 6258
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# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx
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# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when
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# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am....  Daylight Saving will
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# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017."
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parents: 6258
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# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03):
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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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thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
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# 03:00 the third Sunday in January.  Although ad hoc, it matches
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thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
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# transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future
2185
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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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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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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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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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Rule	Fiji	1999	2000	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	-
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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Rule	Fiji	2009	only	-	Nov	29	2:00	1:00	S
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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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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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
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Rule	Fiji	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
1822
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
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Rule	Fiji	2012	2013	-	Jan	Sun>=18	3:00	0	-
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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
4994
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thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
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Rule	Fiji	2015	max	-	Jan	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
454
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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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Zone	Pacific/Fiji	11:55:44 -	LMT	1915 Oct 26 # Suva
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			12:00	Fiji	+12/+13
454
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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>
parents:
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Gambier	 -8:59:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Rikitea
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			 -9:00	-	-09
454
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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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			 -9:30	-	-0930
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Zone	Pacific/Tahiti	 -9:58:16 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Papeete
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parents: 7244
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			-10:00	-	-10
454
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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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   392
# Guam
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	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/Guam	-14:21:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
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			 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901        # Agana
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			10:00	-	GST	2000 Dec 23 # Guam
454
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parents:
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			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
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parents: 3756
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Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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   399
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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# Kiribati
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	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Tarawa	 11:32:04 -	LMT	1901 # Bairiki
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parents: 7244
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			 12:00	-	+12
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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			-12:00	-	-12	1979 Oct
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			-11:00	-	-11	1995
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parents: 7244
diff changeset
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			 13:00	-	+13
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
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Zone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
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			-10:40	-	-1040	1979 Oct
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parents: 7244
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   410
			-10:00	-	-10	1995
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parents: 7244
diff changeset
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			 14:00	-	+14
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   412
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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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# See Pacific/Guam.
454
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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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# Marshall 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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Zone Pacific/Majuro	11:24:48 -	LMT	1901
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			11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
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parents: 7244
diff changeset
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			12:00	-	+12
454
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sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
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Zone Pacific/Kwajalein	11:09:20 -	LMT	1901
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Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   422
			11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   423
			-12:00	-	-12	1993 Aug 20
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   424
			12:00	-	+12
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
   425
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
# 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
   427
# 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
   428
Zone Pacific/Chuuk	10:07:08 -	LMT	1901
7706
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Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   429
			10:00	-	+10
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   430
Zone Pacific/Pohnpei	10:32:52 -	LMT	1901 # Kolonia
7706
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Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   431
			11:00	-	+11
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
   432
Zone Pacific/Kosrae	10:51:56 -	LMT	1901
7706
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Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   433
			11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   434
			12:00	-	+12	1999
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   435
			11:00	-	+11
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
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
# 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
   438
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   439
Zone	Pacific/Nauru	11:07:40 -	LMT	1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe
7706
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Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   440
			11:30	-	+1130	1942 Mar 15
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   441
			9:00	-	+09	1944 Aug 15
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   442
			11:30	-	+1130	1979 May
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   443
			12:00	-	+12
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
   444
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
# 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
   446
# 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
   447
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
   448
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
   449
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
   450
# 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
   451
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
   452
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2125
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Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   453
Zone	Pacific/Noumea	11:05:48 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Nouméa
7706
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Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   454
			11:00	NC	+11/+12
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
   455
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
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
###############################################################################
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
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
# 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
   460
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	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
   462
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
   463
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
   464
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
   465
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
   466
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
   467
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
   468
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
   469
# 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
   470
# 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
   471
# 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
   472
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
   473
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
   474
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
   475
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
   476
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
   477
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
   478
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
   479
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
   480
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
   481
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
   482
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
   483
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
   484
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
   485
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
   486
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
   487
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
   488
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
   489
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
   490
# 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
   491
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
   492
			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
   493
			12:00	NZ	NZ%sT
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   494
Zone Pacific/Chatham	12:13:48 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
7706
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Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   495
			12:15	-	+1215	1946 Jan  1
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   496
			12:45	Chatham	+1245/+1345
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
   497
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
   498
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
   499
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   500
# Auckland Is
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   501
# 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
   502
# 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
   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
# 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
   505
# 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
   506
# 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
   507
# 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
   508
# 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
   509
1956
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   510
# Cook Is
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   511
# From Shanks & Pottenger:
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   512
# 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
   513
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
   514
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
   515
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
   516
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   517
Zone Pacific/Rarotonga	-10:39:04 -	LMT	1901        # Avarua
7706
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Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   518
			-10:30	-	-1030	1978 Nov 12
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   519
			-10:00	Cook	-10/-0930
1956
cc30f0892a76 18977188 update timezone data to 2014e
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 1822
diff changeset
   520
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
   521
###############################################################################
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
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
# 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
   525
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   526
Zone	Pacific/Niue	-11:19:40 -	LMT	1901        # Alofi
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   527
			-11:20	-	-1120	1951
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   528
			-11:30	-	-1130	1978 Oct  1
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   529
			-11:00	-	-11
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
   530
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   531
# 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
   532
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   533
Zone	Pacific/Norfolk	11:11:52 -	LMT	1901 # Kingston
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   534
			11:12	-	+1112	1951
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   535
			11:30	-	+1130	1974 Oct 27 02:00
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   536
			11:30	1:00	+1230	1975 Mar  2 02:00
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   537
			11:30	-	+1130	2015 Oct  4 02:00
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   538
			11:00	-	+11
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
   539
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   540
# 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
   541
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   542
Zone Pacific/Palau	8:57:56 -	LMT	1901 # Koror
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   543
			9:00	-	+09
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
   544
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   545
# 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
   546
# 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
   547
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
   548
			9:48:32	-	PMMT	1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   549
			10:00	-	+10
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   550
#
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   551
# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   552
# 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
   553
# 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
   554
#
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
   555
# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for UT +09, these dates
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   556
# 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
   557
# 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
   558
# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   559
# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   560
# 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
   561
# 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
   562
#
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
   563
# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville switched from UT +10 to +11
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   564
# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.  They call +11 "Bougainville Standard Time".
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   565
# See:
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   566
# 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
   567
#
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   568
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
   569
			 9:48:32 -	PMMT	1895
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   570
			10:00	-	+10	1942 Jul
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   571
			 9:00	-	+09	1945 Aug 21
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   572
			10:00	-	+10	2014 Dec 28  2:00
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   573
			11:00	-	+11
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
   574
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
# 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
   576
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   577
Zone Pacific/Pitcairn	-8:40:20 -	LMT	1901        # Adamstown
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   578
			-8:30	-	-0830	1998 Apr 27  0:00
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   579
			-8:00	-	-08
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
   580
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
# 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
   582
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
   583
			-11:22:48 -	LMT	1911
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   584
			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
4008
7fd8fcdea978 20748631 update timezone data to 2015b
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 3756
diff changeset
   585
Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
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
   586
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   587
# 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
   588
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
# 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
   590
# 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
   591
# 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
   592
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   593
# "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
   594
# 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
   595
# 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
   596
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   597
# 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
   598
# 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
   599
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   600
# 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
   601
# 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
   602
# 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
   603
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   604
# 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
   605
# 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
   606
# 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
   607
# 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
   608
# 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
   609
# 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
   610
# 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
   611
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 (2011-03-07):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   613
# [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
   614
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   615
# ... 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
   616
# 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
   617
# 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
   618
# (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
   619
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   620
# 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
   621
# 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
   622
#
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   623
# 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
   624
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   625
# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27):
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   626
# The International Date Line Act 2011
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   627
# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
   628
# changed Samoa from UT -11 to +13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   629
# 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
   630
# accordingly.
611
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   631
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   632
# 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
   633
# 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
   634
#
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   635
# 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
   636
#
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   637
# DST
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   638
# Year  End      Time              Start        Time
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   639
# 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
   640
# 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
   641
#
7d2ca7e15a28 7080326 update zoneinfo timezones to 2011i (Samoa, Newfoundland)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 454
diff changeset
   642
# 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
   643
# 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
   644
# 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
   645
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   646
# 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
   647
# 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
   648
# 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
   649
# 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
   650
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   651
# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08):
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   652
# 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
   653
# 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
   654
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
   655
# 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
   656
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
   657
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
   658
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
   659
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
   660
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
   661
# 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
   662
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
   663
			-11:26:56 -	LMT	1911
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   664
			-11:30	-	-1130	1950
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   665
			-11:00	WS	-11/-10	2011 Dec 29 24:00
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   666
			 13:00	WS	+13/+14
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
   667
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   668
# 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
   669
# 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
   670
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   671
Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Honiara
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   672
			11:00	-	+11
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
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   674
# Tokelau
737
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   675
#
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   676
# 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
   677
# 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
   678
# December 31 this year ...
737
fe1543b7904a 7149228 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012a (Armenia, Chile)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 611
diff changeset
   679
#
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   680
# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25)
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   681
# ... 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
   682
# 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
   683
# 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
   684
# 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
   685
#
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   686
# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   687
# 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
   688
# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
   689
# <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
   690
# 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
   691
# 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
   692
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
   693
# 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
   694
Zone	Pacific/Fakaofo	-11:24:56 -	LMT	1901
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   695
			-11:00	-	-11	2011 Dec 30
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   696
			13:00	-	+13
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
   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
# 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
   699
# 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
   700
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
   701
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
   702
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
   703
Rule	Tonga	2001	2002	-	Jan	lastSun	2:00	0	-
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
   704
Rule	Tonga	2016	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
   705
Rule	Tonga	2017	max	-	Jan	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
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
   706
# 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
   707
Zone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
   708
			12:20	-	+1220	1941
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
   709
			13:00	-	+13	1999
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
   710
			13:00	Tonga	+13/+14
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
   711
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
# 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
   713
# 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
   714
Zone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   715
			12:00	-	+12
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
   716
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   717
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   718
# 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
   719
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   720
# 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
   721
# 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
   722
# 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
   723
# 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
   724
# uninhabited thereafter.
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
   725
# 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
   726
# 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
   727
# 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
   728
# 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
   729
# 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
   730
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   731
# 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
   732
# 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
   733
# 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
   734
# 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
   735
# 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
   736
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   737
# 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
   738
#
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   739
# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
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
   740
# 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
   741
# Details are uncertain.  We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   742
# treat it like Hawaii for now.  Since Johnston is now uninhabited,
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   743
# its link to Pacific/Honolulu is in the 'backward' file.
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
   744
#
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
   745
# 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
   746
# <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
   747
# "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
   748
# 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
   749
# 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
   750
#
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
   751
# 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
   752
# [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
   753
# 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
   754
# 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
   755
# 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
   756
# 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
   757
# "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
   758
# 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
   759
# 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
   760
# 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
   761
# 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
   762
# Minus One Hour".
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
   763
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
# 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
   765
# 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
   766
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
# Midway
4008
7fd8fcdea978 20748631 update timezone data to 2015b
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 3756
diff changeset
   768
# See Pacific/Pago_Pago.
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
   769
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
# 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
   771
# 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
   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
# 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
   774
# 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
   775
Zone	Pacific/Wake	11:06:28 -	LMT	1901
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   776
			12:00	-	+12
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
   777
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
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
# 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
   780
# 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
   781
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
   782
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
   783
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
   784
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
   785
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
   786
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
   787
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   788
Zone	Pacific/Efate	11:13:16 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Vila
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   789
			11:00	Vanuatu	+11/+12
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
   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
# 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
   792
# 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
   793
Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   794
			12:00	-	+12
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
   795
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
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   797
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   798
# 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
   799
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
   800
# 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
   801
# 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
   802
# [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
   803
# 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
   804
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   805
# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
3756
dce353ed563a 20381845 update timezone data to 2015a
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
   806
#
dce353ed563a 20381845 update timezone data to 2015a
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
   807
# 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
   808
# 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
   809
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
3756
dce353ed563a 20381845 update timezone data to 2015a
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2185
diff changeset
   810
# 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
   811
#
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   812
# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   813
# for time zone data was the International Air Transport
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
   814
# 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
   815
# 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
   816
# 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
   817
# 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
   818
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   819
# 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
   820
# 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
   821
# 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
   822
#
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
   823
# 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
   824
# 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
   825
# 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
   826
#
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
   827
# 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
   828
# 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
   829
#
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   830
# The following abbreviations are from other 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
   831
# Corrections are welcome!
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   832
#		std	dst
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   833
#		LMT		Local Mean Time
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   834
#	  8:00	AWST	AWDT	Western Australia
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   835
#	  9:30	ACST	ACDT	Central Australia
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   836
#	 10:00	AEST	AEDT	Eastern Australia
7706
8ec3561f91ec 25650404 Update timezone data to 2017a
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 7244
diff changeset
   837
#	 10:00	GST		Guam through 2000
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   838
#	 10:00	ChST		Chamorro
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   839
#	 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
   840
#	 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
   841
#	-11:00	SST		Samoa
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   842
#	-10:00	HST		Hawaii
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
   843
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   844
# See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   845
# 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
   846
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
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   848
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   849
# 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
   850
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   851
# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   852
# 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
   853
# 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
   854
# 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
   855
# 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
   856
# 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
   857
# 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
   858
# 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
   859
# 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
   860
# about fading curtains and crazed farm animals."
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   861
# 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
   862
# 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
   863
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
   864
# 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
   865
# 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
   866
# 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
   867
# 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
   868
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
# 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
   870
# 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
   871
# 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
   872
# 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
   873
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
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   875
# 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
   876
# 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
   877
# 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
   878
# 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
   879
# 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
   880
# 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
   881
# 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
   882
# 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
   883
# 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
   884
# 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
   885
# 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
   886
# 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
   887
# 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
   888
# 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
   889
# 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
   890
# 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
   891
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   892
# 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
   893
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   894
# 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
   895
# 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
   896
# 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
   897
# 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
   898
# 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
   899
# 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
   900
# 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
   901
# 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
   902
# 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
   903
# 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
   904
# 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
   905
# 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
   906
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   907
#   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
   908
#   10 "Eastern Summer Time AEST" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   909
#   10 "Summer Time AEDT" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   910
#   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
   911
#   18 "Summer Time ESST" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   912
#   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
   913
#   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
   914
#   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
   915
#   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
   916
#  182 "Eastern Daylight Time AEDT" site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   917
#
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   918
#   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
   919
#   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
   920
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   921
# 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
   922
# 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
   923
# 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
   924
# 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
   925
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   926
#  156 "western standard time" AWST site:au
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   927
#  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
   928
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   929
# 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
   930
# 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
   931
# 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
   932
# 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
   933
# 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
   934
# 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
   935
# 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
   936
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   937
# 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
   938
# 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
   939
# 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
   940
# 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
   941
# 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
   942
# 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
   943
# 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
   944
# (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
   945
# 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
   946
# (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
   947
# 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
   948
# 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
   949
# 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
   950
# 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
   951
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   952
# 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
   953
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   954
#   The Australian Government (2014-03-26)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   955
#   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
   956
#   (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
   957
#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   958
#
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   959
#   Bureau of Meteorology (2012-11-08)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   960
#   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
   961
#   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
   962
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   963
#   Civil Aviation Safety Authority (undated)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   964
#   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
   965
#   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
   966
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   967
#   Geoscience Australia (2011-11-24)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   968
#   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
   969
#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   970
#
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   971
#   Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10)
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   972
#   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
   973
#   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
   974
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   975
#   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
   976
#   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
   977
#   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
   978
#   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
   979
#   "_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
   980
#   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
   981
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
   982
# 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
   983
# 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
   984
# 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
   985
# 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
   986
# 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
   987
# 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
   988
# 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
   989
# 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
   990
# "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
   991
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
   992
# 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
   993
# 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
   994
# 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
   995
# 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
   996
# 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
   997
# 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
   998
# 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
   999
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
# 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
  1001
#
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
# 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
  1003
# 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
  1004
# 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
  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
# 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
  1007
# 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
  1008
# 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
  1009
# 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
  1010
# 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
  1011
# 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
  1012
# 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
  1013
# Standard Time Act, 1898
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1014
# 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
  1015
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
# 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
  1017
# 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
  1018
# 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
  1019
# 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
  1020
# 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
  1021
#
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
# 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
  1023
# 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
  1024
# 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
  1025
# 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
  1026
# 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
  1027
# 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
  1028
# 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
  1029
# 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
  1030
# 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
  1031
# But not Queensland
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1032
# 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
  1033
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
# 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
  1035
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1036
# 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
  1037
# # 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
  1038
# #					[ 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
  1039
# #	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
  1040
# ...
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
# 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
  1042
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
# 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
  1044
# 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
  1045
# 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
  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
# 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
  1048
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
# 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
  1050
# #  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
  1051
# #						[ 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
  1052
# #	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
  1053
# #	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
  1054
# #	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
  1055
# #	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
  1056
# ...
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
# 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
  1058
# ...
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
# 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
  1060
# 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
  1061
# 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
  1062
# 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
  1063
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
# 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
  1065
# 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
  1066
# 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
  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 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
  1069
# 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
  1070
# 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
  1071
# 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
  1072
# 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
  1073
# 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
  1074
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
# 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
  1076
# 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
  1077
# 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
  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
# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1080
# 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
  1081
# (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
  1082
# 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
  1083
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1084
# 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
  1085
# 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
  1086
# #   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
  1087
# #						[ 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
  1088
# ...
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
# 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
  1090
# ...
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
# 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
  1092
# 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
  1093
# 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
  1094
# 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
  1095
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
# 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
  1097
# "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
  1098
# 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
  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 (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
  1101
# 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
  1102
# ...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
  1103
# 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
  1104
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
# 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
  1106
# 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
  1107
# 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
  1108
# 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
  1109
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
# 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
  1111
# ...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
  1112
# 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
  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
# 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
  1115
# 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
  1116
# ...
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
# 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
  1119
# 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
  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
# 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
  1122
# 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
  1123
# 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
  1124
# 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
  1125
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1126
# 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
  1127
# 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
  1128
# 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
  1129
# 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
  1130
# 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
  1131
# 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
  1132
# 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
  1133
# 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
  1134
#
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
# 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
  1136
# 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
  1137
# "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
  1138
# 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
  1139
#
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
# 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
  1141
# ... 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
  1142
# 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
  1143
# 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
  1144
#
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
# 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
  1146
# 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
  1147
# 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
  1148
# 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
  1149
# 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
  1150
#
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
# 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
  1152
# 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
  1153
# 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
  1154
# 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
  1155
#
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
# (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
  1157
# 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
  1158
# 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
  1159
# 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
  1160
# 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
  1161
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
# 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
  1163
# 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
  1164
# 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
  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
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
# 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
  1168
#
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
# 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
  1170
# 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
  1171
# 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
  1172
# 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
  1173
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
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
# 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
  1176
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
# 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
  1178
# 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
  1179
# ...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
  1180
# 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
  1181
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
# 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
  1183
# #   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
  1184
# #						[ 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
  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
# 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
  1187
# ...
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
# 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
  1189
# 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
  1190
# 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
  1191
# 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
  1192
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
# 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
  1194
# 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
  1195
# 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
  1196
# 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
  1197
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
# 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
  1199
# 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
  1200
# 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
  1201
# 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
  1202
# 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
  1203
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
# 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
  1205
# 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
  1206
# 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
  1207
# (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
  1208
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
# 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
  1210
# 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
  1211
# 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
  1212
# 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
  1213
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
# 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
  1215
# 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
  1216
# 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
  1217
# 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
  1218
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
# 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
  1220
# 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
  1221
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
# 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
  1223
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
# 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
  1225
# 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
  1226
# #  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
  1227
# #					[ 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
  1228
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
# 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
  1230
# 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
  1231
# 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
  1232
# (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
  1233
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
# 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
  1235
# 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
  1236
# (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
  1237
# 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
  1238
# (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
  1239
# 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
  1240
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
# 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
  1242
# 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
  1243
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
# 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
  1245
# 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
  1246
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
# 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
  1248
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
# 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
  1250
# 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
  1251
# #   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
  1252
# #						[ 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
  1253
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
# 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
  1255
# 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
  1256
# 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
  1257
# 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
  1258
# 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
  1259
# 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
  1260
#
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
# 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
  1262
# 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
  1263
# 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
  1264
# 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
  1265
# 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
  1266
# 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
  1267
#
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
# 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
  1269
# 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
  1270
# 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
  1271
# 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
  1272
#
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
# [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
  1274
# [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
  1275
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
# 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
  1277
# 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
  1278
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
# 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
  1280
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
# 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
  1282
# 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
  1283
# 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
  1284
# 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
  1285
#	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
  1286
#	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
  1287
#	[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
  1288
#	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
  1289
#	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
  1290
#	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
  1291
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
# 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
  1293
# 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
  1294
# October in 2000.  See: Matthew Moore,
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1295
# 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
  1296
# 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
  1297
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1298
# 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
  1299
# 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
  1300
# Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1301
# 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
  1302
#
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
# 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
  1304
# 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
  1305
# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1306
# 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
  1307
# (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
  1308
#
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
# Victoria will following NSW.  See:
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1310
# 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
  1311
# 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
  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
# 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
  1314
# 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
  1315
# 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
  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
# 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
  1318
# 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
  1319
# 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
  1320
# (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
  1321
# "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
  1322
# 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
  1323
# 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
  1324
# 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
  1325
# 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
  1326
#
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
# 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
  1328
# 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
  1329
# 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
  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
# 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
  1332
# 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
  1333
# 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
  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
# 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
  1336
# 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
  1337
# 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
  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 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
  1340
# 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
  1341
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
# 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
  1343
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
# From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1345
# '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
  1346
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
# 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
  1348
# # 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
  1349
# #					[ 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
  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
# # 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
  1352
# # 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
  1353
# # 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
  1354
# # 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
  1355
# # 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
  1356
# # 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
  1357
# 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
  1358
# ...
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
# 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
  1360
# 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
  1361
# [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
  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
# 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
  1364
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
# 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
  1366
# 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
  1367
#					[ 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
  1368
# 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
  1369
# 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
  1370
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
# 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
  1372
# 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
  1373
# 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
  1374
# 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
  1375
# 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
  1376
# 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
  1377
# 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
  1378
# 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
  1379
# 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
  1380
# 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
  1381
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
# 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
  1383
# 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
  1384
# 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
  1385
# 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
  1386
# 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
  1387
# 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
  1388
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
# 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
  1390
# 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
  1391
# 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
  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 (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
  1394
# 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
  1395
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
# 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
  1397
# 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
  1398
# 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
  1399
# summer (southern hemisphere).
994
d4f57a8d40ca 7198440 update zoneinfo timezones to 2012f (Fiji)
Nobutomo Nakano <nobutomo.nakano@oracle.com>
parents: 941
diff changeset
  1400
#
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
  1401
# 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
  1402
# 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
  1403
# 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
  1404
# 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
  1405
# 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
  1406
# 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
  1407
# 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
  1408
# 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
  1409
# 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
  1410
#
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
  1411
# 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
  1412
# 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
  1413
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1414
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
# 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
  1416
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
# 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
  1418
# 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
  1419
# 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
  1420
# 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
  1421
# 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
  1422
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
# 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
  1424
# # 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
  1425
# #				   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
  1426
# #	[ 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
  1427
# #				[ 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
  1428
# ...
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
# 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
  1430
# 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
  1431
# 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
  1432
# 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
  1433
# ...
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
# 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
  1435
# 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
  1436
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
# 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
  1438
# 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
  1439
# 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
  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 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
  1442
# 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
  1443
# 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
  1444
# 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
  1445
# 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
  1446
# 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
  1447
#
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
# 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
  1449
# 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
  1450
# 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
  1451
# 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
  1452
#
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
# 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
  1454
# 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
  1455
# 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
  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
# 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
  1458
# 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
  1459
# 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
  1460
# 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
  1461
# 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
  1462
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1463
# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14):
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1464
# 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
  1465
# 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
  1466
# 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
  1467
# 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
  1468
# 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
  1469
# 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
  1470
# 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
  1471
# 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
  1472
# in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1473
# LMT back when New Zealand was at UT +11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1474
# not observe New Zealand's prewar DST.
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1475
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
  1476
###############################################################################
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1477
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1478
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1479
# 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
  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
# 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
  1482
# 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
  1483
# 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
  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
# 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
  1486
# 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
  1487
# 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
  1488
# 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
  1489
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
# 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
  1491
# 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
  1492
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
  1493
# 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
  1494
# 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
  1495
# 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
  1496
# 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
  1497
# 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
  1498
# 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
  1499
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1500
# 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
  1501
# 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
  1502
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
# 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
  1505
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
# 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
  1507
# 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
  1508
# "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
  1509
# 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
  1510
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
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1512
# 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
  1513
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
# 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
  1515
# 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
  1516
# 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
  1517
# 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
  1518
# 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
  1519
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
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
# 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
  1522
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1523
# 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
  1524
# 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
  1525
# (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
  1526
# 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
  1527
# 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
  1528
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1529
# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UT +10 the official 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
  1530
# 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
  1531
# 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
  1532
# 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
  1533
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
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
# 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
  1536
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
# 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
  1538
# "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
  1539
# (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
  1540
#
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1541
# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UT +10 to +11
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
  1542
# 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
  1543
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
# 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
  1545
# 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
  1546
# 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
  1547
# http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1548
# that Truk and Yap are UT +10, and Ponape and Kosrae are +11.
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1549
# We don't know when Kosrae switched from +12; assume January 1 for now.
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
  1550
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1551
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
# 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
  1553
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
# 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
  1555
# 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
  1556
# <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
  1557
# 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
  1558
# 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
  1559
# 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
  1560
# 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
  1561
# 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
  1562
#
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
# 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
  1564
# 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
  1565
# 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
  1566
# 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
  1567
4994
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1568
# Norfolk
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1569
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1570
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23):
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1571
# Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100:
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1572
# https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1573
# ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015.
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1574
# http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1575
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1576
# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23):
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1577
# Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1578
# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1579
# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1580
# other than in 1974/5.  See:
ed928e1888f8 21935384 Update timezone data to 2015g
thejaswini.k@oracle.com
parents: 4008
diff changeset
  1581
# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.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
  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
# 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
  1584
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
# 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
  1586
# 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
  1587
# 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
  1588
#
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
#	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
  1590
#	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
  1591
#	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
  1592
#
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
# ... 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
  1594
# 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
  1595
# 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
  1596
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1597
# 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
  1598
# 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
  1599
# ... 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
  1600
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1601
# 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
  1602
# 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
  1603
# 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
  1604
# 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
  1605
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1606
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1607
# (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
  1608
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1609
# 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
  1610
# 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
  1611
# "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
  1612
# 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
  1613
# 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
  1614
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1615
# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1616
# in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1617
# 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
  1618
# circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932.
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1619
# Assume American Samoa switched to -11 in 1911, not 1950,
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1620
# 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
  1621
# 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
  1622
# 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
  1623
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1624
# 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
  1625
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
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1627
# 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
  1628
# 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
  1629
# 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
  1630
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
# 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
  1632
# 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
  1633
# 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
  1634
#
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
  1635
# 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
  1636
# 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
  1637
# 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
  1638
# 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
  1639
# 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
  1640
# (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
  1641
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1642
# 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
  1643
# 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
  1644
# 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
  1645
#
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
# 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
  1647
# 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
  1648
# 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
  1649
# 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
  1650
#
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
# 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
  1652
# 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
  1653
# 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
  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 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
  1656
# 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
  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
# 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
  1659
# 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
  1660
# 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
  1661
# 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
  1662
# 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
  1663
# 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
  1664
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
# 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
  1666
# * 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
  1667
#
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
# 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
  1669
# 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
  1670
#
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
# 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
  1672
# 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
  1673
# 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
  1674
# (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
  1675
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
# 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
  1677
# 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
  1678
# "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
  1679
# 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
  1680
# 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
  1681
# 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
  1682
# 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
  1683
# 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
  1684
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1685
# 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
  1686
# 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
  1687
# 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
  1688
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
# 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
  1690
# 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
  1691
# 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
  1692
# 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
  1693
# 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
  1694
# 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
  1695
# (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
  1696
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
# 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
  1698
# 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
  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
# 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
  1701
# 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
  1702
# 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
  1703
# 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
  1704
# 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
  1705
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1706
# From Pulu ʻAnau (2002-11-05):
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
  1707
# 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
  1708
7244
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1709
# From Pulu ʻAnau (2016-10-27):
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1710
# http://mic.gov.to/news-today/press-releases/6375-daylight-saving-set-to-run-from-6-november-2016-to-15-january-2017
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1711
# Cannot find anyone who knows the rules, has seen the duration or has seen
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1712
# the cabinet decision, but it appears we are following Fiji's rule set.
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1713
#
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1714
# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-26):
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1715
# Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00
0d8fd6bb915f 25039888 Update timezone data to 2016i
Channappa BV<channappa.vakkalad@oracle.com>
parents: 6258
diff changeset
  1716
# through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now.
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
  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
# 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
  1719
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
# 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
  1721
# 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:
diff changeset
  1722
#
2125
4760a5b8c809 19376977 update timezone data to 2014f
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2098
diff changeset
  1723
# 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
  1724
# 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
  1725
# 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
  1726
# 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
  1727
# 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
  1728
# 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
  1729
#
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
# 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
  1731
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
# 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
  1733
# 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
  1734
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
###############################################################################
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
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
# 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
  1738
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
# 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
  1740
#
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
# 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
  1742
# 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
  1743
# 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
  1744
# 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
  1745
#
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
# 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
  1747
# 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
  1748
# 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
  1749
# 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
  1750
# 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
  1751
# 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
  1752
# 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
  1753
# 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
  1754
# 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
  1755
# 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
  1756
# 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
  1757
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1758
# 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
  1759
# 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
  1760
# 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
  1761
# 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
  1762
# 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
  1763
# 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
  1764
# 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
  1765
# 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
  1766
# 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
  1767
# 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
  1768
# 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
  1769
# 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
  1770
# 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
  1771
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1772
# 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
  1773
# (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
  1774
#
1ef5e4f29411 7008684 time zone zoneinfo package should move to Userland consolidation
sonam gupta - Sun Microsystems - Bangalore India <Sonam.Gupta@Sun.COM>
parents:
diff changeset
  1775
# The American Practical Navigator (2002)
2185
75034a1acbe6 19878486 update timezone data to 2014i
Tomas Klacko <tomas.klacko@oracle.com>
parents: 2125
diff changeset
  1776
# 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
  1777
# 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
  1778
# international waters; it ignores the international date line.