--- a/components/timezone/australasia Fri Dec 20 07:41:03 2013 -0800
+++ b/components/timezone/australasia Mon Jan 06 22:11:36 2014 -0800
@@ -218,9 +218,32 @@
# no times are set
#
# Macquarie
-# permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948;
-# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917
-# like Australia/Hobart
+# Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948;
+# sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919. See the
+# Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island
+# <http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828>
+# <http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831>.
+# Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010.
+#
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
+# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division:
+# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not
+# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do
+# on 4 April.
+#
+# From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23):
+# The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics
+# will produce a binary file with an EST-type as the first 32-bit type;
+# this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by
+# pre-2013 versions of localtime.
+Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - zzz 1899 Nov
+ 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00
+ 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb
+ 10:00 Aus EST 1919 Apr 1 0:00s
+ 0 - zzz 1948 Mar 25
+ 10:00 Aus EST 1967
+ 10:00 AT EST 2010 Apr 4 3:00
+ 11:00 - MIST # Macquarie I Standard Time
# Christmas
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -246,6 +269,9 @@
6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time
# Fiji
+
+# Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva.
+
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10):
# According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Fiji plans to re-introduce DST
# from November 29th 2009 to April 25th 2010.
@@ -339,7 +365,7 @@
Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
Rule Fiji 2012 max - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
+Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
# French Polynesia
@@ -782,7 +808,7 @@
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
# [email protected] for general use in the future).
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
+# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
@@ -800,6 +826,10 @@
# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
# I found in the UCLA library.
#
+# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
+# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
+# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
+#
# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
#
@@ -1451,12 +1481,12 @@
# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time. Go with McDow.
-# From the BBC World Service (1998-10-31 11:32 UTC):
+# From the BBC World Service in
+# http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/205226.stm (1998-10-31 16:03 UTC):
# The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
-# improve productivity and reduce road accidents. But correspondents say it
-# also hopes the move will boost Fiji's ability to compete with other pacific
-# islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new
-# millenium.
+# improve productivity and reduce road accidents.... [T]he move is also
+# intended to boost Fiji's ability to attract tourists to witness the dawning
+# of the new millennium.
# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
@@ -1601,7 +1631,7 @@
# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
-# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millenium
+# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium
# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan