1# tzdb data for Australasia and environs, and for much of the Pacific 2 3# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 4# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 5 6# This file also includes Pacific islands. 7 8# Notes are at the end of this file 9 10############################################################################### 11 12# Australia 13 14# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc. 15 16# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 17Rule Aus 1917 only - Jan 1 2:00s 1:00 D 18Rule Aus 1917 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 19Rule Aus 1942 only - Jan 1 2:00s 1:00 D 20Rule Aus 1942 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 21Rule Aus 1942 only - Sep 27 2:00s 1:00 D 22Rule Aus 1943 1944 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 23Rule Aus 1943 only - Oct 3 2:00s 1:00 D 24 25# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 26# Northern Territory 27Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 28 9:00 - ACST 1899 May 29 9:30 Aus AC%sT 30# Western Australia 31# 32# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 33Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 34Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 35Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 36Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 37Rule AW 1991 only - Nov 17 2:00s 1:00 D 38Rule AW 1992 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 39Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 D 40Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 41Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 42Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 43 8:00 Aus AW%sT 1943 Jul 44 8:00 AW AW%sT 45Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec 46 8:45 Aus +0845/+0945 1943 Jul 47 8:45 AW +0845/+0945 48 49# Queensland 50# 51# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): 52# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast 53# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after 54# Queensland ceased to. 55# 56# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 57# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman, 58# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped. 59# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria, 60# so use Lindeman. 61# 62# From J William Piggott (2016-02-20): 63# There is no location named Holiday Islands in Queensland Australia; holiday 64# islands is a colloquial term used globally. Hayman and Lindeman are at the 65# north and south extremes of the Whitsunday Islands archipelago, and 66# Hamilton is in between; it is reasonable to believe that this time zone 67# applies to all of the Whitsundays. 68# http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-islands 69# 70# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 71Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 72Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S 73Rule AQ 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 74Rule AQ 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 75Rule Holiday 1992 1993 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 76Rule Holiday 1993 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 77Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895 78 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1971 79 10:00 AQ AE%sT 80Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895 81 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1971 82 10:00 AQ AE%sT 1992 Jul 83 10:00 Holiday AE%sT 84 85# South Australia 86# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 87Rule AS 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 88Rule AS 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 D 89Rule AS 1987 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 90Rule AS 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 S 91Rule AS 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 92Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 93Rule AS 1991 only - Mar 3 2:00s 0 S 94Rule AS 1992 only - Mar 22 2:00s 0 S 95Rule AS 1993 only - Mar 7 2:00s 0 S 96Rule AS 1994 only - Mar 20 2:00s 0 S 97Rule AS 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 98Rule AS 2006 only - Apr 2 2:00s 0 S 99Rule AS 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 100Rule AS 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 101Rule AS 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 102# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 103Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 104 9:00 - ACST 1899 May 105 9:30 Aus AC%sT 1971 106 9:30 AS AC%sT 107 108# Tasmania 109# 110# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): 111# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml 112# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971. 113# 114# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 115Rule AT 1916 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 116Rule AT 1917 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 117Rule AT 1917 1918 - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 D 118Rule AT 1918 1919 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 119Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 120Rule AT 1968 only - Mar Sun>=29 2:00s 0 S 121Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 122Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00s 0 S 123Rule AT 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S 124Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 125Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 126Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 127Rule AT 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 D 128Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 129Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 D 130Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 131Rule AT 1991 1999 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 132Rule AT 1991 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 133Rule AT 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 134Rule AT 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 135Rule AT 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 136Rule AT 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 137Rule AT 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 138# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 139Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep 140 10:00 AT AE%sT 1919 Oct 24 141 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1967 142 10:00 AT AE%sT 143 144# Victoria 145# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 146Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 147Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S 148Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 149Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 150Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 D 151Rule AV 1988 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 152Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 153Rule AV 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 154Rule AV 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 155Rule AV 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 156Rule AV 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 157Rule AV 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 158Rule AV 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 159Rule AV 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 160# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 161Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 162 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1971 163 10:00 AV AE%sT 164 165# New South Wales 166# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 167Rule AN 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 168Rule AN 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 S 169Rule AN 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 170Rule AN 1982 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 171Rule AN 1983 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 172Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 173Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 D 174Rule AN 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 175Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 176Rule AN 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 177Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 178Rule AN 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 179Rule AN 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 180Rule AN 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 181Rule AN 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 182Rule AN 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 183# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 184Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 185 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1971 186 10:00 AN AE%sT 187Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 - LMT 1895 Feb 188 10:00 - AEST 1896 Aug 23 189 9:00 - ACST 1899 May 190 9:30 Aus AC%sT 1971 191 9:30 AN AC%sT 2000 192 9:30 AS AC%sT 193 194# Lord Howe Island 195# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 196Rule LH 1981 1984 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - 197Rule LH 1982 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 198Rule LH 1985 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - 199Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 - 200Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 0:30 - 201Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - 202Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 203Rule LH 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - 204Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 - 205Rule LH 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - 206Rule LH 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 207Rule LH 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - 208Rule LH 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 209Rule LH 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0:30 - 210Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 211 10:00 - AEST 1981 Mar 212 10:30 LH +1030/+1130 1985 Jul 213 10:30 LH +1030/+11 214 215# Australian miscellany 216# 217# Ashmore Is, Cartier 218# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers 219# no times are set 220# 221# Coral Sea Is 222# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists 223# no times are set 224# 225# Macquarie 226# Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948; 227# sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919. See the 228# Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island 229# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828 230# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831 231# Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010. 232# 233# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 234# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: 235# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not 236# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do 237# on 4 April. 238# 239# From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23): 240# The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics 241# will produce a binary file with an [A]EST-type as the first 32-bit type; 242# this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by 243# pre-2013 versions of localtime. 244Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - -00 1899 Nov 245 10:00 - AEST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 246 10:00 1:00 AEDT 1917 Feb 247 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1919 Apr 1 0:00s 248 0 - -00 1948 Mar 25 249 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1967 250 10:00 AT AE%sT 2010 251 10:00 1:00 AEDT 2011 252 10:00 AT AE%sT 253 254# Fiji 255 256# Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva. 257 258# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10): 259# According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Fiji plans to re-introduce DST 260# from November 29th 2009 to April 25th 2010. 261# 262# "Daylight savings to commence this month" 263# http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719 264# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html 265 266# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-11-10): 267# The Fiji Government has posted some more details about the approved 268# amendments: 269# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml 270 271# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-03): 272# The Cabinet in Fiji has decided to end DST about a month early, on 273# 2010-03-28 at 03:00. 274# The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March 275# 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?). 276# 277# Official source: 278# 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=166 279# 280# A bit more background info here: 281# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html 282 283# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24): 284# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3 285# weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011... 286# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands, 287# Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site: 288# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 289# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html 290 291# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03): 292# Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date 293# assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong). 294# 295# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 296# which says 297# Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in 298# advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to 299# 2am on February 26 next year. 300 301# From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24) 302# Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for 303# Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22. 304# 305# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 306# states: 307# 308# The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012 309# has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012. 310# The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start 311# on the 23rd of October, 2011. 312 313# From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen: 314# The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate 315# today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st 316# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013. 317# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155 318 319# From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler: 320# Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ... 321# move clocks forward by one hour from 2am 322# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx 323 324# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10): 325# Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00: 326# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-(1).aspx 327 328# From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20): 329# DST will start Nov. 2 this year. 330# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx 331 332# From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77 333# in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28), 334# via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02): 335# the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time 336# commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at 337# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016. 338 339# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04): 340# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx 341# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when 342# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will 343# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017." 344 345# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-21): 346# Dominic Fok writes (2017-08-20) that DST ends 2018-01-14, citing 347# Extraordinary Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 21 (2017-08-27), 348# [Legal Notice No. 41] of an order of the previous day by J Usamate. 349 350# From Raymond Kumar (2018-07-13): 351# http://www.fijitimes.com/government-approves-2018-daylight-saving/ 352# ... The daylight saving period will end at 3am on Sunday January 13, 2019. 353 354# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-06): 355# Today Raymond Kumar reported the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 27 356# (2019-08-02) said that Fiji observes DST "commencing at 2.00 am on 357# Sunday, 10 November 2019 and ending at 3.00 am on Sunday, 12 January 2020." 358# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the second Sunday in November to 03:00 359# the first Sunday on or after January 12. January transitions reportedly 360# depend on when school terms start. Although the guess is ad hoc, it matches 361# transitions planned this year and seems more likely to match future practice 362# than guessing no DST. 363# From Michael Deckers (2019-08-06): 364# https://www.laws.gov.fj/LawsAsMade/downloadfile/848 365 366# From Raymond Kumar (2020-10-08): 367# [DST in Fiji] is from December 20th 2020, till 17th January 2021. 368# From Alan Mintz (2020-10-08): 369# https://www.laws.gov.fj/LawsAsMade/GetFile/1071 370# From Tim Parenti (2020-10-08): 371# https://www.fijivillage.com/news/Daylight-saving-from-Dec-20th-this-year-to-Jan-17th-2021-8rf4x5/ 372# "Minister for Employment, Parveen Bala says they had never thought of 373# stopping daylight saving. He says it was just to decide on when it should 374# start and end. Bala says it is a short period..." 375# 376# From Tim Parenti (2021-10-11), per Jashneel Kumar (2021-10-11) and P Chan 377# (2021-10-12): 378# https://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Centre/Speeches/English/PM-BAINIMARAMA-S-COVID-19-ANNOUNCEMENT-10-10-21 379# https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/covid-19/curfew-moved-back-to-11pm/ 380# In a 2021-10-10 speech concerning updated Covid-19 mitigation measures in 381# Fiji, prime minister Josaia Voreqe "Frank" Bainimarama announced the 382# suspension of DST for the 2021/2022 season: "Given that we are in the process 383# of readjusting in the midst of so many changes, we will also put Daylight 384# Savings Time on hold for this year. It will also make the reopening of 385# scheduled commercial air service much smoother if we don't have to be 386# concerned shifting arrival and departure times, which may look like a simple 387# thing but requires some significant logistical adjustments domestically and 388# internationally." 389 390# From Shalvin Narayan (2022-10-27): 391# Please note that there will not be any daylight savings time change 392# in Fiji for 2022-2023.... 393# https://www.facebook.com/FijianGovernment/posts/pfbid0mmWVTYmTibn66ybpFda75pDcf34SSpoSaskJW5gXwaKo5Sgc7273Q4fXWc6kQV6Hl 394 395# From Almaz Mingaleev (2023-10-06): 396# Cabinet approved the suspension of Daylight Saving and appropriate 397# legislative changes will be considered including the repeal of the 398# Daylight Saving Act 1998 399# https://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Centre/Speeches/English/CABINET-DECISIONS-3-OCTOBER-2023 400# 401# From Paul Eggert (2023-10-06): 402# For now, assume DST is suspended indefinitely. 403 404# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 405Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 - 406Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - 407Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 - 408Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 - 409Rule Fiji 2010 2013 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 - 410Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 411Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 - 412Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 - 413Rule Fiji 2014 2018 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 - 414Rule Fiji 2015 2021 - Jan Sun>=12 3:00 0 - 415Rule Fiji 2019 only - Nov Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 - 416Rule Fiji 2020 only - Dec 20 2:00 1:00 - 417# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 418Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 419 12:00 Fiji +12/+13 420 421# French Polynesia 422# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 423Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea 424 -9:00 - -09 425Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct 426 -9:30 - -0930 427Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete 428 -10:00 - -10 429# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia; 430# it is uninhabited. 431 432 433# Guam 434# N Mariana Is 435 436# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 437# http://guamlegislature.com/Public_Laws_5th/PL05-025.pdf 438# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-59-7-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time-May-6-1959.pdf 439Rule Guam 1959 only - Jun 27 2:00 1:00 D 440# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-61-5-Revocation-of-Daylight-Saving-Time-and-Restoratio.pdf 441Rule Guam 1961 only - Jan 29 2:00 0 S 442# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-67-13-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf 443Rule Guam 1967 only - Sep 1 2:00 1:00 D 444# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-69-2-Repeal-of-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf 445Rule Guam 1969 only - Jan 26 0:01 0 S 446# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-69-10-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf 447Rule Guam 1969 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D 448Rule Guam 1969 only - Aug 31 2:00 0 S 449# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-70-10-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf 450# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-70-30-End-of-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf 451# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-71-5-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf 452Rule Guam 1970 1971 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 453Rule Guam 1970 1971 - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 454# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-73-28.-Guam-Day-light-Saving-Time.pdf 455Rule Guam 1973 only - Dec 16 2:00 1:00 D 456# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-74-7-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time-Rescinded.pdf 457Rule Guam 1974 only - Feb 24 2:00 0 S 458# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-76-13-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf 459Rule Guam 1976 only - May 26 2:00 1:00 D 460# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-76-25-Revocation-of-E.O.-76-13.pdf 461Rule Guam 1976 only - Aug 22 2:01 0 S 462# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-77-4-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf 463Rule Guam 1977 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 D 464# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-77-18-Guam-Standard-Time.pdf 465Rule Guam 1977 only - Aug 28 2:00 0 S 466 467# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 468Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 469 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana 470 10:00 - GST 1941 Dec 10 # Guam 471 9:00 - +09 1944 Jul 31 472 10:00 Guam G%sT 2000 Dec 23 473 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time 474 475 476# Kiribati (Gilbert Is) 477# Marshall Is 478# Tuvalu 479# Wake 480# Wallis & Futuna 481# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 482Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki 483 12:00 - +12 484 485# Kiribati (except Gilbert Is) 486# See Pacific/Tarawa for the Gilbert Is. 487# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 488Zone Pacific/Kanton 0 - -00 1937 Aug 31 489 -12:00 - -12 1979 Oct 490 -11:00 - -11 1994 Dec 31 491 13:00 - +13 492Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 493 -10:40 - -1040 1979 Oct 494 -10:00 - -10 1994 Dec 31 495 14:00 - +14 496 497# Marshall Is 498# See Pacific/Tarawa for most locations. 499# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 500Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 501 11:00 - +11 1937 502 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1 503 9:00 - +09 1944 Feb 6 504 11:00 - +11 1969 Oct 505 -12:00 - -12 1993 Aug 20 24:00 506 12:00 - +12 507 508# Micronesia 509# For Chuuk and Yap see Pacific/Port_Moresby. 510# For Pohnpei see Pacific/Guadalcanal. 511# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 512Zone Pacific/Kosrae -13:08:04 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 513 10:51:56 - LMT 1901 514 11:00 - +11 1914 Oct 515 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1 516 11:00 - +11 1937 517 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1 518 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug 519 11:00 - +11 1969 Oct 520 12:00 - +12 1999 521 11:00 - +11 522 523# Nauru 524# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 525Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe 526 11:30 - +1130 1942 Aug 29 527 9:00 - +09 1945 Sep 8 528 11:30 - +1130 1979 Feb 10 2:00 529 12:00 - +12 530 531# New Caledonia 532# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 533Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 - 534Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 - 535Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 - 536# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA. 537Rule NC 1997 only - Mar 2 2:00s 0 - 538# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 539Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Nouméa 540 11:00 NC +11/+12 541 542 543############################################################################### 544 545# New Zealand 546# McMurdo Station and Scott Base in Antarctica use Auckland time. 547 548# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 549Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S 550Rule NZ 1928 only - Mar 4 2:00 0 M 551Rule NZ 1928 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 S 552Rule NZ 1929 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 M 553Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 M 554Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 S 555Rule NZ 1946 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S 556# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but until 2018a 557# there was no documented single notation for the date and time of this 558# transition. Duplicate the Rule lines for now, to give the 2018a change 559# time to percolate out. 560Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 561Rule Chatham 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 - 562Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S 563Rule Chatham 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:45s 0 - 564Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 565Rule Chatham 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:45s 1:00 - 566Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 567Rule Chatham 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:45s 0 - 568Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D 569Rule Chatham 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:45s 1:00 - 570Rule NZ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 571Rule Chatham 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 - 572Rule NZ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 573Rule Chatham 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 - 574Rule NZ 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 575Rule Chatham 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:45s 1:00 - 576Rule NZ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 577Rule Chatham 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:45s 0 - 578# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 579Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 580 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1 581 12:00 NZ NZ%sT 582 583Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 584 12:15 - +1215 1946 Jan 1 585 12:45 Chatham +1245/+1345 586 587# Auckland Is 588# uninhabited; Māori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, 589# and scientific personnel have wintered 590 591# Campbell I 592# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914 593# scientific station operated 1941/1995; 594# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered 595# was probably like Pacific/Auckland 596 597# Cook Is 598# 599# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2021-03-24): 600# In 1899 the Cook Islands celebrated Christmas twice to correct the calendar. 601# According to the old books, missionaries were unaware of 602# the International Date line, when they came from Sydney. 603# Thus the Cook Islands were one day ahead.... 604# http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-KloDisc-t1-body-d18.html 605# ... Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1900 606# https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1900-I.2.1.2.3 607# (page 20) 608# 609# From Michael Deckers (2021-03-24): 610# ... in the Cook Island Act of 1915-10-11, online at 611# http://www.paclii.org/ck/legis/ck-nz_act/cia1915132/ 612# "651. The hour of the day shall in each of the islands included in the 613# Cook Islands be determined in accordance with the meridian of that island." 614# so that local (mean?) time was still used in Rarotonga (and Niue) in 1915. 615# This was changed in the Cook Island Amendment Act of 1952-10-16 ... 616# http://www.paclii.org/ck/legis/ck-nz_act/ciaa1952212/ 617# "651 (1) The hour of the day in each of the islands included in the Cook 618# Islands, other than Niue, shall be determined as if each island were 619# situated on the meridian one hundred and fifty-seven degrees thirty minutes 620# West of Greenwich. (2) The hour of the day in the Island of Niue shall be 621# determined as if that island were situated on the meridian one hundred and 622# seventy degrees West of Greenwich." 623# This act does not state when it takes effect, so one has to assume it 624# applies since 1952-10-16. But there is the possibility that the act just 625# legalized prior existing practice, as we had seen with the Guernsey law of 626# 1913-06-18 for the switch in 1909-04-19. 627# 628# From Paul Eggert (2021-03-24): 629# Transitions after 1952 are from Shanks & Pottenger. 630# 631# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 632Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 - 633Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 634Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 - 635# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 636Zone Pacific/Rarotonga 13:20:56 - LMT 1899 Dec 26 # Avarua 637 -10:39:04 - LMT 1952 Oct 16 638 -10:30 - -1030 1978 Nov 12 639 -10:00 Cook -10/-0930 640 641############################################################################### 642 643 644# Niue 645# See Pacific/Rarotonga comments for 1952 transition. 646# 647# From Tim Parenti (2021-09-13): 648# Consecutive contemporaneous editions of The Air Almanac listed -11:20 for 649# Niue as of Apr 1964 but -11 as of Aug 1964: 650# Apr 1964: https://books.google.com/books?id=_1So677Y5vUC&pg=SL1-PA23 651# Aug 1964: https://books.google.com/books?id=MbJloqd-zyUC&pg=SL1-PA23 652# Without greater specificity, guess 1964-07-01 for this transition. 653 654# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 655Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1952 Oct 16 # Alofi 656 -11:20 - -1120 1964 Jul 657 -11:00 - -11 658 659# Norfolk 660# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 661Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston 662 11:12 - +1112 1951 663 11:30 - +1130 1974 Oct 27 02:00s 664 11:30 1:00 +1230 1975 Mar 2 02:00s 665 11:30 - +1130 2015 Oct 4 02:00s 666 11:00 - +11 2019 Jul 667 11:00 AN +11/+12 668 669# Palau (Belau) 670# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 671Zone Pacific/Palau -15:02:04 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 # Koror 672 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 673 9:00 - +09 674 675# Papua New Guinea 676# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 677Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 678 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time 679 10:00 - +10 680# 681# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13): 682# Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have 683# the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War. 684# 685# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for UT +09, these dates 686# are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns. 687# The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta. 688# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942, 689# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia 690# https://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm 691# and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender. 692# 693# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville switched from UT +10 to +11 694# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00. They call +11 "Bougainville Standard Time". 695# See: 696# http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/ 697# 698Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 - LMT 1880 699 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 700 10:00 - +10 1942 Jul 701 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug 21 702 10:00 - +10 2014 Dec 28 2:00 703 11:00 - +11 704 705# Pitcairn 706# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 707Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown 708 -8:30 - -0830 1998 Apr 27 0:00 709 -8:00 - -08 710 711# American Samoa 712# Midway 713Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 714 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 715 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 716 717# Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa) 718 719# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16): 720# We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received 721# the following info: 722# 723# "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year 724# commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first 725# Sunday of April 2011." 726# 727# Background info: 728# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html 729# 730# Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not 731# contain any dates: 732# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20(English)%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf 733 734# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07): 735# Please see 736# http://www.mcil.gov.ws 737# the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday 738# September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight 739# to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks 740# backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am" 741 742# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-03-07): 743# [http://www.mcil.gov.ws/ftcd/daylight_saving_2011.pdf] 744# 745# ... when the standard time strikes the hour of four o'clock (4.00am 746# or 0400 Hours) on the 2nd April 2011, then all instruments used to 747# measure standard time are to be adjusted/changed to three o'clock 748# (3:00am or 0300Hrs). 749 750# From David Zülke (2011-05-09): 751# Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line 752# 753# http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963 754 755# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27): 756# The International Date Line Act 2011 757# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf 758# changed Samoa from UT -11 to +13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on 759# Thursday 29th December 2011". The International Date Line was adjusted 760# accordingly. 761 762# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02): 763# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html 764# 765# here is the official website publication for Samoa DST and dateline change 766# 767# DST 768# Year End Time Start Time 769# 2011 - - - - - - 24 September 3:00am to 4:00am 770# 2012 01 April 4:00am to 3:00am - - - - - - 771# 772# Dateline Change skip Friday 30th Dec 2011 773# Thursday 29th December 2011 23:59:59 Hours 774# Saturday 31st December 2011 00:00:00 Hours 775# 776# From Nicholas Pereira (2012-09-10): 777# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and 778# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013.... 779# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html 780# 781# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08): 782# That web page currently lists transitions for 2012/3 and 2013/4. 783# Assume the pattern instituted in 2012 will continue indefinitely. 784# 785# From Geoffrey D. Bennett (2021-09-20): 786# https://www.mcil.gov.ws/storage/2021/09/MCIL-Scan_20210920_120553.pdf 787# DST has been cancelled for this year. 788 789# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 790Rule WS 2010 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 1 - 791Rule WS 2011 only - Apr Sat>=1 4:00 0 - 792Rule WS 2011 only - Sep lastSat 3:00 1 - 793Rule WS 2012 2021 - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 - 794Rule WS 2012 2020 - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 - 795# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 796Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 797 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 798 -11:30 - -1130 1950 799 -11:00 WS -11/-10 2011 Dec 29 24:00 800 13:00 WS +13/+14 801 802# Solomon Is 803# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea 804# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 805Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara 806 11:00 - +11 807 808# Tokelau 809# 810# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29) 811# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping 812# December 31 this year ... 813# 814# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25) 815# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking 816# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13.... 817# Shanks says UT-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change 818# actually was to UT-11 back then. 819# 820# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25) 821# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of 822# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948, 823# <https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau 824# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T." Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger 825# are off by an hour starting in 1901. 826 827# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 828Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 829 -11:00 - -11 2011 Dec 30 830 13:00 - +13 831 832# Tonga 833# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 834Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 - 835Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - 836Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 - 837Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - 838Rule Tonga 2016 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 - 839Rule Tonga 2017 only - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - 840# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 841Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:12 - LMT 1945 Sep 10 842 12:20 - +1220 1961 843 13:00 - +13 1999 844 13:00 Tonga +13/+14 845 846 847# US minor outlying islands 848 849# Howland, Baker 850# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British 851# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known. 852# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944; 853# uninhabited thereafter. 854# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT -10:30) in 1937; 855# see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long, 856# Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000). 857# So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935 858# until they were abandoned after the war. 859 860# Jarvis 861# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?. 862# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958; 863# uninhabited thereafter. 864# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 865 866# Johnston 867# 868# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10): 869# Sometimes Johnston kept Hawaii time, and sometimes it was an hour behind. 870# Details are uncertain. We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so 871# treat it like Hawaii for now. Since Johnston is now uninhabited, 872# its link to Pacific/Honolulu is in the 'backward' file. 873# 874# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945 875# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes, 876# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM 877# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time." This was in June 1945, and 878# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945. 879# 880# From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11): 881# [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used 882# was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships, 883# which had a GMT offset of -11 hours. This apparently applied to at least the 884# time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last 885# Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin, 886# "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the 887# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976. 888# https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf 889# See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a 890# footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time 891# Minus One Hour". 892 893# Kingman 894# uninhabited 895 896# Palmyra 897# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 898 899 900# Vanuatu 901 902# From P Chan (2020-11-27): 903# Joint Daylight Saving Regulation No 59 of 1973 904# New Hebrides Condominium Gazette No 336. December 1973 905# http://www.paclii.org/vu/other/VUNHGovGaz//1973/11.pdf#page=15 906# 907# Joint Daylight Saving (Repeal) Regulation No 10 of 1974 908# New Hebrides Condominium Gazette No 336. March 1974 909# http://www.paclii.org/vu/other/VUNHGovGaz//1974/3.pdf#page=11 910# 911# Summer Time Act No. 35 of 1982 [commenced 1983-09-01] 912# http://www.paclii.org/vu/other/VUGovGaz/1982/32.pdf#page=48 913# 914# Summer Time Act (Cap 157) 915# Laws of the Republic of Vanuatu Revised Edition 1988 916# http://www.paclii.org/cgi-bin/sinodisp/vu/legis/consol_act1988/sta147/sta147.html 917# 918# Summer Time (Amendment) Act No. 6 of 1991 [commenced 1991-11-11] 919# http://www.paclii.org/vu/legis/num_act/sta1991227/ 920# 921# Summer Time (Repeal) Act No. 4 of 1993 [commenced 1993-05-03] 922# http://www.paclii.org/vu/other/VUGovGaz/1993/15.pdf#page=59 923 924# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 925Rule Vanuatu 1973 only - Dec 22 12:00u 1:00 - 926Rule Vanuatu 1974 only - Mar 30 12:00u 0 - 927Rule Vanuatu 1983 1991 - Sep Sat>=22 24:00 1:00 - 928Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sat>=22 24:00 0 - 929Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sat>=22 24:00 0 - 930Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sat>=22 24:00 1:00 - 931# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 932Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila 933 11:00 Vanuatu +11/+12 934 935############################################################################### 936 937# NOTES 938 939# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 940# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 941# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 942# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 943 944# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18): 945# 946# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 947# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 948# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 949# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 950# 951# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source 952# for time zone data was the International Air Transport 953# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 954# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 955# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 956# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 957# 958# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 959# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 960# I found in the UCLA library. 961# 962# For data circa 1899, a common source is: 963# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. 964# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 965# 966# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 967# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 968# 969# I invented the abbreviation marked "*". 970# The following abbreviations are from other sources. 971# Corrections are welcome! 972# std dst 973# LMT Local Mean Time 974# 8:00 AWST AWDT Western Australia 975# 9:30 ACST ACDT Central Australia 976# 10:00 AEST AEDT Eastern Australia 977# 10:00 GST GDT* Guam through 2000 978# 10:00 ChST Chamorro 979# 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945 980# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present 981# -11:00 SST Samoa 982# -10:00 HST Hawaii 983# 984# See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii. 985# See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galápagos Is. 986 987############################################################################### 988 989# Australia 990 991# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30): 992# Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting 993# region against region, rural against urban, and local against global. 994# For example, in her review of Graeme Davison's _The Unforgiving 995# Minute: how Australians learned to tell the time_ (1993), Perth native 996# Phillipa J Martyr wrote, "The section entitled 'Saving Daylight' was 997# very informative, but was (as can, sadly, only be expected from a 998# Melbourne-based study) replete with the usual chuckleheaded 999# Queenslanders and straw-chewing yokels from the West prattling fables 1000# about fading curtains and crazed farm animals." 1001# Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History (1997-03-03) 1002# http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/reviews/davison.htm 1003 1004# From P Chan (2020-11-20): 1005# Daylight Saving Act 1916 (No. 40 of 1916) [1916-12-21, commenced 1917-01-01] 1006# http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/dsa1916401916192/ 1007# 1008# Daylight Saving Repeal Act 1917 (No. 35 of 1917) [1917-09-25] 1009# http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/num_act/dsra1917351917243/ 1010# 1011# Statutory Rules 1941, No. 323 [1941-12-24] 1012# https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C1941L00323 1013# 1014# Statutory Rules 1942, No. 392 [1942-09-10] 1015# https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C1942L00392 1016# 1017# Statutory Rules 1943, No. 241 [1943-09-29] 1018# https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C1943L00241 1019# 1020# All transition times should be 02:00 standard time. 1021 1022 1023# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08): 1024# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia 1025# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml 1026# summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia. 1027 1028# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12): 1029# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales 1030# http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving 1031# covers New South Wales in particular. 1032 1033# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 1034# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as 'daylight' time. 1035# It is called 'summer' time. Now by a happy coincidence, 'summer' 1036# and 'standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the 1037# abbreviation does _not_ change... 1038# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least 1039# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the 1040# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses 1041# the phrase 'summer time' and does not use the phrase 'daylight 1042# time'. 1043# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian 1044# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases 'Eastern Standard Time' 1045# or 'Eastern Summer Time'. (Note, though, that as I say in the 1046# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.) Announcers 1047# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases 1048# prefixed by the word 'Australian' when referring to local times; 1049# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC. 1050 1051# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30): 1052# 1053# Inspired by Mackin's remarks quoted above, earlier versions of this 1054# file used "EST" for both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Summer 1055# Time in Australia, and similarly for "CST", "CWST", and "WST". 1056# However, these abbreviations were confusing and were not common 1057# practice among Australians, and there were justifiable complaints 1058# about them, so I attempted to survey current Australian usage. 1059# For the tz database, the full English phrase is not that important; 1060# what matters is the abbreviation. It's difficult to survey the web 1061# directly for abbreviation usage, as there are so many false hits for 1062# strings like "EST" and "EDT", so I looked for pages that defined an 1063# abbreviation for eastern or central DST in Australia, and got the 1064# following numbers of unique hits for the listed Google queries: 1065# 1066# 10 "Eastern Daylight Time AEST" site:au [some are false hits] 1067# 10 "Eastern Summer Time AEST" site:au 1068# 10 "Summer Time AEDT" site:au 1069# 13 "EDST Eastern Daylight Saving Time" site:au 1070# 18 "Summer Time ESST" site:au 1071# 28 "Eastern Daylight Saving Time EDST" site:au 1072# 39 "EDT Eastern Daylight Time" site:au [some are false hits] 1073# 53 "Eastern Daylight Time EDT" site:au [some are false hits] 1074# 54 "AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time" site:au 1075# 182 "Eastern Daylight Time AEDT" site:au 1076# 1077# 17 "Central Daylight Time CDT" site:au [some are false hits] 1078# 46 "Central Daylight Time ACDT" site:au 1079# 1080# I tried several other variants (e.g., "Eastern Summer Time EST") but 1081# they all returned fewer than 10 unique hits. I also looked for pages 1082# mentioning both "western standard time" and an abbreviation, since 1083# there is no WST in the US to generate false hits, and found: 1084# 1085# 156 "western standard time" AWST site:au 1086# 226 "western standard time" WST site:au 1087# 1088# I then surveyed the top ten newspapers in Australia by circulation as 1089# listed in Wikipedia, using Google queries like "AEDT site:heraldsun.com.au" 1090# and obtaining estimated counts from the initial page of search results. 1091# All ten papers greatly preferred "AEDT" to "EDT". The papers 1092# surveyed were the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail, 1093# The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, The Age, The Advertiser, 1094# The Australian, The Financial Review, and The Herald (Newcastle). 1095# 1096# I also searched for historical usage, to see whether abbreviations 1097# like "AEDT" are new. A Trove search <http://trove.nla.gov.au/> 1098# found only one newspaper (The Canberra Times) with a house style 1099# dating back to the 1970s, I expect because other newspapers weren't 1100# fully indexed. The Canberra Times strongly preferred abbreviations 1101# like "AEDT". The first occurrence of "AEDT" was a World Weather 1102# column (1971-11-17, page 24), and of "ACDT" was a Scoreboard column 1103# (1993-01-24, p 16). The style was the typical usage but was not 1104# strictly enforced; for example, "Welcome to the twilight zones ..." 1105# (1994-10-29, p 1) uses the abbreviations AEST/AEDT, CST/CDT, and 1106# WST, and goes on to say, "The confusion and frustration some feel 1107# about the lack of uniformity among Australia's six states and two 1108# territories has prompted one group to form its very own political 1109# party -- the Sydney-based Daylight Saving Extension Party." 1110# 1111# I also surveyed federal government sources. They did not agree: 1112# 1113# The Australian Government (2014-03-26) 1114# http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time 1115# (This document was produced by the Department of Finance.) 1116# AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT 1117# 1118# Bureau of Meteorology (2012-11-08) 1119# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml 1120# EST CST WST EDT CDT 1121# 1122# Civil Aviation Safety Authority (undated) 1123# http://services.casa.gov.au/outnback/inc/pages/episode3/episode-3_time_zones.shtml 1124# EST CST WST (no abbreviations given for DST) 1125# 1126# Geoscience Australia (2011-11-24) 1127# http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp 1128# AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT 1129# 1130# Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10) 1131# https://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf 1132# EST CST WST preferred for standard time; AEST AEDT ACST ACDT also used 1133# 1134# The Transport Safety Bureau has an extensive series of accident reports, 1135# and investigators seem to use whatever abbreviation they like. 1136# Googling site:atsb.gov.au found the following number of unique hits: 1137# 311 "ESuT", 195 "EDT", 26 "AEDT", 83 "CSuT", 46 "CDT". 1138# "_SuT" tended to appear in older reports, and "A_DT" tended to 1139# appear in reports of events with international implications. 1140# 1141# From the above it appears that there is a working consensus in 1142# Australia to use trailing "DT" for daylight saving time; although 1143# some sources use trailing "SST" or "ST" or "SuT" they are by far in 1144# the minority. The case for leading "A" is weaker, but since it 1145# seems to be preferred in the overall web and is preferred in all 1146# the leading newspaper websites and in many government departments, 1147# it has a stronger case than omitting the leading "A". The current 1148# version of the database therefore uses abbreviations like "AEST" and 1149# "AEDT" for Australian time zones. 1150 1151# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 1152# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ. 1153# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper 1154# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, 1155# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 1156# and perhaps the newspaper's '2:00' is referring to standard time. 1157# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. 1158 1159# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): 1160# 1161# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, 1162# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more 1163# relevant entries in this database. 1164# 1165# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): 1166# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) 1167# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html 1168# ACT 1169# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 1170# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html 1171# SA 1172# Standard Time Act, 1898 1173# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html 1174 1175# From David Grosz (2005-06-13): 1176# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by 1177# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. 1178# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday 1179# in April instead of the last Sunday in March. 1180# 1181# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14): 1182# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan 1183# to extend DST together in 2006. 1184# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt 1185# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html 1186# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html 1187# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772 1188# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles 1189# allude to it. 1190# But not Queensland 1191# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html 1192 1193# Northern Territory 1194 1195# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1196# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ] 1197# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1198# # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location. 1199# ... 1200# Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST 1201 1202# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 1203# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 1204# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving. 1205 1206# Western Australia 1207 1208# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1209# # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ] 1210# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1211# # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to 1212# # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but 1213# # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus 1214# # before reaching parliament. 1215# ... 1216# Zone Australia/West 8:00 AW %sST 1217# ... 1218# Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1219# Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 1220# Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1221# Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 1222 1223# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 1224# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 1225# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving. 1226 1227# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02): 1228# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney 1229# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at 1230# work at 9.00am.) 1231# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse 1232# everybody again. 1233 1234# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 1235# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess; 1236# it matches what was used in the past. 1237 1238# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ 1239# http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm 1240# (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses 1241# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia. 1242 1243# From Paul Eggert (2018-04-01): 1244# The Guardian Express of Perth, Australia reported today that the 1245# government decided to advance the clocks permanently on January 1, 1246# 2019, from UT +08 to UT +09. The article noted that an exemption 1247# would be made for people aged 61 and over, who "can apply in writing 1248# to have the extra hour of sunshine removed from their area." See: 1249# Daylight saving coming to WA in 2019. Guardian Express. 2018-04-01. 1250# https://www.communitynews.com.au/guardian-express/news/exclusive-daylight-savings-coming-wa-summer-2018/ 1251# [The article ends with "Today's date is April 1."] 1252 1253# Queensland 1254 1255# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-26): 1256# I lack access to the following source for Queensland DST: 1257# Pearce C. History of daylight saving time in Queensland. 1258# Queensland Hist J. 2017 Aug;23(6):389-403 1259# https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=994682348436426;res=IELHSS 1260 1261# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1262# # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ] 1263# # [ Dec 1990 ] 1264# ... 1265# Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST 1266# ... 1267# Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1268# Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 1269# Rule AQ 1989 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1270# Rule AQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 1271 1272# From Bradley White (1989-12-24): 1273# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from 1274# October 1989). 1275 1276# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 1277# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 1278# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 1279# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 1280 1281# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 1282# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact 1283# end on Sunday, 3 March. I don't know at what hour, though. (It surprised 1284# me.) 1285 1286# From Bradley White (1992-03-08): 1287# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted 1288# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ... 1289# ... 1290# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1291# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 1292# ... 1293 1294# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 1295# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 1296 1297# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning 1298# from Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-11-01): 1299# WA are trialing DST for three years. 1300# http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf 1301 1302# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): 1303# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the 1304# southern coast.... South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western 1305# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The 1306# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so 1307# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the 1308# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South 1309# Australia and Western Australia.... 1310# 1311# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): 1312# This is confirmed by the section entitled 1313# "What's the deal with time zones???" in 1314# http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html 1315# 1316# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07): 1317# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway, 1318# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern 1319# coast of the continent. 1320# 1321# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no 1322# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border 1323# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west 1324# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is 1325# the largest population centre in this zone.... 1326# 1327# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the 1328# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I 1329# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have, 1330# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45. 1331# 1332# (2006-12-09): 1333# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving 1334# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis 1335# of this time zone. My hunch is that it's been around since well 1336# before 1975. I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago. 1337# 1338# From Gilmore Davidson (2019-04-08): 1339# https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-08/this-remote-stretch-of-desert-has-its-own-custom-time-zone/10981000 1340# ... include[s] a rough description of the geographical boundaries... 1341# "The time zone exists for about 340 kilometres and takes in the tiny 1342# roadhouse communities of Cocklebiddy, Madura, Eucla and Border Village." 1343# ... and an indication that the zone has definitely been in existence 1344# since before the 1970 cut-off of the database ... 1345# From Paul Eggert (2019-05-17): 1346# That ABC Esperance story by Christien de Garis also says: 1347# Although the Central Western Time Zone is not officially recognised (your 1348# phones won't automatically change), there is a sign instructing you which 1349# way to wind your clocks 45 minutes and scrawled underneath one of them in 1350# Texta is the word: 'Why'? 1351# "Good question," Mr Pike said. 1352# "I don't even know that, and it's been going for over 50 years." 1353 1354# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15): 1355# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the 1356# introduction of standard time in 1895. 1357 1358 1359# southeast Australia 1360# 1361# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1362# Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT 1363# end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October. 1364# http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html 1365 1366 1367# South Australia 1368 1369# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 1370# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 1371# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 1372# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 1373 1374# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1375# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ] 1376# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1377# ... 1378# Zone Australia/South 9:30 AS %sST 1379# ... 1380# Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1381# Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 1382# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 C 1383# Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 1384 1385# From Bradley White (1992-03-11): 1386# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide 1387# contained the following exchange: "Due to the Adelaide Festival, 1388# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks." 1389 1390# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13): 1391# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that) 1392# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even 1393# numbered year (from 1990). That's when the Adelaide Festival 1394# is on... 1395 1396# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000): 1397# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday).... 1398# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever... 1399# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...). 1400 1401# From Bradley White (1994-04-11): 1402# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March, 1403# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can 1404# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... 1405 1406# From John Warburton (1994-10-07): 1407# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... 1408# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... 1409# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. 1410 1411# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1412# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1413 1414# Tasmania 1415 1416# From P Chan (2020-11-20): 1417# Tasmania observed DST in 1916-1919. 1418# 1419# Daylight Saving Act, 1916 (7 Geo V, No 2) [1916-09-22] 1420# http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/num_act/tdsa19167gvn2267/ 1421# 1422# Daylight Saving Amendment Act, 1917 (8 Geo V, No 5) [1917-10-01] 1423# http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/num_act/tdsaa19178gvn5347/ 1424# 1425# Daylight Saving Act Repeal Act, 1919 (10 Geo V, No 9) [1919-10-24] 1426# http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/num_act/tdsara191910gvn9339/ 1427# 1428# King Island is mentioned in the 1967 Act but not the 1968 Act. 1429# Therefore it possibly observed DST from 1968/69. 1430# 1431# Daylight Saving Act 1967 (No. 33 of 1967) [1967-09-22] 1432# http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/num_act/dsa196733o1967211/ 1433# 1434# Daylight Saving Act 1968 (No. 42 of 1968) [1968-10-15] 1435# http://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/tas/num_act/dsa196842o1968211/ 1436 1437# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd 1438# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1439# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 1440# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1441 1442# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 1443# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have 1444# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia 1445# (but nothing new about that). 1446 1447# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04): 1448# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the 1449# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard, 1450# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria 1451# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000 1452# instead of the first Sunday in October. 1453 1454# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules: 1455# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300 1456 1457# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1458# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1459 1460# Victoria 1461 1462# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd 1463# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1464# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 1465# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1466 1467# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29): 1468# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an 1469# interesting story about daylight savings time. Dr. John Heilbron was 1470# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar 1471# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located 1472# in Melbourne, Australia. 1473# 1474# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which 1475# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day 1476# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's 1477# fallen WWI soldiers. And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time, 1478# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the 1479# expected time. 1480# 1481# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had 1482# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of 1483# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?). Perhaps 1484# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more. 1485# 1486# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html 1487# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au 1488 1489# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1490# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1491 1492# New South Wales 1493 1494# From Arthur David Olson: 1495# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. 1496# Based on law library research by John Mackin, 1497# who notes: 1498# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the 1499# individual states. Thus, while such terms as "Eastern Standard Time" 1500# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common 1501# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the 1502# legislation. This is very important to understand. 1503# I have researched New South Wales time only... 1504 1505# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): 1506# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual 1507# October in 2000. See: Matthew Moore, 1508# Two months more daylight saving, Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26). 1509# http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html 1510 1511# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27): 1512# See the following official NSW source: 1513# Daylight Saving in New South Wales. 1514# http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ 1515# 1516# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of 1517# daylight saving next year. See: 1518# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving 1519# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm 1520# (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens. 1521# 1522# Victoria will follow NSW. See: 1523# Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28) 1524# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm 1525# 1526# However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See: 1527# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19) 1528# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm 1529# 1530# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See: 1531# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics 1532# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm 1533# (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying 1534# "Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time 1535# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very 1536# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of 1537# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night. 1538# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules." 1539# 1540# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000. See: 1541# Broken Hill to be behind the times (1999-07-21) 1542# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm 1543 1544# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian 1545# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken 1546# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics. 1547 1548# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29: 1549# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW 1550# towns to use Queensland time. 1551 1552# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1553# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1554 1555# Yancowinna 1556 1557# From John Mackin (1989-01-04): 1558# 'Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna. 1559 1560# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1561# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ] 1562# # [ Dec 1990 ] 1563# ... 1564# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the 1565# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings 1566# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government 1567# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have 1568# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not 1569# # presently available. 1570# Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST 1571# ... 1572# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1573# Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C 1574# [followed by other Rules] 1575 1576# Lord Howe Island 1577 1578# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1579# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ] 1580# [ Dec 1990 ] 1581# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an 1582# hour ahead of NSW time. 1583 1584# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27): 1585# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same 1586# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27). For your information the 1587# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is 1588# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time 1589# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour 1590# instead of only 30 minutes. [Dependent] on the wishes of residents 1591# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing 1592# arrangements. The starting date for summer time on the Island will 1593# however always coincide with the rest of NSW. 1594 1595# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25): 1596# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards 1597# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently 1598# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as 1599# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start 1600# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW. 1601 1602# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1603# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and 1604# Lonergan thereafter. For times we use Lonergan. 1605 1606# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1607# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1608 1609# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28): 1610# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight 1611# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009 1612# summer (southern hemisphere). 1613# 1614# From 1615# http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf 1616# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling 1617# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing. 1618# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each 1619# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year. 1620# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia 1621# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and 1622# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year... 1623# 1624# We have a wrap-up here: 1625# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html 1626############################################################################### 1627 1628# New Zealand 1629 1630# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): 1631# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. 1632# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for 1633# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). 1634# source - phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office. 1635 1636# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1637# # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that! 1638# # or is Australia the west island of N.Z. 1639# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ] 1640# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1641# ... 1642# Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1643# Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1644# Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 1645# Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 S 1646# ... 1647# Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand 1648# Zone NZ-CHAT 12:45 - NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island 1649 1650# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 1651# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989 1652# rather than the October 1 value. 1653 1654# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); 1655# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ. 1656# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight 1657# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard 1658# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. 1659# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. 1660# 1661# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1662# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history, 1663# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.html for the full references. 1664# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger. 1665# 1666# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with 1667# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham 1668# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland. 1669 1670# From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30): 1671# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the 1672# first Sunday in April. The changes take effect this year, meaning 1673# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06. 1674# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended 1675 1676# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14): 1677# Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by 1678# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26). 1679# https://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf 1680# According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand 1681# parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard 1682# time in the Chatham Islands. The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New 1683# Zealand time. I understand that is the time they keep locally, anyhow." 1684# For now, assume this practice goes back to the introduction of standard time 1685# in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match 1686# LMT back when New Zealand was at UT +11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did 1687# not observe New Zealand's prewar DST. 1688 1689############################################################################### 1690 1691 1692# Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands and Marcus Island (Minami-Tori-shima) 1693 1694# From Wakaba (2019-01-28) via Phake Nick: 1695# National Diet Library of Japan has several reports by Japanese Government 1696# officers that describe the time used in islands when they visited there. 1697# According to them (and other sources such as newspapers), standard time UTC 1698# + 10 (JST + 1) and DST UTC + 11 (JST + 2) was used until its return to Japan 1699# at 1968-06-26 00:00 JST. The exact periods of DST are still unknown. 1700# I guessed Guam, Mariana, and Bonin and Marcus districts might have 1701# synchronized their DST periods, but reports imply they had their own 1702# decisions, i.e. there were three or more different time zones.... 1703# 1704# https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/小笠原諸島の標準時 1705 1706# From Phake Nick (2019-02-12): 1707# Because their last time change to return to Japanese time when they returned 1708# to Japanese rule was right before 1970, ... per the current tz database 1709# rule, the information doesn't warrant creation of a new timezone for Bonin 1710# Islands itself and is thus as an anecdotal note for interest purpose only. 1711# ... [The abovementioned link] described some special timekeeping phenomenon 1712# regarding Marcus island, another remote island currently owned by Japanese 1713# in the same administrative unit as Bonin Islands. Many reports claim that 1714# the American coastal guard on the American quarter of the island use its own 1715# coastal guard time, and most sources describe the time as UTC+11, being two 1716# hours faster than JST used by some Japanese personnel on the island. Some 1717# sites describe it as same as Wake Island/Guam time although it would be 1718# incorrect to be same as Guam. And then in a few Japanese governmental 1719# report from 1980s (from National Institute of Information and Communications 1720# Technology) regarding the construction of VLBI facility on the Marcus 1721# Island, it claimed that there are three time standards being used on the 1722# island at the time which include not just JST (UTC+9) or [US]CG time 1723# (UTC+11) but also a JMSDF time (UTC+10) (Japan Maritime Self-Defense 1724# Force). Unfortunately there are no other sources that mentioned such time 1725# and there are also no information on things like how the time was used. 1726 1727 1728# Fiji 1729 1730# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji 1731# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time 1732# instead of the American system (which was one day behind). 1733 1734# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 1735# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01 1736# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28. Each year the DST period will 1737# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February. 1738 1739# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08): 1740# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time. Go with McDow. 1741 1742# From the BBC World Service in 1743# http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/205226.stm (1998-10-31 16:03 UTC): 1744# The Fijian government says the main reasons for the time change is to 1745# improve productivity and reduce road accidents.... [T]he move is also 1746# intended to boost Fiji's ability to attract tourists to witness the dawning 1747# of the new millennium. 1748 1749# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13) 1750# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST. 1751 1752 1753# Kiribati 1754 1755# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 1756# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati 1757# "declared it the same day [throughout] the country as of Jan. 1, 1995" 1758# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century. 1759 1760# From Kerry Shetline (2018-02-03): 1761# December 31 was the day that was skipped, so that the transition 1762# would be from Friday December 30, 1994 to Sunday January 1, 1995. 1763# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-04): 1764# One source for this is page 202 of: Bartky IR. One Time Fits All: 1765# The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (2007). 1766 1767# Kanton 1768 1769# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-27): 1770# Kiribati's +13 timezone is represented by Kanton, its only populated 1771# island. (It was formerly spelled "Canton", but Gilbertese lacks "C".) 1772# Kanton was settled on 1937-08-31 by two British radio operators 1773# <https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1937v02/d94>; 1774# Americans came the next year and built an airfield, partly to 1775# establish airline service and perhaps partly anticipating the 1776# next war. Aside from the war, the airfield was used by commercial 1777# airlines until long-range jets became standard; although currently 1778# for emergency use only, China says it is considering rebuilding the 1779# airfield for high-end niche tourism. Kanton has about two dozen 1780# people, caretakers who rotate in from the rest of Kiribati in 2-5 1781# year shifts, and who use some of the leftover structures 1782# <http://pipa.neaq.org/2012/06/images-of-kanton-island.html>. 1783 1784# Kwajalein 1785 1786# From an AP article (1993-08-22): 1787# "The nearly 3,000 Americans living on this remote Pacific atoll have a good 1788# excuse for not remembering Saturday night: there wasn't one. Residents were 1789# going to bed Friday night and waking up Sunday morning because at midnight 1790# -- 8 A.M. Eastern daylight time on Saturday -- Kwajalein was jumping from 1791# one side of the international date line to the other." 1792# "In Marshall Islands, Friday is followed by Sunday", NY Times. 1993-08-22. 1793# https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/world/in-marshall-islands-friday-is-followed-by-sunday.html 1794 1795# From Paul Eggert (2022-03-31): 1796# Phake Nick (2018-10-27) noted <https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/南洋群島の標準時>'s 1797# citation of a 1993 AP article published in the New York Times saying 1798# Kwajalein synchronized its day with the US mainland about 40 years earlier. 1799# However the AP article is vague and possibly wrong about this. The article 1800# says the earlier switch was "about 40 years ago when the United States 1801# Army established a missile test range here". However, the Kwajalein Test 1802# Center was established on 1960-10-01 and was run by the US Navy. It was 1803# transferred to the US Army on 1964-07-01. See "Seize the High Ground" 1804# <https://history.army.mil/html/books/070/70-88-1/cmhPub_70-88-1.pdf>. 1805# Given that Shanks was right on the money about the 1993 change, I'm inclined 1806# to take Shanks's word for the 1969 change unless we find better evidence. 1807 1808 1809# N Mariana Is, Guam 1810 1811# From Phake Nick (2018-10-27): 1812# Guam Island was briefly annexed by Japan during ... year 1941-1944 ... 1813# however there are no detailed information about what time it use during that 1814# period. It would probably be reasonable to assume Guam use GMT+9 during 1815# that period of time like the surrounding area. 1816 1817# From Paul Eggert (2023-01-23): 1818# Howse writes (p 153) "The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the 1819# Philippines and the Ladrones from America," and implies that the Ladrones 1820# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time. 1821# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines; 1822# see Asia/Manila. 1823# 1824# Use 1941-12-10 and 1944-07-31 for Guam WWII transitions, as the rough start 1825# and end of Japanese control of Agana. We don't know whether the Northern 1826# Marianas followed Guam's DST rules from 1959 through 1977; for now, assume 1827# they did as that avoids the need for a separate zone due to our 1970 cutoff. 1828# 1829# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UT +10 the official standard time, 1830# under the name "Chamorro standard time". There is no official abbreviation, 1831# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law, 1832# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST". 1833 1834# See also the commentary for Micronesia. 1835 1836 1837# Marshall Is 1838# See the commentary for Micronesia. 1839 1840 1841# Micronesia (and nearby) 1842 1843# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18): 1844# Like the Ladrones (see Guam commentary), assume the Spanish East Indies 1845# kept American time until the Philippines switched at the end of 1844. 1846 1847# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): 1848# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in 1849# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information (1999-01-26) 1850# http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html 1851# that Truk and Yap are UT +10, and Ponape and Kosrae are +11. 1852# We don't know when Kosrae switched from +12; assume January 1 for now. 1853 1854# From Phake Nick (2018-10-27): 1855# 1856# From a Japanese wiki site https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/南洋群島の標準時 1857# ... 1858# For "Southern Islands" (modern region of Mariana + Palau + Federation of 1859# Micronesia + Marshall Islands): 1860# 1861# A 1906 Japanese magazine shown the Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands 1862# who was occupied by Germany at the time as GMT+10, together with the like 1863# of German New Guinea. However there is a marking saying it have not been 1864# implemented (yet). No further information after that were found. 1865# 1866# Japan invaded those islands in 1914, and records shows that they were 1867# instructed to use JST at the time. 1868# 1869# 1915 January telecommunication record on the Jaluit Atoll shows they use 1870# the meridian of 170E as standard time (GMT+11:20), which is similar to the 1871# longitude of the atoll. 1872# 1915 February record say the 170E standard time is to be used until 1873# February 9 noon, and after February 9 noon they are to use JST. 1874# However these are time used within the Japanese Military at the time and 1875# probably does not reflect the time used by local resident at the time (that 1876# is if they keep their own time back then) 1877# 1878# In January 1919 the occupying force issued a command that split the area 1879# into three different timezone with meridian of 135E, 150E, 165E (JST+0, +1, 1880# +2), and the command was to become effective from February 1 of the same 1881# year. Despite the target of the command is still only for the occupying 1882# force itself, further publication have described the time as the standard 1883# time for the occupied area and thus it can probably be seen as such. 1884# * Area that use meridian of 135E: Palau and Yap civil administration area 1885# (Southern Islands Western Standard Time) 1886# * Area that use meridian of 150E: Truk (Chuuk) and Saipan civil 1887# administration area (Southern Islands Central Standard Time) 1888# * Area that use meridian of 165E: Ponape (Pohnpei) and Jaluit civil 1889# administration area (Southern Islands Eastern Standard Time). 1890# * In the next few years Japanese occupation of those islands have been 1891# formalized via League of Nation Mandate (South Pacific Mandate) and formal 1892# governance structure have been established, these district [become 1893# subprefectures] and timezone classification have been inherited as standard 1894# time of the area. 1895# * Saipan subprefecture include Mariana islands (exclude Guam which was 1896# occupied by America at the time), Palau and Yap subprefecture rule the 1897# Western Caroline Islands with 137E longitude as border, Truk and Ponape 1898# subprefecture rule the Eastern Caroline Islands with 154E as border, Ponape 1899# subprefecture also rule part of Marshall Islands to the west of 164E 1900# starting from (1918?) and Jaluit subprefecture rule the rest of the 1901# Marshall Islands. 1902# 1903# And then in year 1937, an announcement was made to change the time in the 1904# area into 2 timezones: 1905# * Area that use meridian of 135E: area administered by Palau, Yap and 1906# Saipan subprefecture (Southern Islands Western Standard Time) 1907# * Area that use meridian of 150E: area administered by Truk (Chuuk), 1908# Ponape (Pohnpei) and Jaluit subprefecture (Southern Islands Eastern 1909# Standard Time) 1910# 1911# Another announcement issued in 1941 say that on April 1 that year, 1912# standard time of the Southern Islands would be changed to use the meridian 1913# of 135E (GMT+9), and thus abolishing timezone different within the area. 1914# 1915# Then Pacific theater of WWII started and Japan slowly lose control on the 1916# island. The webpage I linked above contain no information during this 1917# period of time.... 1918# 1919# After the end of WWII, in 1946 February, a document written by the 1920# (former?) Japanese military personnel describe there are 3 hours time 1921# different between Caroline islands time/Wake island time and the Chungking 1922# time, which would mean the time being used there at the time was GMT+10. 1923# 1924# After that, the area become Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands 1925# under American administration from year 1947. The site listed some 1926# American/International books/maps/publications about time used in those 1927# area during this period of time but they doesn't seems to be reliable 1928# information so it would be the best if someone know where can more reliable 1929# information can be found. 1930# 1931# 1932# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18): 1933# 1934# For the above, use vague dates like "1914" and "1945" for transitions that 1935# plausibly exist but for which the details are not known. The information 1936# for Wake is too sketchy to act on. 1937# 1938# The 1906 GMT+10 info about German-controlled islands might not have been 1939# done, so omit it from the data for now. 1940# 1941# The Jaluit info governs Kwajalein. 1942 1943 1944# Midway 1945 1946# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956), 1947# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection 1948# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31): 1949# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight 1950# Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning, 1951# your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956 1952# we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to 1953# air at 6am your time. 1954# 1955# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): 1956# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they 1957# started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years 1958# in Midway, but we have no record of it. 1959 1960# Nauru 1961 1962# From Phake Nick (2018-10-31): 1963# Currently, the tz database say Nauru use LMT until 1921, and then 1964# switched to GMT+11:30 for the next two decades. 1965# However, a number of timezone map published in America/Japan back then 1966# showed its timezone as GMT+11 per https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/ナウルの標準時 1967# And it would also be nice if the 1921 transition date could be sourced. 1968# ... 1969# The "Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 Time Change" 1970# http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/4b23a17d2030150404db7a5fa5872f52.pdf#page=3 1971# based on "Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 Time Change" 1972# http://www.paclii.org/nr/legis/num_act/nsta1978207/ defined that "Nauru 1973# Alternative Time" (GMT+12) should be in effect from 1979 Feb. 1974# 1975# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-19): 1976# The 1921-01-15 introduction of standard time is in Shanks; it is also in 1977# "Standard Time Throughout the World", US National Bureau of Standards (1935), 1978# page 3, which does not give the UT offset. In response to a comment by 1979# Phake Nick I set the Nauru time of occupation by Japan to 1980# 1942-08-29/1945-09-08 by using dates from: 1981# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Nauru 1982 1983# Norfolk 1984 1985# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23): 1986# Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100: 1987# https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text 1988# ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015. 1989# http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf 1990 1991# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-28): 1992# Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted 1993# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's 1994# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST 1995# other than in 1974/5. See: 1996# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html 1997# However, disagree with timeanddate about the 1975-03-02 transition; 1998# timeanddate has 02:00 but 02:00s corresponds to what the NSW law said 1999# (thanks to Michael Deckers). 2000 2001# Norfolk started observing Australian DST in spring 2019. 2002# From Kyle Czech (2019-08-13): 2003# https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2018L01702 2004# From Michael Deckers (2019-08-14): 2005# https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2019C00010 2006 2007# Palau 2008# See commentary for Micronesia. 2009 2010# Pitcairn 2011 2012# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 2013# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998 2014# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows. 2015# 2016# The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be 2017# Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known 2018# as Pitcairn Standard Time. 2019# 2020# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several 2021# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation 2022# somehow in light of this proclamation. 2023 2024# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09): 2025# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998 2026# ... at midnight. 2027 2028# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave: 2029# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as 2030# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be ½ hour different from us here in 2031# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago. 2032 2033 2034# (Western) Samoa and American Samoa 2035 2036# Howse writes (p 153) that after the 1879 standardization on Antipodean 2037# time by the British governor of Fiji, the King of Samoa decided to change 2038# "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, 2039# ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that 2040# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year." 2041# This happened in 1892, according to the Evening News (Sydney) of 1892-07-20. 2042# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm 2043 2044# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30 2045# in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11 2046# for American Samoa, e.g., the US National Bureau of Standards 2047# circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932. 2048# Assume American Samoa switched to -11 in 1911, not 1950, 2049# and that after 1950 they agreed until (western) Samoa skipped a 2050# day in 2011. Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New 2051# Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations. 2052 2053 2054# Tonga 2055 2056# From Paul Eggert (2021-03-04): 2057# In 1943 "The standard time kept is 12 hrs. 19 min. 12 sec. fast 2058# on Greenwich mean time." according to the Admiralty's Hydrographic 2059# Dept., Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. II, 7th ed., 1943, p 360. 2060 2061# From Michael Deckers (2021-03-03): 2062# [Ian R Bartky: "One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity". 2063# Stanford University Press. 2007. p. 255]: 2064# On 10 September 1945 Tonga adopted a standard time 12 hours, 2065# 20 minutes in advance of Greenwich. 2066 2067# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 2068# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting 2069# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time." 2070# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do. 2071 2072# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle 2073# How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins': 2074# http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm 2075# 2076# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST 2077# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT. When New Zealand adjusted its 2078# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its 2079# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of 2080# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13° 2081# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time). 2082# 2083# Because His Majesty King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince 2084# Tungī, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time 2085# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change. 2086# 2087# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer 2088# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40 2089# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40 2090# minutes we have lost?" 2091# 2092# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that 2093# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth 2094# to say your prayers in the morning." 2095# 2096# From Tim Parenti (2021-09-13), per Paul Eggert (2006-03-22) and Michael 2097# Deckers (2021-03-03): 2098# Mundell places the transition from +12:20 to +13 in 1941, while Shanks & 2099# Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01. 2100# 2101# The Air Almanac published contemporaneous tables of standard times, 2102# which listed +12:20 as of Nov 1960 and +13 as of Mar 1961: 2103# Nov 1960: https://books.google.com/books?id=bVgtWM6kPZUC&pg=SL1-PA19 2104# Mar 1961: https://books.google.com/books?id=W2nItAul4g0C&pg=SL1-PA19 2105# (Thanks to P Chan for pointing us toward these sources.) 2106# This agrees with Bartky, who writes that "since 1961 [Tonga's] official time 2107# has been thirteen hours in advance of Greenwich time" (p. 202) and further 2108# writes in an endnote that this was because "the legislation was amended" on 2109# 1960-10-19. (p. 255) 2110# 2111# Without greater specificity, presume that Bartky and the Air Almanac point to 2112# a 1961-01-01 transition, as Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV was still Crown Prince in 2113# 1961 and this still jives with the gist of Mundell's telling, and go with 2114# this over Shanks & Pottenger. 2115 2116# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03): 2117# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium 2118# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front. 2119# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from 2120# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan 2121# Government. 2122 2123# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): 2124# * Tonga will introduce DST in November 2125# 2126# I was given this link by John Letts: 2127# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm 2128# 2129# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November 2130# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead 2131# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead 2132# (12 + 1 hour DST). 2133 2134# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20): 2135# According to <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>: 2136# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000 2137# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the 2138# third Saturday of April. Under the system approved by Privy Council on 2139# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and 2140# set back an hour on the closing date." 2141# Alas, no indication of the time of day. 2142 2143# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06): 2144# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am. 2145# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning. 2146 2147# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31): 2148# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com 2149# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19 2150# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article 2151# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the 2152# text, and I have forgotten to report it here. 2153# (Original URL was <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm>) 2154 2155# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 2156# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27. 2157 2158# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow: 2159# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom 2160# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday 2161# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one 2162# hour to 1:00am. 2163 2164# From Pulu ʻAnau (2002-11-05): 2165# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. 2166 2167# From Pulu ʻAnau (2016-10-27): 2168# http://mic.gov.to/news-today/press-releases/6375-daylight-saving-set-to-run-from-6-november-2016-to-15-january-2017 2169# Cannot find anyone who knows the rules, has seen the duration or has seen 2170# the cabinet decision, but it appears we are following Fiji's rule set. 2171# 2172# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-26): 2173# Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00 2174# through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now. 2175 2176# From David Wade (2017-10-18): 2177# In August government was dissolved by the King. The current prime minister 2178# continued in office in care taker mode. It is easy to see that few 2179# decisions will be made until elections 16th November. 2180# 2181# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18): 2182# For now, guess that DST is discontinued. That's what the IATA is guessing. 2183 2184 2185############################################################################### 2186 2187# The International Date Line 2188 2189# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03): 2190# 2191# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard, 2192# convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please. 2193# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on 2194# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there. 2195# 2196# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and 2197# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL 2198# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most 2199# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati. Even that line 2200# has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific 2201# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international 2202# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is 2203# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some 2204# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not 2205# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the 2206# correct date is ambiguous. 2207 2208# From Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_time> (2023-01-23): 2209# The nautical time zone system is analogous to the terrestrial time zone 2210# system for use on high seas. Under the system time changes are required for 2211# changes of longitude in one-hour steps. The one-hour step corresponds to a 2212# time zone width of 15° longitude. The 15° gore that is offset from GMT or 2213# UT1 (not UTC) by twelve hours is bisected by the nautical date line into two 2214# 7°30' gores that differ from GMT by ±12 hours. A nautical date line is 2215# implied but not explicitly drawn on time zone maps. It follows the 180th 2216# meridian except where it is interrupted by territorial waters adjacent to 2217# land, forming gaps: it is a pole-to-pole dashed line. 2218 2219# From Paul Eggert (2023-01-23): 2220# The American Practical Navigator <https://msi.nga.mil/Publications/APN>, 2221# 2019 edition, merely says that the International Date Line 2222# "coincides with the 180th meridian over most of its length." 2223