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1454249adSAndy Fiddaman# tzdb data for Australasia and environs, and for much of the Pacific
2454249adSAndy Fiddaman
35d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
45d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
55d0e1406SMarcel Telka
65d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This file also includes Pacific islands.
75d0e1406SMarcel Telka
85d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Notes are at the end of this file
95d0e1406SMarcel Telka
105d0e1406SMarcel Telka###############################################################################
115d0e1406SMarcel Telka
125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Australia
135d0e1406SMarcel Telka
145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc.
155d0e1406SMarcel Telka
165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
175d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Aus	1917	only	-	Jan	 1	0:01	1:00	D
185d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Aus	1917	only	-	Mar	25	2:00	0	S
195d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Aus	1942	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	1:00	D
205d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Aus	1942	only	-	Mar	29	2:00	0	S
215d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Aus	1942	only	-	Sep	27	2:00	1:00	D
225d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Aus	1943	1944	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
235d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Aus	1943	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00	1:00	D
245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which
255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944.  Ignore Whitman's claim that
265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944.
275d0e1406SMarcel Telka
28*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Northern Territory
305d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Darwin	 8:43:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
315d0e1406SMarcel Telka			 9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
325d0e1406SMarcel Telka			 9:30	Aus	AC%sT
335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Western Australia
345d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
365d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
375d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
385d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
395d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
405d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AW	1991	only	-	Nov	17	2:00s	1:00	D
415d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AW	1992	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
425d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AW	2006	only	-	Dec	 3	2:00s	1:00	D
435d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AW	2007	2009	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
445d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AW	2007	2008	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
455d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Perth	 7:43:24 -	LMT	1895 Dec
465d0e1406SMarcel Telka			 8:00	Aus	AW%sT	1943 Jul
475d0e1406SMarcel Telka			 8:00	AW	AW%sT
485d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Eucla	 8:35:28 -	LMT	1895 Dec
498d30ff13SDan McDonald			 8:45	Aus +0845/+0945	1943 Jul
508d30ff13SDan McDonald			 8:45	AW  +0845/+0945
515d0e1406SMarcel Telka
525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Queensland
535d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Queensland ceased to.
585d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman,
615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped.
625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria,
635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# so use Lindeman.
645d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From J William Piggott (2016-02-20):
665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# There is no location named Holiday Islands in Queensland Australia; holiday
675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# islands is a colloquial term used globally.  Hayman and Lindeman are at the
685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# north and south extremes of the Whitsunday Islands archipelago, and
695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Hamilton is in between; it is reasonable to believe that this time zone
705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# applies to all of the Whitsundays.
715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-islands
725d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
745d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
755d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
765d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AQ	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
775d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AQ	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
785d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Holiday	1992	1993	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
795d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Holiday	1993	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
805d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Brisbane	10:12:08 -	LMT	1895
815d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
825d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	AQ	AE%sT
835d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Lindeman  9:55:56 -	LMT	1895
845d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
855d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	AQ	AE%sT	1992 Jul
865d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	Holiday	AE%sT
875d0e1406SMarcel Telka
885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# South Australia
895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
905d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
915d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	D
925d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1987	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
935d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	S
945d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
955d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
965d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1991	only	-	Mar	3	2:00s	0	S
975d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1992	only	-	Mar	22	2:00s	0	S
985d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1993	only	-	Mar	7	2:00s	0	S
995d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1994	only	-	Mar	20	2:00s	0	S
1005d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1015d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	2006	only	-	Apr	2	2:00s	0	S
1025d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1035d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1045d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AS	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
105*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1065d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Adelaide	9:14:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
1075d0e1406SMarcel Telka			9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
1085d0e1406SMarcel Telka			9:30	Aus	AC%sT	1971
1095d0e1406SMarcel Telka			9:30	AS	AC%sT
1105d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tasmania
1125d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
1145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
1155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971.
1165d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
1175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1185d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1967	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1195d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1968	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1205d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1968	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1215d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1969	1971	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00s	0	S
1225d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1235d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1245d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1982	1983	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1255d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1984	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1265d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1986	only	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
1275d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1987	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
1285d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1987	only	-	Oct	Sun>=22	2:00s	1:00	D
1295d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1988	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1305d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1991	1999	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1315d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	1991	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1325d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1335d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	2001	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1345d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1355d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1365d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AT	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
137*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1385d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Hobart	9:49:16	-	LMT	1895 Sep
1395d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
1405d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
1415d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1967
1425d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	AT	AE%sT
1435d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Currie	9:35:28	-	LMT	1895 Sep
1445d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
1455d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
1465d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971 Jul
1475d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	AT	AE%sT
1485d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Victoria
1505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1515d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1525d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1535d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1545d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
1555d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	1986	1987	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
1565d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	1988	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1575d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	1991	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1585d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1595d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1605d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1615d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1625d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1635d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1645d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AV	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
165*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1665d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
1675d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
1685d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	AV	AE%sT
1695d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# New South Wales
1715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
1725d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1735d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	S
1745d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1755d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1982	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1765d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1983	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1775d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
1785d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	D
1795d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1805d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1815d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1825d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1835d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
1845d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1855d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
1865d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1875d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	AN	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
188*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1895d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Sydney	10:04:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
1905d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
1915d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	AN	AE%sT
1925d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 -	LMT	1895 Feb
1935d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	-	AEST	1896 Aug 23
1945d0e1406SMarcel Telka			9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
1955d0e1406SMarcel Telka			9:30	Aus	AC%sT	1971
1965d0e1406SMarcel Telka			9:30	AN	AC%sT	2000
1975d0e1406SMarcel Telka			9:30	AS	AC%sT
1985d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Lord Howe Island
2005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
201a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	1981	1984	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	-
202a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	1982	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
203a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	1985	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
204a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	-
205a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	0:30	-
206a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
207a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
208a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
209a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
210a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
211a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
212a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
213a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
214a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	LH	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	0:30	-
2155d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
2165d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	-	AEST	1981 Mar
2178d30ff13SDan McDonald			10:30	LH	+1030/+1130 1985 Jul
2188d30ff13SDan McDonald			10:30	LH	+1030/+11
2195d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Australian miscellany
2215d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Ashmore Is, Cartier
2235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers
2245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# no times are set
2255d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Coral Sea Is
2275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists
2285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# no times are set
2295d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Macquarie
2315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948;
2325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919.  See the
2335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island
2345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828
2355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831
2365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010.
2375d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
2395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division:
2405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not
2415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do
2425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# on 4 April.
2435d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23):
2455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics
2465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# will produce a binary file with an [A]EST-type as the first 32-bit type;
2475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by
2485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# pre-2013 versions of localtime.
2495d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Antarctica/Macquarie 0	-	-00	1899 Nov
2505d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
2515d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
2525d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1919 Apr  1  0:00s
2535d0e1406SMarcel Telka			0	-	-00	1948 Mar 25
2545d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1967
2555d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	AT	AE%sT	2010 Apr  4  3:00
2568d30ff13SDan McDonald			11:00	-	+11
2575d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Christmas
259*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2605d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Indian/Christmas	7:02:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
2618d30ff13SDan McDonald			7:00	-	+07
2625d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Cocos (Keeling) Is
2645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
2655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
266*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2675d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Indian/Cocos	6:27:40	-	LMT	1900
2688d30ff13SDan McDonald			6:30	-	+0630
2695d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2705d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Fiji
2725d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva.
2745d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10):
2765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation,  Fiji plans to re-introduce DST
2775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# from November 29th 2009  to April 25th 2010.
2785d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "Daylight savings to commence this month"
2805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719
2815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html
2825d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-11-10):
2845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Fiji Government has posted some more details about the approved
2855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# amendments:
2865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml
2875d0e1406SMarcel Telka
2885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-03):
2895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Cabinet in Fiji has decided to end DST about a month early, on
2905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 2010-03-28 at 03:00.
2915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March
2925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?).
2935d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Official source:
2955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 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
2965d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
2975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A bit more background info here:
2985ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html
2995d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24):
3015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3
3025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011...
3035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands,
3045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site:
3055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
3065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html
3075d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03):
3095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date
3105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong).
3115d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 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
3135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# which says
3145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in
3155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to
3165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 2am on February 26 next year.
3175d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24)
3195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for
3205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22.
3215d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
3235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# states:
3245d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
3255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
3265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
3275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
3285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# on the  23rd of October, 2011.
3295d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
3315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
3325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
3335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
3345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
3355d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
3375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
3385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
3395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
3405d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
3425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
3435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
3445d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
3465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
3475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx
3485d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77
3505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28),
3515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02):
3525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time
3535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
3545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
3555d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04):
3575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx
3585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when
3595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am....  Daylight Saving will
3605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017."
3615d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3625ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-21):
3635ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# Dominic Fok writes (2017-08-20) that DST ends 2018-01-14, citing
3645ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# Extraordinary Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 21 (2017-08-27),
3655ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# [Legal Notice No. 41] of an order of the previous day by J Usamate.
366454249adSAndy Fiddaman
367454249adSAndy Fiddaman# From Raymond Kumar (2018-07-13):
368454249adSAndy Fiddaman# http://www.fijitimes.com/government-approves-2018-daylight-saving/
369454249adSAndy Fiddaman# ... The daylight saving period will end at 3am on Sunday January 13, 2019.
370*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman
371*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-06):
372*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Today Raymond Kumar reported the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 27
373*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# (2019-08-02) said that Fiji observes DST "commencing at 2.00 am on
374*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Sunday, 10 November 2019 and ending at 3.00 am on Sunday, 12 January 2020."
375*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the second Sunday in November to 03:00
376*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# the first Sunday on or after January 12.  January transitions reportedly
377454249adSAndy Fiddaman# depend on when school terms start.  Although the guess is ad hoc, it matches
378*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# transitions planned this year and seems more likely to match future practice
379*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# than guessing no DST.
380*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Michael Deckers (2019-08-06):
381*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# https://www.laws.gov.fj/LawsAsMade/downloadfile/848
3825d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
384a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Fiji	1998	1999	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
3855d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Fiji	1999	2000	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	-
386a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Fiji	2009	only	-	Nov	29	2:00	1:00	-
3875d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Fiji	2010	only	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	-
388a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Fiji	2010	2013	-	Oct	Sun>=21	2:00	1:00	-
3895d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Fiji	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
3905d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Fiji	2012	2013	-	Jan	Sun>=18	3:00	0	-
3915d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Fiji	2014	only	-	Jan	Sun>=18	2:00	0	-
392*8a907646SAndy FiddamanRule	Fiji	2014	2018	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
393*8a907646SAndy FiddamanRule	Fiji	2015	max	-	Jan	Sun>=12	3:00	0	-
394*8a907646SAndy FiddamanRule	Fiji	2019	max	-	Nov	Sun>=8	2:00	1:00	-
395*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
3965d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Fiji	11:55:44 -	LMT	1915 Oct 26 # Suva
3978d30ff13SDan McDonald			12:00	Fiji	+12/+13
3985d0e1406SMarcel Telka
3995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# French Polynesia
400*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
4015d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Gambier	 -8:59:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Rikitea
4028d30ff13SDan McDonald			 -9:00	-	-09
4035d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 -	LMT	1912 Oct
4048d30ff13SDan McDonald			 -9:30	-	-0930
4055d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Tahiti	 -9:58:16 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Papeete
4068d30ff13SDan McDonald			-10:00	-	-10
4075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
4085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# it is uninhabited.
4095d0e1406SMarcel Telka
4105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Guam
4119047ba7fSDominik Hassler
4129047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
4139047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://guamlegislature.com/Public_Laws_5th/PL05-025.pdf
4149047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-59-7-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time-May-6-1959.pdf
4159047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1959	only	-	Jun	27	2:00	1:00	D
4169047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-61-5-Revocation-of-Daylight-Saving-Time-and-Restoratio.pdf
4179047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1961	only	-	Jan	29	2:00	0	S
4189047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-67-13-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf
4199047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1967	only	-	Sep	 1	2:00	1:00	D
4209047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-69-2-Repeal-of-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf
4219047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1969	only	-	Jan	26	0:01	0	S
4229047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-69-10-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf
4239047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1969	only	-	Jun	22	2:00	1:00	D
4249047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1969	only	-	Aug	31	2:00	0	S
4259047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-70-10-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf
4269047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-70-30-End-of-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf
4279047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-71-5-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf
4289047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1970	1971	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
4299047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1970	1971	-	Sep	Sun>=1	2:00	0	S
4309047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-73-28.-Guam-Day-light-Saving-Time.pdf
4319047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1973	only	-	Dec	16	2:00	1:00	D
4329047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-74-7-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time-Rescinded.pdf
4339047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1974	only	-	Feb	24	2:00	0	S
4349047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-76-13-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf
4359047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1976	only	-	May	26	2:00	1:00	D
4369047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-76-25-Revocation-of-E.O.-76-13.pdf
4379047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1976	only	-	Aug	22	2:01	0	S
4389047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-77-4-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf
4399047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1977	only	-	Apr	24	2:00	1:00	D
4409047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-77-18-Guam-Standard-Time.pdf
4419047ba7fSDominik HasslerRule	Guam	1977	only	-	Aug	28	2:00	0	S
4429047ba7fSDominik Hassler
443*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
4445d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Guam	-14:21:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
4455d0e1406SMarcel Telka			 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901        # Agana
4469047ba7fSDominik Hassler			10:00	-	GST	1941 Dec 10 # Guam
4479047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 9:00	-	+09	1944 Jul 31
4489047ba7fSDominik Hassler			10:00	Guam	G%sT	2000 Dec 23
4495d0e1406SMarcel Telka			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
4505d0e1406SMarcel TelkaLink Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
4515d0e1406SMarcel Telka
4525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Kiribati
453*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
4545d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Tarawa	 11:32:04 -	LMT	1901 # Bairiki
4558d30ff13SDan McDonald			 12:00	-	+12
4565d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Enderbury	-11:24:20 -	LMT	1901
4578d30ff13SDan McDonald			-12:00	-	-12	1979 Oct
458a6c652dbSYuri Pankov			-11:00	-	-11	1994 Dec 31
4598d30ff13SDan McDonald			 13:00	-	+13
4605d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
4618d30ff13SDan McDonald			-10:40	-	-1040	1979 Oct
462a6c652dbSYuri Pankov			-10:00	-	-10	1994 Dec 31
4638d30ff13SDan McDonald			 14:00	-	+14
4645d0e1406SMarcel Telka
4655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# N Mariana Is
4665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See Pacific/Guam.
4675d0e1406SMarcel Telka
4685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Marshall Is
469*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
4705d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Majuro	 11:24:48 -	LMT	1901
4719047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 11:00	-	+11	1914 Oct
4729047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  9:00	-	+09	1919 Feb  1
4739047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 11:00	-	+11	1937
4749047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 10:00	-	+10	1941 Apr  1
4759047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  9:00	-	+09	1944 Jan 30
4768d30ff13SDan McDonald			 11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
4778d30ff13SDan McDonald			 12:00	-	+12
4785d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Kwajalein	 11:09:20 -	LMT	1901
4799047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 11:00	-	+11	1937
4809047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 10:00	-	+10	1941 Apr  1
4819047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  9:00	-	+09	1944 Feb  6
4828d30ff13SDan McDonald			 11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
4839047ba7fSDominik Hassler			-12:00	-	-12	1993 Aug 20 24:00
4848d30ff13SDan McDonald			 12:00	-	+12
4855d0e1406SMarcel Telka
4865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Micronesia
487*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
4889047ba7fSDominik HasslerZone Pacific/Chuuk	-13:52:52 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
4899047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 10:07:08 -	LMT	1901
4909047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 10:00	-	+10	1914 Oct
4919047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  9:00	-	+09	1919 Feb  1
4929047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 10:00	-	+10	1941 Apr  1
4939047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  9:00	-	+09	1945 Aug
4948d30ff13SDan McDonald			 10:00	-	+10
4959047ba7fSDominik HasslerZone Pacific/Pohnpei	-13:27:08 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31	# Kolonia
4969047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 10:32:52 -	LMT	1901
4979047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 11:00	-	+11	1914 Oct
4989047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  9:00	-	+09	1919 Feb  1
4999047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 11:00	-	+11	1937
5009047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 10:00	-	+10	1941 Apr  1
5019047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  9:00	-	+09	1945 Aug
5028d30ff13SDan McDonald			 11:00	-	+11
5039047ba7fSDominik HasslerZone Pacific/Kosrae	-13:08:04 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
5049047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 10:51:56 -	LMT	1901
5059047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 11:00	-	+11	1914 Oct
5069047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  9:00	-	+09	1919 Feb  1
5079047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 11:00	-	+11	1937
5089047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 10:00	-	+10	1941 Apr  1
5099047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  9:00	-	+09	1945 Aug
5108d30ff13SDan McDonald			 11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
5118d30ff13SDan McDonald			 12:00	-	+12	1999
5128d30ff13SDan McDonald			 11:00	-	+11
5135d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Nauru
515*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
5165d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Nauru	11:07:40 -	LMT	1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe
5179047ba7fSDominik Hassler			11:30	-	+1130	1942 Aug 29
5189047ba7fSDominik Hassler			 9:00	-	+09	1945 Sep  8
5199047ba7fSDominik Hassler			11:30	-	+1130	1979 Feb 10  2:00
5208d30ff13SDan McDonald			12:00	-	+12
5215d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# New Caledonia
5235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
524a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	NC	1977	1978	-	Dec	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
5255d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NC	1978	1979	-	Feb	27	0:00	0	-
526a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	NC	1996	only	-	Dec	 1	2:00s	1:00	-
5275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA.
5285d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NC	1997	only	-	Mar	 2	2:00s	0	-
529*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
5305d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Noumea	11:05:48 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Nouméa
5318d30ff13SDan McDonald			11:00	NC	+11/+12
5325d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5335d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5345d0e1406SMarcel Telka###############################################################################
5355d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# New Zealand
5375d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
5395d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1927	only	-	Nov	 6	2:00	1:00	S
5405d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1928	only	-	Mar	 4	2:00	0	M
5415d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1928	1933	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00	0:30	S
5425d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1929	1933	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	M
5435d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	0	M
5445d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0:30	S
5455d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1946	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	S
546a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but until 2018a
547a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# there was no documented single notation for the date and time of this
548a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# transition.  Duplicate the Rule lines for now, to give the 2018a change
549a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# time to percolate out.
5505d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
551a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chatham	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	-
5525d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
553a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chatham	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:45s	0	-
5545d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
555a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chatham	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	-
5565d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
557a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chatham	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	-
5585d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00s	1:00	D
559a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chatham	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:45s	1:00	-
5605d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
561a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chatham	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	-
5625d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
563a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chatham	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:45s	0	-
5645d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
565a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chatham	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	-
5665d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	NZ	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
567a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Chatham	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	-
568*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
5695d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Auckland	11:39:04 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
5705d0e1406SMarcel Telka			11:30	NZ	NZ%sT	1946 Jan  1
5715d0e1406SMarcel Telka			12:00	NZ	NZ%sT
5725d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Chatham	12:13:48 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
5738d30ff13SDan McDonald			12:15	-	+1215	1946 Jan  1
5748d30ff13SDan McDonald			12:45	Chatham	+1245/+1345
5755d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5765d0e1406SMarcel TelkaLink Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo
5775d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Auckland Is
5795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# uninhabited; Māori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
5805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and scientific personnel have wintered
5815d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Campbell I
5835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
5845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# scientific station operated 1941/1995;
5855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
5865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# was probably like Pacific/Auckland
5875d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Cook Is
5895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Shanks & Pottenger:
5905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
591a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Cook	1978	only	-	Nov	12	0:00	0:30	-
5925d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Cook	1979	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
593a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Cook	1979	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	-
594*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
5955d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Rarotonga	-10:39:04 -	LMT	1901        # Avarua
5968d30ff13SDan McDonald			-10:30	-	-1030	1978 Nov 12
5978d30ff13SDan McDonald			-10:00	Cook	-10/-0930
5985d0e1406SMarcel Telka
5995d0e1406SMarcel Telka###############################################################################
6005d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6015d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Niue
603*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
6045d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Niue	-11:19:40 -	LMT	1901        # Alofi
6058d30ff13SDan McDonald			-11:20	-	-1120	1951
6068d30ff13SDan McDonald			-11:30	-	-1130	1978 Oct  1
6078d30ff13SDan McDonald			-11:00	-	-11
6085d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Norfolk
610*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
6115d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Norfolk	11:11:52 -	LMT	1901 # Kingston
6128d30ff13SDan McDonald			11:12	-	+1112	1951
613*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman			11:30	-	+1130	1974 Oct 27 02:00s
614*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman			11:30	1:00	+1230	1975 Mar  2 02:00s
615*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman			11:30	-	+1130	2015 Oct  4 02:00s
616*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman			11:00	-	+11	2019 Jul
617*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman			11:00	AN	+11/+12
6185d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Palau (Belau)
620*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
6219047ba7fSDominik HasslerZone Pacific/Palau	-15:02:04 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31	# Koror
6229047ba7fSDominik Hassler			  8:57:56 -	LMT	1901
6238d30ff13SDan McDonald			  9:00	-	+09
6245d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Papua New Guinea
626*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
6275d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -	LMT	1880
6285d0e1406SMarcel Telka			9:48:32	-	PMMT	1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
6298d30ff13SDan McDonald			10:00	-	+10
6305d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
6325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have
6335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War.
6345d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for UT +09, these dates
6365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns.
6375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta.
6385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
6395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
6405ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm
6415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender.
6425d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville switched from UT +10 to +11
6448d30ff13SDan McDonald# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.  They call +11 "Bougainville Standard Time".
6458d30ff13SDan McDonald# See:
6465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/
6475d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6485d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 -	LMT	1880
6495d0e1406SMarcel Telka			 9:48:32 -	PMMT	1895
6508d30ff13SDan McDonald			10:00	-	+10	1942 Jul
6518d30ff13SDan McDonald			 9:00	-	+09	1945 Aug 21
6528d30ff13SDan McDonald			10:00	-	+10	2014 Dec 28  2:00
6538d30ff13SDan McDonald			11:00	-	+11
6545d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Pitcairn
656*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
6575d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Pitcairn	-8:40:20 -	LMT	1901        # Adamstown
6588d30ff13SDan McDonald			-8:30	-	-0830	1998 Apr 27  0:00
6598d30ff13SDan McDonald			-8:00	-	-08
6605d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# American Samoa
6625ee0bd13SYuri PankovZone Pacific/Pago_Pago	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1892 Jul  5
6635d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-11:22:48 -	LMT	1911
6645d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
6655d0e1406SMarcel TelkaLink Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
6665d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
6685d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
6705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
6715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the following info:
6725d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year
6745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first
6755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Sunday of April 2011."
6765d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Background info:
6785ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html
6795d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not
6815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# contain any dates:
6825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf
6835d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07):
6855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Please see
6865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.mcil.gov.ws
6875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday
6885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight
6895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks
6905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am"
6915d0e1406SMarcel Telka
6925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-03-07):
6935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [http://www.mcil.gov.ws/ftcd/daylight_saving_2011.pdf]
6945d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
6955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... when the standard time strikes the hour of four o'clock (4.00am
6965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# or 0400 Hours) on the 2nd April 2011, then all instruments used to
6975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# measure standard time are to be adjusted/changed to three o'clock
6985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (3:00am or 0300Hrs).
6995d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From David Zülke (2011-05-09):
7015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line
7025d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963
7045d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27):
7065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The International Date Line Act 2011
7075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf
7085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# changed Samoa from UT -11 to +13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on
7095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Thursday 29th December 2011".  The International Date Line was adjusted
7105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# accordingly.
7115d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02):
7135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
7145d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# here is the official website publication for Samoa DST and dateline change
7165d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST
7185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Year  End      Time              Start        Time
7195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 2011  - - -    - - -             24 September 3:00am to 4:00am
7205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 2012  01 April 4:00am to 3:00am  - - -        - - -
7215d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Dateline Change skip Friday 30th Dec 2011
7235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Thursday 29th December 2011	23:59:59 Hours
7245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Saturday 31st December 2011	00:00:00 Hours
7255d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Nicholas Pereira (2012-09-10):
7275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and
7285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013....
7295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
7305d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08):
7325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# That web page currently lists transitions for 2012/3 and 2013/4.
7335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Assume the pattern instituted in 2012 will continue indefinitely.
7345d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
736a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	WS	2010	only	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1	-
737a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	WS	2011	only	-	Apr	Sat>=1	4:00	0	-
738a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	WS	2011	only	-	Sep	lastSat	3:00	1	-
739a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	WS	2012	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	4:00	0	-
740a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	WS	2012	max	-	Sep	lastSun	3:00	1	-
741*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
7425ee0bd13SYuri PankovZone Pacific/Apia	 12:33:04 -	LMT	1892 Jul  5
7435d0e1406SMarcel Telka			-11:26:56 -	LMT	1911
7448d30ff13SDan McDonald			-11:30	-	-1130	1950
7458d30ff13SDan McDonald			-11:00	WS	-11/-10	2011 Dec 29 24:00
7468d30ff13SDan McDonald			 13:00	WS	+13/+14
7475d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Solomon Is
7495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
750*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
7515d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Honiara
7528d30ff13SDan McDonald			11:00	-	+11
7535d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7548d30ff13SDan McDonald# Tokelau
7555d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29)
7575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping
7585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# December 31 this year ...
7595d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25)
7615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking
7625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13....
763121e6e16SYuri Pankov# Shanks says UT-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change
764121e6e16SYuri Pankov# actually was to UT-11 back then.
7655d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
7665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
7675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of
7685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
7695ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# <https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau
7705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T."  Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger
7715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# are off by an hour starting in 1901.
7725d0e1406SMarcel Telka
773*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
7745d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Fakaofo	-11:24:56 -	LMT	1901
7758d30ff13SDan McDonald			-11:00	-	-11	2011 Dec 30
7768d30ff13SDan McDonald			13:00	-	+13
7775d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tonga
7795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
780a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Tonga	1999	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	1:00	-
7815d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Tonga	2000	only	-	Mar	19	2:00s	0	-
782a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Tonga	2000	2001	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
7835d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Tonga	2001	2002	-	Jan	lastSun	2:00	0	-
784a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Tonga	2016	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
7855ee0bd13SYuri PankovRule	Tonga	2017	only	-	Jan	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
786*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
7875d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
7888d30ff13SDan McDonald			12:20	-	+1220	1941
7898d30ff13SDan McDonald			13:00	-	+13	1999
7908d30ff13SDan McDonald			13:00	Tonga	+13/+14
7915d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tuvalu
793*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
7945d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
7958d30ff13SDan McDonald			12:00	-	+12
7965d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7975d0e1406SMarcel Telka
7985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# US minor outlying islands
7995d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Howland, Baker
8015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British
8025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known.
8035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944;
8045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# uninhabited thereafter.
8055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT -10:30) in 1937;
8065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long,
8075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000).
8085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935
8095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# until they were abandoned after the war.
8105d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Jarvis
8125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?.
8135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958;
8145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# uninhabited thereafter.
8155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
8165d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Johnston
8185d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
8198d30ff13SDan McDonald# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
8205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Sometimes Johnston kept Hawaii time, and sometimes it was an hour behind.
8215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Details are uncertain.  We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so
8228d30ff13SDan McDonald# treat it like Hawaii for now.  Since Johnston is now uninhabited,
8238d30ff13SDan McDonald# its link to Pacific/Honolulu is in the 'backward' file.
8245d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
8255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945
8265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes,
8275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM
8285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time."  This was in June 1945, and
8295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945.
8305d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
8315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11):
8325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used
8335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships,
8345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# which had a GMT offset of -11 hours.  This apparently applied to at least the
8355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last
8365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin,
8375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the
8385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976.
8395ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf
8405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a
8415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time
8425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Minus One Hour".
8435d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Kingman
8455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# uninhabited
8465d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Midway
8485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See Pacific/Pago_Pago.
8495d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Palmyra
8515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
8525d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Wake
854*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
8555d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Wake	11:06:28 -	LMT	1901
8568d30ff13SDan McDonald			12:00	-	+12
8575d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8585d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Vanuatu
8605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
861a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Vanuatu	1983	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	1:00	-
8625d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Vanuatu	1984	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
863a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Vanuatu	1984	only	-	Oct	23	0:00	1:00	-
864a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Vanuatu	1985	1991	-	Sep	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	-
8655d0e1406SMarcel TelkaRule	Vanuatu	1992	1993	-	Jan	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
866a6c652dbSYuri PankovRule	Vanuatu	1992	only	-	Oct	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	-
867*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
8685d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Efate	11:13:16 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Vila
8698d30ff13SDan McDonald			11:00	Vanuatu	+11/+12
8705d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Wallis and Futuna
872*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Zone	NAME		STDOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
8735d0e1406SMarcel TelkaZone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
8748d30ff13SDan McDonald			12:00	-	+12
8755d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8765d0e1406SMarcel Telka###############################################################################
8775d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# NOTES
8795d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
8815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
8825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
8835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
8845d0e1406SMarcel Telka
8859047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
8865d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
8875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
8885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
8895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
8905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
8915d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
8928d30ff13SDan McDonald# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source
8938d30ff13SDan McDonald# for time zone data was the International Air Transport
8945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
8955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
8965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
8975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
8985d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
8995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
9005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
9015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I found in the UCLA library.
9025d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
9045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
9055ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
9065d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
9085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
9095d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9109047ba7fSDominik Hassler# I invented the abbreviation marked "*".
9118d30ff13SDan McDonald# The following abbreviations are from other sources.
9125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Corrections are welcome!
9135d0e1406SMarcel Telka#		std	dst
9145d0e1406SMarcel Telka#		LMT		Local Mean Time
9155d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	  8:00	AWST	AWDT	Western Australia
9165d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	  9:30	ACST	ACDT	Central Australia
9175d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	 10:00	AEST	AEDT	Eastern Australia
9189047ba7fSDominik Hassler#	 10:00	GST	GDT*	Guam through 2000
9195d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	 10:00	ChST		Chamorro
9205d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	 11:30	NZMT	NZST	New Zealand through 1945
9215d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	 12:00	NZST	NZDT	New Zealand 1946-present
9225d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	-11:00	SST		Samoa
9235d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	-10:00	HST		Hawaii
9245d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
9265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galápagos Is.
9275d0e1406SMarcel Telka
9285d0e1406SMarcel Telka###############################################################################
9295d0e1406SMarcel Telka
9305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Australia
9315d0e1406SMarcel Telka
9325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
9335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting
9345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# region against region, rural against urban, and local against global.
9355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For example, in her review of Graeme Davison's _The Unforgiving
9365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Minute: how Australians learned to tell the time_ (1993), Perth native
9375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Phillipa J Martyr wrote, "The section entitled 'Saving Daylight' was
9385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# very informative, but was (as can, sadly, only be expected from a
9395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Melbourne-based study) replete with the usual chuckleheaded
9405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Queenslanders and straw-chewing yokels from the West prattling fables
9415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# about fading curtains and crazed farm animals."
9425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History (1997-03-03)
9435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/reviews/davison.htm
9445d0e1406SMarcel Telka
9455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08):
9465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia
9475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
9485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
9495d0e1406SMarcel Telka
9505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12):
9515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales
9525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving
9535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# covers New South Wales in particular.
9545d0e1406SMarcel Telka
9555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
9565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as 'daylight' time.
9575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# It is called 'summer' time.  Now by a happy coincidence, 'summer'
9585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and 'standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the
9595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# abbreviation does _not_ change...
9605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least
9615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the
9625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses
9635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the phrase 'summer time' and does not use the phrase 'daylight
9645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time'.
9655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian
9665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases 'Eastern Standard Time'
9675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# or 'Eastern Summer Time'.  (Note, though, that as I say in the
9685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.)  Announcers
9695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases
9705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# prefixed by the word 'Australian' when referring to local times;
9715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
9725d0e1406SMarcel Telka
9735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
9745d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Inspired by Mackin's remarks quoted above, earlier versions of this
9765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# file used "EST" for both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Summer
9775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Time in Australia, and similarly for "CST", "CWST", and "WST".
9785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# However, these abbreviations were confusing and were not common
9795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# practice among Australians, and there were justifiable complaints
9805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# about them, so I attempted to survey current Australian usage.
9815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For the tz database, the full English phrase is not that important;
9825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# what matters is the abbreviation.  It's difficult to survey the web
9835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# directly for abbreviation usage, as there are so many false hits for
9845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# strings like "EST" and "EDT", so I looked for pages that defined an
9855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# abbreviation for eastern or central DST in Australia, and got the
9865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# following numbers of unique hits for the listed Google queries:
9875d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9885d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   10 "Eastern Daylight Time AEST" site:au [some are false hits]
9895d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   10 "Eastern Summer Time AEST" site:au
9905d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   10 "Summer Time AEDT" site:au
9915d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   13 "EDST Eastern Daylight Saving Time" site:au
9925d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   18 "Summer Time ESST" site:au
9935d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   28 "Eastern Daylight Saving Time EDST" site:au
9945d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   39 "EDT Eastern Daylight Time" site:au [some are false hits]
9955d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   53 "Eastern Daylight Time EDT" site:au [some are false hits]
9965d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   54 "AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time" site:au
9975d0e1406SMarcel Telka#  182 "Eastern Daylight Time AEDT" site:au
9985d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
9995d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   17 "Central Daylight Time CDT" site:au [some are false hits]
10005d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   46 "Central Daylight Time ACDT" site:au
10015d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I tried several other variants (e.g., "Eastern Summer Time EST") but
10035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# they all returned fewer than 10 unique hits.  I also looked for pages
10045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# mentioning both "western standard time" and an abbreviation, since
10055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# there is no WST in the US to generate false hits, and found:
10065d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10075d0e1406SMarcel Telka#  156 "western standard time" AWST site:au
10085d0e1406SMarcel Telka#  226 "western standard time" WST site:au
10095d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I then surveyed the top ten newspapers in Australia by circulation as
10115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# listed in Wikipedia, using Google queries like "AEDT site:heraldsun.com.au"
10125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and obtaining estimated counts from the initial page of search results.
10135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# All ten papers greatly preferred "AEDT" to "EDT".  The papers
10145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# surveyed were the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail,
10155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, The Age, The Advertiser,
10165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Australian, The Financial Review, and The Herald (Newcastle).
10175d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I also searched for historical usage, to see whether abbreviations
10195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# like "AEDT" are new.  A Trove search <http://trove.nla.gov.au/>
10205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# found only one newspaper (The Canberra Times) with a house style
10215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# dating back to the 1970s, I expect because other newspapers weren't
10225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# fully indexed.  The Canberra Times strongly preferred abbreviations
10235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# like "AEDT".  The first occurrence of "AEDT" was a World Weather
10245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# column (1971-11-17, page 24), and of "ACDT" was a Scoreboard column
10255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1993-01-24, p 16).  The style was the typical usage but was not
10265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# strictly enforced; for example, "Welcome to the twilight zones ..."
10275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1994-10-29, p 1) uses the abbreviations AEST/AEDT, CST/CDT, and
10285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# WST, and goes on to say, "The confusion and frustration some feel
10295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# about the lack of uniformity among Australia's six states and two
10305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# territories has prompted one group to form its very own political
10315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# party -- the Sydney-based Daylight Saving Extension Party."
10325d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I also surveyed federal government sources.  They did not agree:
10345d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10355d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   The Australian Government (2014-03-26)
10365d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time
10375d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   (This document was produced by the Department of Finance.)
10385d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
10395d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10405d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   Bureau of Meteorology (2012-11-08)
10415d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml
10425d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   EST CST WST EDT CDT
10435d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10445d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   Civil Aviation Safety Authority (undated)
10455d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   http://services.casa.gov.au/outnback/inc/pages/episode3/episode-3_time_zones.shtml
10465d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   EST CST WST (no abbreviations given for DST)
10475d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10485d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   Geoscience Australia (2011-11-24)
10495d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp
10505d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
10515d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10525d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10)
10535ee0bd13SYuri Pankov#   https://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf
10545d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   EST CST WST preferred for standard time; AEST AEDT ACST ACDT also used
10555d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10565d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   The Transport Safety Bureau has an extensive series of accident reports,
10575d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   and investigators seem to use whatever abbreviation they like.
10585d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   Googling site:atsb.gov.au found the following number of unique hits:
10595d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   311 "ESuT", 195 "EDT", 26 "AEDT", 83 "CSuT", 46 "CDT".
10605d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   "_SuT" tended to appear in older reports, and "A_DT" tended to
10615d0e1406SMarcel Telka#   appear in reports of events with international implications.
10625d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From the above it appears that there is a working consensus in
10645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Australia to use trailing "DT" for daylight saving time; although
10655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# some sources use trailing "SST" or "ST" or "SuT" they are by far in
10665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the minority.  The case for leading "A" is weaker, but since it
10675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# seems to be preferred in the overall web and is preferred in all
10685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the leading newspaper websites and in many government departments,
10695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# it has a stronger case than omitting the leading "A".  The current
10705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# version of the database therefore uses abbreviations like "AEST" and
10715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "AEDT" for Australian time zones.
10725d0e1406SMarcel Telka
10735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
10745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
10755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
10765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
10775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
10785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and perhaps the newspaper's '2:00' is referring to standard time.
10795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
10805d0e1406SMarcel Telka
10815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
10825d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
10845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
10855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# relevant entries in this database.
10865d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
10875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill):
10885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04)
10895ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html
10905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ACT
10915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972
10925ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html
10935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# SA
10945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Standard Time Act, 1898
10955ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html
10965d0e1406SMarcel Telka
10975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From David Grosz (2005-06-13):
10985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by
10995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
11005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday
11015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in April instead of the last Sunday in March.
11025d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
11035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14):
11045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan
11055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to extend DST together in 2006.
11065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt
11075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html
11085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html
11095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772
11105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles
11115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# allude to it.
11125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# But not Queensland
11135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html
11145d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Northern Territory
11165d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
11185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY..  [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
11195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
11205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #	N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
11215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
11225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Zone        Australia/North         9:30    -       CST
11235d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
11255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
11265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
11275d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Western Australia
11295d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
11315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #  The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA..  [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
11325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
11335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #	W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
11345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #	DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
11355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #	usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
11365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #	before reaching parliament.
11375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
11385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Zone	Australia/West		8:00	AW	%sST
11395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
11405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
11415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
11425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
11435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
11445d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
11465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
11475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving.
11485d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02):
11505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney
11515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at
11525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# work at 9.00am.)
11535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
11545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# everybody again.
11555d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
11575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
11585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# it matches what was used in the past.
11595d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
11615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm
11625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
11635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia.
11645d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1165a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Paul Eggert (2018-04-01):
1166a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# The Guardian Express of Perth, Australia reported today that the
1167a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# government decided to advance the clocks permanently on January 1,
1168a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# 2019, from UT +08 to UT +09.  The article noted that an exemption
1169a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# would be made for people aged 61 and over, who "can apply in writing
1170a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# to have the extra hour of sunshine removed from their area."  See:
1171a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Daylight saving coming to WA in 2019. Guardian Express. 2018-04-01.
1172a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# https://www.communitynews.com.au/guardian-express/news/exclusive-daylight-savings-coming-wa-summer-2018/
1173a6c652dbSYuri Pankov
11745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Queensland
1175a6c652dbSYuri Pankov
1176a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-26):
1177a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# I lack access to the following source for Queensland DST:
1178a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Pearce C. History of daylight saving time in Queensland.
1179a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Queensland Hist J. 2017 Aug;23(6):389-403
1180a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=994682348436426;res=IELHSS
1181a6c652dbSYuri Pankov
11825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
11835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #   The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
11845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #						[ Dec 1990 ]
11855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
11865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Zone	Australia/Queensland	10:00	AQ	%sST
11875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
11885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
11895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	E
11905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	AQ	1989	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
11915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	AQ	1990	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	E
11925d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bradley White (1989-12-24):
11945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from
11955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# October 1989).
11965d0e1406SMarcel Telka
11975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
11985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
11995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
12005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
12015d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
12035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact
12045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# end on Sunday, 3 March.  I don't know at what hour, though.  (It surprised
12055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# me.)
12065d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bradley White (1992-03-08):
12085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted
12095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ...
12105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
12115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	QLD	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
12125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	QLD	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
12135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
12145d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
12165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
12175d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning
12195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# from Jesper Nørgaard Welen (2006-11-01):
12205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# WA are trialing DST for three years.
12215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf
12225d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
12245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
12255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# southern coast....  South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
12265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Australia does not.  The two states are one and a half hours apart.  The
12275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
12285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
12295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
12305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Australia and Western Australia....
12315d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
12335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This is confirmed by the section entitled
12345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "What's the deal with time zones???" in
12355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html
12365d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07):
12385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway,
12395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern
12405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# coast of the continent.
12415d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no
12435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border
12445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west
12455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is
12465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the largest population centre in this zone....
12475d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the
12495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I
12505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have,
12515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45.
12525d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (2006-12-09):
12545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving
12555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis
12565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of this time zone.  My hunch is that it's been around since well
12575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# before 1975.  I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago.
1258*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman#
1259*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Gilmore Davidson (2019-04-08):
1260*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-08/this-remote-stretch-of-desert-has-its-own-custom-time-zone/10981000
1261*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# ... include[s] a rough description of the geographical boundaries...
1262*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# "The time zone exists for about 340 kilometres and takes in the tiny
1263*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# roadhouse communities of Cocklebiddy, Madura, Eucla and Border Village."
1264*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# ... and an indication that the zone has definitely been in existence
1265*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# since before the 1970 cut-off of the database ...
1266*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Paul Eggert (2019-05-17):
1267*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# That ABC Esperance story by Christien de Garis also says:
1268*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman#    Although the Central Western Time Zone is not officially recognised (your
1269*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman#    phones won't automatically change), there is a sign instructing you which
1270*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman#    way to wind your clocks 45 minutes and scrawled underneath one of them in
1271*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman#    Texta is the word: 'Why'?
1272*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman#    "Good question," Mr Pike said.
1273*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman#    "I don't even know that, and it's been going for over 50 years."
12745d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15):
12765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the
12775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# introduction of standard time in 1895.
12785d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12795d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# southeast Australia
12815d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
12825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
12835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT
12845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October.
12855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html
12865d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12875d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# South Australia
12895d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
12915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
12925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
12935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
12945d0e1406SMarcel Telka
12955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
12965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #   The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]
12975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
12985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
12995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Zone	Australia/South		9:30	AS	%sST
13005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
13015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	 AS	1971	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
13025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	 AS	1972	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
13035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	 AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	C
13045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	 AS	1991	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
13055d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bradley White (1992-03-11):
13075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide
13085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# contained the following exchange:  "Due to the Adelaide Festival,
13095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks."
13105d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13):
13125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that)
13135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even
13145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# numbered year (from 1990).  That's when the Adelaide Festival
13155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# is on...
13165d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000):
13185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
13195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
13205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
13215d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bradley White (1994-04-11):
13235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
13245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
13255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
13265d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From John Warburton (1994-10-07):
13285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
13295d0e1406SMarcel Telka# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
13305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
13315d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
13335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
13345d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tasmania
13365d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
13385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
13395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #  The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
13405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
13415d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10):
13435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
13445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
13455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (but nothing new about that).
13465d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04):
13485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the
13495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard,
13505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria
13515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000
13525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# instead of the first Sunday in October.
13535d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules:
13555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300
13565d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
13585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
13595d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Victoria
13615d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
13635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
13645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #   The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
13655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
13665d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29):
13685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an
13695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# interesting story about daylight savings time.  Dr. John Heilbron was
13705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar
13715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located
13725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in Melbourne, Australia.
13735d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
13745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which
13755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day
13765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's
13775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# fallen WWI soldiers.  And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time,
13785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the
13795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# expected time.
13805d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
13815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had
13825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of
13835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?).  Perhaps
13845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more.
13855d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
13865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html
13875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au
13885d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
13905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
13915d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# New South Wales
13935d0e1406SMarcel Telka
13945d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Arthur David Olson:
13955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
13965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Based on law library research by John Mackin,
13975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# who notes:
13985d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
13995d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	individual states.  Thus, while such terms as "Eastern Standard Time"
14005d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	[I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common
14015d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the
14025d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	legislation.  This is very important to understand.
14035d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	I have researched New South Wales time only...
14045d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
14065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
14075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# October in 2000.  See: Matthew Moore,
14085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Two months more daylight saving, Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).
14095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html
14105d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
14125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See the following official NSW source:
14135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
14145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ
14155d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of
14175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# daylight saving next year.  See:
14185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
14195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm
14205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1999-07-22).  For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
14215d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14225ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# Victoria will follow NSW.  See:
14235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28)
14245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm
14255d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# However, South Australia rejected the DST request.  See:
14275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19)
14285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm
14295d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics.  See:
14315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics
14325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm
14335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying
14345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time
14355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very
14365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of
14375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night.
14385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules."
14395d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
14405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000.  See:
14415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Broken Hill to be behind the times (1999-07-21)
14425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm
14435d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian
14455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken
14465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
14475d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
14495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
14505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# towns to use Queensland time.
14515d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
14535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
14545d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Yancowinna
14565d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
14585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 'Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
14595d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
14615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# # YANCOWINNA..  [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
14625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #					[ Dec 1990 ]
14635d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
14645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the
14655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings
14665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government
14675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have
14685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
14695d0e1406SMarcel Telka# # presently available.
14705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Zone	Australia/Yancowinna	9:30	 AY	%sST
14715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
14725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	 AY	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
14735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	 AY	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	C
14745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# [followed by other Rules]
14755d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Lord Howe Island
14775d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
14795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# LHI...		[ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ]
14805d0e1406SMarcel Telka#					[ Dec 1990 ]
14815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
14825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# hour ahead of NSW time.
14835d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27):
14855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same
14865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27).  For your information the
14875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is
14885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time
14895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour
14905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# instead of only 30 minutes.  [Dependent] on the wishes of residents
14915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing
14925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# arrangements.  The starting date for summer time on the Island will
14935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
14945d0e1406SMarcel Telka
14955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
14965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
14975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
14985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
14995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
15005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
15015d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
15035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and
15045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Lonergan thereafter.  For times we use Lonergan.
15055d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
15075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
15085d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28):
15105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight
15115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009
15125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# summer (southern hemisphere).
15135d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From
15155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf
15165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling
15175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing.
15185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each
15195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year.
15205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia
15215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and
15225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year...
15235d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We have a wrap-up here:
15255ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html
15265d0e1406SMarcel Telka###############################################################################
15275d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# New Zealand
15295d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
15315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
15325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for
15335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start).
15345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# source - phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office.
15355d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
15375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# # The Country of New Zealand   (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
15385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #				   or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
15395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #	[ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ]
15405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# #				[ Nov 1990 ]
15415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
15425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NZ      1974    1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
15435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NZ	1989	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
15445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NZ      1975    1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
15455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Rule	NZ	1990	max	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	S
15465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ...
15475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Zone	NZ			12:00	NZ		NZ%sT	# New Zealand
15485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Zone	NZ-CHAT			12:45	-		NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island
15495d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
15515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989
15525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# rather than the October 1 value.
15535d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
15555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
15565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
15575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
15585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
15595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
15605d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
15625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history,
1563121e6e16SYuri Pankov# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.html for the full references.
15645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger.
15655d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
15665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with
15675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham
15685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland.
15695d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30):
15715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the
15725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# first Sunday in April.  The changes take effect this year, meaning
15735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06.
15745d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended
15755d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14):
15775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by
15785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26).
15795ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf
15805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand
15815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard
15825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# time in the Chatham Islands.  The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New
15835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Zealand time.  I understand that is the time they keep locally, anyhow."
15845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For now, assume this practice goes back to the introduction of standard time
15855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match
15865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# LMT back when New Zealand was at UT +11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did
15875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# not observe New Zealand's prewar DST.
15885d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15895d0e1406SMarcel Telka###############################################################################
15905d0e1406SMarcel Telka
15915d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1592*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands and Marcus Island (Minami-Tori-shima)
1593*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman
1594*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Wakaba (2019-01-28) via Phake Nick:
1595*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# National Diet Library of Japan has several reports by Japanese Government
1596*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# officers that describe the time used in islands when they visited there.
1597*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# According to them (and other sources such as newspapers), standard time UTC
1598*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# + 10 (JST + 1) and DST UTC + 11 (JST + 2) was used until its return to Japan
1599*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# at 1968-06-26 00:00 JST.  The exact periods of DST are still unknown.
1600*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# I guessed Guam, Mariana, and Bonin and Marcus districts might have
1601*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# synchronized their DST periods, but reports imply they had their own
1602*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# decisions, i.e. there were three or more different time zones....
1603*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman#
1604*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/小笠原諸島の標準時
1605*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman
1606*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Phake Nick (2019-02-12):
1607*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Because their last time change to return to Japanese time when they returned
1608*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# to Japanese rule was right before 1970, ... per the current tz database
1609*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# rule, the information doesn't warrant creation of a new timezone for Bonin
1610*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Islands itself and is thus as an anecdotal note for interest purpose only.
1611*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# ... [The abovementioned link] described some special timekeeping phenomenon
1612*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# regarding Marcus island, another remote island currently owned by Japanese
1613*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# in the same administrative unit as Bonin Islands.  Many reports claim that
1614*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# the American coastal guard on the American quarter of the island use its own
1615*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# coastal guard time, and most sources describe the time as UTC+11, being two
1616*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# hours faster than JST used by some Japanese personnel on the island.  Some
1617*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# sites describe it as same as Wake Island/Guam time although it would be
1618*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# incorrect to be same as Guam.  And then in a few Japanese governmental
1619*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# report from 1980s (from National Institute of Information and Communications
1620*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Technology) regarding the construction of VLBI facility on the Marcus
1621*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Island, it claimed that there are three time standards being used on the
1622*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# island at the time which include not just JST (UTC+9) or [US]CG time
1623*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# (UTC+11) but also a JMSDF time (UTC+10) (Japan Maritime Self-Defense
1624*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Force).  Unfortunately there are no other sources that mentioned such time
1625*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# and there are also no information on things like how the time was used.
1626*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman
1627*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman
16285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Fiji
16295d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16305d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
16315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time
16325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# instead of the American system (which was one day behind).
16335d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
16355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01
16365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28.  Each year the DST period will
16375d0e1406SMarcel Telka# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
16385d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
16405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time.  Go with McDow.
16415d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From the BBC World Service in
16435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/205226.stm (1998-10-31 16:03 UTC):
16445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Fijian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
16455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# improve productivity and reduce road accidents.... [T]he move is also
16465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# intended to boost Fiji's ability to attract tourists to witness the dawning
16475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of the new millennium.
16485d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
16505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
16515d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16525d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Kiribati
16545d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
16565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati
16575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "declared it the same day [throughout] the country as of Jan. 1, 1995"
16585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
16595d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1660a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Kerry Shetline (2018-02-03):
1661a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# December 31 was the day that was skipped, so that the transition
1662a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# would be from Friday December 30, 1994 to Sunday January 1, 1995.
1663a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-04):
1664a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# One source for this is page 202 of: Bartky IR. One Time Fits All:
1665a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (2007).
16665d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Kwajalein
16685d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16699047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From an AP article (1993-08-22):
16709047ba7fSDominik Hassler# "The nearly 3,000 Americans living on this remote Pacific atoll have a good
16719047ba7fSDominik Hassler# excuse for not remembering Saturday night: there wasn't one.  Residents were
16729047ba7fSDominik Hassler# going to bed Friday night and waking up Sunday morning because at midnight
16739047ba7fSDominik Hassler# -- 8 A.M. Eastern daylight time on Saturday -- Kwajalein was jumping from
16749047ba7fSDominik Hassler# one side of the international date line to the other."
16759047ba7fSDominik Hassler# "In Marshall Islands, Friday is followed by Sunday", NY Times. 1993-08-22.
16769047ba7fSDominik Hassler# https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/world/in-marshall-islands-friday-is-followed-by-sunday.html
16779047ba7fSDominik Hassler
16789047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Phake Nick (2018-10-27):
16799047ba7fSDominik Hassler# <https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/南洋群島の標準時> ... pointed out that
16809047ba7fSDominik Hassler# currently tzdata say Pacific/Kwajalein switched from GMT+11 to GMT-12 in
16819047ba7fSDominik Hassler# 1969 October without explanation, however an 1993 article from NYT say it
16829047ba7fSDominik Hassler# synchorized its day with US mainland about 40 years ago and thus the switch
16839047ba7fSDominik Hassler# should occur at around 1950s instead.
16849047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
16859047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
16869047ba7fSDominik Hassler# The NYT (actually, AP) article is vague and possibly wrong about this.
16879047ba7fSDominik Hassler# The article says the earlier switch was "40 years ago when the United States
16889047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Army established a missile test range here".  However, the Kwajalein Test
16899047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Center was established on 1960-10-01 and was run by the US Navy.  It was
16909047ba7fSDominik Hassler# transferred to the US Army on 1964-07-01.  See "Seize the High Ground"
16919047ba7fSDominik Hassler# <https://history.army.mil/html/books/070/70-88-1/cmhPub_70-88-1.pdf>.
16929047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Given that Shanks was right on the money about the 1993 change, I'm inclined
16939047ba7fSDominik Hassler# to take Shanks's word for the 1969 change unless we find better evidence.
16945d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16955d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# N Mariana Is, Guam
16975d0e1406SMarcel Telka
16989047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Phake Nick (2018-10-27):
16999047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Guam Island was briefly annexed by Japan during ... year 1941-1944 ...
17009047ba7fSDominik Hassler# however there are no detailed information about what time it use during that
17019047ba7fSDominik Hassler# period.  It would probably be reasonable to assume Guam use GMT+9 during
17029047ba7fSDominik Hassler# that period of time like the surrounding area.
17039047ba7fSDominik Hassler
17049047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
17055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Howse writes (p 153) "The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
17065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Philippines and the Ladrones from America," and implies that the Ladrones
17075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
17085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
17095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# see Asia/Manila.
17109047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
17119047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Use 1941-12-10 and 1944-07-31 for Guam WWII transitions, as the rough start
17129047ba7fSDominik Hassler# and end of Japanese control of Agana.  We don't know whether the Northern
17139047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Marianas followed Guam's DST rules from 1959 through 1977; for now, assume
17149047ba7fSDominik Hassler# they did as that avoids the need for a separate zone due to our 1970 cutoff.
17159047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
17165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UT +10 the official standard time,
17175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time".  There is no official abbreviation,
17185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
17195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
17205d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17219047ba7fSDominik Hassler# See also the commentary for Micronesia.
17225d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17239047ba7fSDominik Hassler
17249047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Marshall Is
17259047ba7fSDominik Hassler# See the commentary for Micronesia.
17269047ba7fSDominik Hassler
17279047ba7fSDominik Hassler
17289047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Micronesia (and nearby)
17299047ba7fSDominik Hassler
17309047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
17319047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Like the Ladrones (see Guam commentary), assume the Spanish East Indies
17329047ba7fSDominik Hassler# kept American time until the Philippines switched at the end of 1844.
17335d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
17355d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that 'Truk'
17365d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10."
17375d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
17385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UT +10 to +11
17395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now.
17405d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
17425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in
17435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information (1999-01-26)
17445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html
17455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# that Truk and Yap are UT +10, and Ponape and Kosrae are +11.
17465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We don't know when Kosrae switched from +12; assume January 1 for now.
17475d0e1406SMarcel Telka
17489047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Phake Nick (2018-10-27):
17499047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
17509047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From a Japanese wiki site https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/南洋群島の標準時
17519047ba7fSDominik Hassler# ...
17529047ba7fSDominik Hassler# For "Southern Islands" (modern region of Mariana + Palau + Federation of
17539047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Micronesia + Marshall Islands):
17549047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
17559047ba7fSDominik Hassler# A 1906 Japanese magazine shown the Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands
17569047ba7fSDominik Hassler# who was occupied by Germany at the time as GMT+10, together with the like
17579047ba7fSDominik Hassler# of German New Guinea.  However there is a marking saying it have not been
17589047ba7fSDominik Hassler# implemented (yet).  No further information after that were found.
17599047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
17609047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Japan invaded those islands in 1914, and records shows that they were
17619047ba7fSDominik Hassler# instructed to use JST at the time.
17629047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
17639047ba7fSDominik Hassler# 1915 January telecommunication record on the Jaluit Atoll shows they use
17649047ba7fSDominik Hassler# the meridian of 170E as standard time (GMT+11:20), which is similar to the
17659047ba7fSDominik Hassler# longitude of the atoll.
17669047ba7fSDominik Hassler# 1915 February record say the 170E standard time is to be used until
17679047ba7fSDominik Hassler# February 9 noon, and after February 9 noon they are to use JST.
17689047ba7fSDominik Hassler# However these are time used within the Japanese Military at the time and
17699047ba7fSDominik Hassler# probably does not reflect the time used by local resident at the time (that
17709047ba7fSDominik Hassler# is if they keep their own time back then)
17719047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
17729047ba7fSDominik Hassler# In January 1919 the occupying force issued a command that split the area
17739047ba7fSDominik Hassler# into three different timezone with meridian of 135E, 150E, 165E (JST+0, +1,
17749047ba7fSDominik Hassler# +2), and the command was to become effective from February 1 of the same
17759047ba7fSDominik Hassler# year.  Despite the target of the command is still only for the occupying
17769047ba7fSDominik Hassler# force itself, further publication have described the time as the standard
17779047ba7fSDominik Hassler# time for the occupied area and thus it can probably be seen as such.
17789047ba7fSDominik Hassler#  * Area that use meridian of 135E: Palau and Yap civil administration area
17799047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    (Southern Islands Western Standard Time)
17809047ba7fSDominik Hassler#  * Area that use meridian of 150E: Truk (Chuuk) and Saipan civil
17819047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    administration area (Southern Islands Central Standard Time)
17829047ba7fSDominik Hassler#  * Area that use meridian of 165E: Ponape (Pohnpei) and Jaluit civil
17839047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    administration area (Southern Islands Eastern Standard Time).
17849047ba7fSDominik Hassler#  * In the next few years Japanese occupation of those islands have been
17859047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    formalized via League of Nation Mandate (South Pacific Mandate) and formal
17869047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    governance structure have been established, these district [become
17879047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    subprefectures] and timezone classification have been inherited as standard
17889047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    time of the area.
17899047ba7fSDominik Hassler#  * Saipan subprefecture include Mariana islands (exclude Guam which was
17909047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    occupied by America at the time), Palau and Yap subprefecture rule the
17919047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    Western Caroline Islands with 137E longitude as border, Truk and Ponape
17929047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    subprefecture rule the Eastern Caroline Islands with 154E as border, Ponape
17939047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    subprefecture also rule part of Marshall Islands to the west of 164E
17949047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    starting from (1918?) and Jaluit subprefecture rule the rest of the
17959047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    Marshall Islands.
17969047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
17979047ba7fSDominik Hassler# And then in year 1937, an announcement was made to change the time in the
17989047ba7fSDominik Hassler# area into 2 timezones:
17999047ba7fSDominik Hassler#  * Area that use meridian of 135E: area administered by Palau, Yap and
18009047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    Saipan subprefecture (Southern Islands Western Standard Time)
18019047ba7fSDominik Hassler#  * Area that use meridian of 150E: area administered by Truk (Chuuk),
18029047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    Ponape (Pohnpei) and Jaluit subprefecture (Southern Islands Eastern
18039047ba7fSDominik Hassler#    Standard Time)
18049047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18059047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Another announcement issued in 1941 say that on April 1 that year,
18069047ba7fSDominik Hassler# standard time of the Southern Islands would be changed to use the meridian
18079047ba7fSDominik Hassler# of 135E (GMT+9), and thus abolishing timezone different within the area.
18089047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18099047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Then Pacific theater of WWII started and Japan slowly lose control on the
18109047ba7fSDominik Hassler# island.  The webpage I linked above contain no information during this
18119047ba7fSDominik Hassler# period of time....
18129047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18139047ba7fSDominik Hassler# After the end of WWII, in 1946 February, a document written by the
18149047ba7fSDominik Hassler# (former?) Japanese military personnel describe there are 3 hours time
18159047ba7fSDominik Hassler# different between Caroline islands time/Wake island time and the Chungking
18169047ba7fSDominik Hassler# time, which would mean the time being used there at the time was GMT+10.
18179047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18189047ba7fSDominik Hassler# After that, the area become Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands
18199047ba7fSDominik Hassler# under American administration from year 1947.  The site listed some
18209047ba7fSDominik Hassler# American/International books/maps/publications about time used in those
18219047ba7fSDominik Hassler# area during this period of time but they doesn't seems to be reliable
18229047ba7fSDominik Hassler# information so it would be the best if someone know where can more reliable
18239047ba7fSDominik Hassler# information can be found.
18249047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18259047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18269047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
18279047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18289047ba7fSDominik Hassler# For the above, use vague dates like "1914" and "1945" for transitions that
18299047ba7fSDominik Hassler# plausibly exist but for which the details are not known.  The information
18309047ba7fSDominik Hassler# for Wake is too sketchy to act on.
18319047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18329047ba7fSDominik Hassler# The 1906 GMT+10 info about German-controlled islands might not have been
18339047ba7fSDominik Hassler# done, so omit it from the data for now.
18349047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18359047ba7fSDominik Hassler# The Jaluit info governs Kwajalein.
18369047ba7fSDominik Hassler
18375d0e1406SMarcel Telka
18385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Midway
18395d0e1406SMarcel Telka
18405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
18415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
18425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
18435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
18445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Saving Time.  This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
18455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# your time down there in New Zealand.  Starting September 2, 1956
18465d0e1406SMarcel Telka# we'll again go back to Standard Time.  This'll mean that we'll go to
18475d0e1406SMarcel Telka# air at 6am your time.
18485d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
18495d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
18505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
18515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# started DST on June 3.  Possibly DST was observed other years
18525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in Midway, but we have no record of it.
18535d0e1406SMarcel Telka
18549047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Nauru
18559047ba7fSDominik Hassler
18569047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Phake Nick (2018-10-31):
18579047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Currently, the tz database say Nauru use LMT until 1921, and then
18589047ba7fSDominik Hassler# switched to GMT+11:30 for the next two decades.
18599047ba7fSDominik Hassler# However, a number of timezone map published in America/Japan back then
18609047ba7fSDominik Hassler# showed its timezone as GMT+11 per https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/ナウルの標準時
18619047ba7fSDominik Hassler# And it would also be nice if the 1921 transition date could be sourced.
18629047ba7fSDominik Hassler# ...
18639047ba7fSDominik Hassler# The "Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 Time Change"
18649047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/4b23a17d2030150404db7a5fa5872f52.pdf#page=3
18659047ba7fSDominik Hassler# based on "Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 Time Change"
18669047ba7fSDominik Hassler# http://www.paclii.org/nr/legis/num_act/nsta1978207/ defined that "Nauru
18679047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Alternative Time" (GMT+12) should be in effect from 1979 Feb.
18689047ba7fSDominik Hassler#
18699047ba7fSDominik Hassler# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-19):
18709047ba7fSDominik Hassler# The 1921-01-15 introduction of standard time is in Shanks; it is also in
18719047ba7fSDominik Hassler# "Standard Time Throughout the World", US National Bureau of Standards (1935),
18729047ba7fSDominik Hassler# page 3, which does not give the UT offset.  In response to a comment by
18739047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Phake Nick I set the Nauru time of occupation by Japan to
18749047ba7fSDominik Hassler# 1942-08-29/1945-09-08 by using dates from:
18759047ba7fSDominik Hassler# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Nauru
18769047ba7fSDominik Hassler
18775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Norfolk
18785d0e1406SMarcel Telka
18795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23):
18805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100:
18815d0e1406SMarcel Telka# https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
18825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015.
18835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf
18845d0e1406SMarcel Telka
1885*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Paul Eggert (2019-08-28):
18865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted
18875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's
18885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST
18895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# other than in 1974/5.  See:
18905ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html
1891*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# However, disagree with timeanddate about the 1975-03-02 transition;
1892*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# timeanddate has 02:00 but 02:00s corresponds to what the NSW law said
1893*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# (thanks to Michael Deckers).
1894*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman
1895*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# Norfolk started observing Australian DST in spring 2019.
1896*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Kyle Czech (2019-08-13):
1897*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2018L01702
1898*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# From Michael Deckers (2019-08-14):
1899*8a907646SAndy Fiddaman# https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2019C00010
19005d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19019047ba7fSDominik Hassler# Palau
19029047ba7fSDominik Hassler# See commentary for Micronesia.
19039047ba7fSDominik Hassler
19045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Pitcairn
19055d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
19075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
19085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time.  The Proclamation is as follows.
19095d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19105d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
19115d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
19125d0e1406SMarcel Telka#	as Pitcairn Standard Time.
19135d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
19155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
19165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# somehow in light of this proclamation.
19175d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
19195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
19205d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ... at midnight.
19215d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
19235d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
1924a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be ½ hour different from us here in
19255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
19265d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19275d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (Western) Samoa and American Samoa
19295d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19305ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# Howse writes (p 153) that after the 1879 standardization on Antipodean
19315ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# time by the British governor of Fiji, the King of Samoa decided to change
19325d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
19335d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that
19345d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year."
19355ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# This happened in 1892, according to the Evening News (Sydney) of 1892-07-20.
19365ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm
19375d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19385d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30
19395d0e1406SMarcel Telka# in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11
19405d0e1406SMarcel Telka# for American Samoa, e.g., the US National Bureau of Standards
19415d0e1406SMarcel Telka# circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932.
19425d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Assume American Samoa switched to -11 in 1911, not 1950,
19435d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and that after 1950 they agreed until (western) Samoa skipped a
19445d0e1406SMarcel Telka# day in 2011.  Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New
19455d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations.
19465d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19475ee0bd13SYuri Pankov
19485d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tonga
19495d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19505d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
19515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting
19525d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time."
19535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
19545d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19555d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle
19565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins':
19575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm
19585d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST
19605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT.  When New Zealand adjusted its
19615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its
19625d0e1406SMarcel Telka# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of
1963a6c652dbSYuri Pankov# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13°
19645d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).
19655d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Because His Majesty King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince
19675d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tungī, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time
19685d0e1406SMarcel Telka# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change.
19695d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19705d0e1406SMarcel Telka# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer
19715d0e1406SMarcel Telka# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40
19725d0e1406SMarcel Telka# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40
19735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# minutes we have lost?"
19745d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
19765d0e1406SMarcel Telka# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
19775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to say your prayers in the morning."
19785d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
19805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
19815d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
19835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium
19845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
19855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
19865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
19875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Government.
19885d0e1406SMarcel Telka
19895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
19905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# * Tonga will introduce DST in November
19915d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I was given this link by John Letts:
19935d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
19945d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
19955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November
19965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead
19975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
19985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (12 + 1 hour DST).
19995d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
20015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# According to <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>:
20025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000
20035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the
20045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# third Saturday of April.  Under the system approved by Privy Council on
20055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and
20065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# set back an hour on the closing date."
20075d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Alas, no indication of the time of day.
20085d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
20105d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
20115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
20125d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
20145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
20155d0e1406SMarcel Telka# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
20165d0e1406SMarcel Telka# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
20175d0e1406SMarcel Telka# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
20185d0e1406SMarcel Telka# text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
20195d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (Original URL was <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm>)
20205d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20215d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
20225d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
20235d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20245d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
20255d0e1406SMarcel Telka# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
20265d0e1406SMarcel Telka# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am.  At 2:00am on the last Sunday
20275d0e1406SMarcel Telka# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
20285d0e1406SMarcel Telka# hour to 1:00am.
20295d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20308d30ff13SDan McDonald# From Pulu ʻAnau (2002-11-05):
20315d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed.  It wasn't.
20325d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20338d30ff13SDan McDonald# From Pulu ʻAnau (2016-10-27):
20348d30ff13SDan McDonald# http://mic.gov.to/news-today/press-releases/6375-daylight-saving-set-to-run-from-6-november-2016-to-15-january-2017
20358d30ff13SDan McDonald# Cannot find anyone who knows the rules, has seen the duration or has seen
20368d30ff13SDan McDonald# the cabinet decision, but it appears we are following Fiji's rule set.
20378d30ff13SDan McDonald#
20388d30ff13SDan McDonald# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-26):
20398d30ff13SDan McDonald# Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00
20408d30ff13SDan McDonald# through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now.
20415d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20425ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# From David Wade (2017-10-18):
20435ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# In August government was disolved by the King.  The current prime minister
20445ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# continued in office in care taker mode.  It is easy to see that few
20455ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# decisions will be made until elections 16th November.
20465ee0bd13SYuri Pankov#
20475ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18):
20485ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# For now, guess that DST is discontinued.  That's what the IATA is guessing.
20495ee0bd13SYuri Pankov
20505ee0bd13SYuri Pankov
20515d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Wake
20525d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20535d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
20545d0e1406SMarcel Telka# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
20555d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
20565d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ...  The time was all the
20575d0e1406SMarcel Telka# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
20585d0e1406SMarcel Telka# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays.  Furthermore, we
20595d0e1406SMarcel Telka# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
20605d0e1406SMarcel Telka# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
20615d0e1406SMarcel Telka# impossible.
20625d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
20635ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/andrsonv.htm
20645d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20655d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
20665d0e1406SMarcel Telka# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
20675d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20689047ba7fSDominik Hassler# See also the commentary for Micronesia.
20699047ba7fSDominik Hassler
20709047ba7fSDominik Hassler
20715d0e1406SMarcel Telka###############################################################################
20725d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20735d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The International Date Line
20745d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20755d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
20765d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
20775d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
20785d0e1406SMarcel Telka# convention, or treaty.  Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
20795d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
20805d0e1406SMarcel Telka# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
20815d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
20825d0e1406SMarcel Telka# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
20835d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
20845d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
20855d0e1406SMarcel Telka# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati.  Even that line
20865d0e1406SMarcel Telka# has a rather arbitrary nature.  The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
20875d0e1406SMarcel Telka# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
20885d0e1406SMarcel Telka# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is
20895d0e1406SMarcel Telka# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
20905d0e1406SMarcel Telka# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC.  And, since the IDL is not
20915d0e1406SMarcel Telka# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
20925d0e1406SMarcel Telka# correct date is ambiguous.
20935d0e1406SMarcel Telka
20945ee0bd13SYuri Pankov# From Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31):
20955d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting
20965d0e1406SMarcel Telka# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's
20975d0e1406SMarcel Telka# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's
20985d0e1406SMarcel Telka# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon).  During 1917, at the
20995d0e1406SMarcel Telka# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all
21005d0e1406SMarcel Telka# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones
21015d0e1406SMarcel Telka# on the high seas.  Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any
21025d0e1406SMarcel Telka# nation it would use that nation's standard time.  The captain was permitted
21035d0e1406SMarcel Telka# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's
21045d0e1406SMarcel Telka# entry into another zone time - he often chose midnight.  These zones were
21055d0e1406SMarcel Telka# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many
21065d0e1406SMarcel Telka# independent merchant ships until World War II.
21075d0e1406SMarcel Telka
21085d0e1406SMarcel Telka# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
21095d0e1406SMarcel Telka# (2005-03-20):
21105d0e1406SMarcel Telka#
21115d0e1406SMarcel Telka# The American Practical Navigator (2002)
21125d0e1406SMarcel Telka# http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187
21135d0e1406SMarcel Telka# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
21145d0e1406SMarcel Telka# international waters; it ignores the international date line.
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