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diff --git a/tz/australasia b/tz/australasia index cf8a063..8e76c27 100644 --- a/tz/australasia +++ b/tz/australasia @@ -458,13 +458,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 9:00 - +09 1944 Jul 31 10:00 Guam G%sT 2000 Dec 23 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time -Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is # Kiribati # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki 12:00 - +12 -Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901 +Zone Pacific/Kanton 0 - -00 1937 Aug 31 -12:00 - -12 1979 Oct -11:00 - -11 1994 Dec 31 13:00 - +13 @@ -584,8 +583,6 @@ Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 12:15 - +1215 1946 Jan 1 12:45 Chatham +1245/+1345 -Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo - # Auckland Is # uninhabited; Māori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, # and scientific personnel have wintered @@ -597,13 +594,46 @@ Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo # was probably like Pacific/Auckland # Cook Is -# From Shanks & Pottenger: +# +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2021-03-24): +# In 1899 the Cook Islands celebrated Christmas twice to correct the calendar. +# According to the old books, missionaries were unaware of +# the International Date line, when they came from Sydney. +# Thus the Cook Islands were one day ahead.... +# http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-KloDisc-t1-body-d18.html +# ... Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1900 +# https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1900-I.2.1.2.3 +# (page 20) +# +# From Michael Deckers (2021-03-24): +# ... in the Cook Island Act of 1915-10-11, online at +# http://www.paclii.org/ck/legis/ck-nz_act/cia1915132/ +# "651. The hour of the day shall in each of the islands included in the +# Cook Islands be determined in accordance with the meridian of that island." +# so that local (mean?) time was still used in Rarotonga (and Niue) in 1915. +# This was changed in the Cook Island Amendment Act of 1952-10-16 ... +# http://www.paclii.org/ck/legis/ck-nz_act/ciaa1952212/ +# "651 (1) The hour of the day in each of the islands included in the Cook +# Islands, other than Niue, shall be determined as if each island were +# situated on the meridian one hundred and fifty-seven degrees thirty minutes +# West of Greenwich. (2) The hour of the day in the Island of Niue shall be +# determined as if that island were situated on the meridian one hundred and +# seventy degrees West of Greenwich." +# This act does not state when it takes effect, so one has to assume it +# applies since 1952-10-16. But there is the possibility that the act just +# legalized prior existing practice, as we had seen with the Guernsey law of +# 1913-06-18 for the switch in 1909-04-19. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2021-03-24): +# Transitions after 1952 are from Shanks & Pottenger. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 - Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 - # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua +Zone Pacific/Rarotonga 13:20:56 - LMT 1899 Dec 26 # Avarua + -10:39:04 - LMT 1952 Oct 16 -10:30 - -1030 1978 Nov 12 -10:00 Cook -10/-0930 @@ -611,10 +641,18 @@ Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua # Niue +# See Pacific/Raratonga comments for 1952 transition. +# +# From Tim Parenti (2021-09-13): +# Consecutive contemporaneous editions of The Air Almanac listed -11:20 for +# Niue as of Apr 1964 but -11 as of Aug 1964: +# Apr 1964: https://books.google.com/books?id=_1So677Y5vUC&pg=SL1-PA23 +# Aug 1964: https://books.google.com/books?id=MbJloqd-zyUC&pg=SL1-PA23 +# Without greater specificity, guess 1964-07-01 for this transition. + # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi - -11:20 - -1120 1951 - -11:30 - -1130 1978 Oct 1 +Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1952 Oct 16 # Alofi + -11:20 - -1120 1964 Jul -11:00 - -11 # Norfolk @@ -673,7 +711,6 @@ Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa -Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa) @@ -742,13 +779,17 @@ Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands # From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08): # That web page currently lists transitions for 2012/3 and 2013/4. # Assume the pattern instituted in 2012 will continue indefinitely. +# +# From Geoffrey D. Bennett (2021-09-20): +# https://www.mcil.gov.ws/storage/2021/09/MCIL-Scan_20210920_120553.pdf +# DST has been cancelled for this year. # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule WS 2010 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 1 - Rule WS 2011 only - Apr Sat>=1 4:00 0 - Rule WS 2011 only - Sep lastSat 3:00 1 - -Rule WS 2012 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 - -Rule WS 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 - +Rule WS 2012 2021 - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 - +Rule WS 2012 2020 - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 - # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 @@ -795,8 +836,8 @@ Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - Rule Tonga 2016 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 - Rule Tonga 2017 only - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 - 12:20 - +1220 1941 +Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:12 - LMT 1945 Sep 10 + 12:20 - +1220 1961 13:00 - +13 1999 13:00 Tonga +13/+14 @@ -1738,6 +1779,23 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # One source for this is page 202 of: Bartky IR. One Time Fits All: # The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (2007). +# Kanton + +# From Paul Eggert (2021-05-27): +# Kiribati's +13 timezone is represented by Kanton, its only populated +# island. (It was formerly spelled "Canton", but Gilbertese lacks "C".) +# Kanton was settled on 1937-08-31 by two British radio operators +# <https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1937v02/d94>; +# Americans came the next year and built an airfield, partly to +# establish airline service and perhaps partly anticipating the +# next war. Aside from the war, the airfield was used by commercial +# airlines until long-range jets became standard; although currently +# for emergency use only, China says it is considering rebuilding the +# airfield for high-end niche tourism. Kanton has about two dozen +# people, caretakers who rotate in from the rest of Kiribati in 2-5 +# year shifts, and who use some of the leftover structures +# <http://pipa.neaq.org/2012/06/images-of-kanton-island.html>. + # Kwajalein # From an AP article (1993-08-22): @@ -2021,6 +2079,17 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Tonga +# From Paul Eggert (2021-03-04): +# In 1943 "The standard time kept is 12 hrs. 19 min. 12 sec. fast +# on Greenwich mean time." according to the Admiralty's Hydrographic +# Dept., Pacific Islands Pilot, Vol. II, 7th ed., 1943, p 360. + +# From Michael Deckers (2021-03-03): +# [Ian R Bartky: "One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity". +# Stanford University Press. 2007. p. 255]: +# On 10 September 1945 Tonga adopted a standard time 12 hours, +# 20 minutes in advance of Greenwich. + # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): # Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting # to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time." @@ -2049,9 +2118,26 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that # on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth # to say your prayers in the morning." - -# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): -# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell. +# +# From Tim Parenti (2021-09-13), per Paul Eggert (2006-03-22) and Michael +# Deckers (2021-03-03): +# Mundell places the transition from +12:20 to +13 in 1941, while Shanks & +# Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01. +# +# The Air Almanac published contemporaneous tables of standard times, +# which listed +12:20 as of Nov 1960 and +13 as of Mar 1961: +# Nov 1960: https://books.google.com/books?id=bVgtWM6kPZUC&pg=SL1-PA19 +# Mar 1961: https://books.google.com/books?id=W2nItAul4g0C&pg=SL1-PA19 +# (Thanks to P Chan for pointing us toward these sources.) +# This agrees with Bartky, who writes that "since 1961 [Tonga's] official time +# has been thirteen hours in advance of Greenwich time" (p. 202) and further +# writes in an endnote that this was because "the legislation was amended" on +# 1960-10-19. (p. 255) +# +# Without greater specificity, presume that Bartky and the Air Almanac point to +# a 1961-01-01 transition, as Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV was still Crown Prince in +# 1961 and this still jives with the gist of Mundell's telling, and go with +# this over Shanks & Pottenger. # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03): # Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium |