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1 | | -# @(#)australasia 7.68 |
| 1 | +# @(#)australasia 7.69 |
2 | 2 | # This file also includes Pacific islands. |
3 | 3 |
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4 | 4 | # Notes are at the end of this file |
@@ -297,45 +297,37 @@ Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 |
297 | 297 | ############################################################################### |
298 | 298 |
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299 | 299 | # New Zealand |
300 | | -# |
301 | | -# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-23): |
302 | | -# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history; |
303 | | -# see tz-link.htm for the full reference. |
304 | | -# |
305 | | -# Shanks gives 1868 for the introduction of standard time; go with the |
306 | | -# DIA's more-precise 1868-11-02. The DIA says that clocks were |
307 | | -# advanced by half an hour in 1941; go with Shanks's more-precise |
308 | | -# 1940-09-29 02:00. The DIA says that starting in 1933 DST began the |
309 | | -# first Sunday in September; go with Shanks's last Sunday starting in |
310 | | -# 1934. |
311 | 300 |
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312 | 301 | # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S |
313 | | -# Shanks gives 1927 Nov 6 - 1928 Mar 4, 1928 Oct 14 - 1929 Mar 17, |
314 | | -# 1929 Oct 13 - 1930 Mar 16; go with Whitman. |
315 | | -Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 26 2:00 0:30 HD |
316 | | -Rule NZ 1928 1929 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 S |
317 | | -Rule NZ 1928 only - Nov 4 2:00 0:30 HD |
318 | | -Rule NZ 1929 only - Oct 30 2:00 0:30 HD |
319 | | -Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 S |
320 | | -Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 HD |
321 | | -# Whitman says DST went on and off during war years, and the base UT offset |
322 | | -# didn't change until 1945 Apr 30; go with Shanks. |
323 | | -Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S |
324 | | -Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD |
| 302 | +Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S |
| 303 | +Rule NZ 1928 only - Mar 4 2:00 0 M |
| 304 | +Rule NZ 1928 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 S |
| 305 | +Rule NZ 1929 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 M |
| 306 | +Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 M |
| 307 | +Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 S |
| 308 | +Rule NZ 1946 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S |
| 309 | +# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no |
| 310 | +# convenient notation for this so we must duplicate the Rule lines. |
325 | 311 | Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D |
| 312 | +Rule Chatham 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D |
326 | 313 | Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S |
| 314 | +Rule Chatham 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:45s 0 S |
327 | 315 | Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D |
| 316 | +Rule Chatham 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D |
328 | 317 | Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S |
| 318 | +Rule Chatham 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S |
329 | 319 | Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D |
| 320 | +Rule Chatham 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:45s 1:00 D |
330 | 321 | Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D |
331 | | -Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S |
332 | 322 | Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D |
333 | | -Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S |
| 323 | +Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S |
| 324 | +Rule Chatham 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S |
334 | 325 | # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
335 | 326 | Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 |
336 | | - 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1940 Sep 29 2:00 |
| 327 | + 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1 |
337 | 328 | 12:00 NZ NZ%sT |
338 | | -Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT |
| 329 | +Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1957 Jan 1 |
| 330 | + 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT |
339 | 331 |
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340 | 332 |
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341 | 333 | # Auckland Is |
@@ -443,6 +435,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST |
443 | 435 |
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444 | 436 | # Midway |
445 | 437 | Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 |
| 438 | + -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 |
| 439 | + -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 |
446 | 440 | -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome |
447 | 441 | -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering |
448 | 442 | -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa |
@@ -513,7 +507,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 |
513 | 507 | # 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia |
514 | 508 | # 10:00 ChST Chamorro |
515 | 509 | # 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* |
516 | | -# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand |
| 510 | +# 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945 |
| 511 | +# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present |
517 | 512 | # 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* |
518 | 513 | # -11:00 SST Samoa |
519 | 514 | # -10:00 HST Hawaii |
@@ -1067,11 +1062,14 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 |
1067 | 1062 | # time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. |
1068 | 1063 | # As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. |
1069 | 1064 | # |
1070 | | -# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): |
1071 | | -# Shanks gives no time data for Chatham; usno1989 says it's +12:45, |
1072 | | -# usno1995 says it's +12:45/+13:45, and IATA SSIM (1991/1999) |
1073 | | -# gives the NZ rules but with transitions at 2:45 local standard time. |
1074 | | -# Guess that they have been in lock-step with NZ since 1990. |
| 1065 | +# From Paul Eggert (2003-05-26): |
| 1066 | +# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history, |
| 1067 | +# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references. |
| 1068 | +# Use these sources in preference to Shanks. |
| 1069 | +# |
| 1070 | +# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with |
| 1071 | +# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham |
| 1072 | +# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland. |
1075 | 1073 |
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1076 | 1074 | ############################################################################### |
1077 | 1075 |
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@@ -1154,6 +1152,23 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 |
1154 | 1152 | # We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now. |
1155 | 1153 |
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1156 | 1154 |
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| 1155 | +# Midway |
| 1156 | + |
| 1157 | +# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956), |
| 1158 | +# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection |
| 1159 | +# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31): |
| 1160 | +# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight |
| 1161 | +# Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning, |
| 1162 | +# your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956 |
| 1163 | +# we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to |
| 1164 | +# air at 6am your time. |
| 1165 | +# |
| 1166 | +# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): |
| 1167 | +# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they |
| 1168 | +# started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years |
| 1169 | +# in Midway, but we have no record of it. |
| 1170 | + |
| 1171 | + |
1157 | 1172 | # Pitcairn |
1158 | 1173 |
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1159 | 1174 | # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): |
@@ -1277,6 +1292,24 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 |
1277 | 1292 | # From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05): |
1278 | 1293 | # The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. |
1279 | 1294 |
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| 1295 | + |
| 1296 | +# Wake |
| 1297 | + |
| 1298 | +# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, |
| 1299 | +# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02): |
| 1300 | +# |
| 1301 | +# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] -- ... The time was all the |
| 1302 | +# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the |
| 1303 | +# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we |
| 1304 | +# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time |
| 1305 | +# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost |
| 1306 | +# impossible. |
| 1307 | +# |
| 1308 | +# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm |
| 1309 | + |
| 1310 | +# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): |
| 1311 | +# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now. |
| 1312 | + |
1280 | 1313 | ############################################################################### |
1281 | 1314 |
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1282 | 1315 | # The International Date Line |
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