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1# @(#)australasia 7.21
2# This file also includes Pacific islands.
3
4# Notes are at the end of this file
5
6###############################################################################
7
8# Australia
9

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16Rule Aus 1942 only - Mar 29 2:00 0 -
17Rule Aus 1942 only - Sep 27 2:00 1:00 -
18Rule Aus 1943 1944 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
19Rule Aus 1943 only - Oct 3 2:00 1:00 -
20# Whitman says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944, and that
21# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944; go with Shanks.
22
23# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
24# Northern Territory
25Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
26 9:30 - CST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
27 9:30 Aus CST
28
29# ZONE-DESCR Australia Darwin Australia_ Northern Territory
30
31# Western Australia
32Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec
33 8:00 - WST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
34 8:00 Aus WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00
35 8:00 1:00 WST 1975 Mar Sun>=1 3:00
36 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00
37 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 3:00
38 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00
39 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 3:00
40 8:00 - WST
41
42# ZONE-DESCR Australia Perth Australia_ Western_Australia
43
44# Queensland
45Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895
46 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
47 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct lastSun 2:00
48 10:00 1:00 EST 1972 Feb lastSun 3:00
49 10:00 - EST 1989 Oct lastSun 2:00
50 10:00 1:00 EST 1990 Mar Sun>=1 3:00
51 10:00 - EST 1990 Oct lastSun 2:00
52 10:00 1:00 EST 1991 Mar Sun>=1 3:00
53 10:00 - EST 1991 Oct lastSun 2:00
54 10:00 1:00 EST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 3:00
55 10:00 - EST
56
57# ZONE-DESCR Australia Brisbane Australia_ Queensland
58
59# South Australia
60# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
61Rule AS 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
62Rule AS 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 1:00 -
63Rule AS 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
64Rule AS 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 -
65Rule AS 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
66Rule AS 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
67Rule AS 1990 1994 even Mar Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
68Rule AS 1990 1994 odd Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
69Rule AS 1995 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
70# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
71Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
72 9:00 - CST 1899 May
73 9:30 - CST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
74 9:30 Aus CST 1971 Oct lastSun 2:00
75 9:30 AS CST
76
77# ZONE-DESCR Australia Adelaide Australia_ South Australia
78
79# Tasmania
80# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
81Rule AT 1967 only - Oct 1 2:00 1:00 -
82Rule AT 1968 only - Mar 31 3:00 0 -
83Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
84Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 3:00 0 -
85Rule AT 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 -
86Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
87Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -

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94# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
95Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep
96 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
97 10:00 Aus EST 1967 Oct 1 2:00
98 10:00 AT EST
99
100# ZONE-DESCR Australia Hobart Australia_ Tasmania
101
102# Victoria
103# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
104Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
105Rule AV 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 -
106Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
107Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
108Rule AV 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 1:00 -
109Rule AV 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
110Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
111Rule AV 1995 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
112# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
113Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
114 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
115 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct 31 2:00
116 10:00 AV EST
117
118# ZONE-DESCR Australia Melbourne Australia_ Victoria
119
120# New South Wales
121# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
122Rule AN 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
123Rule AN 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 -
124Rule AN 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
125Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
126Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 1:00 -
127Rule AN 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
128Rule AN 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
129# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
130Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
131 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
132 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct 31 2:00

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138 10:00 - EST 1896 Aug 23
139 9:00 - CST 1899 May
140 9:30 - CST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
141 9:30 Aus CST 1971 Oct 31 2:00
142 9:30 AN CST
143
144# ZONE-DESCR Australia Broken_Hill Australia_ County of Yancowinna, NSW
145
146# Australian Capital Territory
147# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
148Zone Australia/Canberra 9:56:32 - LMT 1895 Feb
149 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
150 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct 31 2:00
151 10:00 AN EST 1981 Oct 25 2:00
152 10:00 1:00 EST 1982 Apr 4 3:00
153 10:00 AN EST
154
155# ZONE-DESCR Australia Canberra Australia_ Canberra
156
157# Australian miscellany
158# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
159Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
160 10:00 - EST 1981 Mar
161 10:30 AN LHST
162
163# ZONE-DESCR Australia Lord_Howe Australia_ Lord Howe Island
164
165Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
166 7:00 - JVT
167
168# ZONE-DESCR Indian Christmas Australia_ Christmas Island
169
170#
171# Ashmore Is, Cartier
172# no information; probably like Australia/Perth
173#
174# Macquarie, Manihiki, Penrhyn, Rakehanga
175# no information
176
177
178# Cook Is
179# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
180Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HD
181Rule Cook 1979 max - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 H
182Rule Cook 1979 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HD
183# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
184Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua
185 -10:30 - CIST 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is ST
186 -10:00 Cook T%sT
187
188# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Rarotonga Cook_Island All points
189
190# Cocos
191# From USNO (1989):
192# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
193Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT
194
195# ZONE-DESCR Indian Cocos Cocos_Island All points
196
197# Fiji
198# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
199Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
200 12:00 - NZST
201
202# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Fiji Fiji All points
203

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278Rule NZ 1928 1929 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
279Rule NZ 1928 only - Nov 4 2:00 1:00 D
280Rule NZ 1929 only - Oct 30 2:00 1:00 D
281Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 S
282Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 1:00 D
283# Shanks says DST stopped 1940 Sep lastSun; go with Whitman for war years.
284Rule NZ 1934 1944 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S
285Rule NZ 1934 1944 - Sep lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
286Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D
287Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
288Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D
289Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
290Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S
291Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
292Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S
293# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
294Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868
295 # Shanks gives 1940 Sep 29 2:00;
296 # go with Whitman.
297 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1945 Apr 29 2:00
298 12:00 NZ NZ%sT
299Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 - NZ-CHAT
300

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316 -11:00 - SST
317
318# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Niue Niue All points
319
320# Norfolk
321# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
322Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston
323 11:12 - NMT 1951
324 11:30 - NRFT
325
326# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Norfolk Norfolk_Islands All points
327
328# Pacific Islands Trust Territories
329# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
330Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901
331 11:00 - NCST 1969 Oct
332 12:00 - NZST
333Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901
334 11:00 - NCST 1969 Oct
335 -12:00 - KJT 1993 Aug 20
336 12:00 - NZST
337Zone Pacific/Truk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901
338 10:00 - GST 1978 Oct
339 11:00 - NCST
340Zone Pacific/Ponape 10:33:00 - LMT 1901
341 11:00 - NCST
342Zone Pacific/Yap 9:12:24 - LMT 1901
343 9:00 - PLT 1969 Oct
344 10:00 - GST
345
346# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Truk Fed_States_of_Micronesia Truk state
347# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Ponape Fed_States_of_Micronesia Pohnpei state
348# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Yap Fed_States_of_Micronesia Yap state
349# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Majuro Marshall_Islands Majuro
350# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Kwajalein Marshall_Islands Kwajalein
351
352# Palau
353# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
354Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror
355 9:00 - PLT
356
357# ZONE-DESCR Pacific Palau Rep._of_Palau Palau
358
359# Palmyra
360# no information; probably like Pacific/Kiritmati
361
362# Papua New Guinea
363# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
364Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880
365 9:49 - PMMT 1895
366 10:00 - EST

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460# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
461# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
462# Corrections are welcome!
463# std dst
464# LMT Local Mean Time
465# 6:30 CCT Cocos*
466# 7:00 JVT Java*
467# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia
468# 9:00 JST Japan
469# 9:00 PLT Palau*
470# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia
471# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia
472# 10:00 GST Guam*
473# 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe*
474# 11:00 NCST NCDT New Caledonia*
475# 11:30 NRFT Norfolk*
476# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand
477# 12:45 NZ-CHAT Chatham
478# 13:00 TGT Tongatapu*
479# -12:00 KJT Kwajalein (no longer used)*
480# -11:00 SST Samoa
481# -10:40 LIT Line Is (no longer used)*
482# -10:00 THT Tahiti*
483# - 9:30 MQT Marquesas*
484# - 9:00 GBT Gambier*
485# - 8:30 PIT Pitcairn*
486#
487# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii and Samoa.
488# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is.
489#
490# See the `africa' file for Zone naming conventions.
491
492###############################################################################
493
494# Australia
495
496# From John Mackin (March 6, 1991):
497# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time.

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512# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
513
514# From Arthur David Olson (March 8 1992):
515# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is:
516# CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30
517# WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00
518# EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00
519
520# From Paul Eggert (November 8, 1994):
521# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand.
522# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper
523# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
524# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
525# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time.
526# And Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> says that the New Zealand Daylight
527# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
528# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
529# For now we'll continue to assume 3:00 for changes since 1970.
530
531# Northern Territory
532
533# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (March 6, 1991):
534# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
535# # [ Nov 1990 ]
536# # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
537# ...
538# Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST
539
540# From Bradley White (March 4, 1991):
541# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
542# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
543
544# Western Australia
545
546# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (March 6, 1991):
547# # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
548# # [ Nov 1990 ]
549# # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
550# # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
551# # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
552# # before reaching parliament.

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568# work at 9.00am.)
569# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
570# everybody again.
571
572# From Arthur David Olson (March 8, 1992):
573# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
574# it matches what was used in the past.
575
576# Queensland
577# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (March 6, 1991):
578# # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
579# # [ Dec 1990 ]
580# ...
581# Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST
582# ...
583# Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
584# Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E

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605# ...
606# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
607# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S
608# ...
609
610# From Arthur David Olson (March 8, 1992):
611# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
612
613# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
614
615# From Arthur David Olson (March 8, 1992):
616# The rules from version 7.1 follow.
617# There are lots of differences between these rules and
618# the Shepherd et al. rules. Since the Shepherd et al. rules
619# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on
620# current DST ending dates, no worries.
621#

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633# From Robert Elz (March 6, 1991):
634# I believe that the current start date for DST is "lastSun" in Oct...
635# that changed Oct 89. That is, we're back to the
636# original rule, and that rule currently applies in all the states
637# that have dst, incl Qld. (Certainly it was true in Vic).
638# The file I'm including says that happened in 1988, I think
639# that's incorrect, but I'm not 100% certain.
640
641# South Australia
642
643# From Bradley White (March 4, 1991):
644# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
645# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
646# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
647
648# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (March 6, 1991):
649# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]

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672# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
673# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
674
675# From Bradley White (April 11, 1994):
676# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
677# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
678# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
679
680# From John Warburton <jwarb@SACBH.com.au> (1994-10-07):
681# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
682# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
683# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
684
685# Tasmania
686
687# From Bradley White (March 4, 1991):
688# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
689# ...Tasmania will revert to Australian Eastern Standard Time on March 31...
690
691# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (March 6, 1991):
692# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
693# # [ Nov 1990 ]
694# ...

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720# Rule Oz 1987 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 -
721# Rule Oz 1991 max - Mar Sun<=31 3:00 0 -
722
723# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (October 10, 1991):
724# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
725# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
726# (but nothing new about that).
727
728# Victoria
729
730# From Bradley White (March 4, 1991):
731# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
732# ...Victoria...[has] agreed to end daylight saving at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
733
734# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (March 6, 1991):
735# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
736# # [ Nov 1990 ]
737# ...
738# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 AV %sST
739# ...
740# Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
741# Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E
742# Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E
743# Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 E
744# Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D
745# Rule AV 1988 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
746# Rule AV 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E
747
748# New South Wales
749
750# From Arthur David Olson:
751# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
752# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz),
753# who notes:
754# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
755# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time''
756# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common

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776# From John Mackin (March 9, 1991)
777# I have confirmed the accuracy of the historical data for NSW in the
778# file Robert forwarded
779
780# From Arthur David Olson (March 8, 1992):
781# Sources differ on whether DST ended March 6 or March 20 in 1988;
782# March 20 (the "confirmed" date) is in the chosen rules.
783
784# Yancowinna
785
786# From John Basser (January 4, 1989):
787# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
788
789# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (March 6, 1991):
790# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
791# # [ Dec 1990 ]
792# ...

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797# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
798# # presently available.
799# Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST
800# ...
801# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
802# Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C
803# [followed by other Rules]
804
805# Lord Howe Island
806
807# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (March 6, 1991):
808# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen.. pauline@Aus ]
809# [ Dec 1990 ]
810# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
811# hour ahead of NSW time.
812
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