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 --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 - --- 6 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 --- 74 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 --- 15 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 --- 93 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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. --- 14 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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. --- 15 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 --- 20 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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# --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 ] --- 22 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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# ... --- 25 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 --- 19 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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# ... --- 4 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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. 812 813############################################################################### --- 50 unchanged lines hidden --- |