| australasia (114173) | australasia (121098) |
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| 1# @(#)australasia 7.68 | 1# @(#)australasia 7.69 |
| 2# This file also includes Pacific islands. 3 4# Notes are at the end of this file 5 6############################################################################### 7 8# Australia 9 --- 282 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 292# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 293Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 294 11:00 NC NC%sT 295 296 297############################################################################### 298 299# New Zealand | 2# This file also includes Pacific islands. 3 4# Notes are at the end of this file 5 6############################################################################### 7 8# Australia 9 --- 282 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 292# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 293Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 294 11:00 NC NC%sT 295 296 297############################################################################### 298 299# 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. | |
| 311 312# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S | 300 301# 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. 315Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 26 2:00 0:30 HD 316Rule NZ 1928 1929 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 317Rule NZ 1928 only - Nov 4 2:00 0:30 HD 318Rule NZ 1929 only - Oct 30 2:00 0:30 HD 319Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 320Rule 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. 323Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S 324Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD | 302Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S 303Rule NZ 1928 only - Mar 4 2:00 0 M 304Rule NZ 1928 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 S 305Rule NZ 1929 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 M 306Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 M 307Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 S 308Rule 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. |
| 325Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D | 311Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D |
| 312Rule Chatham 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D |
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| 326Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S | 313Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S |
| 314Rule Chatham 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:45s 0 S |
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| 327Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D | 315Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D |
| 316Rule Chatham 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D |
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| 328Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S | 317Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S |
| 318Rule Chatham 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S |
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| 329Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D | 319Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D |
| 320Rule Chatham 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:45s 1:00 D |
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| 330Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D | 321Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D |
| 331Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S | |
| 332Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D | 322Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D |
| 333Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S | 323Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 324Rule Chatham 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S |
| 334# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 335Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 | 325# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 326Zone 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 12:00 NZ NZ%sT | 328 12:00 NZ NZ%sT |
| 338Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT | 329Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1957 Jan 1 330 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT |
| 339 340 341# Auckland Is 342# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, 343# and scientific personnel have wintered 344 345# Campbell I 346# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914 --- 91 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 438# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 439Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST 440 441# Kingman 442# uninhabited 443 444# Midway 445Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 | 331 332 333# Auckland Is 334# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, 335# and scientific personnel have wintered 336 337# Campbell I 338# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914 --- 91 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 430# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 431Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST 432 433# Kingman 434# uninhabited 435 436# Midway 437Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 |
| 438 -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 439 -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 |
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| 446 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 447 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering 448 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 449 450# Palmyra 451# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 452 453# Wake --- 54 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 508# std dst 509# LMT Local Mean Time 510# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia 511# 9:00 JST Japan 512# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia 513# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia 514# 10:00 ChST Chamorro 515# 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* | 440 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 441 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering 442 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 443 444# Palmyra 445# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 446 447# Wake --- 54 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 502# std dst 503# LMT Local Mean Time 504# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia 505# 9:00 JST Japan 506# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia 507# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia 508# 10:00 ChST Chamorro 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# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* 518# -11:00 SST Samoa 519# -10:00 HST Hawaii 520# - 8:00 PST Pitcairn* 521# 522# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii. 523# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is. 524 --- 537 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1062 1063# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); 1064# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 1065# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight 1066# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard 1067# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. 1068# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. 1069# | 512# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* 513# -11:00 SST Samoa 514# -10:00 HST Hawaii 515# - 8:00 PST Pitcairn* 516# 517# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii. 518# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is. 519 --- 537 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1057 1058# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); 1059# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 1060# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight 1061# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard 1062# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. 1063# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. 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 1076############################################################################### 1077 1078 1079# Fiji 1080 1081# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji 1082# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time --- 66 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1149# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in 1150# <a href="http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html"> 1151# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information 1152# </a> (1999-01-26) 1153# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11. 1154# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now. 1155 1156 | 1073 1074############################################################################### 1075 1076 1077# Fiji 1078 1079# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji 1080# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time --- 66 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1147# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in 1148# <a href="http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html"> 1149# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information 1150# </a> (1999-01-26) 1151# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11. 1152# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now. 1153 1154 |
| 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 |
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| 1157# Pitcairn 1158 1159# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 1160# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998 1161# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows. 1162# 1163# The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be 1164# Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known --- 107 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1272# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom 1273# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday 1274# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one 1275# hour to 1:00am. 1276 1277# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05): 1278# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. 1279 | 1172# Pitcairn 1173 1174# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 1175# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998 1176# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows. 1177# 1178# The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be 1179# Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known --- 107 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1287# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom 1288# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday 1289# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one 1290# hour to 1:00am. 1291 1292# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05): 1293# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. 1294 |
| 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 |
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| 1280############################################################################### 1281 1282# The International Date Line 1283 1284# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03): 1285# 1286# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard, 1287# convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please. --- 18 unchanged lines hidden --- | 1313############################################################################### 1314 1315# The International Date Line 1316 1317# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03): 1318# 1319# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard, 1320# convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please. --- 18 unchanged lines hidden --- |