343 344# Papua New Guinea 345# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 346Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 347 9:48:40 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time 348 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time 349 350# Pitcairn 351# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 352Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown 353 -8:30 - PNT # Pitcairn Time 354 355# American Samoa 356Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 357 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 358 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 359 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 360 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering 361 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 362 363# W Samoa 364Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 365 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 366 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 367 -11:00 - WST # W Samoa Time 368 369# Solomon Is 370# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea 371# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 372Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara 373 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time 374 375# Tokelau Is 376# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 377Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 378 -10:00 - TKT # Tokelau Time 379 380# Tonga 381# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 382Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 383 12:20 - TOT 1968 Oct # Tonga Time 384 13:00 - TOT 385 386# Tuvalu 387# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 388Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 389 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time 390 391# Vanuatu 392# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 393Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S 394Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 395Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S 396Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 397Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 398Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 399# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 400Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila 401 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time 402 403# Wake 404# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 405Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 406 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time 407 408# Wallis and Futuna 409# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 410Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 411 12:00 - WFT # Wallis & Futuna Time 412 413############################################################################### 414 415# NOTES 416 417# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 418# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 419# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 420 421# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22): 422# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 423# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition), 424# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 425# 426# Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> writes that a good source 427# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 428# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 429# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 430# of the IATA's data after 1990. 431# 432# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, 433# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 434# 435# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 436# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 437# I found in the UCLA library. 438# 439# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 440# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude, 441# Oxford University Press (1980). 442# 443# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 444# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 445# Corrections are welcome! 446# std dst 447# LMT Local Mean Time 448# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia 449# 9:00 JST Japan 450# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia 451# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia 452# 10:00 GST Guam 453# 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* 454# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 455# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* 456# -11:00 SST Samoa 457# -10:00 HST Hawaii 458# 459# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii. 460# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is. 461# 462# See the `africa' file for time zone naming and abbreviation conventions. 463 464############################################################################### 465 466# Australia 467 468# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 469# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time. 470# It is called `summer' time. Now by a happy coincidence, `summer' 471# and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the 472# abbreviation does _not_ change... 473# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least 474# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the 475# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses 476# the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight 477# time'. 478# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian 479# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time' 480# or `Eastern Summer Time'. (Note, though, that as I say in the 481# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.) Announcers 482# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases 483# prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times; 484# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC. 485 486# From Arthur David Olson (March 8 1992): 487# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is: 488# CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30 489# WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00 490# EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00 491 492# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 493# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 494# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper 495# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, 496# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 497# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. 498# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. 499 500# Northern Territory 501 502# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 503# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ] 504# # [ Nov 1990 ] 505# # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location. 506# ... 507# Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST 508 509# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 510# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 511# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving. 512 513# Western Australia 514 515# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 516# # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ] 517# # [ Nov 1990 ] 518# # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to 519# # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but 520# # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus 521# # before reaching parliament. 522# ... 523# Zone Australia/West 8:00 AW %sST 524# ... 525# Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 526# Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 527# Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 528# Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 529 530# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 531# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 532# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving. 533 534# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02): 535# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney 536# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at 537# work at 9.00am.) 538# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse 539# everybody again. 540 541# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 542# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess; 543# it matches what was used in the past. 544 545# Queensland 546# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 547# # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ] 548# # [ Dec 1990 ] 549# ... 550# Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST 551# ... 552# Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 553# Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 554# Rule AQ 1989 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 555# Rule AQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 556 557# From Bradley White (1989-12-24): 558# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from 559# October 1989). 560 561# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 562# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 563# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 564# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 565 566# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 567# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact 568# end on Sunday, 3 March. I don't know at what hour, though. (It surprised 569# me.) 570 571# From Bradley White (1992-03-08): 572# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted 573# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ... 574# ... 575# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 576# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 577# ... 578 579# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 580# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 581 582# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria 583 584# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 585# The rules from version 7.1 follow. 586# There are lots of differences between these rules and 587# the Shepherd et al. rules. Since the Shepherd et al. rules 588# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on 589# current DST ending dates, no worries. 590# 591# Rule Oz 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - 592# Rule Oz 1986 max - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - 593# Rule Oz 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 - 594# Rule Oz 1973 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 595# Rule Oz 1987 max - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 596# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 Oz EST 597# Zone Australia/South 9:30 Oz CST 598# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 Oz EST 1985 Oct lastSun 2:00 599# 10:00 1:00 EST 1986 Mar Sun<=21 3:00 600# 10:00 Oz EST 601 602# From Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 603# I believe that the current start date for DST is "lastSun" in Oct... 604# that changed Oct 89. That is, we're back to the 605# original rule, and that rule currently applies in all the states 606# that have dst, incl Qld. (Certainly it was true in Vic). 607# The file I'm including says that happened in 1988, I think 608# that's incorrect, but I'm not 100% certain. 609 610# South Australia 611 612# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 613# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 614# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 615# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 616 617# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 618# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ] 619# # [ Nov 1990 ] 620# ... 621# Zone Australia/South 9:30 AS %sST 622# ... 623# Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 624# Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 625# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 C 626# Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 627 628# From Bradley White (1992-03-11): 629# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide 630# contained the following exchange: "Due to the Adelaide Festival, 631# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks." 632 633# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13): 634# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that) 635# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even 636# numbered year (from 1990). That's when the Adelaide Festival 637# is on... 638 639# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000): 640# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday).... 641# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever... 642# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...). 643 644# From Bradley White (1994-04-11): 645# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March, 646# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can 647# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... 648 649# From John Warburton <jwarb@SACBH.com.au> (1994-10-07): 650# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... 651# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... 652# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. 653 654# Tasmania 655 656# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 657# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 658# ...Tasmania will revert to Australian Eastern Standard Time on March 31... 659 660# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 661# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 662# # [ Nov 1990 ] 663# ... 664# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 AT %sST 665# ... 666# Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 667# Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 668# Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 669# Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 3:00 0 E 670# Rule AT 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 671# Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 672# Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 673# Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 674# Rule AT 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 675# Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 E 676# Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00 1:00 D 677# Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 678# Rule AT 1991 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 679# Rule AT 1991 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 680 681# From Bill Hart via Alexander Dupuy and Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 682# My state Government in there eagerness to get a few more bucks for the 683# tourist industry industry decided to change the daylight savings times 684# yet again (we now have almost 6 months per year)... 685# ... 686# Rule Oz 1986 1990 - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - 687# Rule Oz 1991 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 - 688# ... 689# Rule Oz 1987 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 690# Rule Oz 1991 max - Mar Sun<=31 3:00 0 - 691 692# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 693# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have 694# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia 695# (but nothing new about that). 696 697# Victoria 698 699# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 700# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 701# ...Victoria...[has] agreed to end daylight saving at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 702 703# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 704# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 705# # [ Nov 1990 ] 706# ... 707# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 AV %sST 708# ... 709# Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 710# Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 711# Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 712# Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 E 713# Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 714# Rule AV 1988 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 715# Rule AV 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 716 717# New South Wales 718 719# From Arthur David Olson: 720# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. 721# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz), 722# who notes: 723# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the 724# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' 725# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common 726# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the 727# legislation. This is very important to understand. 728# I have researched New South Wales time only... 729 730# From Dave Davey (1990-03-03): 731# Rule NSW 1988 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 732# Rule NSW 1989 only - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 733 734# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 735# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 736# NSW...[has] agreed to end daylight saving at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 737 738# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 739# # The state of NEW SOUTH WALES.. [confirmed by Attorney General's Dept N.S.W] 740# # [ Dec 1990 ] 741# ... 742# Rule AN 1988 1989 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 E 743# ... 744 745# From John Mackin (1991-03-09) 746# I have confirmed the accuracy of the historical data for NSW in the 747# file Robert forwarded 748 749# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 750# Sources differ on whether DST ended March 6 or March 20 in 1988; 751# March 20 (the "confirmed" date) is in the chosen rules. 752 753# From Bradley White (1995-05-20): 754# Prem Bob Carr announced NSW will fall into line with other E states 755# and SA and continue daylight savings to the last Sun in Mar. 756 757# Yancowinna 758 759# From John Basser (1989-01-04): 760# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna. 761 762# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 763# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ] 764# # [ Dec 1990 ] 765# ... 766# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite it's location on the 767# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings 768# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government 769# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have 770# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not 771# # presently available. 772# Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST 773# ... 774# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 775# Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C 776# [followed by other Rules] 777 778# Lord Howe Island 779 780# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 781# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen.. pauline@Aus ] 782# [ Dec 1990 ] 783# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an 784# hour ahead of NSW time. 785 786# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 787# For Lord Howe we use Shanks through its time of publication (1991). 788# Lord Howe is part of NSW, so we'll guess it has used the same transition 789# times as NSW since 1991, even though Shanks writes that Lord Howe went 790# with Victoria when NSW and Victoria disagreed in 1982. 791 792############################################################################### 793 794# New Zealand, from Elz' asia 1.1 795# Elz says "no guarantees" 796 797# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): 798# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. 799# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for 800# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). 801# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office. 802 803# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 804# # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that! 805# # or is Australia the west island of N.Z. 806# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Geofft@Aus.. Auckland N.Z. ] 807# # [ Nov 1990 ] 808# ... 809# Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 810# Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 811# Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 812# Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 S 813# ... 814# Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand 815# Zone NZ-CHAT 12:45 - NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island 816 817# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 818# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989 819# rather than the October 1 value. 820 821# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); 822# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 823# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight 824# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard 825# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. 826# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. 827# 828# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 829# Shanks gives no data for Chatham; usno1989 says it's +12:45, 830# usno1995 says it's +12:45/+13:45, and IATA SSIM (1991/1996) 831# gives the NZ rules but with transitions at 2:45 local standard time. 832# Guess that they adopted DST in 1990. 833 834############################################################################### 835 836# Fiji 837 838# Howse writes (p 162) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji 839# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on +12:00. 840# Perhaps it didn't take. We go with Shanks's more precise date in 1915. 841 842# Johnston 843 844# Johnston data is from usno1995. 845 846# Kiribati 847 848# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 849# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati 850# ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995'' 851# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century. 852 853# Kwajalein 854 855# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes: 856# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday, 857# 1993-08-20. Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with 858# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands, 859# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink. 860 861# N Mariana Is, Guam 862 863# Howse writes (p 162) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the 864# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones 865# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time. 866# Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data. See also Asia/Manila. 867 868# Micronesia 869 870# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16), 871# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" 872# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.'' 873# 874# Shanks writes that Truk switched from GMT+10 to GMT+11 on 1978-10-01; 875# ignore this for now. 876 877# Samoa 878 879# Howse writes that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change 880# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, 881# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that 882# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.'' 883 884# Tonga 885 886# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 887# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting 888# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.'' 889# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
| 343 344# Papua New Guinea 345# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 346Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 347 9:48:40 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time 348 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time 349 350# Pitcairn 351# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 352Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown 353 -8:30 - PNT # Pitcairn Time 354 355# American Samoa 356Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 357 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 358 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 359 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 360 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering 361 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 362 363# W Samoa 364Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 365 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 366 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 367 -11:00 - WST # W Samoa Time 368 369# Solomon Is 370# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea 371# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 372Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara 373 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time 374 375# Tokelau Is 376# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 377Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 378 -10:00 - TKT # Tokelau Time 379 380# Tonga 381# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 382Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 383 12:20 - TOT 1968 Oct # Tonga Time 384 13:00 - TOT 385 386# Tuvalu 387# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 388Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 389 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time 390 391# Vanuatu 392# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 393Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S 394Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 395Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S 396Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 397Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 398Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 399# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 400Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila 401 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time 402 403# Wake 404# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 405Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 406 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time 407 408# Wallis and Futuna 409# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 410Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 411 12:00 - WFT # Wallis & Futuna Time 412 413############################################################################### 414 415# NOTES 416 417# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 418# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 419# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 420 421# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22): 422# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 423# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition), 424# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 425# 426# Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> writes that a good source 427# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 428# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 429# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 430# of the IATA's data after 1990. 431# 432# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, 433# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 434# 435# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 436# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 437# I found in the UCLA library. 438# 439# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 440# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude, 441# Oxford University Press (1980). 442# 443# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 444# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 445# Corrections are welcome! 446# std dst 447# LMT Local Mean Time 448# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia 449# 9:00 JST Japan 450# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia 451# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia 452# 10:00 GST Guam 453# 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* 454# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 455# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* 456# -11:00 SST Samoa 457# -10:00 HST Hawaii 458# 459# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii. 460# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is. 461# 462# See the `africa' file for time zone naming and abbreviation conventions. 463 464############################################################################### 465 466# Australia 467 468# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 469# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time. 470# It is called `summer' time. Now by a happy coincidence, `summer' 471# and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the 472# abbreviation does _not_ change... 473# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least 474# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the 475# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses 476# the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight 477# time'. 478# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian 479# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time' 480# or `Eastern Summer Time'. (Note, though, that as I say in the 481# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.) Announcers 482# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases 483# prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times; 484# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC. 485 486# From Arthur David Olson (March 8 1992): 487# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is: 488# CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30 489# WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00 490# EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00 491 492# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 493# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 494# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper 495# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, 496# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 497# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. 498# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. 499 500# Northern Territory 501 502# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 503# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ] 504# # [ Nov 1990 ] 505# # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location. 506# ... 507# Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST 508 509# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 510# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 511# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving. 512 513# Western Australia 514 515# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 516# # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ] 517# # [ Nov 1990 ] 518# # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to 519# # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but 520# # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus 521# # before reaching parliament. 522# ... 523# Zone Australia/West 8:00 AW %sST 524# ... 525# Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 526# Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 527# Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 528# Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 529 530# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 531# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 532# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving. 533 534# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02): 535# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney 536# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at 537# work at 9.00am.) 538# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse 539# everybody again. 540 541# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 542# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess; 543# it matches what was used in the past. 544 545# Queensland 546# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 547# # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ] 548# # [ Dec 1990 ] 549# ... 550# Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST 551# ... 552# Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 553# Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 554# Rule AQ 1989 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 555# Rule AQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 556 557# From Bradley White (1989-12-24): 558# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from 559# October 1989). 560 561# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 562# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 563# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 564# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 565 566# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 567# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact 568# end on Sunday, 3 March. I don't know at what hour, though. (It surprised 569# me.) 570 571# From Bradley White (1992-03-08): 572# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted 573# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ... 574# ... 575# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 576# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 577# ... 578 579# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 580# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 581 582# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria 583 584# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 585# The rules from version 7.1 follow. 586# There are lots of differences between these rules and 587# the Shepherd et al. rules. Since the Shepherd et al. rules 588# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on 589# current DST ending dates, no worries. 590# 591# Rule Oz 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - 592# Rule Oz 1986 max - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - 593# Rule Oz 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 - 594# Rule Oz 1973 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 595# Rule Oz 1987 max - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 596# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 Oz EST 597# Zone Australia/South 9:30 Oz CST 598# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 Oz EST 1985 Oct lastSun 2:00 599# 10:00 1:00 EST 1986 Mar Sun<=21 3:00 600# 10:00 Oz EST 601 602# From Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 603# I believe that the current start date for DST is "lastSun" in Oct... 604# that changed Oct 89. That is, we're back to the 605# original rule, and that rule currently applies in all the states 606# that have dst, incl Qld. (Certainly it was true in Vic). 607# The file I'm including says that happened in 1988, I think 608# that's incorrect, but I'm not 100% certain. 609 610# South Australia 611 612# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 613# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 614# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 615# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 616 617# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 618# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ] 619# # [ Nov 1990 ] 620# ... 621# Zone Australia/South 9:30 AS %sST 622# ... 623# Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 624# Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 625# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 C 626# Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 627 628# From Bradley White (1992-03-11): 629# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide 630# contained the following exchange: "Due to the Adelaide Festival, 631# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks." 632 633# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13): 634# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that) 635# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even 636# numbered year (from 1990). That's when the Adelaide Festival 637# is on... 638 639# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000): 640# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday).... 641# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever... 642# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...). 643 644# From Bradley White (1994-04-11): 645# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March, 646# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can 647# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... 648 649# From John Warburton <jwarb@SACBH.com.au> (1994-10-07): 650# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... 651# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... 652# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. 653 654# Tasmania 655 656# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 657# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 658# ...Tasmania will revert to Australian Eastern Standard Time on March 31... 659 660# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 661# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 662# # [ Nov 1990 ] 663# ... 664# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 AT %sST 665# ... 666# Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 667# Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 668# Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 669# Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 3:00 0 E 670# Rule AT 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 671# Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 672# Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 673# Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 674# Rule AT 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 675# Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 E 676# Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00 1:00 D 677# Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 678# Rule AT 1991 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 679# Rule AT 1991 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 680 681# From Bill Hart via Alexander Dupuy and Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 682# My state Government in there eagerness to get a few more bucks for the 683# tourist industry industry decided to change the daylight savings times 684# yet again (we now have almost 6 months per year)... 685# ... 686# Rule Oz 1986 1990 - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - 687# Rule Oz 1991 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 - 688# ... 689# Rule Oz 1987 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 690# Rule Oz 1991 max - Mar Sun<=31 3:00 0 - 691 692# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 693# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have 694# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia 695# (but nothing new about that). 696 697# Victoria 698 699# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 700# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 701# ...Victoria...[has] agreed to end daylight saving at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 702 703# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 704# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 705# # [ Nov 1990 ] 706# ... 707# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 AV %sST 708# ... 709# Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 710# Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 711# Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 712# Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 E 713# Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 714# Rule AV 1988 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 715# Rule AV 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 716 717# New South Wales 718 719# From Arthur David Olson: 720# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. 721# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz), 722# who notes: 723# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the 724# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' 725# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common 726# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the 727# legislation. This is very important to understand. 728# I have researched New South Wales time only... 729 730# From Dave Davey (1990-03-03): 731# Rule NSW 1988 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 732# Rule NSW 1989 only - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 733 734# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 735# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 736# NSW...[has] agreed to end daylight saving at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 737 738# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 739# # The state of NEW SOUTH WALES.. [confirmed by Attorney General's Dept N.S.W] 740# # [ Dec 1990 ] 741# ... 742# Rule AN 1988 1989 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 E 743# ... 744 745# From John Mackin (1991-03-09) 746# I have confirmed the accuracy of the historical data for NSW in the 747# file Robert forwarded 748 749# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 750# Sources differ on whether DST ended March 6 or March 20 in 1988; 751# March 20 (the "confirmed" date) is in the chosen rules. 752 753# From Bradley White (1995-05-20): 754# Prem Bob Carr announced NSW will fall into line with other E states 755# and SA and continue daylight savings to the last Sun in Mar. 756 757# Yancowinna 758 759# From John Basser (1989-01-04): 760# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna. 761 762# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 763# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ] 764# # [ Dec 1990 ] 765# ... 766# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite it's location on the 767# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings 768# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government 769# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have 770# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not 771# # presently available. 772# Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST 773# ... 774# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 775# Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C 776# [followed by other Rules] 777 778# Lord Howe Island 779 780# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 781# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen.. pauline@Aus ] 782# [ Dec 1990 ] 783# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an 784# hour ahead of NSW time. 785 786# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 787# For Lord Howe we use Shanks through its time of publication (1991). 788# Lord Howe is part of NSW, so we'll guess it has used the same transition 789# times as NSW since 1991, even though Shanks writes that Lord Howe went 790# with Victoria when NSW and Victoria disagreed in 1982. 791 792############################################################################### 793 794# New Zealand, from Elz' asia 1.1 795# Elz says "no guarantees" 796 797# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): 798# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. 799# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for 800# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). 801# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office. 802 803# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 804# # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that! 805# # or is Australia the west island of N.Z. 806# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Geofft@Aus.. Auckland N.Z. ] 807# # [ Nov 1990 ] 808# ... 809# Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 810# Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 811# Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 812# Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 S 813# ... 814# Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand 815# Zone NZ-CHAT 12:45 - NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island 816 817# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 818# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989 819# rather than the October 1 value. 820 821# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); 822# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 823# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight 824# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard 825# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. 826# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. 827# 828# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 829# Shanks gives no data for Chatham; usno1989 says it's +12:45, 830# usno1995 says it's +12:45/+13:45, and IATA SSIM (1991/1996) 831# gives the NZ rules but with transitions at 2:45 local standard time. 832# Guess that they adopted DST in 1990. 833 834############################################################################### 835 836# Fiji 837 838# Howse writes (p 162) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji 839# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on +12:00. 840# Perhaps it didn't take. We go with Shanks's more precise date in 1915. 841 842# Johnston 843 844# Johnston data is from usno1995. 845 846# Kiribati 847 848# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 849# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati 850# ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995'' 851# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century. 852 853# Kwajalein 854 855# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes: 856# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday, 857# 1993-08-20. Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with 858# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands, 859# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink. 860 861# N Mariana Is, Guam 862 863# Howse writes (p 162) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the 864# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones 865# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time. 866# Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data. See also Asia/Manila. 867 868# Micronesia 869 870# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16), 871# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" 872# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.'' 873# 874# Shanks writes that Truk switched from GMT+10 to GMT+11 on 1978-10-01; 875# ignore this for now. 876 877# Samoa 878 879# Howse writes that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change 880# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, 881# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that 882# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.'' 883 884# Tonga 885 886# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 887# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting 888# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.'' 889# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
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