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2# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 3# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 4 5# This file also includes Pacific islands. 6 7# Notes are at the end of this file 8 9############################################################################### --- 268 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 278# </a> 279# 280# A bit more background info here: 281# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html"> 282# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html 283# </a> 284 285# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24): |
286# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3 |
287# weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011... |
288# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands, |
289# Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site: 290# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155"> 291# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 292# </a> 293# or 294# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html"> 295# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html 296# </a> 297 298# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03): |
299# Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date |
300# assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong). 301# 302# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155"> 303# www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 304# </a> 305# which says |
306# Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in 307# advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to |
308# 2am on February 26 next year. 309 310# From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24) 311# Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for 312# Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22. 313# 314# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155"> 315# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 316# </a> 317# states: 318# 319# The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012 320# has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012. 321# The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start 322# on the 23rd of October, 2011. 323 |
324# From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen: 325# The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate 326# today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st 327# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013. 328# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155 329# 330# From Paul Eggert (2012-08-31): 331# For now, guess a pattern of the penultimate Sundays in October and January. 332 |
333# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 334Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 335Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - 336Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S 337Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 - |
338Rule Fiji 2010 max - Oct Sun>=18 2:00 1:00 S |
339Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - |
340Rule Fiji 2012 max - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 - |
341# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 342Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 343 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time 344 345# French Polynesia 346# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 347Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea 348 -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time --- 212 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 561# then all instruments used to measure standard time are to be 562# adjusted/changed to three oclock (3:00am or 0300Hrs). 563# 564# Margaret Fruean ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MINISTRY OF COMMERCE, 565# INDUSTRY AND LABOUR 28th February 2011 566 567# From David Zuelke (2011-05-09): 568# Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line |
569# |
570# <a href="http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963"> 571# http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963 572# </a> 573 574# From Mark Sim-Smith (2011-08-17): 575# I have been in contact with Leilani Tuala Warren from the Samoa Law 576# Reform Commission, and she has sent me a copy of the Bill that she 577# confirmed has been passed...Most of the sections are about maps rather --- 65 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 643# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 644Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara 645 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time 646 647# Tokelau Is 648# 649# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29) 650# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping |
651# December 31 this year ... |
652# |
653# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25) 654# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking 655# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13.... 656# Shanks says UTC-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change 657# actually was to UTC-11 back then. |
658# |
659# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25) 660# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of 661# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948, 662# <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau 663# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T." Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger 664# are off by an hour starting in 1901. |
665 666# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 667Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 |
668 -11:00 - TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time 669 13:00 - TKT |
670 671# Tonga 672# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 673Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S 674Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - 675Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 676Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - 677# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] --- 664 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1342# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1343# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and 1344# Lonergan thereafter. For times we use Lonergan. 1345 1346# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1347# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1348 1349# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28): |
1350# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight 1351# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009 |
1352# summer (southern hemisphere). |
1353# |
1354# From 1355# <a href="http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf"> 1356# http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf 1357# </a> |
1358# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling |
1359# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing. |
1360# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each |
1361# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year. |
1362# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia 1363# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and |
1364# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year... |
1365# |
1366# We have a wrap-up here: 1367# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html"> 1368# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html 1369# </a> 1370############################################################################### 1371 1372# New Zealand 1373 --- 329 unchanged lines hidden --- |