| australasia (105196) | australasia (114173) |
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| 1# @(#)australasia 7.67 | 1# @(#)australasia 7.68 |
| 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. |
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| 300 301# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 302# Shanks gives 1927 Nov 6 - 1928 Mar 4, 1928 Oct 14 - 1929 Mar 17, 303# 1929 Oct 13 - 1930 Mar 16; go with Whitman. 304Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 26 2:00 0:30 HD 305Rule NZ 1928 1929 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 306Rule NZ 1928 only - Nov 4 2:00 0:30 HD 307Rule NZ 1929 only - Oct 30 2:00 0:30 HD 308Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 309Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 HD 310# Whitman says DST went on and off during war years, and the base UT offset 311# didn't change until 1945 Apr 30; go with Shanks. 312Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S 313Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD | 311 312# 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 |
| 314Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D | 325Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 326Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S |
| 315Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D | 327Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D |
| 316Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D 317Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 318Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S | |
| 319Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S | 328Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S |
| 329Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D 330Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D |
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| 320Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 321Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D 322Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S 323# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 331Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 332Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D 333Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S 334# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 324Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 | 335Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 |
| 325 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1940 Sep 29 2:00 326 12:00 NZ NZ%sT 327Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT 328 329 330# Auckland Is 331# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, 332# and scientific personnel have wintered --- 61 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 394# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 395Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 396 -10:00 - TKT # Tokelau Time 397 398# Tonga 399# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 400Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S 401Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - | 336 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1940 Sep 29 2:00 337 12:00 NZ NZ%sT 338Zone Pacific/Chatham 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 --- 61 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 405# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 406Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 407 -10:00 - TKT # Tokelau Time 408 409# Tonga 410# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 411Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S 412Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - |
| 402Rule Tonga 2000 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 403Rule Tonga 2001 max - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - | 413Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 414Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - |
| 404# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 405Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 406 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time 407 13:00 - TOT 1999 408 13:00 Tonga TO%sT 409 410# Tuvalu 411# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] --- 322 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 734# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 735# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 736# ... 737 738# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 739# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 740 741# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): | 415# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 416Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 417 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time 418 13:00 - TOT 1999 419 13:00 Tonga TO%sT 420 421# Tuvalu 422# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] --- 322 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 745# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 746# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 747# ... 748 749# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 750# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 751 752# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): |
| 742# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the 743# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with 744# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the 745# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being 746# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the 747# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are 748# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western 749# Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western 750# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The 751# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so 752# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the 753# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South 754# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and 755# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an 756# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone | 753# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the 754# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with 755# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the 756# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being 757# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the 758# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are 759# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western 760# Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western 761# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The 762# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so 763# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the 764# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South 765# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and 766# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an 767# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone |
| 757# calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way. 758# 759# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): 760# This is confirmed by the section entitled 761# "What's the deal with time zones???" in 762# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>, 763# which says a few other things: 764# --- 493 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1258# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27. 1259 1260# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow: 1261# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom 1262# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday 1263# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one 1264# hour to 1:00am. 1265 | 768# calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way. 769# 770# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): 771# This is confirmed by the section entitled 772# "What's the deal with time zones???" in 773# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>, 774# which says a few other things: 775# --- 493 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1269# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27. 1270 1271# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow: 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. |
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