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| 1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4# This file also includes Pacific islands. 5 6# Notes are at the end of this file 7 8############################################################################### --- 30 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 39Rule AW 1992 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 40Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 D 41Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 42Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 43Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 44 8:00 Aus AW%sT 1943 Jul 45 8:00 AW AW%sT 46Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec | 1# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 2# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 3 4# This file also includes Pacific islands. 5 6# Notes are at the end of this file 7 8############################################################################### --- 30 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 39Rule AW 1992 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 40Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 D 41Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 S 42Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 43Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 44 8:00 Aus AW%sT 1943 Jul 45 8:00 AW AW%sT 46Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec |
| 47 8:45 Aus +0845/+0945 1943 Jul 48 8:45 AW +0845/+0945 | 47 8:45 Aus ACW%sT 1943 Jul 48 8:45 AW ACW%sT |
| 49 50# Queensland 51# 52# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): 53# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast 54# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after 55# Queensland ceased to. 56# --- 150 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 207Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 D 208Rule LH 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 D 209Rule LH 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 210Rule LH 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 S 211Rule LH 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 212Rule LH 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0:30 D 213Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 214 10:00 - AEST 1981 Mar | 49 50# Queensland 51# 52# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): 53# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast 54# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after 55# Queensland ceased to. 56# --- 150 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 207Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 D 208Rule LH 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 D 209Rule LH 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 210Rule LH 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 S 211Rule LH 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 212Rule LH 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0:30 D 213Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 214 10:00 - AEST 1981 Mar |
| 215 10:30 LH +1030/+1130 1985 Jul 216 10:30 LH +1030/+11 | 215 10:30 LH LH%sT |
| 217 218# Australian miscellany 219# 220# Ashmore Is, Cartier 221# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers 222# no times are set 223# 224# Coral Sea Is --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 246# pre-2013 versions of localtime. 247Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - -00 1899 Nov 248 10:00 - AEST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 249 10:00 1:00 AEDT 1917 Feb 250 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1919 Apr 1 0:00s 251 0 - -00 1948 Mar 25 252 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1967 253 10:00 AT AE%sT 2010 Apr 4 3:00 | 216 217# Australian miscellany 218# 219# Ashmore Is, Cartier 220# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers 221# no times are set 222# 223# Coral Sea Is --- 21 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 245# pre-2013 versions of localtime. 246Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - -00 1899 Nov 247 10:00 - AEST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 248 10:00 1:00 AEDT 1917 Feb 249 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1919 Apr 1 0:00s 250 0 - -00 1948 Mar 25 251 10:00 Aus AE%sT 1967 252 10:00 AT AE%sT 2010 Apr 4 3:00 |
| 254 11:00 - +11 | 253 11:00 - MIST # Macquarie I Standard Time |
| 255 256# Christmas 257# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 258Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb | 254 255# Christmas 256# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 257Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb |
| 259 7:00 - +07 | 258 7:00 - CXT # Christmas Island Time |
| 260 261# Cocos (Keeling) Is 262# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978. 263# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900. 264# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 265Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 | 259 260# Cocos (Keeling) Is 261# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978. 262# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900. 263# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 264Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 |
| 266 6:30 - +0630 | 265 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time |
| 267 268 269# Fiji 270 271# Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva. 272 273# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10): 274# According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Fiji plans to re-introduce DST --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 288# 2010-03-28 at 03:00. 289# The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March 290# 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?). 291# 292# Official source: 293# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1096:3310-cabinet-approves-change-in-daylight-savings-dates&catid=49:cabinet-releases&Itemid=166 294# 295# A bit more background info here: | 266 267 268# Fiji 269 270# Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva. 271 272# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10): 273# According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Fiji plans to re-introduce DST --- 13 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 287# 2010-03-28 at 03:00. 288# The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March 289# 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?). 290# 291# Official source: 292# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1096:3310-cabinet-approves-change-in-daylight-savings-dates&catid=49:cabinet-releases&Itemid=166 293# 294# A bit more background info here: |
| 296# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html | 295# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html |
| 297 298# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24): 299# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3 300# weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011... 301# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands, 302# Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site: 303# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 304# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html --- 47 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 352# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016. 353 354# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04): 355# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx 356# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when 357# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will 358# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017." 359 | 296 297# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24): 298# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3 299# weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011... 300# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands, 301# Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site: 302# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 303# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html --- 47 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 351# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016. 352 353# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04): 354# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx 355# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when 356# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will 357# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017." 358 |
| 360# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-21): 361# Dominic Fok writes (2017-08-20) that DST ends 2018-01-14, citing 362# Extraordinary Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 21 (2017-08-27), 363# [Legal Notice No. 41] of an order of the previous day by J Usamate. 364# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to 03:00 365# the first Sunday on or after January 14. Although ad hoc, it matches | 359# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03): 360# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to 361# 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches |
| 366# transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future 367# practice than guessing no DST. 368 369# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 370Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 371Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - 372Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S 373Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 - 374Rule Fiji 2010 2013 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S 375Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 376Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 - 377Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 - 378Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S | 362# transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future 363# practice than guessing no DST. 364 365# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 366Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 367Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - 368Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S 369Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 - 370Rule Fiji 2010 2013 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S 371Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 372Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 - 373Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 - 374Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S |
| 379Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=14 3:00 0 - | 375Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - |
| 380# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 381Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva | 376# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 377Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva |
| 382 12:00 Fiji +12/+13 | 378 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time |
| 383 384# French Polynesia 385# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 386Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea | 379 380# French Polynesia 381# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 382Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea |
| 387 -9:00 - -09 | 383 -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time |
| 388Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct | 384Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct |
| 389 -9:30 - -0930 | 385 -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time |
| 390Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete | 386Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete |
| 391 -10:00 - -10 | 387 -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time |
| 392# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia; 393# it is uninhabited. 394 395# Guam 396# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 397Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 398 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana 399 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam 400 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time 401Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is 402 403# Kiribati 404# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 405Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki | 388# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia; 389# it is uninhabited. 390 391# Guam 392# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 393Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 394 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana 395 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam 396 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time 397Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is 398 399# Kiribati 400# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 401Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki |
| 406 12:00 - +12 | 402 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time |
| 407Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901 | 403Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901 |
| 408 -12:00 - -12 1979 Oct 409 -11:00 - -11 1995 410 13:00 - +13 | 404 -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time 405 -11:00 - PHOT 1995 406 13:00 - PHOT |
| 411Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 | 407Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 |
| 412 -10:40 - -1040 1979 Oct 413 -10:00 - -10 1995 414 14:00 - +14 | 408 -10:40 - LINT 1979 Oct # Line Is Time 409 -10:00 - LINT 1995 410 14:00 - LINT |
| 415 416# N Mariana Is 417# See Pacific/Guam. 418 419# Marshall Is 420# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 421Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901 | 411 412# N Mariana Is 413# See Pacific/Guam. 414 415# Marshall Is 416# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 417Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901 |
| 422 11:00 - +11 1969 Oct 423 12:00 - +12 | 418 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time 419 12:00 - MHT |
| 424Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 | 420Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 |
| 425 11:00 - +11 1969 Oct 426 -12:00 - -12 1993 Aug 20 427 12:00 - +12 | 421 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct 422 -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time 423 12:00 - MHT |
| 428 429# Micronesia 430# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 431Zone Pacific/Chuuk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 | 424 425# Micronesia 426# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 427Zone Pacific/Chuuk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 |
| 432 10:00 - +10 | 428 10:00 - CHUT # Chuuk Time |
| 433Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia | 429Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia |
| 434 11:00 - +11 | 430 11:00 - PONT # Pohnpei Time |
| 435Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901 | 431Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901 |
| 436 11:00 - +11 1969 Oct 437 12:00 - +12 1999 438 11:00 - +11 | 432 11:00 - KOST 1969 Oct # Kosrae Time 433 12:00 - KOST 1999 434 11:00 - KOST |
| 439 440# Nauru 441# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 442Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe | 435 436# Nauru 437# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 438Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe |
| 443 11:30 - +1130 1942 Mar 15 444 9:00 - +09 1944 Aug 15 445 11:30 - +1130 1979 May 446 12:00 - +12 | 439 11:30 - NRT 1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time 440 9:00 - JST 1944 Aug 15 441 11:30 - NRT 1979 May 442 12:00 - NRT |
| 447 448# New Caledonia 449# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 450Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 451Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 - 452Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 S 453# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA. 454Rule NC 1997 only - Mar 2 2:00s 0 - 455# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 456Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Noum��a | 443 444# New Caledonia 445# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 446Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 447Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 - 448Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 S 449# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA. 450Rule NC 1997 only - Mar 2 2:00s 0 - 451# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 452Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Noum��a |
| 457 11:00 NC +11/+12 | 453 11:00 NC NC%sT |
| 458 459 460############################################################################### 461 462# New Zealand 463 464# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 465Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S --- 24 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 490Rule Chatham 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D 491Rule NZ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 492Rule Chatham 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S 493# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 494Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 495 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1 496 12:00 NZ NZ%sT 497Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 | 454 455 456############################################################################### 457 458# New Zealand 459 460# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 461Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S --- 24 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 486Rule Chatham 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D 487Rule NZ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 488Rule Chatham 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S 489# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 490Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 491 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1 492 12:00 NZ NZ%sT 493Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 |
| 498 12:15 - +1215 1946 Jan 1 499 12:45 Chatham +1245/+1345 | 494 12:15 - CHAST 1946 Jan 1 495 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT |
| 500 501Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo 502 503# Auckland Is 504# uninhabited; M��ori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, 505# and scientific personnel have wintered 506 507# Campbell I --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 513# Cook Is 514# From Shanks & Pottenger: 515# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 516Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS 517Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 518Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS 519# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 520Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua | 496 497Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo 498 499# Auckland Is 500# uninhabited; M��ori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, 501# and scientific personnel have wintered 502 503# Campbell I --- 5 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 509# Cook Is 510# From Shanks & Pottenger: 511# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 512Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS 513Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 514Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS 515# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 516Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua |
| 521 -10:30 - -1030 1978 Nov 12 522 -10:00 Cook -10/-0930 | 517 -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time 518 -10:00 Cook CK%sT |
| 523 524############################################################################### 525 526 527# Niue 528# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 529Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi | 519 520############################################################################### 521 522 523# Niue 524# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 525Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi |
| 530 -11:20 - -1120 1951 531 -11:30 - -1130 1978 Oct 1 532 -11:00 - -11 | 526 -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time 527 -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1 528 -11:00 - NUT |
| 533 534# Norfolk 535# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 536Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston | 529 530# Norfolk 531# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 532Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston |
| 537 11:12 - +1112 1951 538 11:30 - +1130 1974 Oct 27 02:00 539 11:30 1:00 +1230 1975 Mar 2 02:00 540 11:30 - +1130 2015 Oct 4 02:00 541 11:00 - +11 | 533 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time 534 11:30 - NFT 1974 Oct 27 02:00 # Norfolk T. 535 11:30 1:00 NFST 1975 Mar 2 02:00 536 11:30 - NFT 2015 Oct 4 02:00 537 11:00 - NFT |
| 542 543# Palau (Belau) 544# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 545Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror | 538 539# Palau (Belau) 540# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 541Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror |
| 546 9:00 - +09 | 542 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time |
| 547 548# Papua New Guinea 549# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 550Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 551 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time | 543 544# Papua New Guinea 545# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 546Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 547 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time |
| 552 10:00 - +10 | 548 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time |
| 553# 554# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13): 555# Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have 556# the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War. 557# 558# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for UT +09, these dates 559# are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns. 560# The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta. 561# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942, 562# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia | 549# 550# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13): 551# Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have 552# the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War. 553# 554# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for UT +09, these dates 555# are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns. 556# The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta. 557# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942, 558# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia |
| 563# https://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm | 559# http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm |
| 564# and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender. 565# 566# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville switched from UT +10 to +11 | 560# and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender. 561# 562# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville switched from UT +10 to +11 |
| 567# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00. They call +11 "Bougainville Standard Time". 568# See: | 563# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00. They call +11 "Bougainville Standard Time"; 564# abbreviate this as BST. See: |
| 569# http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/ 570# 571Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 - LMT 1880 572 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 | 565# http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/ 566# 567Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 - LMT 1880 568 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 |
| 573 10:00 - +10 1942 Jul 574 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug 21 575 10:00 - +10 2014 Dec 28 2:00 576 11:00 - +11 | 569 10:00 - PGT 1942 Jul 570 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 21 571 10:00 - PGT 2014 Dec 28 2:00 572 11:00 - BST |
| 577 578# Pitcairn 579# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 580Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown | 573 574# Pitcairn 575# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 576Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown |
| 581 -8:30 - -0830 1998 Apr 27 0:00 582 -8:00 - -08 | 577 -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 0:00 578 -8:00 - PST # Pitcairn Standard Time |
| 583 584# American Samoa | 579 580# American Samoa |
| 585Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 | 581Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 |
| 586 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 | 582 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 |
| 583 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 584 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering |
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| 587 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 588Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands 589 590# Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa) 591 592# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16): 593# We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received 594# the following info: 595# 596# "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year 597# commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first 598# Sunday of April 2011." 599# 600# Background info: | 585 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 586Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands 587 588# Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa) 589 590# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16): 591# We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received 592# the following info: 593# 594# "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year 595# commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first 596# Sunday of April 2011." 597# 598# Background info: |
| 601# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html | 599# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html |
| 602# 603# Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not 604# contain any dates: 605# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf 606 607# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07): 608# Please see 609# http://www.mcil.gov.ws --- 47 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 657 658# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 659Rule WS 2010 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 1 D 660Rule WS 2011 only - Apr Sat>=1 4:00 0 S 661Rule WS 2011 only - Sep lastSat 3:00 1 D 662Rule WS 2012 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 S 663Rule WS 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 D 664# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] | 600# 601# Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not 602# contain any dates: 603# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf 604 605# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07): 606# Please see 607# http://www.mcil.gov.ws --- 47 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 655 656# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 657Rule WS 2010 only - Sep lastSun 0:00 1 D 658Rule WS 2011 only - Apr Sat>=1 4:00 0 S 659Rule WS 2011 only - Sep lastSat 3:00 1 D 660Rule WS 2012 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 S 661Rule WS 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 D 662# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
| 665Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 | 663Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 |
| 666 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 | 664 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 |
| 667 -11:30 - -1130 1950 668 -11:00 WS -11/-10 2011 Dec 29 24:00 669 13:00 WS +13/+14 | 665 -11:30 - WSST 1950 666 -11:00 WS S%sT 2011 Dec 29 24:00 # S=Samoa 667 13:00 WS WS%sT |
| 670 671# Solomon Is 672# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea 673# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 674Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara | 668 669# Solomon Is 670# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea 671# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 672Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara |
| 675 11:00 - +11 | 673 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time |
| 676 | 674 |
| 677# Tokelau | 675# Tokelau Is |
| 678# 679# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29) 680# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping 681# December 31 this year ... 682# 683# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25) 684# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking 685# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13.... 686# Shanks says UTC-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change 687# actually was to UTC-11 back then. 688# 689# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25) 690# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of 691# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948, | 676# 677# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29) 678# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping 679# December 31 this year ... 680# 681# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25) 682# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking 683# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13.... 684# Shanks says UTC-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change 685# actually was to UTC-11 back then. 686# 687# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25) 688# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of 689# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948, |
| 692# <https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau | 690# |
| 693# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T." Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger 694# are off by an hour starting in 1901. 695 696# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 697Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 | 691# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T." Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger 692# are off by an hour starting in 1901. 693 694# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 695Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 |
| 698 -11:00 - -11 2011 Dec 30 699 13:00 - +13 | 696 -11:00 - TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time 697 13:00 - TKT |
| 700 701# Tonga 702# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 703Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S 704Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - 705Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 706Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - | 698 699# Tonga 700# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 701Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S 702Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - 703Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 704Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - |
| 707Rule Tonga 2016 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 708Rule Tonga 2017 only - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - | 705Rule Tonga 2016 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 706Rule Tonga 2017 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - |
| 709# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 710Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 711 12:20 - +1220 1941 712 13:00 - +13 1999 713 13:00 Tonga +13/+14 714 715# Tuvalu 716# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 717Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 | 707# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 708Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 709 12:20 - +1220 1941 710 13:00 - +13 1999 711 13:00 Tonga +13/+14 712 713# Tuvalu 714# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 715Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 |
| 718 12:00 - +12 | 716 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time |
| 719 720 721# US minor outlying islands 722 723# Howland, Baker 724# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British 725# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known. 726# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944; --- 7 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 734# Jarvis 735# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?. 736# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958; 737# uninhabited thereafter. 738# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 739 740# Johnston 741# | 717 718 719# US minor outlying islands 720 721# Howland, Baker 722# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British 723# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known. 724# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944; --- 7 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 732# Jarvis 733# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?. 734# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958; 735# uninhabited thereafter. 736# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 737 738# Johnston 739# |
| 742# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10): | 740# From Paul Eggert (2014-03-11): |
| 743# Sometimes Johnston kept Hawaii time, and sometimes it was an hour behind. 744# Details are uncertain. We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so | 741# Sometimes Johnston kept Hawaii time, and sometimes it was an hour behind. 742# Details are uncertain. We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so |
| 745# treat it like Hawaii for now. Since Johnston is now uninhabited, 746# its link to Pacific/Honolulu is in the 'backward' file. | 743# treat it like Hawaii for now. |
| 747# 748# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945 749# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes, 750# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM 751# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time." This was in June 1945, and 752# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945. 753# 754# From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11): 755# [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used 756# was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships, 757# which had a GMT offset of -11 hours. This apparently applied to at least the 758# time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last 759# Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin, 760# "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the 761# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976. | 744# 745# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945 746# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes, 747# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM 748# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time." This was in June 1945, and 749# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945. 750# 751# From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11): 752# [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used 753# was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships, 754# which had a GMT offset of -11 hours. This apparently applied to at least the 755# time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last 756# Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin, 757# "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the 758# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976. |
| 762# https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf | 759# http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf |
| 763# See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a 764# footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time 765# Minus One Hour". | 760# See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a 761# footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time 762# Minus One Hour". |
| 763# 764# See 'northamerica' for Pacific/Johnston. |
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| 766 767# Kingman 768# uninhabited 769 770# Midway 771# See Pacific/Pago_Pago. 772 773# Palmyra 774# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 775 776# Wake 777# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 778Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 | 765 766# Kingman 767# uninhabited 768 769# Midway 770# See Pacific/Pago_Pago. 771 772# Palmyra 773# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 774 775# Wake 776# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 777Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 |
| 779 12:00 - +12 | 778 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time |
| 780 781 782# Vanuatu 783# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 784Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S 785Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 786Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S 787Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 788Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 789Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 790# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 791Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila | 779 780 781# Vanuatu 782# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 783Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S 784Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 785Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S 786Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 787Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 788Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 789# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 790Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila |
| 792 11:00 Vanuatu +11/+12 | 791 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time |
| 793 794# Wallis and Futuna 795# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 796Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 | 792 793# Wallis and Futuna 794# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 795Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 |
| 797 12:00 - +12 | 796 12:00 - WFT # Wallis & Futuna Time |
| 798 799############################################################################### 800 801# NOTES 802 803# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 804# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 805# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 806# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 807 | 797 798############################################################################### 799 800# NOTES 801 802# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 803# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 804# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see 805# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. 806 |
| 808# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10): | 807# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31): |
| 809# 810# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 811# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 812# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 813# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 814# | 808# 809# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: 810# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 811# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 812# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources. 813# |
| 815# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source 816# for time zone data was the International Air Transport | 814# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 815# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport |
| 817# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 818# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 819# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 820# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 821# 822# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 823# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 824# I found in the UCLA library. 825# 826# For data circa 1899, a common source is: 827# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. | 816# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 817# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 818# of the IATA's data after 1990. Except where otherwise noted, 819# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 820# 821# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 822# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 823# I found in the UCLA library. 824# 825# For data circa 1899, a common source is: 826# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94. |
| 828# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 | 827# http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359 |
| 829# 830# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 831# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 832# | 828# 829# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 830# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 831# |
| 833# The following abbreviations are from other sources. | 832# I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table; 833# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. |
| 834# Corrections are welcome! 835# std dst 836# LMT Local Mean Time 837# 8:00 AWST AWDT Western Australia | 834# Corrections are welcome! 835# std dst 836# LMT Local Mean Time 837# 8:00 AWST AWDT Western Australia |
| 838# 8:45 ACWST ACWDT Central Western Australia* 839# 9:00 JST Japan |
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| 838# 9:30 ACST ACDT Central Australia 839# 10:00 AEST AEDT Eastern Australia | 840# 9:30 ACST ACDT Central Australia 841# 10:00 AEST AEDT Eastern Australia |
| 840# 10:00 GST Guam through 2000 | |
| 841# 10:00 ChST Chamorro | 842# 10:00 ChST Chamorro |
| 843# 10:30 LHST LHDT Lord Howe* 844# 11:00 BST Bougainville* |
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| 842# 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945 843# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present | 845# 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945 846# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present |
| 847# 12:15 CHAST Chatham through 1945* 848# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham 1946-present* 849# 13:00 WSST WSDT (western) Samoa 2011-present* 850# -11:30 WSST Western Samoa through 1950* |
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| 844# -11:00 SST Samoa 845# -10:00 HST Hawaii | 851# -11:00 SST Samoa 852# -10:00 HST Hawaii |
| 853# - 8:00 PST Pitcairn* |
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| 846# 847# See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii. 848# See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Gal��pagos Is. 849 850############################################################################### 851 852# Australia 853 --- 113 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 967# http://services.casa.gov.au/outnback/inc/pages/episode3/episode-3_time_zones.shtml 968# EST CST WST (no abbreviations given for DST) 969# 970# Geoscience Australia (2011-11-24) 971# http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp 972# AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT 973# 974# Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10) | 854# 855# See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii. 856# See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Gal��pagos Is. 857 858############################################################################### 859 860# Australia 861 --- 113 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 975# http://services.casa.gov.au/outnback/inc/pages/episode3/episode-3_time_zones.shtml 976# EST CST WST (no abbreviations given for DST) 977# 978# Geoscience Australia (2011-11-24) 979# http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp 980# AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT 981# 982# Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10) |
| 975# https://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf | 983# http://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf |
| 976# EST CST WST preferred for standard time; AEST AEDT ACST ACDT also used 977# 978# The Transport Safety Bureau has an extensive series of accident reports, 979# and investigators seem to use whatever abbreviation they like. 980# Googling site:atsb.gov.au found the following number of unique hits: 981# 311 "ESuT", 195 "EDT", 26 "AEDT", 83 "CSuT", 46 "CDT". 982# "_SuT" tended to appear in older reports, and "A_DT" tended to 983# appear in reports of events with international implications. --- 19 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1003# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): 1004# 1005# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, 1006# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more 1007# relevant entries in this database. 1008# 1009# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): 1010# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) | 984# EST CST WST preferred for standard time; AEST AEDT ACST ACDT also used 985# 986# The Transport Safety Bureau has an extensive series of accident reports, 987# and investigators seem to use whatever abbreviation they like. 988# Googling site:atsb.gov.au found the following number of unique hits: 989# 311 "ESuT", 195 "EDT", 26 "AEDT", 83 "CSuT", 46 "CDT". 990# "_SuT" tended to appear in older reports, and "A_DT" tended to 991# appear in reports of events with international implications. --- 19 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1011# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): 1012# 1013# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, 1014# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more 1015# relevant entries in this database. 1016# 1017# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): 1018# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) |
| 1011# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html | 1019# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html |
| 1012# ACT 1013# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 | 1020# ACT 1021# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 |
| 1014# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html | 1022# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html |
| 1015# SA 1016# Standard Time Act, 1898 | 1023# SA 1024# Standard Time Act, 1898 |
| 1017# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html | 1025# http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html |
| 1018 1019# From David Grosz (2005-06-13): 1020# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by 1021# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. 1022# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday 1023# in April instead of the last Sunday in March. 1024# 1025# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14): --- 278 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1304# http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ 1305# 1306# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of 1307# daylight saving next year. See: 1308# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving 1309# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm 1310# (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens. 1311# | 1026 1027# From David Grosz (2005-06-13): 1028# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by 1029# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. 1030# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday 1031# in April instead of the last Sunday in March. 1032# 1033# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14): --- 278 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1312# http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ 1313# 1314# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of 1315# daylight saving next year. See: 1316# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving 1317# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm 1318# (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens. 1319# |
| 1312# Victoria will follow NSW. See: | 1320# Victoria will following NSW. See: |
| 1313# Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28) 1314# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm 1315# 1316# However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See: 1317# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19) 1318# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm 1319# 1320# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See: --- 86 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1407# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing. 1408# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each 1409# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year. 1410# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia 1411# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and 1412# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year... 1413# 1414# We have a wrap-up here: | 1321# Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28) 1322# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm 1323# 1324# However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See: 1325# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19) 1326# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm 1327# 1328# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See: --- 86 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1415# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing. 1416# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each 1417# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year. 1418# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia 1419# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and 1420# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year... 1421# 1422# We have a wrap-up here: |
| 1415# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html | 1423# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html |
| 1416############################################################################### 1417 1418# New Zealand 1419 1420# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): 1421# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. 1422# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for 1423# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1461# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the 1462# first Sunday in April. The changes take effect this year, meaning 1463# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06. 1464# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended 1465 1466# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14): 1467# Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by 1468# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26). | 1424############################################################################### 1425 1426# New Zealand 1427 1428# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): 1429# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. 1430# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for 1431# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). --- 37 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1469# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the 1470# first Sunday in April. The changes take effect this year, meaning 1471# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06. 1472# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended 1473 1474# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14): 1475# Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by 1476# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26). |
| 1469# https://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf | 1477# http://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf |
| 1470# According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand 1471# parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard 1472# time in the Chatham Islands. The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New 1473# Zealand time. I understand that is the time they keep locally, anyhow." 1474# For now, assume this practice goes back to the introduction of standard time 1475# in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match 1476# LMT back when New Zealand was at UT +11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did 1477# not observe New Zealand's prewar DST. --- 98 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1576# ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015. 1577# http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf 1578 1579# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23): 1580# Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted 1581# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's 1582# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST 1583# other than in 1974/5. See: | 1478# According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand 1479# parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard 1480# time in the Chatham Islands. The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New 1481# Zealand time. I understand that is the time they keep locally, anyhow." 1482# For now, assume this practice goes back to the introduction of standard time 1483# in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match 1484# LMT back when New Zealand was at UT +11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did 1485# not observe New Zealand's prewar DST. --- 98 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1584# ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015. 1585# http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf 1586 1587# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23): 1588# Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted 1589# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's 1590# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST 1591# other than in 1974/5. See: |
| 1584# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html | 1592# http://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html |
| 1585 1586# Pitcairn 1587 1588# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 1589# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998 1590# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows. 1591# 1592# The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1604# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave: 1605# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as 1606# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in 1607# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago. 1608 1609 1610# (Western) Samoa and American Samoa 1611 | 1593 1594# Pitcairn 1595 1596# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 1597# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998 1598# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows. 1599# 1600# The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1612# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave: 1613# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as 1614# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in 1615# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago. 1616 1617 1618# (Western) Samoa and American Samoa 1619 |
| 1612# Howse writes (p 153) that after the 1879 standardization on Antipodean 1613# time by the British governor of Fiji, the King of Samoa decided to change | 1620# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald) 1621# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change |
| 1614# "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, 1615# ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that 1616# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year." | 1622# "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, 1623# ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that 1624# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year." |
| 1617# This happened in 1892, according to the Evening News (Sydney) of 1892-07-20. 1618# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm | |
| 1619 1620# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30 1621# in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11 1622# for American Samoa, e.g., the US National Bureau of Standards 1623# circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932. 1624# Assume American Samoa switched to -11 in 1911, not 1950, 1625# and that after 1950 they agreed until (western) Samoa skipped a 1626# day in 2011. Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New 1627# Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations. 1628 | 1625 1626# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30 1627# in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11 1628# for American Samoa, e.g., the US National Bureau of Standards 1629# circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932. 1630# Assume American Samoa switched to -11 in 1911, not 1950, 1631# and that after 1950 they agreed until (western) Samoa skipped a 1632# day in 2011. Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New 1633# Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations. 1634 |
| 1629 | |
| 1630# Tonga 1631 1632# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 1633# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting 1634# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time." 1635# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do. 1636 1637# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle --- 78 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1716# http://mic.gov.to/news-today/press-releases/6375-daylight-saving-set-to-run-from-6-november-2016-to-15-january-2017 1717# Cannot find anyone who knows the rules, has seen the duration or has seen 1718# the cabinet decision, but it appears we are following Fiji's rule set. 1719# 1720# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-26): 1721# Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00 1722# through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now. 1723 | 1635# Tonga 1636 1637# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 1638# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting 1639# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time." 1640# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do. 1641 1642# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle --- 78 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1721# http://mic.gov.to/news-today/press-releases/6375-daylight-saving-set-to-run-from-6-november-2016-to-15-january-2017 1722# Cannot find anyone who knows the rules, has seen the duration or has seen 1723# the cabinet decision, but it appears we are following Fiji's rule set. 1724# 1725# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-26): 1726# Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00 1727# through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now. 1728 |
| 1724# From David Wade (2017-10-18): 1725# In August government was disolved by the King. The current prime minister 1726# continued in office in care taker mode. It is easy to see that few 1727# decisions will be made until elections 16th November. 1728# 1729# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18): 1730# For now, guess that DST is discontinued. That's what the IATA is guessing. 1731 1732 | |
| 1733# Wake 1734 1735# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, 1736# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02): 1737# 1738# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ... The time was all the 1739# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the 1740# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we 1741# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time 1742# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost 1743# impossible. 1744# | 1729# Wake 1730 1731# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, 1732# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02): 1733# 1734# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ... The time was all the 1735# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the 1736# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we 1737# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time 1738# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost 1739# impossible. 1740# |
| 1745# https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/andrsonv.htm | 1741# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm |
| 1746 1747# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): 1748# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now. 1749 1750############################################################################### 1751 1752# The International Date Line 1753 --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1765# has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific 1766# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international 1767# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is 1768# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some 1769# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not 1770# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the 1771# correct date is ambiguous. 1772 | 1742 1743# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): 1744# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now. 1745 1746############################################################################### 1747 1748# The International Date Line 1749 --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 1761# has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific 1762# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international 1763# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is 1764# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some 1765# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not 1766# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the 1767# correct date is ambiguous. 1768 |
| 1773# From Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31): | 1769# From Wikipedia |
| 1774# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting 1775# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's 1776# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's 1777# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon). During 1917, at the 1778# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all 1779# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones 1780# on the high seas. Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any 1781# nation it would use that nation's standard time. The captain was permitted --- 12 unchanged lines hidden --- | 1770# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting 1771# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's 1772# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's 1773# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon). During 1917, at the 1774# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all 1775# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones 1776# on the high seas. Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any 1777# nation it would use that nation's standard time. The captain was permitted --- 12 unchanged lines hidden --- |