1192886Sedwin# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
2192886Sedwin# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
3153761Swollman
42742Swollman# This file also includes Pacific islands.
586464Swollman
62742Swollman# Notes are at the end of this file
72742Swollman
82742Swollman###############################################################################
92742Swollman
102742Swollman# Australia
112742Swollman
1286222Swollman# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc.
1386222Swollman
142742Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
15270817SpluknetRule	Aus	1917	only	-	Jan	 1	0:01	1:00	D
16270817SpluknetRule	Aus	1917	only	-	Mar	25	2:00	0	S
17270817SpluknetRule	Aus	1942	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	1:00	D
18270817SpluknetRule	Aus	1942	only	-	Mar	29	2:00	0	S
19270817SpluknetRule	Aus	1942	only	-	Sep	27	2:00	1:00	D
20270817SpluknetRule	Aus	1943	1944	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	S
21270817SpluknetRule	Aus	1943	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00	1:00	D
2258787Sru# Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which
2358787Sru# says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944.  Ignore Whitman's claim that
2458787Sru# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944.
252742Swollman
262742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
279908Swollman# Northern Territory
282742SwollmanZone Australia/Darwin	 8:43:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
29270817Spluknet			 9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
30270817Spluknet			 9:30	Aus	AC%sT
319908Swollman# Western Australia
32169811Swollman#
33169811Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
34270817SpluknetRule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
35270817SpluknetRule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
36270817SpluknetRule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
37270817SpluknetRule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
38270817SpluknetRule	AW	1991	only	-	Nov	17	2:00s	1:00	D
39270817SpluknetRule	AW	1992	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
40270817SpluknetRule	AW	2006	only	-	Dec	 3	2:00s	1:00	D
41270817SpluknetRule	AW	2007	2009	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
42270817SpluknetRule	AW	2007	2008	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
432742SwollmanZone Australia/Perth	 7:43:24 -	LMT	1895 Dec
44270817Spluknet			 8:00	Aus	AW%sT	1943 Jul
45270817Spluknet			 8:00	AW	AW%sT
46169811SwollmanZone Australia/Eucla	 8:35:28 -	LMT	1895 Dec
47325322Sgordon			 8:45	Aus +0845/+0945	1943 Jul
48325322Sgordon			 8:45	AW  +0845/+0945
49169811Swollman
509908Swollman# Queensland
5120094Swollman#
52149514Swollman# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
5320094Swollman# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
5420094Swollman# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
5520094Swollman# Queensland ceased to.
5620094Swollman#
5720094Swollman# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
5820094Swollman# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman,
5920094Swollman# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped.
6020094Swollman# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria,
6120094Swollman# so use Lindeman.
6220094Swollman#
63309577Sglebius# From J William Piggott (2016-02-20):
64309577Sglebius# There is no location named Holiday Islands in Queensland Australia; holiday
65309577Sglebius# islands is a colloquial term used globally.  Hayman and Lindeman are at the
66309577Sglebius# north and south extremes of the Whitsunday Islands archipelago, and
67309577Sglebius# Hamilton is in between; it is reasonable to believe that this time zone
68309577Sglebius# applies to all of the Whitsundays.
69309577Sglebius# http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-islands
70309577Sglebius#
7120094Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
72270817SpluknetRule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
73270817SpluknetRule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
74270817SpluknetRule	AQ	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
75270817SpluknetRule	AQ	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
76270817SpluknetRule	Holiday	1992	1993	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
77270817SpluknetRule	Holiday	1993	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
782742SwollmanZone Australia/Brisbane	10:12:08 -	LMT	1895
79270817Spluknet			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
80270817Spluknet			10:00	AQ	AE%sT
8120094SwollmanZone Australia/Lindeman  9:55:56 -	LMT	1895
82270817Spluknet			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
83270817Spluknet			10:00	AQ	AE%sT	1992 Jul
84270817Spluknet			10:00	Holiday	AE%sT
852742Swollman
869908Swollman# South Australia
872742Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
88270817SpluknetRule	AS	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
89270817SpluknetRule	AS	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	D
90270817SpluknetRule	AS	1987	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
91270817SpluknetRule	AS	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	S
92270817SpluknetRule	AS	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
93270817SpluknetRule	AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
94270817SpluknetRule	AS	1991	only	-	Mar	3	2:00s	0	S
95270817SpluknetRule	AS	1992	only	-	Mar	22	2:00s	0	S
96270817SpluknetRule	AS	1993	only	-	Mar	7	2:00s	0	S
97270817SpluknetRule	AS	1994	only	-	Mar	20	2:00s	0	S
98270817SpluknetRule	AS	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
99270817SpluknetRule	AS	2006	only	-	Apr	2	2:00s	0	S
100270817SpluknetRule	AS	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
101270817SpluknetRule	AS	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
102270817SpluknetRule	AS	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1032742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1042742SwollmanZone Australia/Adelaide	9:14:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
105270817Spluknet			9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
106270817Spluknet			9:30	Aus	AC%sT	1971
107270817Spluknet			9:30	AS	AC%sT
1082742Swollman
1099908Swollman# Tasmania
110149514Swollman#
111149514Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
112273719Sedwin# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
113149514Swollman# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971.
114149514Swollman#
1152742Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
116270817SpluknetRule	AT	1967	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
117270817SpluknetRule	AT	1968	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
118270817SpluknetRule	AT	1968	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
119270817SpluknetRule	AT	1969	1971	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00s	0	S
120270817SpluknetRule	AT	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
121270817SpluknetRule	AT	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
122270817SpluknetRule	AT	1982	1983	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
123270817SpluknetRule	AT	1984	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
124270817SpluknetRule	AT	1986	only	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
125270817SpluknetRule	AT	1987	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
126270817SpluknetRule	AT	1987	only	-	Oct	Sun>=22	2:00s	1:00	D
127270817SpluknetRule	AT	1988	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
128270817SpluknetRule	AT	1991	1999	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
129270817SpluknetRule	AT	1991	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
130270817SpluknetRule	AT	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
131270817SpluknetRule	AT	2001	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
132270817SpluknetRule	AT	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
133270817SpluknetRule	AT	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
134270817SpluknetRule	AT	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
1352742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1362742SwollmanZone Australia/Hobart	9:49:16	-	LMT	1895 Sep
137273719Sedwin			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
138270817Spluknet			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
139270817Spluknet			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1967
140270817Spluknet			10:00	AT	AE%sT
141149514SwollmanZone Australia/Currie	9:35:28	-	LMT	1895 Sep
142273719Sedwin			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
143270817Spluknet			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
144270817Spluknet			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971 Jul
145270817Spluknet			10:00	AT	AE%sT
1462742Swollman
1479908Swollman# Victoria
1482742Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
149270817SpluknetRule	AV	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
150270817SpluknetRule	AV	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
151270817SpluknetRule	AV	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
152270817SpluknetRule	AV	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
153270817SpluknetRule	AV	1986	1987	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	D
154270817SpluknetRule	AV	1988	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
155270817SpluknetRule	AV	1991	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
156270817SpluknetRule	AV	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
157270817SpluknetRule	AV	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
158270817SpluknetRule	AV	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
159270817SpluknetRule	AV	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
160270817SpluknetRule	AV	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
161270817SpluknetRule	AV	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
162270817SpluknetRule	AV	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1632742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1642742SwollmanZone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
165270817Spluknet			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
166270817Spluknet			10:00	AV	AE%sT
1672742Swollman
1689908Swollman# New South Wales
1692742Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
170270817SpluknetRule	AN	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
171270817SpluknetRule	AN	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	S
172270817SpluknetRule	AN	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
173270817SpluknetRule	AN	1982	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
174270817SpluknetRule	AN	1983	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
175270817SpluknetRule	AN	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
176270817SpluknetRule	AN	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	D
177270817SpluknetRule	AN	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
178270817SpluknetRule	AN	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
179270817SpluknetRule	AN	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
180270817SpluknetRule	AN	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
181270817SpluknetRule	AN	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
182270817SpluknetRule	AN	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
183270817SpluknetRule	AN	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
184270817SpluknetRule	AN	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
185270817SpluknetRule	AN	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
1862742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
1872742SwollmanZone Australia/Sydney	10:04:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
188270817Spluknet			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1971
189270817Spluknet			10:00	AN	AE%sT
1902742SwollmanZone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 -	LMT	1895 Feb
191270817Spluknet			10:00	-	AEST	1896 Aug 23
192270817Spluknet			9:00	-	ACST	1899 May
193270817Spluknet			9:30	Aus	AC%sT	1971
194270817Spluknet			9:30	AN	AC%sT	2000
195270817Spluknet			9:30	AS	AC%sT
1968029Swollman
19714343Swollman# Lord Howe Island
19814343Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
199331986SgordonRule	LH	1981	1984	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	-
200331986SgordonRule	LH	1982	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
201331986SgordonRule	LH	1985	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
202331986SgordonRule	LH	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	-
203331986SgordonRule	LH	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	0:30	-
204331986SgordonRule	LH	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
205331986SgordonRule	LH	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
206331986SgordonRule	LH	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
207331986SgordonRule	LH	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
208331986SgordonRule	LH	2001	2007	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
209331986SgordonRule	LH	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
210331986SgordonRule	LH	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
211331986SgordonRule	LH	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
212331986SgordonRule	LH	2008	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	0:30	-
2132742SwollmanZone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
214270817Spluknet			10:00	-	AEST	1981 Mar
215325322Sgordon			10:30	LH	+1030/+1130 1985 Jul
216325322Sgordon			10:30	LH	+1030/+11
2178029Swollman
21814343Swollman# Australian miscellany
2192742Swollman#
2202742Swollman# Ashmore Is, Cartier
22114343Swollman# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers
222169811Swollman# no times are set
2232742Swollman#
22414343Swollman# Coral Sea Is
22514343Swollman# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists
226169811Swollman# no times are set
22714343Swollman#
22830711Swollman# Macquarie
229249692Sedwin# Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948;
230249692Sedwin# sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919.  See the
231249692Sedwin# Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island
232273719Sedwin# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828
233273719Sedwin# http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831
234249692Sedwin# Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010.
235249692Sedwin#
236249692Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
237249692Sedwin# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division:
238249692Sedwin# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not
239249692Sedwin# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do
240249692Sedwin# on 4 April.
241253009Sedwin#
242253009Sedwin# From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23):
243253009Sedwin# The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics
244270817Spluknet# will produce a binary file with an [A]EST-type as the first 32-bit type;
245253009Sedwin# this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by
246253009Sedwin# pre-2013 versions of localtime.
247309577SglebiusZone Antarctica/Macquarie 0	-	-00	1899 Nov
248273719Sedwin			10:00	-	AEST	1916 Oct  1  2:00
249270817Spluknet			10:00	1:00	AEDT	1917 Feb
250273719Sedwin			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1919 Apr  1  0:00s
251309577Sglebius			0	-	-00	1948 Mar 25
252270817Spluknet			10:00	Aus	AE%sT	1967
253273719Sedwin			10:00	AT	AE%sT	2010 Apr  4  3:00
254325322Sgordon			11:00	-	+11
2552742Swollman
25643014Swollman# Christmas
25743014Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
25843014SwollmanZone Indian/Christmas	7:02:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
259325322Sgordon			7:00	-	+07
2602742Swollman
261267477Sedwin# Cocos (Keeling) Is
262149514Swollman# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
263149514Swollman# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
2642742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
265149514SwollmanZone	Indian/Cocos	6:27:40	-	LMT	1900
266325322Sgordon			6:30	-	+0630
2672742Swollman
268267477Sedwin
2692742Swollman# Fiji
270248307Sedwin
271248307Sedwin# Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva.
272248307Sedwin
273199336Sedwin# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10):
274199336Sedwin# According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation,  Fiji plans to re-introduce DST
275199336Sedwin# from November 29th 2009  to April 25th 2010.
276199336Sedwin#
277199336Sedwin# "Daylight savings to commence this month"
278199336Sedwin# http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719
279199336Sedwin# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html
280199336Sedwin
281199336Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-11-10):
282199336Sedwin# The Fiji Government has posted some more details about the approved
283199336Sedwin# amendments:
284199336Sedwin# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml
285204887Sedwin
286204887Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-03):
287204887Sedwin# The Cabinet in Fiji has decided to end DST about a month early, on
288204887Sedwin# 2010-03-28 at 03:00.
289204887Sedwin# The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March
290204887Sedwin# 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?).
291204887Sedwin#
292204887Sedwin# Official source:
293204887Sedwin# 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
294204887Sedwin#
295204887Sedwin# A bit more background info here:
296325322Sgordon# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html
297204887Sedwin
298214722Sedwin# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24):
299240457Sedwin# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3
300214722Sedwin# weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011...
301240457Sedwin# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands,
302214722Sedwin# Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site:
303214722Sedwin# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
304214722Sedwin# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html
305214722Sedwin
306226289Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03):
307240457Sedwin# Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date
308226289Sedwin# assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong).
309226289Sedwin#
310270817Spluknet# 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
311226289Sedwin# which says
312240457Sedwin# Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in
313240457Sedwin# advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to
314226289Sedwin# 2am on February 26 next year.
315226289Sedwin
316226976Sedwin# From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24)
317226976Sedwin# Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for
318226976Sedwin# Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22.
319226976Sedwin#
320226976Sedwin# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
321226976Sedwin# states:
322226976Sedwin#
323226976Sedwin# The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
324226976Sedwin# has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
325226976Sedwin# The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
326226976Sedwin# on the  23rd of October, 2011.
327226976Sedwin
328240457Sedwin# From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
329240457Sedwin# The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
330240457Sedwin# today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
331240457Sedwin# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
332240457Sedwin# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
333257697Sedwin
334257697Sedwin# From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
335263046Sedwin# Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
336263046Sedwin# move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
337257697Sedwin# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
338263046Sedwin
339263046Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
340263046Sedwin# Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
341263046Sedwin# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
342263046Sedwin
343273719Sedwin# From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
344273719Sedwin# DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
345273719Sedwin# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx
346240457Sedwin
347290698Sedwin# From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77
348290698Sedwin# in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28),
349290698Sedwin# via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02):
350290698Sedwin# the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time
351290698Sedwin# commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
352290698Sedwin# 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
353290698Sedwin
354309577Sglebius# From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04):
355309577Sglebius# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx
356309577Sglebius# "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when
357309577Sglebius# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am....  Daylight Saving will
358309577Sglebius# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017."
359309577Sglebius
360325322Sgordon# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-21):
361325322Sgordon# Dominic Fok writes (2017-08-20) that DST ends 2018-01-14, citing
362325322Sgordon# Extraordinary Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 21 (2017-08-27),
363325322Sgordon# [Legal Notice No. 41] of an order of the previous day by J Usamate.
364325322Sgordon# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to 03:00
365325322Sgordon# the first Sunday on or after January 14.  Although ad hoc, it matches
366290698Sedwin# transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future
367273719Sedwin# practice than guessing no DST.
368273719Sedwin
36943543Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
370331986SgordonRule	Fiji	1998	1999	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
37175267SwollmanRule	Fiji	1999	2000	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	-
372331986SgordonRule	Fiji	2009	only	-	Nov	29	2:00	1:00	-
373204887SedwinRule	Fiji	2010	only	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	-
374331986SgordonRule	Fiji	2010	2013	-	Oct	Sun>=21	2:00	1:00	-
375214722SedwinRule	Fiji	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
376263046SedwinRule	Fiji	2012	2013	-	Jan	Sun>=18	3:00	0	-
377273719SedwinRule	Fiji	2014	only	-	Jan	Sun>=18	2:00	0	-
378331986SgordonRule	Fiji	2014	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
379325322SgordonRule	Fiji	2015	max	-	Jan	Sun>=14	3:00	0	-
3802742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
381273719SedwinZone	Pacific/Fiji	11:55:44 -	LMT	1915 Oct 26 # Suva
382325322Sgordon			12:00	Fiji	+12/+13
3832742Swollman
3842742Swollman# French Polynesia
3852742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
386273719SedwinZone	Pacific/Gambier	 -8:59:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Rikitea
387325322Sgordon			 -9:00	-	-09
3882742SwollmanZone	Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 -	LMT	1912 Oct
389325322Sgordon			 -9:30	-	-0930
390273719SedwinZone	Pacific/Tahiti	 -9:58:16 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Papeete
391325322Sgordon			-10:00	-	-10
39243014Swollman# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
39343014Swollman# it is uninhabited.
3942742Swollman
3952742Swollman# Guam
3962742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
39775267SwollmanZone	Pacific/Guam	-14:21:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
398273719Sedwin			 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901        # Agana
399273719Sedwin			10:00	-	GST	2000 Dec 23 # Guam
40075267Swollman			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
401280414SedwinLink Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
4022742Swollman
4032742Swollman# Kiribati
4042742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
405273719SedwinZone Pacific/Tarawa	 11:32:04 -	LMT	1901 # Bairiki
406325322Sgordon			 12:00	-	+12
4072742SwollmanZone Pacific/Enderbury	-11:24:20 -	LMT	1901
408325322Sgordon			-12:00	-	-12	1979 Oct
409331986Sgordon			-11:00	-	-11	1994 Dec 31
410325322Sgordon			 13:00	-	+13
4112742SwollmanZone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
412325322Sgordon			-10:40	-	-1040	1979 Oct
413331986Sgordon			-10:00	-	-10	1994 Dec 31
414325322Sgordon			 14:00	-	+14
4152742Swollman
41614343Swollman# N Mariana Is
417280414Sedwin# See Pacific/Guam.
41814343Swollman
41914343Swollman# Marshall Is
42014343Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
42114343SwollmanZone Pacific/Majuro	11:24:48 -	LMT	1901
422325322Sgordon			11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
423325322Sgordon			12:00	-	+12
42414343SwollmanZone Pacific/Kwajalein	11:09:20 -	LMT	1901
425325322Sgordon			11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
426325322Sgordon			-12:00	-	-12	1993 Aug 20
427325322Sgordon			12:00	-	+12
42814343Swollman
42914343Swollman# Micronesia
43014343Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
431210718SedwinZone Pacific/Chuuk	10:07:08 -	LMT	1901
432325322Sgordon			10:00	-	+10
433273719SedwinZone Pacific/Pohnpei	10:32:52 -	LMT	1901 # Kolonia
434325322Sgordon			11:00	-	+11
43514343SwollmanZone Pacific/Kosrae	10:51:56 -	LMT	1901
436325322Sgordon			11:00	-	+11	1969 Oct
437325322Sgordon			12:00	-	+12	1999
438325322Sgordon			11:00	-	+11
43914343Swollman
4402742Swollman# Nauru
4412742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
442273719SedwinZone	Pacific/Nauru	11:07:40 -	LMT	1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe
443325322Sgordon			11:30	-	+1130	1942 Mar 15
444325322Sgordon			9:00	-	+09	1944 Aug 15
445325322Sgordon			11:30	-	+1130	1979 May
446325322Sgordon			12:00	-	+12
4472742Swollman
4482742Swollman# New Caledonia
4492742Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
450331986SgordonRule	NC	1977	1978	-	Dec	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	-
45119878SwollmanRule	NC	1978	1979	-	Feb	27	0:00	0	-
452331986SgordonRule	NC	1996	only	-	Dec	 1	2:00s	1:00	-
453158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA.
45443014SwollmanRule	NC	1997	only	-	Mar	 2	2:00s	0	-
4552742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
456270817SpluknetZone	Pacific/Noumea	11:05:48 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Noum��a
457325322Sgordon			11:00	NC	+11/+12
4582742Swollman
4592742Swollman
4602742Swollman###############################################################################
4612742Swollman
4622742Swollman# New Zealand
4632742Swollman
4642742Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
465121098SwollmanRule	NZ	1927	only	-	Nov	 6	2:00	1:00	S
466121098SwollmanRule	NZ	1928	only	-	Mar	 4	2:00	0	M
467121098SwollmanRule	NZ	1928	1933	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00	0:30	S
468121098SwollmanRule	NZ	1929	1933	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	M
469121098SwollmanRule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	0	M
470121098SwollmanRule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0:30	S
471121098SwollmanRule	NZ	1946	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	S
472331986Sgordon# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but until 2018a
473331986Sgordon# there was no documented single notation for the date and time of this
474331986Sgordon# transition.  Duplicate the Rule lines for now, to give the 2018a change
475331986Sgordon# time to percolate out.
476114173SwollmanRule	NZ	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
477331986SgordonRule	Chatham	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	-
478114173SwollmanRule	NZ	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
479331986SgordonRule	Chatham	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:45s	0	-
4809908SwollmanRule	NZ	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
481331986SgordonRule	Chatham	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	-
482114173SwollmanRule	NZ	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
483331986SgordonRule	Chatham	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	-
484114173SwollmanRule	NZ	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00s	1:00	D
485331986SgordonRule	Chatham	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:45s	1:00	-
486169811SwollmanRule	NZ	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
487331986SgordonRule	Chatham	1990	2006	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	-
488169811SwollmanRule	NZ	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
489331986SgordonRule	Chatham	1990	2007	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:45s	0	-
490169811SwollmanRule	NZ	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
491331986SgordonRule	Chatham	2007	max	-	Sep	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	-
492169811SwollmanRule	NZ	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
493331986SgordonRule	Chatham	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	-
4942742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
495114173SwollmanZone Pacific/Auckland	11:39:04 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
496121098Swollman			11:30	NZ	NZ%sT	1946 Jan  1
4972742Swollman			12:00	NZ	NZ%sT
498270817SpluknetZone Pacific/Chatham	12:13:48 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
499325322Sgordon			12:15	-	+1215	1946 Jan  1
500325322Sgordon			12:45	Chatham	+1245/+1345
5012742Swollman
502257697SedwinLink Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo
5038029Swollman
50430711Swollman# Auckland Is
505270817Spluknet# uninhabited; M��ori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
50658787Sru# and scientific personnel have wintered
5072742Swollman
50830711Swollman# Campbell I
50958787Sru# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
51058787Sru# scientific station operated 1941/1995;
51158787Sru# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
51230711Swollman# was probably like Pacific/Auckland
51330711Swollman
514267477Sedwin# Cook Is
515267477Sedwin# From Shanks & Pottenger:
516267477Sedwin# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
517331986SgordonRule	Cook	1978	only	-	Nov	12	0:00	0:30	-
518267477SedwinRule	Cook	1979	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
519331986SgordonRule	Cook	1979	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	-
520267477Sedwin# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
521273719SedwinZone Pacific/Rarotonga	-10:39:04 -	LMT	1901        # Avarua
522325322Sgordon			-10:30	-	-1030	1978 Nov 12
523325322Sgordon			-10:00	Cook	-10/-0930
524267477Sedwin
5252742Swollman###############################################################################
5262742Swollman
5272742Swollman
5282742Swollman# Niue
5292742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
530273719SedwinZone	Pacific/Niue	-11:19:40 -	LMT	1901        # Alofi
531325322Sgordon			-11:20	-	-1120	1951
532325322Sgordon			-11:30	-	-1130	1978 Oct  1
533325322Sgordon			-11:00	-	-11
5342742Swollman
5352742Swollman# Norfolk
5362742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
537273719SedwinZone	Pacific/Norfolk	11:11:52 -	LMT	1901 # Kingston
538325322Sgordon			11:12	-	+1112	1951
539325322Sgordon			11:30	-	+1130	1974 Oct 27 02:00
540325322Sgordon			11:30	1:00	+1230	1975 Mar  2 02:00
541325322Sgordon			11:30	-	+1130	2015 Oct  4 02:00
542325322Sgordon			11:00	-	+11
5432742Swollman
54458787Sru# Palau (Belau)
5459908Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
546273719SedwinZone Pacific/Palau	8:57:56 -	LMT	1901 # Koror
547325322Sgordon			9:00	-	+09
5489908Swollman
5492742Swollman# Papua New Guinea
5502742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
5512742SwollmanZone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -	LMT	1880
552273719Sedwin			9:48:32	-	PMMT	1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
553325322Sgordon			10:00	-	+10
554273719Sedwin#
555273719Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
556273719Sedwin# Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have
557273719Sedwin# the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War.
558273719Sedwin#
559309577Sglebius# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for UT +09, these dates
560273719Sedwin# are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns.
561273719Sedwin# The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta.
562273719Sedwin# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
563273719Sedwin# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
564325322Sgordon# https://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm
565273719Sedwin# and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender.
566273719Sedwin#
567309577Sglebius# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville switched from UT +10 to +11
568325322Sgordon# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.  They call +11 "Bougainville Standard Time".
569325322Sgordon# See:
570273719Sedwin# http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/
571273719Sedwin#
572273719SedwinZone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 -	LMT	1880
573273719Sedwin			 9:48:32 -	PMMT	1895
574325322Sgordon			10:00	-	+10	1942 Jul
575325322Sgordon			 9:00	-	+09	1945 Aug 21
576325322Sgordon			10:00	-	+10	2014 Dec 28  2:00
577325322Sgordon			11:00	-	+11
5782742Swollman
5792742Swollman# Pitcairn
5802742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
581273719SedwinZone Pacific/Pitcairn	-8:40:20 -	LMT	1901        # Adamstown
582325322Sgordon			-8:30	-	-0830	1998 Apr 27  0:00
583325322Sgordon			-8:00	-	-08
5842742Swollman
58514343Swollman# American Samoa
586325322SgordonZone Pacific/Pago_Pago	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1892 Jul  5
58714343Swollman			-11:22:48 -	LMT	1911
588273719Sedwin			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
589280414SedwinLink Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
59014343Swollman
591270817Spluknet# Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
592196582Sedwin
593204887Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
594204887Sedwin# We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
595204887Sedwin# the following info:
596197000Sedwin#
597204887Sedwin# "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year
598204887Sedwin# commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first
599204887Sedwin# Sunday of April 2011."
600204887Sedwin#
601204887Sedwin# Background info:
602325322Sgordon# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html
603198270Sedwin#
604204887Sedwin# Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not
605204887Sedwin# contain any dates:
606204887Sedwin# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf
607198270Sedwin
608226289Sedwin# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07):
609214722Sedwin# Please see
610214722Sedwin# http://www.mcil.gov.ws
611214722Sedwin# the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday
612214722Sedwin# September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight
613214722Sedwin# to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks
614214722Sedwin# backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am"
615214722Sedwin
616226289Sedwin# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-03-07):
617270817Spluknet# [http://www.mcil.gov.ws/ftcd/daylight_saving_2011.pdf]
618219687Sedwin#
619270817Spluknet# ... when the standard time strikes the hour of four o'clock (4.00am
620270817Spluknet# or 0400 Hours) on the 2nd April 2011, then all instruments used to
621270817Spluknet# measure standard time are to be adjusted/changed to three o'clock
622270817Spluknet# (3:00am or 0300Hrs).
623219687Sedwin
624270817Spluknet# From David Z��lke (2011-05-09):
625226289Sedwin# Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line
626240457Sedwin#
627226289Sedwin# http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963
628226289Sedwin
629270817Spluknet# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-27):
630270817Spluknet# The International Date Line Act 2011
631270817Spluknet# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/images/ACTS/International_Date_Line_Act__2011_-_Eng.pdf
632309577Sglebius# changed Samoa from UT -11 to +13, effective "12 o'clock midnight, on
633270817Spluknet# Thursday 29th December 2011".  The International Date Line was adjusted
634270817Spluknet# accordingly.
635226289Sedwin
636226289Sedwin# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02):
637226289Sedwin# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
638226289Sedwin#
639226289Sedwin# here is the official website publication for Samoa DST and dateline change
640226289Sedwin#
641226289Sedwin# DST
642270817Spluknet# Year  End      Time              Start        Time
643270817Spluknet# 2011  - - -    - - -             24 September 3:00am to 4:00am
644270817Spluknet# 2012  01 April 4:00am to 3:00am  - - -        - - -
645226289Sedwin#
646226289Sedwin# Dateline Change skip Friday 30th Dec 2011
647226289Sedwin# Thursday 29th December 2011	23:59:59 Hours
648226289Sedwin# Saturday 31st December 2011	00:00:00 Hours
649233445Sedwin#
650270817Spluknet# From Nicholas Pereira (2012-09-10):
651241869Sedwin# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and
652270817Spluknet# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013....
653241869Sedwin# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
654241869Sedwin#
655270817Spluknet# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-08):
656270817Spluknet# That web page currently lists transitions for 2012/3 and 2013/4.
657270817Spluknet# Assume the pattern instituted in 2012 will continue indefinitely.
658241869Sedwin
659241869Sedwin# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
660331986SgordonRule	WS	2010	only	-	Sep	lastSun	0:00	1	-
661331986SgordonRule	WS	2011	only	-	Apr	Sat>=1	4:00	0	-
662331986SgordonRule	WS	2011	only	-	Sep	lastSat	3:00	1	-
663331986SgordonRule	WS	2012	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	4:00	0	-
664331986SgordonRule	WS	2012	max	-	Sep	lastSun	3:00	1	-
665241869Sedwin# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
666325322SgordonZone Pacific/Apia	 12:33:04 -	LMT	1892 Jul  5
66714343Swollman			-11:26:56 -	LMT	1911
668325322Sgordon			-11:30	-	-1130	1950
669325322Sgordon			-11:00	WS	-11/-10	2011 Dec 29 24:00
670325322Sgordon			 13:00	WS	+13/+14
67114343Swollman
6722742Swollman# Solomon Is
6732742Swollman# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
6742742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
675273719SedwinZone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct # Honiara
676325322Sgordon			11:00	-	+11
6772742Swollman
678325322Sgordon# Tokelau
679233445Sedwin#
680233445Sedwin# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29)
681233445Sedwin# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping
682240457Sedwin# December 31 this year ...
683233445Sedwin#
684240457Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25)
685240457Sedwin# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking
686240457Sedwin# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13....
687330568Sgordon# Shanks says UT-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change
688330568Sgordon# actually was to UT-11 back then.
689233445Sedwin#
690240457Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
691240457Sedwin# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of
692240457Sedwin# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
693325322Sgordon# <https://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau
694240457Sedwin# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T."  Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger
695240457Sedwin# are off by an hour starting in 1901.
696233445Sedwin
6972742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
6982742SwollmanZone	Pacific/Fakaofo	-11:24:56 -	LMT	1901
699325322Sgordon			-11:00	-	-11	2011 Dec 30
700325322Sgordon			13:00	-	+13
7012742Swollman
7022742Swollman# Tonga
70358787Sru# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
704331986SgordonRule	Tonga	1999	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	1:00	-
70575267SwollmanRule	Tonga	2000	only	-	Mar	19	2:00s	0	-
706331986SgordonRule	Tonga	2000	2001	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
707114173SwollmanRule	Tonga	2001	2002	-	Jan	lastSun	2:00	0	-
708331986SgordonRule	Tonga	2016	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	-
709325322SgordonRule	Tonga	2017	only	-	Jan	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
7102742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
7112742SwollmanZone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
712309577Sglebius			12:20	-	+1220	1941
713309577Sglebius			13:00	-	+13	1999
714309577Sglebius			13:00	Tonga	+13/+14
7152742Swollman
7162742Swollman# Tuvalu
7172742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
7182742SwollmanZone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
719325322Sgordon			12:00	-	+12
7202742Swollman
72143014Swollman
72243014Swollman# US minor outlying islands
72343014Swollman
72443014Swollman# Howland, Baker
725171948Sedwin# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British
726171948Sedwin# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known.
727171948Sedwin# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944;
728171948Sedwin# uninhabited thereafter.
729309577Sglebius# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT -10:30) in 1937;
730171948Sedwin# see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long,
731171948Sedwin# Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000).
732171948Sedwin# So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935
733171948Sedwin# until they were abandoned after the war.
73443014Swollman
73543014Swollman# Jarvis
736171948Sedwin# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?.
737171948Sedwin# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958;
738171948Sedwin# uninhabited thereafter.
73943014Swollman# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
74043014Swollman
74143014Swollman# Johnston
742257697Sedwin#
743325322Sgordon# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
744263906Sedwin# Sometimes Johnston kept Hawaii time, and sometimes it was an hour behind.
745263906Sedwin# Details are uncertain.  We have no data for Johnston after 1970, so
746325322Sgordon# treat it like Hawaii for now.  Since Johnston is now uninhabited,
747325322Sgordon# its link to Pacific/Honolulu is in the 'backward' file.
748263906Sedwin#
749257697Sedwin# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945
750257697Sedwin# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes,
751257697Sedwin# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM
752257697Sedwin# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time."  This was in June 1945, and
753257697Sedwin# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945.
754257697Sedwin#
755263906Sedwin# From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11):
756263906Sedwin# [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used
757263906Sedwin# was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships,
758263906Sedwin# which had a GMT offset of -11 hours.  This apparently applied to at least the
759263906Sedwin# time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last
760263906Sedwin# Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin,
761263906Sedwin# "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the
762273719Sedwin# Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976.
763325322Sgordon# https://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf
764263906Sedwin# See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a
765263906Sedwin# footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time
766263906Sedwin# Minus One Hour".
76743014Swollman
76843014Swollman# Kingman
76943014Swollman# uninhabited
77043014Swollman
77143014Swollman# Midway
772280414Sedwin# See Pacific/Pago_Pago.
77343014Swollman
77443014Swollman# Palmyra
77543014Swollman# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
77643014Swollman
77743014Swollman# Wake
77843014Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
77943014SwollmanZone	Pacific/Wake	11:06:28 -	LMT	1901
780325322Sgordon			12:00	-	+12
78143014Swollman
78243014Swollman
7832742Swollman# Vanuatu
7842742Swollman# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
785331986SgordonRule	Vanuatu	1983	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	1:00	-
78619878SwollmanRule	Vanuatu	1984	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
787331986SgordonRule	Vanuatu	1984	only	-	Oct	23	0:00	1:00	-
788331986SgordonRule	Vanuatu	1985	1991	-	Sep	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	-
78920094SwollmanRule	Vanuatu	1992	1993	-	Jan	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
790331986SgordonRule	Vanuatu	1992	only	-	Oct	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	-
7912742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
792273719SedwinZone	Pacific/Efate	11:13:16 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13 # Vila
793325322Sgordon			11:00	Vanuatu	+11/+12
7942742Swollman
7952742Swollman# Wallis and Futuna
7962742Swollman# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
7972742SwollmanZone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
798325322Sgordon			12:00	-	+12
7992742Swollman
8002742Swollman###############################################################################
8012742Swollman
8022742Swollman# NOTES
8032742Swollman
804273719Sedwin# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
8052742Swollman# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
806273719Sedwin# tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
807273719Sedwin# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
8082742Swollman
809325322Sgordon# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
810274563Sedwin#
811274563Sedwin# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
812158421Swollman# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
813158421Swollman# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
814274563Sedwin# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
8152742Swollman#
816325322Sgordon# Many years ago Gwillim Law wrote that a good source
817325322Sgordon# for time zone data was the International Air Transport
81820094Swollman# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
81920094Swollman# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
820274563Sedwin# of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
821274563Sedwin# IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
82220094Swollman#
8232742Swollman# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
8242742Swollman# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
8252742Swollman# I found in the UCLA library.
8262742Swollman#
827248307Sedwin# For data circa 1899, a common source is:
828273719Sedwin# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
829325322Sgordon# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
830248307Sedwin#
8312742Swollman# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
83258787Sru# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
8332742Swollman#
834325322Sgordon# The following abbreviations are from other sources.
8352742Swollman# Corrections are welcome!
836270817Spluknet#		std	dst
837270817Spluknet#		LMT		Local Mean Time
838270817Spluknet#	  8:00	AWST	AWDT	Western Australia
839270817Spluknet#	  9:30	ACST	ACDT	Central Australia
840270817Spluknet#	 10:00	AEST	AEDT	Eastern Australia
841325322Sgordon#	 10:00	GST		Guam through 2000
842270817Spluknet#	 10:00	ChST		Chamorro
843270817Spluknet#	 11:30	NZMT	NZST	New Zealand through 1945
844270817Spluknet#	 12:00	NZST	NZDT	New Zealand 1946-present
845270817Spluknet#	-11:00	SST		Samoa
846270817Spluknet#	-10:00	HST		Hawaii
8472742Swollman#
848270817Spluknet# See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
849270817Spluknet# See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Gal��pagos Is.
8502742Swollman
8512742Swollman###############################################################################
8522742Swollman
8532742Swollman# Australia
8542742Swollman
855270817Spluknet# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
856270817Spluknet# Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting
857270817Spluknet# region against region, rural against urban, and local against global.
858270817Spluknet# For example, in her review of Graeme Davison's _The Unforgiving
859270817Spluknet# Minute: how Australians learned to tell the time_ (1993), Perth native
860270817Spluknet# Phillipa J Martyr wrote, "The section entitled 'Saving Daylight' was
861270817Spluknet# very informative, but was (as can, sadly, only be expected from a
862270817Spluknet# Melbourne-based study) replete with the usual chuckleheaded
863270817Spluknet# Queenslanders and straw-chewing yokels from the West prattling fables
864270817Spluknet# about fading curtains and crazed farm animals."
865270817Spluknet# Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History (1997-03-03)
866270817Spluknet# http://www.jcu.edu.au/aff/history/reviews/davison.htm
867270817Spluknet
868153670Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08):
869153670Swollman# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia
870273719Sedwin# http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml
871270817Spluknet# summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
87258787Sru
873153670Swollman# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12):
874153670Swollman# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales
875273719Sedwin# http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving
876270817Spluknet# covers New South Wales in particular.
877153670Swollman
87819878Swollman# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
879270817Spluknet# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as 'daylight' time.
880270817Spluknet# It is called 'summer' time.  Now by a happy coincidence, 'summer'
881270817Spluknet# and 'standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the
8822742Swollman# abbreviation does _not_ change...
8832742Swollman# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least
8842742Swollman# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the
8852742Swollman# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses
886270817Spluknet# the phrase 'summer time' and does not use the phrase 'daylight
8872742Swollman# time'.
8882742Swollman# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian
889270817Spluknet# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases 'Eastern Standard Time'
890270817Spluknet# or 'Eastern Summer Time'.  (Note, though, that as I say in the
8912742Swollman# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.)  Announcers
8922742Swollman# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases
893270817Spluknet# prefixed by the word 'Australian' when referring to local times;
8942742Swollman# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
8952742Swollman
896270817Spluknet# From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
89786222Swollman#
898270817Spluknet# Inspired by Mackin's remarks quoted above, earlier versions of this
899270817Spluknet# file used "EST" for both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Summer
900270817Spluknet# Time in Australia, and similarly for "CST", "CWST", and "WST".
901270817Spluknet# However, these abbreviations were confusing and were not common
902270817Spluknet# practice among Australians, and there were justifiable complaints
903270817Spluknet# about them, so I attempted to survey current Australian usage.
904270817Spluknet# For the tz database, the full English phrase is not that important;
905270817Spluknet# what matters is the abbreviation.  It's difficult to survey the web
906270817Spluknet# directly for abbreviation usage, as there are so many false hits for
907270817Spluknet# strings like "EST" and "EDT", so I looked for pages that defined an
908270817Spluknet# abbreviation for eastern or central DST in Australia, and got the
909270817Spluknet# following numbers of unique hits for the listed Google queries:
91086222Swollman#
911270817Spluknet#   10 "Eastern Daylight Time AEST" site:au [some are false hits]
912270817Spluknet#   10 "Eastern Summer Time AEST" site:au
913270817Spluknet#   10 "Summer Time AEDT" site:au
914270817Spluknet#   13 "EDST Eastern Daylight Saving Time" site:au
915270817Spluknet#   18 "Summer Time ESST" site:au
916270817Spluknet#   28 "Eastern Daylight Saving Time EDST" site:au
917270817Spluknet#   39 "EDT Eastern Daylight Time" site:au [some are false hits]
918270817Spluknet#   53 "Eastern Daylight Time EDT" site:au [some are false hits]
919270817Spluknet#   54 "AEDT Australian Eastern Daylight Time" site:au
920270817Spluknet#  182 "Eastern Daylight Time AEDT" site:au
92186222Swollman#
922270817Spluknet#   17 "Central Daylight Time CDT" site:au [some are false hits]
923270817Spluknet#   46 "Central Daylight Time ACDT" site:au
92486222Swollman#
925270817Spluknet# I tried several other variants (e.g., "Eastern Summer Time EST") but
926270817Spluknet# they all returned fewer than 10 unique hits.  I also looked for pages
927270817Spluknet# mentioning both "western standard time" and an abbreviation, since
928270817Spluknet# there is no WST in the US to generate false hits, and found:
92986222Swollman#
930270817Spluknet#  156 "western standard time" AWST site:au
931270817Spluknet#  226 "western standard time" WST site:au
93286222Swollman#
933270817Spluknet# I then surveyed the top ten newspapers in Australia by circulation as
934270817Spluknet# listed in Wikipedia, using Google queries like "AEDT site:heraldsun.com.au"
935270817Spluknet# and obtaining estimated counts from the initial page of search results.
936270817Spluknet# All ten papers greatly preferred "AEDT" to "EDT".  The papers
937270817Spluknet# surveyed were the Herald Sun, The Daily Telegraph, The Courier-Mail,
938270817Spluknet# The Sydney Morning Herald, The West Australian, The Age, The Advertiser,
939270817Spluknet# The Australian, The Financial Review, and The Herald (Newcastle).
94086222Swollman#
941270817Spluknet# I also searched for historical usage, to see whether abbreviations
942270817Spluknet# like "AEDT" are new.  A Trove search <http://trove.nla.gov.au/>
943270817Spluknet# found only one newspaper (The Canberra Times) with a house style
944270817Spluknet# dating back to the 1970s, I expect because other newspapers weren't
945270817Spluknet# fully indexed.  The Canberra Times strongly preferred abbreviations
946270817Spluknet# like "AEDT".  The first occurrence of "AEDT" was a World Weather
947270817Spluknet# column (1971-11-17, page 24), and of "ACDT" was a Scoreboard column
948270817Spluknet# (1993-01-24, p 16).  The style was the typical usage but was not
949270817Spluknet# strictly enforced; for example, "Welcome to the twilight zones ..."
950270817Spluknet# (1994-10-29, p 1) uses the abbreviations AEST/AEDT, CST/CDT, and
951270817Spluknet# WST, and goes on to say, "The confusion and frustration some feel
952270817Spluknet# about the lack of uniformity among Australia's six states and two
953270817Spluknet# territories has prompted one group to form its very own political
954270817Spluknet# party -- the Sydney-based Daylight Saving Extension Party."
95586222Swollman#
956270817Spluknet# I also surveyed federal government sources.  They did not agree:
95786222Swollman#
958270817Spluknet#   The Australian Government (2014-03-26)
959270817Spluknet#   http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time
960270817Spluknet#   (This document was produced by the Department of Finance.)
961270817Spluknet#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
96286222Swollman#
963270817Spluknet#   Bureau of Meteorology (2012-11-08)
964270817Spluknet#   http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml
965270817Spluknet#   EST CST WST EDT CDT
96686222Swollman#
967270817Spluknet#   Civil Aviation Safety Authority (undated)
968270817Spluknet#   http://services.casa.gov.au/outnback/inc/pages/episode3/episode-3_time_zones.shtml
969270817Spluknet#   EST CST WST (no abbreviations given for DST)
97086222Swollman#
971270817Spluknet#   Geoscience Australia (2011-11-24)
972270817Spluknet#   http://www.ga.gov.au/geodesy/astro/sunrise.jsp
973270817Spluknet#   AEST ACST AWST AEDT ACDT
97486222Swollman#
975270817Spluknet#   Parliamentary Library (2008-11-10)
976325322Sgordon#   https://www.aph.gov.au/binaries/library/pubs/rp/2008-09/09rp14.pdf
977270817Spluknet#   EST CST WST preferred for standard time; AEST AEDT ACST ACDT also used
97886222Swollman#
979270817Spluknet#   The Transport Safety Bureau has an extensive series of accident reports,
980270817Spluknet#   and investigators seem to use whatever abbreviation they like.
981270817Spluknet#   Googling site:atsb.gov.au found the following number of unique hits:
982270817Spluknet#   311 "ESuT", 195 "EDT", 26 "AEDT", 83 "CSuT", 46 "CDT".
983270817Spluknet#   "_SuT" tended to appear in older reports, and "A_DT" tended to
984270817Spluknet#   appear in reports of events with international implications.
98586222Swollman#
986270817Spluknet# From the above it appears that there is a working consensus in
987270817Spluknet# Australia to use trailing "DT" for daylight saving time; although
988270817Spluknet# some sources use trailing "SST" or "ST" or "SuT" they are by far in
989270817Spluknet# the minority.  The case for leading "A" is weaker, but since it
990270817Spluknet# seems to be preferred in the overall web and is preferred in all
991270817Spluknet# the leading newspaper websites and in many government departments,
992270817Spluknet# it has a stronger case than omitting the leading "A".  The current
993270817Spluknet# version of the database therefore uses abbreviations like "AEST" and
994270817Spluknet# "AEDT" for Australian time zones.
99586222Swollman
99614343Swollman# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
997158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
998149514Swollman# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
9999908Swollman# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
10009908Swollman# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
1001270817Spluknet# and perhaps the newspaper's '2:00' is referring to standard time.
100214343Swollman# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
10032742Swollman
1004149514Swollman# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
100575267Swollman#
100643014Swollman# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
100743014Swollman# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
100843014Swollman# relevant entries in this database.
100975267Swollman#
101043014Swollman# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill):
101143014Swollman# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04)
1012325322Sgordon# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html
101343014Swollman# ACT
101443014Swollman# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972
1015325322Sgordon# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html
101643014Swollman# SA
101743014Swollman# Standard Time Act, 1898
1018325322Sgordon# https://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html
101943014Swollman
1020149514Swollman# From David Grosz (2005-06-13):
1021149514Swollman# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by
1022149514Swollman# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
1023149514Swollman# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday
1024149514Swollman# in April instead of the last Sunday in March.
1025149514Swollman#
1026149514Swollman# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14):
1027149514Swollman# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan
1028149514Swollman# to extend DST together in 2006.
1029149514Swollman# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt
1030149514Swollman# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html
1031149514Swollman# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html
1032149514Swollman# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772
1033149514Swollman# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles
1034149514Swollman# allude to it.
1035149514Swollman# But not Queensland
1036270817Spluknet# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html
1037149514Swollman
10389908Swollman# Northern Territory
10399908Swollman
104019878Swollman# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
10412742Swollman# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY..  [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
10422742Swollman# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
10432742Swollman# #	N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
10442742Swollman# ...
10459908Swollman# Zone        Australia/North         9:30    -       CST
10462742Swollman
104719878Swollman# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
10482742Swollman# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
10492742Swollman# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
10502742Swollman
10519908Swollman# Western Australia
10522742Swollman
105319878Swollman# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
10542742Swollman# #  The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA..  [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
10552742Swollman# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
10562742Swollman# #	W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
10572742Swollman# #	DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
10582742Swollman# #	usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
10592742Swollman# #	before reaching parliament.
10602742Swollman# ...
10612742Swollman# Zone	Australia/West		8:00	AW	%sST
10622742Swollman# ...
10632742Swollman# Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
10642742Swollman# Rule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
10652742Swollman# Rule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
10662742Swollman# Rule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
10672742Swollman
106819878Swollman# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
10692742Swollman# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
10702742Swollman# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving.
10712742Swollman
107219878Swollman# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02):
10732742Swollman# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney
10742742Swollman# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at
10752742Swollman# work at 9.00am.)
10762742Swollman# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
10772742Swollman# everybody again.
10782742Swollman
107919878Swollman# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
10802742Swollman# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
10812742Swollman# it matches what was used in the past.
10822742Swollman
108358787Sru# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
1084273719Sedwin# http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm
1085270817Spluknet# (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
108658787Sru# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia.
108758787Sru
10889908Swollman# Queensland
1089331986Sgordon
1090331986Sgordon# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-26):
1091331986Sgordon# I lack access to the following source for Queensland DST:
1092331986Sgordon# Pearce C. History of daylight saving time in Queensland.
1093331986Sgordon# Queensland Hist J. 2017 Aug;23(6):389-403
1094331986Sgordon# https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=994682348436426;res=IELHSS
1095331986Sgordon
109619878Swollman# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
10972742Swollman# #   The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
10982742Swollman# #						[ Dec 1990 ]
10992742Swollman# ...
11002742Swollman# Zone	Australia/Queensland	10:00	AQ	%sST
11012742Swollman# ...
11022742Swollman# Rule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
11032742Swollman# Rule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	E
11042742Swollman# Rule	AQ	1989	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
11052742Swollman# Rule	AQ	1990	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	E
11062742Swollman
110719878Swollman# From Bradley White (1989-12-24):
11082742Swollman# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from
11092742Swollman# October 1989).
11102742Swollman
111119878Swollman# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
11122742Swollman# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
11132742Swollman# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
11142742Swollman# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
11152742Swollman
111619878Swollman# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
11172742Swollman# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact
11182742Swollman# end on Sunday, 3 March.  I don't know at what hour, though.  (It surprised
11192742Swollman# me.)
11202742Swollman
112119878Swollman# From Bradley White (1992-03-08):
11222742Swollman# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted
11232742Swollman# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ...
11242742Swollman# ...
11252742Swollman# Rule	QLD	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
11262742Swollman# Rule	QLD	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
11272742Swollman# ...
11282742Swollman
112919878Swollman# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
11302742Swollman# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
11312742Swollman
1132169811Swollman# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning
1133270817Spluknet# from Jesper N��rgaard Welen (2006-11-01):
1134169811Swollman# WA are trialing DST for three years.
1135273719Sedwin# http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf
1136169811Swollman
1137105196Swollman# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
1138114173Swollman# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
1139169811Swollman# southern coast....  South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
1140114173Swollman# Australia does not.  The two states are one and a half hours apart.  The
1141114173Swollman# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
1142114173Swollman# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
1143114173Swollman# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
1144169811Swollman# Australia and Western Australia....
1145105196Swollman#
1146105196Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
1147105196Swollman# This is confirmed by the section entitled
1148105196Swollman# "What's the deal with time zones???" in
1149273719Sedwin# http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html
1150105196Swollman#
1151169811Swollman# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07):
1152169811Swollman# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway,
1153169811Swollman# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern
1154169811Swollman# coast of the continent.
1155105196Swollman#
1156169811Swollman# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no
1157169811Swollman# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border
1158169811Swollman# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west
1159169811Swollman# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is
1160169811Swollman# the largest population centre in this zone....
1161169811Swollman#
1162169811Swollman# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the
1163169811Swollman# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I
1164169811Swollman# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have,
1165169811Swollman# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45.
1166169811Swollman#
1167169811Swollman# (2006-12-09):
1168169811Swollman# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving
1169169811Swollman# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis
1170169811Swollman# of this time zone.  My hunch is that it's been around since well
1171169811Swollman# before 1975.  I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago.
1172105196Swollman
1173169811Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15):
1174169811Swollman# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the
1175169811Swollman# introduction of standard time in 1895.
1176169811Swollman
1177169811Swollman
1178171948Sedwin# southeast Australia
11792742Swollman#
1180171948Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1181171948Sedwin# Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT
1182171948Sedwin# end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October.
1183171948Sedwin# http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html
11842742Swollman
11852742Swollman
11869908Swollman# South Australia
11872742Swollman
118819878Swollman# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
11892742Swollman# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
11902742Swollman# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
11912742Swollman# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
11922742Swollman
119319878Swollman# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
11942742Swollman# #   The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]
11952742Swollman# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
11962742Swollman# ...
11972742Swollman# Zone	Australia/South		9:30	AS	%sST
11982742Swollman# ...
11992742Swollman# Rule	 AS	1971	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
12002742Swollman# Rule	 AS	1972	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
1201158421Swollman# Rule	 AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	C
12022742Swollman# Rule	 AS	1991	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
12032742Swollman
120419878Swollman# From Bradley White (1992-03-11):
12052742Swollman# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide
12062742Swollman# contained the following exchange:  "Due to the Adelaide Festival,
12072742Swollman# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks."
12082742Swollman
120919878Swollman# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13):
12102742Swollman# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that)
12112742Swollman# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even
12122742Swollman# numbered year (from 1990).  That's when the Adelaide Festival
12132742Swollman# is on...
12142742Swollman
121519878Swollman# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000):
12162742Swollman# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
12172742Swollman# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
12182742Swollman# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
12192742Swollman
122019878Swollman# From Bradley White (1994-04-11):
12212742Swollman# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
12222742Swollman# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
12232742Swollman# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
12242742Swollman
1225149514Swollman# From John Warburton (1994-10-07):
12269908Swollman# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
12279908Swollman# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
12289908Swollman# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
12292742Swollman
1230171948Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1231171948Sedwin# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1232171948Sedwin
12339908Swollman# Tasmania
12349908Swollman
123558787Sru# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
123658787Sru# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
12372742Swollman# #  The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
12382742Swollman# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
12392742Swollman
124019878Swollman# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10):
12412742Swollman# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
12422742Swollman# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
12432742Swollman# (but nothing new about that).
12442742Swollman
124558787Sru# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04):
124658787Sru# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the
124758787Sru# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard,
124858787Sru# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria
124958787Sru# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000
125058787Sru# instead of the first Sunday in October.
125158787Sru
125264499Swollman# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules:
125364499Swollman# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300
125464499Swollman
1255171948Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1256171948Sedwin# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1257171948Sedwin
12589908Swollman# Victoria
12592742Swollman
126058787Sru# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
126158787Sru# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
12622742Swollman# #   The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
12632742Swollman# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
12642742Swollman
126586222Swollman# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29):
126686222Swollman# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an
126786222Swollman# interesting story about daylight savings time.  Dr. John Heilbron was
126886222Swollman# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar
126986222Swollman# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located
127086222Swollman# in Melbourne, Australia.
127186222Swollman#
127286222Swollman# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which
127386222Swollman# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day
127486222Swollman# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's
127586222Swollman# fallen WWI soldiers.  And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time,
127686222Swollman# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the
127786222Swollman# expected time.
127886222Swollman#
127986222Swollman# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had
128086222Swollman# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of
128186222Swollman# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?).  Perhaps
128286222Swollman# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more.
128386222Swollman#
128486222Swollman# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html
128586222Swollman# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au
128686222Swollman
1287171948Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1288171948Sedwin# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1289171948Sedwin
12909908Swollman# New South Wales
12912742Swollman
12922742Swollman# From Arthur David Olson:
12932742Swollman# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
1294149514Swollman# Based on law library research by John Mackin,
12952742Swollman# who notes:
12962742Swollman#	In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
1297270817Spluknet#	individual states.  Thus, while such terms as "Eastern Standard Time"
12982742Swollman#	[I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common
12992742Swollman#	use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the
13002742Swollman#	legislation.  This is very important to understand.
13012742Swollman#	I have researched New South Wales time only...
13022742Swollman
1303149514Swollman# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
130458787Sru# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
1305273719Sedwin# October in 2000.  See: Matthew Moore,
1306273719Sedwin# Two months more daylight saving, Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).
1307273719Sedwin# http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html
13082742Swollman
130958787Sru# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
131058787Sru# See the following official NSW source:
131158787Sru# Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
1312273719Sedwin# http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ
131358787Sru#
131458787Sru# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of
131558787Sru# daylight saving next year.  See:
131658787Sru# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
1317273719Sedwin# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm
1318270817Spluknet# (1999-07-22).  For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
131958787Sru#
1320325322Sgordon# Victoria will follow NSW.  See:
1321270817Spluknet# Vic to extend daylight saving (1999-07-28)
1322273719Sedwin# http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm
132358787Sru#
132458787Sru# However, South Australia rejected the DST request.  See:
1325270817Spluknet# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request (1999-07-19)
1326273719Sedwin# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm
132758787Sru#
132858787Sru# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics.  See:
132958787Sru# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics
1330273719Sedwin# http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm
1331270817Spluknet# (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying
1332270817Spluknet# "Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time
133358787Sru# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very
133458787Sru# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of
133575267Swollman# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night.
1336270817Spluknet# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules."
133758787Sru#
133858787Sru# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000.  See:
1339270817Spluknet# Broken Hill to be behind the times (1999-07-21)
1340273719Sedwin# http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm
13412742Swollman
134243543Swollman# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian
134343543Swollman# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken
134458787Sru# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
134543543Swollman
134667578Swollman# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
134775267Swollman# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
134875267Swollman# towns to use Queensland time.
134967578Swollman
1350171948Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1351171948Sedwin# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1352171948Sedwin
13539908Swollman# Yancowinna
13542742Swollman
135567578Swollman# From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
1356270817Spluknet# 'Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
13572742Swollman
135819878Swollman# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
13592742Swollman# # YANCOWINNA..  [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
13602742Swollman# #					[ Dec 1990 ]
13612742Swollman# ...
136243014Swollman# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the
13632742Swollman# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings
13642742Swollman# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government
13652742Swollman# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have
13662742Swollman# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
13672742Swollman# # presently available.
13682742Swollman# Zone	Australia/Yancowinna	9:30	 AY	%sST
13692742Swollman# ...
13702742Swollman# Rule	 AY	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
13712742Swollman# Rule	 AY	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	C
13722742Swollman# [followed by other Rules]
13732742Swollman
13749908Swollman# Lord Howe Island
13752742Swollman
137619878Swollman# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
1377153670Swollman# LHI...		[ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ]
13782742Swollman#					[ Dec 1990 ]
13792742Swollman# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
13802742Swollman# hour ahead of NSW time.
13812742Swollman
138258787Sru# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27):
138358787Sru# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same
138458787Sru# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27).  For your information the
138558787Sru# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is
138658787Sru# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time
138758787Sru# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour
1388226289Sedwin# instead of only 30 minutes.  [Dependent] on the wishes of residents
138958787Sru# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing
139058787Sru# arrangements.  The starting date for summer time on the Island will
139158787Sru# however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
139214343Swollman
139375267Swollman# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
139475267Swollman# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
139575267Swollman# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
139675267Swollman# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
139775267Swollman# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
139875267Swollman# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
139958787Sru
1400158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1401158421Swollman# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and
1402158421Swollman# Lonergan thereafter.  For times we use Lonergan.
140367578Swollman
1404171948Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
1405171948Sedwin# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
1406171948Sedwin
1407192886Sedwin# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28):
1408240457Sedwin# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight
1409240457Sedwin# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009
1410192886Sedwin# summer (southern hemisphere).
1411240457Sedwin#
1412192886Sedwin# From
1413192886Sedwin# http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf
1414240457Sedwin# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling
1415192886Sedwin# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing.
1416240457Sedwin# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each
1417192886Sedwin# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year.
1418240457Sedwin# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia
1419240457Sedwin# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and
1420192886Sedwin# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year...
1421240457Sedwin#
1422192886Sedwin# We have a wrap-up here:
1423325322Sgordon# https://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html
14242742Swollman###############################################################################
14252742Swollman
142658787Sru# New Zealand
14272742Swollman
142819878Swollman# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
14292742Swollman# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
14302742Swollman# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for
14312742Swollman# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start).
1432270817Spluknet# source - phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office.
14332742Swollman
143419878Swollman# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
14352742Swollman# # The Country of New Zealand   (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
14362742Swollman# #				   or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
1437153670Swollman# #	[ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ]
14382742Swollman# #				[ Nov 1990 ]
14392742Swollman# ...
14402742Swollman# Rule	NZ      1974    1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
14412742Swollman# Rule	NZ	1989	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
14422742Swollman# Rule	NZ      1975    1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
14432742Swollman# Rule	NZ	1990	max	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	S
14442742Swollman# ...
14452742Swollman# Zone	NZ			12:00	NZ		NZ%sT	# New Zealand
14462742Swollman# Zone	NZ-CHAT			12:45	-		NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island
14472742Swollman
144819878Swollman# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
14492742Swollman# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989
14502742Swollman# rather than the October 1 value.
14512742Swollman
145214343Swollman# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
1453158421Swollman# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
1454149514Swollman# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
145514343Swollman# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
145614343Swollman# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
145714343Swollman# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
145814343Swollman#
1459158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1460121098Swollman# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history,
1461330568Sgordon# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.html for the full references.
1462158421Swollman# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger.
1463121098Swollman#
1464121098Swollman# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with
1465121098Swollman# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham
1466121098Swollman# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland.
146714343Swollman
1468169811Swollman# From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30):
1469169811Swollman# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the
1470169811Swollman# first Sunday in April.  The changes take effect this year, meaning
1471169811Swollman# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06.
1472169811Swollman# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended
1473169811Swollman
1474270817Spluknet# From Paul Eggert (2014-07-14):
1475270817Spluknet# Chatham Island time was formally standardized on 1957-01-01 by
1476273719Sedwin# New Zealand's Standard Time Amendment Act 1956 (1956-10-26).
1477325322Sgordon# https://www.austlii.edu.au/nz/legis/hist_act/staa19561956n100244.pdf
1478270817Spluknet# According to Google Books snippet view, a speaker in the New Zealand
1479270817Spluknet# parliamentary debates in 1956 said "Clause 78 makes provision for standard
1480270817Spluknet# time in the Chatham Islands.  The time there is 45 minutes in advance of New
1481270817Spluknet# Zealand time.  I understand that is the time they keep locally, anyhow."
1482270817Spluknet# For now, assume this practice goes back to the introduction of standard time
1483270817Spluknet# in New Zealand, as this would make Chatham Islands time almost exactly match
1484309577Sglebius# LMT back when New Zealand was at UT +11:30; also, assume Chatham Islands did
1485270817Spluknet# not observe New Zealand's prewar DST.
1486270817Spluknet
14872742Swollman###############################################################################
14882742Swollman
148958787Sru
14902742Swollman# Fiji
14912742Swollman
149258787Sru# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
149358787Sru# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time
149458787Sru# instead of the American system (which was one day behind).
14952742Swollman
149643543Swollman# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
149743543Swollman# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01
149875267Swollman# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28.  Each year the DST period will
149943543Swollman# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
150043543Swollman
150158787Sru# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
150258787Sru# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time.  Go with McDow.
150358787Sru
1504253009Sedwin# From the BBC World Service in
1505253009Sedwin# http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/205226.stm (1998-10-31 16:03 UTC):
1506270817Spluknet# The Fijian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
1507253009Sedwin# improve productivity and reduce road accidents.... [T]he move is also
1508253009Sedwin# intended to boost Fiji's ability to attract tourists to witness the dawning
1509253009Sedwin# of the new millennium.
151043543Swollman
151175267Swollman# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
151275267Swollman# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
151358787Sru
151414343Swollman
151517200Swollman# Kiribati
151617200Swollman
151717200Swollman# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
151817200Swollman# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati
1519270817Spluknet# "declared it the same day [throughout] the country as of Jan. 1, 1995"
152017200Swollman# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
152117200Swollman
1522331986Sgordon# From Kerry Shetline (2018-02-03):
1523331986Sgordon# December 31 was the day that was skipped, so that the transition
1524331986Sgordon# would be from Friday December 30, 1994 to Sunday January 1, 1995.
1525331986Sgordon# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-04):
1526331986Sgordon# One source for this is page 202 of: Bartky IR. One Time Fits All:
1527331986Sgordon# The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (2007).
152858787Sru
15292742Swollman# Kwajalein
15302742Swollman
15312742Swollman# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
15322742Swollman# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday,
153319878Swollman# 1993-08-20.  Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
15342742Swollman# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
15352742Swollman# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
15362742Swollman
153758787Sru
153814343Swollman# N Mariana Is, Guam
15392742Swollman
1540270817Spluknet# Howse writes (p 153) "The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
1541270817Spluknet# Philippines and the Ladrones from America," and implies that the Ladrones
15422742Swollman# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
154375267Swollman# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
154475267Swollman# see Asia/Manila.
154514343Swollman
1546309577Sglebius# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UT +10 the official standard time,
154775267Swollman# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time".  There is no official abbreviation,
154875267Swollman# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
154975267Swollman# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
155058787Sru
155175267Swollman
155217200Swollman# Micronesia
155317200Swollman
1554149514Swollman# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
1555270817Spluknet# "I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that 'Truk'
1556270817Spluknet# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10."
155717200Swollman#
1558309577Sglebius# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UT +10 to +11
1559158421Swollman# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now.
156017200Swollman
156158787Sru# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
156258787Sru# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in
1563270817Spluknet# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information (1999-01-26)
1564273719Sedwin# http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html
1565309577Sglebius# that Truk and Yap are UT +10, and Ponape and Kosrae are +11.
1566309577Sglebius# We don't know when Kosrae switched from +12; assume January 1 for now.
156758787Sru
156858787Sru
1569121098Swollman# Midway
1570121098Swollman
1571121098Swollman# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
1572121098Swollman# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
1573121098Swollman# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
1574121098Swollman# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
1575121098Swollman# Saving Time.  This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
1576121098Swollman# your time down there in New Zealand.  Starting September 2, 1956
1577121098Swollman# we'll again go back to Standard Time.  This'll mean that we'll go to
1578121098Swollman# air at 6am your time.
1579121098Swollman#
1580121098Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1581121098Swollman# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
1582121098Swollman# started DST on June 3.  Possibly DST was observed other years
1583121098Swollman# in Midway, but we have no record of it.
1584121098Swollman
1585290698Sedwin# Norfolk
1586121098Swollman
1587290698Sedwin# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23):
1588290698Sedwin# Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100:
1589290698Sedwin# https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
1590290698Sedwin# ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015.
1591290698Sedwin# http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf
1592290698Sedwin
1593290698Sedwin# From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23):
1594290698Sedwin# Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted
1595290698Sedwin# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's
1596290698Sedwin# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST
1597290698Sedwin# other than in 1974/5.  See:
1598325322Sgordon# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html
1599290698Sedwin
160058787Sru# Pitcairn
160158787Sru
160258787Sru# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
160358787Sru# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
160458787Sru# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time.  The Proclamation is as follows.
160558787Sru#
160658787Sru#	The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
160758787Sru#	Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
160858787Sru#	as Pitcairn Standard Time.
160958787Sru#
161058787Sru# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
161158787Sru# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
161258787Sru# somehow in light of this proclamation.
161358787Sru
161458787Sru# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
161558787Sru# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
161658787Sru# ... at midnight.
161758787Sru
161858787Sru# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
161958787Sru# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
1620331986Sgordon# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be �� hour different from us here in
162158787Sru# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
162258787Sru
162358787Sru
1624270817Spluknet# (Western) Samoa and American Samoa
162514343Swollman
1626325322Sgordon# Howse writes (p 153) that after the 1879 standardization on Antipodean
1627325322Sgordon# time by the British governor of Fiji, the King of Samoa decided to change
1628270817Spluknet# "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
1629270817Spluknet# ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that
1630270817Spluknet# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year."
1631325322Sgordon# This happened in 1892, according to the Evening News (Sydney) of 1892-07-20.
1632325322Sgordon# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm
163317200Swollman
1634309577Sglebius# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30
1635309577Sglebius# in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11
1636270817Spluknet# for American Samoa, e.g., the US National Bureau of Standards
1637270817Spluknet# circular "Standard Time Throughout the World", 1932.
1638309577Sglebius# Assume American Samoa switched to -11 in 1911, not 1950,
1639270817Spluknet# and that after 1950 they agreed until (western) Samoa skipped a
1640270817Spluknet# day in 2011.  Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New
1641270817Spluknet# Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations.
164258787Sru
1643325322Sgordon
164417200Swollman# Tonga
164517200Swollman
164617200Swollman# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
1647270817Spluknet# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that "Tonga has been plotting
1648270817Spluknet# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time."
164917200Swollman# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
165058787Sru
165158787Sru# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle
1652273719Sedwin# How Tonga became 'The Land where Time Begins':
1653273719Sedwin# http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm
1654273719Sedwin#
165558787Sru# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST
165658787Sru# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT.  When New Zealand adjusted its
165758787Sru# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its
165858787Sru# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of
1659331986Sgordon# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13��
166058787Sru# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).
166158787Sru#
1662270817Spluknet# Because His Majesty King T��ufa����hau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince
1663270817Spluknet# Tung��, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time
166458787Sru# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change.
166558787Sru#
166658787Sru# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer
166758787Sru# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40
166858787Sru# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40
166958787Sru# minutes we have lost?"
167058787Sru#
167158787Sru# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
167258787Sru# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
167358787Sru# to say your prayers in the morning."
167458787Sru
1675158421Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
1676158421Swollman# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
167758787Sru
167858787Sru# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
1679253009Sedwin# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium
168058787Sru# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
168158787Sru# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
168258787Sru# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
168358787Sru# Government.
168458787Sru
1685149514Swollman# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
168658787Sru# * Tonga will introduce DST in November
168775267Swollman#
1688149514Swollman# I was given this link by John Letts:
168958787Sru# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
169075267Swollman#
169158787Sru# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November
169258787Sru# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead
169358787Sru# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
169458787Sru# (12 + 1 hour DST).
169558787Sru
1696149514Swollman# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
1697270817Spluknet# According to <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>:
169875267Swollman# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000
169975267Swollman# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the
170075267Swollman# third Saturday of April.  Under the system approved by Privy Council on
170175267Swollman# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and
170258787Sru# set back an hour on the closing date."
170358787Sru# Alas, no indication of the time of day.
170458787Sru
170558787Sru# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
170658787Sru# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
170758787Sru# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
170858787Sru
170975267Swollman# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
171075267Swollman# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
171175267Swollman# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
171275267Swollman# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
171375267Swollman# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
171475267Swollman# text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
1715270817Spluknet# (Original URL was <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm>)
171658787Sru
171775267Swollman# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
171875267Swollman# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
171975267Swollman
172093799Swollman# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
172193799Swollman# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
172293799Swollman# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am.  At 2:00am on the last Sunday
172393799Swollman# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
172493799Swollman# hour to 1:00am.
172586222Swollman
1726309577Sglebius# From Pulu ��Anau (2002-11-05):
1727114173Swollman# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed.  It wasn't.
172886222Swollman
1729309577Sglebius# From Pulu ��Anau (2016-10-27):
1730309577Sglebius# http://mic.gov.to/news-today/press-releases/6375-daylight-saving-set-to-run-from-6-november-2016-to-15-january-2017
1731309577Sglebius# Cannot find anyone who knows the rules, has seen the duration or has seen
1732309577Sglebius# the cabinet decision, but it appears we are following Fiji's rule set.
1733309577Sglebius#
1734309577Sglebius# From Tim Parenti (2016-10-26):
1735309577Sglebius# Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00
1736309577Sglebius# through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now.
1737121098Swollman
1738325322Sgordon# From David Wade (2017-10-18):
1739325322Sgordon# In August government was disolved by the King.  The current prime minister
1740325322Sgordon# continued in office in care taker mode.  It is easy to see that few
1741325322Sgordon# decisions will be made until elections 16th November.
1742325322Sgordon#
1743325322Sgordon# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18):
1744325322Sgordon# For now, guess that DST is discontinued.  That's what the IATA is guessing.
1745325322Sgordon
1746325322Sgordon
1747121098Swollman# Wake
1748121098Swollman
1749121098Swollman# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
1750121098Swollman# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
1751121098Swollman#
1752270817Spluknet# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ...  The time was all the
1753121098Swollman# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
1754121098Swollman# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays.  Furthermore, we
1755121098Swollman# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
1756121098Swollman# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
1757121098Swollman# impossible.
1758121098Swollman#
1759325322Sgordon# https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/andrsonv.htm
1760121098Swollman
1761121098Swollman# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1762121098Swollman# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
1763121098Swollman
176458787Sru###############################################################################
176558787Sru
176658787Sru# The International Date Line
176758787Sru
176858787Sru# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
176975267Swollman#
177058787Sru# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
177158787Sru# convention, or treaty.  Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
177258787Sru# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
177358787Sru# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
177458787Sru#
177558787Sru# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
177658787Sru# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
177758787Sru# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
177858787Sru# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati.  Even that line
177958787Sru# has a rather arbitrary nature.  The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
178058787Sru# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
1781153670Swollman# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is
178258787Sru# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
178358787Sru# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC.  And, since the IDL is not
178458787Sru# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
178558787Sru# correct date is ambiguous.
1786149514Swollman
1787325322Sgordon# From Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31):
1788153670Swollman# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting
1789153670Swollman# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's
1790153670Swollman# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's
1791153670Swollman# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon).  During 1917, at the
1792153670Swollman# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all
1793153670Swollman# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones
1794153670Swollman# on the high seas.  Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any
1795153670Swollman# nation it would use that nation's standard time.  The captain was permitted
1796153670Swollman# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's
1797270817Spluknet# entry into another zone time - he often chose midnight.  These zones were
1798153670Swollman# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many
1799153670Swollman# independent merchant ships until World War II.
1800153670Swollman
1801149514Swollman# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
1802149514Swollman# (2005-03-20):
1803149514Swollman#
1804149514Swollman# The American Practical Navigator (2002)
1805273719Sedwin# http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187
1806149514Swollman# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
1807149514Swollman# international waters; it ignores the international date line.
1808