australasia revision 257681
1# <pre> 2# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of 3# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. 4 5# This file also includes Pacific islands. 6 7# Notes are at the end of this file 8 9############################################################################### 10 11# Australia 12 13# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc. 14 15# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 16Rule Aus 1917 only - Jan 1 0:01 1:00 - 17Rule Aus 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 0 - 18Rule Aus 1942 only - Jan 1 2:00 1:00 - 19Rule Aus 1942 only - Mar 29 2:00 0 - 20Rule Aus 1942 only - Sep 27 2:00 1:00 - 21Rule Aus 1943 1944 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - 22Rule Aus 1943 only - Oct 3 2:00 1:00 - 23# Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which 24# says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944. Ignore Whitman's claim that 25# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944. 26 27# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 28# Northern Territory 29Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 30 9:00 - CST 1899 May 31 9:30 Aus CST 32# Western Australia 33# 34# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 35Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 36Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 37Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 38Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 39Rule AW 1991 only - Nov 17 2:00s 1:00 - 40Rule AW 1992 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 41Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 - 42Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 43Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 44Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 45 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul 46 8:00 AW WST 47Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec 48 8:45 Aus CWST 1943 Jul 49 8:45 AW CWST 50 51# Queensland 52# 53# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): 54# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast 55# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after 56# Queensland ceased to. 57# 58# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 59# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman, 60# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped. 61# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria, 62# so use Lindeman. 63# 64# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 65Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 66Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 - 67Rule AQ 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 68Rule AQ 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 69Rule Holiday 1992 1993 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 70Rule Holiday 1993 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 71Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895 72 10:00 Aus EST 1971 73 10:00 AQ EST 74Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895 75 10:00 Aus EST 1971 76 10:00 AQ EST 1992 Jul 77 10:00 Holiday EST 78 79# South Australia 80# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 81Rule AS 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 82Rule AS 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - 83Rule AS 1987 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 84Rule AS 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - 85Rule AS 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 86Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 87Rule AS 1991 only - Mar 3 2:00s 0 - 88Rule AS 1992 only - Mar 22 2:00s 0 - 89Rule AS 1993 only - Mar 7 2:00s 0 - 90Rule AS 1994 only - Mar 20 2:00s 0 - 91Rule AS 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 92Rule AS 2006 only - Apr 2 2:00s 0 - 93Rule AS 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 94Rule AS 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 95Rule AS 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - 96# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 97Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 98 9:00 - CST 1899 May 99 9:30 Aus CST 1971 100 9:30 AS CST 101 102# Tasmania 103# 104# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16): 105# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml> 106# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971. 107# 108# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 109Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - 110Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 111Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 112Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00s 0 - 113Rule AT 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 - 114Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 115Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 116Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 117Rule AT 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 - 118Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 119Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 - 120Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 121Rule AT 1991 1999 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - 122Rule AT 1991 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 123Rule AT 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 124Rule AT 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - 125Rule AT 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 126Rule AT 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 127Rule AT 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 128# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 129Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep 130 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 131 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb 132 10:00 Aus EST 1967 133 10:00 AT EST 134Zone Australia/Currie 9:35:28 - LMT 1895 Sep 135 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 136 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb 137 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Jul 138 10:00 AT EST 139 140# Victoria 141# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 142Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 143Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 - 144Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 145Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 146Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 - 147Rule AV 1988 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 148Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 149Rule AV 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 150Rule AV 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 151Rule AV 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 152Rule AV 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 153Rule AV 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 154Rule AV 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 155Rule AV 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - 156# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 157Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 158 10:00 Aus EST 1971 159 10:00 AV EST 160 161# New South Wales 162# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 163Rule AN 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 164Rule AN 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - 165Rule AN 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 166Rule AN 1982 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 167Rule AN 1983 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 168Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 169Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - 170Rule AN 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 171Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 172Rule AN 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 173Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 174Rule AN 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 175Rule AN 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 176Rule AN 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 177Rule AN 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 178Rule AN 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - 179# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 180Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 181 10:00 Aus EST 1971 182 10:00 AN EST 183Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 - LMT 1895 Feb 184 10:00 - EST 1896 Aug 23 185 9:00 - CST 1899 May 186 9:30 Aus CST 1971 187 9:30 AN CST 2000 188 9:30 AS CST 189 190# Lord Howe Island 191# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 192Rule LH 1981 1984 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - 193Rule LH 1982 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 194Rule LH 1985 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - 195Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 - 196Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 0:30 - 197Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - 198Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 199Rule LH 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - 200Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 - 201Rule LH 2001 2007 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 - 202Rule LH 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 203Rule LH 2007 only - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - 204Rule LH 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 - 205Rule LH 2008 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 0:30 - 206Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 207 10:00 - EST 1981 Mar 208 10:30 LH LHST 209 210# Australian miscellany 211# 212# Ashmore Is, Cartier 213# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers 214# no times are set 215# 216# Coral Sea Is 217# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists 218# no times are set 219# 220# Macquarie 221# Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948; 222# sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919. See the 223# Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island 224# <http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828> 225# <http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831>. 226# Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010. 227# 228# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10): 229# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: 230# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not 231# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do 232# on 4 April. 233# 234# From Arthur David Olson (2013-05-23): 235# The 1919 transition is overspecified below so pre-2013 zics 236# will produce a binary file with an EST-type as the first 32-bit type; 237# this is required for correct handling of times before 1916 by 238# pre-2013 versions of localtime. 239Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - zzz 1899 Nov 240 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00 241 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb 242 10:00 Aus EST 1919 Apr 1 0:00s 243 0 - zzz 1948 Mar 25 244 10:00 Aus EST 1967 245 10:00 AT EST 2010 Apr 4 3:00 246 11:00 - MIST # Macquarie I Standard Time 247 248# Christmas 249# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 250Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 251 7:00 - CXT # Christmas Island Time 252 253# Cook Is 254# From Shanks & Pottenger: 255# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 256Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS 257Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 258Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS 259# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 260Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua 261 -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time 262 -10:00 Cook CK%sT 263 264# Cocos 265# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978. 266# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900. 267# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 268Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 269 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time 270 271# Fiji 272 273# Milne gives 11:55:44 for Suva. 274 275# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2009-11-10): 276# According to Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, Fiji plans to re-introduce DST 277# from November 29th 2009 to April 25th 2010. 278# 279# "Daylight savings to commence this month" 280# <a href="http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719"> 281# http://www.radiofiji.com.fj/fullstory.php?id=23719 282# </a> 283# or 284# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html"> 285# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji01.html 286# </a> 287 288# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-11-10): 289# The Fiji Government has posted some more details about the approved 290# amendments: 291# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml"> 292# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/publish/page_16198.shtml 293# </a> 294 295# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-03): 296# The Cabinet in Fiji has decided to end DST about a month early, on 297# 2010-03-28 at 03:00. 298# The plan is to observe DST again, from 2010-10-24 to sometime in March 299# 2011 (last Sunday a good guess?). 300# 301# Official source: 302# <a href="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"> 303# 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=166 304# </a> 305# 306# A bit more background info here: 307# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html"> 308# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/fiji-dst-ends-march-2010.html 309# </a> 310 311# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24): 312# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3 313# weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011... 314# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands, 315# Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site: 316# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155"> 317# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 318# </a> 319# or 320# <a href="http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html"> 321# http://www.worldtimezone.com/dst_news/dst_news_fiji04.html 322# </a> 323 324# From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03): 325# Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date 326# assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong). 327# 328# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155"> 329# www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 330# </a> 331# which says 332# Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in 333# advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to 334# 2am on February 26 next year. 335 336# From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24) 337# Another change to the Fiji DST end date. In the TZ database the end date for 338# Fiji DST 2012, is currently Feb 26. This has been changed to Jan 22. 339# 340# <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155"> 341# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5017:amendments-to-daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155 342# </a> 343# states: 344# 345# The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012 346# has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012. 347# The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start 348# on the 23rd of October, 2011. 349 350# From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen: 351# The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate 352# today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st 353# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013. 354# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155 355 356# From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler: 357# Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 and end at 3am 358# on Sunday 19th January, 2014.... move clocks forward by one hour from 2am 359# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx 360# 361# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-09): 362# For now, guess that Fiji springs forward the Sunday before the fourth 363# Monday in October. This matches both recent practice and 364# timeanddate.com's current spring-forward prediction. 365# For the January 2014 transition we guessed right while timeanddate.com 366# guessed wrong, so leave the fall-back prediction alone. 367 368# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 369Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 370Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - 371Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S 372Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 - 373Rule Fiji 2010 max - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S 374Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 375Rule Fiji 2012 max - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 - 376# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 377Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 378 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time 379 380# French Polynesia 381# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 382Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea 383 -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time 384Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct 385 -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time 386Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete 387 -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time 388# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia; 389# it is uninhabited. 390 391# Guam 392# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 393Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 394 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana 395 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam 396 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time 397 398# Kiribati 399# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 400Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki 401 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time 402Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901 403 -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time 404 -11:00 - PHOT 1995 405 13:00 - PHOT 406Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 407 -10:40 - LINT 1979 Oct # Line Is Time 408 -10:00 - LINT 1995 409 14:00 - LINT 410 411# N Mariana Is 412# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 413Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 414 9:43:00 - LMT 1901 415 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time 416 10:00 - MPT 2000 Dec 23 417 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time 418 419# Marshall Is 420# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 421Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901 422 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time 423 12:00 - MHT 424Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 425 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct 426 -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time 427 12:00 - MHT 428 429# Micronesia 430# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 431Zone Pacific/Chuuk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 432 10:00 - CHUT # Chuuk Time 433Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia 434 11:00 - PONT # Pohnpei Time 435Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901 436 11:00 - KOST 1969 Oct # Kosrae Time 437 12:00 - KOST 1999 438 11:00 - KOST 439 440# Nauru 441# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 442Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe 443 11:30 - NRT 1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time 444 9:00 - JST 1944 Aug 15 445 11:30 - NRT 1979 May 446 12:00 - NRT 447 448# New Caledonia 449# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 450Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 451Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 - 452Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 S 453# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA. 454Rule NC 1997 only - Mar 2 2:00s 0 - 455# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 456Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 457 11:00 NC NC%sT 458 459 460############################################################################### 461 462# New Zealand 463 464# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 465Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 6 2:00 1:00 S 466Rule NZ 1928 only - Mar 4 2:00 0 M 467Rule NZ 1928 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 S 468Rule NZ 1929 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 M 469Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 M 470Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 S 471Rule NZ 1946 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 S 472# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no 473# convenient notation for this so we must duplicate the Rule lines. 474Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 475Rule Chatham 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D 476Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S 477Rule Chatham 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:45s 0 S 478Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 479Rule Chatham 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D 480Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 481Rule Chatham 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S 482Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D 483Rule Chatham 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:45s 1:00 D 484Rule NZ 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 485Rule Chatham 1990 2006 - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D 486Rule NZ 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 487Rule Chatham 1990 2007 - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S 488Rule NZ 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 489Rule Chatham 2007 max - Sep lastSun 2:45s 1:00 D 490Rule NZ 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 491Rule Chatham 2008 max - Apr Sun>=1 2:45s 0 S 492# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 493Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2 494 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1946 Jan 1 495 12:00 NZ NZ%sT 496Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:13:48 - LMT 1957 Jan 1 497 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT 498 499Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo 500 501# Auckland Is 502# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers, 503# and scientific personnel have wintered 504 505# Campbell I 506# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914 507# scientific station operated 1941/1995; 508# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered 509# was probably like Pacific/Auckland 510 511############################################################################### 512 513 514# Niue 515# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 516Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi 517 -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time 518 -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1 519 -11:00 - NUT 520 521# Norfolk 522# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 523Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston 524 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time 525 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time 526 527# Palau (Belau) 528# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 529Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror 530 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time 531 532# Papua New Guinea 533# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 534Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 535 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time 536 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time 537 538# Pitcairn 539# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 540Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown 541 -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 00:00 542 -8:00 - PST # Pitcairn Standard Time 543 544# American Samoa 545Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 546 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 547 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 548 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 549 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering 550 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 551 552# Samoa 553 554# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16): 555# We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received 556# the following info: 557# 558# "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year 559# commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first 560# Sunday of April 2011." 561# 562# Background info: 563# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html"> 564# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html 565# </a> 566# 567# Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not 568# contain any dates: 569# <a href="http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf"> 570# http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf 571# </a> 572 573# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07): 574# Please see 575# <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws"> 576# http://www.mcil.gov.ws 577# </a>, 578# the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (sideframe) "Last Sunday 579# September 2010 (26/09/10) - adjust clocks forward from 12:00 midnight 580# to 01:00am and First Sunday April 2011 (03/04/11) - adjust clocks 581# backwards from 1:00am to 12:00am" 582 583# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-03-07): 584# I believe this will be posted shortly on the website 585# <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws"> 586# www.mcil.gov.ws 587# </a> 588# 589# PUBLIC NOTICE ON DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME 590# 591# Pursuant to the Daylight Saving Act 2009 and Cabinets decision, 592# businesses and the general public are hereby advised that daylight 593# saving time is on the first Saturday of April 2011 (02/04/11). 594# 595# The public is therefore advised that when the standard time strikes 596# the hour of four oclock (4.00am or 0400 Hours) on the 2nd April 2011, 597# then all instruments used to measure standard time are to be 598# adjusted/changed to three oclock (3:00am or 0300Hrs). 599# 600# Margaret Fruean ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MINISTRY OF COMMERCE, 601# INDUSTRY AND LABOUR 28th February 2011 602 603# From David Zuelke (2011-05-09): 604# Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line 605# 606# <a href="http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963"> 607# http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963 608# </a> 609 610# From Mark Sim-Smith (2011-08-17): 611# I have been in contact with Leilani Tuala Warren from the Samoa Law 612# Reform Commission, and she has sent me a copy of the Bill that she 613# confirmed has been passed...Most of the sections are about maps rather 614# than the time zone change, but I'll paste the relevant bits below. But 615# the essence is that at midnight 29 Dec (UTC-11 I suppose), Samoa 616# changes from UTC-11 to UTC+13: 617# 618# International Date Line Bill 2011 619# 620# AN ACT to provide for the change to standard time in Samoa and to make 621# consequential amendments to the position of the International Date 622# Line, and for related purposes. 623# 624# BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament 625# assembled as follows: 626# 627# 1. Short title and commencement-(1) This Act may be cited as the 628# International Date Line Act 2011. (2) Except for section 5(3) this Act 629# commences at 12 o'clock midnight, on Thursday 29th December 2011. (3) 630# Section 5(3) commences on the date of assent by the Head of State. 631# 632# [snip] 633# 634# 3. Interpretation - [snip] "Samoa standard time" in this Act and any 635# other statute of Samoa which refers to 'Samoa standard time' means the 636# time 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated Universal Time. 637# 638# 4. Samoa standard time - (1) Upon the commencement of this Act, Samoa 639# standard time shall be set at 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated 640# Universal Time for the whole of Samoa. (2) All references to Samoa's 641# time zone and to Samoa standard time in Samoa in all legislation and 642# instruments after the commencement of this Act shall be references to 643# Samoa standard time as provided for in this Act. (3) Nothing in this 644# Act affects the provisions of the Daylight Saving Act 2009, except that 645# it defines Samoa standard time.... 646 647# From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2011-09-02): 648# <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html"> 649# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html 650# </a> 651# 652# here is the official website publication for Samoa DST and dateline change 653# 654# DST 655# Year End Time Start Time 656# 2011 - - - - - - 24 September 3:00am to 4:00am 657# 2012 01 April 4:00am to 3:00am - - - - - - 658# 659# Dateline Change skip Friday 30th Dec 2011 660# Thursday 29th December 2011 23:59:59 Hours 661# Saturday 31st December 2011 00:00:00 Hours 662# 663# Clarification by Tim Parenti (2012-01-03): 664# Although Samoa has used Daylight Saving Time in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 665# seasons, there is not yet any indication that this trend will continue on 666# a regular basis. For now, we have explicitly listed the transitions below. 667# 668# From Nicky (2012-09-10): 669# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and 670# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013. 671# 672# Please find link below for more information. 673# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html 674# 675# That publication also includes dates for Summer of 2013/4 as well 676# which give the impression of a pattern in selecting dates for the 677# future, so for now, we will guess this will continue. 678 679# Western Samoa 680# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 681Rule WS 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 D 682Rule WS 2012 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 - 683# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 684Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 685 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 686 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 687 -11:00 - WST 2010 Sep 26 688 -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Apr 2 4:00 689 -11:00 - WST 2011 Sep 24 3:00 690 -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Dec 30 691 13:00 1:00 WSDT 2012 Apr Sun>=1 4:00 692 13:00 WS WS%sT 693 694# Solomon Is 695# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea 696# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 697Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara 698 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time 699 700# Tokelau Is 701# 702# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29) 703# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping 704# December 31 this year ... 705# 706# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25) 707# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking 708# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13.... 709# Shanks says UTC-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change 710# actually was to UTC-11 back then. 711# 712# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25) 713# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of 714# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948, 715# <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau 716# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T." Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger 717# are off by an hour starting in 1901. 718 719# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 720Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 721 -11:00 - TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time 722 13:00 - TKT 723 724# Tonga 725# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 726Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S 727Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - 728Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 729Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - 730# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 731Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 732 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time 733 13:00 - TOT 1999 734 13:00 Tonga TO%sT 735 736# Tuvalu 737# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 738Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 739 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time 740 741 742# US minor outlying islands 743 744# Howland, Baker 745# Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British 746# 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known. 747# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944; 748# uninhabited thereafter. 749# Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT-10:30) in 1937; 750# see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long, 751# Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000). 752# So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935 753# until they were abandoned after the war. 754 755# Jarvis 756# Mined for guano by American companies 1857-1879 and British 1883?-1891?. 757# Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; IGY scientific base 1957-1958; 758# uninhabited thereafter. 759# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 760 761# Johnston 762# 763# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-03): 764# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945 765# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes, 766# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM 767# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time." This was in June 1945, and 768# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945. 769# We have no better information, so for now, assume this has been true 770# indefinitely into the past. 771# 772# See 'northamerica' for Pacific/Johnston. 773 774# Kingman 775# uninhabited 776 777# Midway 778# 779# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23): 780# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies, 781# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3] 782# reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly 783# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting 784# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone 785# designations that I've never seen before:.... 786# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun. 787# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A " 788# 789Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 790 -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3 791 -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2 792 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 793 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering 794 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 795 796# Palmyra 797# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 798 799# Wake 800# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 801Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 802 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time 803 804 805# Vanuatu 806# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 807Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S 808Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 809Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S 810Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 811Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 812Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 813# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 814Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila 815 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time 816 817# Wallis and Futuna 818# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 819Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 820 12:00 - WFT # Wallis & Futuna Time 821 822############################################################################### 823 824# NOTES 825 826# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 827# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 828# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). 829 830# From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21): 831# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 832# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), 833# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003). 834# 835# Gwillim Law writes that a good source 836# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 837# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 838# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 839# of the IATA's data after 1990. 840# 841# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for 842# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards. 843# 844# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 845# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 846# I found in the UCLA library. 847# 848# For data circa 1899, a common source is: 849# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94 850# <http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>. 851# 852# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 853# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). 854# 855# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 856# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 857# Corrections are welcome! 858# std dst 859# LMT Local Mean Time 860# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia 861# 8:45 CWST CWST Central Western Australia* 862# 9:00 JST Japan 863# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia 864# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia 865# 10:00 ChST Chamorro 866# 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* 867# 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945 868# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present 869# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* 870# -11:00 SST Samoa 871# -10:00 HST Hawaii 872# - 8:00 PST Pitcairn* 873# 874# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii. 875# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is. 876 877############################################################################### 878 879# Australia 880 881# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08): 882# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml"> 883# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia 884# </a> summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia. 885 886# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12): 887# <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving"> 888# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales 889# </a> covers New South Wales in particular. 890 891# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 892# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time. 893# It is called `summer' time. Now by a happy coincidence, `summer' 894# and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the 895# abbreviation does _not_ change... 896# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least 897# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the 898# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses 899# the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight 900# time'. 901# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian 902# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time' 903# or `Eastern Summer Time'. (Note, though, that as I say in the 904# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.) Announcers 905# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases 906# prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times; 907# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC. 908 909# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 910# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is: 911# CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30 912# WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00 913# EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00 914 915# From Chuck Soper (2006-06-01): 916# I recently found this Australian government web page on time zones: 917# <http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-13time> 918# And this government web page lists time zone names and abbreviations: 919# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml> 920 921# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-05), summarizing a long discussion about "EST" 922# versus "AEST" etc.: 923# 924# I see the following points of dispute: 925# 926# * How important are unique time zone abbreviations? 927# 928# Here I tend to agree with the point (most recently made by Chris 929# Newman) that unique abbreviations should not be essential for proper 930# operation of software. We have other instances of ambiguity 931# (e.g. "IST" denoting both "Israel Standard Time" and "Indian 932# Standard Time"), and they are not likely to go away any time soon. 933# In the old days, some software mistakenly relied on unique 934# abbreviations, but this is becoming less true with time, and I don't 935# think it's that important to cater to such software these days. 936# 937# On the other hand, there is another motivation for unambiguous 938# abbreviations: it cuts down on human confusion. This is 939# particularly true for Australia, where "EST" can mean one thing for 940# time T and a different thing for time T plus 1 second. 941# 942# * Does the relevant legislation indicate which abbreviations should be used? 943# 944# Here I tend to think that things are a mess, just as they are in 945# many other countries. We Americans are currently disagreeing about 946# which abbreviation to use for the newly legislated Chamorro Standard 947# Time, for example. 948# 949# Personally, I would prefer to use common practice; I would like to 950# refer to legislation only for examples of common practice, or as a 951# tiebreaker. 952# 953# * Do Australians more often use "Eastern Daylight Time" or "Eastern 954# Summer Time"? Do they typically prefix the time zone names with 955# the word "Australian"? 956# 957# My own impression is that both "Daylight Time" and "Summer Time" are 958# common and are widely understood, but that "Summer Time" is more 959# popular; and that the leading "A" is also common but is omitted more 960# often than not. I just used AltaVista advanced search and got the 961# following count of page hits: 962# 963# 1,103 "Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au 964# 971 "Australian Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au 965# 613 "Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au 966# 127 "Australian Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au 967# 968# Here "Summer" seems quite a bit more popular than "Daylight", 969# particularly when we know the time zone is Australian and not US, 970# say. The "Australian" prefix seems to be popular for Eastern Summer 971# Time, but unpopular for Eastern Daylight Time. 972# 973# For abbreviations, tools like AltaVista are less useful because of 974# ambiguity. Many hits are not really time zones, unfortunately, and 975# many hits denote US time zones and not Australian ones. But here 976# are the hit counts anyway: 977# 978# 161,304 "EST" and domain:au 979# 25,156 "EDT" and domain:au 980# 18,263 "AEST" and domain:au 981# 10,416 "AEDT" and domain:au 982# 983# 14,538 "CST" and domain:au 984# 5,728 "CDT" and domain:au 985# 176 "ACST" and domain:au 986# 29 "ACDT" and domain:au 987# 988# 7,539 "WST" and domain:au 989# 68 "AWST" and domain:au 990# 991# This data suggest that Australians tend to omit the "A" prefix in 992# practice. The situation for "ST" versus "DT" is less clear, given 993# the ambiguities involved. 994# 995# * How do Australians feel about the abbreviations in the tz database? 996# 997# If you just count Australians on this list, I count 2 in favor and 3 998# against. One of the "against" votes (David Keegel) counseled delay, 999# saying that both AEST/AEDT and EST/EST are widely used and 1000# understood in Australia. 1001 1002# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 1003# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ. 1004# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper 1005# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, 1006# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 1007# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. 1008# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. 1009 1010# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): 1011# 1012# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, 1013# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more 1014# relevant entries in this database. 1015# 1016# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): 1017# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html"> 1018# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) 1019# </a> 1020# ACT 1021# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html"> 1022# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 1023# </a> 1024# SA 1025# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html"> 1026# Standard Time Act, 1898 1027# </a> 1028 1029# From David Grosz (2005-06-13): 1030# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by 1031# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. 1032# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday 1033# in April instead of the last Sunday in March. 1034# 1035# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14): 1036# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan 1037# to extend DST together in 2006. 1038# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt 1039# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html 1040# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html 1041# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772 1042# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles 1043# allude to it. 1044# But not Queensland 1045# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html. 1046 1047# Northern Territory 1048 1049# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1050# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ] 1051# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1052# # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location. 1053# ... 1054# Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST 1055 1056# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 1057# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 1058# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving. 1059 1060# Western Australia 1061 1062# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1063# # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ] 1064# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1065# # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to 1066# # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but 1067# # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus 1068# # before reaching parliament. 1069# ... 1070# Zone Australia/West 8:00 AW %sST 1071# ... 1072# Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1073# Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 1074# Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1075# Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 1076 1077# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 1078# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 1079# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving. 1080 1081# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02): 1082# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney 1083# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at 1084# work at 9.00am.) 1085# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse 1086# everybody again. 1087 1088# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 1089# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess; 1090# it matches what was used in the past. 1091 1092# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm"> 1093# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ 1094# </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses 1095# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia. 1096 1097# Queensland 1098# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1099# # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ] 1100# # [ Dec 1990 ] 1101# ... 1102# Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST 1103# ... 1104# Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1105# Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 1106# Rule AQ 1989 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1107# Rule AQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 1108 1109# From Bradley White (1989-12-24): 1110# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from 1111# October 1989). 1112 1113# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 1114# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 1115# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 1116# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 1117 1118# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 1119# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact 1120# end on Sunday, 3 March. I don't know at what hour, though. (It surprised 1121# me.) 1122 1123# From Bradley White (1992-03-08): 1124# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted 1125# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ... 1126# ... 1127# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1128# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 1129# ... 1130 1131# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 1132# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 1133 1134# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning 1135# from Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-11-01): 1136# WA are trialing DST for three years. 1137# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf> 1138 1139# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): 1140# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the 1141# southern coast.... South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western 1142# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The 1143# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so 1144# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the 1145# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South 1146# Australia and Western Australia.... 1147# 1148# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): 1149# This is confirmed by the section entitled 1150# "What's the deal with time zones???" in 1151# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>. 1152# 1153# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07): 1154# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway, 1155# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern 1156# coast of the continent. 1157# 1158# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no 1159# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border 1160# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west 1161# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is 1162# the largest population centre in this zone.... 1163# 1164# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the 1165# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I 1166# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have, 1167# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45. 1168# 1169# (2006-12-09): 1170# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving 1171# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis 1172# of this time zone. My hunch is that it's been around since well 1173# before 1975. I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago. 1174 1175# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15): 1176# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the 1177# introduction of standard time in 1895. 1178 1179 1180# southeast Australia 1181# 1182# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1183# Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT 1184# end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October. 1185# http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html 1186 1187 1188# South Australia 1189 1190# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 1191# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 1192# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 1193# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 1194 1195# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1196# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ] 1197# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1198# ... 1199# Zone Australia/South 9:30 AS %sST 1200# ... 1201# Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1202# Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 1203# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 C 1204# Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 1205 1206# From Bradley White (1992-03-11): 1207# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide 1208# contained the following exchange: "Due to the Adelaide Festival, 1209# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks." 1210 1211# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13): 1212# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that) 1213# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even 1214# numbered year (from 1990). That's when the Adelaide Festival 1215# is on... 1216 1217# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000): 1218# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday).... 1219# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever... 1220# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...). 1221 1222# From Bradley White (1994-04-11): 1223# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March, 1224# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can 1225# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... 1226 1227# From John Warburton (1994-10-07): 1228# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... 1229# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... 1230# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. 1231 1232# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1233# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1234 1235# Tasmania 1236 1237# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd 1238# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1239# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 1240# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1241 1242# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 1243# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have 1244# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia 1245# (but nothing new about that). 1246 1247# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04): 1248# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the 1249# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard, 1250# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria 1251# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000 1252# instead of the first Sunday in October. 1253 1254# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules: 1255# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300 1256 1257# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1258# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1259 1260# Victoria 1261 1262# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd 1263# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1264# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 1265# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1266 1267# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29): 1268# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an 1269# interesting story about daylight savings time. Dr. John Heilbron was 1270# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar 1271# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located 1272# in Melbourne, Australia. 1273# 1274# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which 1275# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day 1276# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's 1277# fallen WWI soldiers. And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time, 1278# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the 1279# expected time. 1280# 1281# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had 1282# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of 1283# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?). Perhaps 1284# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more. 1285# 1286# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html 1287# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au 1288 1289# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1290# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1291 1292# New South Wales 1293 1294# From Arthur David Olson: 1295# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. 1296# Based on law library research by John Mackin, 1297# who notes: 1298# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the 1299# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' 1300# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common 1301# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the 1302# legislation. This is very important to understand. 1303# I have researched New South Wales time only... 1304 1305# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): 1306# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual 1307# October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore, 1308# <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html"> 1309# Two months more daylight saving 1310# </a> 1311# Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).] 1312 1313# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27): 1314# See the following official NSW source: 1315# <a href="http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ"> 1316# Daylight Saving in New South Wales. 1317# </a> 1318# 1319# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of 1320# daylight saving next year. See: 1321# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm"> 1322# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving 1323# </a> (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens. 1324# 1325# Victoria will following NSW. See: 1326# <a href="http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm"> 1327# Vic to extend daylight saving 1328# </a> (1999-07-28). 1329# 1330# However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See: 1331# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm"> 1332# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request 1333# </a> (1999-07-19). 1334# 1335# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See: 1336# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm"> 1337# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics 1338# </a> (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying 1339# ``Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time 1340# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very 1341# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of 1342# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night. 1343# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules.'' 1344# 1345# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000. See: 1346# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm"> 1347# Broken Hill to be behind the times 1348# </a> (1999-07-21). 1349 1350# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian 1351# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken 1352# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics. 1353 1354# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29: 1355# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW 1356# towns to use Queensland time. 1357 1358# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1359# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1360 1361# Yancowinna 1362 1363# From John Mackin (1989-01-04): 1364# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna. 1365 1366# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1367# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ] 1368# # [ Dec 1990 ] 1369# ... 1370# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the 1371# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings 1372# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government 1373# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have 1374# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not 1375# # presently available. 1376# Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST 1377# ... 1378# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1379# Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C 1380# [followed by other Rules] 1381 1382# Lord Howe Island 1383 1384# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1385# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ] 1386# [ Dec 1990 ] 1387# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an 1388# hour ahead of NSW time. 1389 1390# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27): 1391# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same 1392# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27). For your information the 1393# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is 1394# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time 1395# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour 1396# instead of only 30 minutes. [Dependent] on the wishes of residents 1397# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing 1398# arrangements. The starting date for summer time on the Island will 1399# however always coincide with the rest of NSW. 1400 1401# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25): 1402# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards 1403# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently 1404# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as 1405# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start 1406# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW. 1407 1408# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1409# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and 1410# Lonergan thereafter. For times we use Lonergan. 1411 1412# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23): 1413# See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later. 1414 1415# From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28): 1416# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight 1417# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009 1418# summer (southern hemisphere). 1419# 1420# From 1421# <a href="http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf"> 1422# http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf 1423# </a> 1424# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling 1425# for over the last year is now set to be ongoing. 1426# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each 1427# year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year. 1428# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia 1429# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and 1430# the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year... 1431# 1432# We have a wrap-up here: 1433# <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html"> 1434# http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html 1435# </a> 1436############################################################################### 1437 1438# New Zealand 1439 1440# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): 1441# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. 1442# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for 1443# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). 1444# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office. 1445 1446# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 1447# # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that! 1448# # or is Australia the west island of N.Z. 1449# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ] 1450# # [ Nov 1990 ] 1451# ... 1452# Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 1453# Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 1454# Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 1455# Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 S 1456# ... 1457# Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand 1458# Zone NZ-CHAT 12:45 - NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island 1459 1460# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 1461# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989 1462# rather than the October 1 value. 1463 1464# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); 1465# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ. 1466# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight 1467# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard 1468# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. 1469# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. 1470# 1471# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1472# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history, 1473# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references. 1474# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger. 1475# 1476# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with 1477# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham 1478# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland. 1479 1480# From Colin Sharples (2007-04-30): 1481# DST will now start on the last Sunday in September, and end on the 1482# first Sunday in April. The changes take effect this year, meaning 1483# that DST will begin on 2007-09-30 2008-04-06. 1484# http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended 1485 1486############################################################################### 1487 1488 1489# Fiji 1490 1491# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji 1492# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time 1493# instead of the American system (which was one day behind). 1494 1495# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 1496# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01 1497# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28. Each year the DST period will 1498# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February. 1499 1500# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08): 1501# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time. Go with McDow. 1502 1503# From the BBC World Service in 1504# http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/205226.stm (1998-10-31 16:03 UTC): 1505# The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to 1506# improve productivity and reduce road accidents.... [T]he move is also 1507# intended to boost Fiji's ability to attract tourists to witness the dawning 1508# of the new millennium. 1509 1510# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13) 1511# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST. 1512 1513# Johnston 1514 1515# Johnston data is from usno1995. 1516 1517 1518# Kiribati 1519 1520# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 1521# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati 1522# ``declared it the same day [throughout] the country as of Jan. 1, 1995'' 1523# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century. 1524 1525 1526# Kwajalein 1527 1528# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes: 1529# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday, 1530# 1993-08-20. Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with 1531# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands, 1532# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink. 1533 1534 1535# N Mariana Is, Guam 1536 1537# Howse writes (p 153) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the 1538# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones 1539# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time. 1540# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines; 1541# see Asia/Manila. 1542 1543# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UTC+10 the official standard time, 1544# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time". There is no official abbreviation, 1545# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law, 1546# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST". 1547 1548 1549# Micronesia 1550 1551# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16), 1552# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" 1553# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.'' 1554# 1555# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11 1556# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now. 1557 1558# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29): 1559# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in 1560# <a href="http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html"> 1561# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information 1562# </a> (1999-01-26) 1563# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11. 1564# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now. 1565 1566 1567# Midway 1568 1569# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956), 1570# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection 1571# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31): 1572# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight 1573# Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning, 1574# your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956 1575# we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to 1576# air at 6am your time. 1577# 1578# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): 1579# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they 1580# started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years 1581# in Midway, but we have no record of it. 1582 1583 1584# Pitcairn 1585 1586# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): 1587# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998 1588# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows. 1589# 1590# The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be 1591# Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known 1592# as Pitcairn Standard Time. 1593# 1594# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several 1595# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation 1596# somehow in light of this proclamation. 1597 1598# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09): 1599# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998 1600# ... at midnight. 1601 1602# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave: 1603# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as 1604# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in 1605# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago. 1606 1607 1608# Samoa 1609 1610# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald) 1611# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change 1612# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, 1613# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that 1614# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.'' 1615 1616 1617# Tonga 1618 1619# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 1620# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting 1621# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.'' 1622# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do. 1623 1624# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle 1625# <a href="http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm"> 1626# How Tonga became `The Land where Time Begins' 1627# </a>: 1628 1629# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST 1630# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT. When New Zealand adjusted its 1631# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its 1632# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of 1633# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13 degrees 1634# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time). 1635# 1636# Because His Majesty King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince 1637# Tungi, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time 1638# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change. 1639# 1640# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer 1641# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40 1642# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40 1643# minutes we have lost?" 1644# 1645# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that 1646# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth 1647# to say your prayers in the morning." 1648 1649# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): 1650# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell. 1651 1652# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03): 1653# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium 1654# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front. 1655# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from 1656# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan 1657# Government. 1658 1659# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): 1660# * Tonga will introduce DST in November 1661# 1662# I was given this link by John Letts: 1663# <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> 1664# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm 1665# </a> 1666# 1667# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November 1668# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead 1669# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead 1670# (12 + 1 hour DST). 1671 1672# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20): 1673# According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html"> 1674# http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html 1675# </a>: 1676# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000 1677# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the 1678# third Saturday of April. Under the system approved by Privy Council on 1679# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and 1680# set back an hour on the closing date." 1681# Alas, no indication of the time of day. 1682 1683# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06): 1684# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am. 1685# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning. 1686 1687# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31): 1688# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com 1689# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19 1690# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article 1691# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the 1692# text, and I have forgotten to report it here. 1693# (Original URL was: http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm ) 1694 1695# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): 1696# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27. 1697 1698# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow: 1699# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom 1700# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday 1701# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one 1702# hour to 1:00am. 1703 1704# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05): 1705# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. 1706 1707 1708# Wake 1709 1710# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, 1711# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02): 1712# 1713# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] -- ... The time was all the 1714# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the 1715# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we 1716# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time 1717# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost 1718# impossible. 1719# 1720# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm 1721 1722# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23): 1723# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now. 1724 1725############################################################################### 1726 1727# The International Date Line 1728 1729# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03): 1730# 1731# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard, 1732# convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please. 1733# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on 1734# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there. 1735# 1736# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and 1737# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL 1738# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most 1739# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati. Even that line 1740# has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific 1741# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international 1742# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is 1743# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some 1744# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not 1745# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the 1746# correct date is ambiguous. 1747 1748# From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31): 1749# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting 1750# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's 1751# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's 1752# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon). During 1917, at the 1753# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all 1754# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones 1755# on the high seas. Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any 1756# nation it would use that nation's standard time. The captain was permitted 1757# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's 1758# entry into another zone time--he often chose midnight. These zones were 1759# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many 1760# independent merchant ships until World War II. 1761 1762# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen 1763# (2005-03-20): 1764# 1765# The American Practical Navigator (2002) 1766# <http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187> 1767# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in 1768# international waters; it ignores the international date line. 1769