australasia revision 30711
1# @(#)australasia 7.34 2# This file also includes Pacific islands. 3 4# Notes are at the end of this file 5 6############################################################################### 7 8# Australia 9 10# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 11# Shanks gives 1917 Jan 1 0:01; go with Whitman (and guess 2:00). 12Rule Aus 1916 only - Oct 1 2:00 1:00 - 13Rule Aus 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 0 - 14Rule Aus 1942 only - Jan 1 2:00 1:00 - 15Rule Aus 1942 only - Mar 29 2:00 0 - 16Rule Aus 1942 only - Sep 27 2:00 1:00 - 17Rule Aus 1943 1944 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 - 18Rule Aus 1943 only - Oct 3 2:00 1:00 - 19# Whitman says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944, and that 20# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944; go with Shanks. 21 22# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 23# Northern Territory 24Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 25 9:00 - CST 1899 May 26 9:30 - CST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 27 9:30 Aus CST 28# Western Australia 29Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 30 8:00 - WST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 31 8:00 Aus WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s 32 8:00 1:00 WST 1975 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 33 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s 34 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 35 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s 36 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 37 8:00 - WST 38# Queensland 39# 40# From Alex Livingston <alex@agsm.unsw.edu.au> (1996-11-01): 41# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast 42# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after 43# Queensland ceased to. 44# 45# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 46# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman, 47# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped. 48# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria, 49# so use Lindeman. 50# 51# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 52Rule AQ 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 53Rule AQ 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 54Rule Holiday 1989 1993 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 55Rule Holiday 1990 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 56Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895 57 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 58 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct lastSun 2:00s 59 10:00 1:00 EST 1972 Feb lastSun 2:00s 60 10:00 AQ EST 61Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895 62 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 63 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct lastSun 2:00s 64 10:00 1:00 EST 1972 Feb lastSun 2:00s 65 10:00 Holiday EST 66 67# South Australia 68# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 69Rule AS 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 70Rule AS 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - 71Rule AS 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 72Rule AS 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - 73Rule AS 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 74Rule AS 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 75Rule AS 1990 1994 even Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 - 76Rule AS 1990 1994 odd Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 77Rule AS 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 78# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 79Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 80 9:00 - CST 1899 May 81 9:30 - CST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 82 9:30 Aus CST 1971 Oct lastSun 2:00s 83 9:30 AS CST 84 85# Tasmania 86# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 87Rule AT 1967 only - Oct 1 2:00s 1:00 - 88Rule AT 1968 only - Mar 31 2:00s 0 - 89Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 90Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 2:00s 0 - 91Rule AT 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - 92Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 93Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 94Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 95Rule AT 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - 96Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 97Rule AT 1987 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 98Rule AT 1991 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 - 99Rule AT 1991 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 100# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 101Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep 102 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 103 10:00 Aus EST 1967 Oct 1 2:00s 104 10:00 AT EST 105 106# Victoria 107# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 108Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 109Rule AV 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - 110Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 111Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 112Rule AV 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - 113Rule AV 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 114Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 115Rule AV 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 116# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 117Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 118 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 119 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct 31 2:00s 120 10:00 AV EST 121 122# New South Wales 123# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 124Rule AN 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 125Rule AN 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - 126Rule AN 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 127Rule AN 1982 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 128Rule AN 1983 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 129Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 130Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - 131Rule AN 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 132Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 133Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 134# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 135Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 136 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 137 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct 31 2:00s 138 10:00 AN EST 139Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 - LMT 1895 Feb 140 10:00 - EST 1896 Aug 23 141 9:00 - CST 1899 May 142 9:30 - CST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 143 9:30 Aus CST 1971 Oct 31 2:00s 144 9:30 AN CST 145 146# Lord Howe Island 147# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 148Rule LH 1981 1984 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 149Rule LH 1982 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 150Rule LH 1985 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0:30 - 151Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 152Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 0:30 - 153Rule LH 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0:30 - 154Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 155Rule LH 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 156Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 157 10:00 - EST 1981 Mar 158 10:30 LH LHST 159 160# Australian miscellany 161# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 162Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 163 7:00 - CXT # Christmas Island Time 164# 165# Ashmore Is, Cartier 166# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers 167# no information; probably like Australia/Perth 168# 169# Coral Sea Is 170# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists 171# no information 172# 173# Macquarie 174# permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948; 175# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888-1917 176# no information 177# 178# Manihiki, Penrhyn, Rakehanga 179# no information 180 181 182# Cook Is 183# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 184Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS 185Rule Cook 1979 max - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 186Rule Cook 1979 max - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS 187# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 188Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua 189 -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time 190 -10:00 Cook CK%sT 191 192# Cocos 193# From USNO (1989): 194# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 195Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time 196 197# Fiji 198# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 199Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 200 12:00 - FJT # Fiji Time 201 202# French Polynesia 203# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 204Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea 205 -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time 206Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct 207 -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time 208Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete 209 -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time 210 211# Guam 212# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 213Zone Pacific/Guam 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana 214 10:00 - GST 215 216# Howland, Baker 217# uninhabited since World War II 218# no information; was probably like Pacific/Pago_Pago 219 220# Jarvis 221# uninhabited since 1958 222# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 223 224# Johnston 225# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 226Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST 227 228# Kingman 229# uninhabited 230 231# Kiribati 232# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 233Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki 234 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time 235Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901 236 -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time 237 -11:00 - PHOT 1995 238 13:00 - PHOT 239Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 240 -10:40 - LINT 1979 Oct # Line Is Time 241 -10:00 - LINT 1995 242 14:00 - LINT 243 244# N Mariana Is 245# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 246Zone Pacific/Saipan 9:43:00 - LMT 1901 247 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time 248 10:00 - MPT 249 250# Marshall Is 251# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 252Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901 253 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time 254 12:00 - MHT 255Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 256 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct 257 -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time 258 12:00 - MHT 259 260# Micronesia 261# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 262Zone Pacific/Yap 9:12:32 - LMT 1901 # Colonia 263 9:00 - YAPT 1969 Oct # Yap Time 264 10:00 - YAPT 265Zone Pacific/Truk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 266 10:00 - TRUT # Truk Time 267Zone Pacific/Ponape 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia 268 11:00 - PONT # Ponape Time 269Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901 270 11:00 - PONT 1969 Oct 271 12:00 - KOST # Kosrae Time 272 273# Nauru 274# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 275Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe 276 11:30 - NRT 1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time 277 9:00 - JST 1944 Aug 15 278 11:30 - NRT 1979 May 279 12:00 - NRT 280 281# New Caledonia 282# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 283Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 284Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 - 285Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 S 286Rule NC 1997 max - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 287Rule NC 1997 max - Nov lastSun 2:00s 1:00 S 288# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 289Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 290 11:00 NC NC%sT 291 292 293############################################################################### 294 295# New Zealand 296 297# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 298# Shanks gives 1927 Nov 6 - 1928 Mar 4, 1928 Oct 14 - 1929 Mar 17, 299# 1929 Oct 13 - 1930 Mar 16; go with Whitman. 300Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 26 2:00 0:30 HD 301Rule NZ 1928 1929 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 302Rule NZ 1928 only - Nov 4 2:00 0:30 HD 303Rule NZ 1929 only - Oct 30 2:00 0:30 HD 304Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 305Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 HD 306# Whitman says DST went on and off during war years, and the base GMT offset 307# didn't change until 1945 Apr 30; go with Shanks. 308Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S 309Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD 310Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D 311Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 312Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D 313Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 314Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S 315Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 316Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 317Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D 318Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S 319# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 320Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 321 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1940 Sep 29 2:00 322 12:00 NZ NZ%sT 323Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT 324 325 326# Auckland Is 327# uninhabited 328 329# Campbell I 330# minor whaling stations operated 1909-14 331# scientific station operated 1941-1995 332# was probably like Pacific/Auckland 333 334############################################################################### 335 336 337# Niue 338# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 339Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi 340 -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time 341 -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1 342 -11:00 - NUT 343 344# Norfolk 345# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 346Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston 347 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time 348 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time 349 350# Palau 351# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 352Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror 353 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time 354 355# Palmyra 356# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 357 358# Papua New Guinea 359# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 360Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 361 9:48:40 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time 362 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time 363 364# Pitcairn 365# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 366Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown 367 -8:30 - PNT # Pitcairn Time 368 369# American Samoa 370Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 371 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 372 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 373 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 374 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering 375 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 376 377# W Samoa 378Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 379 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 380 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 381 -11:00 - WST # W Samoa Time 382 383# Solomon Is 384# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea 385# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 386Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara 387 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time 388 389# Tokelau Is 390# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 391Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 392 -10:00 - TKT # Tokelau Time 393 394# Tonga 395# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 396Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 397 12:20 - TOT 1968 Oct # Tonga Time 398 13:00 - TOT 399 400# Tuvalu 401# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 402Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 403 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time 404 405# Vanuatu 406# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 407Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S 408Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 409Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S 410Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 411Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 412Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 413# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 414Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila 415 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time 416 417# Wake 418# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 419Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 420 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time 421 422# Wallis and Futuna 423# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 424Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 425 12:00 - WFT # Wallis & Futuna Time 426 427############################################################################### 428 429# NOTES 430 431# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 432# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 433# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 434 435# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22): 436# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 437# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (3rd edition), 438# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1991). 439# 440# Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> writes that a good source 441# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 442# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 443# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 444# of the IATA's data after 1990. 445# 446# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, 447# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 448# 449# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 450# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 451# I found in the UCLA library. 452# 453# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 454# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude, 455# Oxford University Press (1980). 456# 457# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 458# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 459# Corrections are welcome! 460# std dst 461# LMT Local Mean Time 462# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia 463# 9:00 JST Japan 464# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia 465# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia 466# 10:00 GST Guam 467# 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* 468# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 469# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* 470# -11:00 SST Samoa 471# -10:00 HST Hawaii 472# 473# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii. 474# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is. 475# 476# See the `africa' file for time zone naming and abbreviation conventions. 477 478############################################################################### 479 480# Australia 481 482# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 483# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time. 484# It is called `summer' time. Now by a happy coincidence, `summer' 485# and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the 486# abbreviation does _not_ change... 487# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least 488# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the 489# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses 490# the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight 491# time'. 492# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian 493# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time' 494# or `Eastern Summer Time'. (Note, though, that as I say in the 495# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.) Announcers 496# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases 497# prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times; 498# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC. 499 500# From Arthur David Olson (March 8 1992): 501# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is: 502# CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30 503# WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00 504# EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00 505 506# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 507# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 508# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper 509# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, 510# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 511# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. 512# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. 513 514# Northern Territory 515 516# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 517# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ] 518# # [ Nov 1990 ] 519# # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location. 520# ... 521# Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST 522 523# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 524# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 525# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving. 526 527# Western Australia 528 529# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 530# # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ] 531# # [ Nov 1990 ] 532# # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to 533# # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but 534# # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus 535# # before reaching parliament. 536# ... 537# Zone Australia/West 8:00 AW %sST 538# ... 539# Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 540# Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 541# Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 542# Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 543 544# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 545# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 546# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving. 547 548# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02): 549# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney 550# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at 551# work at 9.00am.) 552# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse 553# everybody again. 554 555# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 556# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess; 557# it matches what was used in the past. 558 559# Queensland 560# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 561# # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ] 562# # [ Dec 1990 ] 563# ... 564# Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST 565# ... 566# Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 567# Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 568# Rule AQ 1989 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 569# Rule AQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 570 571# From Bradley White (1989-12-24): 572# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from 573# October 1989). 574 575# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 576# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 577# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 578# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 579 580# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 581# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact 582# end on Sunday, 3 March. I don't know at what hour, though. (It surprised 583# me.) 584 585# From Bradley White (1992-03-08): 586# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted 587# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ... 588# ... 589# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 590# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 591# ... 592 593# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 594# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 595 596# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria 597 598# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 599# The rules from version 7.1 follow. 600# There are lots of differences between these rules and 601# the Shepherd et al. rules. Since the Shepherd et al. rules 602# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on 603# current DST ending dates, no worries. 604# 605# Rule Oz 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - 606# Rule Oz 1986 max - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - 607# Rule Oz 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 - 608# Rule Oz 1973 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 609# Rule Oz 1987 max - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 610# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 Oz EST 611# Zone Australia/South 9:30 Oz CST 612# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 Oz EST 1985 Oct lastSun 2:00 613# 10:00 1:00 EST 1986 Mar Sun<=21 3:00 614# 10:00 Oz EST 615 616# From Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 617# I believe that the current start date for DST is "lastSun" in Oct... 618# that changed Oct 89. That is, we're back to the 619# original rule, and that rule currently applies in all the states 620# that have dst, incl Qld. (Certainly it was true in Vic). 621# The file I'm including says that happened in 1988, I think 622# that's incorrect, but I'm not 100% certain. 623 624# South Australia 625 626# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 627# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 628# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 629# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 630 631# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 632# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ] 633# # [ Nov 1990 ] 634# ... 635# Zone Australia/South 9:30 AS %sST 636# ... 637# Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 638# Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 639# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 C 640# Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 641 642# From Bradley White (1992-03-11): 643# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide 644# contained the following exchange: "Due to the Adelaide Festival, 645# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks." 646 647# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13): 648# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that) 649# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even 650# numbered year (from 1990). That's when the Adelaide Festival 651# is on... 652 653# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000): 654# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday).... 655# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever... 656# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...). 657 658# From Bradley White (1994-04-11): 659# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March, 660# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can 661# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... 662 663# From John Warburton <jwarb@SACBH.com.au> (1994-10-07): 664# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... 665# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... 666# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. 667 668# Tasmania 669 670# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 671# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 672# ...Tasmania will revert to Australian Eastern Standard Time on March 31... 673 674# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 675# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 676# # [ Nov 1990 ] 677# ... 678# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 AT %sST 679# ... 680# Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 681# Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 682# Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 683# Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 3:00 0 E 684# Rule AT 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 685# Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 686# Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 687# Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 688# Rule AT 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 689# Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 E 690# Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00 1:00 D 691# Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 692# Rule AT 1991 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 693# Rule AT 1991 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 694 695# From Bill Hart via Alexander Dupuy and Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 696# My state Government in there eagerness to get a few more bucks for the 697# tourist industry industry decided to change the daylight savings times 698# yet again (we now have almost 6 months per year)... 699# ... 700# Rule Oz 1986 1990 - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - 701# Rule Oz 1991 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 - 702# ... 703# Rule Oz 1987 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 704# Rule Oz 1991 max - Mar Sun<=31 3:00 0 - 705 706# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 707# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have 708# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia 709# (but nothing new about that). 710 711# Victoria 712 713# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 714# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 715# ...Victoria...[has] agreed to end daylight saving at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 716 717# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 718# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 719# # [ Nov 1990 ] 720# ... 721# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 AV %sST 722# ... 723# Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 724# Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 725# Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 726# Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 E 727# Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 728# Rule AV 1988 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 729# Rule AV 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 730 731# New South Wales 732 733# From Arthur David Olson: 734# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. 735# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz), 736# who notes: 737# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the 738# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' 739# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common 740# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the 741# legislation. This is very important to understand. 742# I have researched New South Wales time only... 743 744# From Dave Davey (1990-03-03): 745# Rule NSW 1988 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 746# Rule NSW 1989 only - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 747 748# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 749# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 750# NSW...[has] agreed to end daylight saving at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 751 752# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 753# # The state of NEW SOUTH WALES.. [confirmed by Attorney General's Dept N.S.W] 754# # [ Dec 1990 ] 755# ... 756# Rule AN 1988 1989 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 E 757# ... 758 759# From John Mackin (1991-03-09) 760# I have confirmed the accuracy of the historical data for NSW in the 761# file Robert forwarded 762 763# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 764# Sources differ on whether DST ended March 6 or March 20 in 1988; 765# March 20 (the "confirmed" date) is in the chosen rules. 766 767# From Bradley White (1995-05-20): 768# Prem Bob Carr announced NSW will fall into line with other E states 769# and SA and continue daylight savings to the last Sun in Mar. 770 771# From Eric Ulevik <eau@ozemail.com.au> (1997-06-12): 772# The NSW state government in Australia is talking about bringing the start 773# of daylight savings time forward in the year 2000 to cater for the Olympics. 774# This is going to take some time to be negotiated, because the plan is to do 775# this in multiple states due to soccer games (which are not just in Sydney). 776 777# Yancowinna 778 779# From John Basser (1989-01-04): 780# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna. 781 782# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 783# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ] 784# # [ Dec 1990 ] 785# ... 786# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite it's location on the 787# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings 788# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government 789# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have 790# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not 791# # presently available. 792# Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST 793# ... 794# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 795# Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C 796# [followed by other Rules] 797 798# Lord Howe Island 799 800# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 801# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen.. pauline@Aus ] 802# [ Dec 1990 ] 803# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an 804# hour ahead of NSW time. 805 806# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 807# For Lord Howe we use Shanks through its time of publication (1991). 808# Lord Howe is part of NSW, so we'll guess it has used the same transition 809# times as NSW since 1991, even though Shanks writes that Lord Howe went 810# with Victoria when NSW and Victoria disagreed in 1982. 811 812############################################################################### 813 814# New Zealand, from Elz' asia 1.1 815# Elz says "no guarantees" 816 817# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): 818# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. 819# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for 820# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). 821# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office. 822 823# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 824# # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that! 825# # or is Australia the west island of N.Z. 826# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Geofft@Aus.. Auckland N.Z. ] 827# # [ Nov 1990 ] 828# ... 829# Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 830# Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 831# Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 832# Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 S 833# ... 834# Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand 835# Zone NZ-CHAT 12:45 - NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island 836 837# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 838# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989 839# rather than the October 1 value. 840 841# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); 842# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 843# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight 844# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard 845# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. 846# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. 847# 848# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 849# Shanks gives no data for Chatham; usno1989 says it's +12:45, 850# usno1995 says it's +12:45/+13:45, and IATA SSIM (1991/1996) 851# gives the NZ rules but with transitions at 2:45 local standard time. 852# Guess that they adopted DST in 1990. 853 854############################################################################### 855 856# Fiji 857 858# Howse writes (p 162) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji 859# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on +12:00. 860# Perhaps it didn't take. We go with Shanks's more precise date in 1915. 861 862# Johnston 863 864# Johnston data is from usno1995. 865 866# Kiribati 867 868# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 869# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati 870# ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995'' 871# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century. 872 873# Kwajalein 874 875# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes: 876# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday, 877# 1993-08-20. Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with 878# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands, 879# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink. 880 881# N Mariana Is, Guam 882 883# Howse writes (p 162) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the 884# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones 885# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time. 886# Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data. See also Asia/Manila. 887 888# Micronesia 889 890# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16), 891# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" 892# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.'' 893# 894# Shanks writes that Truk switched from GMT+10 to GMT+11 on 1978-10-01; 895# ignore this for now. 896 897# Samoa 898 899# Howse writes that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change 900# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, 901# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that 902# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.'' 903 904# Tonga 905 906# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 907# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting 908# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.'' 909# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do. 910