australasia revision 52770
1# @(#)australasia 7.45 2# This file also includes Pacific islands. 3# $FreeBSD: head/share/zoneinfo/australasia 52770 1999-11-01 20:13:05Z grog $ 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 1999 - 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 - 116Rule AV 2000 only - Aug 27 2:00s 1:00 - 117Rule AV 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 118# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 119Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 120 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 121 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct 31 2:00s 122 10:00 AV EST 123 124# New South Wales 125# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 126Rule AN 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 127Rule AN 1972 only - Feb 27 2:00s 0 - 128Rule AN 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 129Rule AN 1982 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 130Rule AN 1983 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 131Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 132Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 - 133Rule AN 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 134Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 135Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 136Rule AN 2000 only - Aug 27 2:00s 1:00 - 137Rule AN 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 138# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 139Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 140 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 141 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct 31 2:00s 142 10:00 AN EST 143Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 - LMT 1895 Feb 144 10:00 - EST 1896 Aug 23 145 9:00 - CST 1899 May 146 9:30 - CST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 147 9:30 Aus CST 1971 Oct 31 2:00s 148 9:30 AN CST 149 150# Lord Howe Island 151# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 152Rule LH 1981 1984 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - 153Rule LH 1982 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 154Rule LH 1985 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0:30 - 155Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 - 156Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 0:30 - 157Rule LH 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0:30 - 158Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - 159Rule LH 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - 160Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 161 10:00 - EST 1981 Mar 162 10:30 LH LHST 163 164# Australian miscellany 165# 166# Ashmore Is, Cartier 167# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers 168# no information; probably like Australia/Perth 169# 170# Coral Sea Is 171# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists 172# no information 173# 174# Macquarie 175# permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948; 176# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888-1917 177# no information 178# 179# Manihiki, Penrhyn, Rakehanga 180# no information 181 182# Christmas 183# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 184Zone Indian/Christmas 7:02:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 185 7:00 - CXT # Christmas Island Time 186 187# Cook Is 188# From Shanks (1995): 189# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 190Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 HS 191Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - 192Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS 193# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 194Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua 195 -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time 196 -10:00 Cook CK%sT 197 198# Cocos 199# From USNO (1989): 200# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 201Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time 202 203# Fiji 204# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 205Rule Fiji 1998 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S 206Rule Fiji 1999 max - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - 207# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 208Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva 209 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time 210 211# French Polynesia 212# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 213Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea 214 -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time 215Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct 216 -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time 217Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete 218 -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time 219# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia; 220# it is uninhabited. 221 222# Guam 223# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 224Zone Pacific/Guam 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana 225 10:00 - GST 226 227# Kiribati 228# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 229Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki 230 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time 231Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901 232 -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time 233 -11:00 - PHOT 1995 234 13:00 - PHOT 235Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 236 -10:40 - LINT 1979 Oct # Line Is Time 237 -10:00 - LINT 1995 238 14:00 - LINT 239 240# N Mariana Is 241# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 242Zone Pacific/Saipan 9:43:00 - LMT 1901 243 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time 244 10:00 - MPT 245 246# Marshall Is 247# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 248Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901 249 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time 250 12:00 - MHT 251Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901 252 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct 253 -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time 254 12:00 - MHT 255 256# Micronesia 257# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 258Zone Pacific/Yap 9:12:32 - LMT 1901 # Colonia 259 9:00 - YAPT 1969 Oct # Yap Time 260 10:00 - YAPT 261Zone Pacific/Truk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901 262 10:00 - TRUT # Truk Time 263Zone Pacific/Ponape 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia 264 11:00 - PONT # Ponape Time 265Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901 266 11:00 - PONT 1969 Oct 267 12:00 - KOST # Kosrae Time 268 269# Nauru 270# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 271Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe 272 11:30 - NRT 1942 Mar 15 # Nauru Time 273 9:00 - JST 1944 Aug 15 274 11:30 - NRT 1979 May 275 12:00 - NRT 276 277# New Caledonia 278# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 279Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 S 280Rule NC 1978 1979 - Feb 27 0:00 0 - 281Rule NC 1996 only - Dec 1 2:00s 1:00 S 282Rule NC 1997 only - Mar 2 2:00s 0 - 283# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 284Zone Pacific/Noumea 11:05:48 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 285 11:00 NC NC%sT 286 287 288############################################################################### 289 290# New Zealand 291 292# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 293# Shanks gives 1927 Nov 6 - 1928 Mar 4, 1928 Oct 14 - 1929 Mar 17, 294# 1929 Oct 13 - 1930 Mar 16; go with Whitman. 295Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 26 2:00 0:30 HD 296Rule NZ 1928 1929 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 S 297Rule NZ 1928 only - Nov 4 2:00 0:30 HD 298Rule NZ 1929 only - Oct 30 2:00 0:30 HD 299Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 S 300Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 HD 301# Whitman says DST went on and off during war years, and the base UT offset 302# didn't change until 1945 Apr 30; go with Shanks. 303Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S 304Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD 305Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov 3 2:00s 1:00 D 306Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D 307Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct 8 2:00s 1:00 D 308Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D 309Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb 23 2:00s 0 S 310Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S 311Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S 312Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D 313Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S 314# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 315Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 316 11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1940 Sep 29 2:00 317 12:00 NZ NZ%sT 318Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT 319 320 321# Auckland Is 322# uninhabited 323 324# Campbell I 325# minor whaling stations operated 1909-14 326# scientific station operated 1941-1995 327# was probably like Pacific/Auckland 328 329############################################################################### 330 331 332# Niue 333# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 334Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi 335 -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time 336 -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1 337 -11:00 - NUT 338 339# Norfolk 340# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 341Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston 342 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time 343 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time 344 345# Palau 346# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 347Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror 348 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time 349 350# Papua New Guinea 351# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 352Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 353 9:48:40 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time 354 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time 355 356# Pitcairn 357# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 358Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown 359 -8:30 - PNT # Pitcairn Time 360 361# American Samoa 362Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 363 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 364 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 365 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 366 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering 367 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 368 369# W Samoa 370Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 371 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 372 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time 373 -11:00 - WST # W Samoa Time 374 375# Solomon Is 376# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea 377# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 378Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara 379 11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time 380 381# Tokelau Is 382# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 383Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901 384 -10:00 - TKT # Tokelau Time 385 386# Tonga 387# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 388Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 389 12:20 - TOT 1968 Oct # Tonga Time 390 13:00 - TOT 391 392# Tuvalu 393# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 394Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 395 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time 396 397 398# US minor outlying islands 399 400# Howland, Baker 401# uninhabited since World War II 402# no information; was probably like Pacific/Pago_Pago 403 404# Jarvis 405# uninhabited since 1958 406# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 407 408# Johnston 409# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 410Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST 411 412# Kingman 413# uninhabited 414 415# Midway 416Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901 417 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome 418 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering 419 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa 420 421# Palmyra 422# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati 423 424# Wake 425# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 426Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901 427 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time 428 429 430# Vanuatu 431# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S 432Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S 433Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 434Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S 435Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 436Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 - 437Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S 438# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 439Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila 440 11:00 Vanuatu VU%sT # Vanuatu Time 441 442# Wallis and Futuna 443# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] 444Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 445 12:00 - WFT # Wallis & Futuna Time 446 447############################################################################### 448 449# NOTES 450 451# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better, 452# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to 453# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future). 454 455# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22): 456# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is 457# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (4th edition), 458# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1995). 459# 460# Gwillim Law <LAW@encmail.encompass.com> writes that a good source 461# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport 462# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM), 463# published semiannually. Law sent in several helpful summaries 464# of the IATA's data after 1990. 465# 466# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks is the source for entries through 1990, 467# and IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990. 468# 469# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences, 470# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which 471# I found in the UCLA library. 472# 473# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is 474# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude, 475# Oxford University Press (1980). 476# 477# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table; 478# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources. 479# Corrections are welcome! 480# std dst 481# LMT Local Mean Time 482# 8:00 WST WST Western Australia 483# 9:00 JST Japan 484# 9:30 CST CST Central Australia 485# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia 486# 10:00 GST Guam 487# 10:30 LHST LHST Lord Howe* 488# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 489# 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham* 490# -11:00 SST Samoa 491# -10:00 HST Hawaii 492# 493# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii. 494# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is. 495 496############################################################################### 497 498# Australia 499 500# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 501# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time. 502# It is called `summer' time. Now by a happy coincidence, `summer' 503# and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the 504# abbreviation does _not_ change... 505# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least 506# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the 507# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses 508# the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight 509# time'. 510# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian 511# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time' 512# or `Eastern Summer Time'. (Note, though, that as I say in the 513# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.) Announcers 514# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases 515# prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times; 516# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC. 517 518# From Arthur David Olson (March 8 1992): 519# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is: 520# CST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30 521# WST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00 522# EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00 523 524# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 525# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 526# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper 527# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, 528# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 529# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. 530# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. 531 532# From Eric Ulevik <eau@zip.com.au> (1998-01-05): 533# 534# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, 535# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more 536# relevant entries in this database. 537# 538# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): 539# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html"> 540# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) 541# </a> 542# ACT 543# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html"> 544# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 545# </a> 546# SA 547# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html"> 548# Standard Time Act, 1898 549# </a> 550 551# Northern Territory 552 553# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 554# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY.. [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ] 555# # [ Nov 1990 ] 556# # N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location. 557# ... 558# Zone Australia/North 9:30 - CST 559 560# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 561# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 562# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving. 563 564# Western Australia 565 566# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 567# # The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA.. [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ] 568# # [ Nov 1990 ] 569# # W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to 570# # DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but 571# # usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus 572# # before reaching parliament. 573# ... 574# Zone Australia/West 8:00 AW %sST 575# ... 576# Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 577# Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 578# Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 579# Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W 580 581# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 582# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 583# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving. 584 585# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02): 586# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney 587# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at 588# work at 9.00am.) 589# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse 590# everybody again. 591 592# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 593# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess; 594# it matches what was used in the past. 595 596# Queensland 597# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 598# # The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ] 599# # [ Dec 1990 ] 600# ... 601# Zone Australia/Queensland 10:00 AQ %sST 602# ... 603# Rule AQ 1971 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 604# Rule AQ 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 605# Rule AQ 1989 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 606# Rule AQ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 607 608# From Bradley White (1989-12-24): 609# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from 610# October 1989). 611 612# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 613# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 614# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 615# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 616 617# From John Mackin (1991-03-06): 618# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact 619# end on Sunday, 3 March. I don't know at what hour, though. (It surprised 620# me.) 621 622# From Bradley White (1992-03-08): 623# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted 624# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ... 625# ... 626# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 627# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 628# ... 629 630# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 631# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 632 633# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria 634 635# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 636# The rules from version 7.1 follow. 637# There are lots of differences between these rules and 638# the Shepherd et al. rules. Since the Shepherd et al. rules 639# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on 640# current DST ending dates, no worries. 641# 642# Rule Oz 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - 643# Rule Oz 1986 max - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - 644# Rule Oz 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 - 645# Rule Oz 1973 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 646# Rule Oz 1987 max - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 647# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 Oz EST 648# Zone Australia/South 9:30 Oz CST 649# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 Oz EST 1985 Oct lastSun 2:00 650# 10:00 1:00 EST 1986 Mar Sun<=21 3:00 651# 10:00 Oz EST 652 653# From Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 654# I believe that the current start date for DST is "lastSun" in Oct... 655# that changed Oct 89. That is, we're back to the 656# original rule, and that rule currently applies in all the states 657# that have dst, incl Qld. (Certainly it was true in Vic). 658# The file I'm including says that happened in 1988, I think 659# that's incorrect, but I'm not 100% certain. 660 661# South Australia 662 663# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 664# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 665# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving 666# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 667 668# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 669# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ] 670# # [ Nov 1990 ] 671# ... 672# Zone Australia/South 9:30 AS %sST 673# ... 674# Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 675# Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 676# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 C 677# Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C 678 679# From Bradley White (1992-03-11): 680# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide 681# contained the following exchange: "Due to the Adelaide Festival, 682# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks." 683 684# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13): 685# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that) 686# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even 687# numbered year (from 1990). That's when the Adelaide Festival 688# is on... 689 690# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000): 691# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday).... 692# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever... 693# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...). 694 695# From Bradley White (1994-04-11): 696# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March, 697# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can 698# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... 699 700# From John Warburton <jwarb@SACBH.com.au> (1994-10-07): 701# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... 702# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... 703# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. 704 705# Tasmania 706 707# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 708# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 709# ...Tasmania will revert to Australian Eastern Standard Time on March 31... 710 711# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 712# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 713# # [ Nov 1990 ] 714# ... 715# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 AT %sST 716# ... 717# Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 718# Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 719# Rule AT 1968 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 720# Rule AT 1969 1971 - Mar Sun>=8 3:00 0 E 721# Rule AT 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 722# Rule AT 1973 1981 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 723# Rule AT 1982 1983 - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 724# Rule AT 1984 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 725# Rule AT 1986 only - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 726# Rule AT 1987 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 E 727# Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00 1:00 D 728# Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 729# Rule AT 1991 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 730# Rule AT 1991 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 E 731 732# From Bill Hart via Alexander Dupuy and Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 733# My state Government in there eagerness to get a few more bucks for the 734# tourist industry industry decided to change the daylight savings times 735# yet again (we now have almost 6 months per year)... 736# ... 737# Rule Oz 1986 1990 - Oct Sun<=24 2:00 1:00 - 738# Rule Oz 1991 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 - 739# ... 740# Rule Oz 1987 1990 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 741# Rule Oz 1991 max - Mar Sun<=31 3:00 0 - 742 743# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10): 744# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have 745# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia 746# (but nothing new about that). 747 748# Victoria 749 750# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 751# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 752# ...Victoria...[has] agreed to end daylight saving at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 753 754# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 755# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] 756# # [ Nov 1990 ] 757# ... 758# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 AV %sST 759# ... 760# Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 761# Rule AV 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 E 762# Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 763# Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 E 764# Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00 1:00 D 765# Rule AV 1988 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 766# Rule AV 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 E 767 768# New South Wales 769 770# From Arthur David Olson: 771# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. 772# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz), 773# who notes: 774# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the 775# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' 776# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common 777# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the 778# legislation. This is very important to understand. 779# I have researched New South Wales time only... 780 781# From Dave Davey (1990-03-03): 782# Rule NSW 1988 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - 783# Rule NSW 1989 only - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 - 784 785# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): 786# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... 787# NSW...[has] agreed to end daylight saving at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... 788 789# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 790# # The state of NEW SOUTH WALES.. [confirmed by Attorney General's Dept N.S.W] 791# # [ Dec 1990 ] 792# ... 793# Rule AN 1988 1989 - Mar Sun<=21 3:00 0 E 794# ... 795 796# From John Mackin (1991-03-09) 797# I have confirmed the accuracy of the historical data for NSW in the 798# file Robert forwarded 799 800# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 801# Sources differ on whether DST ended March 6 or March 20 in 1988; 802# March 20 (the "confirmed" date) is in the chosen rules. 803 804# From Bradley White (1995-05-20): 805# Prem Bob Carr announced NSW will fall into line with other E states 806# and SA and continue daylight savings to the last Sun in Mar. 807 808# From Eric Ulevik <eau@ozemail.com.au> (1997-06-12): 809# The NSW state government in Australia is talking about bringing the start 810# of daylight savings time forward in the year 2000 to cater for the Olympics. 811# This is going to take some time to be negotiated, because the plan is to do 812# this in multiple states due to soccer games (which are not just in Sydney). 813 814# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian 815# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken 816# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, due to the Sydney Olympics. 817 818# Yancowinna 819 820# From John Basser (1989-01-04): 821# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna. 822 823# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 824# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ] 825# # [ Dec 1990 ] 826# ... 827# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the 828# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings 829# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government 830# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have 831# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not 832# # presently available. 833# Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AY %sST 834# ... 835# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 836# Rule AY 1972 only - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 C 837# [followed by other Rules] 838 839# Lord Howe Island 840 841# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 842# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen.. pauline@Aus ] 843# [ Dec 1990 ] 844# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an 845# hour ahead of NSW time. 846 847# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): 848# For Lord Howe we use Shanks through 1991. 849# Lord Howe is part of NSW, so we'll guess it has used the same transition 850# times as NSW since 1991, even though Shanks writes that Lord Howe went 851# with Victoria when NSW and Victoria disagreed in 1982. 852 853############################################################################### 854 855# New Zealand, from Elz' asia 1.1 856# Elz says "no guarantees" 857 858# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): 859# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. 860# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for 861# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). 862# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office. 863 864# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): 865# # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that! 866# # or is Australia the west island of N.Z. 867# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Geofft@Aus.. Auckland N.Z. ] 868# # [ Nov 1990 ] 869# ... 870# Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 871# Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D 872# Rule NZ 1975 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 873# Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 S 874# ... 875# Zone NZ 12:00 NZ NZ%sT # New Zealand 876# Zone NZ-CHAT 12:45 - NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island 877 878# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 879# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989 880# rather than the October 1 value. 881 882# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19); 883# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand. 884# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight 885# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard 886# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. 887# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00. 888# 889# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): 890# Shanks gives no data for Chatham; usno1989 says it's +12:45, 891# usno1995 says it's +12:45/+13:45, and IATA SSIM (1991/1996) 892# gives the NZ rules but with transitions at 2:45 local standard time. 893# Guess that they adopted DST in 1990. 894 895############################################################################### 896 897# Fiji 898 899# Howse writes (p 162) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji 900# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on +12:00. 901# Perhaps it didn't take. We go with Shanks's more precise date in 1915. 902 903# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08): 904# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01 905# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28. Each year the DST period will 906# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February. 907 908# From the BBC World Service (1998-10-31 11:32 UTC): 909# The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to 910# improve productivity and reduce road accidents. But correspondents say it 911# also hopes the move will boost Fiji's ability to compete with other pacific 912# islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new 913# millenium. 914 915# Johnston 916 917# Johnston data is from usno1995. 918 919# Kiribati 920 921# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 922# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati 923# ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995'' 924# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century. 925 926# Kwajalein 927 928# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes: 929# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday, 930# 1993-08-20. Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with 931# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands, 932# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink. 933 934# N Mariana Is, Guam 935 936# Howse writes (p 162) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the 937# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones 938# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time. 939# Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data. See also Asia/Manila. 940 941# Micronesia 942 943# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16), 944# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk" 945# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.'' 946# 947# Shanks writes that Truk switched from GMT+10 to GMT+11 on 1978-10-01; 948# ignore this for now. 949 950# Samoa 951 952# Howse writes that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change 953# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, 954# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that 955# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.'' 956 957# Tonga 958 959# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): 960# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting 961# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.'' 962# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do. 963