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diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia index a841574a79..ebe2951416 100644 --- a/timezone/australasia +++ b/timezone/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.53 +# @(#)australasia 7.54 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -177,9 +177,6 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ # </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Macquarie Island follows Tasmanian practice # irrespective of any local use of DST. This is unclear; ignore it for now. -# -# Manihiki, Penrhyn, Rakehanga -# no information # Christmas # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -348,7 +345,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time -# Palau +# Palau (Belau) # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time @@ -854,8 +851,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 ############################################################################### -# New Zealand, from Elz' asia 1.1 -# Elz says "no guarantees" +# New Zealand # From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): # the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period. @@ -896,6 +892,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 ############################################################################### + # Fiji # Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji @@ -907,6 +904,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # until 0300 local time 1999-02-28. Each year the DST period will # be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February. +# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08): +# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time. Go with McDow. + # From the BBC World Service (1998-10-31 11:32 UTC): # The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to # improve productivity and reduce road accidents. But correspondents say it @@ -914,10 +914,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new # millenium. + # Johnston # Johnston data is from usno1995. + # Kiribati # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): @@ -925,6 +927,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995'' # as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century. + # Kwajalein # In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes: @@ -933,6 +936,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands, # going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink. + # N Mariana Is, Guam # Howse writes (p 153) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the @@ -940,6 +944,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time. # Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data. See also Asia/Manila. + # Micronesia # Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16), @@ -957,6 +962,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11. # We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now. + # Pitcairn # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08): @@ -980,6 +986,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in # Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago. + # Samoa # Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald) @@ -988,6 +995,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that # the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.'' + # Tonga # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): @@ -1057,3 +1065,31 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Rives McDow (1999-10-06): # Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am. # Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning. + + +############################################################################### + +# The International Date Line + +# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03): +# +# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard, +# convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please. +# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on +# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there. +# +# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and +# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL +# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most +# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati. Even that line +# has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific +# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international +# convention, but are not legally binding national borders. +# +# An Anglo-French Conference on Time-Keeping at Sea (June, 1917) agreed that +# legal time on the high seas would be zone time, i.e., the standard time at +# the nearest meridian that is a multiple of fifteen degrees. The date is +# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some +# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not +# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the +# correct date is ambiguous. |