tzpcside/tzcompiler/Release/Data/australasia
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# @(#)australasia	8.4
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# <pre>
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# This file also includes Pacific islands.
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# Notes are at the end of this file
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# Australia
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# Please see the notes below for the controversy about "EST" versus "AEST" etc.
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	Aus	1917	only	-	Jan	 1	0:01	1:00	-
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Rule	Aus	1917	only	-	Mar	25	2:00	0	-
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Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	1:00	-
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Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Mar	29	2:00	0	-
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Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Sep	27	2:00	1:00	-
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Rule	Aus	1943	1944	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
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Rule	Aus	1943	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00	1:00	-
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# Go with Whitman and the Australian National Standards Commission, which
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# says W Australia didn't use DST in 1943/1944.  Ignore Whitman's claim that
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# 1944/1945 was just like 1943/1944.
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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# Northern Territory
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Zone Australia/Darwin	 8:43:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			 9:00	-	CST	1899 May
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			 9:30	Aus	CST
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# Western Australia
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#
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# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning
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# from Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-11-01):
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# WA are trialing DST for three years. 
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# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/62D4F7C55EA88993482572110007316A/$File/Bill174-1.pdf>
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#
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AW	1991	only	-	Nov	17	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AW	1992	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AW	2006	only	-	Dec	 3	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AW	2007	2009	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AW	2007	2008	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Zone Australia/Perth	 7:43:24 -	LMT	1895 Dec
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			 8:00	Aus	WST	1943 Jul
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			 8:00	AW	WST
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# Queensland
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#
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# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
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# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
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# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
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# Queensland ceased to.
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#
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# From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22):
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# IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman,
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# Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped.
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# Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria,
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# so use Lindeman.
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#
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AQ	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AQ	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	Holiday	1992	1993	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	Holiday	1993	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Zone Australia/Brisbane	10:12:08 -	LMT	1895
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# South Australia
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AS	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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# Tasmania
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#
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# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
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# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml>
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# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971.
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#
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AT	1967	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AT	1968	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AT	1968	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AT	1969	1971	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AT	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AT	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AT	1982	1983	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AT	1984	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AT	1986	only	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AT	1987	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AT	1987	only	-	Oct	Sun>=22	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AT	1988	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AT	1991	1999	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AT	1991	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AT	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AT	2001	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AT	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AT	2007	max	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Hobart	9:49:16	-	LMT	1895 Sep
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			10:00	-	EST	1916 Oct 1 2:00
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			10:00	1:00	EST	1917 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	EST	1967
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			10:00	AT	EST
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Zone Australia/Currie	9:35:28	-	LMT	1895 Sep
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			10:00	-	EST	1916 Oct 1 2:00
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			10:00	1:00	EST	1917 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	EST	1971 Jul
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			10:00	AT	EST
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# Victoria
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AV	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AV	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	1986	1987	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AV	1988	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AV	1991	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	1995	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AV	2001	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AV	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AV	2007	max	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	EST	1971
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			10:00	AV	EST
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# New South Wales
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	AN	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AN	1972	only	-	Feb	27	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1982	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1983	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AN	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AN	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AN	2001	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
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Rule	AN	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
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Rule	AN	2007	max	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Australia/Sydney	10:04:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	Aus	EST	1971
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			10:00	AN	EST
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Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	-	EST	1896 Aug 23
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			9:00	-	CST	1899 May
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			9:30	Aus	CST	1971
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			9:30	AN	CST	2000
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			9:30	AS	CST
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# Lord Howe Island
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	LH	1981	1984	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	-
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Rule	LH	1982	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	1985	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	1987	1999	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	1996	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	2001	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	0:30	-
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Rule	LH	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00	0	-
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Rule	LH	2007	max	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
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Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			10:00	-	EST	1981 Mar
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			10:30	LH	LHST
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# Australian miscellany
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#
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# Ashmore Is, Cartier
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# no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers
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# like Australia/Perth, says Turner
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#
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# Coral Sea Is
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# no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists
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# no information
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#
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# Macquarie
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# permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948;
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# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917
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# like Australia/Hobart, says Turner
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# Christmas
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Indian/Christmas	7:02:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
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			7:00	-	CXT	# Christmas Island Time
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# Cook Is
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# From Shanks & Pottenger:
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	Cook	1978	only	-	Nov	12	0:00	0:30	HS
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Rule	Cook	1979	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=1	0:00	0	-
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Rule	Cook	1979	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	0:00	0:30	HS
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Rarotonga	-10:39:04 -	LMT	1901		# Avarua
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			-10:30	-	CKT	1978 Nov 12	# Cook Is Time
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			-10:00	Cook	CK%sT
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# Cocos
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# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
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# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Indian/Cocos	6:27:40	-	LMT	1900
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			6:30	-	CCT	# Cocos Islands Time
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# Fiji
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# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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Rule	Fiji	1998	1999	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
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Rule	Fiji	1999	2000	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	-
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Fiji	11:53:40 -	LMT	1915 Oct 26	# Suva
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			12:00	Fiji	FJ%sT	# Fiji Time
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# French Polynesia
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Gambier	 -8:59:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct	# Rikitea
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			 -9:00	-	GAMT	# Gambier Time
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Zone	Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 -	LMT	1912 Oct
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			 -9:30	-	MART	# Marquesas Time
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Zone	Pacific/Tahiti	 -9:58:16 -	LMT	1912 Oct	# Papeete
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			-10:00	-	TAHT	# Tahiti Time
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# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
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# it is uninhabited.
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# Guam
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone	Pacific/Guam	-14:21:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
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			 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901		# Agana
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			10:00	-	GST	2000 Dec 23	# Guam
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			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
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# Kiribati
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Tarawa	 11:32:04 -	LMT	1901		# Bairiki
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			 12:00	-	GILT		 # Gilbert Is Time
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Zone Pacific/Enderbury	-11:24:20 -	LMT	1901
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			-12:00	-	PHOT	1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time
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			-11:00	-	PHOT	1995
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			 13:00	-	PHOT
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Zone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
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			-10:40	-	LINT	1979 Oct # Line Is Time
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			-10:00	-	LINT	1995
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			 14:00	-	LINT
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# N Mariana Is
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Saipan	-14:17:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
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			 9:43:00 -	LMT	1901
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			 9:00	-	MPT	1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time
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			10:00	-	MPT	2000 Dec 23
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			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
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# Marshall Is
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Majuro	11:24:48 -	LMT	1901
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			11:00	-	MHT	1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time
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			12:00	-	MHT
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Zone Pacific/Kwajalein	11:09:20 -	LMT	1901
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			11:00	-	MHT	1969 Oct
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			-12:00	-	KWAT	1993 Aug 20	# Kwajalein Time
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			12:00	-	MHT
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# Micronesia
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# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Truk	10:07:08 -	LMT	1901
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			10:00	-	TRUT			# Truk Time
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Zone Pacific/Ponape	10:32:52 -	LMT	1901		# Kolonia
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			11:00	-	PONT			# Ponape Time
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Zone Pacific/Kosrae	10:51:56 -	LMT	1901
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			11:00	-	KOST	1969 Oct	# Kosrae Time
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   305
			12:00	-	KOST	1999
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parents:
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   306
			11:00	-	KOST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   307
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parents:
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   308
# Nauru
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   309
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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   310
Zone	Pacific/Nauru	11:07:40 -	LMT	1921 Jan 15	# Uaobe
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   311
			11:30	-	NRT	1942 Mar 15	# Nauru Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
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   312
			9:00	-	JST	1944 Aug 15
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   313
			11:30	-	NRT	1979 May
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parents:
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   314
			12:00	-	NRT
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   315
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parents:
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   316
# New Caledonia
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parents:
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   317
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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   318
Rule	NC	1977	1978	-	Dec	Sun>=1	0:00	1:00	S
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parents:
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   319
Rule	NC	1978	1979	-	Feb	27	0:00	0	-
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parents:
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   320
Rule	NC	1996	only	-	Dec	 1	2:00s	1:00	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   321
# Shanks & Pottenger say the following was at 2:00; go with IATA.
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parents:
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   322
Rule	NC	1997	only	-	Mar	 2	2:00s	0	-
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   323
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents:
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   324
Zone	Pacific/Noumea	11:05:48 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   325
			11:00	NC	NC%sT
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   326
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   327
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parents:
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###############################################################################
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parents:
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   329
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parents:
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   330
# New Zealand
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parents:
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   331
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   332
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
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parents:
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   333
Rule	NZ	1927	only	-	Nov	 6	2:00	1:00	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   334
Rule	NZ	1928	only	-	Mar	 4	2:00	0	M
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   335
Rule	NZ	1928	1933	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00	0:30	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   336
Rule	NZ	1929	1933	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00	0	M
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   337
Rule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Apr	lastSun	2:00	0	M
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   338
Rule	NZ	1934	1940	-	Sep	lastSun	2:00	0:30	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   339
Rule	NZ	1946	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	S
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parents:
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   340
# Since 1957 Chatham has been 45 minutes ahead of NZ, but there's no
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parents:
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   341
# convenient notation for this so we must duplicate the Rule lines.
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parents:
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   342
Rule	NZ	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   343
Rule	Chatham	1974	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   344
Rule	NZ	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   345
Rule	Chatham	1975	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:45s	0	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   346
Rule	NZ	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   347
Rule	Chatham	1975	1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:45s	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   348
Rule	NZ	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   349
Rule	Chatham	1976	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:45s	0	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   350
Rule	NZ	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:00s	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   351
Rule	Chatham	1989	only	-	Oct	Sun>=8	2:45s	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   352
Rule	NZ	1990	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   353
Rule	Chatham	1990	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:45s	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   354
Rule	NZ	1990	max	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   355
Rule	Chatham	1990	max	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:45s	0	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   356
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents:
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   357
Zone Pacific/Auckland	11:39:04 -	LMT	1868 Nov  2
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parents:
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   358
			11:30	NZ	NZ%sT	1946 Jan  1
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parents:
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   359
			12:00	NZ	NZ%sT
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parents:
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   360
Zone Pacific/Chatham	12:13:48 -	LMT	1957 Jan  1
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parents:
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   361
			12:45	Chatham	CHA%sT
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   362
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   363
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parents:
diff changeset
   364
# Auckland Is
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parents:
diff changeset
   365
# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
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parents:
diff changeset
   366
# and scientific personnel have wintered
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parents:
diff changeset
   367
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   368
# Campbell I
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parents:
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   369
# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
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parents:
diff changeset
   370
# scientific station operated 1941/1995;
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parents:
diff changeset
   371
# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
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parents:
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   372
# was probably like Pacific/Auckland
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parents:
diff changeset
   373
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parents:
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   374
###############################################################################
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   375
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   376
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   377
# Niue
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parents:
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   378
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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parents:
diff changeset
   379
Zone	Pacific/Niue	-11:19:40 -	LMT	1901		# Alofi
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   380
			-11:20	-	NUT	1951	# Niue Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   381
			-11:30	-	NUT	1978 Oct 1
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   382
			-11:00	-	NUT
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   383
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   384
# Norfolk
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   385
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   386
Zone	Pacific/Norfolk	11:11:52 -	LMT	1901		# Kingston
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   387
			11:12	-	NMT	1951	# Norfolk Mean Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   388
			11:30	-	NFT		# Norfolk Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   389
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   390
# Palau (Belau)
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   391
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   392
Zone Pacific/Palau	8:57:56 -	LMT	1901		# Koror
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   393
			9:00	-	PWT	# Palau Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   394
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   395
# Papua New Guinea
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   396
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   397
Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -	LMT	1880
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   398
			9:48:32	-	PMMT	1895	# Port Moresby Mean Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   399
			10:00	-	PGT		# Papua New Guinea Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   400
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   401
# Pitcairn
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   402
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   403
Zone Pacific/Pitcairn	-8:40:20 -	LMT	1901		# Adamstown
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   404
			-8:30	-	PNT	1998 Apr 27 00:00
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   405
			-8:00	-	PST	# Pitcairn Standard Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   406
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   407
# American Samoa
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   408
Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   409
			-11:22:48 -	LMT	1911
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   410
			-11:30	-	SAMT	1950		# Samoa Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   411
			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr	# N=Nome
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   412
			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30	# B=Bering
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   413
			-11:00	-	SST			# S=Samoa
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   414
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   415
# Samoa
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   416
Zone Pacific/Apia	 12:33:04 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   417
			-11:26:56 -	LMT	1911
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   418
			-11:30	-	SAMT	1950		# Samoa Time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   419
			-11:00	-	WST			# Samoa Time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   420
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   421
# Solomon Is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   422
# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   423
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   424
Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 -	LMT	1912 Oct	# Honiara
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   425
			11:00	-	SBT	# Solomon Is Time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   426
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   427
# Tokelau Is
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   428
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   429
Zone	Pacific/Fakaofo	-11:24:56 -	LMT	1901
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   430
			-10:00	-	TKT	# Tokelau Time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   431
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   432
# Tonga
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   433
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   434
Rule	Tonga	1999	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	1:00	S
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   435
Rule	Tonga	2000	only	-	Mar	19	2:00s	0	-
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   436
Rule	Tonga	2000	2001	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   437
Rule	Tonga	2001	2002	-	Jan	lastSun	2:00	0	-
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   438
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   439
Zone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   440
			12:20	-	TOT	1941 # Tonga Time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   441
			13:00	-	TOT	1999
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   442
			13:00	Tonga	TO%sT
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   443
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   444
# Tuvalu
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   445
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   446
Zone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   447
			12:00	-	TVT	# Tuvalu Time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   448
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   449
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   450
# US minor outlying islands
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   451
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   452
# Howland, Baker
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   453
# uninhabited since World War II
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   454
# no information; was probably like Pacific/Pago_Pago
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   455
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   456
# Jarvis
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   457
# uninhabited since 1958
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   458
# no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   459
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   460
# Johnston
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   461
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   462
Zone Pacific/Johnston	-10:00	-	HST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   463
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   464
# Kingman
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   465
# uninhabited
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   466
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   467
# Midway
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   468
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   469
# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   470
# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   471
# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   472
# reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   473
# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   474
# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast.  As it uses some time zone
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   475
# designations that I've never seen before:....
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   476
# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I.   H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   477
#  "   3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A  "
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   478
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   479
Zone Pacific/Midway	-11:49:28 -	LMT	1901
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   480
			-11:00	-	NST	1956 Jun  3
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   481
			-11:00	1:00	NDT	1956 Sep  2
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   482
			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr	# N=Nome
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   483
			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30	# B=Bering
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   484
			-11:00	-	SST			# S=Samoa
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   485
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   486
# Palmyra
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   487
# uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   488
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   489
# Wake
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   490
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   491
Zone	Pacific/Wake	11:06:28 -	LMT	1901
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   492
			12:00	-	WAKT	# Wake Time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   493
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   494
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   495
# Vanuatu
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   496
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   497
Rule	Vanuatu	1983	only	-	Sep	25	0:00	1:00	S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   498
Rule	Vanuatu	1984	1991	-	Mar	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   499
Rule	Vanuatu	1984	only	-	Oct	23	0:00	1:00	S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   500
Rule	Vanuatu	1985	1991	-	Sep	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   501
Rule	Vanuatu	1992	1993	-	Jan	Sun>=23	0:00	0	-
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   502
Rule	Vanuatu	1992	only	-	Oct	Sun>=23	0:00	1:00	S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   503
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   504
Zone	Pacific/Efate	11:13:16 -	LMT	1912 Jan 13		# Vila
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   505
			11:00	Vanuatu	VU%sT	# Vanuatu Time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   506
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   507
# Wallis and Futuna
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   508
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   509
Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   510
			12:00	-	WFT	# Wallis & Futuna Time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   511
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   512
###############################################################################
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   513
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   514
# NOTES
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# This data is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
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parents:
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   517
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
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parents:
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   518
# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
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parents:
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   519
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parents:
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   520
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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parents:
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   521
# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
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parents:
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   522
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
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parents:
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   523
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
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parents:
diff changeset
   524
#
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parents:
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   525
# Gwillim Law writes that a good source
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parents:
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   526
# for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   527
# Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   528
# published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
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parents:
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   529
# of the IATA's data after 1990.
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parents:
diff changeset
   530
#
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parents:
diff changeset
   531
# Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   532
# entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
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parents:
diff changeset
   533
#
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parents:
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   534
# Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   535
# Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   536
# I found in the UCLA library.
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parents:
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   537
#
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parents:
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   538
# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   539
# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
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parents:
diff changeset
   540
#
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parents:
diff changeset
   541
# I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   542
# the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
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parents:
diff changeset
   543
# Corrections are welcome!
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parents:
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   544
#		std dst
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parents:
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   545
#		LMT	Local Mean Time
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parents:
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   546
#	  8:00	WST WST	Western Australia
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parents:
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   547
#	  9:00	JST	Japan
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parents:
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   548
#	  9:30	CST CST	Central Australia
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parents:
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   549
#	 10:00	EST EST	Eastern Australia
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parents:
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   550
#	 10:00	ChST	Chamorro
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parents:
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   551
#	 10:30	LHST LHST Lord Howe*
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parents:
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   552
#	 11:30	NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945
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parents:
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   553
#	 12:00	NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present
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parents:
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   554
#	 12:45	CHAST CHADT Chatham*
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parents:
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   555
#	-11:00	SST	Samoa
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parents:
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   556
#	-10:00	HST	Hawaii
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parents:
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   557
#	- 8:00	PST	Pitcairn*
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parents:
diff changeset
   558
#
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parents:
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   559
# See the `northamerica' file for Hawaii.
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parents:
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   560
# See the `southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galapagos Is.
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parents:
diff changeset
   561
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parents:
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   562
###############################################################################
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parents:
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   563
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parents:
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   564
# Australia
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parents:
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   565
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parents:
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   566
# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08):
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parents:
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   567
# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml">
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parents:
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   568
# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia
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parents:
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   569
# </a> summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
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parents:
diff changeset
   570
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parents:
diff changeset
   571
# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12):
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parents:
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   572
# <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving">
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parents:
diff changeset
   573
# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales
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parents:
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   574
# </a> covers New South Wales in particular.
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parents:
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   575
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
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   576
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
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parents:
diff changeset
   577
# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time.
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parents:
diff changeset
   578
# It is called `summer' time.  Now by a happy coincidence, `summer'
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parents:
diff changeset
   579
# and `standard' happen to start with the same letter; hence, the
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parents:
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   580
# abbreviation does _not_ change...
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parents:
diff changeset
   581
# The legislation does not actually define abbreviations, at least
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parents:
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   582
# in this State, but the abbreviation is just commonly taken to be the
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parents:
diff changeset
   583
# initials of the phrase, and the legislation here uniformly uses
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parents:
diff changeset
   584
# the phrase `summer time' and does not use the phrase `daylight
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parents:
diff changeset
   585
# time'.
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parents:
diff changeset
   586
# Announcers on the Commonwealth radio network, the ABC (for Australian
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parents:
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   587
# Broadcasting Commission), use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time'
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parents:
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   588
# or `Eastern Summer Time'.  (Note, though, that as I say in the
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parents:
diff changeset
   589
# current australasia file, there is really no such thing.)  Announcers
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   590
# on its overseas service, Radio Australia, use the same phrases
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   591
# prefixed by the word `Australian' when referring to local times;
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parents:
diff changeset
   592
# time announcements on that service, naturally enough, are made in UTC.
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parents:
diff changeset
   593
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   594
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   595
# Given the above, what's chosen for year-round use is:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   596
#	CST	for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 9:30
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   597
#	WST	for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 8:00
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   598
#	EST	for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   599
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   600
# From Chuck Soper (2006-06-01):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   601
# I recently found this Australian government web page on time zones:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   602
# <http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-13time>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   603
# And this government web page lists time zone names and abbreviations:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   604
# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   605
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   606
# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-05), summarizing a long discussion about "EST"
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   607
# versus "AEST" etc.:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   608
#
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parents:
diff changeset
   609
# I see the following points of dispute:
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parents:
diff changeset
   610
#
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parents:
diff changeset
   611
# * How important are unique time zone abbreviations?
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   612
#
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parents:
diff changeset
   613
#   Here I tend to agree with the point (most recently made by Chris
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parents:
diff changeset
   614
#   Newman) that unique abbreviations should not be essential for proper
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   615
#   operation of software.  We have other instances of ambiguity
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   616
#   (e.g. "IST" denoting both "Israel Standard Time" and "Indian
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   617
#   Standard Time"), and they are not likely to go away any time soon.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   618
#   In the old days, some software mistakenly relied on unique
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parents:
diff changeset
   619
#   abbreviations, but this is becoming less true with time, and I don't
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   620
#   think it's that important to cater to such software these days.
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parents:
diff changeset
   621
#
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parents:
diff changeset
   622
#   On the other hand, there is another motivation for unambiguous
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   623
#   abbreviations: it cuts down on human confusion.  This is
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   624
#   particularly true for Australia, where "EST" can mean one thing for
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   625
#   time T and a different thing for time T plus 1 second.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   626
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   627
# * Does the relevant legislation indicate which abbreviations should be used?
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   628
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   629
#   Here I tend to think that things are a mess, just as they are in
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   630
#   many other countries.  We Americans are currently disagreeing about
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   631
#   which abbreviation to use for the newly legislated Chamorro Standard
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   632
#   Time, for example.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   633
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   634
#   Personally, I would prefer to use common practice; I would like to
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   635
#   refer to legislation only for examples of common practice, or as a
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   636
#   tiebreaker.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   637
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   638
# * Do Australians more often use "Eastern Daylight Time" or "Eastern
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   639
#   Summer Time"?  Do they typically prefix the time zone names with
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   640
#   the word "Australian"?
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   641
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   642
#   My own impression is that both "Daylight Time" and "Summer Time" are
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   643
#   common and are widely understood, but that "Summer Time" is more
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   644
#   popular; and that the leading "A" is also common but is omitted more
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   645
#   often than not.  I just used AltaVista advanced search and got the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   646
#   following count of page hits:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   647
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   648
#     1,103 "Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   649
#       971 "Australian Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   650
#       613 "Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   651
#       127 "Australian Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   652
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   653
#   Here "Summer" seems quite a bit more popular than "Daylight",
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   654
#   particularly when we know the time zone is Australian and not US,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   655
#   say.  The "Australian" prefix seems to be popular for Eastern Summer
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   656
#   Time, but unpopular for Eastern Daylight Time.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   657
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   658
#   For abbreviations, tools like AltaVista are less useful because of
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   659
#   ambiguity.  Many hits are not really time zones, unfortunately, and
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   660
#   many hits denote US time zones and not Australian ones.  But here
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   661
#   are the hit counts anyway:
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   662
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   663
#     161,304 "EST" and domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   664
#      25,156 "EDT" and domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   665
#      18,263 "AEST" and domain:au
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   666
#      10,416 "AEDT" and domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   667
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   668
#      14,538 "CST" and domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   669
#       5,728 "CDT" and domain:au
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   670
#         176 "ACST" and domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   671
#          29 "ACDT" and domain:au
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   672
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   673
#       7,539 "WST" and domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   674
#          68 "AWST" and domain:au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   675
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   676
#   This data suggest that Australians tend to omit the "A" prefix in
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   677
#   practice.  The situation for "ST" versus "DT" is less clear, given
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   678
#   the ambiguities involved.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   679
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   680
# * How do Australians feel about the abbreviations in the tz database?
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   681
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   682
#   If you just count Australians on this list, I count 2 in favor and 3
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   683
#   against.  One of the "against" votes (David Keegel) counseled delay,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   684
#   saying that both AEST/AEDT and EST/EST are widely used and
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   685
#   understood in Australia.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   686
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   687
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   688
# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   689
# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   690
# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   691
# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   692
# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   693
# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   694
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   695
# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   696
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   697
# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   698
# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   699
# relevant entries in this database.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   700
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   701
# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   702
# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137/index.html">
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   703
# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04)
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   704
# </a>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   705
# ACT
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   706
# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/act/consol_act/stasta1972279/index.html">
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   707
# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   708
# </a>
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   709
# SA
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   710
# <a href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/sa/consol_act/sta1898137/index.html">
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   711
# Standard Time Act, 1898
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   712
# </a>
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   713
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   714
# From David Grosz (2005-06-13):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   715
# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   716
# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   717
# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   718
# in April instead of the last Sunday in March.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   719
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   720
# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   721
# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   722
# to extend DST together in 2006.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   723
# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   724
# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   725
# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   726
# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   727
# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   728
# allude to it.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   729
# But not Queensland
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   730
# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   731
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   732
# Northern Territory
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   733
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   734
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   735
# # The NORTHERN TERRITORY..  [ Courtesy N.T. Dept of the Chief Minister ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   736
# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   737
# #	N.T. have never utilised any DST due to sub-tropical/tropical location.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   738
# ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   739
# Zone        Australia/North         9:30    -       CST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   740
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   741
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   742
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   743
# the Northern Territory do[es] not have daylight saving.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   744
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   745
# Western Australia
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   746
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   747
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   748
# #  The state of WESTERN AUSTRALIA..  [ Courtesy W.A. dept Premier+Cabinet ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   749
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   750
# #	W.A. suffers from a great deal of public and political opposition to
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   751
# #	DST in principle. A bill is brought before parliament in most years, but
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   752
# #	usually defeated either in the upper house, or in party caucus
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   753
# #	before reaching parliament.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   754
# ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   755
# Zone	Australia/West		8:00	AW	%sST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   756
# ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   757
# Rule	AW	1974	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   758
# Rule	AW	1975	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   759
# Rule	AW	1983	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   760
# Rule	AW	1984	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	W
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   761
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   762
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   763
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   764
# Western Australia...do[es] not have daylight saving.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   765
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   766
# From John D. Newman via Bradley White (1991-11-02):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   767
# Western Australia is still on "winter time". Some DH in Sydney
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   768
# rang me at home a few days ago at 6.00am. (He had just arrived at
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   769
# work at 9.00am.)
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   770
# W.A. is switching to Summer Time on Nov 17th just to confuse
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   771
# everybody again.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   772
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   773
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   774
# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   775
# it matches what was used in the past.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   776
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   777
# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm">
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   778
# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   779
# </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   780
# South Australian time even though it's located in Western Australia.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   781
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   782
# Queensland
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   783
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   784
# #   The state of QUEENSLAND.. [ Courtesy Qld. Dept Premier Econ&Trade Devel ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   785
# #						[ Dec 1990 ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   786
# ...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   787
# Zone	Australia/Queensland	10:00	AQ	%sST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   788
# ...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   789
# Rule	AQ	1971	only	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   790
# Rule	AQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	E
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   791
# Rule	AQ	1989	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   792
# Rule	AQ	1990	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	E
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   793
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   794
# From Bradley White (1989-12-24):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   795
# "Australia/Queensland" now observes daylight time (i.e. from
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   796
# October 1989).
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   797
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   798
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   799
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   800
# ...Queensland...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   801
# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   802
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   803
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   804
# I can certainly confirm for my part that Daylight Saving in NSW did in fact
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   805
# end on Sunday, 3 March.  I don't know at what hour, though.  (It surprised
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   806
# me.)
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   807
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   808
# From Bradley White (1992-03-08):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   809
# ...there was recently a referendum in Queensland which resulted
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   810
# in the experimental daylight saving system being abandoned. So, ...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   811
# ...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   812
# Rule	QLD	1989	1991	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   813
# Rule	QLD	1990	1992	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   814
# ...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   815
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   816
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   817
# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   818
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   819
# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   820
# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   821
# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   822
# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   823
# continent.  The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   824
# Mundrabilla and Eucla.  According to the sheriff of Madura, the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   825
# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   826
# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   827
# Australia.  South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   828
# Australia does not.  The two states are one and a half hours apart.  The
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   829
# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   830
# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   831
# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   832
# Australia and Western Australia.  As it only affects about 10 people and
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   833
# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   834
# impact as Broken Hill.  However, as tourist visiting there or anyone
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   835
# calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   836
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   837
# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   838
# This is confirmed by the section entitled
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   839
# "What's the deal with time zones???" in
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   840
# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   841
# which says a few other things:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   842
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   843
# * Border Village, SA also is 45 minutes ahead of Perth.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   844
# * The locals call this time zone "central W.A. Time" (presumably "CWAT").
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   845
# * The locals also call Western Australia time "Perth time".
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   846
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   847
# It's not clear from context whether everyone in Western Australia
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   848
# knows of this naming convention, or whether it's just the people in
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   849
# this subregion.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   850
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   851
# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   852
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   853
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   854
# The rules from version 7.1 follow.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   855
# There are lots of differences between these rules and
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   856
# the Shepherd et al. rules.  Since the Shepherd et al. rules
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   857
# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   858
# current DST ending dates, no worries.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   859
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   860
# Rule	Oz	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	-
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   861
# Rule	Oz	1986	max	-	Oct	Sun>=18	2:00	1:00	-
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   862
# Rule	Oz	1972	only	-	Feb	27	3:00	0	-
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   863
# Rule	Oz	1973	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   864
# Rule	Oz	1987	max	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   865
# Zone	Australia/Tasmania	10:00	Oz	EST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   866
# Zone	Australia/South		9:30	Oz	CST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   867
# Zone	Australia/Victoria	10:00	Oz	EST	1985 Oct lastSun 2:00
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   868
#				10:00	1:00	EST	1986 Mar Sun>=15 3:00
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   869
#				10:00	Oz	EST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   870
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   871
# From Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   872
# I believe that the current start date for DST is "lastSun" in Oct...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   873
# that changed Oct 89.  That is, we're back to the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   874
# original rule, and that rule currently applies in all the states
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   875
# that have dst, incl Qld.  (Certainly it was true in Vic).
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   876
# The file I'm including says that happened in 1988, I think
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   877
# that's incorrect, but I'm not 100% certain.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   878
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   879
# South Australia
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   880
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   881
# From Bradley White (1991-03-04):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   882
# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   883
# ...South Australia...[has] agreed to end daylight saving
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   884
# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   885
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   886
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   887
# #   The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   888
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   889
# ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   890
# Zone	Australia/South		9:30	AS	%sST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   891
# ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   892
# Rule	 AS	1971	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   893
# Rule	 AS	1972	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   894
# Rule	 AS	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	C
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   895
# Rule	 AS	1991	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	C
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   896
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   897
# From Bradley White (1992-03-11):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   898
# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   899
# contained the following exchange:  "Due to the Adelaide Festival,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   900
# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks."
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   901
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   902
# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   903
# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that)
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   904
# South Aus will have an extra 3 weeks daylight saving every even
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   905
# numbered year (from 1990).  That's when the Adelaide Festival
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   906
# is on...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   907
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   908
# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   909
# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday)....
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   910
# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   911
# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...).
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   912
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   913
# From Bradley White (1994-04-11):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   914
# If Sun, 15 March, 1992 was at +1030 as kre asserts, but yet Sun, 20 March,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   915
# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   916
# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   917
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   918
# From John Warburton (1994-10-07):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   919
# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   920
# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   921
# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   922
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   923
# Tasmania
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   924
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   925
# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   926
# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   927
# #  The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   928
# #					[ Nov 1990 ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   929
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   930
# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   931
# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   932
# 6 weeks a year now when we are out of sync with the rest of Australia
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   933
# (but nothing new about that).
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   934
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   935
# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   936
# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   937
# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   938
# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   939
# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   940
# instead of the first Sunday in October.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   941
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   942
# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   943
# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   944
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   945
# Victoria
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   946
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   947
# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   948
# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   949
# #   The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   950
# #						[ Nov 1990 ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   951
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   952
# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   953
# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   954
# interesting story about daylight savings time.  Dr. John Heilbron was
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   955
# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   956
# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   957
# in Melbourne, Australia.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   958
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   959
# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   960
# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   961
# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   962
# fallen WWI soldiers.  And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   963
# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   964
# expected time.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   965
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   966
# However, that is only because of some special mirror contraption that had
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   967
# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   968
# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?).  Perhaps
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   969
# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   970
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   971
# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   972
# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   973
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   974
# New South Wales
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   975
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   976
# From Arthur David Olson:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   977
# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   978
# Based on law library research by John Mackin,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   979
# who notes:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   980
#	In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   981
#	individual states.  Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time''
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   982
#	[I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   983
#	use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   984
#	legislation.  This is very important to understand.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   985
#	I have researched New South Wales time only...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   986
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   987
# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   988
# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   989
# October in 2000.  [See: Matthew Moore,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   990
# <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html">
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   991
# Two months more daylight saving
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   992
# </a>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   993
# Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   994
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   995
# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   996
# See the following official NSW source:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   997
# <a href="http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ">
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   998
# Daylight Saving in New South Wales.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
   999
# </a>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1000
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1001
# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1002
# daylight saving next year.  See:
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1003
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm">
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1004
# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1005
# </a> (1999-07-22).  For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1006
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1007
# Victoria will following NSW.  See:
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1008
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm">
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1009
# Vic to extend daylight saving
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1010
# </a> (1999-07-28).
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1011
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1012
# However, South Australia rejected the DST request.  See:
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1013
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm">
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1014
# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1015
# </a> (1999-07-19).
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1016
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1017
# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics.  See:
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1018
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm">
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1019
# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1020
# </a> (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1021
# ``Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1022
# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1023
# well for you, you don't have to worry about getting the children out of
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1024
# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1025
# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules.''
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1026
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1027
# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000.  See:
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1028
# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm">
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1029
# Broken Hill to be behind the times
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1030
# </a> (1999-07-21).
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1031
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1032
# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1033
# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1034
# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1035
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1036
# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1037
# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1038
# towns to use Queensland time.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1039
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1040
# Yancowinna
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1041
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1042
# From John Mackin (1989-01-04):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1043
# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1044
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1045
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1046
# # YANCOWINNA..  [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1047
# #					[ Dec 1990 ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1048
# ...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1049
# # Yancowinna uses Central Standard Time, despite [its] location on the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1050
# # New South Wales side of the S.A. border. Most business and social dealings
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1051
# # are with CST zones, therefore CST is legislated by local government
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1052
# # although the switch to Summer Time occurs in line with N.S.W. There have
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1053
# # been years when this did not apply, but the historical data is not
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1054
# # presently available.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1055
# Zone	Australia/Yancowinna	9:30	 AY	%sST
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1056
# ...
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1057
# Rule	 AY	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1058
# Rule	 AY	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	C
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1059
# [followed by other Rules]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1060
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1061
# Lord Howe Island
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1062
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1063
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1064
# LHI...		[ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1065
#					[ Dec 1990 ]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1066
# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1067
# hour ahead of NSW time.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1068
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1069
# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-01-27):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1070
# Lord Howe Island summer time in 2000/2001 will commence on the same
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1071
# date as the rest of NSW (i.e. 2000-08-27).  For your information the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1072
# Lord Howe Island Board (controlling authority for the Island) is
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1073
# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1074
# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1075
# instead of only 30 minutes.  Dependant on the wishes of residents
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1076
# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1077
# arrangements.  The starting date for summer time on the Island will
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1078
# however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1079
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1080
# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1081
# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1082
# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1083
# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1084
# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1085
# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1086
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1087
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1088
# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1089
# Lonergan thereafter.  For times we use Lonergan.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1090
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1091
###############################################################################
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1092
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1093
# New Zealand
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1094
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1095
# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1096
# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1097
# This trial was deemed successful and the extended period adopted for
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1098
# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start).
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1099
# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1100
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1101
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1102
# # The Country of New Zealand   (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1103
# #				   or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1104
# #	[ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ]
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1105
# #				[ Nov 1990 ]
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1106
# ...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1107
# Rule	NZ      1974    1988	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	D
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1108
# Rule	NZ	1989	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	D
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1109
# Rule	NZ      1975    1989	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1110
# Rule	NZ	1990	max	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	S
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1111
# ...
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1112
# Zone	NZ			12:00	NZ		NZ%sT	# New Zealand
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1113
# Zone	NZ-CHAT			12:45	-		NZ-CHAT # Chatham Island
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1114
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1115
# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1116
# The chosen rules use the Davies October 8 values for the start of DST in 1989
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1117
# rather than the October 1 value.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1118
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1119
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1120
# Shank & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1121
# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1122
# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1123
# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1124
# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1125
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1126
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1127
# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1128
# as does Carol Squires; see tz-link.htm for the full references.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1129
# Use these sources in preference to Shanks & Pottenger.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1130
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1131
# For Chatham, IATA SSIM (1991/1999) gives the NZ rules but with
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1132
# transitions at 2:45 local standard time; this confirms that Chatham
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1133
# is always exactly 45 minutes ahead of Auckland.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1134
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1135
###############################################################################
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1136
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1137
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1138
# Fiji
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1139
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1140
# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1141
# enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on Antipodean Time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1142
# instead of the American system (which was one day behind).
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1143
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1144
# From Rives McDow (1998-10-08):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1145
# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1146
# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28.  Each year the DST period will
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1147
# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1148
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1149
# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1150
# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time.  Go with McDow.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1151
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1152
# From the BBC World Service (1998-10-31 11:32 UTC):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1153
# The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1154
# improve productivity and reduce road accidents.  But correspondents say it
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1155
# also hopes the move will boost Fiji's ability to compete with other pacific
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1156
# islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1157
# millenium.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1158
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1159
# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1160
# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1161
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1162
# Johnston
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1163
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1164
# Johnston data is from usno1995.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1165
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1166
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1167
# Kiribati
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1168
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1169
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1170
# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (page 1) reports that Kiribati
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1171
# ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995''
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1172
# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1173
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1174
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1175
# Kwajalein
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1176
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1177
# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1178
# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1179
# 1993-08-20.  Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1180
# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1181
# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1182
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1183
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1184
# N Mariana Is, Guam
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1185
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1186
# Howse writes (p 153) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1187
# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1188
# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1189
# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1190
# see Asia/Manila.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1191
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1192
# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UTC+10 the official standard time,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1193
# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time".  There is no official abbreviation,
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1194
# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1195
# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1196
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1197
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1198
# Micronesia
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1199
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1200
# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1201
# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk"
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1202
# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.''
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1203
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1204
# Shanks & Pottenger write that Truk switched from UTC+10 to UTC+11
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1205
# on 1978-10-01; ignore this for now.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1206
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1207
# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1208
# The Federated States of Micronesia Visitors Board writes in
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1209
# <a href="http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html">
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1210
# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1211
# </a> (1999-01-26)
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1212
# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1213
# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1214
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1215
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1216
# Midway
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1217
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1218
# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1219
# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1220
# <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1221
# For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1222
# Saving Time.  This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1223
# your time down there in New Zealand.  Starting September 2, 1956
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1224
# we'll again go back to Standard Time.  This'll mean that we'll go to
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1225
# air at 6am your time.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1226
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1227
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1228
# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1229
# started DST on June 3.  Possibly DST was observed other years
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1230
# in Midway, but we have no record of it.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1231
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1232
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1233
# Pitcairn
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1234
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1235
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1236
# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1237
# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time.  The Proclamation is as follows.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1238
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1239
#	The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1240
#	Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1241
#	as Pitcairn Standard Time.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1242
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1243
# ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1244
# references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1245
# somehow in light of this proclamation.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1246
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1247
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1248
# The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1249
# ... at midnight.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1250
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1251
# From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1252
# Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1253
# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1254
# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1255
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1256
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1257
# Samoa
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1258
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1259
# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald)
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1260
# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1261
# ``the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1262
# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1263
# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.''
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1264
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1265
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1266
# Tonga
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1267
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1268
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1269
# Today's _Wall Street Journal_ (p 1) reports that ``Tonga has been plotting
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1270
# to sneak ahead of [New Zealanders] by introducing daylight-saving time.''
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1271
# Since Kiribati has moved the Date Line it's not clear what Tonga will do.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1272
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1273
# Don Mundell writes in the 1997-02-20 Tonga Chronicle
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1274
# <a href="http://www.tongatapu.net.to/tonga/homeland/timebegins.htm">
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1275
# How Tonga became `The Land where Time Begins'
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1276
# </a>:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1277
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1278
# Until 1941 Tonga maintained a standard time 50 minutes ahead of NZST
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1279
# 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of GMT.  When New Zealand adjusted its
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1280
# standard time in 1940s, Tonga had the choice of subtracting from its
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1281
# local time to come on the same standard time as New Zealand or of
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1282
# advancing its time to maintain the differential of 13 degrees
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1283
# (approximately 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1284
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1285
# Because His Majesty King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, then Crown Prince
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1286
# Tungi, preferred to ensure Tonga's title as the land where time
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1287
# begins, the Legislative Assembly approved the latter change.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1288
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1289
# But some of the older, more conservative members from the outer
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1290
# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1291
# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1292
# minutes we have lost?"
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1293
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1294
# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1295
# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1296
# to say your prayers in the morning."
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1297
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1298
# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1299
# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1300
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1301
# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1302
# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millenium
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1303
# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1304
# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1305
# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1306
# Government.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1307
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1308
# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1309
# * Tonga will introduce DST in November
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1310
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1311
# I was given this link by John Letts:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1312
# <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm">
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1313
# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1314
# </a>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1315
#
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1316
# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1317
# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1318
# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1319
# (12 + 1 hour DST).
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1320
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1321
# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1322
# According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1323
# http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1324
# </a>:
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1325
# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1326
# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1327
# third Saturday of April.  Under the system approved by Privy Council on
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1328
# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1329
# set back an hour on the closing date."
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1330
# Alas, no indication of the time of day.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1331
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1332
# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1333
# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1334
# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1335
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1336
# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1337
# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1338
# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1339
# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1340
# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1341
# text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1342
# (Original URL was: http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm )
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1343
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1344
# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1345
# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1346
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1347
# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1348
# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1349
# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am.  At 2:00am on the last Sunday
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1350
# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1351
# hour to 1:00am.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1352
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1353
# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05):
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1354
# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed.  It wasn't.
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1355
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1356
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1357
# Wake
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1358
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1359
# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1360
# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1361
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1362
# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] -- ...  The time was all the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1363
# more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1364
# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays.  Furthermore, we
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1365
# discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1366
# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1367
# impossible.
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1368
#
2e3d3ce01487 Revision: 201002
Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1369
# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1370
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Dremov Kirill (Nokia-D-MSW/Tampere) <kirill.dremov@nokia.com>
parents:
diff changeset
  1371
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
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# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
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  1373
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  1374
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  1375
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  1376
# The International Date Line
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  1377
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  1378
# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
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  1379
#
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  1380
# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
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  1381
# convention, or treaty.  Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
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  1382
# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
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# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
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  1384
#
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  1385
# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
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  1386
# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
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# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
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  1388
# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati.  Even that line
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# has a rather arbitrary nature.  The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
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  1390
# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
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# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is
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# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
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# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC.  And, since the IDL is not
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# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
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  1395
# correct date is ambiguous.
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  1396
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# From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31):
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# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting
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# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's
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# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's
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# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon).  During 1917, at the
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# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all
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# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones
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# on the high seas.  Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any
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# nation it would use that nation's standard time.  The captain was permitted
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# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's
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# entry into another zone time--he often chose midnight.  These zones were
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# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many
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# independent merchant ships until World War II.
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# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
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# (2005-03-20):
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#
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# The American Practical Navigator (2002)
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# <http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187>
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# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
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# international waters; it ignores the international date line.