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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 Aus 1917 only - Jan 1 0:01 1:00 - |
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Rule Aus 1942 only - Mar 29 2:00 0 - |
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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 Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb |
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9:00 - CST 1899 May |
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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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# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/62D4F7C55EA88993482572110007316A/$File/Bill174-1.pdf> |
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# Victoria |
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# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] |
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# Lord Howe Island |
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# |
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# Wake |
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# Vanuatu |
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# |
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# of the IATA's data after 1990. |
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# |
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# I found in the UCLA library. |
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# Corrections are welcome! |
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# 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia |
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# Australia |
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# EST for any place operating at a GMTOFF of 10:00 |
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# From Chuck Soper (2006-06-01): |
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# I recently found this Australian government web page on time zones: |
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# <http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-13time> |
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# And this government web page lists time zone names and abbreviations: |
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# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml> |
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# From Paul Eggert (2001-04-05), summarizing a long discussion about "EST" |
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# versus "AEST" etc.: |
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# |
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# I see the following points of dispute: |
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# |
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# * How important are unique time zone abbreviations? |
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# |
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# Here I tend to agree with the point (most recently made by Chris |
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# Newman) that unique abbreviations should not be essential for proper |
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# operation of software. We have other instances of ambiguity |
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# (e.g. "IST" denoting both "Israel Standard Time" and "Indian |
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# Standard Time"), and they are not likely to go away any time soon. |
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# In the old days, some software mistakenly relied on unique |
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# abbreviations, but this is becoming less true with time, and I don't |
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# think it's that important to cater to such software these days. |
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# |
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# On the other hand, there is another motivation for unambiguous |
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# abbreviations: it cuts down on human confusion. This is |
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# particularly true for Australia, where "EST" can mean one thing for |
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# time T and a different thing for time T plus 1 second. |
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# |
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# * Does the relevant legislation indicate which abbreviations should be used? |
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# |
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# Here I tend to think that things are a mess, just as they are in |
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# many other countries. We Americans are currently disagreeing about |
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# which abbreviation to use for the newly legislated Chamorro Standard |
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# Time, for example. |
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# |
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# Personally, I would prefer to use common practice; I would like to |
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# refer to legislation only for examples of common practice, or as a |
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# tiebreaker. |
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# |
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# * Do Australians more often use "Eastern Daylight Time" or "Eastern |
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# Summer Time"? Do they typically prefix the time zone names with |
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# the word "Australian"? |
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# |
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# My own impression is that both "Daylight Time" and "Summer Time" are |
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# common and are widely understood, but that "Summer Time" is more |
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# popular; and that the leading "A" is also common but is omitted more |
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# often than not. I just used AltaVista advanced search and got the |
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# following count of page hits: |
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# |
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# 1,103 "Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au |
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# 971 "Australian Eastern Summer Time" AND domain:au |
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# 613 "Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au |
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# 127 "Australian Eastern Daylight Time" AND domain:au |
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# |
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# Here "Summer" seems quite a bit more popular than "Daylight", |
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# particularly when we know the time zone is Australian and not US, |
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# say. The "Australian" prefix seems to be popular for Eastern Summer |
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# Time, but unpopular for Eastern Daylight Time. |
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# |
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# For abbreviations, tools like AltaVista are less useful because of |
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# ambiguity. Many hits are not really time zones, unfortunately, and |
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# many hits denote US time zones and not Australian ones. But here |
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# are the hit counts anyway: |
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# |
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# 161,304 "EST" and domain:au |
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# 25,156 "EDT" and domain:au |
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# 18,263 "AEST" and domain:au |
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# |
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# 14,538 "CST" and domain:au |
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# 176 "ACST" and domain:au |
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# 29 "ACDT" and domain:au |
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# |
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# 7,539 "WST" and domain:au |
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# 68 "AWST" and domain:au |
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# practice. The situation for "ST" versus "DT" is less clear, given |
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# the ambiguities involved. |
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# |
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# * How do Australians feel about the abbreviations in the tz database? |
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# |
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# If you just count Australians on this list, I count 2 in favor and 3 |
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# understood in Australia. |
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# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19): |
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# Shanks & Pottenger report 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and NZ. |
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# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper |
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# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00, |
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# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970 |
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# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time. |
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# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960. |
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# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05): |
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# |
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# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable, |
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# relevant entries in this database. |
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# |
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# NSW (including LHI and Broken Hill): |
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# Standard Time Act 1987 (updated 1995-04-04) |
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# </a> |
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# ACT |
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# Standard Time and Summer Time Act 1972 |
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# </a> |
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# SA |
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# Standard Time Act, 1898 |
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# </a> |
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# |
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# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles |
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# Northern Territory |
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# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# # [ Nov 1990 ] |
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# ... |
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# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... |
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# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# # [ Nov 1990 ] |
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# # before reaching parliament. |
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# ... |
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# ... |
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# Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W |
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# Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D |
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# Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 W |
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# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... |
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# work at 9.00am.) |
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# everybody again. |
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# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm"> |
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# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ |
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# Queensland |
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# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# # [ Dec 1990 ] |
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# ... |
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# ... |
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# October 1989). |
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# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): |
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# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... |
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# me.) |
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# ... |
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# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S |
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# ... |
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# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): |
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# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being |
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# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the |
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# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and |
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# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an |
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# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone |
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# |
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# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): |
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# This is confirmed by the section entitled |
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# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>, |
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# which says a few other things: |
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# |
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# |
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# this subregion. |
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# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria |
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# The rules from version 7.1 follow. |
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# the Shepherd et al. rules. Since the Shepherd et al. rules |
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# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on |
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# current DST ending dates, no worries. |
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# |
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# Rule Oz 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - |
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# Rule Oz 1986 max - Oct Sun>=18 2:00 1:00 - |
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# Rule Oz 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 - |
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# Rule Oz 1973 1986 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - |
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# Rule Oz 1987 max - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - |
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# Zone Australia/Tasmania 10:00 Oz EST |
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# Zone Australia/South 9:30 Oz CST |
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# Zone Australia/Victoria 10:00 Oz EST 1985 Oct lastSun 2:00 |
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# 10:00 1:00 EST 1986 Mar Sun>=15 3:00 |
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# 10:00 Oz EST |
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# From Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# I believe that the current start date for DST is "lastSun" in Oct... |
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# original rule, and that rule currently applies in all the states |
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# that have dst, incl Qld. (Certainly it was true in Vic). |
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# The file I'm including says that happened in 1988, I think |
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# that's incorrect, but I'm not 100% certain. |
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# South Australia |
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# From Bradley White (1991-03-04): |
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# A recent excerpt from an Australian newspaper... |
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# at 3am tomorrow (March 3)... |
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# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# # The state of SOUTH AUSTRALIA....[ Courtesy of S.A. Dept of Labour ] |
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# # [ Nov 1990 ] |
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# ... |
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# ... |
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# Rule AS 1971 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D |
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# Rule AS 1972 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C |
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# Rule AS 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 C |
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# Rule AS 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 C |
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# From Bradley White (1992-03-11): |
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# Recent correspondence with a friend in Adelaide |
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# South Australia delays setting back our clocks for a few weeks." |
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# From Robert Elz (1992-03-13): |
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# I heard that apparently (or at least, it appears that) |
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# is on... |
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# From Robert Elz (1992-03-16, 00:57:07 +1000): |
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# DST didn't end in Adelaide today (yesterday).... |
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# But whether it's "4th Sunday" or "2nd last Sunday" I have no idea whatever... |
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# (it's just as likely to be "the Sunday we pick for this year"...). |
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# From Bradley White (1994-04-11): |
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# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can |
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# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated.... |
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# From John Warburton (1994-10-07): |
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# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ... |
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# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994.... |
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# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March. |
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# Tasmania |
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# The rules for 1967 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd |
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# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# # The state of TASMANIA.. [Courtesy Tasmanian Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] |
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# # [ Nov 1990 ] |
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# From Bill Hart via Guy Harris (1991-10-10): |
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# Oh yes, the new daylight savings rules are uniquely tasmanian, we have |
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# (but nothing new about that). |
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# From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04): |
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# I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the |
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# (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard, |
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# has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria |
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# (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000 |
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# instead of the first Sunday in October. |
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# Sim Alam (2000-07-03) reported a legal citation for the 2000/2001 rules: |
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# http://www.thelaw.tas.gov.au/fragview/42++1968+GS3A@EN+2000070300 |
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# Victoria |
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# The rules for 1971 through 1991 were reported by George Shepherd |
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# via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# # The state of VICTORIA.. [ Courtesy of Vic. Dept of Premier + Cabinet ] |
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# # [ Nov 1990 ] |
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# From Scott Harrington (2001-08-29): |
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# On KQED's "City Arts and Lectures" program last night I heard an |
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# interesting story about daylight savings time. Dr. John Heilbron was |
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# discussing his book "The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar |
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# Observatories"[1], and in particular the Shrine of Remembrance[2] located |
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# in Melbourne, Australia. |
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# |
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# Apparently the shrine's main purpose is a beam of sunlight which |
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# illuminates a special spot on the floor at the 11th hour of the 11th day |
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# of the 11th month (Remembrance Day) every year in memory of Australia's |
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# fallen WWI soldiers. And if you go there on Nov. 11, at 11am local time, |
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# you will indeed see the sunbeam illuminate the special spot at the |
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# expected time. |
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# |
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# to be employed, since due to daylight savings time, the true solar time of |
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# the remembrance moment occurs one hour later (or earlier?). Perhaps |
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# someone with more information on this jury-rig can tell us more. |
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# |
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# [1] http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HEISUN.html |
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# [2] http://www.shrine.org.au |
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# New South Wales |
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# From Arthur David Olson: |
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# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time. |
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# Based on law library research by John Mackin, |
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# who notes: |
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# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time'' |
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# [I mean, of course, Australian EST, not any other kind] are in common |
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# use, _they have NO REAL MEANING_, as they are not defined in the |
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# legislation. This is very important to understand. |
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# I have researched New South Wales time only... |
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# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26): |
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# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual |
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# October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore, |
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# <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html"> |
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# Two months more daylight saving |
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# </a> |
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# Sydney Morning Herald (1999-05-26).] |
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# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27): |
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# See the following official NSW source: |
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# <a href="http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ"> |
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# Daylight Saving in New South Wales. |
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# </a> |
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# |
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# Narrabri Shire (NSW) council has announced it will ignore the extension of |
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# daylight saving next year. See: |
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# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/neweng/monthly/regeng-22jul1999-1.htm"> |
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# Narrabri Council to ignore daylight saving |
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# </a> (1999-07-22). For now, we'll wait to see if this really happens. |
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# |
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# Victoria will following NSW. See: |
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# <a href="http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm"> |
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# Vic to extend daylight saving |
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# </a> (1999-07-28). |
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# |
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# However, South Australia rejected the DST request. See: |
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# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990719151754_1.htm"> |
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# South Australia rejects Olympics daylight savings request |
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# </a> (1999-07-19). |
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# |
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# Queensland also will not observe DST for the Olympics. See: |
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# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/olympics/1999/06/item19990601114608_1.htm"> |
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# Qld says no to daylight savings for Olympics |
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# </a> (1999-06-01), which quotes Queensland Premier Peter Beattie as saying |
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# ``Look you've got to remember in my family when this came up last time |
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# I voted for it, my wife voted against it and she said to me it's all very |
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# bed, getting them to school, getting them to sleep at night. |
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# I've been through all this argument domestically...my wife rules.'' |
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# |
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# Broken Hill will stick with South Australian time in 2000. See: |
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# <a href="http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm"> |
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# Broken Hill to be behind the times |
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# </a> (1999-07-21). |
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# IATA SSIM (1998-09) says that the spring 2000 change for Australian |
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# Capital Territory, New South Wales except Lord Howe Island and Broken |
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# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics. |
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# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29: |
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# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW |
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# towns to use Queensland time. |
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# Yancowinna |
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# From John Mackin (1989-01-04): |
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# `Broken Hill' means the County of Yancowinna. |
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# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# # YANCOWINNA.. [ Confirmation courtesy of Broken Hill Postmaster ] |
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# # [ Dec 1990 ] |
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# ... |
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# # presently available. |
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# ... |
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# Rule AY 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D |
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# [followed by other Rules] |
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# Lord Howe Island |
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# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ] |
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# [ Dec 1990 ] |
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# hour ahead of NSW time. |
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# seeking the community's views on various options for summer time |
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# arrangements on the Island, e.g. advance clocks by 1 full hour |
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# the Board may approach the NSW government to change the existing |
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# however always coincide with the rest of NSW. |
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# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25): |
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# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards |
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# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): |
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# For Lord Howe dates we use Shanks & Pottenger through 1989, and |
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# Lonergan thereafter. For times we use Lonergan. |
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############################################################################### |
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# New Zealand |
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# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03): |
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# subsequent years (with the addition of a further week at the start). |
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# source -- phone call to Ministry of Internal Affairs Head Office. |
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# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06): |
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# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ] |
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# # [ Nov 1990 ] |
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# ... |
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# Rule NZ 1989 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D |
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# ... |
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# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March. |
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# |
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# |
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############################################################################### |
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# Fiji |
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# Fiji will introduce DST effective 0200 local time, 1998-11-01 |
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# millenium. |
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# Johnston |
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# Kiribati |
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# Kwajalein |
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# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes: |
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# N Mariana Is, Guam |
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# Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones |
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# Micronesia |
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# |
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# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information |
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# </a> (1999-01-26) |
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# Midway |
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# your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956 |
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# air at 6am your time. |
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# |
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# Pitcairn |
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# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows. |
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# |
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# Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known |
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# as Pitcairn Standard Time. |
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# |
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# Samoa |
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# Tonga |
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# </a>: |
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# islands objected. "If at midnight on Dec. 31, we move ahead 40 |
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# minutes, as your Royal Highness wishes, what becomes of the 40 |
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# minutes we have lost?" |
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# |
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# The Crown Prince, presented an unanswerable argument: "Remember that |
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# on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth |
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# to say your prayers in the morning." |
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# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): |
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# Shanks & Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01; go with Mundell. |
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# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03): |
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# Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millenium |
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# Committee, has a plan to get Tonga back in front. |
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# He has proposed a one-off move to tropical daylight saving for Tonga from |
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# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan |
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# Government. |
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# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09): |
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# * Tonga will introduce DST in November |
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# |
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# I was given this link by John Letts: |
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# <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm"> |
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# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm |
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# </a> |
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# |
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# I have not been able to find exact dates for the transition in November |
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# yet. By reading this article it seems like Fiji will be 14 hours ahead |
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# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead |
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# (12 + 1 hour DST). |
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# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20): |
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# According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html> |
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# http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html |
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# </a>: |
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# "Daylight Savings Time will take effect on Oct. 2 through April 15, 2000 |
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# and annually thereafter from the first Saturday in October through the |
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# third Saturday of April. Under the system approved by Privy Council on |
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# Sept. 10, clocks must be turned ahead one hour on the opening day and |
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# set back an hour on the closing date." |
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# Alas, no indication of the time of day. |
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# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06): |
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# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am. |
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# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning. |
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# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31): |
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# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com |
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# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19 |
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# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article |
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# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the |
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# text, and I have forgotten to report it here. |
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# (Original URL was: http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm ) |
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# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01): |
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# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27. |
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# From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow: |
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# At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom |
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# shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday |
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# of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one |
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# hour to 1:00am. |
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# From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05): |
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# The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't. |
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# Wake |
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# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, |
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# US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02): |
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# |
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# Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] -- ... The time was all the |
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# International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we |
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# making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost |
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# impossible. |
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# |
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# http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm |
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# 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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############################################################################### |
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# The International Date Line |
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# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03): |
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# |
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# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard, |
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# convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please. |
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# 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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# |
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# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and |
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# 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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# 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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# 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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# correct date is ambiguous. |
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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. |