-# @(#)australasia 7.69
+# @(#)australasia 7.78
+# <pre>
+
# This file also includes Pacific islands.
# Notes are at the end of this file
8:00 - WST
# Queensland
#
-# From Alex Livingston <alex@agsm.unsw.edu.au> (1996-11-01):
+# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
# I have heard or read more than once that some resort islands off the coast
# of Queensland chose to keep observing daylight-saving time even after
# Queensland ceased to.
Rule AS 1992 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 -
Rule AS 1993 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
Rule AS 1994 only - Mar Sun>=18 2:00s 0 -
-Rule AS 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AS 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Australia/Adelaide 9:14:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
9:00 - CST 1899 May
9:30 AS CST
# Tasmania
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2005-08-16):
+# <http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml>
+# says King Island didn't observe DST from WWII until late 1971.
+#
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule AT 1967 only - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AT 1968 only - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
Rule AT 1987 only - Oct Sun>=22 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AT 1988 1990 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AT 1991 1999 - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
-Rule AT 1991 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 1991 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
Rule AT 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AT 2001 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AT 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AT 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Australia/Hobart 9:49:16 - LMT 1895 Sep
10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00
10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb
10:00 Aus EST 1967
10:00 AT EST
+Zone Australia/Currie 9:35:28 - LMT 1895 Sep
+ 10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00
+ 10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb
+ 10:00 Aus EST 1971 Jul
+ 10:00 AT EST
# Victoria
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule AV 1986 1987 - Oct Sun>=15 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AV 1988 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
-Rule AV 1995 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AV 1995 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
Rule AV 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AV 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AV 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AV 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
10:00 Aus EST 1971
Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AN 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
-Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AN 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
Rule AN 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AN 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
+Rule AN 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule AN 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
10:00 Aus EST 1971
Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 0:30 -
Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
-Rule LH 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
+Rule LH 1996 2005 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
Rule LH 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 0:30 -
+Rule LH 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 0 -
+Rule LH 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
10:00 - EST 1981 Mar
10:30 LH LHST
-10:00 Cook CK%sT
# Cocos
-# From USNO (1989):
+# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
+# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time
+Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900
+ 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time
# Fiji
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
# Micronesia
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Yap 9:12:32 - LMT 1901 # Colonia
- 9:00 - YAPT 1969 Oct # Yap Time
- 10:00 - YAPT
Zone Pacific/Truk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901
10:00 - TRUT # Truk Time
Zone Pacific/Ponape 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia
-11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
-11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
-# W Samoa
+# Samoa
Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
-11:26:56 - LMT 1911
-11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time
- -11:00 - WST # W Samoa Time
+ -11:00 - WST # Samoa Time
# Solomon Is
# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
# uninhabited
# Midway
+#
+# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
+# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
+# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
+# reproduced a Pan American Airways timeables from 1936, for their weekly
+# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
+# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone
+# designations that I've never seen before:....
+# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
+# " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A "
+#
Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901
-11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3
-11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
# tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-10-29):
+# From Paul Eggert (1999-10-29):
# A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
# Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (5th edition),
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1999).
# Australia
-# <a href="http://www.dstc.qut.edu.au/DST/marg/daylight.html">
-# Australia's Daylight Saving Times
-# </a>, by Margaret Turner, summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
+# From Paul Eggert (2005-12-08):
+# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml">
+# Implementation Dates of Daylight Saving Time within Australia
+# </a> summarizes daylight saving issues in Australia.
+
+# From Arthur David Olson (2005-12-12):
+# <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/lawlink/Corporate/ll_agdinfo.nsf/pages/community_relations_daylight_saving">
+# Lawlink NSW:Daylight Saving in New South Wales
+# </a> covers New South Wales in particular.
# From John Mackin (1991-03-06):
# We in Australia have _never_ referred to DST as `daylight' time.
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19):
# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand.
-# Mark Prior <mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au> writes that his newspaper
+# Mark Prior writes that his newspaper
# reports that NSW's fall 1995 change will occur at 2:00,
# but Robert Elz says it's been 3:00 in Victoria since 1970
# and perhaps the newspaper's `2:00' is referring to standard time.
# For now we'll continue to assume 2:00s for changes since 1960.
-# From Eric Ulevik <eau@zip.com.au> (1998-01-05):
+# From Eric Ulevik (1998-01-05):
#
# Here are some URLs to Australian time legislation. These URLs are stable,
# and should probably be included in the data file. There are probably more
# Standard Time Act, 1898
# </a>
+# From David Grosz (2005-06-13):
+# It was announced last week that Daylight Saving would be extended by
+# one week next year to allow for the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
+# Daylight Saving is now to end for next year only on the first Sunday
+# in April instead of the last Sunday in March.
+#
+# From Gwillim Law (2005-06-14):
+# I did some Googling and found that all of those states (and territory) plan
+# to extend DST together in 2006.
+# ACT: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/mediareleases/fileread.cfm?file=86.txt
+# New South Wales: http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15538869%255E1702,00.html
+# South Australia: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15555031-1246,00.html
+# Tasmania: http://www.media.tas.gov.au/release.php?id=14772
+# Victoria: I wasn't able to find anything separate, but the other articles
+# allude to it.
+# But not Queensland
+# http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15564030-1248,00.html.
+
# Northern Territory
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
# 1994 was at +0930 as John Connolly's customer seems to assert, then I can
# only conclude that the actual rule is more complicated....
-# From John Warburton <jwarb@SACBH.com.au> (1994-10-07):
+# From John Warburton (1994-10-07):
# The new Daylight Savings dates for South Australia ...
# was gazetted in the Government Hansard on Sep 26 1994....
# start on last Sunday in October and end in last sunday in March.
# From Arthur David Olson:
# New South Wales and subjurisdictions have their own ideas of a fun time.
-# Based on law library research by John Mackin (john@basser.cs.su.oz),
+# Based on law library research by John Mackin,
# who notes:
# In Australia, time is not legislated federally, but rather by the
# individual states. Thus, while such terms as ``Eastern Standard Time''
# legislation. This is very important to understand.
# I have researched New South Wales time only...
-# From Paul Eggert (1999-09-27):
-# The Information Service of the Australian National Standards Commission
-# <a href="http://www.nsc.gov.au/InfoServ/Ileaflet/il27.htm">
-# Daylight Saving
-# </a> page (1995-04) has an excellent overall history of Australian DST.
-# The Community Relations Division of the NSW Attorney General's Department
-# publishes a history of daylight saving in NSW. See:
-# <a href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2">
-# Lawlink NSW: Daylight Saving in New South Wales
-# </a>
-
-# From Eric Ulevik <eau@ozemail.com.au> (1999-05-26):
+# From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-26):
# DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual
# October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore,
# <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/9905/26/pageone/pageone4.html">
# Lord Howe Island
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
-# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen.. pauline@Aus ]
+# LHI... [ Courtesy of Pauline Van Winsen ]
# [ Dec 1990 ]
# Lord Howe Island is located off the New South Wales coast, and is half an
# hour ahead of NSW time.
# From George Shepherd via Simon Woodhead via Robert Elz (1991-03-06):
# # The Country of New Zealand (Australia's east island -) Gee they hate that!
# # or is Australia the west island of N.Z.
-# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Geofft@Aus.. Auckland N.Z. ]
+# # [ courtesy of Geoff Tribble.. Auckland N.Z. ]
# # [ Nov 1990 ]
# ...
# Rule NZ 1974 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
# From Paul Eggert (1995-12-19);
# Shanks reports 2:00 for all autumn changes in Australia and New Zealand.
-# Robert Uzgalis <buz@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> writes that the New Zealand Daylight
+# Robert Uzgalis writes that the New Zealand Daylight
# Savings Time Order in Council dated 1990-06-18 specifies 2:00 standard
# time on both the first Sunday in October and the third Sunday in March.
# As with Australia, we'll assume the tradition is 2:00s, not 2:00.
# Micronesia
-# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16),
+# Alan Eugene Davis writes (1996-03-16),
# ``I am certain, having lived there for the past decade, that "Truk"
# (now properly known as Chuuk) ... is in the time zone GMT+10.''
#
# October to March, which has won approval in principle from the Tongan
# Government.
-# From Steffen Thorsen [straen@thorsen.priv.no] (1999-09-09):
+# From Steffen Thorsen (1999-09-09):
# * Tonga will introduce DST in November
#
-# I was given this link by John Letts <johnletts@earthlink.net>:
+# I was given this link by John Letts:
# <a hef="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm">
# http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_424000/424764.stm
# </a>
# of UTC as well, but as far as I know Fiji will only be 13 hours ahead
# (12 + 1 hour DST).
-# From Arthur David Olson [arthur_david_olson@nih.gov] (1999-09-20):
+# From Arthur David Olson (1999-09-20):
# According to <a href="http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html>
# http://www.tongaonline.com/news/sept1799.html
# </a>:
# mapmakers redrew the IDL following the boundary of Kiribati. Even that line
# has a rather arbitrary nature. The straight-line boundaries between Pacific
# island nations that are shown on many maps are based on an international
-# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.
-#
-# An Anglo-French Conference on Time-Keeping at Sea (June, 1917) agreed that
-# legal time on the high seas would be zone time, i.e., the standard time at
-# the nearest meridian that is a multiple of fifteen degrees. The date is
+# convention, but are not legally binding national borders.... The date is
# governed by the IDL; therefore, even on the high seas, there may be some
# places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC. And, since the IDL is not
# an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
# correct date is ambiguous.
+
+# From Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone> (2005-08-31):
+# Before 1920, all ships kept local apparent time on the high seas by setting
+# their clocks at night or at the morning sight so that, given the ship's
+# speed and direction, it would be 12 o'clock when the Sun crossed the ship's
+# meridian (12 o'clock = local apparent noon). During 1917, at the
+# Anglo-French Conference on Time-keeping at Sea, it was recommended that all
+# ships, both military and civilian, should adopt hourly standard time zones
+# on the high seas. Whenever a ship was within the territorial waters of any
+# nation it would use that nation's standard time. The captain was permitted
+# to change his ship's clocks at a time of his choice following his ship's
+# entry into another zone time--he often chose midnight. These zones were
+# adopted by all major fleets between 1920 and 1925 but not by many
+# independent merchant ships until World War II.
+
+# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
+# (2005-03-20):
+#
+# The American Practical Navigator (2002)
+# <http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187>
+# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
+# international waters; it ignores the international date line.
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