337 # The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
338 # has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
339 # The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
340 # on the 23rd of October, 2011.
341
342 # From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
343 # The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
344 # today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
345 # October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
346 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
347
348 # From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
349 # Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
350 # move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
351 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
352
353 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
354 # Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
355 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
356
357 # From Paul Eggert (2014-01-10):
358 # For now, guess that Fiji springs forward the Sunday before the fourth
359 # Monday in October, and springs back the penultimate Sunday in January.
360 # This is ad hoc, but matches recent practice.
361
362 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
363 Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
364 Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -
365 Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S
366 Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
367 Rule Fiji 2010 max - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S
368 Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
369 Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
370 Rule Fiji 2014 max - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 -
371 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
372 Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
373 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
374
375 # French Polynesia
376 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
377 Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea
378 -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time
379 Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct
380 -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time
381 Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete
382 -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time
383 # Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
384 # it is uninhabited.
385
386 # Guam
387 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
388 Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
389 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana
390 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam
525 -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time
526 -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1
527 -11:00 - NUT
528
529 # Norfolk
530 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
531 Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston
532 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
533 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time
534
535 # Palau (Belau)
536 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
537 Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror
538 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time
539
540 # Papua New Guinea
541 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
542 Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880
543 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
544 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time
545
546 # Pitcairn
547 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
548 Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown
549 -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 0:00
550 -8:00 - PST # Pitcairn Standard Time
551
552 # American Samoa
553 Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
554 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911
555 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
556 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
557 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
558
559 # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
560
561 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
562 # We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
563 # the following info:
564 #
809 #
810 # For data circa 1899, a common source is:
811 # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
812 # http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
813 #
814 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
815 # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
816 #
817 # I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table;
818 # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
819 # Corrections are welcome!
820 # std dst
821 # LMT Local Mean Time
822 # 8:00 AWST AWDT Western Australia
823 # 8:45 ACWST ACWDT Central Western Australia*
824 # 9:00 JST Japan
825 # 9:30 ACST ACDT Central Australia
826 # 10:00 AEST AEDT Eastern Australia
827 # 10:00 ChST Chamorro
828 # 10:30 LHST LHDT Lord Howe*
829 # 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945
830 # 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present
831 # 12:15 CHAST Chatham through 1945*
832 # 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham 1946-present*
833 # 13:00 WSST WSDT (western) Samoa 2011-present*
834 # -11:30 WSST Western Samoa through 1950*
835 # -11:00 SST Samoa
836 # -10:00 HST Hawaii
837 # - 8:00 PST Pitcairn*
838 #
839 # See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
840 # See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galápagos Is.
841
842 ###############################################################################
843
844 # Australia
845
846 # From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
847 # Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting
848 # region against region, rural against urban, and local against global.
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337 # The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
338 # has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
339 # The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
340 # on the 23rd of October, 2011.
341
342 # From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
343 # The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
344 # today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
345 # October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
346 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
347
348 # From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
349 # Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
350 # move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
351 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
352
353 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
354 # Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
355 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
356
357 # From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
358 # DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
359 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx
360
361 # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-20):
362 # For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
363 # 03:00 the first Sunday on or after January 18. Although ad hoc, it
364 # matches this year's plan and seems more likely to match future
365 # practice than guessing no DST.
366
367 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
368 Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
369 Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -
370 Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S
371 Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
372 Rule Fiji 2010 2013 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S
373 Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
374 Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
375 Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 -
376 Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
377 Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
378 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
379 Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
380 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
381
382 # French Polynesia
383 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
384 Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea
385 -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time
386 Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct
387 -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time
388 Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete
389 -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time
390 # Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
391 # it is uninhabited.
392
393 # Guam
394 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
395 Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
396 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana
397 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam
532 -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time
533 -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1
534 -11:00 - NUT
535
536 # Norfolk
537 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
538 Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston
539 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
540 11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time
541
542 # Palau (Belau)
543 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
544 Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror
545 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time
546
547 # Papua New Guinea
548 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
549 Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880
550 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
551 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time
552 #
553 # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
554 # Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have
555 # the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War.
556 #
557 # Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for JST, these dates
558 # are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns.
559 # The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta.
560 # The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
561 # according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
562 # http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm
563 # and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender.
564 #
565 # The Autonomous Region of Bougainville plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11
566 # on 2014-12-28 at 02:00. They call UTC+11 "Bougainville Standard Time";
567 # abbreviate this as BST. See:
568 # http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/
569 #
570 Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 - LMT 1880
571 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895
572 10:00 - PGT 1942 Jul
573 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 21
574 10:00 - PGT 2014 Dec 28 2:00
575 11:00 - BST
576
577 # Pitcairn
578 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
579 Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown
580 -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 0:00
581 -8:00 - PST # Pitcairn Standard Time
582
583 # American Samoa
584 Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
585 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911
586 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
587 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
588 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
589
590 # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
591
592 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
593 # We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
594 # the following info:
595 #
840 #
841 # For data circa 1899, a common source is:
842 # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
843 # http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
844 #
845 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
846 # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
847 #
848 # I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table;
849 # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
850 # Corrections are welcome!
851 # std dst
852 # LMT Local Mean Time
853 # 8:00 AWST AWDT Western Australia
854 # 8:45 ACWST ACWDT Central Western Australia*
855 # 9:00 JST Japan
856 # 9:30 ACST ACDT Central Australia
857 # 10:00 AEST AEDT Eastern Australia
858 # 10:00 ChST Chamorro
859 # 10:30 LHST LHDT Lord Howe*
860 # 11:00 BST Bougainville*
861 # 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945
862 # 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present
863 # 12:15 CHAST Chatham through 1945*
864 # 12:45 CHAST CHADT Chatham 1946-present*
865 # 13:00 WSST WSDT (western) Samoa 2011-present*
866 # -11:30 WSST Western Samoa through 1950*
867 # -11:00 SST Samoa
868 # -10:00 HST Hawaii
869 # - 8:00 PST Pitcairn*
870 #
871 # See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
872 # See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galápagos Is.
873
874 ###############################################################################
875
876 # Australia
877
878 # From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
879 # Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting
880 # region against region, rural against urban, and local against global.
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