356 # From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
357 # Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
358 # move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
359 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
360
361 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
362 # Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
363 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
364
365 # From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
366 # DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
367 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx
368
369 # From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77
370 # in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28),
371 # via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02):
372 # the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time
373 # commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
374 # 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
375
376 # From Paul Eggert (2015-09-01):
377 # For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
378 # 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches
379 # transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future
380 # practice than guessing no DST.
381
382 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
383 Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
384 Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -
385 Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S
386 Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
387 Rule Fiji 2010 2013 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S
388 Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
389 Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
390 Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 -
391 Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
392 Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
393 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
394 Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
395 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
396
702 # actually was to UTC-11 back then.
703 #
704 # From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
705 # A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of
706 # Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
707 # <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau
708 # was "11 hours slow on G.M.T." Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger
709 # are off by an hour starting in 1901.
710
711 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
712 Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901
713 -11:00 - TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time
714 13:00 - TKT
715
716 # Tonga
717 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
718 Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S
719 Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 -
720 Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
721 Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 -
722 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
723 Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901
724 12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time
725 13:00 - TOT 1999
726 13:00 Tonga TO%sT
727
728 # Tuvalu
729 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
730 Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901
731 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time
732
733
734 # US minor outlying islands
735
736 # Howland, Baker
737 # Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British
738 # 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known.
739 # Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944;
740 # uninhabited thereafter.
741 # Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT -10:30) in 1937;
742 # see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long,
743 # Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000).
744 # So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935
745 # until they were abandoned after the war.
746
1712 # Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
1713 # Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
1714
1715 # From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
1716 # Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
1717 # that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
1718 # instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
1719 # is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
1720 # text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
1721 # (Original URL was <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm>)
1722
1723 # From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
1724 # Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
1725
1726 # From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
1727 # At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
1728 # shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday
1729 # of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
1730 # hour to 1:00am.
1731
1732 # From Pulu 'Anau (2002-11-05):
1733 # The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't.
1734
1735
1736 # Wake
1737
1738 # From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
1739 # US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
1740 #
1741 # Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ... The time was all the
1742 # more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
1743 # International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we
1744 # discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
1745 # making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
1746 # impossible.
1747 #
1748 # http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm
1749
1750 # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1751 # We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
1752
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1754
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356 # From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
357 # Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
358 # move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
359 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
360
361 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
362 # Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
363 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
364
365 # From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
366 # DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
367 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx
368
369 # From a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77
370 # in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28),
371 # via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02):
372 # the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time
373 # commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
374 # 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
375
376 # From Raymond Kumar (2016-10-04):
377 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-6th-NOVEMBER,-2016.aspx
378 # "Fiji's daylight savings will begin on Sunday, 6 November 2016, when
379 # clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will
380 # end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017."
381
382 # From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03):
383 # For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
384 # 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches
385 # transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future
386 # practice than guessing no DST.
387
388 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
389 Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
390 Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -
391 Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S
392 Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
393 Rule Fiji 2010 2013 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S
394 Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
395 Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
396 Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 -
397 Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
398 Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
399 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
400 Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
401 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
402
708 # actually was to UTC-11 back then.
709 #
710 # From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
711 # A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of
712 # Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
713 # <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau
714 # was "11 hours slow on G.M.T." Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger
715 # are off by an hour starting in 1901.
716
717 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
718 Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901
719 -11:00 - TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time
720 13:00 - TKT
721
722 # Tonga
723 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
724 Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S
725 Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 -
726 Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
727 Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 -
728 Rule Tonga 2016 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
729 Rule Tonga 2017 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
730 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
731 Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901
732 12:20 - +1220 1941
733 13:00 - +13 1999
734 13:00 Tonga +13/+14
735
736 # Tuvalu
737 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
738 Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901
739 12:00 - TVT # Tuvalu Time
740
741
742 # US minor outlying islands
743
744 # Howland, Baker
745 # Howland was mined for guano by American companies 1857-1878 and British
746 # 1886-1891; Baker was similar but exact dates are not known.
747 # Inhabited by civilians 1935-1942; U.S. military bases 1943-1944;
748 # uninhabited thereafter.
749 # Howland observed Hawaii Standard Time (UT -10:30) in 1937;
750 # see page 206 of Elgen M. Long and Marie K. Long,
751 # Amelia Earhart: the Mystery Solved, Simon & Schuster (2000).
752 # So most likely Howland and Baker observed Hawaii Time from 1935
753 # until they were abandoned after the war.
754
1720 # Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
1721 # Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
1722
1723 # From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
1724 # Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
1725 # that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
1726 # instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
1727 # is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
1728 # text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
1729 # (Original URL was <http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm>)
1730
1731 # From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
1732 # Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
1733
1734 # From Sione Moala-Mafi (2001-09-20) via Rives McDow:
1735 # At 2:00am on the first Sunday of November, the standard time in the Kingdom
1736 # shall be moved forward by one hour to 3:00am. At 2:00am on the last Sunday
1737 # of January the standard time in the Kingdom shall be moved backward by one
1738 # hour to 1:00am.
1739
1740 # From Pulu ʻAnau (2002-11-05):
1741 # The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed. It wasn't.
1742
1743 # From Pulu ʻAnau (2016-10-27):
1744 # http://mic.gov.to/news-today/press-releases/6375-daylight-saving-set-to-run-from-6-november-2016-to-15-january-2017
1745 # Cannot find anyone who knows the rules, has seen the duration or has seen
1746 # the cabinet decision, but it appears we are following Fiji's rule set.
1747 #
1748 # From Tim Parenti (2016-10-26):
1749 # Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00
1750 # through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now.
1751
1752 # Wake
1753
1754 # From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
1755 # US Ambassador At Large (oral history interview, 1971-02-02):
1756 #
1757 # Saturday, the 14th [of October, 1950] - ... The time was all the
1758 # more confusing at that point, because we had crossed the
1759 # International Date Line, thus getting two Sundays. Furthermore, we
1760 # discovered that Wake Island had two hours of daylight saving time
1761 # making calculation of time in Washington difficult if not almost
1762 # impossible.
1763 #
1764 # http://www.trumanlibrary.org/wake/meeting.htm
1765
1766 # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1767 # We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
1768
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1770
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