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-10:00 - -10
# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
# it is uninhabited.
# Guam
+
+# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
+# http://guamlegislature.com/Public_Laws_5th/PL05-025.pdf
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-59-7-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time-May-6-1959.pdf
+Rule Guam 1959 only - Jun 27 2:00 1:00 D
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-61-5-Revocation-of-Daylight-Saving-Time-and-Restoratio.pdf
+Rule Guam 1961 only - Jan 29 2:00 0 S
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-67-13-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf
+Rule Guam 1967 only - Sep 1 2:00 1:00 D
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-69-2-Repeal-of-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf
+Rule Guam 1969 only - Jan 26 0:01 0 S
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-69-10-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf
+Rule Guam 1969 only - Jun 22 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Guam 1969 only - Aug 31 2:00 0 S
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-70-10-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-70-30-End-of-Guam-Daylight-Saving-Time.pdf
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-71-5-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf
+Rule Guam 1970 1971 - Apr lastSun 2:00 1:00 D
+Rule Guam 1970 1971 - Sep Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-73-28.-Guam-Day-light-Saving-Time.pdf
+Rule Guam 1973 only - Dec 16 2:00 1:00 D
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-74-7-Guam-Daylight-Savings-Time-Rescinded.pdf
+Rule Guam 1974 only - Feb 24 2:00 0 S
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-76-13-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf
+Rule Guam 1976 only - May 26 2:00 1:00 D
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-76-25-Revocation-of-E.O.-76-13.pdf
+Rule Guam 1976 only - Aug 22 2:01 0 S
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-77-4-Daylight-Savings-Time.pdf
+Rule Guam 1977 only - Apr 24 2:00 1:00 D
+# http://documents.guam.gov/wp-content/uploads/E.O.-77-18-Guam-Standard-Time.pdf
+Rule Guam 1977 only - Aug 28 2:00 0 S
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana
- 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam
+ 10:00 - GST 1941 Dec 10 # Guam
+ 9:00 - +09 1944 Jul 31
+ 10:00 Guam G%sT 2000 Dec 23
10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
# Kiribati
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -449,34 +483,59 @@
# See Pacific/Guam.
# Marshall Is
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901
+ 11:00 - +11 1914 Oct
+ 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1
+ 11:00 - +11 1937
+ 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1
+ 9:00 - +09 1944 Jan 30
11:00 - +11 1969 Oct
12:00 - +12
Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901
+ 11:00 - +11 1937
+ 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1
+ 9:00 - +09 1944 Feb 6
11:00 - +11 1969 Oct
- -12:00 - -12 1993 Aug 20
+ -12:00 - -12 1993 Aug 20 24:00
12:00 - +12
# Micronesia
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Chuuk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901
+Zone Pacific/Chuuk -13:52:52 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
+ 10:07:08 - LMT 1901
+ 10:00 - +10 1914 Oct
+ 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1
+ 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1
+ 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug
10:00 - +10
-Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia
+Zone Pacific/Pohnpei -13:27:08 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 # Kolonia
+ 10:32:52 - LMT 1901
+ 11:00 - +11 1914 Oct
+ 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1
+ 11:00 - +11 1937
+ 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1
+ 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug
11:00 - +11
-Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901
+Zone Pacific/Kosrae -13:08:04 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
+ 10:51:56 - LMT 1901
+ 11:00 - +11 1914 Oct
+ 9:00 - +09 1919 Feb 1
+ 11:00 - +11 1937
+ 10:00 - +10 1941 Apr 1
+ 9:00 - +09 1945 Aug
11:00 - +11 1969 Oct
12:00 - +12 1999
11:00 - +11
# Nauru
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Nauru 11:07:40 - LMT 1921 Jan 15 # Uaobe
- 11:30 - +1130 1942 Mar 15
- 9:00 - +09 1944 Aug 15
- 11:30 - +1130 1979 May
+ 11:30 - +1130 1942 Aug 29
+ 9:00 - +09 1945 Sep 8
+ 11:30 - +1130 1979 Feb 10 2:00
12:00 - +12
# New Caledonia
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule NC 1977 1978 - Dec Sun>=1 0:00 1:00 -
@@ -573,11 +632,12 @@
11:30 - +1130 2015 Oct 4 02:00
11:00 - +11
# Palau (Belau)
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror
+Zone Pacific/Palau -15:02:04 - LMT 1844 Dec 31 # Koror
+ 8:57:56 - LMT 1901
9:00 - +09
# Papua New Guinea
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880
@@ -836,11 +896,11 @@
# This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
# go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
# tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see
# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
-# From Paul Eggert (2017-02-10):
+# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
#
# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
# San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
# Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
@@ -861,18 +921,19 @@
# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
#
# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
#
+# I invented the abbreviation marked "*".
# The following abbreviations are from other sources.
# Corrections are welcome!
# std dst
# LMT Local Mean Time
# 8:00 AWST AWDT Western Australia
# 9:30 ACST ACDT Central Australia
# 10:00 AEST AEDT Eastern Australia
-# 10:00 GST Guam through 2000
+# 10:00 GST GDT* Guam through 2000
# 10:00 ChST Chamorro
# 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945
# 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present
# -11:00 SST Samoa
# -10:00 HST Hawaii
@@ -1567,32 +1628,74 @@
# One source for this is page 202 of: Bartky IR. One Time Fits All:
# The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (2007).
# Kwajalein
-# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
-# I wonder what happened in Kwajalein, where there was NO Friday,
-# 1993-08-20. Thursday night at midnight Kwajalein switched sides with
-# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
-# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
+# From an AP article (1993-08-22):
+# "The nearly 3,000 Americans living on this remote Pacific atoll have a good
+# excuse for not remembering Saturday night: there wasn't one. Residents were
+# going to bed Friday night and waking up Sunday morning because at midnight
+# -- 8 A.M. Eastern daylight time on Saturday -- Kwajalein was jumping from
+# one side of the international date line to the other."
+# "In Marshall Islands, Friday is followed by Sunday", NY Times. 1993-08-22.
+# https://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/22/world/in-marshall-islands-friday-is-followed-by-sunday.html
+
+# From Phake Nick (2018-10-27):
+# <https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/南洋群島の標準時> ... pointed out that
+# currently tzdata say Pacific/Kwajalein switched from GMT+11 to GMT-12 in
+# 1969 October without explanation, however an 1993 article from NYT say it
+# synchorized its day with US mainland about 40 years ago and thus the switch
+# should occur at around 1950s instead.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
+# The NYT (actually, AP) article is vague and possibly wrong about this.
+# The article says the earlier switch was "40 years ago when the United States
+# Army established a missile test range here". However, the Kwajalein Test
+# Center was established on 1960-10-01 and was run by the US Navy. It was
+# transferred to the US Army on 1964-07-01. See "Seize the High Ground"
+# <https://history.army.mil/html/books/070/70-88-1/cmhPub_70-88-1.pdf>.
+# Given that Shanks was right on the money about the 1993 change, I'm inclined
+# to take Shanks's word for the 1969 change unless we find better evidence.
# N Mariana Is, Guam
+# From Phake Nick (2018-10-27):
+# Guam Island was briefly annexed by Japan during ... year 1941-1944 ...
+# however there are no detailed information about what time it use during that
+# period. It would probably be reasonable to assume Guam use GMT+9 during
+# that period of time like the surrounding area.
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
# Howse writes (p 153) "The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
# Philippines and the Ladrones from America," and implies that the Ladrones
# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
# For now, we assume the Ladrones switched at the same time as the Philippines;
# see Asia/Manila.
-
+#
+# Use 1941-12-10 and 1944-07-31 for Guam WWII transitions, as the rough start
+# and end of Japanese control of Agana. We don't know whether the Northern
+# Marianas followed Guam's DST rules from 1959 through 1977; for now, assume
+# they did as that avoids the need for a separate zone due to our 1970 cutoff.
+#
# US Public Law 106-564 (2000-12-23) made UT +10 the official standard time,
# under the name "Chamorro Standard Time". There is no official abbreviation,
# but Congressman Robert A. Underwood, author of the bill that became law,
# wrote in a press release (2000-12-27) that he will seek the use of "ChST".
+# See also the commentary for Micronesia.
-# Micronesia
+
+# Marshall Is
+# See the commentary for Micronesia.
+
+
+# Micronesia (and nearby)
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
+# Like the Ladrones (see Guam commentary), assume the Spanish East Indies
+# kept American time until the Philippines switched at the end of 1844.
# 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."
#
@@ -1604,10 +1707,99 @@
# The Federated States of Micronesia - Visitor Information (1999-01-26)
# http://www.fsmgov.org/info/clocks.html
# that Truk and Yap are UT +10, and Ponape and Kosrae are +11.
# We don't know when Kosrae switched from +12; assume January 1 for now.
+# From Phake Nick (2018-10-27):
+#
+# From a Japanese wiki site https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/南洋群島の標準時
+# ...
+# For "Southern Islands" (modern region of Mariana + Palau + Federation of
+# Micronesia + Marshall Islands):
+#
+# A 1906 Japanese magazine shown the Caroline Islands and Mariana Islands
+# who was occupied by Germany at the time as GMT+10, together with the like
+# of German New Guinea. However there is a marking saying it have not been
+# implemented (yet). No further information after that were found.
+#
+# Japan invaded those islands in 1914, and records shows that they were
+# instructed to use JST at the time.
+#
+# 1915 January telecommunication record on the Jaluit Atoll shows they use
+# the meridian of 170E as standard time (GMT+11:20), which is similar to the
+# longitude of the atoll.
+# 1915 February record say the 170E standard time is to be used until
+# February 9 noon, and after February 9 noon they are to use JST.
+# However these are time used within the Japanese Military at the time and
+# probably does not reflect the time used by local resident at the time (that
+# is if they keep their own time back then)
+#
+# In January 1919 the occupying force issued a command that split the area
+# into three different timezone with meridian of 135E, 150E, 165E (JST+0, +1,
+# +2), and the command was to become effective from February 1 of the same
+# year. Despite the target of the command is still only for the occupying
+# force itself, further publication have described the time as the standard
+# time for the occupied area and thus it can probably be seen as such.
+# * Area that use meridian of 135E: Palau and Yap civil administration area
+# (Southern Islands Western Standard Time)
+# * Area that use meridian of 150E: Truk (Chuuk) and Saipan civil
+# administration area (Southern Islands Central Standard Time)
+# * Area that use meridian of 165E: Ponape (Pohnpei) and Jaluit civil
+# administration area (Southern Islands Eastern Standard Time).
+# * In the next few years Japanese occupation of those islands have been
+# formalized via League of Nation Mandate (South Pacific Mandate) and formal
+# governance structure have been established, these district [become
+# subprefectures] and timezone classification have been inherited as standard
+# time of the area.
+# * Saipan subprefecture include Mariana islands (exclude Guam which was
+# occupied by America at the time), Palau and Yap subprefecture rule the
+# Western Caroline Islands with 137E longitude as border, Truk and Ponape
+# subprefecture rule the Eastern Caroline Islands with 154E as border, Ponape
+# subprefecture also rule part of Marshall Islands to the west of 164E
+# starting from (1918?) and Jaluit subprefecture rule the rest of the
+# Marshall Islands.
+#
+# And then in year 1937, an announcement was made to change the time in the
+# area into 2 timezones:
+# * Area that use meridian of 135E: area administered by Palau, Yap and
+# Saipan subprefecture (Southern Islands Western Standard Time)
+# * Area that use meridian of 150E: area administered by Truk (Chuuk),
+# Ponape (Pohnpei) and Jaluit subprefecture (Southern Islands Eastern
+# Standard Time)
+#
+# Another announcement issued in 1941 say that on April 1 that year,
+# standard time of the Southern Islands would be changed to use the meridian
+# of 135E (GMT+9), and thus abolishing timezone different within the area.
+#
+# Then Pacific theater of WWII started and Japan slowly lose control on the
+# island. The webpage I linked above contain no information during this
+# period of time....
+#
+# After the end of WWII, in 1946 February, a document written by the
+# (former?) Japanese military personnel describe there are 3 hours time
+# different between Caroline islands time/Wake island time and the Chungking
+# time, which would mean the time being used there at the time was GMT+10.
+#
+# After that, the area become Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands
+# under American administration from year 1947. The site listed some
+# American/International books/maps/publications about time used in those
+# area during this period of time but they doesn't seems to be reliable
+# information so it would be the best if someone know where can more reliable
+# information can be found.
+#
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-18):
+#
+# For the above, use vague dates like "1914" and "1945" for transitions that
+# plausibly exist but for which the details are not known. The information
+# for Wake is too sketchy to act on.
+#
+# The 1906 GMT+10 info about German-controlled islands might not have been
+# done, so omit it from the data for now.
+#
+# The Jaluit info governs Kwajalein.
+
# Midway
# From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
# quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
@@ -1621,10 +1813,33 @@
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
# We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
# started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years
# in Midway, but we have no record of it.
+# Nauru
+
+# From Phake Nick (2018-10-31):
+# Currently, the tz database say Nauru use LMT until 1921, and then
+# switched to GMT+11:30 for the next two decades.
+# However, a number of timezone map published in America/Japan back then
+# showed its timezone as GMT+11 per https://wiki.suikawiki.org/n/ナウルの標準時
+# And it would also be nice if the 1921 transition date could be sourced.
+# ...
+# The "Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 Time Change"
+# http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/4b23a17d2030150404db7a5fa5872f52.pdf#page=3
+# based on "Nauru Standard Time Act 1978 Time Change"
+# http://www.paclii.org/nr/legis/num_act/nsta1978207/ defined that "Nauru
+# Alternative Time" (GMT+12) should be in effect from 1979 Feb.
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2018-11-19):
+# The 1921-01-15 introduction of standard time is in Shanks; it is also in
+# "Standard Time Throughout the World", US National Bureau of Standards (1935),
+# page 3, which does not give the UT offset. In response to a comment by
+# Phake Nick I set the Nauru time of occupation by Japan to
+# 1942-08-29/1945-09-08 by using dates from:
+# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Nauru
+
# Norfolk
# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23):
# Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100:
# https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
@@ -1636,10 +1851,13 @@
# the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's
# Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST
# other than in 1974/5. See:
# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html
+# Palau
+# See commentary for Micronesia.
+
# Pitcairn
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
# A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
# with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows.
@@ -1800,10 +2018,13 @@
# https://www.trumanlibrary.org/oralhist/andrsonv.htm
# From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
# We have no other report of DST in Wake Island, so omit this info for now.
+# See also the commentary for Micronesia.
+
+
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# The International Date Line
# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
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