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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)australasia 7.60
+# @(#)australasia 7.61
# This file also includes Pacific islands.
# Notes are at the end of this file
@@ -153,14 +153,14 @@ Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 - LMT 1895 Feb
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule LH 1981 1984 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule LH 1982 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
-Rule LH 1985 only - Oct lastSun 2:30s 0:30 -
-Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:30s 0 -
-Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:30s 0:30 -
-Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:30s 0:30 -
-Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:30s 0 -
-Rule LH 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:30s 0 -
-Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:30s 0:30 -
-Rule LH 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:30s 0:30 -
+Rule LH 1985 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0:30 -
+Rule LH 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 -
+Rule LH 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00s 0:30 -
+Rule LH 1987 1999 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0:30 -
+Rule LH 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
+Rule LH 1996 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
+Rule LH 2000 only - Aug lastSun 2:00s 0:30 -
+Rule LH 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 0:30 -
Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
10:00 - EST 1981 Mar
10:30 LH LHST
@@ -203,8 +203,8 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:30 - CCT # Cocos Islands Time
# Fiji
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Fiji 1998 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
-Rule Fiji 1999 max - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -
+Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
+Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:53:40 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
@@ -391,8 +391,10 @@ Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901
# Tonga
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Tonga 1999 max - Oct Sat>=1 2:00s 1:00 S
-Rule Tonga 2000 max - Apr Sun>=16 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 -
+Rule Tonga 2000 only - Nov 4 2:00s 1:00 S
+Rule Tonga 2001 only - Jan 27 2:00s 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901
12:20 - TOT 1941 # Tonga Time
@@ -824,9 +826,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# Hill, and Victoria will be August 27, presumably due to the Sydney Olympics.
# From Eric Ulevik, referring to Sydney's Sun Herald (2000-08-13), page 29:
-# Twin Towns Services Club (in Tweed Heads, near the Queensland border)
-# will maintain Queensland time. The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie
-# is encouraging northern NSW towns to use Queensland time.
+# The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW
+# towns to use Queensland time.
# Yancowinna
@@ -868,17 +869,15 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# arrangements. The starting date for summer time on the Island will
# however always coincide with the rest of NSW.
-# From Jesper Norgaard <jnorgard@Prodigy.net.mx> (2000-09-04):
-# James Lonergan said that the island always tries to stay in sync
-# with the rest of NSW at all time except for the fact that they stay
-# ahead half an hour when DST is not observed. If this is interpreted
-# literally, they should change clocks at the exact moment that
-# e.g. Canberra changes from normal to daylight saving and vice versa.
+# From James Lonergan, Secretary, Lord Howe Island Board (2000-10-25):
+# Lord Howe Island advances clocks by 30 minutes during DST in NSW and retards
+# clocks by 30 minutes when DST finishes. Since DST was most recently
+# introduced in NSW, the "changeover" time on the Island has been 02:00 as
+# shown on clocks on LHI. I guess this means that for 30 minutes at the start
+# of DST, LHI is actually 1 hour ahead of the rest of NSW.
-# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-02):
+# From Paul Eggert (2000-10-25):
# For Lord Howe we use Shanks through 1989, and Lonergan thereafter,
-# However, as per Norgaard we modify Shanks by assuming 02:30s switchover
-# for half-hour DST.
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@@ -945,6 +944,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new
# millenium.
+# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/press/2000_09/2000_09_13-05.shtml (2000-09-13)
+# reports that Fiji has discontinued DST.
# Johnston
@@ -1097,6 +1098,16 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2000-10-31):
+# Back in March I found a notice on the website http://www.tongaonline.com
+# that Tonga changed back to standard time one month early, on March 19
+# instead of the original reported date April 16. Unfortunately, the article
+# is no longer available on the site, and I did not make a copy of the
+# text, and I have forgotten to report it here.
+# (Original URL was: http://www.tongaonline.com/news/march162000.htm )
+
+# From Rives McDow (2000-12-01):
+# Tonga is observing DST as of 2000-11-04 and will stop on 2001-01-27.
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