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diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia index 57bd60a..6cf9761 100644 --- a/timezone/australasia +++ b/timezone/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.73 +# @(#)australasia 7.78 +# <pre> + # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -551,9 +553,15 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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. @@ -960,17 +968,6 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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 (1999-05-26): # DST will start in NSW on the last Sunday of August, rather than the usual # October in 2000. [See: Matthew Moore, @@ -1048,7 +1045,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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. @@ -1088,7 +1085,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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 @@ -1375,16 +1372,26 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 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): # |