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-# @(#)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):
#