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 314 # The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
 315 # has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
 316 # The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
 317 # on the  23rd of October, 2011.
 318 
 319 # From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
 320 # The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
 321 # today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
 322 # October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
 323 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
 324 
 325 # From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
 326 # Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
 327 # move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
 328 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
 329 
 330 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
 331 # Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
 332 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
 333 
 334 # From Paul Eggert (2014-01-10):
 335 # For now, guess that Fiji springs forward the Sunday before the fourth
 336 # Monday in October, and springs back the penultimate Sunday in January.
 337 # This is ad hoc, but matches recent practice.
 338 






 339 # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 340 Rule    Fiji    1998    1999    -       Nov     Sun>=1       2:00    1:00    S
 341 Rule    Fiji    1999    2000    -       Feb     lastSun 3:00    0       -
 342 Rule    Fiji    2009    only    -       Nov     29      2:00    1:00    S
 343 Rule    Fiji    2010    only    -       Mar     lastSun 3:00    0       -
 344 Rule    Fiji    2010    max     -       Oct     Sun>=21      2:00    1:00    S
 345 Rule    Fiji    2011    only    -       Mar     Sun>=1       3:00    0       -
 346 Rule    Fiji    2012    2013    -       Jan     Sun>=18      3:00    0       -
 347 Rule    Fiji    2014    max     -       Jan     Sun>=18      2:00    0       -


 348 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 349 Zone    Pacific/Fiji    11:55:44 -      LMT     1915 Oct 26 # Suva
 350                         12:00   Fiji    FJ%sT   # Fiji Time
 351 
 352 # French Polynesia
 353 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 354 Zone    Pacific/Gambier  -8:59:48 -     LMT     1912 Oct # Rikitea
 355                          -9:00  -       GAMT    # Gambier Time
 356 Zone    Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 -    LMT     1912 Oct
 357                          -9:30  -       MART    # Marquesas Time
 358 Zone    Pacific/Tahiti   -9:58:16 -     LMT     1912 Oct # Papeete
 359                         -10:00  -       TAHT    # Tahiti Time
 360 # Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
 361 # it is uninhabited.
 362 
 363 # Guam
 364 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 365 Zone    Pacific/Guam    -14:21:00 -     LMT     1844 Dec 31
 366                          9:39:00 -      LMT     1901        # Agana
 367                         10:00   -       GST     2000 Dec 23 # Guam


 502                         -11:20  -       NUT     1951        # Niue Time
 503                         -11:30  -       NUT     1978 Oct  1
 504                         -11:00  -       NUT
 505 
 506 # Norfolk
 507 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 508 Zone    Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 -      LMT     1901 # Kingston
 509                         11:12   -       NMT     1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
 510                         11:30   -       NFT     # Norfolk Time
 511 
 512 # Palau (Belau)
 513 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 514 Zone Pacific/Palau      8:57:56 -       LMT     1901 # Koror
 515                         9:00    -       PWT     # Palau Time
 516 
 517 # Papua New Guinea
 518 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 519 Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -     LMT     1880
 520                         9:48:32 -       PMMT    1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
 521                         10:00   -       PGT     # Papua New Guinea Time
























 522 
 523 # Pitcairn
 524 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 525 Zone Pacific/Pitcairn   -8:40:20 -      LMT     1901        # Adamstown
 526                         -8:30   -       PNT     1998 Apr 27  0:00
 527                         -8:00   -       PST     # Pitcairn Standard Time
 528 
 529 # American Samoa
 530 Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago   12:37:12 -     LMT     1879 Jul  5
 531                         -11:22:48 -     LMT     1911
 532                         -11:00  -       NST     1967 Apr    # N=Nome
 533                         -11:00  -       BST     1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
 534                         -11:00  -       SST                 # S=Samoa
 535 
 536 # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
 537 
 538 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
 539 # We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
 540 # the following info:
 541 #


 749 Rule    Vanuatu 1992    1993    -       Jan     Sun>=23      0:00    0       -
 750 Rule    Vanuatu 1992    only    -       Oct     Sun>=23      0:00    1:00    S
 751 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 752 Zone    Pacific/Efate   11:13:16 -      LMT     1912 Jan 13 # Vila
 753                         11:00   Vanuatu VU%sT   # Vanuatu Time
 754 
 755 # Wallis and Futuna
 756 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 757 Zone    Pacific/Wallis  12:15:20 -      LMT     1901
 758                         12:00   -       WFT     # Wallis & Futuna Time
 759 
 760 ###############################################################################
 761 
 762 # NOTES
 763 
 764 # This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 765 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 766 # tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
 767 # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
 768 
 769 # From Paul Eggert (2013-02-21):
 770 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is

 771 # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
 772 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).

 773 #
 774 # Gwillim Law writes that a good source
 775 # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
 776 # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
 777 # published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
 778 # of the IATA's data after 1990.

 779 #
 780 # Except where otherwise noted, Shanks & Pottenger is the source for
 781 # entries through 1990, and IATA SSIM is the source for entries afterwards.
 782 #
 783 # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
 784 # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
 785 # I found in the UCLA library.
 786 #
 787 # For data circa 1899, a common source is:
 788 # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
 789 # http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
 790 #
 791 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
 792 # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
 793 #
 794 # I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table;
 795 # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
 796 # Corrections are welcome!
 797 #               std     dst
 798 #               LMT             Local Mean Time
 799 #         8:00  AWST    AWDT    Western Australia
 800 #         8:45  ACWST   ACWDT   Central Western Australia*
 801 #         9:00  JST             Japan
 802 #         9:30  ACST    ACDT    Central Australia
 803 #        10:00  AEST    AEDT    Eastern Australia
 804 #        10:00  ChST            Chamorro
 805 #        10:30  LHST    LHDT    Lord Howe*

 806 #        11:30  NZMT    NZST    New Zealand through 1945
 807 #        12:00  NZST    NZDT    New Zealand 1946-present
 808 #        12:15  CHAST           Chatham through 1945*
 809 #        12:45  CHAST   CHADT   Chatham 1946-present*
 810 #        13:00  WSST    WSDT    (western) Samoa 2011-present*
 811 #       -11:30  WSST            Western Samoa through 1950*
 812 #       -11:00  SST             Samoa
 813 #       -10:00  HST             Hawaii
 814 #       - 8:00  PST             Pitcairn*
 815 #
 816 # See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
 817 # See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galápagos Is.
 818 
 819 ###############################################################################
 820 
 821 # Australia
 822 
 823 # From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
 824 # Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting
 825 # region against region, rural against urban, and local against global.




 314 # The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012
 315 # has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012.
 316 # The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
 317 # on the  23rd of October, 2011.
 318 
 319 # From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
 320 # The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
 321 # today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
 322 # October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
 323 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
 324 
 325 # From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
 326 # Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
 327 # move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
 328 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
 329 
 330 # From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
 331 # Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
 332 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
 333 
 334 # From Ken Rylander (2014-10-20):
 335 # DST will start Nov. 2 this year.
 336 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx

 337 
 338 # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-20):
 339 # For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
 340 # 03:00 the first Sunday on or after January 18.  Although ad hoc, it
 341 # matches this year's plan and seems more likely to match future
 342 # practice than guessing no DST.
 343 
 344 # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
 345 Rule    Fiji    1998    1999    -       Nov     Sun>=1       2:00    1:00    S
 346 Rule    Fiji    1999    2000    -       Feb     lastSun 3:00    0       -
 347 Rule    Fiji    2009    only    -       Nov     29      2:00    1:00    S
 348 Rule    Fiji    2010    only    -       Mar     lastSun 3:00    0       -
 349 Rule    Fiji    2010    2013    -       Oct     Sun>=21      2:00    1:00    S
 350 Rule    Fiji    2011    only    -       Mar     Sun>=1       3:00    0       -
 351 Rule    Fiji    2012    2013    -       Jan     Sun>=18      3:00    0       -
 352 Rule    Fiji    2014    only    -       Jan     Sun>=18      2:00    0       -
 353 Rule    Fiji    2014    max     -       Nov     Sun>=1       2:00    1:00    S
 354 Rule    Fiji    2015    max     -       Jan     Sun>=18      3:00    0       -
 355 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 356 Zone    Pacific/Fiji    11:55:44 -      LMT     1915 Oct 26 # Suva
 357                         12:00   Fiji    FJ%sT   # Fiji Time
 358 
 359 # French Polynesia
 360 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 361 Zone    Pacific/Gambier  -8:59:48 -     LMT     1912 Oct # Rikitea
 362                          -9:00  -       GAMT    # Gambier Time
 363 Zone    Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 -    LMT     1912 Oct
 364                          -9:30  -       MART    # Marquesas Time
 365 Zone    Pacific/Tahiti   -9:58:16 -     LMT     1912 Oct # Papeete
 366                         -10:00  -       TAHT    # Tahiti Time
 367 # Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
 368 # it is uninhabited.
 369 
 370 # Guam
 371 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 372 Zone    Pacific/Guam    -14:21:00 -     LMT     1844 Dec 31
 373                          9:39:00 -      LMT     1901        # Agana
 374                         10:00   -       GST     2000 Dec 23 # Guam


 509                         -11:20  -       NUT     1951        # Niue Time
 510                         -11:30  -       NUT     1978 Oct  1
 511                         -11:00  -       NUT
 512 
 513 # Norfolk
 514 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 515 Zone    Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 -      LMT     1901 # Kingston
 516                         11:12   -       NMT     1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
 517                         11:30   -       NFT     # Norfolk Time
 518 
 519 # Palau (Belau)
 520 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 521 Zone Pacific/Palau      8:57:56 -       LMT     1901 # Koror
 522                         9:00    -       PWT     # Palau Time
 523 
 524 # Papua New Guinea
 525 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 526 Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -     LMT     1880
 527                         9:48:32 -       PMMT    1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
 528                         10:00   -       PGT     # Papua New Guinea Time
 529 #
 530 # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
 531 # Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have
 532 # the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War.
 533 #
 534 # Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for JST, these dates
 535 # are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns.
 536 # The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta.
 537 # The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
 538 # according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
 539 # http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm
 540 # and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender.
 541 #
 542 # The Autonomous Region of Bougainville plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11
 543 # on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.  They call UTC+11 "Bougainville Standard Time";
 544 # abbreviate this as BST.  See:
 545 # http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/
 546 #
 547 Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 -    LMT     1880
 548                          9:48:32 -      PMMT    1895
 549                         10:00   -       PGT     1942 Jul
 550                          9:00   -       JST     1945 Aug 21
 551                         10:00   -       PGT     2014 Dec 28  2:00
 552                         11:00   -       BST
 553 
 554 # Pitcairn
 555 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 556 Zone Pacific/Pitcairn   -8:40:20 -      LMT     1901        # Adamstown
 557                         -8:30   -       PNT     1998 Apr 27  0:00
 558                         -8:00   -       PST     # Pitcairn Standard Time
 559 
 560 # American Samoa
 561 Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago   12:37:12 -     LMT     1879 Jul  5
 562                         -11:22:48 -     LMT     1911
 563                         -11:00  -       NST     1967 Apr    # N=Nome
 564                         -11:00  -       BST     1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
 565                         -11:00  -       SST                 # S=Samoa
 566 
 567 # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
 568 
 569 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
 570 # We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
 571 # the following info:
 572 #


 780 Rule    Vanuatu 1992    1993    -       Jan     Sun>=23      0:00    0       -
 781 Rule    Vanuatu 1992    only    -       Oct     Sun>=23      0:00    1:00    S
 782 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 783 Zone    Pacific/Efate   11:13:16 -      LMT     1912 Jan 13 # Vila
 784                         11:00   Vanuatu VU%sT   # Vanuatu Time
 785 
 786 # Wallis and Futuna
 787 # Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 788 Zone    Pacific/Wallis  12:15:20 -      LMT     1901
 789                         12:00   -       WFT     # Wallis & Futuna Time
 790 
 791 ###############################################################################
 792 
 793 # NOTES
 794 
 795 # This file is by no means authoritative; if you think you know better,
 796 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 797 # tz@iana.org for general use in the future).  For more, please see
 798 # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.
 799 
 800 # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-31):
 801 #
 802 # Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
 803 # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
 804 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (2003).
 805 # Unfortunately this book contains many errors and cites no sources.
 806 #
 807 # Gwillim Law writes that a good source
 808 # for recent time zone data is the International Air Transport
 809 # Association's Standard Schedules Information Manual (IATA SSIM),
 810 # published semiannually.  Law sent in several helpful summaries
 811 # of the IATA's data after 1990.  Except where otherwise noted,
 812 # IATA SSIM is the source for entries after 1990.
 813 #



 814 # Another source occasionally used is Edward W. Whitman, World Time Differences,
 815 # Whitman Publishing Co, 2 Niagara Av, Ealing, London (undated), which
 816 # I found in the UCLA library.
 817 #
 818 # For data circa 1899, a common source is:
 819 # Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
 820 # http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
 821 #
 822 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
 823 # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
 824 #
 825 # I invented the abbreviations marked '*' in the following table;
 826 # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
 827 # Corrections are welcome!
 828 #               std     dst
 829 #               LMT             Local Mean Time
 830 #         8:00  AWST    AWDT    Western Australia
 831 #         8:45  ACWST   ACWDT   Central Western Australia*
 832 #         9:00  JST             Japan
 833 #         9:30  ACST    ACDT    Central Australia
 834 #        10:00  AEST    AEDT    Eastern Australia
 835 #        10:00  ChST            Chamorro
 836 #        10:30  LHST    LHDT    Lord Howe*
 837 #        11:00  BST             Bougainville*
 838 #        11:30  NZMT    NZST    New Zealand through 1945
 839 #        12:00  NZST    NZDT    New Zealand 1946-present
 840 #        12:15  CHAST           Chatham through 1945*
 841 #        12:45  CHAST   CHADT   Chatham 1946-present*
 842 #        13:00  WSST    WSDT    (western) Samoa 2011-present*
 843 #       -11:30  WSST            Western Samoa through 1950*
 844 #       -11:00  SST             Samoa
 845 #       -10:00  HST             Hawaii
 846 #       - 8:00  PST             Pitcairn*
 847 #
 848 # See the 'northamerica' file for Hawaii.
 849 # See the 'southamerica' file for Easter I and the Galápagos Is.
 850 
 851 ###############################################################################
 852 
 853 # Australia
 854 
 855 # From Paul Eggert (2014-06-30):
 856 # Daylight saving time has long been controversial in Australia, pitting
 857 # region against region, rural against urban, and local against global.