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
375 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
376
377 # Kiribati
378 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
379 Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki
380 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time
381 Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901
382 -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time
383 -11:00 - PHOT 1995
384 13:00 - PHOT
385 Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901
386 -10:40 - LINT 1979 Oct # Line Is Time
387 -10:00 - LINT 1995
388 14:00 - LINT
389
390 # N Mariana Is
391 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
392 Zone Pacific/Saipan -14:17:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
393 9:43:00 - LMT 1901
394 9:00 - MPT 1969 Oct # N Mariana Is Time
395 10:00 - MPT 2000 Dec 23
396 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
397
398 # Marshall Is
399 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
400 Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901
401 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time
402 12:00 - MHT
403 Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901
404 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct
405 -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time
406 12:00 - MHT
407
408 # Micronesia
409 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
410 Zone Pacific/Chuuk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901
411 10:00 - CHUT # Chuuk Time
412 Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia
413 11:00 - PONT # Pohnpei Time
414 Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901
415 11:00 - KOST 1969 Oct # Kosrae Time
416 12:00 - KOST 1999
497 Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS
498 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
499 Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua
500 -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time
501 -10:00 Cook CK%sT
502
503 ###############################################################################
504
505
506 # Niue
507 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
508 Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi
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,
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 #
573 # "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year
574 # commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first
575 # Sunday of April 2011."
576 #
577 # Background info:
578 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html
579 #
580 # Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not
581 # contain any dates:
582 # http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf
583
584 # From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07):
585 # Please see
727 #
728 # From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11):
729 # [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used
730 # was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships,
731 # which had a GMT offset of -11 hours. This apparently applied to at least the
732 # time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last
733 # Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin,
734 # "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the
735 # Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976.
736 # http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf
737 # See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a
738 # footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time
739 # Minus One Hour".
740 #
741 # See 'northamerica' for Pacific/Johnston.
742
743 # Kingman
744 # uninhabited
745
746 # Midway
747 #
748 # From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
749 # [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
750 # published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
751 # reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly
752 # "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
753 # flights to Chicago and the US East Coast. As it uses some time zone
754 # designations that I've never seen before:....
755 # Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I. H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
756 # " 3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A "
757 #
758 Zone Pacific/Midway -11:49:28 - LMT 1901
759 -11:00 - NST 1956 Jun 3
760 -11:00 1:00 NDT 1956 Sep 2
761 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
762 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
763 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
764
765 # Palmyra
766 # uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
767
768 # Wake
769 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
770 Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901
771 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time
772
773
774 # Vanuatu
775 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
776 Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S
777 Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 -
778 Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S
779 Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S
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
1552 # that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11.
1553 # We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now.
1554
1555
1556 # Midway
1557
1558 # From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
1559 # quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
1560 # <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
1561 # For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
1562 # Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
1563 # your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956
1564 # we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to
1565 # air at 6am your time.
1566 #
1567 # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1568 # We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
1569 # started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years
1570 # in Midway, but we have no record of it.
1571
1572
1573 # Pitcairn
1574
1575 # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
1576 # A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
1577 # with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows.
1578 #
1579 # The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
1580 # Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
1581 # as Pitcairn Standard Time.
1582 #
1583 # ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
1584 # references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
1585 # somehow in light of this proclamation.
1586
1587 # From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
1588 # The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
1589 # ... at midnight.
1590
1591 # From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
1592 # Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
|
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 a government order dated 2015-08-26 and published as Legal Notice No. 77
339 # in the Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 24 (2015-08-28),
340 # via Ken Rylander (2015-09-02):
341 # the daylight saving period is 1 hour in advance of the standard time
342 # commencing at 2.00 am on Sunday 1st November, 2015 and ending at
343 # 3.00 am on Sunday 17th January, 2016.
344
345 # From Paul Eggert (2015-09-01):
346 # For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
347 # 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches
348 # transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future
349 # practice than guessing no DST.
350
351 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
352 Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
353 Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 -
354 Rule Fiji 2009 only - Nov 29 2:00 1:00 S
355 Rule Fiji 2010 only - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
356 Rule Fiji 2010 2013 - Oct Sun>=21 2:00 1:00 S
357 Rule Fiji 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
358 Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
359 Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 -
360 Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
361 Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
362 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
363 Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
364 12:00 Fiji FJ%sT # Fiji Time
365
366 # French Polynesia
367 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
368 Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea
369 -9:00 - GAMT # Gambier Time
370 Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct
371 -9:30 - MART # Marquesas Time
372 Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete
373 -10:00 - TAHT # Tahiti Time
374 # Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
375 # it is uninhabited.
376
377 # Guam
378 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
379 Zone Pacific/Guam -14:21:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
380 9:39:00 - LMT 1901 # Agana
381 10:00 - GST 2000 Dec 23 # Guam
382 10:00 - ChST # Chamorro Standard Time
383 Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
384
385 # Kiribati
386 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
387 Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki
388 12:00 - GILT # Gilbert Is Time
389 Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901
390 -12:00 - PHOT 1979 Oct # Phoenix Is Time
391 -11:00 - PHOT 1995
392 13:00 - PHOT
393 Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901
394 -10:40 - LINT 1979 Oct # Line Is Time
395 -10:00 - LINT 1995
396 14:00 - LINT
397
398 # N Mariana Is
399 # See Pacific/Guam.
400
401 # Marshall Is
402 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
403 Zone Pacific/Majuro 11:24:48 - LMT 1901
404 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct # Marshall Islands Time
405 12:00 - MHT
406 Zone Pacific/Kwajalein 11:09:20 - LMT 1901
407 11:00 - MHT 1969 Oct
408 -12:00 - KWAT 1993 Aug 20 # Kwajalein Time
409 12:00 - MHT
410
411 # Micronesia
412 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
413 Zone Pacific/Chuuk 10:07:08 - LMT 1901
414 10:00 - CHUT # Chuuk Time
415 Zone Pacific/Pohnpei 10:32:52 - LMT 1901 # Kolonia
416 11:00 - PONT # Pohnpei Time
417 Zone Pacific/Kosrae 10:51:56 - LMT 1901
418 11:00 - KOST 1969 Oct # Kosrae Time
419 12:00 - KOST 1999
500 Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 HS
501 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
502 Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua
503 -10:30 - CKT 1978 Nov 12 # Cook Is Time
504 -10:00 Cook CK%sT
505
506 ###############################################################################
507
508
509 # Niue
510 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
511 Zone Pacific/Niue -11:19:40 - LMT 1901 # Alofi
512 -11:20 - NUT 1951 # Niue Time
513 -11:30 - NUT 1978 Oct 1
514 -11:00 - NUT
515
516 # Norfolk
517 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
518 Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston
519 11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
520 11:30 - NFT 1974 Oct 27 02:00 # Norfolk T.
521 11:30 1:00 NFST 1975 Mar 2 02:00
522 11:30 - NFT 2015 Oct 4 02:00
523 11:00 - NFT
524
525 # Palau (Belau)
526 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
527 Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror
528 9:00 - PWT # Palau Time
529
530 # Papua New Guinea
531 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
532 Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880
533 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
534 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time
535 #
536 # From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
537 # Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have
538 # the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War.
539 #
540 # Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for JST, these dates
541 # are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns.
542 # The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta.
543 # The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
552 #
553 Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 - LMT 1880
554 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895
555 10:00 - PGT 1942 Jul
556 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 21
557 10:00 - PGT 2014 Dec 28 2:00
558 11:00 - BST
559
560 # Pitcairn
561 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
562 Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown
563 -8:30 - PNT 1998 Apr 27 0:00
564 -8:00 - PST # Pitcairn Standard Time
565
566 # American Samoa
567 Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
568 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911
569 -11:00 - NST 1967 Apr # N=Nome
570 -11:00 - BST 1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
571 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
572 Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
573
574 # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
575
576 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-10-16):
577 # We have been in contact with the government of Samoa again, and received
578 # the following info:
579 #
580 # "Cabinet has now approved Daylight Saving to be effected next year
581 # commencing from the last Sunday of September 2010 and conclude first
582 # Sunday of April 2011."
583 #
584 # Background info:
585 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/samoa-dst-plan-2009.html
586 #
587 # Samoa's Daylight Saving Time Act 2009 is available here, but does not
588 # contain any dates:
589 # http://www.parliament.gov.ws/documents/acts/Daylight%20Saving%20Act%20%202009%20%28English%29%20-%20Final%207-7-091.pdf
590
591 # From Laupue Raymond Hughes (2010-10-07):
592 # Please see
734 #
735 # From Lyle McElhaney (2014-03-11):
736 # [W]hen JI was being used for that [atomic bomb] testing, the time being used
737 # was not Hawaiian time but rather the same time being used on the ships,
738 # which had a GMT offset of -11 hours. This apparently applied to at least the
739 # time from Operation Newsreel (Hardtack I/Teak shot, 1958-08-01) to the last
740 # Operation Fishbowl shot (Tightrope, 1962-11-04).... [See] Herman Hoerlin,
741 # "The United States High-Altitude Test Experience: A Review Emphasizing the
742 # Impact on the Environment", Los Alamos LA-6405, Oct 1976.
743 # http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/lanl/docs1/00322994.pdf
744 # See the table on page 4 where he lists GMT and local times for the tests; a
745 # footnote for the JI tests reads that local time is "JI time = Hawaii Time
746 # Minus One Hour".
747 #
748 # See 'northamerica' for Pacific/Johnston.
749
750 # Kingman
751 # uninhabited
752
753 # Midway
754 # See Pacific/Pago_Pago.
755
756 # Palmyra
757 # uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati
758
759 # Wake
760 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
761 Zone Pacific/Wake 11:06:28 - LMT 1901
762 12:00 - WAKT # Wake Time
763
764
765 # Vanuatu
766 # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
767 Rule Vanuatu 1983 only - Sep 25 0:00 1:00 S
768 Rule Vanuatu 1984 1991 - Mar Sun>=23 0:00 0 -
769 Rule Vanuatu 1984 only - Oct 23 0:00 1:00 S
770 Rule Vanuatu 1985 1991 - Sep Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S
771 Rule Vanuatu 1992 1993 - Jan Sun>=23 0:00 0 -
772 Rule Vanuatu 1992 only - Oct Sun>=23 0:00 1:00 S
773 # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
774 Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila
1543 # that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11.
1544 # We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now.
1545
1546
1547 # Midway
1548
1549 # From Charles T O'Connor, KMTH DJ (1956),
1550 # quoted in the KTMH section of the Radio Heritage Collection
1551 # <http://radiodx.com/spdxr/KMTH.htm> (2002-12-31):
1552 # For the past two months we've been on what is known as Daylight
1553 # Saving Time. This time has put us on air at 5am in the morning,
1554 # your time down there in New Zealand. Starting September 2, 1956
1555 # we'll again go back to Standard Time. This'll mean that we'll go to
1556 # air at 6am your time.
1557 #
1558 # From Paul Eggert (2003-03-23):
1559 # We don't know the date of that quote, but we'll guess they
1560 # started DST on June 3. Possibly DST was observed other years
1561 # in Midway, but we have no record of it.
1562
1563 # Norfolk
1564
1565 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2015-09-23):
1566 # Norfolk Island will change ... from +1130 to +1100:
1567 # https://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/F2015L01483/Explanatory%20Statement/Text
1568 # ... at 12.30 am (by legal time in New South Wales) on 4 October 2015.
1569 # http://www.norfolkisland.gov.nf/nia/MediaRelease/Media%20Release%20Norfolk%20Island%20Standard%20Time%20Change.pdf
1570
1571 # From Paul Eggert (2015-09-23):
1572 # Transitions before 2015 are from timeanddate.com, which consulted
1573 # the Norfolk Island Museum and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology's
1574 # Norfolk Island station, and found no record of Norfolk observing DST
1575 # other than in 1974/5. See:
1576 # http://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/norfolk-island.html
1577
1578 # Pitcairn
1579
1580 # From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
1581 # A Proclamation was signed by the Governor of Pitcairn on the 27th March 1998
1582 # with regard to Pitcairn Standard Time. The Proclamation is as follows.
1583 #
1584 # The local time for general purposes in the Islands shall be
1585 # Co-ordinated Universal time minus 8 hours and shall be known
1586 # as Pitcairn Standard Time.
1587 #
1588 # ... I have also seen Pitcairn listed as UTC minus 9 hours in several
1589 # references, and can only assume that this was an error in interpretation
1590 # somehow in light of this proclamation.
1591
1592 # From Rives McDow (1999-11-09):
1593 # The Proclamation regarding Pitcairn time came into effect on 27 April 1998
1594 # ... at midnight.
1595
1596 # From Howie Phelps (1999-11-10), who talked to a Pitcairner via shortwave:
1597 # Betty Christian told me yesterday that their local time is the same as
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