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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)australasia 7.53
+# @(#)australasia 7.54
# This file also includes Pacific islands.
# Notes are at the end of this file
@@ -177,9 +177,6 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
# </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Macquarie Island follows Tasmanian practice
# irrespective of any local use of DST. This is unclear; ignore it for now.
-#
-# Manihiki, Penrhyn, Rakehanga
-# no information
# Christmas
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
@@ -348,7 +345,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Norfolk 11:11:52 - LMT 1901 # Kingston
11:12 - NMT 1951 # Norfolk Mean Time
11:30 - NFT # Norfolk Time
-# Palau
+# Palau (Belau)
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror
9:00 - PWT # Palau Time
@@ -854,8 +851,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
###############################################################################
-# New Zealand, from Elz' asia 1.1
-# Elz says "no guarantees"
+# New Zealand
# From Mark Davies (1990-10-03):
# the 1989/90 year was a trial of an extended "daylight saving" period.
@@ -896,6 +892,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
###############################################################################
+
# Fiji
# Howse writes (p 153) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
@@ -907,6 +904,9 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# until 0300 local time 1999-02-28. Each year the DST period will
# be from the first Sunday in November until the last Sunday in February.
+# From Paul Eggert (2000-01-08):
+# IATA SSIM (1999-09) says DST ends 0100 local time. Go with McDow.
+
# From the BBC World Service (1998-10-31 11:32 UTC):
# The Fijiian government says the main reasons for the time change is to
# improve productivity and reduce road accidents. But correspondents say it
@@ -914,10 +914,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# islands in the effort to attract tourists to witness the dawning of the new
# millenium.
+
# Johnston
# Johnston data is from usno1995.
+
# Kiribati
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
@@ -925,6 +927,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# ``declared it the same day throught the country as of Jan. 1, 1995''
# as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century.
+
# Kwajalein
# In comp.risks 14.87 (26 August 1993), Peter Neumann writes:
@@ -933,6 +936,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# respect to the International Date Line, to rejoin its fellow islands,
# going from 11:59 p.m. Thursday to 12:00 m. Saturday in a blink.
+
# N Mariana Is, Guam
# Howse writes (p 153) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
@@ -940,6 +944,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
# Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data. See also Asia/Manila.
+
# Micronesia
# Alan Eugene Davis <adavis@kuentos.guam.net> writes (1996-03-16),
@@ -957,6 +962,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# that Truk and Yap are UTC+10, and Ponape and Kosrae are UTC+11.
# We don't know when Kosrae switched from UTC+12; assume January 1 for now.
+
# Pitcairn
# From Rives McDow (1999-11-08):
@@ -980,6 +986,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# Pacific Standard Time. They used to be 1/2 hour different from us here in
# Sacramento but it was changed a couple of years ago.
+
# Samoa
# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald)
@@ -988,6 +995,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# ordaining -- by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery -- that
# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year.''
+
# Tonga
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
@@ -1057,3 +1065,31 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901
# From Rives McDow (1999-10-06):
# Tonga started its Daylight Saving on Saturday morning October 2nd at 0200am.
# Daylight Saving ends on April 16 at 0300am which is Sunday morning.
+
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# The International Date Line
+
+# From Gwillim Law (2000-01-03):
+#
+# The International Date Line is not defined by any international standard,
+# convention, or treaty. Mapmakers are free to draw it as they please.
+# Reputable mapmakers will simply ensure that every point of land appears on
+# the correct side of the IDL, according to the date legally observed there.
+#
+# When Kiribati adopted a uniform date in 1995, thereby moving the Phoenix and
+# Line Islands to the west side of the IDL (or, if you prefer, moving the IDL
+# to the east side of the Phoenix and Line Islands), I suppose that most
+# 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
+# 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.