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diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia index 2e17bcc0c3..40b0bf65f6 100644 --- a/timezone/australasia +++ b/timezone/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 8.3 +# @(#)australasia 8.6 # <pre> # This file also includes Pacific islands. @@ -29,15 +29,24 @@ Zone Australia/Darwin 8:43:20 - LMT 1895 Feb 9:00 - CST 1899 May 9:30 Aus CST # Western Australia +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule AW 1974 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 1975 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 1983 only - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 1984 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 1991 only - Nov 17 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 1992 only - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 2006 only - Dec 3 2:00s 1:00 - +Rule AW 2007 2009 - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 - +Rule AW 2007 2008 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 - Zone Australia/Perth 7:43:24 - LMT 1895 Dec 8:00 Aus WST 1943 Jul - 8:00 - WST 1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s - 8:00 1:00 WST 1975 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s - 8:00 - WST 1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s - 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s - 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s - 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s - 8:00 - WST + 8:00 AW WST +Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec + 8:45 Aus CWST 1943 Jul + 8:45 AW CWST + # Queensland # # From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): @@ -193,16 +202,16 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb # # Ashmore Is, Cartier # no indigenous inhabitants; only seasonal caretakers -# like Australia/Perth, says Turner +# no times are set # # Coral Sea Is # no indigenous inhabitants; only meteorologists -# no information +# no times are set # # Macquarie # permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948; # sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917 -# like Australia/Hobart, says Turner +# like Australia/Hobart # Christmas # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -534,6 +543,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # std dst # LMT Local Mean Time # 8:00 WST WST Western Australia +# 8:45 CWST CWST Central Western Australia* # 9:00 JST Japan # 9:30 CST CST Central Australia # 10:00 EST EST Eastern Australia @@ -806,37 +816,51 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): # The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. +# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning +# from Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-11-01): +# WA are trialing DST for three years. +# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf> + # From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): # The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the -# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with -# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the -# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being -# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the -# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are -# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western -# Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western +# southern coast.... South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western # Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The # residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so # much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the # international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South -# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and -# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an -# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone -# calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way. +# Australia and Western Australia.... # # From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): # This is confirmed by the section entitled # "What's the deal with time zones???" in -# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>, -# which says a few other things: -# -# * Border Village, SA also is 45 minutes ahead of Perth. -# * The locals call this time zone "central W.A. Time" (presumably "CWAT"). -# * The locals also call Western Australia time "Perth time". -# -# It's not clear from context whether everyone in Western Australia -# knows of this naming convention, or whether it's just the people in -# this subregion. +# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>. +# +# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07): +# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway, +# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern +# coast of the continent. +# +# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no +# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border +# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west +# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is +# the largest population centre in this zone.... +# +# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the +# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I +# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have, +# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45. +# +# (2006-12-09): +# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving +# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis +# of this time zone. My hunch is that it's been around since well +# before 1975. I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago. + +# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15): +# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the +# introduction of standard time in 1895. + # South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria |