[tz] Fiji DST for 2012-2013 announced

[Deborah Goldsmith]

Some of us have longer lead times than others in terms of getting updates in the hands of users. :-) Is there additional information we're waiting for?

Thank you,
Deborah

On Aug 31, 2012, at 6:31 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 08/28/2012 01:48 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>> Are there any plans to release a tz update for this?
> 
> No exact plans yet, but we should put out a new release
> well before October 21.  Here's a proposed patch to implement this
> for Fiji, which I've put into the unofficial repository at
> <https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/7550cb98da5f42e9e551f10caa725ce0b6b571b8>:
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] Fiji change for 2012/13, plus guess the future is similar.
> 
> ---
> australasia |   14 +++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
> index c7d5611..eb24117 100644
> --- a/australasia
> +++ b/australasia
> @@ -321,15 +321,23 @@ Zone	Indian/Cocos	6:27:40	-	LMT	1900
> # The commencement of daylight saving will remain unchanged and start
> # on the  23rd of October, 2011.
> 
> +# From the Fiji Government Online Portal (2012-08-21) via Steffen Thorsen:
> +# The Minister for Labour, Industrial Relations and Employment Mr Jone Usamate
> +# today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st
> +# October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013.
> +# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
> +#
> +# From Paul Eggert (2012-08-31):
> +# For now, guess a pattern of the penultimate Sundays in October and January.
> +
> # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
> Rule	Fiji	1998	1999	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
> Rule	Fiji	1999	2000	-	Feb	lastSun	3:00	0	-
> Rule	Fiji	2009	only	-	Nov	29	2:00	1:00	S
> Rule	Fiji	2010	only	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	-
> -Rule	Fiji	2010	only	-	Oct	24	2:00	1:00	S
> +Rule	Fiji	2010	max	-	Oct	Sun>=18	2:00	1:00	S
> Rule	Fiji	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
> -Rule	Fiji	2011	only	-	Oct	23	2:00	1:00	S
> -Rule	Fiji	2012	only	-	Jan	22	3:00	0	-
> +Rule	Fiji	2012	max	-	Jan	Sun>=18	3:00	0	-
> # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
> Zone	Pacific/Fiji	11:53:40 -	LMT	1915 Oct 26	# Suva
> 			12:00	Fiji	FJ%sT	# Fiji Time
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
> 
>