[tz] Samoa: Daylight Savings

[lord.buddha at gmail.com]

Patch needs a little fix.

LastSun should be lastSun....   i.e. lowercase first letter.

Having uppercase first letter while inconsistent, breaks the JodaTime
compiler...

    [untar] Expanding: /home/waded/working/TzData/
OlsonDB/tzdata2012f-plus.tar.gz into /home/waded/working/TzData/tmp/tzdata
     [echo] Running the JodaTime ZoneInfoCompiler
     [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException:
LastSun
     [java]     at
org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler$DateTimeOfYear.<init>(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:571)
     [java]     at
org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler$Rule.<init>(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:660)
     [java]     at
org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler.parseDataFile(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:495)
     [java]     at
org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler.compile(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:370)
     [java]     at
org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler.main(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:136)


On 13 September 2012 21:11, Robert Elz <kre at munnari.oz.au> wrote:

>     Date:        Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:45:03 +1300
>     From:        "Nicky" <pereiranick at mcil.gov.ws>
>     Message-ID:  <000101cd8edc$c0599ca0$410cd5e0$@mcil.gov.ws>
>
>   | Can you please update Daylight Savings information for Samoa (South
>   | Pacific). Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012
> and
>   | ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013.
>
> Thanks for the update.
>
>   | Please find link below for more information.
>   | http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
>
> I note that that also includes Summer Time dates for the summer of
> 2013/4 which look as if they may be following the pattern of summer
> time (daylight savings) running from the last Sunday in September to
> the first Sunday in April - so I am going to assume that for years
> even further into the future in the patch I am submitting below for
> consideration.
>
> If you have any reason to believe a different rule is likely to
> apply, now, or any time in the future (and/or if there are any
> exception years) we'd appreciate learning of it as far in advance
> of the change as possible (3 weeks notice is not really enough
> preparation time for most users of this data).
>
> kre
>
> The following patch is against the (as yet unannounced) tzdata2012f
> release.
>
> --- australasia 2012-08-31 20:27:35.000000000 +0700
> +++ australasia.new     2012-09-13 16:03:52.000000000 +0700
> @@ -628,6 +628,25 @@
>  # Although Samoa has used Daylight Saving Time in the 2010-2011 and
> 2011-2012
>  # seasons, there is not yet any indication that this trend will continue
> on
>  # a regular basis. For now, we have explicitly listed the transitions
> below.
> +#
> +# From Nicholas Pereira (2012-09-10):
> +# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and
> +# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013.
> +#
> +# Please find link below for more information.
> +# <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html">
> +# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
> +# </a>
> +#
> +# That publication also includes dates for Summer of 2013/2014
> +# which give the impression of a pattern in selecting dates for the
> +# future, so for now, we will guess this will continue
> +
> +# Western Samoa
> +# Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE
>  LETTER/S
> +Rule   WS      2012    max     -       Sep     LastSun 3:00    1       D
> +Rule   WS      2013    max     -       Apr     Sun>=1  4:00    0       -
> +# Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
>  Zone Pacific/Apia       12:33:04 -     LMT     1879 Jul  5
>                         -11:26:56 -     LMT     1911
>                         -11:30  -       SAMT    1950            # Samoa
> Time
> @@ -636,7 +655,7 @@
>                         -11:00  -       WST     2011 Sep 24 3:00
>                         -11:00  1:00    WSDT    2011 Dec 30
>                          13:00  1:00    WSDT    2012 Apr 1 4:00
> -                        13:00  -       WST
> +                        13:00  WS      WS%sT
>
>  # Solomon Is
>  # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
>
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