[tz] Proposal to change Macquarie Island to be Australian territory

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Mon Apr 15 07:02:37 UTC 2013


Thanks, here's a proposed patch to implement the fix.
Like the other patch I sent out just now, this patch is published
in the unofficial github repository.

>From a676f5ad3b40fa8dc76f05c452e126167444fba3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Macquarie Island is politically part of Australia, not
 Antarctica.

This doesn't affect time stamps, just zone selection.
Problem reported by Tobias Conradi in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-April/019023.html>.
* antarctica (AusAQ, ATAQ): Remove; no longer needed.
* australasia (Antarctica/Macquarie): Move here from
the 'antarctica' file.  Use Aus and AT rather than
AusAQ and ATAQ.
* zone.tab (Antarctica/Macquarie): Country code AU, not AQ.
---
 antarctica  |   42 +-----------------------------------------
 australasia |   12 +++++++++++-
 zone.tab    |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-)

diff --git a/antarctica b/antarctica
index d55924b..9bf2494 100644
--- a/antarctica
+++ b/antarctica
@@ -53,34 +53,6 @@ Rule	ChileAQ	2011	only	-	Aug	Sun>=16	4:00u	1:00	S
 Rule	ChileAQ	2012	max	-	Apr	Sun>=23	3:00u	0	-
 Rule	ChileAQ	2012	max	-	Sep	Sun>=2	4:00u	1:00	S
 
-# These rules are stolen from the `australasia' file.
-Rule	AusAQ	1917	only	-	Jan	 1	0:01	1:00	-
-Rule	AusAQ	1917	only	-	Mar	25	2:00	0	-
-Rule	AusAQ	1942	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	1:00	-
-Rule	AusAQ	1942	only	-	Mar	29	2:00	0	-
-Rule	AusAQ	1942	only	-	Sep	27	2:00	1:00	-
-Rule	AusAQ	1943	1944	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
-Rule	AusAQ	1943	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00	1:00	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1967	only	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1968	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1968	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1969	1971	-	Mar	Sun>=8	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1972	only	-	Feb	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1973	1981	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1982	1983	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1984	1986	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1986	only	-	Oct	Sun>=15	2:00s	1:00	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1987	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1987	only	-	Oct	Sun>=22	2:00s	1:00	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1988	1990	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1991	1999	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	-
-Rule	ATAQ	1991	2005	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	2000	only	-	Aug	lastSun	2:00s	1:00	-
-Rule	ATAQ	2001	max	-	Oct	Sun>=1	2:00s	1:00	-
-Rule	ATAQ	2006	only	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	2007	only	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00s	0	-
-Rule	ATAQ	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
-
 # Argentina - year-round bases
 # Belgrano II, Confin Coast, -770227-0343737, since 1972-02-05
 # Esperanza, San Martin Land, -6323-05659, since 1952-12-17
@@ -122,10 +94,7 @@ Rule	ATAQ	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
 # </a>
 
 # From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
-# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division:
-# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not
-# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do
-# on 4 April.
+# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division: ...
 #
 # - Casey station reverted to its normal time of UTC+8 on 5 March 2010.
 # The change to UTC+11 is being considered as a regular summer thing but
@@ -136,9 +105,6 @@ Rule	ATAQ	2008	max	-	Apr	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
 #
 # - Mawson station stays on UTC+5.
 #
-# In addition to the Rule changes for Casey/Davis, it means that Macquarie
-# will no longer be like Hobart and will have to have its own Zone created.
-#
 # Background:
 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html">
 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/antartica-time-changes-2010.html
@@ -165,12 +131,6 @@ Zone Antarctica/Mawson	0	-	zzz	1954 Feb 13
 			6:00	-	MAWT	2009 Oct 18 2:00
 						# Mawson Time
 			5:00	-	MAWT
-Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0	-	zzz	1911
-			10:00	-	EST	1916 Oct 1 2:00
-			10:00	1:00	EST	1917 Feb
-			10:00	AusAQ	EST	1967
-			10:00	ATAQ	EST	2010 Apr 4 3:00
-			11:00	-	MIST	# Macquarie Island Time
 # References:
 # <a href="http://www.antdiv.gov.au/aad/exop/sfo/casey/casey_aws.html">
 # Casey Weather (1998-02-26)
diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index 58df73d..4ba53e8 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -220,7 +220,17 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
 # Macquarie
 # permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948;
 # sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917
-# like Australia/Hobart
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
+# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division:
+# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not
+# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do
+# on 4 April.
+Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0	-	zzz	1911
+			10:00	-	EST	1916 Oct 1 2:00
+			10:00	1:00	EST	1917 Feb
+			10:00	Aus	EST	1967
+			10:00	AT	EST	2010 Apr 4 3:00
+			11:00	-	MIST	# Macquarie I Standard Time
 
 # Christmas
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index c1cd95e..9562da7 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ AQ	-6617+11031	Antarctica/Casey	Casey Station, Bailey Peninsula
 AQ	-7824+10654	Antarctica/Vostok	Vostok Station, Lake Vostok
 AQ	-6640+14001	Antarctica/DumontDUrville	Dumont-d'Urville Station, Terre Adelie
 AQ	-690022+0393524	Antarctica/Syowa	Syowa Station, E Ongul I
-AQ	-5430+15857	Antarctica/Macquarie	Macquarie Island Station, Macquarie Island
+AU	-5430+15857	Antarctica/Macquarie	Macquarie Island Station, Macquarie Island
 AR	-3436-05827	America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires	Buenos Aires (BA, CF)
 AR	-3124-06411	America/Argentina/Cordoba	most locations (CB, CC, CN, ER, FM, MN, SE, SF)
 AR	-2447-06525	America/Argentina/Salta	(SA, LP, NQ, RN)
-- 
1.7.10.4




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