[tz] Fiji DST Oct 26

[Paul Eggert]

Paul_Koning at dell.com wrote:
> I don’t know what the TZ maintainers think is a reasonable minimum

We can typically turn it around in a day or two for the tz database itself, but 
as you say it can take quite some time for this info to filter through all the 
channels, channels that we have no control over.

As Fiji has observed DST for five years running, it was plausible to guess DST 
this year too.  However, it appears that Ken is guessing Fiji won't have DST 
this year, and he's closer to the ground and more likely to guess correctly than 
the rest of us, so I'm inclined to apply the attached proposed patch and publish 
a new tz version in the next week or so.  We need a new version anyway for 
Belarus's time zone abbreviation change October 26.

Ken, please let us know of any further info you get about this.  That way, if we 
get better information before next week we can revert this patch before 
publishing the next tz release.  Thanks.
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From e0c11579ca1d630410cbd58478dc8feee77748a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:22:42 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED PATCH] * australasia (Pacific/Fiji), NEWS: Guess no DST
 this year. * newtzset.3: Mention that the Fiji example is obsolete.

(Thanks to Ken Rylander for the heads-up.)
---
 NEWS        | 3 +++
 australasia | 7 +++++--
 newtzset.3  | 1 +
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9ecf3b5..5986f6d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
   Changes affecting future time stamps
 
+    Guess that Pacific/Fiji will not observe DST in 2014/2015.
+    (Thanks to Ken Rylander for the heads-up.)
+
     A new Zone Pacific/Bougainville, for the part of Papua New Guinea
     that plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11 on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.
     (Thanks to Kiley Walbom for the heads-up.)
diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index c06e62c..784fdca 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -336,15 +336,18 @@ Zone	Indian/Cocos	6:27:40	-	LMT	1900
 # Monday in October, and springs back the penultimate Sunday in January.
 # This is ad hoc, but matches recent practice.
 
+# From Paul Eggert, after a heads-up from Ken Rylander (2014-10-14):
+# Fiji has made no decision about DST this year.  Guess they won't do it.
+
 # 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	max	-	Oct	Sun>=21	2:00	1:00	S
+Rule	Fiji	2010	2013	-	Oct	Sun>=21	2:00	1:00	S
 Rule	Fiji	2011	only	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
 Rule	Fiji	2012	2013	-	Jan	Sun>=18	3:00	0	-
-Rule	Fiji	2014	max	-	Jan	Sun>=18	2:00	0	-
+Rule	Fiji	2014	only	-	Jan	Sun>=18	2:00	0	-
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone	Pacific/Fiji	11:55:44 -	LMT	1915 Oct 26 # Suva
 			12:00	Fiji	FJ%sT	# Fiji Time
diff --git a/newtzset.3 b/newtzset.3
index 68905a5..3df31cd 100644
--- a/newtzset.3
+++ b/newtzset.3
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ of UTC, springing forward on October's third Monday at
 146:00 (i.e., 02:00 on the first Sunday on or after October 21), and
 falling back on January's third Thursday at 75:00 (i.e., 03:00 on the
 first Sunday on or after January 18).
+Fiji used this time zone rule from spring 2011 through spring 2013.
 .TP
 .B IST\*-2IDT,M3.4.4/26,M10.5.0
 stands for Israel Standard Time (IST) and Israel Daylight Time (IDT),
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