[tz] Hong Kong time 1941

Phake Nick c933103 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 19:58:32 UTC 2018


Somewhere in the message I have mistakenly typed "Hing Kong" instead of
"Hong Kong". Please help correct them in the patch.

2018-11-18 03:25, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Phake Nick wrote:
> > According to Singaporean newspaper
> >
> http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepresswk19041102-1.2.37
> > , the day that Hong Kong start using GMT+8 should be Oct 30, 1904.
>
> Thanks for doing all that research on Hong Kong.
>
> I also see that sometime between 2009 and 2014 the Hong Kong Observatory
> changed
> the 1952 DST fallback date from "25 Oct" (which agrees with Shanks) to "2
> Nov";
> we might as well stay in sync with the HKO unless we can find newspapers
> to the
> contrary.
>
> Also, a British astronomer H.P.H. (I don't know who that is) reported in
> the
> February 1905 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that the
> 1904-10-30 time ball drop in Hong Kong occurred at 17:00 GMT (presumably
> this
> was GMT the previous day).
>
> I attempted to distill the above into tzdata and installed the attached
> proposed
> patch to the development version. Please let me know if you see any
> problems
> with it. And thanks again for these fixes.
>
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