FW: Tonga Daylight Savings Time ENDS...

Paul Eggert eggert at twinsun.com
Sat Feb 22 01:20:49 UTC 2003


> From: Pulu 'Anau [mailto:pulu at infotech.afe.to]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 4:43 PM

> The law was for 3 years, supposedly to get renewed.  It wasn't.

Thanks for letting us know.  I'll propagate your fix into the next set
of proposed tz patches.  Sorry for taking so long to catch up to this.

> If this file is going to explode on me at some later date, I'd
> really appreciate if someone could write back and let me know.

Your fix should work fine.  I plan to use the following, though, as
it's a tad shorter:

# Tonga
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE
LETTER/S
Rule	Tonga	1999	only	-	Oct	 7	2:00s	1:00	S
Rule	Tonga	2000	only	-	Mar	19	2:00s	0	-
Rule	Tonga	2000	2001	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
Rule	Tonga	2001	2002	-	Jan	lastSun	2:00	0	-
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
			12:20	-	TOT	1941 # Tonga Time
			13:00	-	TOT	1999
			13:00	Tonga	TO%sT




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