[tz] Fiji to end DST one hour earlier
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Jan 10 16:07:23 UTC 2014
Thanks for the heads-up; I pushed the following into the experimental
repository. Looks like it's time for a new release soon.
From 284f20a733ce5a3eda9145ee805e627aeddae2cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:05:24 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Fiji ends DST at 02:00, not 03:00.
* australasia (Fiji): Move fall-back time from 03:00 to 02:00
starting this year. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
* NEWS: Document this.
---
NEWS | 5 +++++
australasia | 21 ++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 310595e..b53bf1b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@ News for the tz database
Unreleased, experimental changes
+ Changes affecting near-future time stamps
+
+ Fiji ends DST on 2014-01-19 at 02:00, not the previously-scheduled 03:00.
+ (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
+
Changes affecting code
A uninitialized-storage bug in 'localtime' has been fixed.
diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index 8685d00..2a2703b 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -354,16 +354,18 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900
# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6702&catid=71&Itemid=155
# From the Fijian Government Media Center (2013-08-30) via David Wheeler:
-# Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 and end at 3am
-# on Sunday 19th January, 2014.... move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
+# Fiji will start daylight savings on Sunday 27th October, 2013 ...
+# move clocks forward by one hour from 2am
# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx
-#
-# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-09):
+
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2013-01-10):
+# Fiji will end DST on 2014-01-19 02:00:
+# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVINGS-TO-END-THIS-MONTH-%281%29.aspx
+
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-10):
# For now, guess that Fiji springs forward the Sunday before the fourth
-# Monday in October. This matches both recent practice and
-# timeanddate.com's current spring-forward prediction.
-# For the January 2014 transition we guessed right while timeanddate.com
-# guessed wrong, so leave the fall-back prediction alone.
+# Monday in October, and springs back the penultimate Sunday in January.
+# This is ad hoc, but matches recent practice.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
@@ -372,7 +374,8 @@ 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 2011 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
-Rule Fiji 2012 max - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
+Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
+Rule Fiji 2014 max - 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
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