[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] new Zone Pacific/Bougainville

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Oct 14 03:40:09 UTC 2014


This is 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.)
* australasia (Pacific/Bougainville): New zone.
* zone.tab, zone1970.tab: Add entries for it.
* NEWS: Document this.
---
 NEWS         |  6 ++++++
 australasia  | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 zone.tab     |  3 ++-
 zone1970.tab |  3 ++-
 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 69dc2ca..26dcbf6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ News for the tz database
 
 Unreleased, experimental changes
 
+  Changes affecting future time stamps
+
+    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.)
+
   Changes affecting past time stamps
 
     Many time stamps have been corrected for Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh before 1976
diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index 5ea1f18..c06e62c 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -519,6 +519,30 @@ Zone Pacific/Palau	8:57:56 -	LMT	1901 # Koror
 Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 -	LMT	1880
 			9:48:32	-	PMMT	1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time
 			10:00	-	PGT	# Papua New Guinea Time
+#
+# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13):
+# Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have
+# the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War.
+#
+# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for JST, these dates
+# are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns.
+# The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta.
+# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942,
+# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia
+# http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm
+# and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender.
+#
+# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11
+# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00.  They call UTC+11 "Bougainville Standard Time";
+# abbreviate this as BST.  See:
+# http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-timezone/
+#
+Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 -	LMT	1880
+			 9:48:32 -	PMMT	1895
+			10:00	-	PGT	1942 Jul
+			 9:00	-	JST	1945 Aug 21
+			10:00	-	PGT	2014 Dec 28  2:00
+			11:00	-	BST
 
 # Pitcairn
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -803,6 +827,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 #	 10:00	AEST	AEDT	Eastern Australia
 #	 10:00	ChST		Chamorro
 #	 10:30	LHST	LHDT	Lord Howe*
+#	 11:00	BST		Bougainville*
 #	 11:30	NZMT	NZST	New Zealand through 1945
 #	 12:00	NZST	NZDT	New Zealand 1946-present
 #	 12:15	CHAST		Chatham through 1945*
diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index 084bb2f..a7373f1 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -307,7 +307,8 @@ PE	-1203-07703	America/Lima
 PF	-1732-14934	Pacific/Tahiti	Society Islands
 PF	-0900-13930	Pacific/Marquesas	Marquesas Islands
 PF	-2308-13457	Pacific/Gambier	Gambier Islands
-PG	-0930+14710	Pacific/Port_Moresby
+PG	-0930+14710	Pacific/Port_Moresby	most locations
+PG	-0613+15534	Pacific/Bougainville	Bougainville
 PH	+1435+12100	Asia/Manila
 PK	+2452+06703	Asia/Karachi
 PL	+5215+02100	Europe/Warsaw
diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab
index 57c11f1..e971bc7 100644
--- a/zone1970.tab
+++ b/zone1970.tab
@@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ PE	-1203-07703	America/Lima
 PF	-1732-14934	Pacific/Tahiti	Society Islands
 PF	-0900-13930	Pacific/Marquesas	Marquesas Islands
 PF	-2308-13457	Pacific/Gambier	Gambier Islands
-PG	-0930+14710	Pacific/Port_Moresby
+PG	-0930+14710	Pacific/Port_Moresby	most locations
+PG	-0613+15534	Pacific/Bougainville	Bougainville
 PH	+1435+12100	Asia/Manila
 PK	+2452+06703	Asia/Karachi
 PL	+5215+02100	Europe/Warsaw
-- 
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