[tz] [PROPOSED] Guess that Tonga has canceled DST

[World Time Zone]

Just got an email
(Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:18:00 +1300)

from Andrew Toimoana (Director of Information, Tonga)
<atoimoana at mic.gov.to>

with CC to Tonga Meteorological Service 'Ofa Faanunu' <ofaf at met.gov.to> and
Paula Ma'u - new Secretary for Information & Communications 'Paula Ma'ú' 
<paulm at mic.gov.to>

who stated that " ... the Government of Tonga won't be observing the 
Daylight
saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on
regarding this subject ...."

Regards,
Alexander Krivenyshev,
WorldTimeZone.com
New York



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Alexander,

Please note that the Government of Tonga won't be observing the Day light
saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on
regarding this subject.  Should you have any other questions, please let me
know .

Kind Regards

Andrew.

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On 10/18/2017 2:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> (Thanks to David Wade.)
> * NEWS, australasia (Tonga): Guess DST has been canceled.
> ---
>   NEWS        |  6 ++++++
>   australasia | 14 ++++++++++++--
>   2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 4e98ef7..28b46b8 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
>     Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21.
>     Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01.
>     Sudan switches from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01.
> +  Tonga likely switches from +13/+14 to +13 on 2017-11-05.
>     Turks&  Caicos switches from -04 to -05/-04 on 2018-11-04.
>     A new file tzdata.zi now holds a small text copy of all data.
>     The zic input format has been regularized slightly.
> @@ -28,6 +29,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
>       Atyya and Yahia Abdalla.)  South Sudan is not switching, so
>       Africa/Juba is no longer a link to Africa/Khartoum.
>
> +    Tonga has likely ended its experiment with DST, and will not
> +    adjust its clocks on 2017-11-05.  Although Tonga has not announced
> +    whether it will continue to observe DST, the IATA is assuming that
> +    it will not.  (Thanks to David Wade.)
> +
>       Turks&  Caicos will switch from -04 all year to -05 with US DST on
>       2018-03-11 at 03:00.  This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04
>       at 02:00.  (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)
> diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
> index ae2cd72..5f7c86d 100644
> --- a/australasia
> +++ b/australasia
> @@ -704,8 +704,8 @@ 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	-
> -Rule	Tonga	2016	max	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
> -Rule	Tonga	2017	max	-	Jan	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
> +Rule	Tonga	2016	only	-	Nov	Sun>=1	2:00	1:00	S
> +Rule	Tonga	2017	only	-	Jan	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
>   # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
>   Zone Pacific/Tongatapu	12:19:20 -	LMT	1901
>   			12:20	-	+1220	1941
> @@ -1626,6 +1626,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
>   # day in 2011.  Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New
>   # Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations.
>
> +
>   # Tonga
>
>   # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22):
> @@ -1720,6 +1721,15 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
>   # Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00
>   # through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now.
>
> +# From David Wade (2017-10-18):
> +# In August government was disolved by the King.  The current prime minister
> +# continued in office in care taker mode.  It is easy to see that few
> +# decisions will be made until elections 16th November.
> +#
> +# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18):
> +# For now, guess that DST is discontinued.  That's what the IATA is guessing.
> +
> +
>   # Wake
>
>   # From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,