From 6ea18d5d47e8e5892808a79b8529c9bae80a23bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Parenti Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:27:46 -0400 Subject: Further flesh out commentary on Tonga 1961 change * NEWS: Add that LMT was also corrected, and match other entries. * australasia: Cite Bartky on 1961 change. --- NEWS | 5 +++-- australasia | 18 ++++++++++++------ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 9ad2646..9e34324 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes - Kanton: uninhabited before 1937-08-31 - Niue: observed -11:20 in 1951-1978 - Portugal: DST was observed in 1950 - - Tonga: adopted standard time in 1945 not 1901, and moved from - +12:20 to +13 in 1961 not 1941 + - Tonga: corrected LMT; the introduction of standard time in 1945, + not 1901; and corrections to the transition from +12:20 to +13 + in 1961, not 1941 Additional fixes to entries in the 'backzone' file include: - Enderbury: inhabited only 1860/1885 and 1938-03-06/1942-02-09 - The Gambia: 1933 and 1942 transitions diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 5cbc0c8..05b1a58 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -2035,7 +2035,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila # From Michael Deckers (2021-03-03): # [Ian R Bartky: "One Time Fits All: The Campaigns for Global Uniformity". -# Stanford University Press. 2007. p 24..26]: +# Stanford University Press. 2007. p. 255]: # On 10 September 1945 Tonga adopted a standard time 12 hours, # 20 minutes in advance of Greenwich. @@ -2068,7 +2068,8 @@ Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila # on the World Day of Prayer, you would be the first people on Earth # to say your prayers in the morning." # -# From Tim Parenti (2021-03-02), per Paul Eggert (2006-03-22): +# From Tim Parenti (2021-09-13), per Paul Eggert (2006-03-22) and Michael +# Deckers (2021-03-03): # Mundell places the transition from +12:20 to +13 in 1941, while Shanks & # Pottenger say the transition was on 1968-10-01. # @@ -2077,10 +2078,15 @@ Zone Pacific/Efate 11:13:16 - LMT 1912 Jan 13 # Vila # Nov 1960: https://books.google.com/books?id=bVgtWM6kPZUC&pg=SL1-PA19 # Mar 1961: https://books.google.com/books?id=W2nItAul4g0C&pg=SL1-PA19 # (Thanks to P Chan for pointing us toward these sources.) -# Without greater specificity, presume that this points to a 1961-01-01 -# transition, as Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV was still Crown Prince in 1961 and this -# still jives with the gist of Mundell's telling, and go with this over Shanks -# & Pottenger. +# This agrees with Bartky, who writes that "since 1961 [Tonga's] official time +# has been thirteen hours in advance of Greenwich time" (p. 202) and further +# writes in an endnote that this was because "the legislation was amended" on +# 1960-10-19. (p. 255) +# +# Without greater specificity, presume that Bartky and the Air Almanac point to +# a 1961-01-01 transition, as Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV was still Crown Prince in +# 1961 and this still jives with the gist of Mundell's telling, and go with +# this over Shanks & Pottenger. # From Eric Ulevik (1999-05-03): # Tonga's director of tourism, who is also secretary of the National Millennium -- 2.15.1