diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 3e1bfc6..c822b08 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -352,16 +352,25 @@ Zone Indian/Cocos 6:27:40 - LMT 1900 # today confirmed that Fiji will start daylight savings at 2 am on Sunday 21st # October 2012 and end at 3 am on Sunday 20th January 2013. # 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 +# http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx # -# From Paul Eggert (2012-08-31): -# For now, guess a pattern of the penultimate Sundays in October and January. +# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-09): +# 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. # Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Fiji 1998 1999 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Fiji 1999 2000 - Feb lastSun 3:00 0 - 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>=18 2:00 1:00 S +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 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] diff --git a/newtzset.3 b/newtzset.3 index 618c92d..3462f4f 100644 --- a/newtzset.3 +++ b/newtzset.3 @@ -203,34 +203,35 @@ extensions to POSIX. stands for US eastern time (EST), 5 hours behind UTC, without daylight saving. .TP -.B FJT\(mi12FJST,M10.3.4/74,M1.3.4/75 +.B FJT\(mi12FJST,M10.3.1/146,M1.3.4/75 stands for Fiji Time (FJT) and Fiji Summer Time (FJST), 12 hours ahead -of UTC, where clocks spring forward at 74:00 on the third Thursday in -October (i.e., 02:00 on the first Sunday on or after October 18), and -fall back at 75:00 on the third Thursday in January (i.e., 03:00 on -the first Sunday on or after January 18). +of UTC, springing forward on October's third Monday at +146:00 (i.e., 02:00 on the first Sunday on or after October 21), and +falling back on January's third Thursday at 75:00 (i.e., 03:00 on the +first Sunday on or after January 18). .TP .B IST\(mi2IDT,M3.4.4/26,M10.5.0 -stands for Israel standard time (IST) and Israel daylight time (IDT), -2 hours ahead of UTC, where clocks spring forward at 26:00 on the -fourth Thursday in March (i.e., 02:00 on the first Friday on or after -March 23), and fall back at 02:00 on the last Sunday in October. +stands for Israel Standard Time (IST) and Israel Daylight Time (IDT), +2 hours ahead of UTC, springing forward on March's fourth +Tuesday at 26:00 (i.e., 02:00 on the first Friday on or after March +23), and falling back on October's last Sunday at 02:00. .TP .B WART4WARST,J1/0,J365/25 stands for Western Argentina Summer Time (WARST), 3 hours behind UTC. -There is a dummy transition to standard time on December 31 at 25:00 -daylight saving time (i.e., 24:00 standard time, equivalent to January -1 at 00:00 standard time), and a simultaneous transition to daylight -saving time on January 1 at 00:00 standard time, so daylight saving -time is in effect all year and the initial +There is a dummy fall-back transition on December 31 at 25:00 daylight +saving time (i.e., 24:00 standard time, equivalent to January 1 at +00:00 standard time), and a simultaneous spring-forward transition on +January 1 at 00:00 standard time, so daylight saving time is in effect +all year and the initial .B WART is a placeholder. .TP .B WGT3WGST,M3.5.0/\(mi2,M10.5.0/\(mi1 -stands for Western Greenland Time (WGT) and Western Greenland Summer +stands for Western Greenland time (WGT) and Western Greenland Summer Time (WGST), 3 hours behind UTC, where clocks follow the EU rules of -springing forward the last Sunday in March at \(mi02:00 (i.e., 01:00 UTC) -and falling back the last Sunday in October at \(mi01:00 (i.e., 01:00 UTC). +springing forward on March's last Sunday at 01:00 UTC (\(mi02:00 local +time) and falling back on October's last Sunday at 01:00 UTC +(\(mi01:00 local time). .PP If no .I rule