Module Name: src
Committed By: apb
Date: Thu Mar 1 21:22:02 UTC 2012
Modified Files:
src/share/zoneinfo: australasia
Log Message:
Merge tzdata2012a from ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/tzdata2012a.tar.gz.
Major changes since tzdata2011n:
Chile 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 summer time date adjustments.
Falkland Islands onto permanent summer time (we're assuming for the
foreseeable future, though 2012 is all we're fairly certain of.)
Armenia has abolished Summer Time.
Tokelau jumped the International Date Line back last December
(just the same as their near neighbour, Samoa).
America/Creston is a new zone for a small area of British Columbia
There will be a leapsecond 2012-06-30 23:59:60 UTC.
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.23 -r1.24 src/share/zoneinfo/australasia
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/share/zoneinfo/australasia
diff -u src/share/zoneinfo/australasia:1.23 src/share/zoneinfo/australasia:1.24
--- src/share/zoneinfo/australasia:1.23 Wed Nov 2 05:21:46 2011
+++ src/share/zoneinfo/australasia Thu Mar 1 21:22:02 2012
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# <pre>
-# @(#)australasia 8.29
+# @(#)australasia 8.30
# This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of
# 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson.
@@ -616,6 +616,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1
# Dateline Change skip Friday 30th Dec 2011
# Thursday 29th December 2011 23:59:59 Hours
# Saturday 31st December 2011 00:00:00 Hours
+#
+# Clarification by Tim Parenti (2012-01-03):
+# Although Samoa has used Daylight Saving Time in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012
+# seasons, there is not yet any indication that this trend will continue on
+# a regular basis. For now, we have explicitly listed the transitions below.
Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
-11:26:56 - LMT 1911
-11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time
@@ -633,9 +638,28 @@ Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT
11:00 - SBT # Solomon Is Time
# Tokelau Is
+#
+# From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29)
+# A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping
+# December 31 this year, thereby changing its time zone from UTC-10 to
+# UTC+14. When I tried to verify this statement, I found a confirming
+# article in Time magazine online
+# <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103243,00.html";>
+# (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103243,00.html).
+# </a>
+#
+# From Jonathan Leffler (2011-12-29)
+# Information from the BBC to the same effect:
+# <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377";>
+# http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377
+# </a>
+#
+# Patch supplied by Tim Parenti (2011-12-29)
+
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 - LMT 1901
- -10:00 - TKT # Tokelau Time
+ -10:00 - TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time
+ 14:00 - TKT
# Tonga
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
