(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,
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