>From bf12c3ba8513b640b83c245f804c37feeccb862b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 22:59:27 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] Cook Islands had two Christmases in 1899 (Thanks to Alexander Krivenyshev.) * NEWS: Document this. * australasia (Pacific/Rarotonga): Two Christmases in 1899. --- NEWS | 5 ++++- australasia | 18 ++++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 593c3fa..a4515c3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes derived from Shanks, Whitman, and Mundell. The fixes include: - Barbados: standard time was introduced in 1911, not 1932; and DST was observed in 1942-1944 + - Cook Islands: In 1899 they switched from east to west of GMT, + celebrating Christmas for two days. - Guyana: corrected LMT for Georgetown; the introduction of standard time in 1911, not 1915; and corrections to 1975 and 1992 transitions @@ -19,7 +21,8 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes - Malawi: several 1911 through 1925 transitions - Sierra Leone: several 1913 through 1941 transitions, and DST was NOT observed in 1957 through 1962 - (Thanks to P Chan, Michael Deckers and Alois Treindl.) + (Thanks to P Chan, Michael Deckers, Alexander Krivenyshev and + Alois Treindl.) Changes to code diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index e7538dc..963b791 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -597,13 +597,27 @@ Link Pacific/Auckland Antarctica/McMurdo # was probably like Pacific/Auckland # Cook Is -# From Shanks & Pottenger: +# +# From Alexander Krivenyshev (2021-03-24): +# In 1899 the Cook Islands celebrated Christmas twice to correct the calendar. +# According to the old books, missionaries were unaware of +# the International Date line, when they came from Sydney. +# Thus the Cook Islands were one day ahead.... +# http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-KloDisc-t1-body-d18.html +# ... Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1900 +# https://atojs.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/atojs?a=d&d=AJHR1900-I.2.1.2.3 +# (page 20) +# +# From Paul Eggert (2021-03-23): +# Transitions after 1900 are from Shanks & Pottenger. +# # Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S Rule Cook 1978 only - Nov 12 0:00 0:30 - Rule Cook 1979 1991 - Mar Sun>=1 0:00 0 - Rule Cook 1979 1990 - Oct lastSun 0:00 0:30 - # Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Rarotonga -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 # Avarua +Zone Pacific/Rarotonga 13:20:56 - LMT 1899 Dec 26 # Avarua + -10:39:04 - LMT 1901 -10:30 - -1030 1978 Nov 12 -10:00 Cook -10/-0930 -- 2.27.0