Attached is a proposed patch. My patch assumes that this year's November start date is a one-time departure from the recent norm of Oct Sun>=21, and that DST will continue in 2015/2016 and beyond according to the pattern used between 2010 and 2014. (For now, it seems to me that we're more likely to be closer to correct by assuming /some/ DST in the future than by assuming none.) I believe this increases the need for a new release to be fast-tracked, since 2014h still has Fijian timestamps changing early this Sunday, 26 October 2014 (FJT). Happy silly season, all. -- Tim Parenti On 20 Oct 2014 04:25, Ken Rylander wrote:
Hi,
...and keeping with the strict policy of giving 2 months notice, Fiji Government just released the following statement saying that DST will start Nov 2 this year. 13 days notice, by my calculation.
http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON...
Cheers, /Ken
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-----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu] Sent: Wednesday, 15 October 2014 5:34 PM To: ken@lajbans.com.au; Paul_Koning@Dell.com Cc: tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] Fiji DST Oct 26
Ken Rylander wrote:
The latest information we received said that the government would always give 2 months notice before DST. Two months notice would be good. It would mean that Fiji won't start DST before December 14.
I am not sure they have, since DST was re-introduced in 2009. Here are the notices of the past four years or so:
2010-10-13, 9 days notice: http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/Daylight-savings-on-horiz...
2011-02-25, 9 days notice: http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/Daylight-savings-ends-on-...
2011-10-03, 20 days notice: http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/Daylight-saving-starts-Oc...
2012-08-27, 55 days notice: http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON...
2013-08-30, 59 days notice: http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON...
Although they've done better since 2012, it's a bit of an exaggeration to say that they always give two months notice.