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-SUNDAY,-NOVEMBER-2ND.aspx

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-horizon.aspx

2011-02-25, 9 days notice: 
http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/Daylight-savings-ends-on-March-6.aspx

2011-10-03, 20 days notice: 
http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/Daylight-saving-starts-October-23.aspx

2012-08-27, 55 days notice: 
http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-21st-OCTOBER.aspx

2013-08-30, 59 days notice: 
http://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Center/Press-Releases/DAYLIGHT-SAVING-STARTS-ON-SUNDAY,-27th-OCTOBER-201.aspx

Although they've done better since 2012, it's a bit of an exaggeration to say that they always give two months notice.