Just got an email (Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:18:00 +1300) from Andrew Toimoana (Director of Information, Tonga) <atoimoana@mic.gov.to> with CC to Tonga Meteorological Service 'Ofa Faanunu' <ofaf@met.gov.to> and Paula Ma'u - new Secretary for Information & Communications 'Paula Ma'รบ' <paulm@mic.gov.to> who stated that " ... the Government of Tonga won't be observing the Daylight saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on regarding this subject ...." Regards, Alexander Krivenyshev, WorldTimeZone.com New York ########################################################### Alexander, Please note that the Government of Tonga won't be observing the Day light saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on regarding this subject. Should you have any other questions, please let me know . Kind Regards Andrew. ########################################################## On 10/18/2017 2:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
(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,