On Mon, Sep 9, 2013, at 15:51, Paul Eggert wrote:
Thanks for the heads-up. It looks like timeanddate.com guessed right for October 2013 and wrong for January 2014 whereas we did the reverse. Here's a proposed patch, which I've pushed to the experimental repository on github. We will need a new stable release soon, to accommodate this change to near-future time stamps.
The new Fiji rules provide an independent test of the proposed version-3-format changes for extensions to POSIX TZ strings. It worked. This patch updates the newtzset.3 Fiji example to match the new rules.
Does anyone have info on what the general rule is for Fiji? If so, we should be able to improve our predictions in the future.
It looks like they don't have one - everything I've found indicates that the law simply allows the government to declare a period between the beginning of October and the end of April. Fiji Times had the story on August 31: http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=244182