>From e05949b6368a9c33d0f43463b3d808377205c36c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 14:14:13 -0700 Subject: [PROPOSED] Fix 19th-century Samoa transitions Samoa switched from Antipodean to American time in 1892, not 1879. (Reported by Michael Deckers.) * NEWS: Document this. * australasia (Pacific/Pago_Pago, Pacific/Apia): Fix transitions. --- NEWS | 3 +++ australasia | 10 ++++++---- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3c47f77..ca4fd8e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Europe/Dublin's 1946 and 1947 fallback transitions occurred at 02:00 standard time, not 02:00 DST. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + Pacific/Apia and Pacific/Pago_Pago switched from Antipodean to + American time in 1892, not 1879. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.) + Adjust the 1867 transition in Alaska to better reflect the historical record, by changing it to occur on 1867-10-18 at 15:30 Sitka time rather than at the start of 1867-10-17 local time. diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index d389ae1..6bf0f0a 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Pitcairn -8:40:20 - LMT 1901 # Adamstown -8:00 - -08 # American Samoa -Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 +Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 -11:22:48 - LMT 1911 -11:00 - SST # S=Samoa Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands @@ -659,7 +659,7 @@ Rule WS 2011 only - Sep lastSat 3:00 1 D Rule WS 2012 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 S Rule WS 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 D # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 +Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1892 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - -1130 1950 -11:00 WS -11/-10 2011 Dec 29 24:00 @@ -1606,11 +1606,13 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # (Western) Samoa and American Samoa -# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald) -# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change +# Howse writes (p 153) that after the 1879 standardization on Antipodean +# time by the British governor of Fiji, the King of Samoa decided to change # "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system, # ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that # the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year." +# This happened in 1892, according to the Evening News (Sydney) of 1892-07-20. +# http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm # Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30 # in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11 -- 2.9.4