* NEWS: Mention this. * asia (Asia/Hong_Kong): Treat the period from 1941-10-01 to 1941-12-25 as 30-minute DST rather than as standard time. * theory.html (Time zone abbreviations): Add HKWT. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ asia | 19 ++++++++++++++----- theory.html | 2 +- 3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 65c67a2..e2ebe32 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -12,6 +12,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Fix several errors in pre-1970 transitions in Perry County, IN. (Thanks to Alois Triendl for pointing out the 1967/9 errors.) + Changes to past time zone abbreviations and DST flags + + Hong Kong Winter Time, observed from 1941-10-01 to 1941-12-25, + is now flagged as DST and is abbreviated HKWT not HKT. + Changes to commentary Nashville's newspapers dueled about the time of day in the 1950s. diff --git a/asia b/asia index 348e2b5..47a0b25 100644 --- a/asia +++ b/asia @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ # tz@iana.org for general use in the future). For more, please see # the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution. -# From Paul Eggert (2018-06-19): +# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-11): # # Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is: # Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition), @@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ # 7:00 WIB west Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Barat) # 8:00 WITA central Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Tengah) # 8:00 CST China -# 8:00 PST PDT* Philippine Standard Time +# 8:00 HKT HKST Hong Kong (HKWT* for Winter Time in late 1941) +# 8:00 PST PDT* Philippines # 8:30 KST KDT Korea when at +0830 # 9:00 WIT east Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Timur) # 9:00 JST JDT Japan # 9:00 KST KDT Korea when at +09 -# 9:30 ACST Australian Central Standard Time -# *I invented the abbreviation PDT; see "Philippines" below. +# *I invented the abbreviations HKWT and PDT; see below. # Otherwise, these tables typically use numeric abbreviations like +03 # and +0330 for integer hour and minute UT offsets. Although earlier # editions invented alphabetic time zone abbreviations for every @@ -653,6 +653,15 @@ Zone Asia/Urumqi 5:50:20 - LMT 1928 # * 1941-09-30, Hong Kong Daily Press, Winter Time Warning. # https://i.imgur.com/dge4kFJ.png +# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-11): +# "Hong Kong winter time" is considered to be daylight saving. +# "Hong Kong had adopted daylight saving on June 15 as a wartime measure, +# clocks moving forward one hour until October 1, when they would be put back +# by just half an hour for 'Hong Kong Winter time', so that daylight saving +# operated year round." -- Low Z. The longest day: when wartime Hong Kong +# introduced daylight saving. South China Morning Post. 2019-06-28. +# https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3016281/lon... + # From P Chan (2018-12-31): # * According to the Hong Kong Daylight-Saving Regulations, 1941, the # 1941 spring-forward transition was at 03:00. @@ -754,7 +763,7 @@ Rule HK 1979 only - Oct 21 3:30 0 - Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:42 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 0:36:42 8:00 - HKT 1941 Jun 15 3:00 8:00 1:00 HKST 1941 Oct 1 4:00 - 8:30 - HKT 1941 Dec 25 + 8:00 0:30 HKWT 1941 Dec 25 9:00 - JST 1945 Nov 18 2:00 8:00 HK HK%sT diff --git a/theory.html b/theory.html index e0b3233..1e7df4a 100644 --- a/theory.html +++ b/theory.html @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ in decreasing order of importance: EET/EEST Eastern European, GST/GDT Guam, HST/HDT/HWT/HPT Hawaii, - HKT/HKST Hong Kong, + HKT/HKST/HKWT Hong Kong, IST India, IST/GMT Irish, IST/IDT/IDDT Israel, -- 2.17.1