>From 9edbcd11b98c5e585e7b06a15cf8ff1d68ddf721 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 08:41:39 -0800 Subject: [PROPOSED] East Kiribati skipped 1994-12-31, not 1995-01-01 (Thanks to Kerry Shetline.) * NEWS: Mention this. * australasia (Pacific/Enderbury, Pacific/Kiritimati): Transition at 1994-12-31 00:00, not at 1995-01-01 00:00. --- NEWS | 5 +++++ australasia | 10 ++++++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ed7e7d3..beefd39 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Support zi parsers that mishandle negative DST offsets Add fractional seconds to source data format. + Changes to past time stamps + + Enderbury and Kiritimati skipped New Year's Eve 1994, not + New Year's day 1995. (Thanks to Kerry Shetline.) + Changes to build procedure The new XDST macro in the Makefile lets the installer choose diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 2de41d2..4f96458 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -406,11 +406,11 @@ Zone Pacific/Tarawa 11:32:04 - LMT 1901 # Bairiki 12:00 - +12 Zone Pacific/Enderbury -11:24:20 - LMT 1901 -12:00 - -12 1979 Oct - -11:00 - -11 1995 + -11:00 - -11 1994 Dec 31 13:00 - +13 Zone Pacific/Kiritimati -10:29:20 - LMT 1901 -10:40 - -1040 1979 Oct - -10:00 - -10 1995 + -10:00 - -10 1994 Dec 31 14:00 - +14 # N Mariana Is @@ -1512,6 +1512,12 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # "declared it the same day [throughout] the country as of Jan. 1, 1995" # as part of the competition to be first into the 21st century. +# From Kerry Shetline (2018-02-03): +# December 31 was the day that was skipped, so that the transition +# would be from Friday December 30, 1994 to Sunday January 1, 1995. +# From Paul Eggert (2018-02-04): +# One source for this is page 202 of: Bartky IR. One Time Fits All: +# The Campaigns for Global Uniformity (2007). # Kwajalein -- 2.7.4