Zefram wrote:
The reduction by one zone for a threshold year of 0000 comes from Pacific/Johnston, a US minor outlying island, which is defined with data identical to the "HST" zone. (Contrary to the usual practice of using LMT for the first segment of geographical zones.)
That's clearly an error in the database; thanks for reporting it. A proposed patch at the end of this message. Unfortunately I haven't had time to review the winnowing code yet, but I do plan to get to it. ----- The old, standalone entry was demonstrably wrong, and the link is more nearly right. Problem reported by Andrew Main (Zefram) in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019817.html>. --- australasia | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 797f81c..74ebee2 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -749,8 +749,17 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti 11:56:52 - LMT 1901 # no information; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati # Johnston -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] -Zone Pacific/Johnston -10:00 - HST +# +# From Paul Eggert (2013-09-03): +# In his memoirs of June 6th to October 4, 1945 +# <http://www.315bw.org/Herb_Bach.htm> (2005), Herbert C. Bach writes, +# "We started our letdown to Kwajalein Atoll and landed there at 5:00 AM +# Johnston time, 1:30 AM Kwajalein time." This was in June 1945, and +# confirms that Johnston kept the same time as Honolulu in summer 1945. +# We have no better information, so for now, assume this has been true +# indefinitely into the past. +# +Link Pacific/Honolulu Pacific/Johnston # Kingman # uninhabited -- 1.8.1.2