This is for the part of Papua New Guinea that plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11 on 2014-12-28 at 02:00. (Thanks to Kiley Walbom for the heads-up.) * australasia (Pacific/Bougainville): New zone. * zone.tab, zone1970.tab: Add entries for it. * NEWS: Document this. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ australasia | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ zone.tab | 3 ++- zone1970.tab | 3 ++- 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 69dc2ca..26dcbf6 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ News for the tz database Unreleased, experimental changes + Changes affecting future time stamps + + A new Zone Pacific/Bougainville, for the part of Papua New Guinea + that plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11 on 2014-12-28 at 02:00. + (Thanks to Kiley Walbom for the heads-up.) + Changes affecting past time stamps Many time stamps have been corrected for Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh before 1976 diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index 5ea1f18..c06e62c 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -519,6 +519,30 @@ Zone Pacific/Palau 8:57:56 - LMT 1901 # Koror Zone Pacific/Port_Moresby 9:48:40 - LMT 1880 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 # Port Moresby Mean Time 10:00 - PGT # Papua New Guinea Time +# +# From Paul Eggert (2014-10-13): +# Base the Bougainville entry on the Arawa-Kieta region, which appears to have +# the most people even though it was devastated in the Bougainville Civil War. +# +# Although Shanks gives 1942-03-15 / 1943-11-01 for JST, these dates +# are apparently rough guesswork from the starts of military campaigns. +# The World War II entries below are instead based on Arawa-Kieta. +# The Japanese occupied Kieta in July 1942, +# according to the Pacific War Online Encyclopedia +# http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/B/o/Bougainville.htm +# and seem to have controlled it until their 1945-08-21 surrender. +# +# The Autonomous Region of Bougainville plans to switch from UTC+10 to UTC+11 +# on 2014-12-28 at 02:00. They call UTC+11 "Bougainville Standard Time"; +# abbreviate this as BST. See: +# http://www.bougainville24.com/bougainville-issues/bougainville-gets-own-time... +# +Zone Pacific/Bougainville 10:22:16 - LMT 1880 + 9:48:32 - PMMT 1895 + 10:00 - PGT 1942 Jul + 9:00 - JST 1945 Aug 21 + 10:00 - PGT 2014 Dec 28 2:00 + 11:00 - BST # Pitcairn # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] @@ -803,6 +827,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # 10:00 AEST AEDT Eastern Australia # 10:00 ChST Chamorro # 10:30 LHST LHDT Lord Howe* +# 11:00 BST Bougainville* # 11:30 NZMT NZST New Zealand through 1945 # 12:00 NZST NZDT New Zealand 1946-present # 12:15 CHAST Chatham through 1945* diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab index 084bb2f..a7373f1 100644 --- a/zone.tab +++ b/zone.tab @@ -307,7 +307,8 @@ PE -1203-07703 America/Lima PF -1732-14934 Pacific/Tahiti Society Islands PF -0900-13930 Pacific/Marquesas Marquesas Islands PF -2308-13457 Pacific/Gambier Gambier Islands -PG -0930+14710 Pacific/Port_Moresby +PG -0930+14710 Pacific/Port_Moresby most locations +PG -0613+15534 Pacific/Bougainville Bougainville PH +1435+12100 Asia/Manila PK +2452+06703 Asia/Karachi PL +5215+02100 Europe/Warsaw diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab index 57c11f1..e971bc7 100644 --- a/zone1970.tab +++ b/zone1970.tab @@ -264,7 +264,8 @@ PE -1203-07703 America/Lima PF -1732-14934 Pacific/Tahiti Society Islands PF -0900-13930 Pacific/Marquesas Marquesas Islands PF -2308-13457 Pacific/Gambier Gambier Islands -PG -0930+14710 Pacific/Port_Moresby +PG -0930+14710 Pacific/Port_Moresby most locations +PG -0613+15534 Pacific/Bougainville Bougainville PH +1435+12100 Asia/Manila PK +2452+06703 Asia/Karachi PL +5215+02100 Europe/Warsaw -- 1.9.3