Hi , Can you please update Daylight Savings information for Samoa (South Pacific). Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013. Please find link below for more information. http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html Thank you and regards Nicholas Pereira Principal IT Officer | Corporate Services Division Level 4, ACC House, Apia, SAMOA | Tel: +685 20441 extn 143 | Fax : +685 20443 <http://www.mcil.gov.ws/> http://www.mcil.gov.ws Description: mcilsigna "Our vision is to lead and excel in the provision of quality service to foster economic growth for all" DISCLAIMER: This email contains information which may be confidential and subject to copyright. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, distribute or copy this email or attachments. If you have received this email in error please notify us immediately by return email and delete this email and any attachments. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (Samoa) accepts no responsibility for changes made to this email or to any attachments after transmission from Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (Samoa). It is your responsibility to check this email and any attachments for viruses. Emails are not secure. They can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed and may contain viruses. Anyone who communicates with the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (Samoa) by email is taken to accept these risks. Any views expressed in this email are those of the individual sender, EXCEPT where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Labour (Samoa).
On 2012-09-09 23:45, Nicky wrote:
Hi ,
Can you please update Daylight Savings information for Samoa (South Pacific). Daylight Saving Time commences on *_Sunday 30^th September 2012_* and ends on *_Sunday 7^th of April 2013_*.
Please find link below for more information.
http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
Thank you and regards
*Nicholas Pereira*
Principal IT Officer | Corporate Services Division
Quote from <http://www.mcil.gov.ws/ftcd/daylightsavings/Daylight%20Saving%20Ad-Newspaper...> : ---------------------------------------------------------- Public Notice of Daylight Saving Pursuant to the Daylight Saving Act 2009, and Cabinet’s decision and Head of State’s Declaration, businesses and the general public are hereby advised that the Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013. The public is therefore advised that when the standard time strikes the hour of three in the morning (3.00am) on the 30th September 2012, then all instruments used to measure standard time are to be adjusted/changed forward to one hour, or four o’clock (4:00am). Auelua Taito Samuelu Enari Chief Executive Officer ---------------------------------------------------------- -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:45:03 +1300 From: "Nicky" <pereiranick@mcil.gov.ws> Message-ID: <000101cd8edc$c0599ca0$410cd5e0$@mcil.gov.ws> | Can you please update Daylight Savings information for Samoa (South | Pacific). Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and | ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013. Thanks for the update. | Please find link below for more information. | http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html I note that that also includes Summer Time dates for the summer of 2013/4 which look as if they may be following the pattern of summer time (daylight savings) running from the last Sunday in September to the first Sunday in April - so I am going to assume that for years even further into the future in the patch I am submitting below for consideration. If you have any reason to believe a different rule is likely to apply, now, or any time in the future (and/or if there are any exception years) we'd appreciate learning of it as far in advance of the change as possible (3 weeks notice is not really enough preparation time for most users of this data). kre The following patch is against the (as yet unannounced) tzdata2012f release. --- australasia 2012-08-31 20:27:35.000000000 +0700 +++ australasia.new 2012-09-13 16:03:52.000000000 +0700 @@ -628,6 +628,25 @@ # Although Samoa has used Daylight Saving Time in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 # seasons, there is not yet any indication that this trend will continue on # a regular basis. For now, we have explicitly listed the transitions below. +# +# From Nicholas Pereira (2012-09-10): +# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and +# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013. +# +# Please find link below for more information. +# <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html"> +# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html +# </a> +# +# That publication also includes dates for Summer of 2013/2014 +# which give the impression of a pattern in selecting dates for the +# future, so for now, we will guess this will continue + +# Western Samoa +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule WS 2012 max - Sep LastSun 3:00 1 D +Rule WS 2013 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time @@ -636,7 +655,7 @@ -11:00 - WST 2011 Sep 24 3:00 -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Dec 30 13:00 1:00 WSDT 2012 Apr 1 4:00 - 13:00 - WST + 13:00 WS WS%sT # Solomon Is # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
On 2012-09-13 10:00, Ian Abbott wrote:
On 2012-09-09 23:45, Nicky wrote:
Hi ,
Can you please update Daylight Savings information for Samoa (South Pacific). Daylight Saving Time commences on *_Sunday 30^th September 2012_* and ends on *_Sunday 7^th of April 2013_*.
Please find link below for more information.
http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
Thank you and regards
*Nicholas Pereira*
Principal IT Officer | Corporate Services Division
Quote from <http://www.mcil.gov.ws/ftcd/daylightsavings/Daylight%20Saving%20Ad-Newspaper...> :
---------------------------------------------------------- Public Notice of Daylight Saving
Pursuant to the Daylight Saving Act 2009, and Cabinet’s decision and Head of State’s Declaration, businesses and the general public are hereby advised that the Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013.
The public is therefore advised that when the standard time strikes the hour of three in the morning (3.00am) on the 30th September 2012, then all instruments used to measure standard time are to be adjusted/changed forward to one hour, or four o’clock (4:00am).
Auelua Taito Samuelu Enari Chief Executive Officer ----------------------------------------------------------
The table in the announcement at http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html also has dates and times for the 2013-2014 DST period: DST starts 2013-09-29 03:00 (->04:00); DST ends 2014-04-06 04:00 (->03:00). Provisionally, since April 2012, Pacific/Apia DST ends on the first Sunday of April at 0400 WDST (0300 WST), and DST begins on the last Sunday of September at 0300 WST (0400 WDST). -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-
On 2012-09-13 10:11, Robert Elz wrote:
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:45:03 +1300 From: "Nicky" <pereiranick@mcil.gov.ws> Message-ID: <000101cd8edc$c0599ca0$410cd5e0$@mcil.gov.ws>
| Can you please update Daylight Savings information for Samoa (South | Pacific). Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and | ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013.
Thanks for the update.
| Please find link below for more information. | http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
I note that that also includes Summer Time dates for the summer of 2013/4 which look as if they may be following the pattern of summer time (daylight savings) running from the last Sunday in September to the first Sunday in April - so I am going to assume that for years even further into the future in the patch I am submitting below for consideration.
The pattern also applies to the previous end of DST in April 2012. -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-
Patch needs a little fix. LastSun should be lastSun.... i.e. lowercase first letter. Having uppercase first letter while inconsistent, breaks the JodaTime compiler... [untar] Expanding: /home/waded/working/TzData/ OlsonDB/tzdata2012f-plus.tar.gz into /home/waded/working/TzData/tmp/tzdata [echo] Running the JodaTime ZoneInfoCompiler [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: LastSun [java] at org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler$DateTimeOfYear.<init>(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:571) [java] at org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler$Rule.<init>(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:660) [java] at org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler.parseDataFile(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:495) [java] at org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler.compile(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:370) [java] at org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler.main(ZoneInfoCompiler.java:136) On 13 September 2012 21:11, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:45:03 +1300 From: "Nicky" <pereiranick@mcil.gov.ws> Message-ID: <000101cd8edc$c0599ca0$410cd5e0$@mcil.gov.ws>
| Can you please update Daylight Savings information for Samoa (South | Pacific). Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and | ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013.
Thanks for the update.
| Please find link below for more information. | http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html
I note that that also includes Summer Time dates for the summer of 2013/4 which look as if they may be following the pattern of summer time (daylight savings) running from the last Sunday in September to the first Sunday in April - so I am going to assume that for years even further into the future in the patch I am submitting below for consideration.
If you have any reason to believe a different rule is likely to apply, now, or any time in the future (and/or if there are any exception years) we'd appreciate learning of it as far in advance of the change as possible (3 weeks notice is not really enough preparation time for most users of this data).
kre
The following patch is against the (as yet unannounced) tzdata2012f release.
--- australasia 2012-08-31 20:27:35.000000000 +0700 +++ australasia.new 2012-09-13 16:03:52.000000000 +0700 @@ -628,6 +628,25 @@ # Although Samoa has used Daylight Saving Time in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 # seasons, there is not yet any indication that this trend will continue on # a regular basis. For now, we have explicitly listed the transitions below. +# +# From Nicholas Pereira (2012-09-10): +# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and +# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013. +# +# Please find link below for more information. +# <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html"> +# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html +# </a> +# +# That publication also includes dates for Summer of 2013/2014 +# which give the impression of a pattern in selecting dates for the +# future, so for now, we will guess this will continue + +# Western Samoa +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule WS 2012 max - Sep LastSun 3:00 1 D +Rule WS 2013 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time @@ -636,7 +655,7 @@ -11:00 - WST 2011 Sep 24 3:00 -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Dec 30 13:00 1:00 WSDT 2012 Apr 1 4:00 - 13:00 - WST + 13:00 WS WS%sT
# Solomon Is # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:51:20 +0100 From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Message-ID: <5051AC98.3070106@mev.co.uk> | The pattern also applies to the previous end of DST in April 2012. Actually, it applies to every instance of Summer Time (that we know about) for Western Samoa, they've always selected the Last Sun in Sep tp the first in April (no deviations at all) - they appear to just be resisting committing to that for the future (even as much as any political decision about the future is ever a real committment). (Of course, "always" means "since Sep 2010" so this isn't quite as compelling as it sounds...) It only looks confused in the rules because of the missing day near the end of 2011 when they jumped the date line. In any case, this is one where (even more than Fiji) I think the best course is to assume the rule, then adjust later if things change. kre ps: Here's an ammended patch correcting the "lastSun" case typo (zic doesn't object...) as just reported by lord.buddha@gmail.com I'm still applying the rule only for future years to keep the diff smaller (and so I don't have to think as much!) --- australasia 2012-08-31 20:27:35.000000000 +0700 +++ australasia.new 2012-09-15 08:32:28.000000000 +0700 @@ -628,6 +628,27 @@ # Although Samoa has used Daylight Saving Time in the 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 # seasons, there is not yet any indication that this trend will continue on # a regular basis. For now, we have explicitly listed the transitions below. +# +# From: "Nicky" <pereiranick@mcil.gov.ws> +# Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:45:03 +1300 +# +# Daylight Saving Time commences on Sunday 30th September 2012 and +# ends on Sunday 7th of April 2013. +# +# Please find link below for more information. +# <a href="http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html"> +# http://www.mcil.gov.ws/mcil_publications.html +# </a> +# +# That publication also includes dates for Summer of 2013/4 as well +# which give the impression of a pattern in selecting dates for the +# future, so for now, we will guess this will continue + +# Western Samoa +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule WS 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 D +Rule WS 2013 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 - +# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time @@ -636,7 +657,7 @@ -11:00 - WST 2011 Sep 24 3:00 -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Dec 30 13:00 1:00 WSDT 2012 Apr 1 4:00 - 13:00 - WST + 13:00 WS WS%sT # Solomon Is # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
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