[PROPOSED] Guess that Tonga has canceled DST
(Thanks to David Wade.) * NEWS, australasia (Tonga): Guess DST has been canceled. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ australasia | 14 ++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4e98ef7..28b46b8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21. Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01. Sudan switches from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01. + Tonga likely switches from +13/+14 to +13 on 2017-11-05. Turks & Caicos switches from -04 to -05/-04 on 2018-11-04. A new file tzdata.zi now holds a small text copy of all data. The zic input format has been regularized slightly. @@ -28,6 +29,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Atyya and Yahia Abdalla.) South Sudan is not switching, so Africa/Juba is no longer a link to Africa/Khartoum. + Tonga has likely ended its experiment with DST, and will not + adjust its clocks on 2017-11-05. Although Tonga has not announced + whether it will continue to observe DST, the IATA is assuming that + it will not. (Thanks to David Wade.) + Turks & Caicos will switch from -04 all year to -05 with US DST on 2018-03-11 at 03:00. This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index ae2cd72..5f7c86d 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -704,8 +704,8 @@ Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - -Rule Tonga 2016 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Tonga 2017 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - +Rule Tonga 2016 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Tonga 2017 only - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - +1220 1941 @@ -1626,6 +1626,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # day in 2011. Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New # Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations. + # Tonga # From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): @@ -1720,6 +1721,15 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00 # through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now. +# From David Wade (2017-10-18): +# In August government was disolved by the King. The current prime minister +# continued in office in care taker mode. It is easy to see that few +# decisions will be made until elections 16th November. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18): +# For now, guess that DST is discontinued. That's what the IATA is guessing. + + # Wake # From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup, -- 2.13.6
Just got an email (Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:18:00 +1300) from Andrew Toimoana (Director of Information, Tonga) <atoimoana@mic.gov.to> with CC to Tonga Meteorological Service 'Ofa Faanunu' <ofaf@met.gov.to> and Paula Ma'u - new Secretary for Information & Communications 'Paula Ma'ú' <paulm@mic.gov.to> who stated that " ... the Government of Tonga won't be observing the Daylight saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on regarding this subject ...." Regards, Alexander Krivenyshev, WorldTimeZone.com New York ########################################################### Alexander, Please note that the Government of Tonga won't be observing the Day light saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on regarding this subject. Should you have any other questions, please let me know . Kind Regards Andrew. ########################################################## On 10/18/2017 2:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
(Thanks to David Wade.) * NEWS, australasia (Tonga): Guess DST has been canceled. --- NEWS | 6 ++++++ australasia | 14 ++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4e98ef7..28b46b8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21. Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01. Sudan switches from +03 to +02 on 2017-11-01. + Tonga likely switches from +13/+14 to +13 on 2017-11-05. Turks& Caicos switches from -04 to -05/-04 on 2018-11-04. A new file tzdata.zi now holds a small text copy of all data. The zic input format has been regularized slightly. @@ -28,6 +29,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes Atyya and Yahia Abdalla.) South Sudan is not switching, so Africa/Juba is no longer a link to Africa/Khartoum.
+ Tonga has likely ended its experiment with DST, and will not + adjust its clocks on 2017-11-05. Although Tonga has not announced + whether it will continue to observe DST, the IATA is assuming that + it will not. (Thanks to David Wade.) + Turks& Caicos will switch from -04 all year to -05 with US DST on 2018-03-11 at 03:00. This affects UT offsets starting 2018-11-04 at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.) diff --git a/australasia b/australasia index ae2cd72..5f7c86d 100644 --- a/australasia +++ b/australasia @@ -704,8 +704,8 @@ Rule Tonga 1999 only - Oct 7 2:00s 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2000 only - Mar 19 2:00s 0 - Rule Tonga 2000 2001 - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S Rule Tonga 2001 2002 - Jan lastSun 2:00 0 - -Rule Tonga 2016 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S -Rule Tonga 2017 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - +Rule Tonga 2016 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S +Rule Tonga 2017 only - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Pacific/Tongatapu 12:19:20 - LMT 1901 12:20 - +1220 1941 @@ -1626,6 +1626,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # day in 2011. Assume also that the Samoas follow the US and New # Zealand's "ST"/"DT" style of daylight-saving abbreviations.
+ # Tonga
# From Paul Eggert (1996-01-22): @@ -1720,6 +1721,15 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00 # through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now.
+# From David Wade (2017-10-18): +# In August government was disolved by the King. The current prime minister +# continued in office in care taker mode. It is easy to see that few +# decisions will be made until elections 16th November. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18): +# For now, guess that DST is discontinued. That's what the IATA is guessing. + + # Wake
# From Vernice Anderson, Personal Secretary to Philip Jessup,
On 2017-10-24 18:14, World Time Zone wrote:
Just got an email (Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:18:00 +1300)
from Andrew Toimoana (Director of Information, Tonga) <atoimoana@mic.gov.to>
with CC to Tonga Meteorological Service 'Ofa Faanunu' <ofaf@met.gov.to> and Paula Ma'u - new Secretary for Information & Communications 'Paula Ma'ú' <paulm@mic.gov.to>
who stated that " ... the Government of Tonga won't be observing the Daylight saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on regarding this subject ...."
Could Tonga government authorities please have *"tz@iana.org"* added to their official notification list for all announcements on time topics, which should already include their country's airport, airline, and travel authorities, IATA, etc. This will ensure that all major systems, mobile phone, and travel software vendors get timely notices and forewarning to provide system updates. Could they please also include any available links to official decision notices on government web sites, and also forward this to their counterparts in other countries, so we can all agree on scheduled travel and meeting times. All phone and computer users in, and business and vacation visitors to, Tonga would greatly appreciate their ongoing cooperation. At the very least Apple, IANA, Microsoft, and Oracle staff monitor and participate on this mailing list, to ensure their organizations have correct information and maximum possible notice to process and distribute updates, to ensure that all systems from the largest servers to personal phones can display the correct current time in Tonga. (Any other major organizations' staff should be encouraged to mention their affiliation on the list.) [CC to Tonga authorities mentioned]
########################################################### Alexander,
Please note that the Government of Tonga won't be observing the Day light saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on regarding this subject. Should you have any other questions, please let me know .
Kind Regards
Andrew.
##########################################################
On 10/18/2017 2:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
(Thanks to David Wade.) * NEWS, australasia (Tonga): Guess DST has been canceled.
+ Tonga likely switches from +13/+14 to +13 on 2017-11-05.
+ Tonga has likely ended its experiment with DST, and will not + adjust its clocks on 2017-11-05. Although Tonga has not announced + whether it will continue to observe DST, the IATA is assuming that + it will not. (Thanks to David Wade.)
# Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00 # through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now.
+# From David Wade (2017-10-18): +# In August government was disolved by the King. The current prime minister +# continued in office in care taker mode. It is easy to see that few +# decisions will be made until elections 16th November. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18): +# For now, guess that DST is discontinued. That's what the IATA is guessing.
-- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
It was confirmed. No DST this year. Please try to inform those that make the decisions, that it takes quite some time for the rule changes to filter down to computers around the world. A years notice is best. My own servers have not yet received the 2017c TzDB update with this change. Indeed our production servers are patched only every three months (unless critical security issue). In Tonga this means your mobile phones *may* still switch to daylight savings and any computers using Linux/Unix may also still switch to daylight savings. I can't say for MacOS or Windows. My production Java applications, will get this change November 7th as have patched the JVM & JodaTime. /David *PS. All the best against Samoa in the rugby league world cup on 4th November !!! * On 25 October 2017 at 17:29, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@systematicsw.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2017-10-24 18:14, World Time Zone wrote:
Just got an email (Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:18:00 +1300)
from Andrew Toimoana (Director of Information, Tonga) <atoimoana@mic.gov.to>
with CC to Tonga Meteorological Service 'Ofa Faanunu' <ofaf@met.gov.to> and Paula Ma'u - new Secretary for Information & Communications 'Paula Ma'ú' <paulm@mic.gov.to>
who stated that " ... the Government of Tonga won't be observing the Daylight saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on regarding this subject ...."
Could Tonga government authorities please have *"tz@iana.org"* added to their official notification list for all announcements on time topics, which should already include their country's airport, airline, and travel authorities, IATA, etc.
This will ensure that all major systems, mobile phone, and travel software vendors get timely notices and forewarning to provide system updates.
Could they please also include any available links to official decision notices on government web sites, and also forward this to their counterparts in other countries, so we can all agree on scheduled travel and meeting times.
All phone and computer users in, and business and vacation visitors to, Tonga would greatly appreciate their ongoing cooperation.
At the very least Apple, IANA, Microsoft, and Oracle staff monitor and participate on this mailing list, to ensure their organizations have correct information and maximum possible notice to process and distribute updates, to ensure that all systems from the largest servers to personal phones can display the correct current time in Tonga.
(Any other major organizations' staff should be encouraged to mention their affiliation on the list.)
[CC to Tonga authorities mentioned]
########################################################### Alexander,
Please note that the Government of Tonga won't be observing the Day light saving this year, unless there will be a cabinet direction given later on regarding this subject. Should you have any other questions, please let me know .
Kind Regards
Andrew.
##########################################################
On 10/18/2017 2:24 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
(Thanks to David Wade.) * NEWS, australasia (Tonga): Guess DST has been canceled.
+ Tonga likely switches from +13/+14 to +13 on 2017-11-05.
+ Tonga has likely ended its experiment with DST, and will not + adjust its clocks on 2017-11-05. Although Tonga has not announced + whether it will continue to observe DST, the IATA is assuming that + it will not. (Thanks to David Wade.)
# Assume Tonga will observe DST from the first Sunday in November at 02:00 # through the third Sunday in January at 03:00, like Fiji, for now.
+# From David Wade (2017-10-18): +# In August government was disolved by the King. The current prime minister +# continued in office in care taker mode. It is easy to see that few +# decisions will be made until elections 16th November. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2017-10-18): +# For now, guess that DST is discontinued. That's what the IATA is guessing.
-- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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