Daniela Duerbeck is not on the time zone list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: daniela.duerbeck@t-online.de [mailto:daniela.duerbeck@t-online.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 4:49 PM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Question about Enewetak Hi! On many places in the Internet I find pages that tell that Enewetak on the Marshall Islands has an offset vs. Greenwich Meantime of -12 hours, but the tz data base states +12 hours (for all Islands of the Marshalls). What is correct? The named pages all tell, that Enewetak is different to the rest of the Marshall Islands. Can it be, that this Island was one of these to change date before the year 2000 to be the first to celebrate it? If not, is there something missing in the tz database? Thanks a lot in advance, Dani
On many places in the Internet I find pages that tell that Enewetak on the Marshall Islands has an offset vs. Greenwich Meantime of -12 hours, but the tz data base states +12 hours (for all Islands of the Marshalls). What is correct?
My copy of the "Reference map of Oceania", University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, places Enewetak (many times spelled as Eniwetok, Enewetak is official) in the Republic of Marshall Islands, with an offset of UT+12 for the whole group of islands & atols. The tz-database says UT-12 until 1993 Aug. 20, UT+12 since then, with a little complication for the period Oct. 1969 - Aug. 20 1993. Oscar van Vlijmen 2003-09-19
On many places in the Internet I find pages that tell that Enewetak on the Marshall Islands has an offset vs. Greenwich Meantime of -12 hours,
Can you give some examples of that? For example, the Worldwide Airport Path Finder <http://www.wapf.com/world/PKMA.html> says that the airfield on Enewetak uses UTC+12. radioamateur.org says that local time is UTC+12; see <http://www.radioamateur.org/hfdx/articles/wmview.php?ArtID=4>.
The tz-database says UT-12 until 1993 Aug. 20, UT+12 since then, with a little complication for the period Oct. 1969 - Aug. 20 1993.
As far as I know, that complication applies only to Kwajalein, and the rest of the Marshall Islands have been at UTC+12 since October 1969.
The tz-database says UT-12 until 1993 Aug. 20, UT+12 since then, with a little complication for the period Oct. 1969 - Aug. 20 1993.
As far as I know, that complication applies only to Kwajalein, and the rest of the Marshall Islands have been at UTC+12 since October 1969.
You're right I guess. So, since Oct. 1969 the Marshall Islands are on UT+12, except for Kwajalein, which was on UT-12 until Aug. 20 1993. It is probably safe to say that Enewetak was since Oct. 1969 on UT+12. The Kwajalein exception is probably due to the fact that the US military base on Kwajalein preferred a more manageable time scheme. Oscar van Vlijmen 2003-09-20
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