[src/trunk]: src/share/zoneinfo Merge tzdata2012e from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/...

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details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/82336f8b827a
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changeset: 780836:82336f8b827a
user:      apb <apb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Wed Aug 08 20:21:03 2012 +0000

description:
Merge tzdata2012e from ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata2012e.tar.gz

Major changes from tzdata2012d to tzdata2012e:

  * australasia (Pacific/Fakaofo): Tokelau is UTC+13, not UTC+14.
    (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)

  * Use a single version number for both code and data.

diffstat:

 share/zoneinfo/australasia |  56 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diffs (114 lines):

diff -r 4ab24a1ab42b -r 82336f8b827a share/zoneinfo/australasia
--- a/share/zoneinfo/australasia        Wed Aug 08 20:19:01 2012 +0000
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/australasia        Wed Aug 08 20:21:03 2012 +0000
@@ -283,9 +283,9 @@
 # </a>
 
 # From Alexander Krivenyshev (2010-10-24):
-# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3 
+# According to Radio Fiji and Fiji Times online, Fiji will end DST 3
 # weeks earlier than expected - on March 6, 2011, not March 27, 2011...
-# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands, 
+# Here is confirmation from Government of the Republic of the Fiji Islands,
 # Ministry of Information (fiji.gov.fj) web site:
 # <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155";>
 # http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2608:daylight-savings&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
@@ -296,15 +296,15 @@
 # </a>
 
 # From Steffen Thorsen (2011-10-03):
-# Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date 
+# Now the dates have been confirmed, and at least our start date
 # assumption was correct (end date was one week wrong).
 #
 # <a href="http://www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155";>
 # www.fiji.gov.fj/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4966:daylight-saving-starts-in-fiji&catid=71:press-releases&Itemid=155
 # </a>
 # which says
-# Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in 
-# advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to 
+# Members of the public are reminded to change their time to one hour in
+# advance at 2am to 3am on October 23, 2011 and one hour back at 3am to
 # 2am on February 26 next year.
 
 # From Ken Rylander (2011-10-24)
@@ -558,7 +558,7 @@
 
 # From David Zuelke (2011-05-09):
 # Subject: Samoa to move timezone from east to west of international date line
-# 
+#
 # <a href="http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963";>
 # http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/markets/newsfeeditem.aspx?id=138501958347963
 # </a>
@@ -640,25 +640,25 @@
 #
 # From Gwillim Law (2011-12-29)
 # A correspondent informed me that Tokelau, like Samoa, will be skipping
-# December 31 this year, thereby changing its time zone from UTC-10 to
-# UTC+14. When I tried to verify this statement, I found a confirming
-# article in Time magazine online
-# <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103243,00.html";>
-# (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2103243,00.html).
-# </a>
+# December 31 this year ...
 #
-# From Jonathan Leffler (2011-12-29)
-# Information from the BBC to the same effect:
-# <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377";>
-# http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16351377
-# </a>
+# From Steffen Thorsen (2012-07-25)
+# ... we double checked by calling hotels and offices based in Tokelau asking
+# about the time there, and they all told a time that agrees with UTC+13....
+# Shanks says UTC-10 from 1901 [but] ... there is a good chance the change
+# actually was to UTC-11 back then.
 #
-# Patch supplied by Tim Parenti (2011-12-29)
+# From Paul Eggert (2012-07-25)
+# A Google Books snippet of Appendix to the Journals of the House of
+# Representatives of New Zealand, Session 1948,
+# <http://books.google.com/books?id=ZaVCAQAAIAAJ>, page 65, says Tokelau
+# was "11 hours slow on G.M.T."  Go with Thorsen and assume Shanks & Pottenger
+# are off by an hour starting in 1901.
 
 # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 Zone   Pacific/Fakaofo -11:24:56 -     LMT     1901
-                       -10:00  -       TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time
-                       14:00   -       TKT
+                       -11:00  -       TKT 2011 Dec 30 # Tokelau Time
+                       13:00   -       TKT
 
 # Tonga
 # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
@@ -1339,22 +1339,22 @@
 # See "southeast Australia" above for 2008 and later.
 
 # From Steffen Thorsen (2009-04-28):
-# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight 
-# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009 
+# According to the official press release, South Australia's extended daylight
+# saving period will continue with the same rules as used during the 2008-2009
 # summer (southern hemisphere).
-# 
+#
 # From
 # <a href="http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf";>
 # http://www.safework.sa.gov.au/uploaded_files/DaylightDatesSet.pdf
 # </a>
-# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling 
+# The extended daylight saving period that South Australia has been trialling
 # for over the last year is now set to be ongoing.
-# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each 
+# Daylight saving will continue to start on the first Sunday in October each
 # year and finish on the first Sunday in April the following year.
-# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia 
-# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and 
+# Industrial Relations Minister, Paul Caica, says this provides South Australia
+# with a consistent half hour time difference with NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and
 # the ACT for all 52 weeks of the year...
-# 
+#
 # We have a wrap-up here:
 # <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html";>
 # http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/south-australia-extends-dst.html