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diff --git a/src/timezone/data/australasia b/src/timezone/data/australasia index 6949172dc31..76e7c19f31e 100644 --- a/src/timezone/data/australasia +++ b/src/timezone/data/australasia @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ # <pre> -# @(#)australasia 8.23 +# @(#)australasia 8.25 # This file is in the public domain, so clarified as of # 2009-05-17 by Arthur David Olson. @@ -529,12 +529,57 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 # Margaret Fruean ACTING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER MINISTRY OF COMMERCE, # INDUSTRY AND LABOUR 28th February 2011 +# 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> + +# From Mark Sim-Smith (2011-08-17): +# I have been in contact with Leilani Tuala Warren from the Samoa Law +# Reform Commission, and she has sent me a copy of the Bill that she +# confirmed has been passed...Most of the sections are about maps rather +# than the time zone change, but I'll paste the relevant bits below. But +# the essence is that at midnight 29 Dec (UTC-11 I suppose), Samoa +# changes from UTC-11 to UTC+13: +# +# International Date Line Bill 2011 +# +# AN ACT to provide for the change to standard time in Samoa and to make +# consequential amendments to the position of the International Date +# Line, and for related purposes. +# +# BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament +# assembled as follows: +# +# 1. Short title and commencement-(1) This Act may be cited as the +# International Date Line Act 2011. (2) Except for section 5(3) this Act +# commences at 12 o'clock midnight, on Thursday 29th December 2011. (3) +# Section 5(3) commences on the date of assent by the Head of State. +# +# [snip] +# +# 3. Interpretation - [snip] "Samoa standard time" in this Act and any +# other statute of Samoa which refers to 'Samoa standard time' means the +# time 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated Universal Time. +# +# 4. Samoa standard time - (1) Upon the commencement of this Act, Samoa +# standard time shall be set at 13 hours in advance of Co-ordinated +# Universal Time for the whole of Samoa. (2) All references to Samoa's +# time zone and to Samoa standard time in Samoa in all legislation and +# instruments after the commencement of this Act shall be references to +# Samoa standard time as provided for in this Act. (3) Nothing in this +# Act affects the provisions of the Daylight Saving Act 2009, except that +# it defines Samoa standard time.... + Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5 -11:26:56 - LMT 1911 -11:30 - SAMT 1950 # Samoa Time -11:00 - WST 2010 Sep 26 -11:00 1:00 WSDT 2011 Apr 2 4:00 - -11:00 - WST + -11:00 - WST 2011 Dec 30 + 13:00 - WST # Solomon Is # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea |