Time zone changes from version 2009l1 to 2009o1:
Date : Sunday 25.th. of October, 2009 1:45 CDT
File : 2009o1.txt
Timezone changes long overdue, alas I have not had time. Now at
the brink of leaving DST in Mexico, I saw an opportunity to
add the changes.
* Hong Kong historical times seem to be wrong in a number of cases
compared to the link below
- DST from 1.st.April to 30.th.Sep 1941 (none in WTE)
- All-year DST from 1942 to 1945 since Hong Kong was occupied by Japan
- After normal 1973 DST from 22 Apr to 21 Oct there was DST starting
again that year 30.th. of December to normal end 20 Oct 1974 presumably
because of the oil crisis.
- In 1977 and 1980 there was no DST
Our source Lee Yiu Chung also points out there is a discrepancy in 1952
when the web site claims that DST ended 25.th. of October not 26.st. of
October, but I rather believe that is a clerical error from the web site
since then it would not happen on a Sunday like all the rest of the dates.
I believe that the dates of the 1942-1945 period must be pretty inaccurate
and other dates must have been involved, but we have no more information.
Link:
* Samoa (not to be confused with American Samoa) planned to introduce
DST this year, but because of the sudden tsunami plans were "blown
away" so to say. Still, the government decided to introduce DST next
year, starting Last Sunday of September 2010 till First Sunday of
April 2011. Presumably it will continue indefinitely like that.
* Gaza and West Bank (Occupied Palestinian Territories) coordinated their
DST to end early this year, 4.th. of September instead of 28.th. of
September.
* Bangladesh has entered DST the 19.th. of June at 23:00 but the DST end
date has not been defined yet. The end date was previously estimated to
26.st. of September at 0:00 but now indefinite DST has been defined for WTE
for this century. I presume a more suitable end date will be defined by
Bangladesh later this year.
* Pakistan were first to end DST the 1.st. of November, then changed their
minds and wanted 1.st of October, but in the end reverted back to 1.st. of
November, like WTE had it in 2009l1. We suppose this will continue in the
future years.
* Argentina has finally decided not to implement DST this year because there
were so many protests and uncomplying provinces. The political reasoning
was of course that "now the energy reserves did not make DST necessary".
Hoohay, talk about wool in the mouth. San Luis however is continuing Chile
style DST, but from GMT-4 as base offset instead of GMT-3 as base like the
rest of Argentina.
* There are no map changes in this version.
