# @(#)africa 8.7

Zone Africa/Asmara 2:35:32 - LMT 1870

2:35:32 - AMT 1890 # Asmara Mean Time

# @(#)asia 8.11

#

# See Indonesia for the 1945 transition.

9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23

# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-10):

# Here is another correction to Shanks & Pottenger.

# JohnTWB writes that Japanese forces did not surrender control in

# Indonesia until 1945-09-01 00:00 at the earliest (in Jakarta) and

# other formal surrender ceremonies were September 9, 11, and 13, plus

# September 12 for the regional surrender to Mountbatten in Singapore.

# These would be the earliest possible times for a change.

# Regimes horaires pour le monde entier, by Henri Le Corre, (Editions

# Traditionnelles, 1987, Paris) says that Java and Madura switched

# from JST to UTC+07:30 on 1945-09-23, and gives 1944-09-01 for Jayapura

# (Hollandia). For now, assume all Indonesian locations other than Jayapura

# switched on 1945-09-23.

#

9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23

9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23

9:00 - JST 1945 Sep 23

9:00 - EIT 1944 Sep 1

#

# From the Arab Times (2007-03-14):

# The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has approved a proposal forwarded

# by MP Ahmad Baqer on implementing the daylight saving time (DST) in

# Kuwait starting from April until the end of Sept this year, reports Al-Anba.

# <http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/kuwait/Viewdet.asp?ID=9950>.

# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29):

# We don't know the details, or whether the approval means it'll happen,

# so for now we assume no DST.

# From Ganbold Ts. (2007-02-26):

# Parliament of Mongolia has just changed the daylight-saving rule in February.

# They decided not to adopt daylight-saving time....

# http://www.mongolnews.mn/index.php?module=unuudur&sec=view&id=15742

Rule Mongol 2001 2006 - Sep lastSat 2:00 0 -

Rule Mongol 2002 2006 - Mar lastSat 2:00 1:00 S

Rule Syria 1999 2006 - Apr 1 0:00 1:00 S

# From Paul Eggert (2007-03-29):

# Today the AP reported "Syria will switch to summertime at midnight Thursday."

# http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/29/africa/ME-GEN-Syria-Time-Change.php

# For lack of better info, assume the rule changed to "last Friday in March"

# this year.

Rule Syria 2007 max - Mar lastFri 0:00 1:00 S

# @(#)australasia 8.6

Zone Australia/Eucla 8:35:28 - LMT 1895 Dec

8:45 Aus CWST 1943 Jul

8:45 AW CWST

# no times are set

# no times are set

# like Australia/Hobart

# 8:45 CWST CWST Central Western Australia*

# From Christopher Hunt (2006-11-21), after an advance warning

# from Jesper Norgaard Welen (2006-11-01):

# WA are trialing DST for three years.

# <http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf>

# southern coast.... South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western

# Australia and Western Australia....

# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>.

#

# From Alex Livingston (2006-12-07):

# ... it was just on four years ago that I drove along the Eyre Highway,

# which passes through eastern Western Australia close to the southern

# coast of the continent.

#

# I paid particular attention to the time kept there. There can be no

# dispute that UTC+08:45 was considered "the time" from the border

# village just inside the border with South Australia to as far west

# as just east of Caiguna. There can also be no dispute that Eucla is

# the largest population centre in this zone....

#

# Now that Western Australia is observing daylight saving, the

# question arose whether this part of the state would follow suit. I

# just called the border village and confirmed that indeed they have,

# meaning that they are now observing UTC+09:45.

#

# (2006-12-09):

# I personally doubt that either experimentation with daylight saving

# in WA or its introduction in SA had anything to do with the genesis

# of this time zone. My hunch is that it's been around since well

# before 1975. I remember seeing it noted on road maps decades ago.

# From Paul Eggert (2006-12-15):

# For lack of better info, assume the tradition dates back to the

# introduction of standard time in 1895.

# @(#)backward 8.3

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