[src/trunk]: src/share/zoneinfo Merge tzdata2005h.

[kleink <kleink%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/c45544127cc2
branches:  trunk
changeset: 580028:c45544127cc2
user:      kleink <kleink%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Tue Apr 05 16:29:28 2005 +0000

description:
Merge tzdata2005h.

diffstat:

 share/zoneinfo/australasia |  20 +++++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diffs (49 lines):

diff -r 6b6a8baa59e3 -r c45544127cc2 share/zoneinfo/australasia
--- a/share/zoneinfo/australasia        Tue Apr 05 16:27:29 2005 +0000
+++ b/share/zoneinfo/australasia        Tue Apr 05 16:29:28 2005 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)australasia      7.70
+# @(#)australasia      7.71
 # This file also includes Pacific islands.
 
 # Notes are at the end of this file
@@ -199,9 +199,11 @@
                        -10:00  Cook    CK%sT
 
 # Cocos
-# From USNO (1989):
+# These islands were ruled by the Ross family from about 1830 to 1978.
+# We don't know when standard time was introduced; for now, we guess 1900.
 # Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
-Zone   Indian/Cocos    6:30    -       CCT     # Cocos Islands Time
+Zone   Indian/Cocos    6:27:40 -       LMT     1900
+                       6:30    -       CCT     # Cocos Islands Time
 
 # Fiji
 # Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
@@ -381,11 +383,11 @@
                        -11:00  -       BST     1983 Nov 30     # B=Bering
                        -11:00  -       SST                     # S=Samoa
 
-# W Samoa
+# Samoa
 Zone Pacific/Apia       12:33:04 -     LMT     1879 Jul  5
                        -11:26:56 -     LMT     1911
                        -11:30  -       SAMT    1950            # Samoa Time
-                       -11:00  -       WST                     # W Samoa Time
+                       -11:00  -       WST                     # Samoa Time
 
 # Solomon Is
 # excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
@@ -1347,3 +1349,11 @@
 # places as late as fourteen hours later than UTC.  And, since the IDL is not
 # an international standard, there are some places on the high seas where the
 # correct date is ambiguous.
+
+# From Paul Eggert, using references suggested by Oscar van Vlijmen
+# (2005-03-20):
+#
+# The American Practical Navigator (2002)
+# <http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_apn_sections.html?rid=187>
+# talks only about the 180-degree meridian with respect to ships in
+# international waters; it ignores the international date line.