# Please note that there will not be any daylight savings time change
# in Fiji for 2022-2023....
# https://www.facebook.com/FijianGovernment/posts/pfbid0mmWVTYmTibn66ybpFda75pDcf34SSpoSaskJW5gXwaKo5Sgc7273Q4fXWc6kQV6Hl
+
+# From Almaz Mingaleev (2023-10-06):
+# Cabinet approved the suspension of Daylight Saving and appropriate
+# legislative changes will be considered including the repeal of the
+# Daylight Saving Act 1998
+# https://www.fiji.gov.fj/Media-Centre/Speeches/English/CABINET-DECISIONS-3-OCTOBER-2023
#
-# From Paul Eggert (2022-10-27):
+# From Paul Eggert (2023-10-06):
# For now, assume DST is suspended indefinitely.
# Rule NAME FROM TO - IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
# French Polynesia
# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Rikitea
+Zone Pacific/Gambier -8:59:48 - LMT 1912 Oct 1 # Rikitea
-9:00 - -09
-Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct
+Zone Pacific/Marquesas -9:18:00 - LMT 1912 Oct 1
-9:30 - -0930
-Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct # Papeete
+Zone Pacific/Tahiti -9:58:16 - LMT 1912 Oct 1 # Papeete
-10:00 - -10
# Clipperton (near North America) is administered from French Polynesia;
# it is uninhabited.
# Solomon Is
# excludes Bougainville, for which see Papua New Guinea
# Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct # Honiara
+Zone Pacific/Guadalcanal 10:39:48 - LMT 1912 Oct 1 # Honiara
11:00 - +11
# Tokelau
# Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94.
# https://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359
#
+# For the 1911/1912 establishment of standard time in French possessions, see:
+# Société Française de Physique, Recueil de constantes physiques (1913),
+# page 752, 18b.
+#
# A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997).
#
# ordaining - by a masterpiece of diplomatic flattery - that
# the Fourth of July should be celebrated twice in that year."
# This happened in 1892, according to the Evening News (Sydney) of 1892-07-20.
-# https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm
+# https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl_alaska_samoa.htm
# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30
# in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11