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Fix times of habitation for Macquarie to agree with Tasmania history.
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Also, sort Macquarie more-consistently with other parts of Australia.
This doesn't affect time stamps, just zone selection.
Problems reported by Tim Parenti in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-April/019060.html>.
* australasia (Antarctica/Macquarie): Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service
history indicates that permanent habitation was 1899-1918 and 1948 on.
* zone.tab (Antarctica/Macquarie): Move next to Lord Howe and Tasmania.
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eggert committed Apr 17, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -218,16 +218,23 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 - LMT 1895 Feb
# no times are set
#
# Macquarie
# permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948;
# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917
# Permanent occupation (scientific station) 1911-1915 and since 25 March 1948;
# sealing and penguin oil station operated Nov 1899 to Apr 1919. See the
# Tasmania Parks & Wildlife Service history of sealing at Macquarie Island
# <http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1828>
# <http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/index.aspx?base=1831>.
# Guess that it was like Australia/Hobart while inhabited before 2010.
#
# From Steffen Thorsen (2010-03-10):
# We got these changes from the Australian Antarctic Division:
# - Macquarie Island will stay on UTC+11 for winter and therefore not
# switch back from daylight savings time when other parts of Australia do
# on 4 April.
Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - zzz 1911
Zone Antarctica/Macquarie 0 - zzz 1899 Nov
10:00 - EST 1916 Oct 1 2:00
10:00 1:00 EST 1917 Feb
10:00 Aus EST 1919 Apr
0 - zzz 1948 Mar 25
10:00 Aus EST 1967
10:00 AT EST 2010 Apr 4 3:00
11:00 - MIST # Macquarie I Standard Time
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion zone.tab
Expand Up @@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ AQ -6617+11031 Antarctica/Casey Casey Station, Bailey Peninsula
AQ -7824+10654 Antarctica/Vostok Vostok Station, Lake Vostok
AQ -6640+14001 Antarctica/DumontDUrville Dumont-d'Urville Station, Terre Adelie
AQ -690022+0393524 Antarctica/Syowa Syowa Station, E Ongul I
AU -5430+15857 Antarctica/Macquarie Macquarie Island Station, Macquarie Island
AR -3436-05827 America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires Buenos Aires (BA, CF)
AR -3124-06411 America/Argentina/Cordoba most locations (CB, CC, CN, ER, FM, MN, SE, SF)
AR -2447-06525 America/Argentina/Salta (SA, LP, NQ, RN)
Expand All @@ -58,6 +57,7 @@ AR -5448-06818 America/Argentina/Ushuaia Tierra del Fuego (TF)
AS -1416-17042 Pacific/Pago_Pago
AT +4813+01620 Europe/Vienna
AU -3133+15905 Australia/Lord_Howe Lord Howe Island
AU -5430+15857 Antarctica/Macquarie Macquarie Island
AU -4253+14719 Australia/Hobart Tasmania - most locations
AU -3956+14352 Australia/Currie Tasmania - King Island
AU -3749+14458 Australia/Melbourne Victoria
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