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Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14
* NEWS: Mention this. (Thanks to Dominic Fok.) * australasia (Fiji): Assume 1st Sunday >= Jan 14, not 15.
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NEWS

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Unreleased, experimental changes
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Briefly: Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01.
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Briefly: Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14, not 2018-01-21.
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Namibia switches from +01/+02 to +02 on 2018-04-01.
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Turks & Caicos switches from -04 to -05/-04 on 2018-11-04.
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A new file tzdata.zi now holds a small text copy of all data.
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The zic input format has been regularized slightly.
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Changes to future time stamps
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Fiji ends DST 2018-01-14 instead of the 2018-01-21 previously
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predicted. (Thanks to Dominic Fok.) Adjust future predictions
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accordingly.
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Namibia will switch from +01 with DST to +02 all year on
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2017-09-03 at 02:00. This affects UT offsets starting 2018-04-01
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at 02:00. (Thanks to Steffen Thorsen.)

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# clocks go forward an hour at 2am to 3am.... Daylight Saving will
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# end at 3.00am on Sunday 15th January 2017."
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# From Paul Eggert (2016-10-03):
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# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to
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# 03:00 the third Sunday in January. Although ad hoc, it matches
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# From Paul Eggert (2017-08-21):
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# Dominic Fok writes (2017-08-20) that DST ends 2018-01-14, citing
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# Extraordinary Government of Fiji Gazette Supplement No. 21 (2017-08-27),
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# [Legal Notice No. 41] of an order of the previous day by J Usamate.
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# For now, guess DST from 02:00 the first Sunday in November to 03:00
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# the first Sunday on or after January 14. Although ad hoc, it matches
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# transitions since late 2014 and seems more likely to match future
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# practice than guessing no DST.
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Rule Fiji 2012 2013 - Jan Sun>=18 3:00 0 -
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Rule Fiji 2014 only - Jan Sun>=18 2:00 0 -
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Rule Fiji 2014 max - Nov Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 S
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Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
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Rule Fiji 2015 max - Jan Sun>=14 3:00 0 -
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# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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Zone Pacific/Fiji 11:55:44 - LMT 1915 Oct 26 # Suva
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12:00 Fiji +12/+13

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