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Fix 19th-century Samoa transitions
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Samoa switched from Antipodean to American time in 1892, not 1879.
(Reported by Michael Deckers.)
* NEWS: Document this.
* australasia (Pacific/Pago_Pago, Pacific/Apia): Fix transitions.
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Europe/Dublin's 1946 and 1947 fallback transitions occurred at
02:00 standard time, not 02:00 DST. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.)

Pacific/Apia and Pacific/Pago_Pago switched from Antipodean to
American time in 1892, not 1879. (Thanks to Michael Deckers.)

Adjust the 1867 transition in Alaska to better reflect the
historical record, by changing it to occur on 1867-10-18 at 15:30
Sitka time rather than at the start of 1867-10-17 local time.
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-8:00 - -08

# American Samoa
Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago 12:37:12 - LMT 1892 Jul 5
-11:22:48 - LMT 1911
-11:00 - SST # S=Samoa
Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
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Rule WS 2012 max - Apr Sun>=1 4:00 0 S
Rule WS 2012 max - Sep lastSun 3:00 1 D
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1879 Jul 5
Zone Pacific/Apia 12:33:04 - LMT 1892 Jul 5
-11:26:56 - LMT 1911
-11:30 - -1130 1950
-11:00 WS -11/-10 2011 Dec 29 24:00
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# (Western) Samoa and American Samoa

# Howse writes (p 153, citing p 10 of the 1883-11-18 New York Herald)
# that in 1879 the King of Samoa decided to change
# Howse writes (p 153) that after the 1879 standardization on Antipodean
# time by the British governor of Fiji, the King of Samoa decided to change
# "the date in his kingdom from the Antipodean to the American system,
# 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.
# http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/idl/idl.htm

# Although Shanks & Pottenger says they both switched to UT -11:30
# in 1911, and to -11 in 1950. many earlier sources give -11
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