Updated.

1999-03-25  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* timezone/README: Update from tzdata1999c and tzcode1999c.

	* timezone/africa: Update from tzdata1999c.
	* timezone/antarctica: Likewise.
	* timezone/asia: Likewise.
	* timezone/australasia: Likewise.
	* timezone/europe: Likewise.
	* timezone/northamerica: Likewise.
	* timezone/southamerica: Likewise.
	* timezone/zone.tab: Likewise.

	* timezone/zic.c: Update from tzcode1999c.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia
index d97a3c6ae6..c5b018e952 100644
--- a/timezone/australasia
+++ b/timezone/australasia
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)australasia	7.45
+# @(#)australasia	7.46
 # This file also includes Pacific islands.
 
 # Notes are at the end of this file
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	1895 Feb
 #
 # Macquarie
 # permanent occupation (scientific station) since 1948;
-# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888-1917
+# sealing and penguin oil station operated 1888/1917
 # no information
 #
 # Manihiki, Penrhyn, Rakehanga
@@ -319,11 +319,13 @@ Zone Pacific/Chatham	12:45	Chatham	CHA%sT
 
 
 # Auckland Is
-# uninhabited
+# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
+# and scientific personnel have wintered
 
 # Campbell I
-# minor whaling stations operated 1909-14
-# scientific station operated 1941-1995
+# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
+# scientific station operated 1941/1995;
+# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
 # was probably like Pacific/Auckland
 
 ###############################################################################
@@ -452,7 +454,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 # go ahead and edit the file (and please send any changes to
 # tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov for general use in the future).
 
-# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1996-11-22):
+# From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1999-03-22):
 # A good source for time zone historical data outside the U.S. is
 # Thomas G. Shanks, The International Atlas (4th edition),
 # San Diego: ACS Publications, Inc. (1995).
@@ -471,8 +473,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 # I found in the UCLA library.
 #
 # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones is
-# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude,
-# Oxford University Press (1980).
+# Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Antique Collectors Club (1997).
 #
 # I invented the abbreviations marked `*' in the following table;
 # the rest are from earlier versions of this file, or from other sources.
@@ -896,7 +897,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 
 # Fiji
 
-# Howse writes (p 162) that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
+# Howse writes that in 1879 the British governor of Fiji
 # enacted an ordinance standardizing the islands on +12:00.
 # Perhaps it didn't take.  We go with Shanks's more precise date in 1915.
 
@@ -933,7 +934,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Wallis	12:15:20 -	LMT	1901
 
 # N Mariana Is, Guam
 
-# Howse writes (p 162) ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
+# Howse writes ``The Spaniards, on the other hand, reached the
 # Philippines and the Ladrones from America,'' and implies that the Ladrones
 # (now called the Marianas) kept American date for quite some time.
 # Ignore this for now, as we have no hard data.  See also Asia/Manila.