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HKWT observed in late 1941 in Hong Kong
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* NEWS: Mention this.
* asia (Asia/Hong_Kong): Treat the period from 1941-10-01 to
1941-12-25 as 30-minute DST rather than as standard time.
* theory.html (Time zone abbreviations): Add HKWT.
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Fix several errors in pre-1970 transitions in Perry County, IN.
(Thanks to Alois Triendl for pointing out the 1967/9 errors.)

Changes to past time zone abbreviations and DST flags

Hong Kong Winter Time, observed from 1941-10-01 to 1941-12-25,
is now flagged as DST and is abbreviated HKWT not HKT.

Changes to commentary

Nashville's newspapers dueled about the time of day in the 1950s.
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# [email protected] for general use in the future). For more, please see
# the file CONTRIBUTING in the tz distribution.

# From Paul Eggert (2018-06-19):
# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-11):
#
# Unless otherwise specified, the source for data through 1990 is:
# Thomas G. Shanks and Rique Pottenger, The International Atlas (6th edition),
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# 7:00 WIB west Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Barat)
# 8:00 WITA central Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Tengah)
# 8:00 CST China
# 8:00 PST PDT* Philippine Standard Time
# 8:00 HKT HKST Hong Kong (HKWT* for Winter Time in late 1941)
# 8:00 PST PDT* Philippines
# 8:30 KST KDT Korea when at +0830
# 9:00 WIT east Indonesia (Waktu Indonesia Timur)
# 9:00 JST JDT Japan
# 9:00 KST KDT Korea when at +09
# 9:30 ACST Australian Central Standard Time
# *I invented the abbreviation PDT; see "Philippines" below.
# *I invented the abbreviations HKWT and PDT; see below.
# Otherwise, these tables typically use numeric abbreviations like +03
# and +0330 for integer hour and minute UT offsets. Although earlier
# editions invented alphabetic time zone abbreviations for every
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# * 1941-09-30, Hong Kong Daily Press, Winter Time Warning.
# https://i.imgur.com/dge4kFJ.png

# From Paul Eggert (2019-07-11):
# "Hong Kong winter time" is considered to be daylight saving.
# "Hong Kong had adopted daylight saving on June 15 as a wartime measure,
# clocks moving forward one hour until October 1, when they would be put back
# by just half an hour for 'Hong Kong Winter time', so that daylight saving
# operated year round." -- Low Z. The longest day: when wartime Hong Kong
# introduced daylight saving. South China Morning Post. 2019-06-28.
# https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/short-reads/article/3016281/longest-day-when-wartime-hong-kong-introduced

# From P Chan (2018-12-31):
# * According to the Hong Kong Daylight-Saving Regulations, 1941, the
# 1941 spring-forward transition was at 03:00.
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Zone Asia/Hong_Kong 7:36:42 - LMT 1904 Oct 30 0:36:42
8:00 - HKT 1941 Jun 15 3:00
8:00 1:00 HKST 1941 Oct 1 4:00
8:30 - HKT 1941 Dec 25
8:00 0:30 HKWT 1941 Dec 25
9:00 - JST 1945 Nov 18 2:00
8:00 HK HK%sT

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EET/EEST Eastern European,
GST/GDT Guam,
HST/HDT/HWT/HPT Hawaii,
HKT/HKST Hong Kong,
HKT/HKST/HKWT Hong Kong,
IST India,
IST/GMT Irish,
IST/IDT/IDDT Israel,
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