East Timor From Tim Parenti (2024-07-01): The 1912-01-01 transition occurred at 00:00 new time, per the 1911-05-24 Portuguese decree (see Europe/Lisbon). A provision in article 5(c) of the decree prescribed that Timor "will keep counting time in harmony with neighboring foreign colonies, [for] as long as they do not adopt the time that belongs to them in [the Washington Convention] system." See Indonesia for the 1945 transition. From João Carrascalão, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in East Timor may be late for its millennium <https://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm> (1999-12-26/31): Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it conflicts with their way of life. From Paul Eggert (2000-12-04): We don't have any record of the above attempt. Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data. From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/2000/00-08-16.undh.html (2000-08-16): The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change, which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at midnight on Saturday, September 16. Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Attributed Statements:
Tim Parenti (2024-07-01):
The 1912-01-01 transition occurred at 00:00 new time, per the 1911-05-24 Portuguese decree (see Europe/Lisbon). A provision in article 5(c) of the decree prescribed that Timor "will keep counting time in harmony with neighboring foreign colonies, [for] as long as they do not adopt the time that belongs to them in [the Washington Convention] system." See Indonesia for the 1945 transition. From João Carrascalão, brother of the former governor of East Timor, in East Timor may be late for its millennium <https://etan.org/et99c/december/26-31/30ETMAY.htm> (1999-12-26/31): Portugal tried to change the time forward in 1974 because the sun rises too early but the suggestion raised a lot of problems with the Timorese and I still don't think it would work today because it conflicts with their way of life.
Paul Eggert (2000-12-04):
We don't have any record of the above attempt. Most likely our records are incomplete, but we have no better data. From Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Deputy Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General http://www.hri.org/news/world/undh/2000/00-08-16.undh.html (2000-08-16): The Cabinet of the East Timor Transition Administration decided today to advance East Timor's time by one hour. The time change, which will be permanent, with no seasonal adjustment, will happen at midnight on Saturday, September 16. Zone NAME STDOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
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