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@@ -1464,17 +1464,17 @@ Zone Asia/Jerusalem 2:20:54 - LMT 1880
# of the Japanese wanted to scrap daylight-saving time, as opposed to 30% who
# wanted to keep it.)
-# From Paul Eggert (2006-03-22):
-# Shanks & Pottenger write that DST in Japan during those years was as follows:
+# From Takayuki Nikai (2018-01-19):
+# The source of information is Japanese law.
+# http://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_housei.nsf/html/houritsu/00219480428029.htm
+# http://www.shugiin.go.jp/internet/itdb_housei.nsf/html/houritsu/00719500331039.htm
+# ... In summary, it is written as follows. From 24:00 on the first Saturday
+# in May, until 0:00 on the day after the second Saturday in September.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
-Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sat>=8 2:00 0 S
-Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
-Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sun>=1 2:00 1:00 D
-# but the only locations using it (for birth certificates, presumably, since
-# their audience is astrologers) were US military bases. For now, assume
-# that for most purposes daylight-saving time was observed; otherwise, what
-# would have been the point of the 1951 poll?
+Rule Japan 1948 only - May Sat>=1 24:00 1:00 D
+Rule Japan 1948 1951 - Sep Sun>=9 0:00 0 S
+Rule Japan 1949 only - Apr Sat>=1 24:00 1:00 D
+Rule Japan 1950 1951 - May Sat>=1 24:00 1:00 D
# From Hideyuki Suzuki (1998-11-09):
# 'Tokyo' usually stands for the former location of Tokyo Astronomical