Re: tzs for aussies

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 18:28:32 -0800
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

>On Monday, 27 March 2006 at 18:47:14 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
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>>On Sun, 2006-Mar-26 21:32:33 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
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>>>i am told that the aussies have gone nuts and have moved
>>>this year's change from summer time to normal one week.
>>>      
>>>
>>...
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>>>so, are there /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/ files for this
>>>bit of silliness?
>>>      
>>>
>>They were committed in zoneinfo/australasia 1.26 last August.  It was
>>MFC'd to 5.x immediately and to 6.x in December.
>>
>>If you want silliness:
>>- The South Australian Act covering DST is different to the actual rules and
>>  so has to be over-ridden by regulation every year.
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>Do you have details?
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>>- Broken Hill (County of Yancowinna) follows SA time but is part of NSW so
>>  the time is defined by NSW legislation - which has to therefore define
>>  SA time without any reference to the SA leglislation.
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>Heh.
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>You forgot to mention Central Western Time, round Eucla.  UTC+08:45,
>no DST.  http://www.lemis.com/grog/Photos-20040202.html#time-1 and
>http://www.lemis.com/grog/Photos-20040203.html#time-4
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I'm not sure where Kalgoorlie fits in.. last time I was there they were 
running the pubs
on something like that..

>Greg
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