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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:29:02 +1030
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: tzs for aussies
Message-ID:  <20060328005902.GB25392@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060327074714.GB708@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <17447.38161.9743.938805@roam.psg.com> <20060327074714.GB708@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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On Monday, 27 March 2006 at 18:47:14 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-Mar-26 21:32:33 -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
>> i am told that the aussies have gone nuts and have moved
>> this year's change from summer time to normal one week.
> ...
>> 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.

Do you have details?

> - 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.

Heh.

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

Greg
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