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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--D3BijKHUTCcPeQ2M Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --D3BijKHUTCcPeQ2M Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEKIpWIubykFB6QiMRAo8lAJ9aW6sXgteeaaoGCR3SRRqlIpNNCQCfX1as 7/9MQ3AlPvtKpo3wOyUCf7U= =xINe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --D3BijKHUTCcPeQ2M--
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