Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 14:39:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Australian Eastern DST 2000 Message-ID: <20000406143906.E73669@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <38EC18E3.E65492CC@S1.com> References: <38EC18E3.E65492CC@S1.com>
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On Thursday, 6 April 2000 at 4:56:03 +0000, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote: > Hi y'all, > > I have the dubious honour of living in New South Wales, Australia. Congratulations! > This year (2000) there is some sporting event happening in > September/October, and as a result we'll be required to begin > Daylight Savings Time earlier. "How much earlier?" I hear you ask. 2 > months! > > The official start for NSW (not Victoria or Tasmania) this year is > "Sunday August 27, 2000" (source: > <http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZITWr0>; > ). No, that's not correct. Victoria and Tasmania (even Tasmania!) have decided to move at the same time. To quote /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/australasia: # Victoria will following NSW. See: # <a href="http://abc.net.au/local/news/olympics/1999/07/item19990728112314_1.htm">; # Vic to extend daylight saving # </a> (1999-07-28). # From Alex Livingston (1999-10-04): # I heard on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio news on the # (long) weekend that Tasmania, which usually goes its own way in this regard, # has decided to join with most of NSW, the ACT, and most of Victoria # (Australia) and start daylight saving on the last Sunday in August in 2000 # instead of the first Sunday in October. Elsewhere it shows that Broken Hill will be on SA time, and Lord Howe Island will be on NSW time. > I noticed that going onto DST and coming off just recently all > happened automagically in FreeBSD. But, I am wondering if the > zoneinfo file for Australian EST is set up to cope with the early > start in NSW (and ACT) this year? I suspect not. You guess wrong. The time zone files have been updated. At least in all coming versions of FreeBSD, as well as in 3.4 and 4.x, the transition will be on the correct date. > If there is a method of modifying the zoneinfo files myself, then I'll > be happy with that as a 'workaround' ;') If you're running an older version of FreeBSD, just get the lastest version of /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/australasia and do a 'make all install' in /usr/src/share/zoneinfo. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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