[AUUG-Talk]: Rebuilding zoneinfo files for WA Daylight

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:19:47PM +1100, Stuart Remphrey wrote:
> Dunno about BSD, but the Solaris ones track ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub
> 
> so check if there's a file with a set of updated rules already there.
> Latest seems to be "2006o" of 6 Nov, so a pretty good chance.

It's not in 2006o yet.

But the patch is:

RCS file: /usr/ncvs/src/share/zoneinfo/australasia,v
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -r1.30 australasia
--- share/zoneinfo/australasia  13 Oct 2006 10:03:23 -0000      1.30
+++ share/zoneinfo/australasia  22 Nov 2006 09:16:28 -0000
@@ -28,7 +28,19 @@
 Zone Australia/Darwin   8:43:20 -      LMT     1895 Feb
                         9:00   -       CST     1899 May
                         9:30   Aus     CST
+
 # Western Australia
+#
+# From Peter Jeremy (2006-11-22)
+# The WA Parliament has just passed legislation to trial Daylight Saving
+# for 3 years, starting in December 2006.
+# http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/BillProgressPopup?openForm&ParentUNID=9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1
+#
+# Rule NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE    LETTER/S
+Rule   AW      2007    2009    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    -
+Rule   AW      2006    only    -       Dec     3       2:00s   0       -
+Rule   AW      2007    2009    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       -
+# Zone NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
 Zone Australia/Perth    7:43:24 -      LMT     1895 Dec
                         8:00   Aus     WST     1943 Jul
                         8:00   -       WST     1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s
@@ -37,7 +49,8 @@
                         8:00   1:00    WST     1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s
                         8:00   -       WST     1991 Nov 17 2:00s
                         8:00   1:00    WST     1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s
-                        8:00   -       WST
+                        8:00   AW      WST
+
 # Queensland
 #
 # From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):


Edwin, maintainer of misc/zoneinfo

Edwin

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