FW: DST changes in australasia due to 2000 Olympics

Olson, Arthur David (NCI) olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov
Thu Aug 12 12:39:44 UTC 1999


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				--ado

-----Original Message-----
From:	cfields at kapaa.eng.sun.com [SMTP:cfields at kapaa.eng.sun.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, August 11, 1999 2:55 PM
To:	tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov
Subject:	DST changes in australasia due to 2000 Olympics

I am fixing a zoneinfo bug in Solaris.  One of our customers has pointed out
that daylight saving should be fixed for NSW due to the Sydney Olympics.
The NSW government web site,
http://dir.gis.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/genobject/document/other/daylightsaving/tigGmZ
ITWr0
shows the following:
--------
Daylight saving will commence on the last Sunday in October 
                  at 2:00am EST and continue until the last Sunday in March 
                  at 3:00am EDST.

                  1998 - 1999  Start:  Sunday October 25, 1998
                              Finish:  Sunday March 28, 1999

                  1999 - 2000  Start:  Sunday October 31, 1999
                              Finish:  Sunday March 26, 2000

                  2000 - 2001  Start:  Sunday August 27, 2000
                              Finish:  Sunday March 25, 2001
                              (Starting at 2.00am and Finishing at 2.00am)
--------
In tzdata1999d (australasia 7.46), Rule AV and AN show the daylight saving
change on Aug 26 in 2000.  Would the following fix the correct set of
timezones that are adopting this change?

% diff australasia australasia.fix
116c116
< Rule  AV      2000    only    -       Aug     26      2:00s   1:00    -
---
> Rule  AV      2000    only    -       Aug     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    -
136c136
< Rule  AN      2000    only    -       Aug     26      2:00s   1:00    -
---
> Rule  AN      2000    only    -       Aug     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    -

Carol Fields
carol.fields at eng.sun.com



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