Western Australia planning for Daylight Saving Timestarting1D ecember 2006
Robert Masters
RMasters at bunnings.com.au
Wed Nov 22 01:15:42 UTC 2006
My take on the change.
Comments? Which of the two is 'better'?
-Rob
diff -r -u australasia.2006o australasia.2006p
--- australasia.2006o 2006-11-13 14:16:27.000000000 +0800
+++ australasia.2006p 2006-11-22 09:14:06.000000000 +0800
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# @(#)australasia 8.3
+# @(#)australasia 8.4
# <pre>
# This file also includes Pacific islands.
@@ -37,7 +37,14 @@
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 - WST 2006 Dec 3 2:00s
+ 8:00 1:00 WST 2007 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+ 8:00 - WST 2007 Oct lastSun 2:00s
+ 8:00 1:00 WST 2008 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+ 8:00 - WST 2008 Oct lastSun 2:00s
+ 8:00 1:00 WST 2009 Mar lastSun 2:00s
+ 8:00 - WST
+
# Queensland
#
# From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01):
@@ -764,6 +771,11 @@
# The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess;
# it matches what was used in the past.
+# From Robert Masters (2006-11-22):
+# WA will change on December 3rd to the last Sunday in March, and
+# then from the last Sunday in October to the last Sunday in March
+# for the next two years. Bill passed 21/11/2006 (!)
+
# <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm">
# The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ
# </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses
-----Original Message-----
From: tz-request at elsie.nci.nih.gov [mailto:tz-request at elsie.nci.nih.gov] On
Behalf Of Erik van der Poel
Sent: Wednesday, 22 November 2006 1:30 AM
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Cc: TZ-list; Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Western Australia planning for Daylight Saving
Timestarting1December 2006
It looks like they voted for daylight saving:
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,20795690-2761,00.html
http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721
200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf
I suppose there are a number of ways to write the new rules. Would this do?
diff -r -u ccc/australasia ddd/australasia
--- ccc/australasia 2006-11-06 06:17:49.000000000 -0800
+++ ddd/australasia 2006-11-21 07:05:38.000000000 -0800
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@
8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s
8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s
8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s
+ 8:00 - WST 2006 Dec 3 2:00s
+ 8:00 1:00 WST 2007 Mar 25 2:00s
+ 8:00 - WST 2007 Oct 28 2:00s
+ 8:00 1:00 WST 2008 Mar 30 2:00s
+ 8:00 - WST 2008 Oct 26 2:00s
+ 8:00 1:00 WST 2009 Mar 29 2:00s
8:00 - WST
# Queensland
#
-------------------------
Erik van der Poel
On 11/7/06, Jesper Norgaard Welen <jnorgard at prodigy.net.mx> wrote:
>
>
> It seems that it *is* possible to dig up some fixed adresses (links to
> PDF
> files):
>
> http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/62D4F7C55EA889934
> 82572110007316A/$File/Bill174-1.pdf
>
> http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54
> 825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf
>
> While I send it however the technology (Outlook? Email servers?)
> probably will break the long lines - I don't know how to avoid that.
> So you will have to patch the links when you receive them.
>
> The first bill introduces a note that clarifies that when using 2:00am
> in the bill, it refers to 2:00am standard time, so the DST would run
> to 25 March 2007 3:00am (daylight saving time). But the second bill
> does not mention that, and states 2:00am both when entering and when
leaving DST.
>
> A Queensland southwest bound University lecture was bombarded with
> hate mails when suggesting to introduce DST in a corner of Queensland,
> and according to her the most effective argument was not 'you are an
> idiot' but 'you have lived outside of Queensland, you are not a
> Queenslander ... (and) you don't deserve a say'
>
> http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20722209-29277,0
> 0.html
>
> Queensland is not likely to introduce DST legislation anytime soon,
> methinks
> ;-)
>
> Regards,
> - Jesper
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Eric Ulevik [mailto:eulevik at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:31 AM
> To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: Western Australia planning for Daylight Saving Time starting
> 1 December 2006
>
>
> The state of Western Australia is planning to adopt daylight saving
> time on a trial basis till 31 March 2009. This has not yet been passed
> by parliament but is supported by both major parties.
>
> The initial period is 2am 1 December 2006 to 2am 25 March 2007.
>
> Subsequent periods are 2am on last Sunday in October till 2am on last
> Sunday in March.
>
> The Daylight Saving Bill 2006 can be found on
> http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/ . Unfortunately there is no fixed
> address.
>
> Source:
> http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=145&ContentID=10997
>
>
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