Australia/Sydney patch for March 1996

Paul Eggert eggert at twinsun.com
Mon Aug 14 20:52:42 UTC 1995


In May, Bradley White wrote that next year New South Wales will
conform to the other DST-using states of Australia for the autumn
change, but I see that this isn't reflected in the latest released
tzdata.  I assume the change is still on (though with Australian
politics one never knows :-).  Here is a patch.

According to the tables, the last holdout is Tasmania's spring change:
it switches the first Sunday in October instead of the last Sunday
like the others.

===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/australasia,v
retrieving revision 1994.8
retrieving revision 1994.8.1.1
diff -c -r1994.8 -r1994.8.1.1
*** australasia	1994/12/10 16:26:05	1994.8
--- australasia	1995/08/14 20:28:15	1994.8.1.1
***************
*** 111,117 ****
  Rule	AN	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
  Rule	AN	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	1:00	-
  Rule	AN	1987	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	-
! Rule	AN	1990	max	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
  Zone Australia/Sydney	10:04:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
  			10:00	-	EST	1917 Jan 1 0:01
--- 111,118 ----
  Rule	AN	1986	1989	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
  Rule	AN	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	1:00	-
  Rule	AN	1987	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	-
! Rule	AN	1990	1995	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
! Rule	AN	1996	max	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	-
  # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
  Zone Australia/Sydney	10:04:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
  			10:00	-	EST	1917 Jan 1 0:01
***************
*** 700,705 ****
--- 701,710 ----
  # From Arthur David Olson (March 8, 1992):
  # Sources differ on whether DST ended March 6 or March 20 in 1988;
  # March 20 (the "confirmed" date) is in the chosen rules.
+ 
+ # From Bradley White (1995-05-20):
+ # Prem Bob Carr announced NSW will fall into line with other E states
+ # and SA and continue daylight savings to the last Sun in Mar.
  
  # Yancowinna
  



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