Western Australia planning for Daylight Saving Timestarting1December 2006

[Erik van der Poel]

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/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$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
 #

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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/62D4F7C55EA88993482572110007316A/$File/Bill174-1.pdf
>
> http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1/$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/0,20867,20722209-29277,00.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
>
>