bin/105738: [patch] Daylight Savings is being introduced in Western Australia

Peter Jeremy peterjeremy at optushome.com.au
Thu Nov 23 10:31:54 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-Nov-22 13:56:17 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 08:39:17PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> Yesterday, the Parliament of Western Australia passed legislation to
>> introduce Daylight Savings for a 3 year trial period, commencing on
>> 3rd December 2006.  The lack of notice is quite unfortunate.
>> 
>> See http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/BillProgressPopup?openForm&ParentUNID=9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1
>> 
>> It would be nice if this change could be applied to FreeBSB in
>> time for the start (including FreeBSD 6.2).
>> 
>Did you submit it to Arthur David Olson <ado at elsie.nci.nih.gov> for
>inclusion into the next tzdata version?  We're tracking it, and it
>would be easier to just import a new version when it gets updated.
>I've just checked the latest version, tzdata2006o, and it doesn't
>include this change yet.

The patch I submitted yesterday had a fairly silly error in it - I got
the DST commencement range wrong.  Attached is a corrected patch.
Mea culpa.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
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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	2008	-	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):
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