FW: New Zealand time to end DST

[Paul Eggert]

"Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes:

> In NZ we are told accordingly to put clocks forward at 2 (to 3) and
> back at 3 (to 2).  In my interpretation of this the zoneinfo is
> incorrect for NZ and should be stopping at 3am (since 1974)  

I don't see a problem; the tz tables match the law you mentioned.  For
example:

$ zdump -c 2007,2008 -v Pacific/Auckland
Pacific/Auckland  -9223372036854775808 = NULL
Pacific/Auckland  -9223372036854689408 = NULL
Pacific/Auckland  Sat Mar 17 13:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 18 02:59:59 2007 NZDT isdst=1
Pacific/Auckland  Sat Mar 17 14:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 18 02:00:00 2007 NZST isdst=0
Pacific/Auckland  Sat Sep 29 13:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Sep 30 01:59:59 2007 NZST isdst=0
Pacific/Auckland  Sat Sep 29 14:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Sep 30 03:00:00 2007 NZDT isdst=1
Pacific/Auckland  9223372036854689407 = NULL
Pacific/Auckland  9223372036854775807 = NULL