FW: Bug in Australia/West timezone

[Matthew Milliss]

Thanks Arthur, I think you are right, the problem I am having looks like 
it is related to joda-time.

Cheers
Matt

Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:
> I'm forwarding this message from Matt Milliss, who is not on the time
> zone mailing list.
> Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list, please direct
> replies appropriately.
>
> I tried five recent versions of "australasia" and they all yielded a
> March 30 transition in 2008.
> All recent versions of "backward" link "Australia/West" to
> "Australia/Perth."
> It seems as if this is a twiki.org challenge rather than a tz database
> challenge.
> I've listed the "backward" and "australasia" versions I looked at below.
>
> 				--ado
>
> 	backward	8.4	07/12/31
> 	backward	8.3	07/01/08
> 	backward	8.2	06/08/21
> 	backward	8.1	06/02/20
>
> 	australasia	8.8	07/08/20
> 	australasia	8.7	07/05/07
> 	australasia	8.6	07/03/15
> 	australasia	8.5	07/01/08
> 	australasia	8.4	06/11/27
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Milliss [mailto:matt_milliss at yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 7:24 PM
> To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: Bug in Australia/West timezone
>
> According to the tz database 
> (http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/xtra/tzdate?tz=Australia/West) daylight 
> savings in the Australia/West timezone ended on 11th March 2008 but the 
> actual end date is 30th March 2008.
>
> Cheers
> Matt Milliss
>
>