[tz] Changes in time zone Pacific/Norfolk

Paul Gilmartin PaulGBoulder at AIM.com
Sat Oct 26 19:02:56 UTC 2019


On 2019-10-26, at 11:20:49, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 
> On 10/24/19 11:14 PM, Nishit Doshi wrote:
>> Norfolk Islands have implemented the DST schedule of Australia. Please Implement the changes as soon as possible.
> 
> This change was released in tzdb 2019c on September 11, thanks to a notification by Kyle Czech on August 13. If you're running the most recently patched release of Debian, Fedora, etc. then Pacific/Norfolk should be working for you already. Here's what I see on my laptop running Ubuntu 18.04.3:
> 
> $ date -u; TZ=Pacific/Norfolk date
> Sat Oct 26 17:20:05 UTC 2019
> Sun Oct 27 05:20:05 +12 2019
> 
Would the following be more informative, but perhaps less portable?:

1754 $ tail -1 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Norfolk
<+11>-11<+12>,M10.1.0,M4.1.0/3

-- gil



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