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

[Peter Jeremy]

The following reply was made to PR bin/105738; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy at optushome.com.au>
To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/105738: [patch] Daylight Savings is being introduced in Western Australia
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 21:31:54 +1100

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 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.
 >>=20
 >> See http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/BillProgressPop=
 up?openForm&ParentUNID=3D9A1B183144403DA54825721200088DF1
 >>=20
 >> It would be nice if this change could be applied to FreeBSB in
 >> time for the start (including FreeBSD 6.2).
 >>=20
 >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.
 
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 Index: share/zoneinfo/australasia
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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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