Western Australian Daylight Savings changes

[Gerard Seibert]

On Friday December 01, 2006 at 06:03:12 (AM) Dean Hollister wrote:


> To confuse things even more, Western Australia is starting daylight saving 
> for a 3 year trial. The start/stop dates are not uniform, just to make 
> life harder. The dates are as follows:
> 
> First on:	2:00am Dec 3
> 2007-2008:	2:00am Oct lastSun (ON)
> 2007-2009:	2:00am Mar lastSun (OFF)
> 
> If I've got the zoneinfo rules right, they go something like (sorry if 
> field formatting doesn't come out properly):
> 
> 
> # Western Australia
> Zone Australia/Perth     7:43:24 -      LMT     1895 Dec
>                           8:00   Aus     WST     1943 Jul
>                           8:00   -       WST     1974 Oct lastSun 2:00s
>                           8:00   1:00    WST     1975 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s
>                           8:00   -       WST     1983 Oct lastSun 2:00s
>                           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     2006 Dec 2
>                           8:00   AW      WST     2009 Mar lastSun 2:00s
>                           8:00   -       WST
> 
> # Rule  NAME    FROM    TO      TYPE    IN      ON      AT      SAVE 
> LETTER/S
> Rule    AW      2006    only    -       Dec     3       2:00s   1:00    -
> Rule    AW      2007    2008    -       Oct     lastSun 2:00s   1:00    -
> Rule    AW      2007    2009    -       Mar     lastSun 2:00s   0       -
> 
> Has anything at this stage been committed to the -STABLE branches for 
> these changes, or will most need to do them manually?
> 
> The gazetted changes/references are at:
> 
> http://wa.gov.au/daylightsaving/

I Don't know if this will help you or not, but I have used this shell
script to facilitate updating this system.

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#!/usr/local/bin/bash

        mkdir tz
        cd tz
        wget 'ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz*.tar.gz'
        gzip -dc tzcode*.tar.gz | tar -xf -
        gzip -dc tzdata*.tar.gz | tar -xf -
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Be sure to read the documentation obviously.

-- 
Gerard

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