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Suggestions about separation and ISO code
by Jonas Melian Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

Some suggestions: 1) To using ISO 3166 3-character country code becasuse is more readable. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1 For any person it's easier to identify a country by the code of 3-letters that by the one of 2-letters. 2) Columns separated by another character different of a tab, as ':'. So it's more readable for humans and too for the machines. And so it's easier to maintain that table. I comment you these suggestions because I have something of experience with this type of tables as you can see here: http://webda.python-hosting.com/browser/trunk/data Greetings!

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Faeoroe
by Jonas Melian Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

Hi, In zone.tab is Faeore and its actual name is Faroe. FO +6201-00646 Atlantic/Faeroe http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/li… You can see too in Wipikedia as you are redirected from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faeroe_Islands to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroe_Islands

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Updated timezone info for Western Australia DST trial
by Mark Glossop Nov. 27, 2006

Nov. 27, 2006

Hello, I've recently been tasked with managing the update of our Unix machines to cope with the recently announced (re)introduction of DST in Western Australia - yes, we've been given less than 2 weeks to prepare for the start of the trial period this year :-( Please find attached a copy of the updated "australasia" file that contains the appropriate modifications (it's based on the 2006o timezone information.) Feel free to contact me with any questions or clarifications - I've tested this file as best I can but would not be surprised if more experienced eyes see problems with it. Best regards, Mark -- Mark Glossop Systems Administrator FAHSS Faculty Computing, UWA E: Mark.Glossop(a)uwa.edu.au P: +61 8 6488 2092 M: +61 4 0028 3252 IM: theonlycueball(a)mac.com (AIM)

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Daylight savings time change in Western Australia
by Benno Rice Nov. 24, 2006

Nov. 24, 2006

Western Australia is trialling daylight savings for the next three years. They're planning to switch in on December 3 and then follow the same sort of rules as most of the other Australian states that use DST. The attached diff should implement this, at least for the trial period. -- Benno Rice benno(a)jeamland.net http://jeamland.net/

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Western Australia Daylight Savings Trial
by Clark, Ian R Nov. 23, 2006

Nov. 23, 2006

Hi, You probably recived heaps of mails about this, but I thought I'd send it just in case. The Western Australian State Government has voted to impement daylight savings on a trial basis for three years, starting on 3rd of December this year - Heaps of notice! "4. Trial period of daylight saving Despite the Standard Time Act 2005, from - (a) the hour of 2 a.m. on 3 December 2006 until the hour of 2 a.m. on 25 March 2007; and (b) the hour of 2 a.m. on 28 October 2007 until the hour of 2 a.m. on 30 March 2008; and (c) the hour of 2 a.m. on 26 October 2008 until the hour of 2 a.m. on 29 March 2009, summer time shall, throughout the State, be one hour in advance of standard time and shall be observed accordingly." Full parlimentary Guff at : http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA5482 5721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf Ian Clark Process Automation Service & Facilities Operations Network Services, Telstra Services Phone: 03 8549 1530 Mobile: 0418 131 611 e-mail: ian.r.clark(a)team.telstra.com Network Services.......your single operator of choice

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Re: bin/105738: [patch] Daylight Savings is being introduced in Western Australia
by Peter Jeremy Nov. 23, 2006

Nov. 23, 2006

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. >> >> See http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/BillProgressPopup?open… >> >> It would be nice if this change could be applied to FreeBSB in >> time for the start (including FreeBSD 6.2). >> >Did you submit it to Arthur David Olson <ado(a)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. -- Peter Jeremy

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RE: Windows patch for Western Australia
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Nov. 23, 2006

Nov. 23, 2006

There was a couple of mistakes in the registry file, hopefully this is correct: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\Australian Western Std. Time] "Display"="(GMT+08:00) Perth" "Dlt"="Australian West Daylight Time" "TZI"=hex:20,fe,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,c4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,03,00,00,00,05,00,03,00, 00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,0c,00,00,00,01,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 - Jesper -----Original Message----- From: Jesper Norgaard Welen [mailto:jnorgard@prodigy.net.mx] Sent: Miércoles, 22 de Noviembre de 2006 23:33 To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: Paul Eggert Subject: Windows patch for Western Australia ... Save the following into the file Perth2006.reg: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones\Australian Western Std. Time] "Display"="(GMT+08:00) Perth" "Dlt"="Australia Western Daylight Time" "TZI"=hex:20,fe,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,c4,ff,ff,ff,00,00,04,00,00,00,01,00,03,00, 00,\ 00,00,00,00,00,00,00,0c,00,00,00,01,00,02,00,00,00,00,00,00,00 ...

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West Australia DST: to be or not to be
by Jesper Norgaard Welen Nov. 23, 2006

Nov. 23, 2006

http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20747523-5006789,00.ht ml We will soon know if West Australia DST is on or not: this week should give final vote, according to the article. Regards, - Jesper Jesper Nørgaard Welen Email: jnorgard(a)Prodigy.Net.mx Project Leader (Líder de Proyecto) Software CIMMYT - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo Dirección: CIMMYT Int. c/o Jesper Nørgaard Km. 45, Carretera México-Veracruz El Batán Texcoco, Edo. de México CP 56130 MEXICO Tel.: +52 (55) 58-04-20-04 ext. 1374 Fax: +52 (55) 58-04-75-58 Tel. Casa: 53-10-05-95 ó 53-10-97-78 Download the shareware program World Time Explorer, I made: http://www.worldtimeexplorer.com/index.html

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RE: Western Australia planning for Daylight Saving Timestarting1D ecember 2006
by Robert Masters Nov. 22, 2006

Nov. 22, 2006

My take on the change. Comments? Which of the two is 'better'? -Rob diff -r -u australasia.2006o australasia.2006p --- australasia.2006o 2006-11-13 14:16:27.000000000 +0800 +++ australasia.2006p 2006-11-22 09:14:06.000000000 +0800 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 8.3 +# @(#)australasia 8.4 # <pre> # This file also includes Pacific islands. @@ -37,7 +37,14 @@ 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 - WST 2006 Dec 3 2:00s + 8:00 1:00 WST 2007 Mar lastSun 2:00s + 8:00 - WST 2007 Oct lastSun 2:00s + 8:00 1:00 WST 2008 Mar lastSun 2:00s + 8:00 - WST 2008 Oct lastSun 2:00s + 8:00 1:00 WST 2009 Mar lastSun 2:00s + 8:00 - WST + # Queensland # # From Alex Livingston (1996-11-01): @@ -764,6 +771,11 @@ # The 1992 ending date used in the rules is a best guess; # it matches what was used in the past. +# From Robert Masters (2006-11-22): +# WA will change on December 3rd to the last Sunday in March, and +# then from the last Sunday in October to the last Sunday in March +# for the next two years. Bill passed 21/11/2006 (!) + # <a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/faq/faqgen.htm"> # The Australian Bureau of Meteorology FAQ # </a> (1999-09-27) writes that Giles Meteorological Station uses -----Original Message----- From: tz-request(a)elsie.nci.nih.gov [mailto:tz-request@elsie.nci.nih.gov] On Behalf Of Erik van der Poel Sent: Wednesday, 22 November 2006 1:30 AM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: TZ-list; Paul Eggert Subject: Re: Western Australia planning for Daylight Saving Timestarting1December 2006 It looks like they voted for daylight saving: http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,20795690-2761,00.html http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54825721 200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf I suppose there are a number of ways to write the new rules. Would this do? diff -r -u ccc/australasia ddd/australasia --- ccc/australasia 2006-11-06 06:17:49.000000000 -0800 +++ ddd/australasia 2006-11-21 07:05:38.000000000 -0800 @@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ 8:00 1:00 WST 1984 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 8:00 - WST 1991 Nov 17 2:00s 8:00 1:00 WST 1992 Mar Sun>=1 2:00s + 8:00 - WST 2006 Dec 3 2:00s + 8:00 1:00 WST 2007 Mar 25 2:00s + 8:00 - WST 2007 Oct 28 2:00s + 8:00 1:00 WST 2008 Mar 30 2:00s + 8:00 - WST 2008 Oct 26 2:00s + 8:00 1:00 WST 2009 Mar 29 2:00s 8:00 - WST # Queensland # ------------------------- Erik van der Poel On 11/7/06, Jesper Norgaard Welen <jnorgard(a)prodigy.net.mx> wrote: > > > It seems that it *is* possible to dig up some fixed adresses (links to > PDF > files): > > http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/62D4F7C55EA889934 > 82572110007316A/$File/Bill174-1.pdf > > http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/9A1B183144403DA54 > 825721200088DF1/$File/Bill175-1B.pdf > > While I send it however the technology (Outlook? Email servers?) > probably will break the long lines - I don't know how to avoid that. > So you will have to patch the links when you receive them. > > The first bill introduces a note that clarifies that when using 2:00am > in the bill, it refers to 2:00am standard time, so the DST would run > to 25 March 2007 3:00am (daylight saving time). But the second bill > does not mention that, and states 2:00am both when entering and when leaving DST. > > A Queensland southwest bound University lecture was bombarded with > hate mails when suggesting to introduce DST in a corner of Queensland, > and according to her the most effective argument was not 'you are an > idiot' but 'you have lived outside of Queensland, you are not a > Queenslander ... (and) you don't deserve a say' > > http://origin.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20722209-29277,0 > 0.html > > Queensland is not likely to introduce DST legislation anytime soon, > methinks > ;-) > > Regards, > - Jesper > > > ________________________________ > From: Eric Ulevik [mailto:eulevik@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:31 AM > To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov > Subject: Western Australia planning for Daylight Saving Time starting > 1 December 2006 > > > The state of Western Australia is planning to adopt daylight saving > time on a trial basis till 31 March 2009. This has not yet been passed > by parliament but is supported by both major parties. > > The initial period is 2am 1 December 2006 to 2am 25 March 2007. > > Subsequent periods are 2am on last Sunday in October till 2am on last > Sunday in March. > > The Daylight Saving Bill 2006 can be found on > http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/ . Unfortunately there is no fixed > address. > > Source: > http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=145&ContentID=10997 > > ************************************************************************ Bunnings Legal Disclaimer: 1) This email is confidential and may contain legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not disclose or use the information contained in it. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by return email and delete the document. 2) All emails sent to and sent from Bunnings Group Limited. are scanned for content. Any material deemed to contain inappropriate subject matter will be reported to the email administrator of all parties concerned. ************************************************************************

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[patch] Daylight Savings is being introduced in Western Australia
by Peter Jeremy Nov. 22, 2006

Nov. 22, 2006

>Submitter-Id: current-users >Originator: Peter Jeremy >Organization: n/a >Confidential: no >Synopsis: [patch] Daylight Savings is being introduced in Western Australia >Severity: serious >Priority: high >Category: bin >Class: change-request >Release: FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE amd64 >Environment: System: FreeBSD turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #23: Fri Oct 27 09:36:46 EST 2006 root@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/turion amd64 Affects all versions of FreeBSD >Description: 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. See http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/BillProgressPopup?open… It would be nice if this change could be applied to FreeBSB in time for the start (including FreeBSD 6.2). >How-To-Repeat: New functionality >Fix: Index: share/zoneinfo/australasia =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/ncvs/src/share/zoneinfo/australasia,v retrieving revision 1.30 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?open… +# +# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S +Rule AW 2007 2009 - 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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