I would like to thank Timothy for his work on this, and for creating the patchfile. We reviewed it offline, and had over 190 visits (so far) to the forum thread where it was discussed and prepared, and no negative comments at all where posted. I also reviewed the patch and found it consistant with the intentions discussed. In general, the patch changes the tz files in order to now represent summer time in Australia and the Australian antarctic territories using 'd' abbreviations for daylight saving time periods. No other abbreviations were not changed in this proposal. The patch will be loaded on our ftp server at ftp://ftp.relativedata.com/pub this evening for any that might want to download and test it. We do hope that the patch is considered by the maintainers of tz, and applied to forthcoming tz releases.