Paul Eggert <eggert <at> CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:
A story in the July 3 ABC News (Australia) says that the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) will change its daylight-saving rules starting October, to bring it into line with Tasmania, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia. Until now, I didn't know that the ACT had different rules from its neighbors. I guess this means we'll need to add a new Zone Australia/Canberra to deal with the discrepancy?
Euhm... I think it was a matter of not being legislated yet, I don't recall *anything* in the news about them not moving at the same time as NSW. I'll ask around today though.
It is pretty weird that the ACT was a small island of one UTC offset in a sea of a different UTC offsets. To be honest, I'm having a bit of a tough time believing this news report. Maybe I'm reading it incorrectly? But if it's correct, does anyone know when the ACT started diverging from NSW and Victoria?
It happened when NSW and Victoria changed *their* DST time in 2007. http://www.legislation.act.gov.au/a/2008%2D24/ The amendments are: substitute (a) a period starting at 2 am on the first Sunday in October in a year and ending at 2 am on the first Sunday in the following April; or (At the bottom of page 8 of the PDF and page 4 of the bottom-page-numbering). Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/