This site is useful for Australian actual dates... http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/dst_times.shtml 1981-1982 would be the only time that ACT and NSW were not aligned... Peter A McKenzie IT Strategy and Architecture Executive, Westpac Account. IBM Email petermck@au1.ibm.com Mobile/Cell +61 412 58 6665 Voice Mail +61 2 9461 3324 Fax +61 2 8853 3538 "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." [Buddha] From: Chris Wylie <cwylie@gresham-computing.com.au> To: "tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov" <tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> Date: 10/07/2008 08:32 AM Subject: Re: Australian Capital Territory DST rule change? Paul Eggert wrote:
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.
I think someone made a mistake and published (or republished) the story a year late. The story would make perfect sense if released in 2007. In any case, the official statement is within a document called "2007-08 Daylight Saving Arrangements in the ACT" found on this page: http://www.cmd.act.gov.au/holidays The statement appears to be in line with the current tz data: "Daylight saving in the ACT will commence as usual on the last Sunday in October (28 October 2007) but will end a week later on the first Sunday in April (6 April 2008). The ACT has agreed to amend its Daylight Saving arrangements in line with New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. The changes extend the daylight saving period so that from 2008 it will start on the first Sunday in October (rather than the last Sunday in October) and end on the first Sunday in April (rather than the last Sunday in March)." Chris