Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:24:50 -0500 From: "Jesper Norgaard Welen" <jnorgard@prodigy.net.mx> Message-ID: <!~!UENERkVCMDkAAQACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABgAAAAAAAAADuUZBf7Jo0OrktsA6harmMKAAAAQAAAAGTEdfyBfhE6t67MOnH7qqAEAAAAA@prodigy.net.mx> | Is there any authoritative information on this, It is probably possible to research the ACT statutes (they may have on-line copies going back that far by now) - the relevant stuff is probably Commonwealth of Aust laws, I believe time zone info for ACT is likely to be out of scope for the local ACT govt (this is most likely the only timezone the federal govt gets to play with in Aust, and all they have ever done with it is follow NSW, NT is more likely done locally, though they never play at all). Aside from that... I'm certainly not authoritative, but I would have remembered if ACT had ever been different from Sydney - that would have been notable news, and impossible to miss. I certainly recall nothing like that ever happening (unlike wrt Tas, and South Aus). With that in mind, anyone who wanted could take a look in the any of the various major state (or ACT) libraries for newspapers from the relevant week(s) - if ACT were on a different timezone, that would have been reported (it would have been a huge mess.) I think I'd mostly ignore the BoM for timezone information - for accurate time info for Aust the most reliable source (aside from, the actual statutes, which in any case only specify the theory, rather than what is actually observed) would probably be the national measurement lab (a division (or part thereof) of CSIRO). kre