In May, Bradley White wrote that next year New South Wales will conform to the other DST-using states of Australia for the autumn change, but I see that this isn't reflected in the latest released tzdata. I assume the change is still on (though with Australian politics one never knows :-). Here is a patch. According to the tables, the last holdout is Tasmania's spring change: it switches the first Sunday in October instead of the last Sunday like the others. =================================================================== RCS file: RCS/australasia,v retrieving revision 1994.8 retrieving revision 1994.8.1.1 diff -c -r1994.8 -r1994.8.1.1 *** australasia 1994/12/10 16:26:05 1994.8 --- australasia 1995/08/14 20:28:15 1994.8.1.1 *************** *** 111,117 **** Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 1:00 - Rule AN 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - ! Rule AN 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 --- 111,118 ---- Rule AN 1986 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - Rule AN 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 1:00 - Rule AN 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 - ! Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 - ! Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 - # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Australia/Sydney 10:04:52 - LMT 1895 Feb 10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01 *************** *** 700,705 **** --- 701,710 ---- # From Arthur David Olson (March 8, 1992): # Sources differ on whether DST ended March 6 or March 20 in 1988; # March 20 (the "confirmed" date) is in the chosen rules. + + # From Bradley White (1995-05-20): + # Prem Bob Carr announced NSW will fall into line with other E states + # and SA and continue daylight savings to the last Sun in Mar. # Yancowinna