From: Eric Ulevik [SMTP:eauz@zip.com.au] Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 1:19 AM - Twin Towns Services Club (in Tweed Heads, near the Queensland border) will maintain Queensland time. The Queensland Premier Peter Beattie is encouraging northern NSW towns to use Queensland time. Thanks for the info. If it's just the one club, I'll add this as a comment. It sounds like Pangnirtung, where there is an official time which some people use, and a dissenters' time which other people use. The tz database is not set up for disputes like that (yet), so it just records the official time for now. Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:02:01 +1000 From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex@agsm.edu.au> 1. South Australia, if it does stick to its habit of the last several years (and there is renewed debate about that, I heard this morning), will start daylight saving on the last Sunday of October, and not September 29. Yes, this matches the current tz data. Correct me if I'm wrong, but DST has never been started at the end of September in Australia (at least not in the 30+ years I've been living here). Yes. According to the tz data, the last (and only) time it occurred at the end of September was on September 27, 1942. 2. the Worldwide Holiday & Festival Site, http://www.holidayfestival.com/, seems to believe that Broken Hill (or the shire that contains it, which I can't remember the name of right now) will be starting daylight saving with the rest of NSW. ... Does this reflect the current tzdata? No. The current tz data has Broken Hill starting daylight saving on October 29 at 02:00, whereas the rest of NSW will start on August 27 at 02:00. That is, the tz data claims that Broken Hill is in lockstep with Adelaide starting this year. Here's the story that prompted this claim: http://abc.net.au/news/regionals/brokenh/monthly/regbrok-21jul1999-6.htm The tz data also claims that between 1971 and 1999 inclusive, Broken Hill was at UTC+09:30 but used NSW's rules rather than South Australia's rules, which meant that occasionally it was an island of its own. This is a little hard to believe, I agree, but it's what George Shepherd told us how it worked as of 1991, and he confirmed it with the Broken Hill Postmaster.