I'm forwarding this message from Chris Smith, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado From: Chris Smith [mailto:chrissmithnz@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:39 AM To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: New Zealand time to end DST Hi Small anomaly for New Zealand timezone DST stop time, the Time Act 1974 states (2) Any period prescribed in any Order in Council made under subsection (1) of this section shall commence at 2 a.m. New Zealand standard time on the day, being a Sunday, specified in the Order in Council, and shall cease at 2 a.m. New Zealand standard time on the day, being a Sunday, specified in the Order in Council or in any subsequent Order in Council. In NZ we are told accordingly to put clocks forward at 2 (to 3) and back at 3 (to 2). In my interpretation of this the zoneinfo is incorrect for NZ and should be stopping at 3am (since 1974) Regards Chris
"Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes:
In NZ we are told accordingly to put clocks forward at 2 (to 3) and back at 3 (to 2). In my interpretation of this the zoneinfo is incorrect for NZ and should be stopping at 3am (since 1974)
I don't see a problem; the tz tables match the law you mentioned. For example: $ zdump -c 2007,2008 -v Pacific/Auckland Pacific/Auckland -9223372036854775808 = NULL Pacific/Auckland -9223372036854689408 = NULL Pacific/Auckland Sat Mar 17 13:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 18 02:59:59 2007 NZDT isdst=1 Pacific/Auckland Sat Mar 17 14:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 18 02:00:00 2007 NZST isdst=0 Pacific/Auckland Sat Sep 29 13:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Sep 30 01:59:59 2007 NZST isdst=0 Pacific/Auckland Sat Sep 29 14:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Sep 30 03:00:00 2007 NZDT isdst=1 Pacific/Auckland 9223372036854689407 = NULL Pacific/Auckland 9223372036854775807 = NULL
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