Western Australia time zone January 1, 2019
Today the Guardian Express of Perth reported that the government of Western Australia has decided to advance the clocks permanently from +0800 to +0900 on January 1, 2019. Presumably the time will still be called Australian Western Standard Time (AWST), as it will still differ by 30 minutes from ACST (+0930). For now, I suppose we should guess that Australia/Eucla will simultaneously switch from +0845 to +0915 so as to stay halfway between AWST and ACST. Proposed patch attached. The article concludes that the government has made several concessions to residents opposed to the measure, and lists some of them. One is that "people over the age of 60 concerned about colour bleaching from drapes and blinds can apply in writing to have the extra hour of sunshine removed from their area." See: Daylight saving coming to WA in 2019. Guardian Express. 2018-04-01. https://www.communitynews.com.au/guardian-express/news/exclusive-daylight-sa...
It is an April Fools Joke, the article ends with "Today’s date is April 1." Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com On 01/04/2018 18:45 , Paul Eggert wrote:
Today the Guardian Express of Perth reported that the government of Western Australia has decided to advance the clocks permanently from +0800 to +0900 on January 1, 2019. Presumably the time will still be called Australian Western Standard Time (AWST), as it will still differ by 30 minutes from ACST (+0930). For now, I suppose we should guess that Australia/Eucla will simultaneously switch from +0845 to +0915 so as to stay halfway between AWST and ACST.
Daylight saving coming to WA in 2019. Guardian Express. 2018-04-01. https://www.communitynews.com.au/guardian-express/news/exclusive-daylight-sa...
Jeez, this is really stretching the definition of a prank. On April 1, 2018 6:32:04 PM UTC, Steffen Thorsen <thorsen@timeanddate.com> wrote:
It is an April Fools Joke, the article ends with "Today’s date is April 1."
Best regards, Steffen Thorsen - timeanddate.com
On 01/04/2018 18:45 , Paul Eggert wrote:
Today the Guardian Express of Perth reported that the government of Western Australia has decided to advance the clocks permanently from +0800 to +0900 on January 1, 2019. Presumably the time will still be called Australian Western Standard Time (AWST), as it will still differ by 30 minutes from ACST (+0930). For now, I suppose we should guess that Australia/Eucla will simultaneously switch from +0845 to +0915 so as to stay halfway between AWST and ACST.
Daylight saving coming to WA in 2019. Guardian Express. 2018-04-01.
https://www.communitynews.com.au/guardian-express/news/exclusive-daylight-sa...
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 20:32:04 +0200 From: Steffen Thorsen <thorsen@timeanddate.com> Message-ID: <afc860e8-eb6b-1b2f-750f-e9dd007d1893@timeanddate.com> | It is an April Fools Joke, That was obvious. So was Paul's message. Really - "we should guess .. shift from +0845 to +0915 ..." (and if you have any doubt observe that the patch attached did not patch any data - just added a reference to the tz related article from the paper.) kre
On 2018-04-01 12:48, Paul G wrote:
On April 1, 2018 6:32:04 PM UTC, Steffen Thorsen <thorsen@timeanddate.com> wrote:
On 01/04/2018 18:45 , Paul Eggert wrote:
Today the Guardian Express of Perth reported that the government of Western Australia has decided to advance the clocks permanently from +0800 to +0900 on January 1, 2019. Presumably the time will still be called Australian Western Standard Time (AWST), as it will still differ by 30 minutes from ACST (+0930). For now, I suppose we should guess that Australia/Eucla will simultaneously switch from +0845 to +0915 so as to stay halfway between AWST and ACST. Daylight saving coming to WA in 2019. Guardian Express. 2018-04-01. https://www.communitynews.com.au/guardian-express/news/exclusive-daylight-sa...
It is an April Fools Joke, the article ends with "Today’s date is April 1."
Jeez, this is really stretching the definition of a prank.
For stretches, see also: Wrongful Termination of Internet Protocol (IP) Packets https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8367 Internationalizing IPv6 Using 128-Bit Unicode https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8369 -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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