From: reiter@tornado (Peter Moulder)
Subject: What are exact Daylight Saving rules in Victoria, Aust
Date: 1995/10/28
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My Linux distribution, slackware, has an incorrect
/{usr,var}/lib/zoneinfo/localtime .
Can someone please either:
a) send me a correct one!
b) tell me the rules for Daylight Saving, as well as (preferably) some
history of when it changed (just so that past timestamps display correctly),
and I'll write a correct localtime file and post it here; or
c) tell me where I can get the above information.
Just one other thing: my tzfile(5) man page says that the format
"begin[s] with bytes reserved for future use", but it doesn't say
how many bytes. In my file it's 24 bytes, but if anyone has any
reason to believe that someone else's machine might have a different
number (despite the fact that the numbers are carefully specified in
"standard" ---i.e. big-endian--- byte order when my Intel linux box is
little-endian), I'd be interested to hear.
pjm.
From: egg...@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
Subject: Re: What are exact Daylight Saving rules in Victoria, Aust
Date: 1995/10/29
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reiter@tornado (Peter Moulder) writes:
> My Linux distribution, slackware, has an incorrect
> /{usr,var}/lib/zoneinfo/localtime .
> Can someone please ... tell me where I can get the above information.
The latest version is in
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata95j.tar.gz
but it claims that Victoria hasn't changed the rules for the spring
transition since 1987 (see below). If you know better, please send a
bug report to t...@elsie.nci.nih.gov.
# Australia
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule Aus 1895 only - Jan 1 0:00 0 -
# Shanks gives 1917 Jan 1 0:01; go with Whitman (and guess 2:00).
Rule Aus 1916 only - Oct 1 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Aus 1917 only - Mar 25 2:00 0 -
Rule Aus 1942 only - Jan 1 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Aus 1942 only - Mar 29 2:00 0 -
Rule Aus 1942 only - Sep 27 2:00 1:00 -
Rule Aus 1943 1944 - Mar lastSun 2:00 0 -
Rule Aus 1943 only - Oct 3 2:00 1:00 -
# ...
# Victoria
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
Rule AV 1971 1985 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
Rule AV 1972 only - Feb 27 3:00 0 -
Rule AV 1973 1985 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
Rule AV 1986 1990 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
Rule AV 1986 only - Oct 19 2:00 1:00 -
Rule AV 1987 max - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 -
Rule AV 1991 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
Rule AV 1995 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 - LMT 1895 Feb
10:00 - EST 1917 Jan 1 0:01
10:00 Aus EST 1971 Oct 31 2:00
10:00 AV EST
From: etr...@arneb.atnf.csiro.au (Euan Troup)
Subject: Re: What are exact Daylight Saving rules in Victoria, Aust
Date: 1995/10/29
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In article <46tki0$...@otis.netspace.net.au>, reiter@tornado (Peter
Moulder) writes:
>My Linux distribution, slackware, has an incorrect
>/{usr,var}/lib/zoneinfo/localtime .
>
>Can someone please either:
> c) tell me where I can get the above information.
Try ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/tzdata95i.tar.gz
cheers,
Euan.
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