Aust/Victoria managers timezone changes

From: Brian O'Connor <boc_at_ironbark.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:17:45 +1100 (EST)

Andrew Leahy just posted:

>Alpha managers who have DU boxes in the Australia/NSW timezone may find
>their machines have switched back into non-daylight savings (or vice versa
>- I can't remember which!) Anyhow, you will need to edit the
>/etc/zoneinfo/sources/australasia, and then run "zic" on that file to
>update the timezone info (ie. "zic /etc/zoneinfo/sources/australasia").
>I'm pretty sure the switch is supposed to occur on the last Sunday in
>March - but I'm no expert.
>
>Replace this line (about line 83):
>
>Rule AN 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
>
>With this line:
>
>Rule AN 1990 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
>
>And then add this line:
>
>Rule AN 1996 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -
>
>The diff is something like this (I probably got this wrong, I haven't
>produced context diffs before):
>
>*** australasia.orig Sun Mar 2 11:39:43 1997
>--- australasia Sun Mar 2 11:41:53 1997
>***************
>*** 80,86 ****
> # Rule AN 1988 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
> # Rule AN 1989 only - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
> Rule AN 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - #
>! Rule AN 1990 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
> # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
> Zone Australia/NSW 10:00 AN EST
> Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AN CST
>--- 80,87 ----
> # Rule AN 1988 only - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -
> # Rule AN 1989 only - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 -
> Rule AN 1988 1989 - Mar Sun>=15 3:00 0 - #
>! 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/NSW 10:00 AN EST
> Zone Australia/Yancowinna 9:30 AN CST
>
>
>Could somebody at Digital PLEASE FIX UP THE DISTRIBUTED ZONEINFO files.
>Sun seem to have their zoneinfo's up to date :-) - I'm now running DU4.0B
>and I remember having to fix this last year under DU3.2!


HEAR HEAR.


>
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>Andrew "Alf" Leahy, phone: 047 360385
>Unix Administrator, mailto:alf_at_nepean.uws.edu.au
>Systems & Ops, TASS, CCD, UWS Nepean http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/~alf/
>

With the following changes, this works for Victoria as well

:- change line 66 instead of 83

from

Rule AV 1991 max - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -

to

Rule AV 1991 1995 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 -

add(line 67)

Rule AV 1996 max - Mar lastSun 3:00 0 -

zic the file

I'm not sure of white space rules, but the existing entries are tabs, not spaces.
Tabs work for me.

Thanks Andrew.


boc
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Received on Sun Mar 02 1997 - 23:38:33 NZDT

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