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| 1# @(#)australasia 7.66 | 1# @(#)australasia 7.67 |
| 2# This file also includes Pacific islands. 3 4# Notes are at the end of this file 5 6############################################################################### 7 8# Australia 9 --- 723 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 733# ... 734# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 735# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 736# ... 737 738# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 739# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 740 | 2# This file also includes Pacific islands. 3 4# Notes are at the end of this file 5 6############################################################################### 7 8# Australia 9 --- 723 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 733# ... 734# Rule QLD 1989 1991 - Oct lastSun 2:00 1:00 D 735# Rule QLD 1990 1992 - Mar Sun>=1 3:00 0 S 736# ... 737 738# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 739# The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. 740 |
| 741# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): 742# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the 743# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with 744# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the 745# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being 746# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the 747# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are 748# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western 749# Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western 750# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The 751# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so 752# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the 753# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South 754# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and 755# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an 756# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone 757# calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way. 758# 759# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): 760# This is confirmed by the section entitled 761# "What's the deal with time zones???" in 762# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>, 763# which says a few other things: 764# 765# * Border Village, SA also is 45 minutes ahead of Perth. 766# * The locals call this time zone "central W.A. Time" (presumably "CWAT"). 767# * The locals also call Western Australia time "Perth time". 768# 769# It's not clear from context whether everyone in Western Australia 770# knows of this naming convention, or whether it's just the people in 771# this subregion. 772 |
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| 741# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria 742 743# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 744# The rules from version 7.1 follow. 745# There are lots of differences between these rules and 746# the Shepherd et al. rules. Since the Shepherd et al. rules 747# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on 748# current DST ending dates, no worries. --- 512 unchanged lines hidden --- | 773# South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria 774 775# From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): 776# The rules from version 7.1 follow. 777# There are lots of differences between these rules and 778# the Shepherd et al. rules. Since the Shepherd et al. rules 779# and Bradley White's newspaper article are in agreement on 780# current DST ending dates, no worries. --- 512 unchanged lines hidden --- |