> i'll take another look. i thought i worked this out for the us timezones,
> and while confusing, i thought everything was working.
Heh. Either it's endemic or my morning coding skills are fscked:
lyndon@frodo% tzdump < Australia_West
WST WDT
Sun Oct 27 02:00:00 GMT 1974 Sun Mar 2 02:00:00 GMT 1975
Sun Oct 30 02:00:00 GMT 1983 Sun Mar 4 02:00:00 GMT 1984
Sun Nov 17 02:00:00 GMT 1991 Sun Mar 1 02:00:00 GMT 1992
Sun Oct 28 02:00:00 GMT 2007 Sun Mar 30 02:00:00 GMT 2008
Sun Oct 26 02:00:00 GMT 2008 Sun Mar 29 02:00:00 GMT 2009
I vote for the latter at this point ...