On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 13:55, you wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 13:14:51 +1200
>
> Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 02:40:43 +1200
> >
> > Peter Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > shane
> > >
> > > I think that this refers to the auckland islands, no?
> >
> > no, auckland as in north of the bombay hills.
>
> are you sure about this?
> i do realise there is a jaffa city north of the mumbai slopes but if you
> take a peek into the gui thingy for adjusting date&time you'll see what i
> mean about there being a difference between the Pacific Auckland and NZ
> timezones.
>
> i'm reasonably certain that this is the case for all the gui config systems
> in most distros as it's a standard timezone listing as found in most
> webform kits.

For the definitve database:-
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz{code,data}2003a.tar.gz
Take care, extracting the archive does _not_ create a new directory.
Notice the updates for Iran from 22 sept this year.
Purists will want to recompile the database.

From the australasia file it wouild seem that Pacific/Auckland does indeed refer to the
Island in the Antartic Ocean. However, note that according to the above data the
Pacific/Auckland is currently defined to be the same as NZ. So the entire argument is
somewhat moot.

For the super interested: See the file tz-link.htm in the above archive, and in 
particular:-
http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-material-Information-We-Provide-About-Daylight-Saving

-- 
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell

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