On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 11:15, you wrote:
> > NZ time has all the historical vagaries of NZ daylight savings time
>
> recorded, whereas
>
> > Pacific/Auckland does not. Anyway as I said before it's all a bit moot.
>
> What? Which distribution are you using?
I'm referring to the source data from;-
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz{code,data}2003a.tar.gz
vis:-
--- % ---
# New Zealand
#
# From Paul Eggert (2002-10-23):
# The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) maintains a brief history;
# see tz-link.htm for the full reference.
#
# Shanks gives 1868 for the introduction of standard time; go with the
# DIA's more-precise 1868-11-02. The DIA says that clocks were
# advanced by half an hour in 1941; go with Shanks's more-precise
# 1940-09-29 02:00. The DIA says that starting in 1933 DST began the
# first Sunday in September; go with Shanks's last Sunday starting in
# 1934.
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
# Shanks gives 1927 Nov 6 - 1928 Mar 4, 1928 Oct 14 - 1929 Mar 17,
# 1929 Oct 13 - 1930 Mar 16; go with Whitman.
Rule NZ 1927 only - Nov 26 2:00 0:30 HD
Rule NZ 1928 1929 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00 0 S
Rule NZ 1928 only - Nov 4 2:00 0:30 HD
Rule NZ 1929 only - Oct 30 2:00 0:30 HD
Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Mar Sun>=15 2:00 0 S
Rule NZ 1930 1933 - Oct Sun>=8 2:00 0:30 HD
# Whitman says DST went on and off during war years, and the base UT offset
# didn't change until 1945 Apr 30; go with Shanks.
Rule NZ 1934 1940 - Apr lastSun 2:00 0 S
Rule NZ 1934 1939 - Sep lastSun 2:00 0:30 HD
Rule NZ 1974 only - Nov Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
Rule NZ 1975 only - Feb lastSun 2:00s 0 S
Rule NZ 1975 1988 - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 D
Rule NZ 1976 1989 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 S
Rule NZ 1989 only - Oct Sun>=8 2:00s 1:00 D
Rule NZ 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:00s 1:00 D
Rule NZ 1990 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:00s 0 S
Rule Chatham 1990 max - Oct Sun>=1 2:45s 1:00 D
Rule Chatham 1991 max - Mar Sun>=15 2:45s 0 S
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Pacific/Auckland 11:39:04 - LMT 1868 Nov 2
11:30 NZ NZ%sT 1940 Sep 29 2:00
12:00 NZ NZ%sT
Zone Pacific/Chatham 12:45 Chatham CHA%sT
# Auckland Is
# uninhabited; Maori and Moriori, colonial settlers, pastoralists, sealers,
# and scientific personnel have wintered
# Campbell I
# minor whaling stations operated 1909/1914
# scientific station operated 1941/1995;
# previously whalers, sealers, pastoralists, and scientific personnel wintered
# was probably like Pacific/Auckland
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# sum /usr/share/zoneinfo/NZ
> 01680 1
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# sum /usr/share/zoneinfo/Pacific/Auckland
> 01680 1
>
> They ceratinly appear to be identical to me. I have never seen a difference
> between NZ and Pacific/Auckland on any of the popular distros I have used
> (various Redhat/Mandrake).
>
> I prefer the Pacific/Auckland method of specifying timezones; it makes
> things easier when it comes to USA or Europe.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
