David Kempe wrote:
Christopher Vance wrote:
Not yet fixed in Ubuntu 5.10.
You can do the honors and lodge a bug here:
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/
It's probably an upstream issue. The tzdata file
which distributions package is at
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
in the tzdata*.tar.gz files.
Proposed alterations should be e-mailed to
tz at elsie dot nci dot hih dot gov
with a link to the authoritative source of the change
(in your case, to the regulation of the NSW government).
I've just downloaded the tzdata2005r.tar.gz file and it
says in part
# Rule NAME FROM TO TYPE IN ON AT SAVE LETTER/S
...
Rule AN 2001 max - Oct lastSun 2:00s 1:00 -
Rule AN 2006 only - Apr Sun>=1 2:00s 0 -
Rule AN 2007 max - Mar lastSun 2:00s 0 -
Which suggests to me that the daylight savings time change
for 2006 has already been incorporated.
Also note that there was a leap second this year. So your
NTP-based time will be 1s wrong if you have a tzdata earlier
than 2005k.
So drop in a bug with your distribution to update the tzdata
package from upstream. I do wish that distros would
update the tzdata package immediately prior to issuing a
new version, but they seem to be needed to be prodded.
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