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[Antony]

Western Australia will have 3 years of daylight saving trial starting in 12 days (3rd December) this year.

In the past 31 years, WA has rejected daylight saving in three referendums.

After the start of daylight saving on 3rd Dec, only Queensland and Northern Territory are the states without daylight saving.

Antony doubts if Microsoft Windows will have the time right!

news State to trial daylight saving

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[Mandrake]

Bah. Stupid politicians foisting things on us that no one wants.

[Antony]

[Antony]

Just a gentle reminder, Daylight Saving starts today (3rd December 2006) in Western Australia.

Welcome to Daylight Saving!

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[Don_HH2K]

[Antony]

If you are on UNIX platforms, you can update the tzdata file.

You can get a copy of updated tzdata from

ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2006p.tar.gz

Please note that the current Daylight Saving trial in Perth (WA) is for 3 years. Of course the WA parliament has the power and may decide to either end the trial earlier or make it permanent.

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[Edward]

Daylight Savings Time in the U.S. will begin a couple of weeks earlier in March than previous, beginning in 2007 and will end the first weekend in November (later than previous). Then a decision will be made at some point whether to keep this new schedule or revert back to what it was in 2005 (same as 2006).

I hope Windows (if I still use it by then) and Linux will have the correct time once this occurs. Or is this something that NTP takes care of automatically, in the case of Linux?

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[Don_HH2K]

[Edward]

Thanks for the link. On both of my systems (one Windows/Linux dual-boot, the other is Linux only), NTP is installed in Linux and retrieves the time while the operating system is loading in.

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[PaulD]

Microsoft has posted http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst a series of articles on the changes to Daylight Savings Time in (most states of) the US and Canada. If one digs far enough he will find details on Registry alterations if necessary and desired.

As noted elsewhere, Apple has included the necessary changes in OS X 10. ... Updates. See entries under here.

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[Antony]

Apple has released
Daylight Saving Time Update (Tiger)
Daylight Saving Time Update (Panther)

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[profman]

There is a test page that uses JavaScript to test whether your system is updated for this change, although I do not know what OSs that it works for. The page is:

Daylight Saving Time (DST) patch tester

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[Antony]

Just an early reminder, daylight saving time will end on the last Sunday (3.00 am) in March (25th March 2007) in Australia for all states observing daylight saving, and the nation will back to 3 different time zones instead of 5 time zones currently (during daylight saving).

On 25th March this year, Western Australia will conclude its first of the three-year daylight saving trial. After 3 years of daylight saving trials in WA, WA will have a referendum sometime between 10th May 2009 and 13th Sept 2009 to make a final decision. WA has had three daylight saving trials prior to the current one started on 3rd Dec last year.

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[Mandrake]

Who knows, after ten or so more "trials" the politicians will realise that we don't want daylight savings.

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[Antony]

The change of US daylight saving has been adjusted in Mac OS X 10.4.9.

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