Re: Daylight Saving Time in Australia 2005/2006

On 29 Nov 2005 23:08:04 -0800, "Mark" <mark.lassau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>Daylight Saving Time in Australia 2005/2006 has been extended for one
>week due to the Commonwealth Games.
>
>When I tested Sun's J2SE v 1.4.2_10 SDK for Windows, it was still using
>the old changeover date.
>
>Does anyone know anything about this issue?
>Is Sun aware of it?
>Are there fixes available/imminent?
>
>It seems all Australian states with Daylight Saving are adopting the
>new end date for 2006 (TAS, VIC, ACT, NSW, SA), and so at least the
>following TimeZones (from java.util.TimeZone) are affected:

Get a bug report in with backup to explain the rule change. See
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/bugs.html

If you are lucky it might make it into jdk 1.5.0._06
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