Re: winter and summer time confusion in clock and tcl 8.4.12 and 8.5a4 (starpack)

Are you in Australia? I vaguely recall reading that this year Australia (or part of Australia?) is switching daylight savings time a week earlier or later than expected and is causing problems on MS machines.

Searching google on "Australia daylight savings 2006" yields a MS knowledge base article on the issue.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=DDA845DE-9D70-487C-8F7C-093D4DFD1899&displaylang=en

A relevant quote:

"The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition end dates to the first Sunday of Apr 2006."
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Relevant Pages

  • Re: Daylight Savings Time
    ... I enjoy daylight savings time because it means that we have some ... In Australia DST complicates the time zones considerably. ...
    (rec.pets.cats.anecdotes)
  • Re: Announce: Downunder Chat - Reminder
    ... daylight savings time and it looks like all but Queensland in Australia ...
    (comp.sys.apple2)
  • Re: [OT] Australia gets a new PM
    ... able to vote on the daylight savings referendum in WA in 2 years!!! ... Because most of Western Australia is rural, the majority of its voters are ... That some states observe daylight Savings and some don't, it, make it very ... we have four time zones ...
    (rec.pets.cats.anecdotes)
  • Re: [OT] Australia gets a new PM
    ... and daylight savings seems to be the bane of most people's existence ... Central and Western standard time). ... Yes, but when it's daylight savings in Eastern and not in Western, the time diff is 3 hours and that makes it much harder for us to do business with the area of Australia where most business is done. ...
    (rec.pets.cats.anecdotes)
  • Re: [OT] Australia gets a new PM
    ... able to vote on the daylight savings referendum in WA in 2 years!!! ... Because most of Western Australia is rural, the majority of its voters are ... That some states observe daylight Savings and some don't, it, make it very ... confusing in Australia when there are up to 6 time zones when it is being ...
    (rec.pets.cats.anecdotes)