🚀 go-pugleaf

reiter@tornado (Peter Moulder) writes:

> My Linux distribution, slackware, has an incorrect 
> /{usr,var}/lib/zoneinfo/localtime .
> Can someone please ... tell me where I can get the above information.

The latest version is in
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata95j.tar.gz
but it claims that Victoria hasn't changed the rules for the spring
transition since 1987 (see below).  If you know better, please send a
bug report to tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov.

# Australia

# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
Rule	Aus	1895	only	-	Jan	 1	0:00	0	-
# Shanks gives 1917 Jan 1 0:01; go with Whitman (and guess 2:00).
Rule	Aus	1916	only	-	Oct	 1	2:00	1:00	-
Rule	Aus	1917	only	-	Mar	25	2:00	0	-
Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Jan	 1	2:00	1:00	-
Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Mar	29	2:00	0	-
Rule	Aus	1942	only	-	Sep	27	2:00	1:00	-
Rule	Aus	1943	1944	-	Mar	lastSun	2:00	0	-
Rule	Aus	1943	only	-	Oct	 3	2:00	1:00	-

# ...

# Victoria
# Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
Rule	AV	1971	1985	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	-
Rule	AV	1972	only	-	Feb	27	3:00	0	-
Rule	AV	1973	1985	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
Rule	AV	1986	1990	-	Mar	Sun>=15	3:00	0	-
Rule	AV	1986	only	-	Oct	19	2:00	1:00	-
Rule	AV	1987	max	-	Oct	lastSun	2:00	1:00	-
Rule	AV	1991	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	3:00	0	-
Rule	AV	1995	max	-	Mar	lastSun	3:00	0	-
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
			10:00	-	EST	1917 Jan 1 0:01
			10:00	Aus	EST	1971 Oct 31 2:00
			10:00	AV	EST