Australian daylight saving has changed, need update

[nick4mony]

The daylight end-date in some parts of Australia has changed from Sun Mar 26, to Sun Apr 2, for this year only (2006). We need some new timezone files that reflect this change.

The daylight saving has changed to suit the Commonwealth games in Melbourne, Australia (someone needs to check Sydney, Hobart, Canberra, Broken_Hill, Adelaide, Lord_Howe, and various aliases, because the various government departments involved may decide to all do the same thing).

According to http://www.information.vic.gov.au/resources/daylight.htm the daylight saving is to end on 2 April. However, when I use zdump, it tells me March 26

nick@pc0218:~$ zdump -v -c 2006,2007 Australia/Melbourne
Australia/Melbourne Fri Dec 13 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sat Dec 14 06:45:52 1901 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/Melbourne Sat Dec 14 20:45:52 1901 UTC = Sun Dec 15 06:45:52 1901 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/Melbourne Sat Mar 25 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Mar 26 02:59:59 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
Australia/Melbourne Sat Mar 25 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Mar 26 02:00:00 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/Melbourne Sat Oct 28 15:59:59 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 01:59:59 2006 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000
Australia/Melbourne Sat Oct 28 16:00:00 2006 UTC = Sun Oct 29 03:00:00 2006 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
Australia/Melbourne Mon Jan 18 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Mon Jan 18 14:14:07 2038 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600
Australia/Melbourne Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 2038 UTC = Tue Jan 19 14:14:07 2038 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600


When can we expect an update?

UpdateNote I am on a machine running Breezy, not my usual Warthog machine.

[bikeboy]

Same problem Nick. Apparently a lot of distros have updated info but it isn't that way for me.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=471404#r2

Hopefully we can bump it to somebody important's attention. Wouldn't know where else to go to tell devs.

[nocturn]

If there isn't one already, file a bugreport on this to get the attention of a dev.

[bikeboy]

It seems there is a bug filed already. In the report this link was given which shows how to manually update the zoneinfo.

http://www.linuxsa.org.au/pipermail/linuxsa/2006-February/082329.html

[ewe2]

Even Microsoft was quicker with a patch. This is inexusable.

[ewe2]

If you want to compile the fix yourself, go to ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ and grab tzdata2006b.tar.gz, which holds the timezone source. Don't forget to back up!