Re: Daylight saving in NSW

In article <1iemjfj.8j9u6qymdwahN%dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dempson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (David Empson) wrote:

dorayme <doraymeRidThis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In NSW Australia, daylight saving does not finish until 6th April (a
week later than usual). I noticed my computer clock was put back an hour
today. It is supposed to be done automatically on a per region basis
(set in sys pref on a Mac). Something or someone has stuffed up. Had to
manually put it forward again. It is possible, I suppose, it is just my
machine at fault (not me, of course.)

Which version of Mac OS X are you running?

10.4.10


According to my 10.5.2 system, the current time zone in Sydney is
UTC+11, which agrees with your description of what the time should be.

If you are running 10.4.10 or earlier, and the rule changed from last
year, then your version of Mac OS X has out of date daylight saving
rules.

Apple released updated rules in 10.4.11 and 10.5.

We had a similar problem in New Zealand back in September, when the
rules changed here, and we have a problem right now for anyone still
running 10.4.10 or earlier, as the end of daylight saving moved ahead by
three weeks (to April 6th).

Since 10.4.11 and 10.5 weren't out in time for our local daylight saving
transition in September, a friend of mine wrote a patch for the daylight
saving rules for New Zealand to fix the problem for people running
10.3.9 and 10.4.9/10.

The whole story is here:

http://welmac.org.nz/nzdst2007.php

Thanks for this. So I struck the first minor downside of not using the
..11 update yet! One of the things holding me back is I don't really know
whether it is possible to have both versions of Safari, 2 and 3 so I can
keep a check on how things seem in 2 (if I move to 3) without firing up
a separate Mac or inconvenient disk startup switching.

--
dorayme
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