Daylight saving in Australia is a dog's breakfast (ie a disgusting mess)

It is controlled by the various states, and so each lot of regional
politicians has its own barrow to push.

The easternmost states are all  stacked north/south,  Tasmania starts a
month early but finishes with the rest, NSW and Victoria go first Sunday
in October to last Sunday in March and Queensland doesn't do DST at all.
South Australia and Northern Territory are also stacked north/south in
the middle of the country normally 30 minutes behind  NSW, SA does DST,
on the same timetable as NSW, but NT doesn't.
Western Australia takes up the whole of the  western third of the
continent, and despite there having been three referendums, all  soundly
defeated, some local idiot recently pushed through legislation that
started daylight saving this year on 3 December, with about 6 week's
notice of the change.

So at the moment it is 12:23 in Tas, NSW  and Vic, 11:53 in SA, 11:23 in
Qld, 10:53 in NT and 10:23 in WA.  Are we all clear on that?

Fortunately I live in Queensland and am therefore above it all :)

Its not as bad as Arizona though...  I saw this on a site a couple of
weeks back, but haven't been able to find it again to cite it.

US has DST, Arizona does not have DST, Navaho Nation (entirely within
Arizona) does use DST, Hopi nation (entirely within Navaho area) does not.

Regards

Steve
Chronically confused in Brisbane


Ben Bullock wrote:

        re: Daylight Savings Times.

This is off topic, but I know there are folks on this list in Australia
that might have been through this already.

        The US Govt is changing the times that we will change to
Daylight Savings Times from April to March. Most all OS's will require a
patch, an update or a change to compensate for this change. We have been
working on all our US sites to get this accomplished before March 11th
2007, but we are wondering about our other world-wide sites.
        They (Italy, Singapore, Japan, etc) are not changing DST for
their countries, but when we change ours, and our computers transfer
data between each other, might there be some confusion over the time
stamps of the data if the foreign-site hosts have a different
understanding of when DST for our zone (MST) is?

        Any help, opinions or links would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Ben