Australian Time Zones

[Chris Good]

> Message: 12
> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 06:57:52 -0800
> From: John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> To: Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au>
> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> Subject: Re: Australian Time Zones
> Message-ID: <F90AA4E0-B1B1-4A03-A1EE-F271B7F599DC at ceridwen.us>
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> 
> > On Dec 18, 2016, at 11:20 PM, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au>
> wrote:
> >
> > The recent release notes gave Australia's timezone as GMT-10.  That is
> > not correct.
> >
> > Australia has three timezones.  In Eastern Australia, where I live, the
> > timezone is GMT+10 (150 deg E.)  Summer time, where implemented, is
> > GMT+11.
> >
> > Central time, used in Adelaide, is GMT+9.5.
> >
> > Perth, W.A. time is GMT+8.  East of Eucla on the south coast, local
> > time is GMT+9, but that may not be an official TZ.
> >
> > GMT-10 passes right through Central Alaska, but Alaska uses GMT-9.
> >
> 
> No, the release note reports a bug titled "Australian (GMT-10) OFX
> transactions imported have previous day's date." as being fixed. That bug
> was filed by someone in the GMT+10 TZ and he included that information in
> the title, but got the sign wrong.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>

That some-one was me and I referred to it that way because I'm used to
setting TZ in Solaris or AIX like
TZ="EST-10EDT-11,M10.1.0,M4.1.0"

Thanks for 2.6.15 everyone :-)

Regards, Chris Good
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