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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : LinuxSA@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 02:44:58 +1000

Re: Daylight Savings Time

At 10:04 AM 11/4/99 +1030, behoffski <behoffski@grouse.com.au> wrote:
>And just to further muddy the waters on the abbreviation 
>for the daylight savings time, I notice that the Bureau of 
>Meteorology uses "ACDT" in its observations page:
>
>	http://www.BoM.GOV.AU/products/IDO30S02.shtml
>
>Any comment from the bureau boffins on this?  (And is 
>Linux powering our weather?)  

If my correspondence from someone in the BoM on the pointy end of the
business is any guide, then Linux on DELL servers is definitely involved in
there somewhere.

>David Simpson wrote:
>> Alan Kennington wrote:
>> > Australia has just a couple of little towns (e.g. in
>> > WA) which differ from their state time zones.
>> You forgot to mention Broken Hill which operates on CST even though it
>> is in NSW.
>
>-- 
>behoffski (Brenton Hoff) | Software Engineer, Grouse Software
>behoffski@grouse.com.au  | http://www.grouse.com.au/
>
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Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com, Master Linux Administrator :-),
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course

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