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diff --git a/timezone/australasia b/timezone/australasia index 09d8747c30..f35cc2e452 100644 --- a/timezone/australasia +++ b/timezone/australasia @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# @(#)australasia 7.66 +# @(#)australasia 7.67 # This file also includes Pacific islands. # Notes are at the end of this file @@ -738,6 +738,38 @@ Zone Pacific/Wallis 12:15:20 - LMT 1901 # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): # The chosen rules the union of the 1971/1972 change and the 1989-1992 changes. +# From Rives McDow (2002-04-09): +# The most interesting region I have found consists of three towns on the +# southern coast of Australia, population 10 at last report, along with +# 50,000 sheep, about 100 kilometers long and 40 kilometers into the +# continent. The primary town is Madura, with the other towns being +# Mundrabilla and Eucla. According to the sheriff of Madura, the +# residents got tired of having to change the time so often, as they are +# located in a strip overlapping the border of South Australia and Western +# Australia. South Australia observes daylight saving time; Western +# Australia does not. The two states are one and a half hours apart. The +# residents decided to forget about this nonsense of changing the clock so +# much and set the local time 20 hours and 45 minutes from the +# international date line, or right in the middle of the time of South +# Australia and Western Australia. As it only affects about 10 people and +# tourists staying at the Madura Motel, it has never really made as big an +# impact as Broken Hill. However, as tourist visiting there or anyone +# calling the local sheriff will attest, they do keep time in this way. +# +# From Paul Eggert (2002-04-09): +# This is confirmed by the section entitled +# "What's the deal with time zones???" in +# <http://www.earthsci.unimelb.edu.au/~awatkins/null.html>, +# which says a few other things: +# +# * Border Village, SA also is 45 minutes ahead of Perth. +# * The locals call this time zone "central W.A. Time" (presumably "CWAT"). +# * The locals also call Western Australia time "Perth time". +# +# It's not clear from context whether everyone in Western Australia +# knows of this naming convention, or whether it's just the people in +# this subregion. + # South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria # From Arthur David Olson (1992-03-08): |