From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 09:15:13 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Date madness In-Reply-To: <1513533298.4100251.1207907264.55A36789@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <20171212180117.BFB5918C087@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <3DB85765-AFE5-4356-8E26-DDD0A2805116@cheswick.com> <024c01d37752$c30d03b0$49270b10$@ronnatalie.com> <1513533298.4100251.1207907264.55A36789@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: On Sun, 17 Dec 2017, Random832 wrote: > That'd be daylight savings, then, not leap years. 1987 was the year that > the US changed the date of the time shift from the last sunday of April > to the first. You should try living in Australia :-) It was a political plaything for quite a while, until it finally stabilised (except for the Sydney Olympics in 2000). Neither QLD nor WA have it. Broken Hill, a city in NSW, observes Central Time. And there was something odd about the railway line at Echuca at one time (did it observe Central Time once, despite being in VIC?)... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."