That reminds me, Australia is a PITA to us meteorologists, too.  Let's
make them use M$ Windows! :-)

				Kevin

> 
> ...and then you've got Australia. Every state needs it's own timezone file.
> For starters South Australia is 30 minutes behind the timezone of the eastern
> states. The three eastern states are all on the same timezone, but daylight
> saving operates differently in each state - Queensland has no daylight
> saving (it fades the curtains, don't you know), Victoria ends daylight
> saving at then end of some festival in march and NSW changes its mind every
> few years whenever a new party gets into power.
> 
> So there you go - one country, seven timezone files. There are a lot of
> countries in the world...
> 
> 	david
> 
> --
> 
> David Johnston
> david@canopus.apana.org.au
>