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Wrong timezone for Australia/Melbourne  XML
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lello3



Joined: 11/07/2011 04:42:45
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I have downloaded the latest geonames timezone data dump and imported it to my MySQL database. For the timezone id 'Australia/Melbourne' I believe the gmt offset and dst offset has been reversed. The gmt offset should return 10 and it returns 11, the dst offset should return 11 but it returns 10.
Thanks in advance.
marc



Joined: 08/12/2005 07:39:47
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The naming of the fields is not very appropriate. The fields in reality refer to 1. of Jan and 1. of July.
We consider the fields obsolete as they are not very useful. It was a mistake to have them included at all.

Marc

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lello3



Joined: 11/07/2011 04:42:45
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Thanks for your quick reply!
Then would it be possible to have the rawOffset field included in the timezone data dump as it is in the webservice.
marc



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Ok, a new column with the rawOffset has been added to the file.

Marc

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