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Hello,
I am using your geoname TimeZone web service to get Offset time zones. It appears to work fine in most of the cases i require except 2:
1. Australia/Sydney
Lat: -33.86785 Long=151.20732
http://ws.geonames.org/timezone?lat=-33.86785&lng=151.20732
In which case it gives DST offset as GMT+10 while standard as GMT+11, which is the opposite of actual. The DST is in effect so the DST offset should be GMT+11 while the gmtOffset and rawOffset should be GMT+10.

2. Auckland
http://ws.geonames.org/timezone?lat=-36.8667&lng=174.767
In this case also the DST offset should be GMT+13 while the gmtOffset and rawOffset should be GMT+12.

Please help and update the list for these 2.

The two fields gmtOffset and dstOffset are deprecated as they are missnamed and their use is rather limited. On the southern hemisphere it is the opposite as you correctly observe.
See also this thread
http://forum.geonames.org/gforum/posts/list/3793.page

and the documentation:
http://www.geonames.org/export/web-services.html#timezone

gmtOffset: offset to GMT at 1. January (deprecated)
dstOffset: offset to GMT at 1. July (deprecated)