Just thought I'd add that doing a google search of the BOM site for AEST shows quite a lot of examples of its use. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=site:bom.gov.au+AEST As do the other AXXX timezones. On 25 February 2013 10:31, Shaun Bouckaert <shaun.bouckaert@gmail.com> wrote:
I would like to add my own voice to this issue once again. Over the last couple of years I've brought this up, and a few times quite a bit of support has been there.
One of the issues in trying to get people to be consistent with their use of timezones is that a lot of timezone notation comes straight from tzdata, and trying to establish what use has been intentional and what use is simply because that's the current state of the tzdata is not easy.
There was also a collection of sources gathered that compared what formats were common amongst different organisations, which showed, IIRC, that the AXXX formats were not uncommon, and were one of the more common formats.
I also remember finding that at the time the BOM encouraged the use of the AXXX timezones and listed "technical reasons" as to being why they also used the XXX timezones.
Shaun