On 2013-04-12 13:17, David Patte ₯ wrote:
I believe both Timothy and I prefer prefer AEST over EST, but it is a different issue than the Daylight saving time ambiguity issue, so we agreed that we we should probably make only the minimal changes that resolved the Daylight ambiguity issue with the least changes, since it was more likely to be a proposal that would be accepted into tz. We changed only the daylight time abbreviations to end the ambiguity.
But if the tz maintainers believe that using AEST instead of EST would at the same time help resolve historical ambiguities caused by older versions of the tz database, I am sure we could re-roll the proposal to better suite the preferences of the maintainers.
Until then, what our little sub-committee has proposed will likely stand as is.
Fine, but I think there will be friction against changing the abbreviations again when they've only just been changed! Personnally, I'd be in favour of using the 'A' prefix (although my opinion doesn't really count). Even if an Australian would normally use EST rather than AEST in everyday conversation, I'm sure they'd still recognize AEST in computer timestamp output and know what it meant! -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-