----- Original Message ----- From: "Edwin Groothuis" <edwin@mavetju.org> ....
Australian Eastern Daylight-savings Time (UTC +11). The abbreviations for these zones are AEST and AEDT, respectively. Australian timezones are explained here:
http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time
The question of course now is (besides the "when when when!?!??!?!" from the Australian sysadmin community), what more information or confirmation is required to get this into the timezone data?
One thing I noticed is that Lord Howe is not mentioned on the page given above. Lord Howe is of course mentioned in the "Standard Time Act 1987 No 149" New South Wales http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/fullhtml/inforce/act+149+1987+cd+0+N but not the time abbreviation. Another tidbit, concerning the EST abbreviation: "NSW legislation does not specify abbreviations for standard or summer time. EST denotes Eastern Standard Time. Summertime or daylight saving time is commonly expressed as EDST (eastern daylight saving time)." This is copied from the lawlink page: Daylight Saving in New South Wales http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/Lawlink/cru/ll_cru.nsf/pages/cru_daylightsavin... Oscar van Vlijmen