Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 06:55:01 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
"John A. Halloran" wrote:
TimeZones(43) = "Australian Eastern Daylight Time - AEDT (-11:00)" TimeZones(44) = "Australian Eastern Standard Time - AEST (-10:00)"
Although these (and the other Australian names given) seem to be correct,
Actually, as far as I know, Australian legislation does not specify either names or abbreviations for the zones, and various Australians seem to do as they please. John Mackin reported in 1991 that Australian Broadcasting Commission announcers use the phrases `Eastern Standard Time' or `Eastern Summer Time', and that announcers on the overseas service Radio Australia prefix the word `Australian' to these phrases. Some of the other names in that database are questionable, but I'm afraid I don't have time right now to review it carefully.
every Unix TZ setup I've ever seen uses EDT and EST for those zones,
Recent tz databases use 'EST' for both zones; this follows the phraseology reported for ABC.