On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
For abbreviations, it's not clear whether "AEDT" or "EDT" is more common, though I suppose "AEDT" has a slight edge.
I'd like to hear more from Australian correspondents on this before thinking about specific changes, though.
A federal government web site (eg. http://www.australia.gov.au/Time) is not authoritative as the time in states is strictly a right of the states. The terms 'summer time' and 'daylight saving time' are widely used. 'Australian' as a prefix would be very unusual, as it is commonly understood. Abbreviations typically omit the 'A'. Example: "EST denotes Eastern Standard Time. Summertime or daylight saving time is commonly expressed as EDST (eastern daylight saving time)." Reference: http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/Lawlink/cru/ll_cru.nsf/pages/cru_daylightsavin... My guess would be that AEDT is becoming more prevalent on web sites which are built using systems trying to cover global time zones (eg. as a dateline in a news story). Regards, Eric Ulevik