April 6, 2001
3:25 p.m.
| The issue of the ambiguity of abbreviations like "EST" might best be solved | by prefixing the three initials with the ISO Country Code see | http://itl5.itlnet.com/isocodes.htm for examples. So the Australian EST | would be AUEST and the US EST would be USEST. Much as I want us to move away from EST/EST for Australia, I don't think too many people are going to welcome inventions when we have known and recognised existing practice in the form of AEST/AEDT. And I can't see anybody in the US getting excited about changing EST to USEST, no matter how pure it might look if we were actually starting with a clean sheet of paper.