On 2006-06-01, Paul Eggert wrote:
This indicates that (on the web, at least) there's been a decisive shift from "summer time" to "daylight time" in Australia, and a shift from abbreviations like "EST" or "EST/EDT" to abbreviations like "AEST/AEDT".
Would any other Australians care to chime in on this?
As an Australian, I'd love to see our zones become different from the EST/EDT stuff -- as long as we use those names, which are indistinguishable from the US names, lots of stupid software tends to just express dates as if they were US zones, even when the date field being parsed also contains an unambiguous numeric value. I know it's not the job of the TZ database to fix this broken software, but changing this seems easy to do and would have a definite benefit, in my opinion. And, since we have no proper legislative control of this stuff in Australia, the TZ database is free to go its own way, so long as that way is generally useful. Greg