| From: Mark Jerkovic [mailto:mjerkovic@aconex.com] | Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 7:24 PM | To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov | Subject: Australian time zone names | | The Australian Government defines time zone names as follows: You should find and read the archives of the TZ mailing list - this has been discussed to death. But briefly, the Aust Govt only defines anything related to time for the ACT (and probably could for the NT) - the states all define their own timezones, in various acts of the various state parliaments. What you're seeing in information aimed mostly at visitors who want to know what the time will be (Australians rarely need to look up web sites to discover what time it is, nor when summer time starts or ends). For outsiders, calling the time "Australian xxx" makes some kind of sense, just as it might to call the time in New York (etc) "US Eastern Standard Time" when being considered by non-natives (but that isn't its name inside the US). None of the states define anything as "Australian" anything, nor do most of them define a "Daylight" time (though some mention daylight savings in the acts). Summer Time is generally the official name for the time that applies during the summer (and late spring/early autumn) which makes reasonable sense, "daylight" makes no sense at all (nor does daylight saving, as no daylight is saved, it is just moved around the clockface a little). kre