On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 3:12 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 03/29/13 10:01, David Patte ₯ wrote:
lets at least adopt the national one
If I recall correctly, the last time I checked, different parts of the Australian national government used different terminology and/or abbreviations and nobody seemed to be in charge.
Correct. There is no higher authority on Australian timezone abbreviations than the tz database maintainer. The most authoritative source of information for Australians (and most of the world) is what their computers tell them. For Australians without computers, the next most authoritative sources would be debatable but I imagine they would be the ABC (National Broadcaster, who you quote from 1942) followed by the Bureau of Meteorology. The State or Federal Governments would be way down the list. I'm afraid you are in a leadership position here. Setting the bar so high as 'until everyone is in agreement' or even 'all parts of the government are in agreement' means it will never happen. I don't think it is sane to think that a federal government, seven state governments, a couple of territories, thousands of municipalities, and an uncountable number of government departments could even agree on the day of the week. If the position really is that it will never change, just make a statement to that effect so we can petition our OS providers to patch the database and move on. -- Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net> http://www.stuartbishop.net/