Feb. 11, 2001
8:25 p.m.
matthew green wrote:
from my point of view (as an australian) using "AEST" is wrong. using "AEDT" is *really* wrong. why?
no one here uses those abbreviations.
Instead we use "EST" for everything (based on current Unix implementations), and that's bad for two reasons: * Most software is hard-wired to equate "EST" with -0500. * It does not distinguish at all between NSW, which uses summer time, and Qld, which doesn't. If we could get all mailers being used in Australia to drop the abbreviations altogether and just use offsets, that would work. But it seems improbable that this could happen. Replacing the clearly useless abbreviations with "wrong" but meaningful ones would at least be useful.