March 22, 2001
9:04 p.m.
- Browse the ABC News site and see the instances of "AEST" and "AEDT" (even "ACST" and "AWST" for central and western standard time) in
ABC News also uses EAT/EAST on occasion; see <http://www.abc.net.au/tennis/1.htm>.
They also use AET/AEST on occasion; see <http://www.abc.net.au/referendum99/abc.htm>. One more thought. An important goal of changing the abbreviations is to reduce ambiguity. "AEST" is ambiguous in practice, since some people use AEST/AEDT and others use AET/AEST. (ABC News uses both. :-) One solution would be to use unambiguous abbreviation pairs like AET/AEDT or AET/AESuT, but as far as I can tell these combinations are hardly ever used in practice.