On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:58:27 +0200 From: Tobias Conradi <tobias.conradi@gmail.com> Message-ID: <CAAGevbX_K5E174-F5PVXuytbA4cie-+tkhiKiQFaMaz5Oz7uhA@mail.gmail.com>
I don't think that anybody wants the tz database to use different abbreviations from what is in common use in Australia.
Then why the IANA timezone database contains EST for Daylight saving time in Eastern Australia?
It is "Summer Time" (Eastern Summer Time) which is what it is called in the legislation.
So it is not EST in the legislation?
There are no abbreviations in the legislation. Thanks for the confirmation that your answer didn't relate much to the question why there is EST in the IANA timezone database..
Abbreviations are not needed at all, Timothy showed otherwise.
using them is a mistake. For sure, if the abbreviations are mistakes.
You keep missing the point, in Aust there is no such thing as DST, there is Summer Time. Eastern Summer Time and Central Summer Time (no Western...)
| >(and appropriate here is nothing from the commonwealth govt, | Why?
Because the commonwealth govt is not responsible for time in Aust, Mr. Elz, the thread is not about time in Australia but about acronyms.
| > and certainly not the Bureau of Met). | Why?
They're an agency of the commonwealth govt (see above) with responsibility for forecasting the weather (and related issues) Weather forecasting has been given as a reason by Timothy to have unambiguous acronyms.
- if you were to pick a national agency that came closer to responsibility for time it would be the national measurement lab. What do they have to do with time zone acronyms?
But they're intelligent enough not to try and step all over state responsibilities. It is a states responsibility to define unambiguous acronyms for the Commonwealth?
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