On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 02:48, <Willy@willylorenzo.com> wrote:
The two websites returned "EDT", and Bing implies "EDT" with its "Eastern Daylight Time." I thought I had a bug, but review of the tz database clearly states otherwise...it's "EST". Google was the only one to get it right (according to the tz database, that is.)
Ah, the famous "Eastern Standard Time" (EST) vs "Eastern Summer Time" (EST) thing?
So I'm wondering if anyone knows if there is some unwritten accepted practice of referring to Australian daylight saving time as EDT in colloquial speech, even though that labeling doesn't actually exist. Any thoughts on the subject are appreciated.
I wonder what the result would have been if you had used Australian sources, rather than ones influenced by US usage which use "xST/xDT" labels. (Not that I can think of any good one, but I will say that Bing is a US company and Chaos Software, the company behind worldtimeserver, is, too. That doesn't explain timeanddate, though.) Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>