"Olson, Arthur David (NCI)" wrote: | At the end of this letter there's a blast from the past: results of a 1993 | survey of time zone abbreviations. At least at that time, and at least in | the scope of the survey, use of abbreviations such as "AEST" was very | uncommon; this was (at least in part) what motivated the use of | abbreviations such as "EST" for Australian time zones. This is a kind of chicken/egg problem: because the tzdata files don't offer AEST and friends, people have to jump through hoops to use them; most don't bother. | I'd conclude that it's appropriate to leave zones such as | "Australia/Brisbane" as is to avoid unnecessary change. Just for the record, I'm still against this. | A possibility would be to add lines such as | Zone Australia/CST 9:30 Aus CST | Zone Australia/ACST 9:30 Aus ACST | Zone Australia/CXT 9:30 Aus CST/CDT | Zone Australia/ACXT 9:30 Aus ACST/ACDT | to the "australasia" file; this would let folks who wanted specific | abbreviations to get them. Certainly, if I could have one of these to use as an alternative to "Australia/Brisbane", that would be an acceptable compromise.