On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:48:03PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
I've *always* seen the Australian Eastern (Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland) states' timezones referred to as AEST - Australian Eastern Standard Time. The TZ package, however, refers to it as EST, which not only confuses everyone, but also confuses things like date[1] command.
I believe AEST is the official name, and it makes life easier. [snip] --- glibc-2.2.3/timezone/australasia.orig Sat Apr 7 16:02:40 2001 +++ glibc-2.2.3/timezone/australasia Fri Jul 27 03:02:24 2001 @@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ Rule Holiday 1993 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895 10:00 Aus EST 1971 - 10:00 AQ EST + 10:00 AQ AEST Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895 10:00 Aus EST 1971 10:00 AQ EST 1992 Jul - 10:00 Holiday EST + 10:00 Holiday AEST
Was its official name AEST between 1895 and July 1992? If so it is appropriate to change the format fields of those entries too.