You make a very good point, that unless a usable unambiguous system of abbreviations in tz is adopted for Australia, there is a serious risk of the database becoming fragemented as different OS providers patch the database according to their own preferences, adding to the confusion. It is for this reason I feel strongly that tz has a responsibility to adopt SOME abbreviations that at least differentiate between standard and daylight/summer time, before others users of the database do. Related, are there any estimates of how many computer systems currently use the tz database, and potentially suggest thecurrent ambiguous abbreviations to potential users? in their own way On 2013-03-31 2:24, Stuart Bishop wrote:
If the position really is that it will never change, just make a statement to that effect so we can petition our OS providers to patch the database and move on.
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