On Mon, 05 Mar 2012, Shaun Bouckaert wrote:
I started a discussion on this mailing list in November 2011 in regards to the incorrect time zone abbreviations used for Australian time zones. Initially there were several responses, the majority of which were positive to change, and yet the conversation seems to have died off.
As far as I have been able to make out from earlier rounds of this discussion, people, news organisations, and government sites in Australia use both sets of abbreviations (with and without the "A" prefix), and even "official" sources disagree. Therefore, there seemed to be no basis for labelling one set of abbreviations as "incorrect", or even for concluding that one set was better than the other. Therefore, it seemed best to remain with the status quo. The situation may have changed now, but if so, I suggest that that you try to present an unbiased analysis of which abbreviations receive the greater use on the ground, instead of starting off with an unqualified statement about the current abbreviations being "incorrect". --apb (Alan Barrett)