Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:06:12 -0700 From: Chuck Soper <chucks2@veladg.com> Message-ID: <p06230906c0a4f427a3a0@[192.168.1.50]> | I have read the notes in the australasia tzdata file. Should the | current official time zone abbreviations be used rather than the | popular ones? This would be my preference. What "official"? In Australia the time is legislated (except for ACT) by the state governments, not the commonwealth government - so if you were looking for anything official, you're looking in the wrong place. Unless there's been a recent update I haven't heard of (not impossible) at least the Victorian legislation defines Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Summer Time (definitely not daylight saving time). Further, since it is Victorian Legislation, if it were to put a location designator in it, it would most likely be Victorian Eastern Standard Time rather than Australian (and similar for NSW, Tas & Qld). The time in Melbourne, or Sydney (etc) is "Australian Eastern Standard Time" in exactly the same way the time in New York (or Washington, DC) is "United States Eastern Standard Time" and the time in Ottawa is "Canadian Eastern Standard Time". I suspect that you'll find that those web pages are just attempting to provide information to the masses in a "friendly" format, and are not even pretending to be accurate - neither of them even mentions Lord Howe Island, let alone the western parts of NSW that operate on SA time rather than NSW time. Leave the Aust tz abbreviations as they are. kre