Re: [tz] Ambiguous abbreviations for Australian timezones when daylight savings is in affect

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:44 PM, David Patte ₯ <dpatte@relativedata.com> wrote:

So the issues here is 'common usage' vs Federal government usage vs State government usage.

Maybe not even that. It is about choosing any set of acronyms that differentiates between different offsets. Common usage, Paul's survey: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018364.html AEST AEDT CST CDT WST WDT Federal govt http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time#daylightsaving AEST AEDT ACST ACDT AWST IANA timezone database ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/australasia EST CST WST No markers for DST at all. -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/