May 2, 2008
5:11 p.m.
On 5/2/08, Rich Wales <richw@richw.org> wrote:
The abbreviations A{E,C,W}{S,D}T have been widely used on the Internet for many years, but the time zone gurus have been reluctant to use them because they've never been truly "official" as far as anyone knew.
Hmm...I've heard just the opposite: that the abbreviations are intended to reflect popular usage regardless of what any laws say. For example, Pacific/Honolulu has "HST" for "Hawaii standard time" even though the legal name is "Hawaii-Aleutian standard time." --Bill Seymour