I appreciate the info. Several of the links given in the Australasia file are broken, which, of course, makes it impossible to review the referenced source, but I can see that this is a muddled subject. The only suggestion I would make is that if the "S" in EST is referring to both "standard" and "summer", then the FORMAT should be EST/EST...and maybe a "# (S)tandard/(S)ummer" comment added. At the very least it clearly indicates the decision that's been made for daylight saving time representation. As to what it should be...I'll leave that to the Australians (oh wait...isn't that the problem to begin with?) ;) On Mon Oct 31 12:55:06 2011 "Bill Tiede" <billt@chaossoftware.com> wrote:

For WorldTimeServer.com at least, we used two government sources for our time zone abbreviations for Australia:

1. Australia.gov.au at http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time

2. Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml

There has been plenty of discussion in the past about how official these abbreviations are or how widely accepted within Australia these are, so keep in mind I'm not trying to reopen debate or anything, just responding to the question about where we got the idea to call it what we have.

Best Regards, Bill Tiede

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