Hi guys, I've *always* seen the Australian Eastern (Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland) states' timezones referred to as AEST - Australian Eastern Standard Time. The TZ package, however, refers to it as EST, which not only confuses everyone, but also confuses things like date[1] command. I believe AEST is the official name, and it makes life easier. Ben - the patch for Debian is attached. Timezone guys - ignore all the script stuff before the actual diff, and please apply the diff itself for the next upstream release. Thanks :) d [1]: Just try telling date "EST" in a format, when meaning the Australian one. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net> <Nuke> "can NE1 help me aim nuclear weaponz????? /MSG ME!!"
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:48:03PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
I've *always* seen the Australian Eastern (Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland) states' timezones referred to as AEST - Australian Eastern Standard Time. The TZ package, however, refers to it as EST, which not only confuses everyone, but also confuses things like date[1] command.
I believe AEST is the official name, and it makes life easier. [snip] --- glibc-2.2.3/timezone/australasia.orig Sat Apr 7 16:02:40 2001 +++ glibc-2.2.3/timezone/australasia Fri Jul 27 03:02:24 2001 @@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ Rule Holiday 1993 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895 10:00 Aus EST 1971 - 10:00 AQ EST + 10:00 AQ AEST Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895 10:00 Aus EST 1971 10:00 AQ EST 1992 Jul - 10:00 Holiday EST + 10:00 Holiday AEST
Was its official name AEST between 1895 and July 1992? If so it is appropriate to change the format fields of those entries too.
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:06:32AM -0400, Alex Pennace wrote:
On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:48:03PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
I've *always* seen the Australian Eastern (Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland) states' timezones referred to as AEST - Australian Eastern Standard Time. The TZ package, however, refers to it as EST, which not only confuses everyone, but also confuses things like date[1] command.
I believe AEST is the official name, and it makes life easier. [snip] --- glibc-2.2.3/timezone/australasia.orig Sat Apr 7 16:02:40 2001 +++ glibc-2.2.3/timezone/australasia Fri Jul 27 03:02:24 2001 @@ -56,11 +56,11 @@ Rule Holiday 1993 1994 - Mar Sun>=1 2:00s 0 - Zone Australia/Brisbane 10:12:08 - LMT 1895 10:00 Aus EST 1971 - 10:00 AQ EST + 10:00 AQ AEST Zone Australia/Lindeman 9:55:56 - LMT 1895 10:00 Aus EST 1971 10:00 AQ EST 1992 Jul - 10:00 Holiday EST + 10:00 Holiday AEST
Was its official name AEST between 1895 and July 1992? If so it is appropriate to change the format fields of those entries too.
Probably, I'm not sure. -- Daniel Stone <daniel@sfarc.net> <Nuke> "can NE1 help me aim nuclear weaponz????? /MSG ME!!"
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