Australia AEDT/EDT
Hi, I've been testing the timezone abbreviation and it seems to be incorrect for the current DST The abbreviation is giving me a EST instead of the expected EDT. I'm aware from your list there is a lot of discussion around EST/EDT vs AEST/AEDT. This is not the issue for me. either/or would be fine. Rather it appears that it should currently EDT/AEDT. I've downloaded the latest data and code as per the README. Regards Steven Weiss Cape Town South Africa
On 31 October 2012 11:31, Steven Weiss <sweiss@iafrica.com> wrote:
I've been testing the timezone abbreviation and it seems to be incorrect for the current DST The abbreviation is giving me a EST instead of the expected EDT.
I believe this is because Australia tends to call it "summer time" rather than "daylight saving time". So you have "eastern standard time" (EST) in winter and "eastern summer time" (EST) in summer. Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
The idea is that "ST" stands for both "Standard Time" and "Summer Time". This is discussed in the data file's comments, and also has been discussed in the mailing list. See, for example, <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018364.html>.
Thanks. Apologies, there was so much discussion, I must of missed this one. Regards Steven ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Eggert" <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> To: "Steven Weiss" <sweiss@iafrica.com> Cc: <tz@iana.org> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2012 6:54 PM Subject: Re: [tz] Australia AEDT/EDT
The idea is that "ST" stands for both "Standard Time" and "Summer Time". This is discussed in the data file's comments, and also has been discussed in the mailing list. See, for example, <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018364.html>.
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