Acronyms for Australian Time Zone Seasons

[Eric Ulevik]

On 1/25/07, Robert Elz <kre at munnari.oz.au> wrote:
> There is no such thing as "daylight saving" time in Australia, Australia
> has Summer Time, which is really quite intelligent on two levels.

"EST" is the time zone commonly used in Sydney. 'S' is understood to
mean Standard or Summer (not "Sydney" - though it may happen with
increasing parochialism).

>  it is simply "wallclock time" which is either
> N, or N+1 hours offset from UTC (and yes, N can be fractional...)

My fellow voters in the federal electorate of Sydney (in Lord Howe
Island) adjust by 0:30.

Regards,

Eric Ulevik