[tz] Australian Timezone Abbreviations - Next step

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/20/2012 01:04 PM, Random832 wrote:
> Are there any sites that specifically endorse the practice of using *ST
> to refer to "Summer Time"

There are some, yes.  There are even some that use *DT
to designate "Summer Time" (not "Daylight Time").
You can see examples of these, and of some other practices, at
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2009-January/015378.html>.

> tzcode doesn't have a strptime or
> getdate implementation at all.

Parsing dates is hard, unfortunately.  Neither strptime nor
getdate is satisfactory.  And they're somewhat outside tz's scope.