[tz] Ambiguous abbreviations for Australian timezones when daylight savings is in affect [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

David Patte ₯ dpatte at relativedata.com
Mon Apr 8 02:16:11 UTC 2013


True, but what we will provide is a proposal which also provides 
similiar changes to the central, western, Lord Howe and Eucla zones, 
where appropriate.

On 2013-04-07 21:58, Tobias Conradi wrote:
>> As for how far back should the patch to the abbreviations be applied? For my purposes from 2000 would be desirable. Are there any difficulties applying to the entire archive?
> AFAICS and comparing with
> ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/northamerica
>
> only the file
>
> ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/australasia
>
> needs to be changed. For the Australian zones
>
> 1) replace EST with
> E%sT
> OR
> AE%sT
>
> 2) in the columns LETTER/S
> replace "-" with the letter "D" and "S" as applicable.
>
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>
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