[tz] Patched file australasia - time point unique abbreviations for Australia

[Tobias Conradi]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Paul Goyette <pgoyette at juniper.net> wrote:
> Wow!
Indeed.

> Everyone argues that the current situation is untenable
No, the TZ Coordinator and some other people voted to keep the current
situation.

> (and threaten
> to trigger a fork)
Even less than those that want to change the current situation, did
/mention/ a fork..

>because the current abbreviations aren't in common
> usage.
No, the reason is because the current set of abbreviations contains
EST and CST which during DST are used to refer to two different
offsets each and are thus ambiguous.

> Yet the first proposed update tries to invent a whole new set of
> heretofore unseen abbreviations?
I don't know what you mean by "first proposed update", since the bug
is open since 2006.

The first patch that I can see did not "try to invent a whole new set
of heretofore unseen abbreviations", but did indeed introduce a subset
with possibly one (LHHT) or two (LHDT) unseen abbreviations:

LHST/LHDT/LHHT - Lord Howe

A set for which David Grosz made a change proposal and that has been
addressed in the very email you just replied to. The relevant parts
are kept below.

> Absurd!
Your comment? I think you just didn't read and write carefully.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: tz-bounces at iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces at iana.org] On Behalf Of
>> Tobias Conradi
>> Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 3:07 PM
>> To: David Grosz
>> Cc: tz at iana.org mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [tz] Patched file australasia - time point unique
>> abbreviations for Australia
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:52 PM, David Grosz <david at dlg.com.au> wrote:
>> > I don't suggest to be an authority on this subject but I wish to
>> discuss
>> > three points:
...
>> > 2. For Lord Howe's daylight saving time, could we just report AEDT as
>> it's
>> > the same time as Sydney, Canberra, etc?
>> Oh yes. Will have to look how to do this. That would also eliminate H
>> = Half hour saving. LH specific DST code would be needed for 1981 to
>> 1984 when saving was one hour.

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