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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/10/12 17:34 , Guy Harris wrote:<br>
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On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:50 PM, Mark Tearle <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mtearle@tearle.com"><mtearle@tearle.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Unfortunately, neither act (or subsiduary regulations) point to an
accepted abbreviation, and just use the terms "standard time" and
"summer time".
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Just out of curiosity, does *any* country designate Official Time Zone Abbreviations(TM) in law? Not names, but *abbreviations*?
Some quick poking around found
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title15/pdf/USCODE-2010-title15-chap6-subchapIX-sec263.pdf">http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title15/pdf/USCODE-2010-title15-chap6-subchapIX-sec263.pdf</a>
(section 263) specifying time zone names here in the septic tank :-), but it gives names, *not* abbreviations.
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Next thing you are going to tell me is that the tz project is coming
up with random abbreviations when convenient, like FET!<br>
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The NSW Act doesn't specify EST or EDT:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/download.cgi/cgi-bin/download.cgi/download/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137.txt">http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/download.cgi/cgi-bin/download.cgi/download/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/sta1987137.txt</a><br>
At
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/Lawlink/cru/ll_cru.nsf/pages/cru_daylightsaving">http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/Lawlink/cru/ll_cru.nsf/pages/cru_daylightsaving</a>
it says<br>
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<font face="arial"><font face="Arial" size="2">NSW legislation does
not specify abbreviations for standard or summer time. EST
denotes Eastern Standard Time. Summertime or daylight saving
time is commonly expressed as EDST (eastern daylight saving
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Going through the various Standard Time Acts, there are also no
abbreviations in it.<br>
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So....<br>
Consider that there are current issues with the way that the
Australian timezones are handled in the TZ data because of its
ambiguousness (if such a word exist) with other timezones in the
world. <br>
And consider that there are no official abbreviations.<br>
And consider that there is a lot of places on the Internet already
where the unambiguous abbreviations are used.<br>
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What is stopping the TZ project from using the unambiguous
abbreviations so that the people who use the TZ database in
Australia or on Australian services don't run into these basic
problems anymore?<br>
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Edwin
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