Australian Eastern times - AEST

[Daniel Stone]

Hi guys,
I've *always* seen the Australian Eastern (Victoria, New South Wales,
Tasmania, Queensland) states' timezones referred to as AEST - Australian
Eastern Standard Time. The TZ package, however, refers to it as EST, which
not only confuses everyone, but also confuses things like date[1] command.

I believe AEST is the official name, and it makes life easier. Ben - the
patch for Debian is attached. Timezone guys - ignore all the script stuff
before the actual diff, and please apply the diff itself for the next
upstream release.

Thanks :)
d

[1]: Just try telling date "EST" in a format, when meaning the Australian
one.

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#! /bin/sh -e

# DS: Use AEST, not EST, for Australia.

if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
    echo >&2 "`basename $0`: script expects -patch|-unpatch as argument"
    exit 1
fi
case "$1" in
    -patch) patch -d "$2" -f --no-backup-if-mismatch -p1 < $0;;
    -unpatch) patch -d "$2" -f --no-backup-if-mismatch -R -p1 < $0;;
    *)
        echo >&2 "`basename $0`: script expects -patch|-unpatch as argument"
        exit 1
esac
exit 0


--- glibc-2.2.3/timezone/australasia.orig	Sat Apr  7 16:02:40 2001
+++ glibc-2.2.3/timezone/australasia	Fri Jul 27 03:02:24 2001
@@ -56,11 +56,11 @@
 Rule	Holiday	1993	1994	-	Mar	Sun>=1	2:00s	0	-
 Zone Australia/Brisbane	10:12:08 -	LMT	1895
 			10:00	Aus	EST	1971
-			10:00	AQ	EST
+			10:00	AQ	AEST
 Zone Australia/Lindeman  9:55:56 -	LMT	1895
 			10:00	Aus	EST	1971
 			10:00	AQ	EST	1992 Jul
-			10:00	Holiday	EST
+			10:00	Holiday	AEST
 
 # South Australia
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
 			10:00	-	EST	1916 Oct 1 2:00
 			10:00	1:00	EST	1917 Feb
 			10:00	Aus	EST	1967
-			10:00	AT	EST
+			10:00	AT	AEST
 
 # Victoria
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Australia/Melbourne 9:39:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
 			10:00	Aus	EST	1971
-			10:00	AV	EST
+			10:00	AV	AEST
 
 # New South Wales
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
 Zone Australia/Sydney	10:04:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
 			10:00	Aus	EST	1971
-			10:00	AN	EST
+			10:00	AN	AEST
 Zone Australia/Broken_Hill 9:25:48 -	LMT	1895 Feb
 			10:00	-	EST	1896 Aug 23
 			9:00	-	CST	1899 May
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