Bug#93810: Australian Eastern times - AEST

[Alex Pennace]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:48:03PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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.
[snip]
> --- 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

Was its official name AEST between 1895 and July 1992? If so it is
appropriate to change the format fields of those entries too.