Revisiting Australian time zone abbreviations
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Feb 17 17:15:43 UTC 2011
On 02/17/2011 03:18 AM, Anand Kumria wrote:
> I had never heard of the atsb prior to your email.
The ATSB is an important Australian government organization and is
often in news reports.
> At the time of writing the atsb link does not exist.
It's been updated to version 3. Here's the current URL:
http://www.atsb.gov.au/media/1525905/ar2009016(3).pdf
>>> The government website of Australia states the time
>>> zone names for Australia are Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), ...
>>
>> I'm afraid it's not that simple.
>
> Actually, it could be.
No doubt it *could* be. But that's for Australians to do, not us.
It's not the tz database's job to impose standard names or
abbreviations on Australians.
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