[tz] Australian Timezone Abreviations - Next step

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Sat Oct 20 06:34:40 UTC 2012


On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:50 PM, Mark Tearle <mtearle at tearle.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, neither act (or subsiduary regulations) point to an
> accepted abbreviation, and just use the terms "standard time" and
> "summer time".

Just out of curiosity, does *any* country designate Official Time Zone Abbreviations(TM) in law?  Not names, but *abbreviations*?

Some quick poking around found

	http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/USCODE-2010-title15/pdf/USCODE-2010-title15-chap6-subchapIX-sec263.pdf

(section 263) specifying time zone names here in the septic tank :-), but it gives names, *not* abbreviations.



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