[tz] Australian Timezone Abbreviations - Next step
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Sat Oct 20 22:27:51 UTC 2012
On 10/20/2012 01:04 PM, Random832 wrote:
> Are there any sites that specifically endorse the practice of using *ST
> to refer to "Summer Time"
There are some, yes. There are even some that use *DT
to designate "Summer Time" (not "Daylight Time").
You can see examples of these, and of some other practices, at
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2009-January/015378.html>.
> tzcode doesn't have a strptime or
> getdate implementation at all.
Parsing dates is hard, unfortunately. Neither strptime nor
getdate is satisfactory. And they're somewhat outside tz's scope.
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