[tz] Ambiguous abbreviations for Australian timezones when daylight savings is in affect

Mon Apr 1 22:56:21 UTC 2013

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 4:44 PM, David Patte ₯ <dpatte at relativedata.com> wrote:
> So the issues here is 'common usage' vs Federal government usage vs State
> government usage.

Maybe not even that. It is about choosing any set of acronyms that
differentiates between different offsets.

Common usage, Paul's survey:
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018364.html
   AEST AEDT
   CST CDT
   WST WDT

Federal govt
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time#daylightsaving
AEST AEDT
ACST ACDT
AWST

IANA timezone database
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/australasia
EST
CST
WST

No markers for DST at all.

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