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

Tobias Conradi tobias.conradi at gmail.com
Mon Apr 1 23:04:49 UTC 2013


Based on the below I suggest to add EDT and CDT. It is the minimal
change, if counted in quantity of changed letters during DST, to
achieve what the thread opener wanted: Acronyms that allow to
differentiate between zones that in winter are one and in summer are
two.
1) (A)EST and (A)EDT
2) (A)CST and (A)CDT

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:56 AM, Tobias Conradi
<tobias.conradi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> Tobias Conradi
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> 10115 Berlin
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>
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