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Article #1108Re: Daylight Saving Dates?
From: Peter D.
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:05
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:05
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on Tuesday 08 April 2008 02:20 in the Usenet newsgroup aus.computers.linux Unruh wrote: [snip] > Is that an "authority" of simply some gov't employee's idea. Ie, is there > any legislation which backs that up as an authority? In the absence of any world authority telling all of the national governments what legislation to pass, I think that we have to muddle through this as best we can. > There is an extensive discussion in austalasia section of tzdata which > argues that EST is more often used than is AEST, etc. in Australia. > That discussion dates from 2001. Do you think that the situation has > changed in Australia as far as the common useage is concerned. Ie, would > an Australian seeing EST after his time be liable to say "What is a US > timezone doing on my computer?" Or is he liable to say "What's that" if he > sees AEST? [snip] I have been caught out the other way around. The computer meant American EST when I though that it meant Australian EST. Unfortunately we are not going to solve that by getting the Americans to explicitly write "American" in all of their timezones. The least ugly kludge seems to be prepend an "A" for Australia in international stuff and don't complain too much when it is dropped during internal use. Just my 2 cents worth. ;-) -- sig goes here... Peter D.
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