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on Tuesday 08 April 2008 07:55
in the Usenet newsgroup aus.computers.linux
Unruh wrote:

> John Henderson <jhenRemoveThis@talk21.com> writes:
> 
>>Unruh wrote:

[snip]
>>> And from that document, here is a counter "official"
>>> government designation
>>> 
>>> http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml
>>> 
>>> which lists EST,CST,WST as the names.
> 
>>It's reasonably common to drop the leading "A" where the context
>>is understood to be "Australia".  I'll give BoM the benefit of
>>the doubt, and suggest that's all they're doing :)
> 
> And I can equally give your source the benefit of the doubt and say that
> they are including A just to make sure you know it is Australian. Now, why
> do you claim one government web site is more authoritative than the other?
> 
> 
> 
>>Look at contemporary federal and state websites, and you'll see
>>that BoM is out of step with this usage.
> 
> 
> Examples?
> Note that BoM is contemporary.

I asked them if there is an official abbreviation for Australian 
Eastern Standard Time.  There is a feedback button on their website.  
Neal wrote that he doesn't mind being quoted, so here goes...  


Hi Peter

Thanks for your email.

The Bureau worked very closely with the Attorney General's department to
resolve the time zone abbreviations used.  It was agreed that it is
acceptable to use EST instead of AEST for the Bureau's website, as there
would be no significant international confusion given the context of the
Australian data and information.

The A should be used if there is a possibility of confusion
internationally.

Regards
Neal Moodie
Bureau of Meteorology


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