At Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:43:48 +1100, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The official list of timezones for Australia, as provided by the Australian > Government, does not include EST anywhere on the page. AEST is the correct > abbreviation. > > <quote url="http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-13time";> > > There are three times zones in Australia - > > * Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST): Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) plus > 10 hours for standard time and 11 hours for daylight savings time. AEST is > followed in these regions: > o New South Wales > o Victoria > o Queensland > o Tasmania > o Australian Capital Territory > > * Australian Central Standard Time (ACST): GMT plus 9 ½ hours for > standard time and 10 ½ hours for daylight savings time. ACST is followed in > these regions: > o South Australia > o Northern Territory > > * Australian Western Standard Time (AWST): GMT plus 8 hours. AWST is > followed in these regions: > o Western Australia > > </quote> > > This should be re-opened as a bug. Timeanddate.com do not have the most > correct timezone information on their website, the Australian Government do.
Note that you probably want to know why AEST vs EST is long-standing problem: the short summary is available in glibc source tree timezone/australasia. Not only one governmental page but also showing another information source would be nice idea to change time zone maintainers. -- gotom
