On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:33:58PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I am the submitter of that long-standing Debian bug, > > http://bugs.debian.org/93810, wherein I contend that 'AEST' should be > > used as the timezone name for Australia's eastern states, not 'EST'. It > > was suggested in this report that 'Australians do not use AEST'. Aside > > from the fact this was based on a stunningly bad assertion, it's untrue. > > While I suppose Debian could make a local patch, this discussion really > should be taken to [EMAIL PROTECTED], the mailing list for the upstream > sources for the time zone databases used by many applications. This has > been discussed on that mailing list many times, so you may be expected to > demonstrate what might have changed from the last time it was discussed.
Hence the CC. > FWIW, here is the information in the upstream sources about this: > # [lots of stuff] Yeah, in the bug log; that's why I made reference to this. -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian X Strike Force: http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/
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