On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 03:42:14PM +1000, Andrew McNamara wrote: > >Anyone from down under care to remark about the actual usage of old > >and new abbreviations?
About bloody time! > > AEST/AEDT/etc are the official abbreviations and are commonly used. > They have been increasingly used over the last 20 years or so, and the > EST/EDT stuff on the Olsen tz database has been a source of annoyance > for a very long time, eg: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2262 > > Quite likely this change will break stuff, but my feeling is more people > will be cheering than screaming. Indeed, this has been a pain in the ass for a long long time. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <klep...@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does > not attach much importance to his own thoughts. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
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