Yes Jim I am in Sydney Australia and we are UT+11. To me EDT and AEST mean the same thing. AEST is most probably more correct to use in a forum such as this. I work in Television and our media people use EDT. Regards Nic, PS the Tsunami warning has been withdrawn.
Hmmm. I'm in a pedantic mood today, but I think this is worth raising. "09:44 EDT" - what is that? I'm presuming Nic (emailing from bigpond and presumably in Australia) means "Eastern Daylight Time" which I assume he means Eastern Standard Time + 1 hour for daylight savings. I thought it was suppoed to be AEST for Australian Eastern Summer Time, but I also recall (a long time ago) it being said that there is no standard name for daylight savings time zones in Australia. We have EST, CST and WST - but no offical names for summer. Is this still correct? I always use 09:44 (UT+11) to remove all ambiguity. I would encourage all time-nuts to use the same system because it is completely unambiguous and can be used wordwide. Jim Palfreyman PS the Tsunami warning has been withdrawn. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
