On Mar 9, 2026, at 2:37 PM, Robert Bastian via tz <[email protected]> wrote:
> CLDR's names are unique within each format and locale, and ICU has datetime
> parsing that round trips. Short names are only used where they are commonly
> understood, e.g. "HNR" is only used in Canadian French, European French uses
> "UTC-7" in the short format (but "heure normale des Rocheuses" in the long
> format).
And it has "Australian {Central,Central Western,Eastern,Western} Standard
Time", "Australian {Central,Central Western,Eastern,Western} Time", and
"Australian {Central,Central Western,Eastern,Western} Daylight Time" for
standard time, generic time, and daylight saving time, respectively, for
various regions of Australia. (It doesn't provide abbreviations for any of
them.)