[H-GEN] Brisbane's timezone

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 02:26:06PM +1000, Ted Percival wrote:
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> For a while it has bugged me that Glibc calls Brisbane's timezone "EST" 
> instead of "AEST". One of the reasons cited for leaving it as EST is 
> that popular usage indicates a preference for "EST". I'm unconvinced, so 
> I'd like to do a quick straw poll:
> 
> Would you consider Brisbane's timezone to be called "AEST" or "EST"?

It has been a problem for multiple applications I've tried to use
already. One of them is Plone
(http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/html/00137.html) and another one was
egroupware (before I understood the problem)

Edwin
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