[H-GEN] Brisbane's timezone

[Jason McDonald]

/me votes for AEST.

I hardly ever see EST used in written form anymore.  I do see AEDT used quite 
a lot by those southerners on daylight savings time though.

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Dr Jason McDonald
Software Release Manager
Trolltech Australia

On Thursday 03 April 2008 14:26, 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"?