[H-GEN] Brisbane's timezone

[James Lever]

AFAIUI, AEST and EST are both correct.

AEST is an easy way to differentiate it within a global context,  
however, EST is also perfectly valid given it is what we refer to it  
in Australia.  Just because the USA believes the own and are at the  
centre of the universe does not mean they always have rights over  
every generic TLA.

Anyhow, I prefer to use AEST for conciseness and/or UTC+10.

All that aside, I really prefer Brisbane to be UTC+11, however, that  
doesn't work for anybody else :(

cheers,
James

On 03/04/2008, at 2:26 PM, Ted Percival wrote:

> 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"?