[H-GEN] Brisbane's timezone

the crow crowaust at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 3 12:36:50 EDT 2008




> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:26:06 +1000
> From: ted at midg3t.net
> To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
> Subject: [H-GEN] Brisbane's timezone
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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"?

If communicating to other people within Australia I use EST, if communicating with Overseas people I use +10GMT.
I thankyou for pointing out AEST I had seen it a couple of times and wondered what it was :)

Anthony

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