[H-GEN] Brisbane's timezone

mick mickhowe at bigpond.net.au
Thu Apr 3 19:10:38 EDT 2008


On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 14:26:06 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 should definately be laballed correctly as AEST

/]/]ik




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