[H-GEN] Brisbane's timezone

[Quark AudioVisual - Hilton Travis]

Hi James,

There's quite a number of people who'd like to have DST in Queensland, 
but because of our genetically inferior cows, the dairy farmers have put 
up a fight to keep sanity out of the Queensland Government, and thus far 
it has worked exceedingly well.  Pretty much any person involved in any 
business in Queensland that deals with our southern states can see the 
benefit in Qld DST.

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Regards
Hilton Travis


James Lever wrote:
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> 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"?