Re: Aussie timezone database changes incoming

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 03:42:14PM +1000, Andrew McNamara wrote:
> >Anyone from down under care to remark about the actual usage of old
> >and new abbreviations?

About bloody time!

>
> AEST/AEDT/etc are the official abbreviations and are commonly used.
> They have been increasingly used over the last 20 years or so, and the
> EST/EDT stuff on the Olsen tz database has been a source of annoyance
> for a very long time, eg:
>
>     http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2262
>
> Quite likely this change will break stuff, but my feeling is more people
> will be cheering than screaming.

Indeed, this has been a pain in the ass for a long long time.

Have a nice day,
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