Hi all, I am the submitter of that long-standing Debian bug, http://bugs.debian.org/93810, wherein I contend that 'AEST' should be used as the timezone name for Australia's eastern states, not 'EST'. It was suggested in this report that 'Australians do not use AEST'. Aside from the fact this was based on a stunningly bad assertion, it's untrue. Let me assure you, as an Australian who's lived in Australia my whole life, that when we are writing something that will be seen by a global audience, we use AEST rather than EST. This is entirely empirical, and I can't really back it up, other than assure you that there's not exactly a financial incentive for me to lie or something - I just want to see this mess cleared up. And then there's the stunningly bad basis for this outlandish claim - Googling for 'aest site:.au' vs. 'est site:.au'. Aside from the fact that a lot of us have non-.au sites (I personally have people.debian.org, fooishbar.org, penguinppc.org, and many more - this is not at all uncommon, and grows when you consider LiveJournal, blogger, etc), this claim is *just* *plain* *wrong*. http://www.googlefight.com/cgi-bin/compare.pl?q1=aest+site%3A.au&q2=est+site%3A.au&B1=Make+a+fight%21&compare=1&langue=us This URL shows that 'aest site:.au' comes up with 332,000 results, compared to 323,000 for 'est site:.au'. Even the worst basis for any argument is factually incorrect, not just staggeringly irrelevant. As an Australian with actual first-hand (as opposed to Google-derived) knowledge of the situation, I urge you to switch to AEST. Thanks, Daniel (Please keep me CC'ed on all this, I am not subscribed, and I will not see mail to 93810@bugs.debian.org, only 93810-submitter@bugs.debian.org). -- Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org> Debian X Strike Force: http://people.debian.org/~branden/xsf/
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