Bug#149902: Australian time zones

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@sanori.org>]

At Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:43:48 +1100,
<Tyson.Clugg@csiro.au> wrote:
> The official list of timezones for Australia, as provided by the Australian Government, does not include EST anywhere on the page.  AEST is the correct abbreviation.
> 
> <quote url="http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia-13time";>
> 
> There are three times zones in Australia -
> 
>     * Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST): Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) plus 10 hours for standard time and 11 hours for daylight savings time. AEST is followed in these regions:
>           o New South Wales
>           o Victoria
>           o Queensland
>           o Tasmania
>           o Australian Capital Territory
> 
>     * Australian Central Standard Time (ACST): GMT plus 9 ½ hours for standard time and 10 ½ hours for daylight savings time. ACST is followed in these regions:
>           o South Australia
>           o Northern Territory
> 
>     * Australian Western Standard Time (AWST): GMT plus 8 hours. AWST is followed in these regions:
>           o Western Australia
> 
> </quote>
> 
> This should be re-opened as a bug.  Timeanddate.com do not have the most correct timezone information on their website, the Australian Government do.

Note that you probably want to know why AEST vs EST is long-standing
problem: the short summary is available in glibc source tree
timezone/australasia.  Not only one governmental page but also showing
another information source would be nice idea to change time zone
maintainers.

-- gotom