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Australia/Eucla timezone abbreviation (was: Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file)

On 25/06/2024 19:25, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:

Greg Wooledge wrote:

Here's another test:

hobbit:~$ TZ=Australia/Eucla printf '%(%z %Z)T\n' -1
+0845 +0845


That seems like a bug. I'd have expected:

+0845 ACWST
It was an intentional change, "+0845" is the abbreviation. That time it caused issues with e.g. tzdata parser in Qt that did not expect numbers in this field. 

https://github.com/eggert/tz
a25d6154 2017-02-10 10:53:47 -0800
 Paul Eggert: Remove many invented abbreviations in 'australasia'


diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
index 0bca53e2..12800223 100644
--- a/australasia
+++ b/australasia
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ Zone Australia/Perth   7:43:24 -      LMT     1895 Dec
                         8:00   Aus     AW%sT   1943 Jul
                         8:00   AW      AW%sT
 Zone Australia/Eucla    8:35:28 -      LMT     1895 Dec
-                        8:45   Aus     ACW%sT  1943 Jul
-                        8:45   AW      ACW%sT
+                        8:45   Aus +0845/+0945 1943 Jul
+                        8:45   AW  +0845/+0945
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