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From: A.Worsley@cs.ucl.ac.UK (Andrew Worsley)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso.x400
Subject: Re: Time zones again.
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Date: 30 Aug 90 09:08:24 GMT
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Christian Huitema writes:
>"-1000",        "EAST", /* East Australian Standard Time */

  I find it very hard to believe in *ANY* negative offsets for Australia,
  may be this is Alaska? As Australia is west of New Zealand which is
  also a positive time offset.

and Marvin Solomon replies:
....
I understand that Australia also uses CST and EST (and CDT and EDT?)
...
Am I right about any of this or am I all wet?

  You are right. EST= Eastern Standard Time (East of Australia) used in
  Melbourne which is +1000 (+1100 during day light savings which varies from
  state to state).

  Ask kre@munnari.oz.au for more info about time zones in Australia. He is
  a local expert becuase he had to do a lot of research to for the freely
  timezone stuff software that was posted to the network a year or two ago.


	Andrew