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From: david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: timezone names
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.234340.22506@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 21 Oct 90 23:43:40 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.002131.28178@csis.dit.csiro.au> <143826@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University
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argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
>Actually, it's AEST, not EST.  But the standards say that timezones
>*outside* of the US must use numeric representations, not  the ascii
>versions.  Conversely, Mail *in* the US must use the 3-letter ascii
>abbreviations.

And of course in summer it becomes Australian Eastern Summer Time (AEST). :-)
We use AEST/AEDT for internal usage but +1000/+1100 for mail.
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David Wilson	Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong	david@cs.uow.edu.au