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From: bgg@pta.oz.au (Ben Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: timezone names
Message-ID: <1905@pta.oz.au>
Date: 22 Oct 90 03:16:52 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.002131.28178@csis.dit.csiro.au> <143826@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Sydney
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In article <143826@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:
>In article <1990Oct16.002131.28178@csis.dit.csiro.au> ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) writes:
>>				 Australian Eastern Standard Time is also
>> EST.  (Hey, I didn't pick the abbreviation.) Thus mail sent my friends
>
>Actually, it's AEST, not EST.

Ahem.  According to the Australian government legislation, it's EST.  I
don't know where you got AEST from but it's officially meaningless as a
timezone within Australia.

	Ben.