Re: [SLUG] Timezone and Daylight Savings Time

[Rod Butcher <rbutcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting from Lawlink : "Standard time in New South Wales (known as
Eastern Standard Time)"...
"Daylight saving begins at 2 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on the last
Sunday in October..."
"Therefore, at 2 a.m. standard time on the last Sunday in October clocks
are put forward one hour- the time then becomes 3 a.m. summer time.".

Maybe we should call it "New South Wales Summer Daylight Saving Time" or
NSWSDST so we know we're not on Queensland Curtain Fading Time.

Rod

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 14:36 +1100, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote:
> Christopher JS Vance wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:43:11PM +1100, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote:
> >
> >> When I run the 'date' command while we are in daylight savings time, 
> >> it says:
> >>
> >> Tue Feb  1 13:35:07 EST 2005
> >>
> >> 1) Why is it "EST" ? Shouldn't it be "EDT" or "AEDT" ?
> >
> >
> > S for Summer.  We don't do Daylight Time here.
> 
> 
> Huh ? What do you mean "we don't do daylight time" here in NSW ?
> 
> http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/crd.nsf/pages/time2
> 
> 
> >
> > There are no "legal" or universal abbreviations for timezones in
> > Australia.  I've also seen EASST and EADT.  In some places, I think
> > it's also called L (or K in Queensland, right now...).
> >
> >> http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/au/edt.html
> >
> >
> > And someone in Norway knows something that Australian governments and
> > people don't?
> >
> >
> >> 2) Anyone know how to change the output of "date" so that it shows 
> >> the GMT offset instead ?
> >
> >
> > Check the manual pages date(1) or strftime(3) if you have them.
> > Depends on your OS.
> >
> I know that you can format the output of the date command.
> What I was after was having the _default_ ( that is, no options ) output 
> of date to display GMT offset instead of "EST".
> 
> 
> 
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