Re: [SLUG] Timezone and Daylight Savings Time

["Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <jesus.salvo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Christopher JS Vance wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 02:36:23PM +1100, Jesus M. Salvo Jr. wrote:
>
> > > 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
>
>
> That page doesn't mention "daylight time" anywhere.  It talks
> everywhere of "daylight saving", and doesn't give a name to the
> timezone.
>
> Your proposed abbreviation for the timezone name didn't include an "S"
> for the "saving" part of "daylight saving", either.

Here's more:

http://www.rba.gov.au/Glossary/detail.asp?term=AEDT
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/daysavtm.shtml