>I will point out that "you Australians", and, well, "us 'mericans", are
>the only countries without the sense to choose unique conventions for
>time zone names.
I once had a long discussion about that on the timezone mailing lists.
If I remember right I think the upshot is that these are not the only
conflicts, they're probably just the only conflicts you have run across.
>It sounds like having a second lookup table for the Australian rules is
>a possibility, and this sounds fairly reasonable to me. Btw, is there an
>Australian convention for referring to North American time zones for
>those zones with naming conflicts?
Well aren't there long names for all the zones like Australia/NSW,
Australia/QLD, Australia/VIC etc?
I have at times heard people refer to AEST meaning Australian Eastern standard
time. I agree it's a big
mess but I couldn't even convince the timezone people there was even a problem.
Oh well.
