Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mulga.SUN Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!whuxle!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mulga!kre From: kre@mulga.SUN (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Correction to preceding news Message-ID: <213@mulga.SUN> Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 00:22:16 EST Article-I.D.: mulga.213 Posted: Fri Feb 17 00:22:16 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 00:19:50 EST References: <209@mulga.SUN>, <940@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia Lines: 11 Probably you asked someone from Sydney, & they told you what their systems use. Unix systems in Sydney do use AEST and AESST. (I had wondered how it was that those zone names turned up in the news code!). However, the "standard" names in Aust (as defined by acts of Parliament) are EST both ways, Sydney Uni & UNSW simply decided to ignore that, I assume, because it conflicted with US EST. EST is what is conventionally used in newspapers, magazines, etc. Robert Elz