On 26/04/12 10:49 AM, Jeff Gehlbach wrote:
> 
> 
> Garth Mollett <garth.moll...@netregistry.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> EST _is_ Australia/Sydney, it's the same timezone, that's how it's
>> written.
> 
> To us Yanks, EST means Eastern Standard Time, same as America/New_York in 
> winter.
> 
> The three-letter codes aren't encouraged because of these kinds of conflicts.
> 
> -jeff

Yeah it's not the best. Human confusion with timezone acronyms aside
though. Java,date,etc.. are not confused as to the timezone. The EST
printed by data/opennms/java in all those examples is referring to
Australia.

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