Hi Garth, On 27 November 2012 13:35, Garth Home <[email protected]> wrote: > I can see that in the tzinfo Sydney.rb file, which Canberra is linked to, the > entry for DST has > "EST" as the abbreviation. This looks like a bug to me, but I'm new to > tzinfo, so maybe I'm missing > something.
The data included in TZInfo comes from the public domain Time Zone Database (http://www.iana.org/time-zones). The Time Zone Database defines the Australia/Sydney zone with the EST abbreviation for both standard and daylight saving time, where EST stands for both Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Summer Time: $ zdump -v Australia/Sydney | grep 2012 Australia/Sydney Sat Mar 31 15:59:59 2012 UTC = Sun Apr 1 02:59:59 2012 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600 Australia/Sydney Sat Mar 31 16:00:00 2012 UTC = Sun Apr 1 02:00:00 2012 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000 Australia/Sydney Sat Oct 6 15:59:59 2012 UTC = Sun Oct 7 01:59:59 2012 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=36000 Australia/Sydney Sat Oct 6 16:00:00 2012 UTC = Sun Oct 7 03:00:00 2012 EST isdst=1 gmtoff=39600 There has been some debate on the Time Zone Database mailing list about whether the abbreviations should be changed (most recently in this thread: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018287.html). Kind regards, Phil _______________________________________________ TZInfo-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/tzinfo-users
