Comment 3 for bug 82230
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| James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote Re: Timezone for Australia/sydney should read AEST, not EST | #3 |
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The time zone database used by Launchpad is "pytz", which in turn uses the Olson time zone data (the same data used by most UNIX systems).
That data uses the "EST" abbreviation for Australian Eastern Standard/Summer Time. Furthermore, they've discussed the abbreviation issue multiple times. Patching the abbreviation into Launchpad's copy of pytz would be a future maintenance problem, and would make us inconsistent with Linux's date/time presentation.
So the base issue here seems to be that the time zone abbreviations are ambiguous. Assuming we don't modify pytz, two possible solutions are:
1. include the text "local time" every where we display times.
2. use numeric time zone names instead (e.g. +1000 or +1100 instead of EST)