Re: [Datetime-SIG] Clearing up terminology
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 8:34 PM, Chris Barker
$ TZ=Australia/Melbourne date +"%c%z" Thu 30 Jul 2015 10:21:18 AM EST+1000
what is (a) Australia/Melbourne, (b) EST?
Ah yes, great fun -- what the heck do you call them?
I would say "Australia/Melbourne" is a TimeZone.
EST is a offset -- "Eastern Standard Time" -- i.e. an offset of 5 hours from UTC, and "Standard Time", so does not change with DST rules, so not a full TimeZone.
Fair enough: "EST is a offset", what is +1000 then? Let's not keep the suspense. I ran the date command above on a Linux machine. On a Mac similar command makes more sense: $ TZ=Australia/Melbourne date +"%c %Z%z" Thu Jul 30 10:46:45 2015 AEST+1000 The point, however is that "EST" does not mean -0500 for everyone.
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Alexander Belopolsky