According to the Australian Government web site at http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time we have AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time) and when daylight savings kicks in, it becomes AEDT. Of course, how official this web site is anyones guess.
I think the National Measurement Institute (part of the Federal Government Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education Portfolio) is responsible for measuring/defining "time", specifically the "second". Not sure who sets time zones and associated abbreviations though.
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I live in NSW and always have, born in 1954. It's always been called Daylight Saving Time by the media and government people I've seen and heard. The same for Victoria too. Here is a quote from the official NSW gov't site on the issue:
"For future summers, daylight saving in New South Wales begins at 2:00 am, Eastern Standard Time, on the first Sunday in October and ends at 3:00 am Eastern Daylight Saving Time on the first Sunday in April."
Please note they call it Eastern Daylight Saving Time.
Chris, what part of Australia did you grow up in, and where do you now live - as calling it Summer time might be just a local regional thing. I do know the people from Queensland hate it as they don't use it and it messes up a lot of things for them and always has since it was introduced, so they may be calling it all sorts of things.
Also, I've never heard of this John Mackin, and having trouble finding out much about him. I assume he's the one who was active on a few newsgroup and not known for anything else at all, as there's nothing else on Google about him, unless he's the UK footballer.
"For future summers, daylight saving in New South Wales begins at 2:00 am, Eastern Standard Time, on the first Sunday in October and ends at 3:00 am Eastern Daylight Saving Time on the first Sunday in April."
Please note they call it Eastern Daylight Saving Time.
Chris, what part of Australia did you grow up in, and where do you now live - as calling it Summer time might be just a local regional thing. I do know the people from Queensland hate it as they don't use it and it messes up a lot of things for them and always has since it was introduced, so they may be calling it all sorts of things.
Also, I've never heard of this John Mackin, and having trouble finding out much about him. I assume he's the one who was active on a few newsgroup and not known for anything else at all, as there's nothing else on Google about him, unless he's the UK footballer.
But my "feeling" is that it has fallen away quite a bit in recent years.
I've even heard Eastern Daylight Summer Time used a few times, resulting in AEDST.
For reference sake: I'm NSW now, and always (when in Australia).
I've even heard Eastern Daylight Summer Time used a few times, resulting in AEDST.
For reference sake: I'm NSW now, and always (when in Australia).
in Sydney and left there in the mid 1980s to live in the Queanbeyan area until 2003 and now live in the Riverina. I checked around with a few people I know and none of them had heard the term Summer Time in relation to daylight savings, but a few had heard it used in relation to the summer school holidays, especially for January.
Here's one from 96 on the ABC: http://www.abc.net.au/election96/radio.htm
and another from the BOM: http://www.bom.gov.au/calendar/annual/salesmail.shtml
It's not widespread, but it does exist.
and another from the BOM: http://www.bom.gov.au/calendar/annual/salesmail.shtml
It's not widespread, but it does exist.
that it is mentioned in several places and all seem to flow back to either the John Mackin text in the UTC Time code page or a couple of media people from the same sector of Victoria, maybe from the same uni or something. It's clearly NOT widespread not has been. I suspect it comes under the same heading as the outback Queensland reference to DST as A$$h0le time - ie a local dialectic use which probably got a wider issue due to the work a few of the people did.
I've not heard it in any of the ABC broadcasts or Vic broadcasts I've seen over the years. However, it's only in recent years that I started listening to the ABC radio broadcasts although I did used to watch all the ABC TV cricket broadcasts up to the early 1990s.
There are a lot of references to the use of DST during the 'Summer Time' (meaning the summer period) and thus not really relevant to the discussion.
I've not heard it in any of the ABC broadcasts or Vic broadcasts I've seen over the years. However, it's only in recent years that I started listening to the ABC radio broadcasts although I did used to watch all the ABC TV cricket broadcasts up to the early 1990s.
There are a lot of references to the use of DST during the 'Summer Time' (meaning the summer period) and thus not really relevant to the discussion.
The US state of Indiana used to follow different Daylight Saving Time rules from the rest of the US Eastern Time zone. I say 'used to' because in 2005 they changed to match the rest of the eastern US.
So why do Windows operating systems developed and released since then (definitely Vista and W7, not sure about W8) still have separate time zone settings for Indiana?
So why do Windows operating systems developed and released since then (definitely Vista and W7, not sure about W8) still have separate time zone settings for Indiana?
the rest of the industry, but it's more likely they haven't yet become aware they need to steal a new version of the software that manages this.
http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/our-country/time
on Daylight Saving Time
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Where Daylight saving is observed:
NSW, ACT,Vic and Tas move from AEST to Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT), and clocks are advanced to UTC +11
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edit. Oops already said (Hark40) and missed it.
on Daylight Saving Time
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Where Daylight saving is observed:
NSW, ACT,Vic and Tas move from AEST to Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT), and clocks are advanced to UTC +11
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edit. Oops already said (Hark40) and missed it.
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