[Bug 525128] Re: Australian timezone incorrectly labelled in date output

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: tzdata (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Australian timezone incorrectly labelled in date output

Status in “tzdata” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “tzdata” package in Debian:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

  When running the "date" command with my timezone set to
  "Australia/Canberra" (or any of the Australian Eastern seaboard
  sites), the timezone is displayed as "EST". This is likely to cause
  confusion with the American "EST" timezone.

  The correct label for Australian Eastern Standard Time is AEST.

  In addition, the label for Australian Eastern Daylight Time doesn't
  appear to exist. This should be AEDT. As an example, a nearby
  timezone, the New Zealand Daylight Time (NZDT) label is correctly
  displayed when daylight time is in effect.

  The non-existence of the AEDT timezone causes a lot of trouble when
  you are working with hosts across states in the Australian Eastern
  timezones. One of these states, Queensland, does not have daylight
  time in summer. So when you are looking at the date on a host in
  Sydney that should be in AEDT, and a host in Brisbane that should be
  in AEST, both are reporting they are in "EST", but an hour apart.

  This problem is not limited to the Ubuntu distribution; it also exists
  in RHEL, that I'm aware of.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Feb 21 13:43:12 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: firefox 3.5.7+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
  SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
  XsessionErrors:
   (gnome-settings-daemon:3710): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (gnome-settings-daemon:3710): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3813): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (nautilus:3809): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
   (firefox:3897): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times

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