Bug#574317: Ambiguous timezone in test

[Chris Butler]

clone 574317 -1
reassign -1 libdate-manip-perl
retitle -1 libdate-manip-perl: Behaviour of ambiguous timezones has changed
block 574317 by -1
severity -1 important
forwarded -1 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=58159
thanks

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:11:11PM +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better if EST is restored to mean North America? 
> I guess (being neither American nor Australian) that that is more 
> commonly used?
> 
> My concern with the change is that it would change EST interpretation 
> in many places without any warning.

Yes, I think you're probably right. The wikipedia article about Australian
EST would seem to confirm that (the full abbreviation is usually AEST, with
the A being dropped "in domestic contexts"). 

I've cloned the bug onto Date::Manip and forwarded it upstream.

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