[Datetime-SIG] Clearing up terminology

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Alexander Walters
<tritium-list at sdamon.com> wrote:
> EST is the common name of one of many timezones, likely US Eastern Standard
> Time, but could be one of many.

You are the third person on this list who saw

$ TZ=Australia/Melbourne date +"%c%z"
Thu 30 Jul 2015 10:21:18 AM EST+1000

and decided that EST is "likely US Eastern Standard Time."   And
neither of the following two
facts have stopped you:

1. Melbourne is in Australia, not in the US.
2. The DST is in effect in the Eastern US in July.