-=| Chris Butler, Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 02:23:35PM +0100 |=- > It looks like this is actually to do with the recent update to Date::Manip's > timezone handling. Specifically, how it deals with ambiguous timezone > abbreviations. > > The test in t/01conversions.t uses the abbreviation "EST". However according > to [0], there are three different timezones all with the abbreviation "EST": > > EST Eastern Summer Time Australia UTC + 11 hours > EST Eastern Standard Time Australia UTC + 10 hours > EST Eastern Standard Time North America UTC - 5 hours > > It appears that the old version of Date::Manip used to pick the North > American "EST", whereas the new one is choosing the Australian Eastern > Summer Time. This gives us the 16 hour shift. > > The following patch amends the test to use the timezone string "US/Eastern" > instead, removing the ambiguity:
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.
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