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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!144.212.100.12!news.mathworks.com!gatech!csulb.edu!drivel.ics.uci.edu!news.cs.ucla.edu!twinsun!not-for-mail From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,soc.culture.hongkong,hk.comp.os.unix Subject: Re: Timezone of Hong_Kong (`HKT' -> `CST'?) Date: 3 Jul 1997 12:58:01 -0700 Organization: Twin Sun Inc, El Segundo, CA, USA Lines: 17 Message-ID: <5ph089$b0k$1@tattoo.twinsun.com> References: <5paft3$dgf2@lyra.hkstar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43924 soc.culture.hongkong:183244 clc@b1.hkstar.com (Chu Chiu Leung) writes: > had the timezone abbreviation of Hong Kong been > changed to CST since 1st July, 1997? Good question. The public domain tz database has it changing from `HKT' to `CST' (see ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata1997f.tar.gz and the `1997f' part of that URL changes with each release of the database). However, that was just my guess as to what most people in Hong Kong would do. If that guess is not correct, please let me know. Personally, I think that China time should be called `CNT', since the ISO 3166 two-letter abbreviation for China is CN; but it's probably too late to change this.