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The reason for Country/City is because the timezone name is a global reference. It may be written in english, but everybody uses. Things like "pacific", "cent
by nvivo 11y ago
The reason for Country/City is because the timezone name is a global reference. It may be written in english, but everybody uses. Things like "pacific", "central" and "standard" mean very different things in other places.
- tankenmate 11y agoIndeed, for many years the Eastern time zone in Australia was shortened to EST (Eastern Standard Time); just like the US Eastern time. With the wider advent of the Internet Australia renamed EST to AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time).