Talk:Eastern Standard Time

Comments
I'm going to try to make cleaning up these links my project for a short time; at least until the end of winter break. --YbborT 03:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. The target page had extensive history but on inspection was not significant for copyleft purposes. The talk page which seems of continued interest is now at Talk:Eastern Standard Time/archive. Andrewa (talk) 19:59, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Eastern Standard Time (disambiguation) → Eastern Standard Time – This page was originally at Eastern Standard Time until it was moved here after discussions at undisclosed locations. The target was then changed to point to Eastern Time Zone. However, there are three different uses of Eastern Standard Time, the American zone that is most commonly referred to as "Eastern Time", the Australian zone that is most commonly referred to as "Eastern Standard Time" and a music album. For anyone looking for the Australian time zone or the album, there are no hatnotes at Eastern Time Zone to indicate where the respective pages are. Rather than add hatnotes to that article it seems far more logical to use Eastern Standard Time for its original purpose, as the disambiguation page, with a redirect from here. --AussieLegend (talk) 06:43, 11 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Support: Per nom. But in all fairness you should advertise this request at Talk:Eastern Time Zone, and (or at least) Talk:Eastern Standard Time. Mark Hurd (talk) 10:06, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Done - Thanks for the suggestions. --AussieLegend (talk) 12:01, 11 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Please note that nearly 2,000 other pages contain links to "Eastern Standard Time", and all of those links will need to be reviewed and corrected before a move is completed, if there is consensus in favor of the move. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:43, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Why? Aside from the fact that a bot will be able to carry out these changes, so it's no big drama, there's no absolute need to do this before a move, since the disambiguation page contains a link that will have to be retargeted to the appropriate article as part of the move. --AussieLegend (talk) 12:01, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * What makes you think a bot will know whether a link saying "Eastern Standard Time" was intended to refer to the U.S. time zone or to the Australian one, or to the ship? Granted the first one is by far the most probable, but it's not certain.  And the reason why it should be done before the move is so that readers of 2,000 other articles are not sent unnecessarily to a disambiguation page when they click on a link after the move.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 17:15, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Given that Eastern Standard Time has been a redirect to the North American article for the past 5 years, there's an excellent chance that more than 99% of the current links to Eastern Standard Time should be changed to target the North American article and a look at "What links here" supports that. However, it's not essential to change any. It's certainly a "nice to do", but it's not going to hurt anyone to end up at a disambiguation page. If it was, we wouldn't have them. --AussieLegend (talk) 18:00, 11 June 2012 (UTC)


 * Support. Agree with the nom, no clear primary topic. Jenks24 (talk) 09:00, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Eastern Daylight Time
Should we now try for Eastern Daylight Time to become a disambiguation between US Eastern Daylight Time and Australian Eastern Daylight Time? Mark Hurd (talk) 05:52, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

AEST is US-centric notation
I used to use "AEST" to refer to Eastern Standard Time in Australia, to disambiguate from Eastern Standard Time in North America, and I was regularly grumbled at by Australians, saying that it should be just "EST".

Using "AEST" for one but not "NAEST" or "USEST" for the other is failing to maintain a NPV. Martin Kealey (talk) 11:14, 8 May 2017 (UTC)