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Article #1860Re: timezone names
From: David E A Wilson
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 23:43
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 1990 23:43
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argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes: >Actually, it's AEST, not EST. But the standards say that timezones >*outside* of the US must use numeric representations, not the ascii >versions. Conversely, Mail *in* the US must use the 3-letter ascii >abbreviations. And of course in summer it becomes Australian Eastern Summer Time (AEST). :-) We use AEST/AEDT for internal usage but +1000/+1100 for mail. -- David Wilson Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong david@cs.uow.edu.au
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!wolfen!cs.uow.edu.au!david From: david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: timezone names Message-ID: <1990Oct21.234340.22506@cs.uow.edu.au> Date: 21 Oct 90 23:43:40 GMT References: <1990Oct16.002131.28178@csis.dit.csiro.au> <143826@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University Lines: 10