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Article #149Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
From: Neil Rickert
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 18:08
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 18:08
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In article <1990Dec13.173731.531@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >All, repeat all, repeat all, times and dates in mail headers should be in >GMT. The user interface should translate if appropriate -- *it* knows >about arbitrarily messy local conventions. Well, that's a little strong. The vast majority of email stays within a single time zone, most within a single organization in that timezone, and a whole lot stays on a single machine. When you get our politicians to change to GMT for everything we can consider your radical approach. Until then most users don't want to do some arithmetic just to see when a message was sent or when it arrived. What is wrong with numeric timezones? -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America Message-ID: <1990Dec13.180844.15200@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 13 Dec 90 18:08:44 GMT References: <1990Dec12.211026.8029@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1990Dec13.173731.531@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 19