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Article #155Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
From: Chuck Karish
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 05:03
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 05:03
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In article <1990Dec14.004807.10995@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: >In article <1990Dec14.000511.2507@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: [ Mail headers should express the time in GMT. User interfaces may translate this to local time. ] > I read what you said, including the second sentence. There are many user >interfaces that are useful for reading mail. I count 'cat', and 'more' >amongst them. And I don't think too many people will approve of 'fixing' >these to convert dates. The Real Programmers who use dd to read mail and news can't calculate local time from GMT? And we should add cruft to the data stream to accomodate them? No, thanks. -- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com Mindcraft, Inc. (415) 323-9000
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!pacbell.com!ames!mindcraft.com!karish From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America Summary: Real Programmers and the time of day Message-ID: <661151027.9337@mindcraft.com> Date: 14 Dec 90 05:03:46 GMT References: <1990Dec13.173731.531@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec13.180844.15200@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec14.000511.2507@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec14.004807.10995@mp.cs.niu.edu> Organization: Mindcraft, Inc. Lines: 18