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Article #177Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
From: Kee Hinckley
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 15:39
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1990 15:39
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In article <1990Dec14.004807.10995@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > 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. Those will be real useful when I send you a message with a Fax and some voice annotations in it. I don't buy the argument that you don't feel like converting dates in your head but you're happy reading your mail with cat. I'd rather have the date in a reliably machine readable form - my UA converts it to human readable. -kee -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America Message-ID: <1990Dec14.153933.271@alphalpha.com> Date: 14 Dec 90 15:39:33 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: asi Lines: 21