Re: TimeZone is JST ?, on your MH.

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From: Paul Eggert
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 00:46

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s91m801@kansai-u.ac.jp (Marone / Takashi Murase) writes:

>*** ./zotnet/tws/dtime.c.orig   Tue Apr 10 05:23:22 1990
>--- ./zotnet/tws/dtime.c        Wed Dec  2 14:15:15 1992
>***************
>*** 64,69 ****
>--- 64,72 ----
>                          "CST", "CDT", -6,
>                          "MST", "MDT", -7,
>                          "PST", "PDT", -8,
>+ #ifdef        JAPAN
>+                       "JST", NULL, 9,
>+ #endif        JAPAN
>...

Please do not do this.  It will cause MH to generate messages that do not
conform to the standard (Internet RFC 822).  The standard does not allow `JST'.

Alphabetic time zone names like `PST' are obsolescent, and are present in
the standard only for backwards compatibility with old North American
software.  This is because of the obvious political problems in extending
alphabetic time zone names over the rest of the world: imagine Jamaica,
Japan, and Jordan all arguing over what `JST' should mean!  Please use
numeric time zones like `+0900' instead; Internet RFC 1123 section 5.2.14
recommends this even for North American time zones.

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