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[] Regarding Re: Problem with timezone in mail header;
[] kyle@crystal.wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes:

    kj> Richard Stallman writes:

    rs> It seems to me that all the world's time zones should be equally
    rs> valid, and that the US is hardly entitled to expect the rest of
    rs> the world to obey a standard that allows only US time zone
    rs> names.

    [...]

    kj> Timezone names are on their way out in Internet mail and good
    kj> riddance to them.  Programs that generate dates should use numeric
    kj> timezone specifications always and avoid the confusion with the
    kj> names.

    kj> RFC 1123, section 5.2.14

    kj>          There is a strong trend towards the use of numeric timezone
    kj>          indicators, and implementations SHOULD use numeric timezones
    kj>          instead of timezone names. [...]

On a somewhat related topic, about a year ago I recall discussion on
adding timestamp info to the current-time-stamp function: is that going
to happen?  As I recall there was some resistance to the idea...

I certainly hope so; these days a timestamp without timezone info is
pretty useless information-wise, and as far as I can tell there's *no*
good way to get that info in Emacs 18; you have to invoke a date(1)
subprocess and parse the output or some such nonsense.

IMHO every editor should be capable of easily obtaining a current time
stamp, with timezone, *especially* one like Emacs which does so much
e-mail and USENET reading, sending, sorting, etc.

                                                                paul
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