Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: International time zones
Message-ID: <1989Aug22.163453.25697@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <993@ks.UUCP> <383@shodha.dec.com> <1043@riddle.UUCP> <1044@riddle.UUCP> <1177@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 89 16:34:53 GMT

In article <1177@tukki.jyu.fi> otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) writes:
>I wrote this program quite some time ago...
>Since I've seen CET in place of MET, is this standard ?
>Who can add to these zone names ?

There is *NO* standard set of timezone names, and you are asking for trouble
if you assume there is.  For example, there are at least two different
expansions for "BST".  (That one has actually caused trouble.)
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