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From: sean2@stretch.MUN.EDU (Sean Hogan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.4 request
Summary: integers ain't enough!
Message-ID: <455@stretch.MUN.EDU>
Date: 10 Nov 89 04:47:15 GMT
References: <3753@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: sean2@stretch.UUCP (Sean Hogan)
Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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In article <3753@nigel.udel.EDU> new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>I think it would be useful in the future to have a field in
>preferences describing your timezone.  It should be
>settable from -12 to +12 or "undefined" (the default).
>This would allow programs that need UTC to
>get to it without fouling up older programs or programs
>that don't care.  Time on the system would remain as local
>time.      -- Darren

Please oh please, if anybody considers doing this, remember that some
places in the world (yes, even in North America) do not operate on
one-hour divisions of zone!   The island part of Newfoundland runs on
Newfoundland Standard Time, one *and one half* hours later than Eastern
Standard Time.  I believe (not having an atlas handy) that other [some
even more obscure :-)] places in the world are in the same situation.

	Sean
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Sean Hogan, graduate student           sean2@{garfield,stretch}.mun.{edu,ca}
Department of Computer Science,        Me@bambam.mun.edu (Amiga)
Memorial University of Newfoundland    ...!uunet!garfield!sean2