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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
Message-ID: <1989Nov30.141344.2597@talos.uucp>
Date: 30 Nov 89 14:13:44 GMT
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Reply-To: kjones@talos.uu.net
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Jef Poskanzer writes:
 > However, Henry's objection makes more sense.  I wasn't aware that
 > time zone notation was not standardized.  That's rather unfortunate,
 > and I agree that it blows this scheme out of the water.

Not if the "+/- hhmm" timezone form is used instead of EST, EDT, etc.  E.g.

   Date: Thu, 30 Nov 89 09:10:00 -0500

would be the header generated here this morning at 9:10am, Eastern
Standard Time.

RFC 822 supports this form.