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From: jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
Message-ID: <14783@well.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 22:23:15 GMT
References: <1989Nov30.141344.2597@talos.uucp>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, kjones@talos.uu.net wrote:
}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

The more I think about this idea, the more I like it.  Now I'm really
tempted to punt the X-Local-Date hack and do this instead.  Let's see if
anyone comes up with any objections.
---
Jef

  Jef Poskanzer  jef@well.sf.ca.us  {ucbvax, apple, hplabs}!well!jef
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