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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
Message-ID: <1989Dec2.004007.19813@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 2 Dec 89 00:40:07 GMT
References: <1989Nov30.141344.2597@talos.uucp> <14783@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <14783@well.UUCP> by jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer):
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| 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.
+---------------

If I remember correctly, RFC822 lists that (timezone as [+-]nnnn) as the
*preferred* format.  I'd say go for it.  (I've got MH set up to work that way
locally.)

++Brandon
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