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From: NADWL@HDEDH1.BITNET (Scott Ophof)
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Subject: Re: Proposals for yet another version of MAIL/BOOK
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Date: 18 Jan 90 13:17:14 GMT
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In-Reply-To:  Message of Wed, 17 Jan 90 15:43:11 CET from <MAINT@DERRZE1>

On Wed, 17 Jan 90 15:43:11 CET Rainer M Woitok said:
>On Tue, 16 Jan 90 22:31:57 EST Nick Gimbrone said:
>>On Fri, 12 Jan 90 14:06:31 CET Rainer M Woitok said:
>> ...
>>>6. TIME.ZONES option
>>>...
>For the  sake of argument lets  assume only 50 time  zones (there should
>be approximately 24  round the globe (standard) plus the  same 24 during
>the  summer (daylight)  plus some  widespread synonyms  like UT  for GMT
>etc). Then you have
>...
>               299 characters needed for the value
>...
>abbreviations  in  my  file.  Since  GLOBALV  imposes  a  limit  of  255
>characters on  the value's length,  SETMAIL will somehow or  other choke
>...

So put the standard zones in one global variable, and the daylight savers in
another?

Regards.
Scott/