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From: jklein@faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Juergen Kleinoeder)
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Subject: Re: Time zones again.
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Date: 4 Sep 90 17:53:56 GMT
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Christian.Huitema@mirsa.inria.fr (Christian Huitema) writes:

as it was a problem with the old System V.2 to have more than
3 letters in the timezone-field there has been a proposal
for the european daylight saving times several years ago.


>"+0100",	"MET",	/* Middle Europe Time */

"+0200",	"MED",	/* Middle European Daylight Time */

and similar "WED" for "WET DST" and  "EED" for "EET DST".

Juergen Kleinoeder
University of Erlangen
Germany