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From: crissl@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl (Stefan Linnemann)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: timezone names
Message-ID: <1001@rulcvx.LeidenUniv.nl>
Date: 18 Oct 90 08:45:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct16.002131.28178@csis.dit.csiro.au> <143826@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: Leiden University, the Netherlands.
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In <143826@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller) writes:

>In article <1990Oct16.002131.28178@csis.dit.csiro.au> ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) writes:
>> I wish Berkmail would use numeric timezones instead of three letter
>> abbreviations in Date: lines. Australian Eastern Standard Time is also
>> EST.  (Hey, I didn't pick the abbreviation.) Thus mail sent my friends

>Actually, it's AEST, not EST.  But the standards say that timezones
>*outside* of the US must use numeric representations, not  the ascii
>versions.  Conversely, Mail *in* the US must use the 3-letter ascii
>abbreviations.

Which standards?  And what idiots decided that only the US of A may use
three letter abbreviations?  Fine standards if they are as chaotic as you
say they are.  If we are to have standards, then let's keep them standard:
either abbreviations or numbers, not a silly mixed mode.

[rest deleted]

Greetings,
Stefan.

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