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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.173731.531@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec12.211026.8029@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 90 17:37:31 GMT

In article <1990Dec12.211026.8029@dg-rtp.dg.com> eliot@dg-rtp.dg.com writes:
>... what kind of time zone specification do folks outside
>of North America expect to see on the mail they send?  ...

All, repeat all, repeat all, times and dates in mail headers should be in
GMT.  The user interface should translate if appropriate -- *it* knows
about arbitrarily messy local conventions.
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"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry