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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
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Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
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Date: 13 Dec 90 18:47:56 GMT
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In article <1990Dec13.173731.531@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.

One argument I've heard against this is that it is useful for the Date
field to be presented in the sender's time zone.  That way it is easy to
tell that the reason the sender was confused is because he sent the message
late at night when he was likely too tired to think clearly.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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