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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.000511.2507@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec12.211026.8029@dg-rtp.dg.com> <1990Dec13.173731.531@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec13.180844.15200@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 90 00:05:11 GMT

In article <1990Dec13.180844.15200@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>>All, repeat all, repeat all, times and dates in mail headers should be in
>>GMT.  The user interface should translate ...
>
> Well, that's a little strong.  The vast majority of email stays within a
>single time zone, most within a single organization in that timezone, and
>a whole lot stays on a single machine.  When you get our politicians to
>change to GMT for everything we can consider your radical approach.  Until
>then most users don't want to do some arithmetic just to see when a message
>was sent or when it arrived.

Please read what I wrote, especially the second sentence.  The design of
a storage/transmission format and the design of a user interface are two
entirely different problems with different solutions.
-- 
"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry