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From: karish@mindcraft.com (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
Summary: Real Programmers and the time of day
Message-ID: <661151027.9337@mindcraft.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 05:03:46 GMT
References: <1990Dec13.173731.531@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec13.180844.15200@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec14.000511.2507@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Dec14.004807.10995@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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In article <1990Dec14.004807.10995@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu
(Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <1990Dec14.000511.2507@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
[ Mail headers should express the time in GMT.  User interfaces may
  translate this to local time. ]

> I read what you said, including the second sentence.  There are many user
>interfaces that are useful for reading mail.  I count 'cat', and 'more'
>amongst them.  And I don't think too many people will approve of 'fixing'
>these to convert dates.

The Real Programmers who use dd to read mail and news can't calculate
local time from GMT?  And we should add cruft to the data stream to
accomodate them?  No, thanks.
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