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From: AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan DI Millar)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
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Date: 14 Dec 90 08:16:53 GMT
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Here's my personal opinion for what it is worth.  I like the headers
that use the numeric offset with a description in parentheses, such as:

Date: 14 Jun 1990 11:23:35 -0800 (PDT) 

Another alternative which I have not seen but might be nice is:

Date: 14 Dec 1990 11:23:35 -0700 (Pacific Std Time)

Either way it can be easily read (comments) and easily processed (numbers).

And don't forget: the RFCs now state that four-digit years are acceptable. 
Better fix the software now.  (I tell you, I'm getting out of computing
by 1999 when all the world's stupid two-digit date software explodes :-)

- Alan Millar   AMillar@cup.portal.com