Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.std.internat Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America Message-ID: <1990Dec15.180350.5920@alphalpha.com> Date: 15 Dec 90 18:03:50 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> Organization: asi Lines: 14 In article keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) writes: >Why don't we do like sendmail has done it for ages? >Write "GMT+2" for somebody (like me and most of other western >European people) being two hours ahead of GMT. What do you do for places where the timezone bumps by less than an hour (I hear Saudia Arabia does it in minutes). -- Alphalpha Software, Inc. | motif-request@alphalpha.com nazgul@alphalpha.com |----------------------------------- 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | Proline BBS: 617/641-3722 I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.