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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Re: Time zone names on mail outside North America
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.153933.271@alphalpha.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 15:39:33 GMT
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In article <1990Dec14.004807.10995@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
> 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.

Those will be real useful when I send you a message with a Fax and
some voice annotations in it.  I don't buy the argument that you don't
feel like converting dates in your head but you're happy reading your
mail with cat. I'd rather have the date in a reliably machine readable
form - my UA converts it to human readable.

							-kee
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
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