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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: Users of Rodney's UUCP modules / GUS
Message-ID: <1991May28.151328.21097@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1991 15:13:28 GMT
References: <1991May27.211445.8379@mp.cs.niu.edu> <5JL4MZ3@taronga.hackercorp.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <5JL4MZ3@taronga.hackercorp.com> peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>You know, if it were just to treat undecipherable timezones as GMT that'd
>pretty much solve the problem.

If I'm not mistaken, that's exactly what it does.  There is so much chaos
in timezone abbreviations that just ignoring unknown ones is the only safe
thing to do.  Note, however, that it must be a *timezone abbreviation* for
it to be ignored.  Inscrutable garbage, e.g. an attempt to use an RFC822
comment in RFC1036 where it is not legal, is a different story.
-- 
"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry