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From: cunningh@noscvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: BST
Message-ID: <194@noscvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 23:52:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  1 23:52:55 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Sep-83 00:02:10 EDT
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Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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Besides standing for Holland Standard Time, HST also stands for
Hawaiian Standard Time.  Seems as if the 'standard' time zone
abbreviations were just not chosen to be unambiguous.  There is no
daylight savings time in Hawaii, incidently, thus no designated
abbreviation for it.  .... Bob C.



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