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From: guy@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Greenwich Mean Time vs. Local Time Zones
Message-ID: <8489@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 20:49:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 20:49:00 1986
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Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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I recently discovered that Usenet is now exclusively using GMT for all
article timestamps.  (I normally filter out the various date/time lines
of the header.)  To placate those (like me) who want the local time,
on those rare occasions when I need to look at the time fields,
I propose that a place be provided for the local time interpretation.

Examples:

        Date: 23 Jan 86 05:00:00 GMT <22 Jan 86 21:00:00 PST>

        Local-Date: 22 Jan 86 21:00:00 PST


Have proposals like this already been picked to pieces?  Both are easy to
implement, and are widely used for contextual problems in addresses.
Using a separate header line should be a painless upgrade path, but adds
yet another header line and a few more bytes of storage overhead.
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Richard Guy
UCLA Computer Science Department
guy@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
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