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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: crazy mail
Message-ID: <477.2489E033@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 5 Jun 89 01:59:49 GMT
References: <164@zebra.UUCP>
Organization: A neat desk is a sign of a crazy person.
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In article <164@zebra.UUCP>, harvard!husc6!scicom!zebra!uucp writes:
 >Note 1:  This is the time that the message was received here but it
 >         illustrates one of my pet peeves.  The audacity of the writer
 >         of my 'mail' program to think that the world revolves about the
 >         eastern u.s. time zone.  If they can't use the built in
 >         conversion routines to produce the local time, they should have
 >         at least used the the universal standard of GMT (or UTC as it
 >         is now known.)

It's perfectly legal to give the date in EDT, as long as you put "EDT"
(or "-004") in the proper place.  I could also use "EST" (or "-005"),
or "PDT" (or "-007"), or "-009" (if I was in Hawaii), or whatever
I want.  Mailers should be able to figure out "EST", "CST", "MST",
"PST", and their equivalent daylight-savings-time versions, along with
anything in the form "[+|-]nnn".  RTFRFC (Read The F***ing RFC).

(I could say something about the "audacity of the writer of Unix to
think that the world revolves around GMT", but I won't.  As Andy
Tanenbaum says, "The nice thing about standards is that there's so
many of them to choose from.")

--  
Marc Unangst
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