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From: levin@magnus.Hotline.Com (Michael M Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Time Zones -- help me out
Message-ID: <630@magnus.Hotline.Com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 04:18:40 GMT
References: <9002060315.AA10418@xenna.Xylogics.COM>
Reply-To: levin@magnus.Hotline.Com (Michael M Levin)
Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
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In article <9002060315.AA10418@xenna.Xylogics.COM> loverso@XYLOGICS.COM (John Robert LoVerso) writes:
>Hmmm - is this date-parsing code based upon something like unctime(), of
>B news?  If not, that code already parses lots of different date formats.
>If you've got additional formats, you could add it to unctime() and hand
>it back to the rest of the world...

Me thinks, perhaps, that we are going to find ourselves beating the entire
timezone issue to death, since there are NO real standards recognized by
the 'entire civilized world'.  I believe that a slightly different approach
is in order-  like, maybe, deciding on just what the OFFICIAL standard
really ought to be (such as the -0800 format), and if there really isn't
any pressing reason, _maybe_ just decide on using a header field which is
called by a slightly different name-- like "Std-time: ", which could then
be expressed in Greenwich format.  If a PD routine to generate time in this
format were widely distributed, in a fashion suitable for inclusion in all
sendmail or smail generated email, and also suitable for inclusion in the
various mail-shells, then a convention for sorting based on a universally
adopted time standard would make everbody real-real-real happy.

		cost--  $0.02




					Mike Levin


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