On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>
> ph10@??? said:
> > Also, I don't think timezone names are very well standardized.
>
> There is a very good standard naming for timezones.
Sorry. Imprecision on my part. I meant *textual* timezone names, of
course.
> [I went through a considerable amount of pain handling timezones in elm
> and smail a while back. The *only* sensible option is to ignore the
> symbolic timezone (or put it as a comment) and use numeric ones - which
> is basically what the RFCs now say about date stamps.]
Quite.
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