Quoth Nigel Metheringham on Tue, Feb 22, 2000: > [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.]
Sure. Is IST Irish Summer Time or Israeli Standard Time? And
there are many others like this. OTOH, "+0200" is unambiguous.