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- From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
- Subject: Re: timezones
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:13:52 GMT
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- tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
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- >> elsn4000@bronto.zrz.tu-berlin.de (Frank Elsner) writes:
- >> -0100 WAT West Africa Time
- >> -0200 AT Azores Time
-
- >You should definitely *not* use exotic time zone names such as these.
-
- Especially since that ``exotic'' list is wrong;
- don't trust those old lists taken from astrology books!
- E.g. west Africa is really +0000, and the Azores are +0000 (-0100 in summer).
- (My source is the 1989 US Naval Observatory listing.)
-
- For Internet mail and news, Lillqvist is right: you should use numeric
- time zone offsets, and you must never generate alphabetic names like
- `JST' or `MEZ' that aren't in the RFCs. Numeric time zone offsets are
- better than time zone names in general, but if your application must
- use time zone names, you should get better sources than old astrology
- textbooks or ancient email from Multics maintainers. I recommend
- Arthur David Olson's time zone package, which you can FTP from
- elsie.nci.nih.gov in pub/tz92c.tar.Z.
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