Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!Rick.Gumpertz@CMU-CS-A.ARPA From: Rick.Gumpertz@CMU-CS-A.ARPA (Richard H. Gumpertz) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: UTC Time stamping Message-ID: <01Feb84.222129.RG02@CMU-CS-A> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 22:21:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.229 Posted: Wed Feb 1 22:21:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 14:09:11 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 8 To: POSTEL@USC-ISIF In-Reply-To: "POSTEL@USC-ISIF's message of 1 Feb 84 21:59-EST" So we use ANSI (because we are Americans, mostly) for American time zones in alphanumeric and other time zones in numeric. As I recall, this is a superset of the ISO standard but conveys more information (CDT differs from EST but are numerically equal).