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From: Margulies@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA (Benson I. Margulies)
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Subject: Re: UTC Time stamping
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Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 19:44:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 19:44:00 1984
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Posted-Date:  Wed, 1 Feb 84 19:44 EST
To: David Alpern 
In-Reply-To:  Message of 31 Jan 84 16:19 EST from "David Alpern"

The problem is that we do not have an agreed upon unique list of time
zone identifiers.  Thus the ISO date standard calls for both the zone
abbreviation and its offset from UTC.

I still do not see why that is not an adequate solution, though.