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Subject: Time Zones
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Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 00:18:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 29 00:18:00 1984
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I would strongly support use of the ISO standard with local time and
a numeric offset.  As Rich says, the local time is an important piece
of mail context.  The offset allows it to be easily compared to the
recipient's local time or any other time.

I'd like to see the name of the zone as well (as a comment, like John
Covert is a comment in the From: header).  We can't expect standardi-
zation of time zone names, because you aren't going to get people in
Paris and Munich to agree on only one of HEC and MEZ.  The German
abbreviation in the summer is MESZ; I don't remember the French.

As an aside, remember that all locations that use Daylight Savings
time do not switch on the same date.

Hawaii does not observe Daylight Savings time.  Note that the historical
information I've provided on time zones in the North American integrated
telepone numbering zone comes from the V&H tape.  Since I don't have a
new tape yet, my info on Alaska came from making several phone calls to
police and weather stations.

Prior to the switch in Alaska, there were only THREE locations with
dial telephones on Yukon time (one in Alaska and two in the Yukon
Territory) and twelve more ringdown call boxes in the Yukon Territory.
Whitehorse, YT is on Pacific time.
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