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From: Margulies@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Several questions/comments on time zones
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Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 10:03:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan 29 10:03:00 1984
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In-Reply-To:  Message of 29 Jan 84 09:35 EST from "solomon at WISC-CRYS (Marvin Solomon)"

I find it helpful to get a hint of where in the world a correspondant
is.  The time zone does that.

Further, I confess that the precise time of a message is a much better
indicator of the prospective state of mind of the sender than it is
anything else.  I like to know that it was 9am from the senders point of
view and not, for example, midnight.

Finally, I think your argument is moot.  pseudo-readable or not, 733
date-times are quite definitely parsable.  Your user interface program
is welcome to digest them and re-present hem in local time.  rfc733
times are no more or less "standard", iff a reasonable set of zone
appreviations is in use.