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!Margulies@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA From: Margulies@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA (Benson I. Margulies) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: UTC Time stamping Message-ID: <840202004417.738587@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 19:44:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.226 Posted: Wed Feb 1 19:44:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 14:11:10 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Reply-To: bim@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Lines: 8 Posted-Date: Wed, 1 Feb 84 19:44 EST To: David AlpernIn-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.