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!DaviesNJ.SysMaint%aucc@ucl-cs.arpa From: DaviesNJ.SysMaint%aucc@ucl-cs.arpa ("Neil Davies%aucc"@ucl-cs.arpa) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: UTC Time stamping Message-ID: <230@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Thu, 2-Feb-84 07:21:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.230 Posted: Thu Feb 2 07:21:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 15:27:16 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 36 To: POSTEL@usc-isif.arpa In-Reply-To: Message of 2 February 1984 02:59 gmt from POSTEL Date: 1 Feb 1984 18:59:44 PST From: POSTEL@arpa.usc-isif Subject: Re: UTC Time stamping In response to the message sent Wed, 1 Feb 84 19:44 EST from bim@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA I don't think i have ever seen a list of international standard time zone designators from ISO or CCITT or any standards organization. I think the only official international standard way to indicate a time zone is by a numeric offset. --jon. ------- Jumping ot the filling cabinet. He gets out X.409 CCITT Message handling systems presentaion Trasfer syntax and Notation) or at least a draft of it. One of the sections refers to "UTC", and the presentation layer representation of it. In the references section there are three ISO refernces namely: ISO 2014, Writing Calendar dates in all-numeric form. ISO 3307, Information interchange- representation of time of the day. ISO 4031, Information interchange- representation of local time differentials. also one to B.11, Legal time; use of the term UTC (don't know who origniated that one). 'Fraid I don't happen to have copies of those standards. Neil Davies.