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!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!hou3c!Margulies@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA From: Margulies@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Several questions/comments on time zones Message-ID: <840129150352.738172@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: Sun, 29-Jan-84 10:03:00 EST Article-I.D.: MIT-MULT.840129150352.738172 Posted: Sun Jan 29 10:03:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Feb-84 01:07:43 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 16 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.