On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Earl Hood wrote:
On November 18, 1998 at 10:00, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
Are timezone acronyms not standardized?
I could not find anything official back when I first coded MHonArc.
In RFC 822 there is the following definition:
zone = "UT" / "GMT" ; Universal Time
; North American : UT
/ "EST" / "EDT" ; Eastern: - 5/ - 4
/ "CST" / "CDT" ; Central: - 6/ - 5
/ "MST" / "MDT" ; Mountain: - 7/ - 6
/ "PST" / "PDT" ; Pacific: - 8/ - 7
/ 1ALPHA ; Military: Z = UT;
; A:-1; (J not used)
; M:-12; N:+1; Y:+12
/ ( ("+" / "-") 4DIGIT ) ; Local differential
; hours+min. (HHMM)
In the draft for the RFC 822 replacement time zones not epressed by four
digits are considered obsolete.
Note, I do welcome a more complete acronym list with offsets. I
am also interested in any acronym conflicts.
For mail I guess that RFC 822 has the only definitions.
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Mats Dufberg
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