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Re: [Nmh-workers] date math

2014-12-15 16:41:44

On Dec 15, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:

So that makes me wonder if
we should still try to bother to generate a symbolic timezone name.  It
looks like the only portable way to do this is to have an internal list
of timezone names.  A large part of me says to not bother.

The IETF has been discouraging symbolic timezone names for many years.  I would 
say ditch them.  For those who want a symbolic timezone (usually recipients) 
it's so they can easily mentally convert to their local time.  Those folks are 
better served by a +nnnn offset that their local MUA can unambiguously convert 
to local time for display.  And for those of us who do care about the senders 
local time, the +nnnn format makes it a lot easier for me to do the mental 
conversion vs. deciphering some unknown-to-me local-to-them timezone 
abbreviation.

--lyndon

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