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Re: mdate - a tool for processing mail Date: fields

1997-02-17 07:04:30
gary(_at_)Intrepid(_dot_)COM (Gary Funck) wrote:
:                      it will parse many forms of Date specifications,
:and convert the result into Unix's cononical time_t, which records the
:value of time in seconds since 00:00:00 UTC, January 1, 1970.

I heard (but this could be wrong) that parsing time zones is perilous
at best and that, for example, there are several times zones which
call themselves EST.

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