Even if timeanddate.com says otherwise, I don't know of more than 5 people
who know more than 4 Time Zone Abbreviations..... so why don't we just use
an easy to understand form like UTC+/-X....????
Marc
At 11:33 20.09.01 -0700, Kris Benson wrote:
>Marc C Storck wrote:
> >
> > I think that the best way is to use "GMT +/- abcd", because EST is
> > different when used as "US Eastern Standard Time" or as" European Eastern
> > Standard Time".....
>
>According to http://www.timeanddate.com/time/abbreviations.html
>the correct abbreviations for the European ones are:
>
>EET Eastern Europe Time, as UTC+2
>EEST Eastern Europe Summer Time, as UTC+3
>
>so confusion, while possible, is no more likely than PST vs. EST.
>
>-kb
>--
>Kris Benson
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