Or as I said in the OP "and yes, I know the limitations thereof, and that they are not necessarily unique, etc., etc."
<g> I think I have run into EST being both Eastern Standard and European Summer Time. It is obviously a funky system, as so many "legacy" (in the generic sense of the word, not in the sense of "mainframe") systems are. +/-nnn makes so much more sense. Frankly, if programmers ruled the world, there probably would not be any local times at all. Certainly no summer times. I would not have been processing the 'XXX' in any event, so I would not have cared about trying to interpret it. It could be literally XXX for all I cared. The e-mail header apparently wanted it and so I was going to put it in there. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2020 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How determine local time zone *name* in Rexx? On Sun, 17 May 2020 13:39:18 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Please read the subject line ... :-) > Beware of ambiguity. AST is both Arabia Standard Time and Atlantic Standard Time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_zone_abbreviations ... and I hadn't gotten through the "A"s yet. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
