East Bank Palestinians and Israelites use different times for the same location Line Islands in Kiribati uses +14 time zone, same time one day earlier as -10 Hawaii. And agree the Unix time zone database is a great idea.
On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 2:58 AM Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 18 May 2020 01:58:01 +0000, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >Yep. You almost need a country code, and for multi zone countries a > >zone indicator. Especially since a shared time zone might have > >different DST / ST switch dates in different countries. > > > And it's up to the recipient to unwind the process? > > That's the reason that SMTP date headers specify simply "+/-hhmm" > (Which might be +0000 for UTC.) > > Do you want to know the physical time the message originated, > or the solar illumination at that point in spacetime? > > Otherwise, the Truth (which z/OS shuns) is: > https://www.iana.org/time-zones > > >On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 9:03 PM Paul Gilmartin > >> > > >> 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 -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
