Overheard at the IETF High Council: Elrond: Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk now use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones. The old standard must be taken deep into Mordor and cast into the fiery chasm from which it came. One of you must do this. Boromir: One does not simply walk into Mordor.
-- Donald Grinsell, Systems Programmer Enterprise Technology Services Bureau SITSD/Montana Department of Administration 406.444.2983 (D) "Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunch time, with only a cup of coffee at eleven." ~ Cardinal Ximinez (aka Michael Palin of Monty Python's Flying Circus) > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Bill Woodger > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 1:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Egypt cancels DST? > > I love this from Mark's link: > > Changes to past and future time stamps > > Asia/Novokuznetsk and Asia/Novosibirsk now use numeric time zone > abbreviations instead of invented ones. > > I'll be able to say to people, sounding knowledgeable: "Oh, I remember the > days when Novokuznetsk and Novosibirsk used to just invent their time zone > abbreviations". > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
