Ken Hornstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You _could_ add a flag that means "No time zone data" and display something
> appropriately, but is that really worth it? I dunno.
True. That's not a bad idea, actually.
> >> Well, my only point is that the textual time zones (other than the ones
> >> listed above) are right now entirely arbitrary
> >
> >"Entirely" arbitrary? No, clearly there've been accepted conventions,
> >immaterial of whether they've been officially approved in a standard.
>
> _Are_ there any such conventions? I'm not sure.
Yes, there are. For instance, I have a lot of mail from Japan with a
timezone of "JST".
> It seems like people just made them up -
Sure, all the timezone names (official ones included) were "just made up" by
someone originally. It's just a question of how many people the timezone
inventors got to go along with them.
> they don't even seem to be consistant.
Well, yeah, but certain names were used consistently enough that nmh can
respect them, if there's no accompanying numeric offset.
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