Eliot Lear wrote in <867b8fc8-1229-dca7-8408-2c80818dfc6b@lear.ch>: ... |On 03.03.23 00:04, Tim Parenti via tz wrote: |> On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 at 17:45, Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote: |> Whether the adjusted time in (say) New York would be abbreviated \ |> "EST" |> or "AST" or "EDT" is up to common practice. ... |> Worth considering that, if "EST" were to become standard for -04, it |> would require modifications to supported, but obsoleted, formats in |> RFC 2822 §4.3, which state: |> |> EDT is semantically equivalent to -0400 ... |RFC 2822 is already obsolete, and this part was somewhat fixed in RFC |5322. See Section 3.3 of that document, in that those old zone names |are marked as obsolete, but allowed. Pete can say more if he wants. Destructive comment, but i do not copy this. Unless i give in and accept that over fourty years of email soon disappear in the void of digital history, except for bitsavers or wayback machine(s). ... --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)