April 2, 2013
8:45 p.m.
On 3/04/13 05:25 , John Hawkinson wrote:
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote on Tue, 2 Apr 2013 at 11:19:47 -0700 in <87obdwokvw.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>:
But my point is that the specific abbreviations that are put into tzname are worthless for this purpose because they change based on whether it's currently daylight saving time, which is exactly what you don't want for They are worthless programatically. But they are handy for humans to look at. Two simple cases:
(1) I look at the Date: header and I want to know, without thinking too hard, where the originator is. You just failed. I'm in Australia, my work Exchange server is in San Francisco. Guess which time you see in my emails if the transport layer is SMTP?
Edwin