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Subject:    [SNAP] Re: Timezones
From:       Jonas Antoni <jonas.antoni () imsys ! se>
Date:       2003-08-11 7:31:22
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0308110925050.26479-100000 () ns ! imsys ! se
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Marc Nicholas wrote:

> Can I make a recommendation?
Sure :-)

> Time zone abbreviations are very confusing...for example, GMT isn't
> actually even used as a time reference anymore...some people think their
> abbreviated timezone is something different to what it is...daylight
> savings....etc. Etc.
I agree, I have spent some time to try to figure this out, but obviously
without success...

> Seeing as the entire planet's scientific community accepts that UTC is the
> definitive timezone source, how about just allowing the user to select their
> UTC offset (there's 34 of them, if I remember correctly).
Sounds much easier (and more well defined than a 3 letter abbreviation).

Thanks for your comments, I hope that I will be able to (finally) turn NTP
into something useful...

	/ Jonas

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