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- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 86 04:26:15 EST
- >From: Chris Torek <chris@MIMSY.UMD.EDU>
-
- I have tried to stay out of this discussion since I know little of
- existing time zone standards and have never needed anything but
- the 4BSD system time zone. However, I would like to ask that the
- following suggested rule be amended:
-
- >4. The DST variable has 0 or 2 parts in the string. It has
- > zero if no Daylight Saving Time is observed or 2, when DST
- > starts and ends, for those places that do observe it. I
- > have been unable to locate any place in the world that has
- > 1, 3, or more changes per year to its local time.
-
- Rest assured that the moment this became a standard and everyone
- conformed to it (comments upon the likelyhood of that eventuality
- notwithstanding), Murphy would strike and Congress would legistlate
- some really crazy DST rules.
-
- I see no good reason for requiring the string to have exactly 0 or
- 2 parts (efficiency of specific implementations does not count as
- a good reason).
-
- (I suspect also that once this were standardised, someone would
- come up with a time zone name that requires a digit or a plus or
- minus sign, making rule 3 unworkable as well....)
-
- Chris
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 5, Number 48
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