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- This is the first of a series of five articles about timezones.
- It is posted to make public previous discussions in this area
- and not to stir up the issue again. The time is propitious because
- the U.S. President has just signed a new daylight savings time law.
-
- The other four articles of this series form RFC.001,
- which was submitted to the IEEE 1003.1 Working Group in
- Florence on 18 April 1986. The set of articles is as follows:
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- V6N29 RFC.001 Timezones: this article (not part of RFC.001 proper).
- V6N30 RFC.001 Summary of mod.std.unix Volume 5 by the moderator.
- V6N31 RFC.001 Timezone Interface (reposting of V5N65) by Robert Elz.
- V6N32 RFC.001 Timezone Examples (from V5N57) by Arthur Olson.
- (just the examples from the last few pages, not the whole article).
- V6N33 RFC.001 Time Zone Proposal by jsq.
-
- The last item has the same intent as the Elz article but is in a form which
- should be usable as an actual proposal. It may be submitted as such soon.
-
- There was another RFC (from HP) which solved all the same problems but
- by a slightly different mechanism. Perhaps its author would like to post it?
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- Volume-Number: Volume 6, Number 29
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