Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site acf4.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!acf4!chen From: chen@acf4.UUCP (H. Chen, Nick Jacobs) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Timezones For Worldwide Networks Message-ID: <1220003@acf4.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Jul-85 23:10:00 EDT Article-I.D.: acf4.1220003 Posted: Mon Jul 1 23:10:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:05:28 EDT References: <143@kddlab.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 10 I must say that I agree with Mr. Asami. As part of future development of remote job processing, it will become very important for a computer to know what time it is at the computer on the other end of the line. A good discussion of internal versus external representation (as one person has already mentioned in a previous reply to Mr. Asami's note) is given in the May-June issue of American Scientist by Peter Dennings. Nicholas Jacobs !csd2!acf4!chen (Friend's acct...)