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From: rgt@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Ron Tolley)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: International time zones
Message-ID: <9300001@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Aug 89 04:19:35 GMT
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>> I need the 3-letter abbreviation (CET, etc.) [for time zones]
>> If anyone has such a list, please mail it to me.
>> 
>> jriegel@ibm.com
> 
>   Unfortunately there is no list.  There are some accepted 3 letter
> abbreviations that are used in the English speaking countries but
> each country tends to call the timezones that pass through them
> a different name (why...that's un-American! ;-).
>
> Bob Devine

A resource which I have not taped but I know exists is the timezone page of
international air line flight schedules.  Several times I have glanced at it
as I passed by.  It contains all of the current offsets from UTC and may also
give abbreviations for each time zone along with the standard name.

Ron Tolley