Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!maytag!water!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: International time zones
Message-ID: <2593@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 89 12:39:14 GMT
References: <993@ks.UUCP> <383@shodha.dec.com>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <383@shodha.dec.com> devine@shodha.dec.com (Bob Devine) writes:
>In article <993@ks.UUCP>, jriegel@cstemp2.almaden.ibm.com writes:
>> I need the 3-letter abbreviation (CET, etc.) [for time zones]
>> If anyone has such a list, please mail it to me.
 
>  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 ...

>  I suggest that you use English names where appropriate and a
>combination of UTC and offset for the others.

I agree with this.  Better yet, just use UTC.

I recall one discussion about two years ago in which it was observed
that two different zones had the same three letter code:
one was "Bering Strait Time", the other "British Summer Time".

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