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 Lines: 24 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". -- L. J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo. ljdickey@water.UWaterloo.ca ljdickey@water.BITNET ljdickey@water.UUCP ..!uunet!watmath!water!ljdickey ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu