Re: Timezones

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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 20:40:02 --100
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From: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@ISI.EDU>
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>> But I do need to know exactly how the timezone info should appear
>> in log file (if it is necessary):
>I believe it must be: +/-NNNN   (e.g., -0600).
>This is the only hope for being able to make sense of the timezone info.

	Yes, there are regions for which local time is offset by n
hours and 30 minutes, or n hours and 15 minutes.

	There have been *extensive* discussions about representing
time in the header-people mailing list over the years.  There is an
international standard!  For example, RFC1505 specifies:

 DD Mon YYYY HH:MM:SS.FFFFFF [+-]HHMMSS

	I don't like this for log files, because it's harder to sample
and sort than something simple like:

YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS.FFFFFF+-HHMMSS		(with appropriate fields optional,
					 etc.)

					Craig Milo Rogers