Re: [Nmh-workers] date math

[David Levine]

Ken writes:

> That's fair enough, although the original MH developers did not
> think it was useless; the code to get this information existed back
> then.

If it's this code:

    "GMT", "BST", 0,
    "EST", "EDT", -5,
    "CST", "CDT", -6,
    "MST", "MDT", -7,
    "PST", "PDT", -8,
    "JST", "JDT", 2,
    (and single letters for all the other standard times)

I don't believe it supports your statement about the original MH
developers' thoughts.

> So that makes me wonder if we should still try to bother to generate
> a symbolic timezone name.  It looks like the only portable way to do
> this is to have an internal list of timezone names.

You really want to maintain that?

> A large part of me says to not bother.

Good :-)  I agree with Lyndon that we shouldn't.

David

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