Date: 26 Mar 1996 21:10:15 GMT
Message-ID: <19960326211015.17608.qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu>
From: djb@koobera.math.uic.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: timezones & Date

> > > 1) GMT time is known, but the timezone is unknown.
> > This is the case I've been worrying about. Roger Fajman proposed +0001;
> > I then proposed -0000; Perry proposed throwing out messages.
> No, Perry proposed that the system require that the timezone be
> configured,

In other words, throwing out messages.

The case I'm worried about (how many times do I have to say this?) is
where TZ is set for the users but not for system programs. This is a
very common case. Under your idiotic proposal, messages generated from
nightly cron scripts would be thrown away, as would bounce messages.

---Dan