Re: [MiNT] TZ rule answer from RFC

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Guido Flohr wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 09:15:47AM +0200, Martin-Eric Racine wrote:
> > Remember the question about what are the timezones 3-letter codes?
> > (to document TZINIT)  Here's a partial answer from RFC 822:
> 
> RFC822 deals with the format of mail messages and is not very helpful for
> our purposes (it is very much restricted to US-American usage). 

However, it states somewhere that those letter codes are compliant
with another (older) RFC about proper 'date' replies.

> I will try to collect the information from various documents in Linux and
> HP/UX.  I think I can compile an overview for one of the next FreeMiNT
> releases.  This overview will contain both the common abbreviations and
> the start/end rules for daylight savings time.

Surely others on Solaris and other Unices can help us here too? ;-)
(hi RobertK and Kristoffer!)

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