Re: [evolution-patches] Show date in localtime.



On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 05:59, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 16:50 -0400, Not Zed wrote:
> > As far as i'm concerned, 'localtime', or even nothing, means a lot more
> > to some clueless timezone-unaware person than '+0930' or 'CST' does
> > (particularly since 'CST' is ambiguous).
> 
> OK. That surprised me -- I would have said that most people would be
> happier with the (ambiguous but local) three-letter abbreviation for
> their own localtime. 

Well fwiw i've got this 'EDT' thing here right now if you do that, WTF
is EDT?  No idea, its totally meaningless to me, since i'm not from
Boston.

> It also helps the clueful distinguish between daylight savings and
> winter timezones, should they care. But it's the numbers which save me
> the most time -- I'm not going to argue too hard about what else we
> include.




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