mooret@coss.daytonoh.ncr.COM (Tanja Moore) (02/15/91)
Is there a published standard or list of standardized time zone codes? We would like to apply these to our internal global (RFC-822) mail system, to allow for simpler gatewaying to the Internet and to X.400. -- * Tanja Moore Network Application Services, NCR Corporation, Dayton, Ohio * * VOICEplus: 622-3016 PHONE: (513) 445-3016 * * MAILplus: Tanja.Moore@Dayton.NCR.COM UUCP: ..!uunet!ncrlnk!ciss!mooret *
postel@venera.isi.edu (02/15/91)
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Is there a published standard or list of standardized time zone
codes? We would like to apply these to our internal global
(RFC-822) mail system, to allow for simpler gatewaying to the
Internet and to X.400.
--
* Tanja Moore Network Application Services, NCR Corporation, Dayton, Ohio *
* VOICEplus: 622-3016 PHONE: (513) 445-3016 *
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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 85 14:55 EST
From: Gary Dixon <GDixon@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>
Subject: Re: zone sources
To: Saltzer@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
cc: "Gary M. Palter" <Palter@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>,
James A Falksen <Falksenj@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA>
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Resent-Comment:
Jon,
--
Remember the discussion a couple of months ago about time zone
designators and the Multics protocol police rejection of
things not in your specification? Well, the Multics central
guru bureau has reversed field, and is about to start
accepting any time zone designator in a much larger legal
list, which I attach for your amusement. If you should ever
find yourself faced with a need to reissue the relevant RFC
and a demand for further time zone definitions, these people,
in classic Multics fashion, seem to have gotten off to a
somewhat scholarly start (notwithstanding the astrology
reference.)
--
Now if we could just get the ISO people to debate things like
this instead of proposing presentation management protocols
before anyone has built one, they might actually provide us a
useful service.
--
Regards,
Jerry
--
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Hi, Jerry:
Gary Palter relayed your inquiry on Multics time zones to me, as project
leader of the software team which developers the new Multics date/time
software. Jim Falksen was the other team member, and he supplied our starting
set of time zone names, which were then augmented based upon customer input.
Our investigations haven't turned up any standards for zone names, other than
the ANSI standard for US names. It took some digging to find any references
which listed zone names and offsets.
Jim Falksen used the following sources to form his initial list of time zone
names:
from THE ASTROLOGY ANNUAL REFERENCE BOOK, 1981 by Marcian B. MacGregor
and Zipporah Pottenger Dobyns, Ph.D.
"STANDARD TIME(ZONE TIME): At an International Conference held in
Washington D.C. on October 1, 1884, the Greenwich Meridian was adopted
as the prime meridian (0 degrees), with equal division of the world in
24 fifteen-degree time zones (as originally proposed by Sanford Fleming,
a Canadian civil and railway engineer). Subsequently the following
International Time Zones were adopted:
-0000 WET Western European Time
-0100 WAT West Africa Time
-0200 AT Azores Time
-0300 BST Brazil Std Time
-0330 NFT Newfoundland Time
-0400 AST Atlantic Std Time
-0500 EST Eastern Std Time
-0600 CST Central Std Time
-0700 MST Mountain Std Time
-0800 PST Pacific Std Time
-0900 YST Yukon Std Time
-1000 CAT Central Alaska Time
-1030 HST Hawaiian Std Time
*Hawaii adopted -1000 in 1947
-1100 NT Nome Time
-1100 BT Bering Time
-1200 IDLW INternational Date Line, West
+0100 CET Central European Time
+0200 EET Eastern European Time, USSR Zone 1
+0300 BT Baghdad Time, USSR Zone 2
+0330 IT Iran Time
+0400 USSR Zone 3
+0500 USSR Zone 4
+0530 IST Indian Standard Time
+0600 USSR Zone 5
+0630 NST North Sumatra Time
+0700 SST South Sumatra Time, USSR Zone 6
+0730 JT Java Time
+0800 CCT China Coast Time, USSR Zone 7
+0830 MT Moluccas Time
+0900 JST Japan Std Time, USSR Zone 8
+0930 SAST South Australia Std Time
+1000 GST Guam Std Time, USSR Zone 9
+1130 USSR Zone 10
+1130 NZT New Zealand Time
*adopted +1200 in 1945
+1200 IDLE International Date Line, East"
A second source was THE AMERICAN EPHEMERIS, 1971 to 1980, By Neil F Michelsen.
"Time Zones of the World
+0000 GMT Greenwich
-0100 WAT West Africa
-0200 AT Azores
-0300 Brazil Zone 2
-0330 NST Newfoundland
-0400 AST Atlantic
-0500 EST Eastern
-0600 CST Central
-0700 MST Mountain
-0800 PST Pacific
-0900 YST Yukon
-1000 AHST Alaska-Hawaii
-1030 HST Hawaiian
-1100 NT Nome
-1100 BST Bering
-1200 Int'l Date Line
+0100 CET Central European
+0100 MET MIddle European
+0200 EET Eastern European
+0300 BT Baghdad
+0400 USSR Zone 3
+0500 USSR Zone 4
+0530 IST Indian
+0600 USSR Zone 5
+0630 NST North Sumatra
+0700 SST South Sumatras
+0730 JT Java
+0800 CCT China Coast
+0900 JST Japan
+0930 SAST South Australia
+1000 GST Guam
+1200 NZT New Zealand"
From these two lists we derived the following times. Items below which are
starred were added to the basic list at customer request.
known time zones:
|-11:00 nt Nome Time
| |-10:00 ahst Alaska-Hawaii Standard Time
| | | -9:00 yst Yukon Standard Time
| | | | -8:00 pst Pacific Standard Time
| | | | | -7:00 mst Mountain Standard Time
| | | | | -7:00 pdt Pacific Daylight Time
| | | | | | -6:00 cst Central Standard Time
| | | | | | -6:00 mdt Mountain Daylight Time
| | | | | | | | | | |
|-11:00|-10:00| -9:00| -8:00| -7:00| -6:00| -5:00| -4:00| -3:00| -2:00|
| | | | | | | | | | |
Eastern Standard Time est -5:00| | | |
Central Daylight Time cdt -5:00| | | |
Atlantic Standard Time ast -4:00| | |
Eastern Daylight Time edt -4:00| | |
Newfoundland Standard Time nst -3:30 | |
Greenland Standard Time gst -3:00| |
Atlantic Daylight Time adt -3:00| |
Azores Time at -2:00|
| -1:00 wat West Africa Time
| | +0:00 ut Universal Time
| | +0:00 z Universal Time
| | +0:00 gmt Greenwich Mean Time
| | | +1:00 bst British Summer Time (*)
| | | +1:00 cet Central European Time
| | | +1:00 met Middle Europe Time
| | | +1:00 mewt Middle Europe Winter Time
| | | +1:00 swt Swedish Winter Time (*)
| | | +1:00 fwt French Winter Time (*)
| | | +1:00 hfh Heure Francais d'Hiver (*)
| | | | +2:00 mest Middle Europe Summer Time
| | | | +2:00 eet Eastern European Time
| | | | +2:00 sst Swedish Summer Time (*)
| | | | +2:00 fst French Summer Time (*)
| | | | +2:00 hfe Heure Francais d'Ete (*)
| | | | | +3:00 bt Baghdad Time
| | | | | | +4:00 zp4 GMT +4 hours.
| | | | | | | +5:00 zp5 GMT +5 hours.
| | | | | | | | | | |
| -1:00| +0:00| +1:00| +2:00| +3:00| +4:00| +5:00| +6:00| +7:00| +8:00|
| | | | | | | | | | |
Indian Standard Time ist +5:30 | | |
GMT +6 hours. zp6 +6:00| | |
(*) West Australian Standard Time wast +7:00| |
Java Time jt +7:30 |
(*) West Australian Daylight Time wadt +8:00|
China Coast Time cct +8:00|
| +9:00 jst Japan Standard Time
| +9:30 cast Central Australian Standard Time (*)
| +9:30 sast South Australian Standard Time
| |+10:00 east East Australian Standard Time (*)
| | +10:30 cadt Central Australian Daylight Time (*)
| | +10:30 sadt South Australian Daylight Time (*)
| | |+11:00 eadt East Australian Daylight Time (*)
| | | |+12:00 nzt New Zealand Time
| | | | |
| +9:00|+10:00|+11:00|+12:00|
Also, we have recently received a request to add
+12:00 nzst New Zealand Standard Time (*)
+13:00 nzdt New Zealand Daylight Time (*)
but haven't added them to our table yet.
Hope this helps. Gary
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From @A.isi.edu:iso-RELAY@NIC.DDN.MIL Thu Apr 5 01:03:34 1990
Date: 5 Apr 90 04:11:14 GMT
From:zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!metro!cluster!ultima!colville@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
(John Colville)
Organization: Comp Sci, NSWIT, Australia
Subject: Re: Timezones
References: <9003282050.AA11137@bel.isi.edu>
Sender: iso-relay@nic.ddn.mil
To: iso@nic.ddn.mil
A correction or to the tabulation:
Western Australian Standard Time: +0800
Western Australian Summer Time (which they never actually have): +0900
John
.
=======================================================From tcp-ip-RELAY@NIC.DDN.MIL Thu Dec 13 07:54:59 1990
Date: 11 Dec 90 22:14:12 GMT
From: uupsi!intercon!news@rice.edu (Kurt Baumann)
Subject: Re: Boeing and Internet
Sender: tcp-ip-relay@nic.ddn.mil
To: tcp-ip@nic.ddn.mil
In article <9012101742.AA19643@bel.isi.edu>, postel@VENERA.ISI.EDU writes:
> "You can"t build a national and international
> network using TCP/IP," Bride said.
Yes this is interesting. It has to be a mis-quote, right? I mean, gee what
are we using right at this moment?
--
Kurt Baumann InterCon Systems Corporation
703.709.9890 Creators of fine TCP/IP products
703.709.9896 FAX for the Macintosh.
From @A.isi.edu:dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu Wed Dec 12 22:07:51 1990
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 1990 01:00:53 EST
From: Dimitri Vulis <dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu>
To: header-people@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: time zones
Speaking of which: e-mail from Moscow comes with time zones MSK (for Moscow
time) or MSD (for Moscow daylight). :)
Dimitri Vulis
CUNY GC Math
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From huitema@jerry.inria.fr Wed Jan 23 07:18:31 1991
To: "Phillip G. Gross" <pgross@NRI.Reston.VA.US>
Cc: kathleen@ISI.EDU, iab@ISI.EDU
Subject: Re: IAB Phone Conference on 1/29/91
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 91 16:16:41 +0100
From: Christian Huitema <Christian.Huitema@mirsa.inria.fr>
>*Christian, what is the 3 letter code for your time zone?
Phil, you ask a difficult question. In fact, there is no "current
language" abbreviation for the time zone in France -- the appellations being
"heure d'hiver" and "heure d'ete"; the practice is to quote the main city
in the vicinity, e.g. "heure de Paris", "heure de New-York", "heure de
Bagdad". There is also a global agreement in the European research networks
*not* to use any time zone indication, but simply to quote the TU
differential in e.mail messages.
I recently engaged in an exercise of collecting time zone ids; I came out
with the following for Europe:
"+0100", "CET", /* Central European Time */
"+0100", "DNT", /* ?? From Denmark */
"+0100", "FWT", /* French Winter Time */
"+0100", "MET", /* Middle European Time */
"+0100", "MEWT", /* Middle Europe Winter Time */
"+0100", "MEZ", /* Mittle Europa Zeit */
"+0100", "NOR", /* ?? From Norway */
"+0100", "SWT", /* Swedish Winter Time */
"+0100", "WET", /* Western European Time */
"+0200", "MED", /* Middle European Daylight Saving Time */
"+0200", "FST", /* French Summer Time */
"+0200", "MEST", /* Middle Europe Summer Time */
"+0200", "SST", /* Swedish Summer Time */
In fact, most of the western European states -- apart from Greece in the
East, the UK, Portugal and the Spanish Canary Islands in the West -- use the
same time and change from standard to DST at the same dates. Thus, if
abbreviations were to be sanctified, I would vote to keep only the
"european" ones, which have at least some plausibility:
"+0100", "MET", /* Middle European Time */
"+0200", "MED", /* Middle European Daylight Saving Time */
although France is not generally thought of as a part of Mittle Europa; but
the fact is that we are using Berlin's time.
If what you need is something to write in a meeting agenda, then I think
that "UT+1" or, in summer, "UT+2", is the best choice.
Christian Huitema
============================================================================JPALME@qz.qz.se (Jacob Palme QZ) (03/07/91)
The standardized way is to denote time zones by numbers only, i.e. "+6" for EST in the winter. No alphanumeric format is to my knowledge standardized.
keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) (03/13/91)
JPALME@qz.qz.se (Jacob Palme QZ) writes: >The standardized way is to denote time zones by numbers >only, i.e. "+6" for EST in the winter. No alphanumeric format >is to my knowledge standardized. The ISO standard on the subject is 8601, it has only numeric TZs. Keld Simonsen