davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (02/06/90)
> Mush currently does absolutely *nothing* with time zones -- it doesn't > even store them in its internal representation of the date. I've begun > working on some code for timezones but it isn't anywhere near finished. > The main problem, after retrieving the timezone from any of the two dozen > different places it can appear in different date formats, is parsing all > the different symbolic forms. Might I suggest that the code from USEnet news (a) does this well and (b) is public domain? When inventing the wheel it's nice to know that you can start with something round. This will still take some work, but it has a lot of code which works using many nasty formats. Perhaps rn would be a good place to look, also.