Re: a human-eye date format everyone can love

On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Stephen Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 08:06:55PM +0200, Hontvari Jozsef <hontvari@solware.com> wrote:
> > I would shorten the time zone. As we have discussed -05 and -0500 are
> > equivalents.
>
> There are timezones which are on a half-hour alignment, not
> whole-hour. (Australian central time, for example.)
>
Newfoundland time up here in Canada too.

Reminds me of the joke: "The world will end at midnight tonight. (12:30 in
Newfoundland.)" Based on a bunch of TV ads for when shows will be on...

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