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Re: Time zone abbreviations
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Jason T. Cheng |
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Re: Time zone abbreviations |
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Wed, 21 Feb 2001 10:25:10 +0800 |
thanks for the patch it worked fine......
jason
Yngve Svendsen wrote:
> At 21:14 19.02.2001 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> > >>>>> "JTC" == Jason T Cheng <jason@inetworx.com.ph> writes:
> >
> > JTC> 2. when i try to change the state of a PR, it returns the ff
> > JTC> error Error: parse the ARRIVAL_DATE date: Mon Feb 19 19:10:01
> > JTC> PHT 2001.
> >
> >I think this is because PHT isn't a valid time zone name (at least from
> >the point of view of GNATS, I don't know whether time zone names are
> >standardized anywhere).
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> No standard seems to exist. Many UNIX flavours understand a great range of
> abbreviations, but the most exhaustive list I managed to find was from the
> documentation for the Perl date manipulation module at
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sbeck/DateManip.html#TIMEZONES
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> The missing ones from this list should probably be added to Gnats.
>
> Yngve Svendsen
> IS Engineer
> Clustra AS, Trondheim, Norway
> yngve.svendsen@clustra.com
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