Re: Time

At 10:16 AM 4/11/96 -0400, James E. Calloway wrote:
>Of course it would save space to not put the offset in every entry. A 

I agree.  One in every entry is a waste of file bytes.

>preamble reference should suffice, plus an inline reference whenever 
>daylight savings kicks in or out. 

Two new directives?

#GMT-Offset: -0400
#Daylight-Savings: on

Is the second one descriptive enough, or do we need "on" and "off" for the
beginning of logs, and "on-to-off" and "off-to-on" for times when we
actually switch during logging?

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Received on Thursday, 11 April 1996 10:52:03 UTC