> LISTSERV strives  to use the +/-nnnn  form for the headers  it generates.
> I'm sorry to hear that there is software that rejects mail due to invalid
> time  zones, and  I think  that software  is broken.  There is  certainly
> plenty of  useful information for a  human reader to recover  even if the
> silly time zone is invalid.
 
Amen to that.  I have certainly seen plenty of headers where the
sequence of time/date stamps is flat out impossible without a Time
Machine.
 
Douglas
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