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echo: rberrypi
to: ANSSI SAARI
from: AHEM A RIVET`S SHOT
date: 2021-03-29 18:07:00
subject: Re: Politics on this echo

On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 15:59:53 +0300
Anssi Saari  wrote:

> > headers from fido are wrong.
>
> Wow, this again. I remember a very, *very* long thread about wrong
> timezones and gateway software in the last few years. Don't remember the
> Usenet group though. As I recall the discussion never went anywhere so I
> suppose the gateway software didn't get fixed either.

 It seems that there's no way to fix it since the original
timestamps do not always carry timezone information. Put it in the bin with
two digit years, indistinguishable date orderings and other unfixable bugs
and move on.

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