Hallo Wilfred!

 WvV> I'm talking about localtime not UTC, but you knew that. ;)

Which is the same thing here.  /etc/localtime = /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC.  Also;

-={ ':read !date' }=-
Wed 18 Nov 2020 03:29:48 PM UTC

Note the UTC at the end of the localtime date string.  hwclock shows
"2020-11-18 15:34:08.481082+00:00" as we speak.  Everything that matters is UTC
as it should be.  I made the adjustment for the msg header's datetime stamp and
the TZUTC flag in the code but am thinking of a per user setup configuration
set to whatever the user's localtime is instead of the system's localtime.  As
you can plainly see they are different.

Anyhow this is the best this can possibly be all things considered.  I plan to
continue ignoring the TZUTC and CHRS flags but I can assure you that the ones
you see are indeed accurate albiet useless for any meaningful deployment.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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