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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
date: 2020-11-18 16:54:00
subject: Re: east is east, west is

Hi Maurice,

On 2020-11-18 07:27:09, you wrote to me:

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

 MK> Which is the same thing here.  /etc/localtime = /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC.

That you set your local time to UTC, doesn't make it the real world localtime
where your equipment is located. Men you are stuborn. :-/

 MK> Also;

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

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

 MK> Anyhow this is the best this can possibly be all things considered.  I
plan
 MK> to continue ignoring the TZUTC and CHRS flags

As you please...

 MK> but I can assure you that the ones you see are indeed accurate albiet
 MK> useless for any meaningful deployment.

Fine...


Bye, Wilfred.

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