following up a message from Steve Hayes to Arthur Marsh:

 SH> Steve Hayes is replying to Arthur Marsh, who wrote to Catalin T.
 SH> Bradu on 11 Dec 98  05:43:39:

 AM> On Thu 03 Dec at 13:26 Catalin T. Bradu (2:530/300) wrote to All:
 SH>  
 CTB> callers entered the BBS at 13:00, binkley reads 18:00.
 SH>  
 CTB> I'm using EleBBS-OS/2 (gamma3), and I've checked its 
 CTB> lastcall.bbs - there, the login time is OK.
 SH>  
 CTB> So, anyone have any idea why Binkley considers it necessary 
 CTB> to "time travel" my users 5 hours into the future?

 AM> Are you 5 hours ahead of UTC? It seems that Binkley thinks that the
 AM> time in the lastcall bbs is in UTC and converts it to local time for
 AM> Binkley's logs. 

I have to agree with you on the TZ variable. I have a 7 hour variance here
(MST7 - Arizona USA) and Binkleys callhist log has them as 7 hours later. 
I corrected the problem by setting (in Binks.cfg the TZ=MST0) TZ variable
to zero. I presume this forces Bink to use Local system time when
processing the call history file, as incoming calls are always time logged
properly. Maximus also time logs the call properly.


TTYL,  Richard 
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