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echo: barktopus
to: Paul Ranson
from: Geo
date: 2004-11-11 20:05:30
subject: Re: Documentation for innd?

From: "Geo" 

Thanks, I don't know how but I went from EST to CST somehow. (timezone changed).

Geo. (it was bush, he changed my timezone) 

"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:418f69d6$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> I doubt you can blame OE for this.
>
> IIRC news is usually bounced about the world from server to server. So
which
> server should the 'sent' time come from? What if the server you're viewing
> on gets replies via different paths?
>
> Anyway Antti's message has a 'date' header,
>
> Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:56:48 +0200
>
> which makes sense. It displays as 14.56 here which also makes sense. Geo's
> message is -0600 and Bob's -0500. Are those 'right'? Since October Geo's
> gone from -0400 to -0600 which looks like a double correction for DST to
> me...
>
> Paul
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:418e35c7{at}w3.nls.net...
> > "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> > news:418e0b31$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> >Or is it OE that does some "fancy" stuff and
messes it up?
> >>
> >> Bingo.  The timestamp comes from the posting machines, and OE does some
> >> fancy timezone stuff that totally messes things up.
> >
> > Stupid. A perfectly valid approach is to just use the server time and
> > everything's in proper order, but noooo, have to be clever...
> >
> >
> > Antti Kurenniemi
> > (grrrrrr)
> >
> >
>
>

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