Hi,

On 2015-10-01 15:34:20, Nick Andre wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen:
  about: "Re: TZUTC kludge":

 WV>> How about D'Bridge adding a TZUTC kludge to messages it generates?
 WV>> Should b easy enough to implement!?

 NA> Noted.

Seriously, why wouldn't you implement it?

I'm asking because I was thinking about a maintenance function in FMail to
sort messages in a jam area in chronological order. It sometimes happens
when there is a "hickup" in the echomail feed, you get a bunch of
pkt files at once that don't get imported in their proper order. Reading
the new messages in an area where this happend is not pleasant.

But to be able to sort messages in their propper chronological order, in
this world wide network, you need to know their "real" time in
UTC.

So I was going through some areas to look at the usage of the TZUTC flag,
and was surprised how little it is used.

I could implement some lookup table that determines the UTC offset from the
zone and netnumber. But that is a lot of work and not watertight. Because
there are for instance points that are in a different timezone than their
bosses. So it would be better if the TZUTC flag would be present in as many
as possible messages!

Bye, Wilfred.


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