RS> OTOH, to complicate the argument even more, your QWK packets are time
 RS> stamped correctly, its only the madhouse ones which arent. OTOH your
 RS> system complains about the time stamp on my messages, the madhouse
 RS> doesnt. Aint life complicated ?

It only complains about the ones you write to me!  And not even all of them
from memory.  Maybe our clocks are out of synch.  Let's get them in synch. 
My time says 22:23:28.  What does yours say?  :-)

 RS> I guess you could set TZ on your system and see what happens. It may be
 RS> that Mark has got the story totally scrambled and its not actually the
 RS> datestamp on the QWKs which is affected, just the checking of message
 RS> dates.

Ok.  I have done so.

 RS> Use
 RS>     set tz=EST-10

Or even AEST?

 RS> in the autoexec.bat

I'm using OS/2 remember!

 RS> Could try a search on the Maximus docs on TZ too and see what that
 RS> throws up.  Mine are currently offline.

Only shows it in some batch files.  Also I found out that it can be set up
to pack QWK packets in advance, and move them into a file area.  Are you
interested in doing that?  BFN.

Paul

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