Ian Whitmore  wrote:
> Hey IB Joe,
>
> Your reply to A. Dumas arrived after his mail(timestamped 17th Sep 12:11)
> but yours was timestamped 16 Sep 20:08 and thus appears before his!
>
> In my naiveity I thought all time stamps and dates were meant to be UTC
> time.

My guess is the Fidonet side of things doesn't have timezones (at all, or
set correctly), and the Fido-Usenet gateway is in New Zealand, so all Joe's
postings are coming out with UTC+12 timezones.  If he's in fact in UTC-5
that would cause his postings to be timestamped 17 hours early.

His quoting is using BBS standards, which is what happens what postings are
made on a BBS and gatewayed to Usenet.

Theo
(who last dealt with this sometime in the mid 90s)

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