In comp.sys.raspberry-pi, Ian Whitmore   wrote:
> nospam.Ib.Joe@f1.n770.z445.fidonet.org (Ib Joe) wrote:
>>  AD> Hey Joe, your fucking bbs doesn't handle dates correctly, so all your
>>  AD> posts are out of order. Same for all the other bbs posters.

Since my newsreader threads based on References headers, I never noticed
that.

> 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.

I think your system has translated the date headers to your localtime.

He's got a timezone in the header:

 IBJoe> Date: Sun Sep 16 23:08:08 EDT 2018

Time now in EDT according to my localhost clock:

Mon Sep 17 18:35:34 EDT 2018

The Dumas post that sparked the reply has this date header:

 AD> Date: 17 Sep 2018 19:11:27 GMT

Which in EDT was: Mon Sep 17 2018 15:11:27

So sometime between 15:11:27 and 18:35:34 (EDT on Sep 17), his clock
thought it was 23:08:08 EDT on Sep 16. That's quite a clock drift.

Elijah
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probably better to just set time by hand now, and *then* configure ntp

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