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echo: rberrypi
to: THEO
from: DRUCK
date: 2018-09-18 19:12:00
subject: Re: Raspberry Pi

On 17/09/2018 23:42, Theo wrote:
> 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.

My guess is he is posting from UTC+12-25years.
Who the hell uses a BBS to Usenet gateway after the early 1990s?

---druck

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