On 09/22/18, Paul Hayton pondered and said...
 
 PH> Sigh it was posting +1200 and a group of folks here suggested to me it
 PH> was incorrect. or at least that was my take on it, so I removed it.
 PH> Happy to restore it, as I agree local time + timezone of the gateway is
 PH> the way I thought it should be.
 PH> 
 PH> Posting this around 9.18pm local time on Saturday here

Ok as a follow up this message left my BBS at 9.18pm on Sat night.

The gateway logs show the following being processed.

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05  Sat 22-Sep-2018 21:18:05
Exporting from ?UT/?LO to Soup
Exporting Type 2+ packet from 3:770/1 to 3:770/3
-> 1 messages exported
mail: 0         news: 1    

thereafter less than one minute later I checked Google Groups
comp.sys.raspberry-pi and looked at the Date: field to see what was recorded
from the post sent from news.bbs.nz

Here are the post with headers

[snip]


From: nospam.Pa...@f100.n770.z3.binkp.net (Paul Hayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject: Re: Raspberry Pi
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 21:18:00
Organization: Agency BBS, Dunedin - New Zealand | bbs.nz
Message-ID: 
References: 
Mime-Version: 1.0
Injection-Info: news.bbs.nz;
posting-host="8IWYKlztXHa0+IViEdY46zrq8kpk7dC9fTbT74JiSDQ";
    logging-data="5612"; mail-complaints-to="ab...@news.bbs.nz"

User-Agent: VSoup v1.2.9.47Beta [95/NT]
X-Comment-To: Axel Berger
X-MailConverter: SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

[snip]

The Date: field contains the correct local time when I posted this via the
gateway (minus the +1200 it should (I still reckon) be flying too.)

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Windows/32)