09-23-18 08:10 Roger Bell_West wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Raspberry Pi
Howdy! Roger,

 RB> @MSGID: 
 RB> On 2018-09-22, Ed Vance wrote:
 >It would be nice if usenet converted the Time/Date to UTC/GMT Date/Time
 >instead of using the persons Local Date/Time.
 >I guess usnet doesn't do that."

 RB> Actually it works perfectly, as long as there's a correct time zone
 RB> supplied in the first place.

I never have made a connection with Usenet.
I post my messages to a BBS with a Offline Reader since I learned how to
transfer .QWK Packets sometime around 1994.

Before then I entered my messages manually when I used my Commodore 64
to connect to a BBS.

Someone told me how to use (I think it was) Outlook in Win98SE to Log On
a BBS through the internet.

It's been 20 years ago when I tried doing that and can't really remember
if the BBS address was NNTP or some other type of internet connection.

I have tried Logging On this BBS with Telnet which to me seemed to work
sorta like a Dial-Up connection did but changed my ways to begin using
a FTP script to get/put BBS .QWK packet from/to the BBS.

Another message mentioned looking at the .RC file so I looked at MMAIL.RC
to see if a entry was in it for Time Zone or Date.

I didn't see mention of it in MMAIL.RC so I read some text files that
came in MultiMail 0.49 DOS and saw mention of an Environmental Variable
called TZ that could have the entry EST5EDT put in it.

To Me an 'Environmental Variable' is a setting outside of MultiMail,
so I looked in XP's Control Panel -
System -
Advanced -
Environmental Variables

to see if a 'TZ' Variable was set but didn't find anything there.

SET didn't show anything about Time or Date either when I went to a CMD
Prompt to see what settings it would show.

As I was typing the thought came to me to open Windows XP Help&Support
and enter TZ in the search box to see what it would show me.

There was one result - w32tm .
After reading about that I went to a Command Prompt and typed:

w32tm /tz

Two of the Three lines of Text that came on the screen mentioned 'Eastern'
Time Zone.

Could You or another person reading this let me know if I need to put
a TZ variable in either MMAIL.RC or the Environmental Variables setting
of System -- Advanced in XP's Control Panel.   Thanks.

The BBS I use is in the same Time Zone so I might not have to do anything.

Boy!, I had a lot of Head Scratching here tonight and probably caused lots
of other folks some Head Scratching too.  Sorry about that.

I feel like that Robot on the T.V. show when it says:
DOES NOT COMPUTE.

Thanks for reading me blabbering about things I don't know anything about.
I can't help anyone with their Raspberry PI so I'll go back into
LURKING MODE.

... Have you checked your smoke detector batteries & Fire Ext, LATELY?!
--- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49