Hello Axel,

> On 2018-09-22, Axel Berger wrote:
>> It's very simple: If you claim to be in one time zone then you have to
>> use the corresponding local time for that zone you're claim to be in.
>> Whether that claim is true or not is irrelevant.

> And if you don't claim to be in a time zone at all, the Date: header is
> both meaningless and invalid.

> The simplest option would be to strip the time of posting from the
> message and substitute your own current time (with zone).

Then you are corrupting the original writer's time and time zone.

I write this now at sunday 23rd sept.2018 15:15 (UTC/GMT+02:00) in Arnhem.NL
at UniCornBBS 2:280/1208.0 in Europe which get send by POTS to my FidoNet
UpLink 2:280/5003.0 at monday morning 24th spt. 2018 07:45 (UTC/GMT+02:00).
It will then arrive by TCP/IP at the the "soupgate" BBS in New Zealand about
17:50 (UTC/GMT+12:00) I suppose.

Then why change the time of my send out original BBS message to the NZ local
time when it is sent to the comp.sys.raspberrypi newsgroup?
Because then you are filtering away the traveltime of the message.
I donot think that is the right way to handle times at the gateway.

Henri.

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