Hi,

On 2016-04-26 13:44:44, Maurice Kinal wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Re: kernel 4.5.2":

 WvV>> my computer knows in what timezone it is located, so it can
 WvV>> calculate the offset.

 MK> What good is that?

I like to keep in sync with the local world around me! If I use UTC time in
conversations when people expect local time, they might wonder what is wrong
with me. ;)

 MK> In the case here the offset is zero so there is nothing for it to
 MK> calculate.  However if any of the locals in this neck of the woods asks me
 MK> what time it is then I could do something like this;

 MK>   maurice@lilmikey [ ~ ]$ TZ=PST8PDT date +"%A, %d %B %Y, %T.%N %z"
 MK>   Tuesday, 26 April 2016, 06:39:11.512122527 -0700

Maybe you can put that in your fido messages as well, out of courtesy to the
rest of us?

 MK> Also for the French speaking locals (there are a couple in the
 MK> neighbourhood) this might be more meaningful to them;

 MK>   maurice@lilmikey [ ~ ]$ LANG=fr_CA.utf8 TZ=PST8PDT date +"%A, %d %B %Y,
 MK> %T.%N %z" mardi, 26 avril 2016, 06:41:01.480260762 -0700

 MK> Having done this I have to wonder what good any of this would be to anyone
 MK> else and appears to be a total waste of bytes.  I believe that the date,
 MK> time and offset given at the top of my reply would be of the greatest use
 MK> to you since it already is adjusted to your time which is how you figured
 MK> out that the obsolete header time is UTC (+0000).  Also if you were really
 MK> curious you could have looked up the timezone for Ladysmith BC, Canada
 MK> which is the location in the Origin line at the bottom.

Home work... I've done my share of that already. ;)

Plain UTC or my localtime provides me with less information then your localtime
+ utc offset.

I like to know what local time it is for people when they write something, that
provides me with important context about your circumstances!

 MK> Kinderen van tegenwoordig.  :::sigh:::

 MK> Het leven is goed,
 MK> Maurice

;)

(perfect translations!)


Bye, Wilfred.


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