26 Apr 16 19:38, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MK>> calculate.  However if any of the locals in this neck of the woods
 MK>> asks me 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

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

why? his special time stamp header thingee does the conversion to your time for
you... his software can specialize that for those he adds to some lookup table
or address book... when he writes to you, that stamp will be the time in your
area when he writes his post... if he writes to someone in Oz two minutes
later, the new post's header will have the time in the Oz timezone that he is
writing the post... if both were taken and converted to UTC they would be two
minutes apart... the same if they are both converted to another timezone...

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