mark lewis -> Johan Billing wrote:

 JB>> Sure, it works well enough for messages with a TZUTC kludge.
 JB>> It is just that it would save the programmer some work if the
 JB>> timestamp itself was in UTC.

 ml> hehe, which programmer?? the one doing the message base code or the one
 ml> doing the reader code? ;)

Both actually, since modern operating systems use UTC internally. The
program that writes the message to the messagebase needs to convert it to
localtime and the program that displays the message needs to convert it
back.  But that was of course not the case when the format was designed...

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