JB>>> The major pain with the JAM format as I see it is that
 JB>>> timestamps are supposed to be in local time, not GMT.

 ml>> ummm, there should also be a GMT offset indicator in the messages to go
 ml>> along with the timestamps and such... TZUTC is stored here and, TTBOMK,
 ml>> my JAM software does correctly convert the stamp in the messages to my
 ml>> localtime based on the offset...

 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.

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

)\/(ark