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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
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Date: 28 Nov 89 21:38:02 GMT
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Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA
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Rather than make a change that will very likely break someone's news
software, somewhere, it would make a lot more sense to simply modify
your favorite newsreader program to convert GMT to local time before
displaying it (I would be interested in such a patch to rn, in fact).
I admit this is more difficult to do, but it is consistent with the
Principle of Least Astonishment.  I'll bet that the RFC requires GMT,
anyway.

The folks who have brought us the Network Time Protocol (NTP) are
stronly convinced that GMT is the only sensible thing to exchange
between systems.  I think it has something to do with the fact that
it's much easier to deal with only your local conversion to/from GMT
than to also deal with all of the other wacko conversions used around
the world.

                           :: Jeff Makey

Department of Tautological Pleonasms and Superfluous Redundancies Department
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