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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
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Date: 29 Nov 89 00:49:22 GMT
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In article <14749@well.UUCP>, jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) writes:
> 1) It's easy to go from local times to GMT, but it's impossible to go
> from GMT to the appropriate local time since you don't know which one
> is appropriate.

You could always add an X-header that has the latitude and longitude of
the machine you're posting from.  A precision of 1 arc second would probably
be good enough for most purposes, although you might want an altitude as
well, so as to be able to discriminate between floors of a building.

I've actually though of doing this, although mostly as a joke :-).

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
amanda@intercon.com