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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
Message-ID: <55511@looking.on.ca>
Date: 2 Dec 89 04:26:21 GMT
References: <54794@looking.on.ca> <14785@well.UUCP>
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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Class: discussion

In article <14785@well.UUCP> Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us> writes:
>You're wrong.
>
>Or is this one of your little "jokes" where you pretend to be stupid and
>then send purile email to anyone who takes your message at face value?
>---
>Jef

What is with you, that you feel you have to respond to postings with
strange statements, insults and references to the poster's person rather
than the matters at hand.

That may be the way they do things in news.groups [:-(] but I hope I
speak for most people here when I say this style of discussion is not
welcome in this group.

I would have sent this by mail, but I tried that last time and it did
no good.  Go away.

Now, to get back to the actual issue (gasp), I belive that the local time
is very much like a comment, because the purpose of it is to give you an
idea of the poster's subjective environment when posting the item.  As it
is subjective, and meant for human interpretation, it is by and large
a comment.   If you would like to present a case as to why my computer would
care what time it was at your house when you posted your article, let's
hear it.

On the other hand, I can agree with the sentiment that if the information
can be formally specified, it should be.  But not at a cost of adding a long
string to every article, that's all.   The suggestion to simply use a date
line with local time and a "different from Greenwich" indicator is probably
the simplest.
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473