Path: utzoo!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!yarra!melba.bby.oz.au!leo!gnb From: gnb@bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header? Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 89 23:28:52 GMT References: <1989Nov30.141344.2597@talos.uucp> <14783@well.UUCP> <1989Dec1.042319.26810@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@melba.bby.oz.au Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge and Young Ltd. Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: henry@utzoo.uucp's message of 1 Dec 89 04:23:19 GMT In article <1989Dec1.042319.26810@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: And let us not forget that thanks to various idiot manufacturers, not all binary-only systems can set their timezones correct. I routinely get mail from a friend of mine in Australia with the postmark claiming that her machine is on EST, which it most assuredly is not. She hasn't been able to find a fix. Well, I'm not sure a fix is needed - our timezone IS EST - just not the EST you North Americans are used to! This is a different problem again to the SunOs 3.5Export, which had 2 versions of the Australian DST code - one in libc.a and one used to compile all the binaries. And they differed by a week in when DST started!!! (Australian EST is GMT-10:00, but we're on Summer Time (EDST) now and GMT-11:00.) Greg. From downunder. -- Gregory Bond, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Internet: gnb@melba.bby.oz.au non-MX: gnb%melba.bby.oz@uunet.uu.net Uucp: {uunet,pyramid,ubc-cs,ukc,mcvax,prlb2,nttlab...}!munnari!melba.bby.oz!gnb