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From: cathy@ru-cs44.UUCP (Cathy Garlick)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: dates on articles
Message-ID: <467@ru-cs44.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Aug-83 17:47:39 EDT
Article-I.D.: ru-cs44.467
Posted: Mon Aug  8 17:47:39 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 9-Aug-83 11:04:22 EDT
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Organization: Reading Univ. UK.
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This article arrived here on Friday 5th August, but claims to have
been posted on Wed. 10th August, it's only 8th Aug. today! Something
somewhere is obviously up the spout. I reckon it's something to do 
with timezones and us having different meanings for different
abbreviations. For instance, BST, in getdate.y BST seems to refer to
some timezone down the Bering Straits or something 11 hours different
from GMT instead of British Summer Time 1 hour different. My theory is
that the original article was posted on the afternoon of Wed. 3rd Aug.
somewhere in between 11 hours or so was added to the time making it
Thursday morning (4th), however it still had Wed. on it so it took the
next available Wednesday ie Wed. 10th Aug. It might sound a bit wierd
but has anyone any other suggestions?

Cathy Garlick	{vax135,mcvax}!ukc!ru-cs44!cathy