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From: debray@sbcs.UUCP (Saumya Debray)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Dates in news headings
Message-ID: <648@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-May-84 22:51:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: sbcs.648
Posted: Tue May 29 22:51:29 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jun-84 08:48:47 EDT
References: <537@dual.UUCP>
Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook
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After removing superfluous gunk from the header:

	> From: fair@dual.UUCP
	> Newsgroups: net.news
	> Subject: Re: Dates in news headings
	> Message-ID: <537@dual.UUCP>
	> Date: Fri, 25-May-84 20:14:36 EDT
	> Posted: Fri May 25 20:14:36 1984
	>
	> The date shown at the top is the posting date of the article,
	> in the timezone of the poster. So you can see if the poor person
	> was up late at night composing his reply. This article, for
	> example is being posted on Friday May 25th, 1984, at 5:15 pm. The
	> date shown by news should reflect that.

Well, it doesn't!  (Note, though, that 5:15 p.m.  is about the same time as
20:14:36 EDT, the time in the header.  Does that mean that the time in the
header is the time in *the reader's time-zone* corresponding to the time of
posting of the article?  If so, of what use is it?)
-- 
Saumya Debray, 	SUNY at Stony Brook

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