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From: shannon@sun.uucp (Bill Shannon)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: GMT in history file?
Message-ID: <10171@sun.uucp>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 04:23:39 EST
Article-I.D.: sun.10171
Posted: Fri Dec  5 04:23:39 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 10:46:28 EST
References: <2282@mtgzy.UUCP> <42762@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Lines: 11
Keywords: timezone variable
Summary: still not right

In article <42762@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>, rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
> The dates are now stored in GMT regardless of your local time zone.
> Your user agent (vnews/rn/whatever) should convert to your local time
> for you. The programs all read it as GMT.
> 
> ---rick

Unfortunately, when news articles are sent to a non-news system (such
as sending them to a pseudo-system that really mails them to a mailing
list), the dates are left in GMT and the people reading the article
via mail see weird dates.