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From: philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: GMT in history file?
Message-ID: <773@axis.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 10:17:03 EST
Article-I.D.: axis.773
Posted: Fri Dec  5 10:17:03 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Dec-86 03:28:23 EST
References: <2282@mtgzy.UUCP> <42762@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Reply-To: philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake)
Organization: Axis Digital, 135 rue d'Aguesseau, Boulogne, 92100, FRANCE
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Keywords: timezone variable

In article <42762@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.UUCP 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.

This *should* be the case. Unfortunately, there are several (dare I say
many) UNIX merchants in europe who just sell the machines as they arrive,
i.e. with the timezone set to EST or PST.

There are two major reasons for this, firstly, the country may not have
a name for its time-zone (as here), or, secondly (and more commonly) due
to incompetence.

This has the effect that any non-local time-zone time-stamps comming
from europe should be regarded with suspision - as should any
time-stamp with the time-zone specified as EST or PST - they may
just come from europe ......

Philip