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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
Summary: broken news reader?
Message-ID: <73724@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 14 Dec 89 16:49:08 GMT
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> I posted an explanation in the original article.  Admittedly, I was
> joking, but I thought the real reason would be obvious: I want to see
> the local time on locally-posted articles.  Adding X-Local-Date: turns
> out to be the simplest way to get this.

Given that correctly working news software converts posters local
time to GMT on posting and converts GMT to readers local time
on reading, whats the problem? The transformation should be identical.
(or are you using a broken news reader)

--rick