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From: jef@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is anyone interested in putting local time in the "Date:" header?
Message-ID: <15014@well.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 21:19:26 GMT
References: <73724@uunet.UU.NET>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) wrote:
}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 has informed me by mail that when he says "correctly working news
software" he does not mean rn.  As the majority of the net knows, rn
does not transform GMT into reader's local time.
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Jef

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