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Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@streapadair.freeserve.co.uk> writes:

>       (let ((tz (car (current-time-zone))))
>         (format "Date: %s %s%04d" (current-time-string time)
>                 (if (> tz 0) "+" "-") (abs (/ tz 36))))
> 
> won't work very well for non-integral time zones - India will appear
> as +0550 instead of +0530.]

Yup.  Fix in Pterodactyl Gnus v0.95.

> The Emacs documentation doesn't describe (current-time) very well.  It
> says, "the current time, as the number of seconds since 1970-01-01
> 00:00:00" - without specifying a time zone for that epoch...

Hm.  Ooop -- the clock on this machine runs 12 minutes fast.  Er, uhm.

Anyway,

(current-time-string (current-time))
=> "Fri Jul  9 22:59:05 1999"

which is the local time, here, now.  (After fixing the clock.)

But what am I getting at?  Uhm -- perhaps the bug isn't in the
generating-the-Data-header part, but in the parsing part?

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