From: Ted Rathkopf <ted@rathkopf.org>
Subject: Re: X-Sent is incorrect
Date: 22 Sep 1999 15:56:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rxd7vaoh32.fsf@tick.thecity.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Colin Rafferty's message of "22 Sep 1999 15:33:37 -0400"
Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:
> Ted Rathkopf writes:
>
> > The last message I received says this:
> >> Date: Wed Sep 22 11:50:52 1999 --400
> >> X-Sent: 8 hours, 8 minutes ago
>
> > But the date on my machine says this:
>
> > Wed Sep 22 11:58:52 EDT 1999
>
> Note that your time zone in your message is screwed up.
>
> I would assume that Gnus is smart enough to recognize the double
> negative, and assumes that it really means +400, which puts the mail
> coming from somewhere in Asia.
>
> Of course, noon in Asia was eight hours earlier than noon in New York
> City.
Makes sense, but this didn't happen before I upgraded from 0.90 to
0.96. And it's not the fault of the sender, unless *your* time zone
is --400, too.
> From: Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com>
> Subject: Re: X-Sent is incorrect
> To: GNUS Mailing List <ding@gnus.org>
> Date: Wed Sep 22 15:33:37 1999 --400
> X-Sent: 8 hours, 21 minutes, 23 seconds ago
--
Ted Rathkopf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-09-22 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-22 16:00 Ted Rathkopf
1999-09-22 19:33 ` Colin Rafferty
1999-09-22 19:56 ` Ted Rathkopf [this message]
1999-09-22 21:06 ` Colin Rafferty
1999-09-22 21:23 ` Ted Rathkopf
1999-09-22 21:21 ` Shenghuo ZHU
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