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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.

-- 
Colin