Hi,

`ask-server' the default value of `gnus-check-new-newsgroups' is
unfair to people who live in east of Greenwich.  Sorry, it is a
joke, but there is a real problem.

I live in Japan, the value of timezone is +0900.  Gnus keeps the
last time that Gnus asked server for the new newsgroups in the
variable `gnus-newsrc-last-checked-date'.  The value is made by
the function `current-time-string' which does not have a zone
info.  For example, if .newsrc.eld has the following line:

(setq gnus-newsrc-last-checked-date '"Wed Jul 18 22:12:34 2001")

Early in the next morning, Gnus will ask server for the new
newsgroups using the following NNTP command:

NEWGROUPS 010719 071234

The reason why the value is not "010718 221234" is:

(format-time-string "%y%m%d %H%M%S"
		    (date-to-time "Wed Jul 18 22:12:34 2001"))
 => "010719 071234"

Because of this, I could not see the new newsgroups which were
created at midnight.

Thus the value of `gnus-newsrc-last-checked-date' should have a
zone info.  Furthermore, NEWGROUPS command should be expressed
in UTC, because not all the servers are running in the same time
zone with the clients.


2001-07-19  Katsumi Yamaoka  <yamaoka@jpl.org>

	* nntp.el (nntp-request-newgroups): Use UTC date for NEWGROUPS
	command.

	* gnus-start.el (gnus-find-new-newsgroups): Use
	`message-make-date' instead of `current-time-string'.
	(gnus-ask-server-for-new-groups): Ditto.
	(gnus-check-first-time-used): Ditto.