Subj : Re: Top date?
To   : William McBrine
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Feb 07 2001 10:10 am

Hi William.

05-Feb-01 15:04:25, William McBrine wrote to Jim Hanoian

 WM> Of course, such packets shouldn't exist; but they may, if you're
 WM> getting packets from another time zone, or if the zmodem transfer
 WM> doesn't handle time zones properly, or both. I used to get
 WM> future-dated packets from Fonix, and I get packets dated way
 WM> behind from Comm Port. That's why, when I got some requests for
 WM> this date-preserving behavior, I used to say that I actually
 WM> _counted_ on MultiMail changing the date, to get rid of those
 WM> screwy dates. :-) But I've come to believe that the Touch function
 WM> is a better approach.

The way zmodem is designed (from what I've seen of Forsbergs spaghetti code)
it's supposed to send the timestamps usning the GMT timezone. many DOS
implementations don't do this either because of the way the dos version was
written or a failure of the operator of the system to configure it
correclty (setting of TZ variable...)

I would have thought FONIX would use GMT.

 -=> Bye <=-

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