Subj : Perl::JAM (was: txt2pkt.pl)
To   : mark lewis
From : Johan Billing
Date : Sun Feb 20 2005 02:24 pm

mark lewis -> Johan Billing wrote:

 JB>> The major pain with the JAM format as I see it is that
 JB>> timestamps are supposed to be in local time, not GMT.

 ml> ummm, there should also be a GMT offset indicator in the messages to go
 ml> along with the timestamps and such... TZUTC is stored here and, TTBOMK,
 ml> my JAM software does correctly convert the stamp in the messages to my
 ml> localtime based on the offset...

Sure, it works well enough for messages with a TZUTC kludge. It is just that it 
would save the programmer some work if the timestamp itself was in UTC.

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