Subj : Perl::JAM (was: txt2pkt.pl)
To   : mark lewis
From : Johan Billing
Date : Tue Feb 22 2005 05:10 pm

mark lewis -> Johan Billing wrote:

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

 ml> hehe, which programmer?? the one doing the message base code or the one
 ml> doing the reader code? ;)

Both actually, since modern operating systems use UTC internally. The program 
that writes the message to the messagebase needs to convert it to localtime and 
the program that displays the message needs to convert it back.  But that was 
of course not the case when the format was designed...

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