Subj : Re: Time Stamp on Message
To   : Tharius
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Aug 16 2005 12:04 am

  Re: Re: Time Stamp on Message
  By: Tharius to Tharius on Mon Aug 15 2005 02:33 pm

 > "Tharius" <stephen.adams@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org> wrote in message
 > news:42FB85FB.6586.sync@aceshigh.dyn.dhs.org...
 > > I've been using the NNTP support in Sync recently, and it seems to be
 > > working great.
 > >
 > > One thing I've noticed that I never previously paid much attention to is
 > > that I have been reading responces to messages before I read the original
 > > message.  This happens rarely during normal messaging so I didn't pay it
 > > any mind.
 > >
 > > I think however, what's doing the job is that I'm sorting messages by sent
 > > time (so I can catch up on old threads in larger areas) and good old time
 > > zones are coming in to play.  For example if Rob replies to a message of
 > > mine I might see it before mine because he is on the west coast (5 hr
 > > diff?).
 > >
 > > Have I missed an option that would allow Sync to run in or post with GMT
 > > without having to reset my system clock (sort of nice to be able to tell
 > > what time it is at a glance EST) :)
 > >
 > > Cheers
 > 
 > Forwarded as I don't think this post ever exported.

Your mail/news program's sort feature would have to account for time-zones
(which are part of the article's time/date field already). What news reader are
you using?

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