Subj : Re: Hello!
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Tue Nov 24 2020 13:01:47

Hi Maurice,

On 2020-11-23 23:19:37, you wrote to me:

 MK> @MSGID: 1:153/7001 5fbc4389
 MK> @REPLY: 2:280/464 5fbc09bf
 MK> @CHRS: UTF-8 4

 MK> @UTC_OFFSET: 0000
 MK> -={ Corrected datetime: 2020-11-23 19:12:14 +0000 }=-

Those are non standard. And the 'TZUTC: -0800' is missing. Now if there is fido software that sorts messsages chronologically, it can't do it correctly.

 MK> I think I have come up with a routine that corrects the msg datetime
 MK> stamp relative to the user's perspective that also compensates for the
 MK> corrupted TZUTC offset.  The above corrected datetime was generated
 MK> from the msg I am replying to.  The output's format in
 MK> strftime()-speak is "%F %T %z" and can easily be adjusted to the
 MK> enduser's preference.  I don't believe it would be wise to output it
 MK> to a flag given it is to the enduser's configuration rather than
 MK> fidonet at large.

 MK> What a hassel.  Personally I don't see it being worth the effort but
 MK> all things considered I believe the above corrected datetime stamp, or
 MK> something like it, would be an appropriate replacement for the ftn msg
 MK> header's datetime stamp and should have happened roughly 18 years ago.


Bye, Wilfred.

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