Subj : TZUTC
To   : Deon George
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu May 21 2020 09:35:23

  Re: TZUTC
  By: Deon George to mark lewis on Thu May 21 2020 23:07:34


 ML>> please define "wrong time"... if you run the command at noon your
 ML>> local time, what time stamp is in the message generated? what is
 ML>> your offset from UTC? what time stamp do you expect to see?

 DG> The packet gets created with the "current time" without any TZUTC -
 DG> so when it gets imported into Synchronet, its recorded as "the time"
 DG> "UTC" - which for me is 10 hrs into the future.

gotcha! i thought that's what you were talking about...

this is a case of damned if you do and damned if you don't... sbbsecho could import and assume local time for messages without a TZUTC control line which would be correct in the case of same TZ posts but wrong for all others... it is a problem with only one solution... the trick is to get all software to export messages with the proper TZUTC control line... this can be done for currently maintained software but not older abandoned software...

if fidonet technology were to be designed today, with the knowledge we have and the prospect of international messaging, a lot of the little niggly problems like this would be taken into account and handled properly... unfortunately fidonet technology started as a small block and other blocks were added as we went along to handle specific cases as they cropped up...


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