Subj : TZUTC
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Tue Aug 03 2021 20:41:05

Hi! Carlos,

On 03 Aug 2021, Carlos Navarro said the following...

 CN> @TZUTC: 0200

 CN> Anyway, in this message of yours, I see that Golded is showing me your
 CN> local time. It looks to me like coming from the future.

Yes, they are.  Eight hours ahead of your clocks.  I'm Australian.

  CN> I had assumed that this kludge was used by FTN
  CN> software and not just  CN> something informative. :-/

It should be.  But the Fidonet creator ghods didn't see the point when they
were communicating only in the USA.  In this era we should have message dates
using UTC, and TZUTC values for ourselves, in order to calculate various time
values for us (informational only).

In the least, we need only use UTC times.  At the moment we have no idea what
time the times actually indicate.  I liked telex in an old job; this message
would be approximately dated as 031040ZAUG21.  Add your TZUTC to that for
your local time.

Cheers,
Paul.

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