Subj : TZUTC
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Tue Aug 03 2021 12:27:00

Hello Carlos,

On Tuesday August 03 2021 12:05, you wrote to Paul Quinn:

 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.

I have been a HAM for 50+ years and from the very beginning I always used GMT (as it was called back then) for my logs (compulsory back then) and for exchanging written confirmations called QSL cards. HAM radio is a global thing, so using GMT or UTC is the logical thing to do. I even had a clock in my shack that showed GMT.

With that background information, I think using local time in Fidonet was a design flaw. Fidonet, like HAM radio is a globe spanning activity. Even in its country of origin, the USA, it spanned more than one time zone from the beginning.

Time information in Fidonet should have been in UTC, not local time. For additional information a TZLOC kludge could have been used.


Cheers, Michiel

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