Subj : winpoint: TZUTC problem
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Sun Nov 17 2019 09:04:00

Hello August!

* 16.11.19 at 21:58, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA>>> Looking back at the messages you created with Winpoint, your TZUTC
 AA>>> figure is 0100.  But since you are located in the UK, the offset should
 AA>>> be 0000.

 MF>> +0000 in winter time, +0001 in summer time :)

 AA> I think you meant +0100 for the second entry.

Ooooops, yes!

 AA> In any case, if you look back at any of the messages you created with
 AA> Winpoint, you would find that the TZUTC is *always* +0100 irregardless of
 AA> the season.

 AA> Even if I changed the TZ here on my PC, I could never get Winpoint to
 AA> register a -'ve for the TZUTC in the messages.  It is as if the author
 AA> only intended users to be East of the time meridian. LOL.

 AA> But it is most likely that the program miscalculates the resultant TZ
 AA> figure and does not include the -'ve for the Western time zones.

 AA> This looks like another CON candidate to be added on "the list":

 AA>      https://kolico.ca/fidonet/echos/points/

Yep and it's yet another bug that will never get fixed :-((

Regards,
Martin

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