Re: 2007 DST Change

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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:54 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
> The answer is: The only time your machine sees from my machine
> is GMT. 

>From your message header:  Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:54:58 -0600

Your local time being 3:54 pm, at that time, which is -6 hours from GMT.
That date isn't written in GMT.  If you had day light savings in effect,
the offset would be different.  Recipients would use the two together to
correlate to their own time.  Programs which sort mails in date order
would believe the dates, regardless.  People start to see replies sorted
before original postings.  It gets confusing.

Because of large numbers of people with mis-set clocks, I used to sort
my mail in order of reception.  That can also misorder things, but
tended to do it less.

These days, because I have a mail client that supports threading, and so
do most people on this list, I sort using threads.  I still get some
things out of order (e.g. numerous replies to the same original post),
but the order of replies to replies is usually right.  Unless someone
mangled the threading headers, didn't reply properly, or replied to one
of those (simple) digest posts.

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 important to the thread.)

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