On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 03:45:02PM +1030, Tim 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. But the time would also be different by the exact amount of the offset. It would be "Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:54:58 -0500". So, remote programs will do the right thing. This is exactly the same as when Indiana didn't recognize daylight saving time -- messages from Indiana and from New York still got sorted right. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
