On 4/16/12 7:25 PM, Vince Coen -> Scott Street wrote:   
    > Hello Scott!   
      
    > 04 Apr 12 21:48, you wrote to All:   
      
    >> Something I've noticed after Vince's message from earlier today; the   
    >> timezone offset isn't being honored on the date-time fields in the   
    >> message base.   
      
    > Looking at my msg I can not see any TZUTC setting which might explain it.   
      
   Aren't you already on UTC? :)   
      
    > * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)   
      
   Just figuring based on your location in nodelist.   
      
   If your system's timezone is already UTC - then TZUTC would be redundant.   
      
   But Fidonet has been broken ever since the first message layout was specified   
   as local time being transmitted.  It should have NEVER been local time   
   transmitted, but UTC (GMT then) always.  Whether or not the time stored in the   
   local message base was UTC or local should have been up to the implementer of   
   the software.   
      
   I digress...   message time is a network wide issue,  the TZUTC is a kludge   
   that is ignored on most software end-points anyway.   I should propose a FTSC   
   change to move to UTC time in all messages during transport, leaving the local   
   storage up to the implementers.   
      
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    * Origin: -=[ Space Station Alpha ]=- (1:266/420)