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|    Wilfred van Velzen to Nick Andre    |
|    Re: TZUTC kludge    |
|    02 Oct 15 12:33:54    |
      Hi,              On 2015-10-01 18:55:48, Nick Andre wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen:        about: "Re: TZUTC kludge":               WV>> NA> Noted.        WV>>        WV>> Seriously, why wouldn't you implement it?               NA> I never said I wouldn't. I noted the request.              Afaik 'noted' is mostly used when people want to say they read it, but don't       intend to do anything further with it... ;)               NA> Somewhere between a magical mystical sexy fancy Linux version              Tell me about it. It's on my list to create a linux FMail, for ages. ;)               NA> and support for Squish/JAM/Synchronet/Wildcat/Whatever I'll add        NA> something for this. Possibly just code for the editor to add whatever        NA> user-defined kludges defined.              It's a small request, so easy to sqeeze in there somewhere! ;)               WV>> So I was going through some areas to look at the usage of the TZUTC        WV>> flag, a was surprised how little it is used.               NA> You have to remember that a lot of Fido products were written during a        NA> time when Echomail was really becoming popular and programmers could        NA> not necessarily agree on what kludges to implement as standard. A lot        NA> of software really implemented what was "required" and not proposals.               NA> INTL and FMPT/TOPT come to mind... I'm sure theres others.              Of course, but the TZUTC kludge is a standard now:              http://ftsc.org/docs/fts-4008.002              Bye, Wilfred.                     --- FMail-W32-1.69.8.137-B20151001        * Origin: Native IPv6 connectable node (2:280/464)    |
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