cathy@ru-cs44.UUCP (07/23/83)
Having just installed news 2.10 and spent many happy(!)
hours trying to work out why we were getting news articles which
were claiming to have been posted several days after we received
them(!) or even some date in the future ... i can't help wondering
... shouldn't we be more consistent about what we call various
timezones ... for instance ... BST ... which, as far as i could
work out, is the one causing the problem. Now as far as i've
always known, BST is 'British Summer Time', however 'getdate'
seems to think it's something to do with 'Bering' as consequently
adds on 11 hours to the time which really messes things up especially
if the original date was in the afternoon.
One idea is perhaps to pass dates around in GMT and convert
them to local time at your own site, but the main thing i feel
is that we are consistent with regard to what various abbreviations
mean.
Cathy Garlick ({vax135,mcvax}!ukc!ru-cs44!cathy)
Dept. of Computer Science
Univ. of Reading
Whiteknights
Reading
RG6 2AX
UK.