guy@ucla-cs.UUCP (01/23/86)
I recently discovered that Usenet is now exclusively using GMT for all
article timestamps. (I normally filter out the various date/time lines
of the header.) To placate those (like me) who want the local time,
on those rare occasions when I need to look at the time fields,
I propose that a place be provided for the local time interpretation.
Examples:
Date: 23 Jan 86 05:00:00 GMT <22 Jan 86 21:00:00 PST>
Local-Date: 22 Jan 86 21:00:00 PST
Have proposals like this already been picked to pieces? Both are easy to
implement, and are widely used for contextual problems in addresses.
Using a separate header line should be a painless upgrade path, but adds
yet another header line and a few more bytes of storage overhead.
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Richard Guy
UCLA Computer Science Department
guy@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (01/25/86)
In article <8489@ucla-cs.ARPA> guy@ucla-cs.UUCP writes: >I recently discovered that Usenet is now exclusively using GMT for all >article timestamps. (I normally filter out the various date/time lines >of the header.) To placate those (like me) who want the local time, >on those rare occasions when I need to look at the time fields, >I propose that a place be provided for the local time interpretation. Rather, the news reading programs (rn, readnews, vnews) should display (or at least have an option to display) the timestamps in local time. It should be up to the local site to understand the conversion from GMT to the local time and having extra date fields is wasteful. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,philabs,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls