Subj : Re: TZUTC kludge
To : Nick Andre
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Oct 01 2015 11:25 pm
Hi,
On 2015-10-01 15:34:20, Nick Andre wrote to Wilfred Van Velzen:
about: "Re: TZUTC kludge":
WV>> How about D'Bridge adding a TZUTC kludge to messages it generates?
WV>> Should b easy enough to implement!?
NA> Noted.
Seriously, why wouldn't you implement it?
I'm asking because I was thinking about a maintenance function in FMail to sort
messages in a jam area in chronological order. It sometimes happens when there
is a "hickup" in the echomail feed, you get a bunch of pkt files at once that
don't get imported in their proper order. Reading the new messages in an area
where this happend is not pleasant.
But to be able to sort messages in their propper chronological order, in this
world wide network, you need to know their "real" time in UTC.
So I was going through some areas to look at the usage of the TZUTC flag, and
was surprised how little it is used.
I could implement some lookup table that determines the UTC offset from the
zone and netnumber. But that is a lot of work and not watertight. Because there
are for instance points that are in a different timezone than their bosses. So
it would be better if the TZUTC flag would be present in as many as possible
messages!
