Re: timezones and posting date headers

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From: Bob O`Bob (filterbob_at_yahoogroups.com)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:05:49 -0700

Anil Bhattacharji wrote:

> I thought maybe now there is an Invariant International Standard time. This
> is something I wanted to know more about as in that case problems related to
> aging would have been solved too. But why was it not in the headlines of
> every paper in the world.

There is.
And it probably DID make all the papers.
Though no one alive today had been born yet.

GMT, now replaced by UTC.
That's why your headers have a time zone specified.

In some earier post(s) of yours, which upset some people, the combination of date, time,
and zone (offset) in your headers was -as has been documented for you- significantly
into the future:

505909 Fri, 14 May 2004 19:10:39 +0530 "Anil Bhattacharji" <anilbhx@sancharnet.in>
           = 14 May 2004 13:50:39 UTC

505916 Thu, 13 May 2004 19:39:32 -0700 Bob O`Bob <filterbob@yahoogroups.com>
           = 14 May 2004 02:39:32 UTC

Now I am becoming concerned again, as we find you posting and posturing as if
what we've all been able to examine, and fairly definitively, was somehow not true,
just because you now apparently choose to deny it.

Both of the above referenced posts were submitted directly to the msnews server, as
evidenced by their short Path headers. The intervening eight posts show a fairly smooth
advancement in time of at least ten minutes. And I know that my own posting clock is
synchronized daily - in addition to which I would be able to find a log entry if the
magnitude of a correction was ever greater than 90 seconds, something which has not
happened since February.

Therefore, either your posting headers *were* set more than ten hours into the _absolute_
future, or else you're calling me, Bob Butler, Randy Birch, YYZ, *and* microsoft's web-
based posting interface all liars. Is that your intent? If you've been paying any
attention at all, you might begin to realize that your chances of getting an angry pitbull
to let go of you would be dramatically higher than for me to ignore being called a liar.

Mind you, even though we all can see this:

    Anil Bhattacharji wrote in message <#EDMWVuOEHA.2920@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>:
>
> By the way I have corrected no other setting apart for the time correction
> of 45 secs.
> And I am hardly interested in proving my point about this topic.

there still does remain the possibility that some other correction was applied without
your being aware of it. I'm willing to accept that, and even willing to try to help
you figure out what that was. But I'm not willing to just drop the issue with you still
claiming that it never happened, when ample proof is plain for all to see.

        Bob

505908 Thu, 13 May 2004 21:33:25 -0400 "MikeD" <nobody@nowhere.edu>
505909 Fri, 14 May 2004 19:10:39 +0530 "Anil Bhattacharji" <anilbhx@sancharnet.in>
505910 Thu, 13 May 2004 21:28:16 -0500 "YYZ" <notapplicable>
505911 Thu, 13 May 2004 19:31:03 -0700 =?Utf-8?B?QW5kcmV3IEhheWVz?= <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
505912 Thu, 13 May 2004 19:31:03 -0700 "=?Utf-8?B?SmFuZQ==?=" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
505913 Thu, 13 May 2004 22:33:39 -0400 "Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis@mvps.org>
505914 Thu, 13 May 2004 22:37:25 -0400 "Randy Birch" <rgb_removethis@mvps.org>
505915 Thu, 13 May 2004 19:38:46 -0700 "Bob Butler" <tiredofit@nospam.com>
505916 Thu, 13 May 2004 19:39:32 -0700 Bob O`Bob <filterbob@yahoogroups.com>

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