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    Time test —Frank Filz
   This message is being posted at about 10:40 Pacific Standard Time. Frank (23 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
   
        Re: Time test —Frank Filz
     (...) And so is this message (a few minutes later). Frank (23 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
   
        Re: Time test —Frank Filz
     (...) Err, that's Pacific DAYLIGHT Time... Hmm, my system clock claims it's about 10:40, and is set to Pacific Time. When I display the headers in Netscape, the time on these messages shows as about 5:40 GMT, which does correspond to 10:40 PDT. The (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test, lugnet.admin.nntp)
   
        Re: Time test —Frank Filz
   (...) Ok, this is being posted with my time advanced 2 hours, so Windows 95 is displaying the current time as 11:51 PM PDT. This is in part a test to see if Lugnet is overriding the time (there was some discussion of that, perhaps Lugnet has (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
   
        Re: Time test —Frank Filz
   (...) Nope, Lugnet isn't screwing with the dates. Someone is converting time to GMT for this (correctly). Frank (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
   
        Re: Time test —Frank Filz
   (...) What I meant by all that is that the "Date:" header shown in both the actual post, and the verification e-mail shows the time in GMT based on my local time. Everything is correct except that Netscape's messages list shows the time in EDT not (...) (23 years ago, 1-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
   
        Re: Time test —Frank Filz
   Hmm, just thought about checking my work system... Frank (23 years ago, 2-May-02, to lugnet.off-topic.test)
 

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