2007 DST Change

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 03:45:02PM +1030, Tim wrote:
> > The answer is: The only time your machine sees from my machine
> > is GMT. 
> >From your message header:  Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:54:58 -0600
> Your local time being 3:54 pm, at that time, which is -6 hours from GMT.
> That date isn't written in GMT.  If you had day light savings in effect,
> the offset would be different.  Recipients would use the two together to
> correlate to their own time.  Programs which sort mails in date order
> would believe the dates, regardless.  People start to see replies sorted
> before original postings.  It gets confusing.

But the time would also be different by the exact amount of the offset. It
would be "Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:54:58 -0500". So, remote programs will do the
right thing. This is exactly the same as when Indiana didn't recognize
daylight saving time -- messages from Indiana and from New York still got
sorted right.

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