Subj : Re: Date/Time in Messages
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Scott Street
Date : Thu Apr 05 2012 01:40 pm

On 4/4/12 10:00 PM, Nicholas Boel -> Scott Street wrote:


>   >  Something I've noticed after Vince's message from earlier today;  the
>   >  timezone offset isn't being honored on the date-time fields in the
>   >  message base.

> I can confirm this over here as well. Though I didn't know there was any
> timezone "offset". I figure if Vince posts at 20:21pm and I post at 17:10pm,
> he probably lives in Europe, and I posted quite a few hours after he did. :)

Well, I fell silly.  There is a FTSC doc (fsp-1001.002) about including 
the timezone offset from UTC in a kludge (@TZUTC:);  however it seems 
that it was never widely adopted nor implemented.

Oh well... going back to silent running again.



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