TimeZones

[Simon Bowring]

PCs running OS/2 work in terms of local time
EMail programs work in UTC (GMT)

To allow users to (for example) sort emails by date & time, the 
email program has to know what timezone that it's received emails 
originated in. It also has to know what timezone the PC it is running on is 
in.

So to sort emails correctly, not only must you have your TZ string
configured properly, everyone that sends you mail must do the
same!

Because of the asynchronous nature of email, it's quite normal
to get replies to mailing lists before the original posting, but
sorting by date and time should at least make the order work ok.

Note that it's quite OK for a user in the US to work in UTC (GMT),
or any other timezone, provided their TZ variable is set to indicate 
the fact (TZ=GMT0 would do)!

Simon Bowring