TZ

[Brian Morrison]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:35:23 -0400 (AST), Trevor Smith wrote:

>>Your mail shows up as sent at 16.21 today, I received it about five
>>minutes later after list processing.
>
>OK, hold on. I still had a date error in that last message. My
>computer was set to tomorrow, not today.

Classic case of seeing what was expected, rather than what was there.
You indeed were 24 hours in the future.

>
>NOW my computer's RTC reads 12:32pm, 3-17-2000 which is the accurate
>local time and date.
>
>What do you see in PMMail regarding the date/time of this message?
>

It is now correct, shows up as 16:35 here which is correct and the date
is the 17th.

Phew! This TZ stuff is annoying, and I agree 100% about OS/2 TZ
adherence. Not only is the TZ string ANSI, it gets the RTC-to-local set
up backwards.

-- 
Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk
              do you know how far this has gone?
               just how damaged have I become?
                                      'Even Deeper' by Nine Inch Nails