Re: New cam

"Ali" <ali_on_usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns971DEFC91F7C2314159265358@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:19:12 GMT, Wrinklie One © commented
<snip>
>> and still your clock is wrong :-)
>
> No, his clock is right, it's his computer that is wrong, more
> specifically, the time zone setting. (currently -0800) Or maybe
> Wally's in California.

LOL!
:-)

But if he *was* actually in California, then *his* Clock would be
showing 8 Hours behind us, wouldn't it?
& the Offset (as shown in the "Date: " Header) would then make the
time of his Posts (as shown here) Show up Correct!
:-)

This is what is in his "Date: " Header

<quote>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 22:44:15 -0800
</quote>

& a post from a Californian Poster (assuming they have their Clock
& Time Zone Set Correctly) would not show that in the Header - it would
have shown...

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:44:15 -0800

I know many people would say something like "what does it all matter
anyway?" - But all that sort of thing has been thought about by the
people who designed the Specifications for Messages & stuff, so as to
enable Times from different places around the world to be absolutely
& unambiguously specified, so there need be no Confuzzlement over
the actual Time a Message was Sent (where ever it was sent from) -
but that does all rely on people Setting the right Options in their PCs.

& it's only when people know *why* those sort of things do actually
matter that they will then make sure that the Options are all Set right.

--
pmj


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