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Acrosticus · August 20th 04, 06:10 PM posted to uk.transport.london

From: (Mark Brader)
Date: 15/08/2004 19:32 GMT Daylight Time
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Aidan Stanger writes:
Dr John Stockton wrote:

JRS: In article , dated
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:12:29, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Acrosticus
posted :
From: Stuart
Date: 11/08/2004 09:58 GMT Daylight Time

No such thing.

Not only is there no such thing, Acrosticus's claim that Stuart had
posted that was a lie! ...

We don't have to throw around words like "lie"; his software is probably
rendering all Date: lines converted to his local time zone (which it
obviously doesn't know the name of), and he copied what he saw.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto "Don't be evil."
-- corporate policy, Google Inc.

Thanks for that! It does know the name of the time zone though, which for half
the year is Greenwich Mean Time but at the moment it's British Summer Time (ie
GMT plus 1 hour); which it calls "GMT Daylight Time" for some reason of its
own.

Bit of a shame that someone with "Dr" in front of their name should be so
pedantic and ignorant at the same time though isn't it? Still, as yesterday's
British newspapers pointed out rather well, GCE A-Level standards are
plummeting and first year undergraduates are arriving at British universities
with amazing gaps in their supposed knowledge according to tutors, so why
shouldn't the same be happening further up the system with doctorates too?