JRS: In article , dated
Fri, 20 Aug 2004 18:10:04, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Acrosticus
posted :
From: (Mark Brader)
Date: 15/08/2004 19:32 GMT Daylight Time
Message-id:

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.

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.

In other words, "no such thing".

Stuart's headers include such as "Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:59:54
+0100".

There's nothing there to show that the poster is in the UK; that offset
is compatible, for example, with Lagos, where Summer Time is not needed.

The software used by Acrosticus is incompetently configured, and its
user has failed to correct it.

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