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- From: larryp@sco.COM (Larry Philps)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: ELM / Time Zone problems?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.141535.27388@sco.COM>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 14:15:35 GMT
- References: <1992Sep12.220633.125807@Cookie.secapl.com>
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- In <1992Sep12.220633.125807@Cookie.secapl.com> ckw@Cookie.secapl.com (Kirk Woerner) writes:
-
- > Hello,
- >
- > I've been using ELM for a while (on RS/6000's - AIX - KORN shell) and we
- > have two "networks" in two different time zones. Oddly enough, the sorting
- > mechanism in ELM doesn't seem to recognize that 6:00 PM EST is earlier then
- > 5:30 PM CST. The time it reports is always the 'local' time no matter where
- > you are looking at it. Am I doing something wrong or is this bug? I have the
- > $TZ environment variable set on both machines (EST5EDT and CST6CDT). Any
- > help would be appreciated.
-
- There is a whole pile of code in src/addr_util.c:parse_arpa_data that tries
- to decode the date field and sort the messages appropriately. It is
- non-trivial, but it does work correctly on my SCO Unix machines.
-
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