At 13:23 19-3-02 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:

>Instead, I rely on timestamps and the methods above for figuring out the
>sequence of messages.  The timestamp from the originating system may be
>bogus (lots of people have computers with clocks set wrong or apparently not
>working -- you can spot Mac users by their 1904 time stamps sometimes).
>However, the timestamps of the mail servers along the way are usually quite
>accurate; the only real trick is converting (too dang many) time formats to
>GMT.  If resolution down to seconds were needed, this probably would fail
>fairly often.

Not really; you only need to know which specific timestamp you need to 
convert. I figured out where to look when I started working on the Great 
Brin-L Archive a few years ago. I can send you the information if you want 
it (as well as a few additional problems you will be facing).


Jeroen

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