> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of J. van Baardwijk

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> >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).

Maybe you misunderstood.  I wasn't saying that it's difficult, it's just
that various servers format times differently, especially in how they
express their GMT offset.  I'm dealing with timestamps from lots of servers.

Nick

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