At 11:48 PM -0700 10/28/01, Warren Michelsen  imposed structure on a
stream of electrons, yielding:
>At 8:49 PM -0500 10/28/01, Bill Cole wrote:
>>For those of us in the US (and Canada?) today is the first day back
>>on Standard Time,
>
>Heh, heh. For those of us in Arizona, USA, all the ritual "springing
>ahead" and "falling back" endured by everyone else each year is
>amusing. Years ago we realized that no daylight is saved at all so
>we don't participate is the whole DST fiasco.

It is no fiasco for those of us in more northern locations where the 
day length change is very large. Keeping dawn between 5:30 and 7:00 
when it want's to creep towards 4:30 or 8:00 is a good thing.

>>and I just noticed an odd bug in SIMS: it seems to grab the zone
>>when it is started and then timestamps Received headers with the
>>correct localized time and that initial zone even if (as with
>>today) the zone has changed since startup and is no longer the
>>correct one for the localized time.
>
>Are you referring to [Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:50:26 -0700 <-- this
>"-0700" or whatever?

Yes. Shortly before I wrote that message, I was still getting 
Received headers tagged as -0400, even though they carried the 
correct time (correct for -0500)
-- 
Bill Cole
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