<Peter_Constable at sil dot org> wrote: > BTW, my mail client (Lotus Notes, for better or worse) reports what > time in *my* time zone an author wrote the given message. Such > reporting of time in international communications is problematic; > time zones need to be stated explicitly. We discovered this quite a > while ago after scheduling a tele-conference; the half of the dept. > in the UK assumed the time they saw was Dallas time (or maybe they > suggested the time and we were reading it), but Notes had silently > done a time zone conversion.
I used to have this problem with CompuServe, whose server is/was located in Ohio, three hours ahead of me. My messages were regularly time-stamped with Eastern Time, leading some to believe that I was posting in the wee hours of the night. I've been known to stay up late with the Unicode list, but not 3:30 in the morning. I believe Adelphia marks my messages with the correct local time (about 10:03 for this one). -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California
