on Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 09:11:03AM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky (wizard@matfyz.cz) wrote: > Hi all, > I always view timezone of messages coming into list because I like > trying to guess where is sender of that message living (East Coast, > West Coast, Europe, UK, ...) > > but today I found some messages with timezone -0200 ...how is it > possible?? it's in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean .. Brazil is in > -0300 > > Any suggestions ? ( common phrase on this list ;) ) > P.S.: And also timezone +0530 seems strange to me i thought that > timezones are rounded to hours Not always. I've also heard that mailer lines are wrapped to 72 characters.... There are a few half-hour offset timezones, including parts of Newfoundland (Canada), and several middle eastern states. There's also China, which is all one timezone despite its landmass. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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