"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:49:00 GMT, Sqwertz wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 19:52:16 -0500, MareCat wrote:
>>
>>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:36:42 -0500, MareCat wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Sqwertz" > wrote in message
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:06:25 -0800, sf wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 13:40:12 -0600, Sqwertz >
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 11:31:33 -0800, sf wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:30:47 -0600, Sqwertz
>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:08:04 -0600, Andy wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>I think you're going to be an hour early, dumbass.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Aw.... what je ne sais quoi, Steve.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>English, please.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Basically, it means "I don't know what".... it attempts to describe
>>>>>>> something indescribable.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Andy posted that 5 hours before 10:00am.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> He's an early bird, always has been.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Read the subject. Now do the math and put it all together.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see the time he posted as being 6:08 a.m. He's on the east coast (so
>>>>> am
>>>>> I).
>>>>
>>>> Then your clock must be mucked up, too.
>>>>
>>>> From Andy's post:
>>>>
>>>> Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:08:04 -0600
>>>> NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:08:04 -0600
>>>
>>> My clock has been set to the correct time all day.
>>>
>>> I see the time that people post as EST (e.g., says that your post was
>>> sent
>>> at 7:29--obviously, that's EST, as it's not even 7:00 p.m. in Austin
>>> yet).
>
> Actually, I did post that at 6:30pm CST - before I made dinner.
>
> Your newsreader isn't displaying time zones correctly, or
> something.
>
> Newsreaders should always display the time a post was made in
> *you* local time zone. That's why they most timestamps use the
> -0600/-0500/-0whetever designation - so it can adjust to your
> time zone.

Right. My newsreader does display all times in EST (I'm on the east coast,
not in TX anymore). That's why your post displayed as having been sent at
7:29 *my* time (which was 6:29 *your* time).

Mary