On 17/6/24 18:26, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
It was late afternoon on 16Jun2024 that I wrote this. Possibly 18:13:36
when I pressed send. I'd reckon it would likely have been 08:13:36 UTC
What's wrong with my system clock. I've not really looked at the time
on my originals before. I'll try to remember to enter my local time as
I press send
Evening folk - not good it seems. I can't find the separate thread that
some wise person kindly started for this topic. Mmmmmm
Thanks for those responses. When I find the thread again, I'll read ALL
the responses and respond better, if this doesn't reply to your general
suggestion.
I reskon that they seem to indicate that the date/time in my original
question are fine. the difficulty is more related to how we humans are
interpreting the information we are reading.
https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages-dev/strftime.3.en.html
is a list of place names for MANY parts of a date layout. I have set up
the following code in my text substitution app:
"%a %d%b%Y at %H:%M:%S =UTC %Z"
Triggering that give me
Thu 20Jun2024 at 20:51:19 =UTC +10:00
Seems to me that if the code writers of our various MUA would add the
+UTC to the line that prints the various dates, we'd understand what
they mean better.
Meantime, we have to accept what we have.
Thanks again.
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All the best
Keith Bainbridge
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keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com
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UTC + 10:00
