Re: [OT][Pan-users] posted time anomaly

[Jeff Vian]

.b e. wrote:

> > Although this may be not quite what you want to do, you may be able 
> > to identify the exact problem by doing a little tweaking with the 
> > time settings.
> >
> > I, and probably many others, use the system time set to local instead 
> > of GMT.
> > If you try changing that on your system and see if PAN then posts 
> > with the proper time it would be concrete information that Charles 
> > can use to find/fix the bug.
> rebooting & changing the bios clock to real time
>
> and chcking /etc/sysconfig/clock
> ARC=false
> UTC=false
> ZONE=Pacific/Auckland
> ...........................
> #date command
> Sun Dec 14 20:48:04 NZDT 2003
> ...........................
> pan message posted now
> Newsgroups:   alt.test
> Date:         Sun, 14 Dec 2003 20:48:56 +1300
>
> Sun Dec 14 20:48:04 NZDT 2003
>
> so the system settings make no difference, pan on this system at least 
> is taking the actual local time and reporting it incorrectly.

Your statement is not quite correct.  Your system is reporting the 
proper local time regardless of how you have it set.   BIOS at local 
time or at UCT.
The offset displayed in the pan header adjusts local time to UCT when 
reporting the posted time.  

I do not think there really is a bug here.  As I understand time zones 
they are in the range of UCT +/- 12 based on the dateline.  So your 
header above reflects the adjustment from
Sun Dec 14 20:48:04 NZDT 2003
to
Sun, 14 Dec 2003 20:48:56 +1300
which actually is Sun, 13 Dec 2003 07:48:56 in UCT