Subject: EST query

From: ALEX LATTIMORE <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:54:11 +0000 (GMT)

Could you tell me why e-mails from people in the U.K. to me ( I am 
resident in the U.K. ) have the E.S.T and not G.M.T which it should be?

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 12:47:32 -0600 (CST)

>From: ALEX LATTIMORE <[email-masked]>
>Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:54:11 +0000 (GMT)

>resident in the U.K. ) have the E.S.T and not G.M.T which it should be?

Heh! But, the French disagree. "European Standard Time"

Your date says "+0000 (GMT)". Is that a standard, to add zero, rather than
subtract it? And, what would it say at the International Date Line, east or
west of it?

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From: Drachen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:29:10 -0800 (PST)

according to my nifty neato chart (if you really want to know I think I
might be able to find the URL again) +0000 is the standard, and east of
the IDL is -1200 and west is +1200

however, in practice, for reasons I'm not yet able to discern, sometimes
the +s and -s go backwards. But the chart is still a great help in
figuring out which time zone other mail servers are in and tracking down
times-of-spamming.

BTW, I think it's possible that people in the UK could be using US mail
servers. I don't know if this is the case though. If the original sender
could send a header it might be easier to figure out what's going on.

 Vinnie(rather off topic)

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