TimeZone patch

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Stites 

Hi List,

Sorry but I became a little lost here in following the gentle roasting
and the only reason I found was one of those if you
don't already know why not - don't do it variety which, since I do
*not* already know causes me to raise the question.

Is there any valid technical reason for *not* applying John Saunder's
patch to date822fmt.c which causes it
to emit dates in the local timezone which I found on
www.qmail.org?

TIA

-=dave=-

Re: TimeZone patch

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Sill 

Dave Stites [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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1. Since Received timestamps are generated by sites all over the
   world, one can either log the local time, which is convenient for
   people who happen to be in that time zone, but inconvenient for
   everyone else--or one can log a "universal" time, which is mildly
   inconvenient for most people, but which makes it much easier to
   track delivery times in received header fields of messages that
   traverse timezones.

2. Dan went to great lengths to avoid *ever* linking against the
   standard C runtime library. Converting to localtime requires doing
   so. Dan had good (security, obesity) reasons for avoiding libc.

3. This has nothing to do with timezones: HTML mail is annoying.

-Dave

Re: TimeZone patch

2000-01-20 Thread Dave Stites 

For the List,

My apologies for inadvertently injecting HTML into this list.  That will 
*not* happen again

For Dave Sill,

Thank you for your response.  It is now perfectly clear that for me to 
install said patch would be very inadvisable.  Also, THANK YOU, for "Life 
with qmail" which recently was invaluable to me!

Warm Regards,
-=dave=-