Re: [LEAPSECS] Greetings from an intercalary second

2017-01-01 Thread Daniel R. Tobias
On 1 Jan 2017 at 14:27, Clive D.W. Feather wrote: > Steve Summit said: > > But on the wire it was: > > > > Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:59:60 -0500 > > That's what mutt showed me (I'm running sendmail on my > own FreeBSD box). That's also what Pegasus Mail for Windows shows. -- == Dan == Dan

Re: [LEAPSECS] Greetings from an intercalary second

2017-01-01 Thread John Hawkinson
Since no one has yet mentioned it: Steve Summit wrote on Sat, 31 Dec 2016 at 19:11:51 -0500 in <2016dec31.1911.scs.0...@eskimo.com>: > I should have said: readers who are able to view the raw Date: > line "on the wire". Any mail software which parses and > redisplays the date (including that wh

Re: [LEAPSECS] Greetings from an intercalary second

2017-01-01 Thread Clive D.W. Feather
Steve Summit said: > But on the wire it was: > > Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:59:60 -0500 That's what mutt showed me (I'm running sendmail on my own FreeBSD box). -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: cl...@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://w

Re: [LEAPSECS] Greetings from an intercalary second

2016-12-31 Thread Tom Van Baak
ubject: [LEAPSECS] Greetings from an intercalary second ... 00078 Sender: "LEAPSECS" 00079 00080 Some readers may be interested in the Date: line on this message. 00081 It is not faked: it was added by a lightly-modified sendmail 00082 program running under a Linux kernel keeping true UTC

Re: [LEAPSECS] Greetings from an intercalary second

2016-12-31 Thread Steve Summit
I wrote: > Some readers may be interested in the Date: line on this message. I should have said: readers who are able to view the raw Date: line "on the wire". Any mail software which parses and redisplays the date (including that which archives this mailing list at pairlist6.pair.net) is likely

[LEAPSECS] Greetings from an intercalary second

2016-12-31 Thread Steve Summit
Some readers may be interested in the Date: line on this message. It is not faked: it was added by a lightly-modified sendmail program running under a Linux kernel keeping true UTC, with the timestamp fetched via clock_gettime(CLOCK_UTC) and formatted using a timespec-aware version of localtime().