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  • Timezone Kludge Line Missing

    From Dean Galloway@1:218/620 to All on Wed Apr 30 13:54:19 2025
    Hello all,

    It was reported to me in the Fidotest area that my timezone kludge line is missing from my post.

    Can someone please explain what this means and if it's important, how I enable (or fix) it in D'Bridge?

    Thanks,
    Dean.

    --- D'Bridge 4
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  • From Rob Swindell to Dean Galloway on Wed Apr 30 15:18:01 2025
    Re: Timezone Kludge Line Missing
    By: Dean Galloway to All on Wed Apr 30 2025 01:54 pm

    It was reported to me in the Fidotest area that my timezone kludge line is missing from my post.

    Can someone please explain what this means and if it's important

    It means the date/time stamp of your messages may be incorrect since the date/time information in the headers of FidoNet messages is assumed to be in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) unless there is a timezone control paragraph (aka TZUTC kludge) present in the message body to indicate otherwise.

    For example, your message was presented here (in California) as having been posted at Wed Apr 30 2025 01:54 pm UTC. Does that sound correct?

    If your (originating) system is not physically located in a timezone that happens to match GMT/UTC/Zulu time, or your system clock is not explicitly configured for UTC timezone (and set to the proper time offset) or your editor isn't converting from local time to UTC/GMT equivalent, then that's probably an incorrect timestamp.
    --
    digital man (rob)

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Dean Galloway on Wed Apr 30 18:54:39 2025
    On 30 Apr 25 13:54:19, Dean Galloway said the following to All:

    Can someone please explain what this means and if it's important, how I ena (or fix) it in D'Bridge?

    Pfffft.

    Its not important... trust me... I don't use one or ever needed one and nobody of importance would care about it either.

    But if you really want it, go into to Config-Editor options-Custom Kludges
    and add TZUTC: -0700

    Nick

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  • From Dean Galloway@1:218/620 to Nick Andre on Wed Apr 30 20:16:42 2025
    Rob/Nick,

    Pfffft.

    Its not important... trust me... I don't use one or ever needed one and nobody
    of importance would care about it either.

    Apreciate the help and sorry about the dupe.. :-)

    Thanks,
    Dean.

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