F.O.A.K: Timestamp problem

Can anyone spot why my palmpilot posts an hour ahead of local time from these
headers

NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:12:22 -0500
From: tallbloke@palmpilot (tallbloke)
Subject: Re: Da Vinci Code "Best Book"
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:12:26 GMT+0
Newsgroups: uk.rec.motorcycles
Message-ID: <BE95CCDAyf@palmpilot>
X-Newsreader: Yanoff 1.5.4 PalmPilot


I've got the date ok but the NNTP posting dates looks skewed by an hour.

How do I fix that then?

Bloody GPL software )

 

-0500?

Where are you?

East coast of the US?



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Ignore that, I'm not thinking.
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Posted via a server in the US?

Assuming you're in the UK, your timezone's wrong.

That would be why, I guess.

Should be in the OS, somewhere, shouldn't it?

"A bad workman always blames his tools."

 

Have you set it for daylight saving ?

 

Well, it won't That's the server time stamp, innit?

17:38 -0500 works out as 2238 GMT, add daylight saving time: 23:38
Which is your local time


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OK.

So if altering the zone from GMT+0 to GMT+1 on the local device makes no
difference, and the NNTP time stamp is the same whether I post from Xnews
on the lappy or Yanoff on the Palmpilot, howcome the time of posting and
the order the posts come up in xnews in non-threaded mode are an hour
different? The date and time going out in the headers from the palmpilot
are correct, yet when I posted at midnight, the time of the post according
to the server was 1am.

Also, I can't find any daylight saving time toggle in PalmOs 5 which might
make a difference, or am I being thick?

 

Sorry, different from what?

Possibly the reader is picking up the wrong timestamp, or munging it in some
way. I'm not 100% sure without seeing some more example.

No idea. Never used OS 5. It might make a difference as to how the time is
calculated backwards and how the reader software is working IYSWIM.

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From each other. If I post at midnight from Xnews, then Poll, the post I
wrote is shown in a list of other posts people have just made, as having been
made at midnight.

If I post from the palmpilot, The post appears to have been posted an hour
into the future at 1am, and continues to stay at the end of the (sorted by
time posted) list of posts made by everyone for another hour.

Anyway, I've just installed a newer (GPL forked commercial) version of Yanoff
to see if that sorts it.

 

Can't find an option for it in palm-os.

 

Gotcha. Is that the NNTP posting date or the other one?

Indeed.

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That's the wierd thing. The NNTP date is the same both on Xnews on my
Laptop, and on Yanoff form the palm. Bute for the 'date' header, Xnews has
the same as the NNTP date, GPLYanoff has the local time, which looks
correct but posts an hour ahead.

Hmmm, well it sorted the timestamp problem, but it crashes the Palmpilot
when I try to followup everytime since the first successful post ^upthere.
And it didn't get my posting name right either...

Ah well, over to the Yanoff mailing list...

 

Just as well, really I don't get the NNTP date on the headers from Knode.
No idea why

OK, assuming that you're posting to the same server with each one you've
probably found a bug in the software. It's calculating local time from
NNTP posting date, and getting it wrong.

Almost certainly a bug

Aye.

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Hmmm. weeell, I guess I'm waiting for america to return from work at this
point...

 

I thought America should all be awake, by now.
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looks that way.

 

In the traffic on the way home...

 

!
wibbled:

East edge of the pennines.
I've just altered the zone from GMT+0 to GMT+1

 

!
wibbled:

Yebbut, I've just altered that and it hasn't altered the
nntp posting time:

NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:38:30 -0500
From: tallbloke@palmpilot (tallbloke)
Subject: Re: F.O.A.K: Timestamp problem
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:38:47 GMT+1

Yeah yeah.