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dan@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. Dick) writes:
>Everything seems to work fine so far except that the message headers come
>out with -0800 instead of PST for the time zone in the date fields.  This
>is probably an easy question, but I am not familiar enough with all the
>finer details of sendmail to know which format is the "right" one or what
>to expect or how to change it in the normal way to get PST instead of -0800.

The time zones are rewritten by sendmail to their difference times from the
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) to have a date that is comparable with other dates
from other parts of the world. So a mail reader doesn't need to know about all
time zones outside and incoming mail can be sorted by the time it was written.

But in the future there will be a little problem: England intends to introduce
daylight saving time. Nowadays, they are the only West European country without
such things.

Peter
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