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echomail with future date due to timezone differences

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From: nospam.Christian.Sacks@f5.n250.z2.fidonet.org (Christian Sacks)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs.mystic
Subject: echomail with future date due to timezone differences
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:54:27 +1300
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by: Christian Sacks - Mon, 23 Jan 2023 08:54 UTC

On 23 Jan 2023, g00r00 said the following...
g0> CS> Am I being dense here, or has there always been an issue with posts t
g0> CS> have a future date due to being sent from someone on a bbs with a fut
g0> CS> timezone being unable to set as read until the date of the message is
g0> CS> older than the current date in the bbses timezone I'm reading it on?
g0>
g0> Is this in a message base or your mailbox?
g0>
g0> I think mailboxes list whatever is in it, regardless of if its read or
g0> not (by default anyway) but if its a public message base I'll set up a
g0> test and see if I can reproduce what you're saying.
g0>

It's in a public message base, however the message I was looking at earlier
that exhibited this behaviour in, seems to now be read and I'm still in the
23rd Jan local time, so I wonder if it is less related to timezones now.

I'll keep an eye on it and do some testing of my own and see if I can produce
reliable results and let you know how I reproduce it. Starting to feel like
it's just me being dense now :P

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echomail with future date due to timezone differences	Christian Sacks