• Global warming

    From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to All on Fri Jan 29 22:25:13 2021
    Scientists have calculated that enough ice to cover the entire USA with a three meter thick layer has melted since 1974 -- and is accelerating.

    It's about time that the people in NYC and Miami starts looking for a good pair of Wellingtons... 8-)



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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Björn Felten on Fri Jan 29 17:04:00 2021
    Björn Felten wrote to All <=-

    Scientists have calculated that enough ice to cover the entire
    USA with a three meter thick layer has melted since 1974 -- and
    is accelerating.

    How thick would that be if it covered all of Sweden?

    It's about time that the people in NYC and Miami starts
    looking for a good pair of Wellingtons... 8-)

    I'm sure the cause of this (supposed) fact is all the fault of the USA
    too, right?

    How about a reference/citation to the source of this info?

    (Taking bets that it comes from some leftist-propaganda rag).



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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Dan Clough on Sat Jan 30 02:46:22 2021
    I'm sure the cause of this (supposed) fact is all the fault of the USA too, right?

    Not all, but with a population of 4% and responsible for 20% of all pollution, you are unproportionally responsible, yes.

    How about a reference/citation to the source of this info?

    No problem:

    https://tinyurl.com/y35ha5p3

    (Taking bets that it comes from some leftist-propaganda rag).

    It's the Swedish state television, and since Sweden is a socialist country (with free childcare, free healthcare, 5 weeks paid vacation, 18 months paid leave for either parent after child birth, affordable housing and all that crap, you know) so in your book it's probably leftist, although not propaganda -- that's against the law on Swedish television.




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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Bj”rn Felten on Sat Jan 30 08:28:37 2021
    Björn wrote (2021-01-30):

    I'm sure the cause of this (supposed) fact is all the fault of the
    USA too, right?

    Not all, but with a population of 4% and responsible for 20% of all pollution, you are unproportionally responsible, yes.

    If the other 96% would raise their pollution levels to the same amount, we would be at 5000%. Growth is good, right?

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Oli on Sat Jan 30 10:19:34 2021
    Growth is good, right?

    Absolutely. Endless growth is the Ponzi scheme that capitalism relies upon. Enormous wealth to everybody. Yeah!



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  • From Michiel van der Vlist@2:280/5555 to Björn Felten on Sat Jan 30 10:58:13 2021
    Hello Björn,

    On Saturday January 30 2021 10:19, you wrote to Oli:

    Growth is good, right?

    Absolutely. Endless growth is the Ponzi scheme that capitalism
    relies upon. Enormous wealth to everybody. Yeah!

    I have always wondered how people can beleive that a system that relies on continues growth can have a long term future...


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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Michiel van der Vlist on Sat Jan 30 12:13:32 2021
    MvdV> I have always wondered how people can beleive that a system that relies
    MvdV> on continues growth can have a long term future...

    A lot of people have not been taught critical thinking at school. They believe everything they are being told. Inject bleach or stick a UV light up your ass to cure you from COVID-19, the election was rigged, USA is a democracy (blissfully unaware of Gerrymandering and Electoral College) and so on.



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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Björn Felten on Sat Jan 30 08:35:00 2021
    Björn Felten wrote to Dan Clough <=-

    I'm sure the cause of this (supposed) fact is all the fault of the USA too, right?

    Not all, but with a population of 4% and responsible for 20%
    of all pollution, you are unproportionally responsible, yes.

    So, if we were to shut down all of the manufacturing/industry that
    contributes to this, how would the world react? Should we also shut
    down the defense mechanisms that keep you safe over there?

    How about a reference/citation to the source of this info?

    No problem:
    https://tinyurl.com/y35ha5p3

    Heh, yeah that's very helpful. :-)

    (Taking bets that it comes from some leftist-propaganda rag).

    It's the Swedish state television, and since Sweden is a
    socialist country (with free childcare, free healthcare, 5 weeks
    paid vacation, 18 months paid leave for either parent after child
    birth, affordable housing and all that crap, you know) so in your
    book it's probably leftist, although not propaganda -- that's
    against the law on Swedish television.

    Yep, everything's "free". What a utopian society that must be. LOL


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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Bj÷rn Felten on Sat Jan 30 09:03:00 2021
    Bj÷rn Felten wrote to Oli <=-

    Growth is good, right?

    Absolutely. Endless growth is the Ponzi scheme that capitalism
    relies upon. Enormous wealth to everybody. Yeah!

    A typical lib/socialist misunderstanding. Capitalism doesn't promise
    enormous wealth to everybody. What it does is provide the
    *OPPORTUNITY* for you to try and achieve that, with a reasonable
    chance of success.

    Does that opportunity exist for you Euro-commies? If you *DID* start
    to become too successful (in the eyes of the masters), they would step
    in and take it away from you, for the "good of the state".

    I guess your "free education" system doesn't teach you that, eh?



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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Dan Clough on Sat Jan 30 17:18:13 2021
    Does that opportunity exist for you Euro-commies?

    Well, IKEA founder Swedish Ingvar Kamprad (now dead) was the fifth richest man in the world. Does that answer your stupid, ignorant question?

    Does your inferior educational system not teach you the difference between socialism and communism -- or do you still have the same old McCarthyism with the same commie scare?

    Socialism = slavery, eh?


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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Bj÷rn Felten on Sat Jan 30 07:40:00 2021
    Bj÷rn Felten wrote to Michiel van der Vlist <=-

    A lot of people have not been taught critical thinking at school.
    They believe everything they are being told. Inject bleach or stick a
    UV light up your ass to cure you from COVID-19, the election was
    rigged, USA is a democracy (blissfully unaware of Gerrymandering and Electoral College) and so on.

    Two experiences that I benefited from was 1) a critical thinking class in college that included a debate piece as well as dissecting various attempts
    to manipulate the reader, the Skeptic's board (a BBS in the San Francisco
    Bay Area) in the 1990s, and the old Fido SKEPTIC echo.

    There's a lot to be said for questioning claims and asking for citations or backup - that shows the true basis of the claim. Too many debates online
    fall into buckets similar to these.

    1. The claimant has a solid reference backing up their claim.

    2. The claimant cites an obscure web source that either validates a portion
    of their claim, doesn't validate it at all (and they expect you not to read it!)

    3. The claimant states that their claim is so prevalent that it doesn't require validation - or they claim that there are so many citations out
    there that they leave the proof of their claim up to you.

    or

    4. (insert organization here) is in bed with mainstream media, and since you don't read the same web sites the claimant does, you're ill-informed.


    It's gotten pretty predictable.





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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Kurt Weiske on Sat Jan 30 17:59:38 2021
    Very well analysed, Kurt!

    3. The claimant states that their claim is so prevalent that it doesn't require validation - or they claim that there are so many citations out there that they leave the proof of their claim up to you.

    Hmmm... A certain, former POTUS I know of was a master of this, using it hundreds of times.



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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Kurt Weiske on Sat Jan 30 18:02:16 2021
    4. (insert organization here) is in bed with mainstream media, and since you don't read the same web sites the claimant does, you're ill-informed.

    ... and of course this too. FAKE NEWS!!!



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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Björn Felten on Sat Jan 30 16:08:00 2021
    Björn Felten wrote to Dan Clough <=-

    Does that opportunity exist for you Euro-commies?

    Well, IKEA founder Swedish Ingvar Kamprad (now dead) was the
    fifth richest man in the world. Does that answer your stupid,
    ignorant question?

    Blah, blah-blah-blah, blah. Why did he live in Switzerland for four
    decades, after he got rich?

    Does your inferior educational system not teach you the
    difference between socialism and communism -- or do you still
    have the same old McCarthyism with the same commie scare?

    LOL. You should have stayed in school.

    Socialism = slavery, eh?

    Pretty much, yep. Ask somebody in Venezuela.

    By the way, I won't continue to respond to your posts when you
    selectively cherry-pick one sentence from a three paragraph post that
    I made (like you did above). You do that to avoid having to respond
    to the rest of what I said, and to remove any context that might make
    the meaning of my one sentence quite different than what you want it
    to appear as.

    Another typical Lib tactic, very common, and very deceitful.


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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Dan Clough on Sat Jan 30 23:47:44 2021
    By the way, I won't continue to respond to your posts

    Excellent.



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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Dan Clough on Sun Jan 31 08:15:55 2021
    Dan wrote (2021-01-30):

    I won't continue to respond to your posts

    brilliant idea

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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Björn Felten on Sun Jan 31 08:22:00 2021
    Björn Felten wrote to Dan Clough <=-

    By the way, I won't continue to respond to your posts

    Excellent.

    For context, since the feeb known as Bj?rn loves to snip relevant
    context, the below is what he cherry-picked the line above from (in a
    previous post of mine):

    By the way, I won't continue to respond to your posts when you
    selectively cherry-pick one sentence from a three paragraph post that
    I made (like you did above). You do that to avoid having to respond
    to the rest of what I said, and to remove any context that might make
    the meaning of my one sentence quite different than what you want it
    to appear as.

    Another typical Lib tactic, very common, and very deceitful.



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  • From Dan Clough@1:123/115 to Oli on Sun Jan 31 08:23:00 2021
    Oli wrote to Dan Clough <=-

    I won't continue to respond to your posts

    brilliant idea

    Another context-snipper. Maybe you're another of Bj?rn's
    sock-puppets?

    Hey Oli. FOAD.



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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Dan Clough on Sun Jan 31 16:16:45 2021
    Dan wrote (2021-01-31):

    I won't continue to respond to your posts

    then don't

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Dan Clough on Sun Jan 31 17:11:10 2021
    loves to snip relevant context

    That's right, with emphasis on *relevant*. Snipping out only the relevant part of a comment is called quote trimming, as opposed to excessive quoting -- some people even quotes the entire message.

    Every fido editor developed after 17 December 1971 (when FTS-9 was introduced) should be able of comment linking for the benefit of those who can't even remember what they wrote only a few days ago.



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  • From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to Björn Felten on Sun Jan 31 19:00:12 2021
    Re: Global warming
    By: Björn Felten to Dan Clough on Sun Jan 31 2021 05:11 pm

    Every fido editor developed after 17 December 1971 (when FTS-9 was introduced) should be able of comment linking for the benefit of those who can't even remember what they wrote only a few days ago.

    That date is a joke, right?
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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Rob Swindell on Mon Feb 1 08:06:47 2021
    Rob wrote (2021-01-31):

    Re: Global warming
    By: Björn Felten to Dan Clough on Sun Jan 31 2021 05:11 pm

    Every fido editor developed after 17 December 1971 (when FTS-9 was
    introduced) should be able of comment linking for the benefit of
    those who can't even remember what they wrote only a few days ago.

    That date is a joke, right?

    I thought so too, but it also could be a typo. The correct date would be 17 December 1991. Still 29+ years.

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Rob Swindell on Mon Feb 1 10:06:54 2021
    That date is a joke, right?

    LOL! Rather a typo. Good catch!

    MSGID / REPLY
    A standard for unique message identifiers
    and reply chain linkage

    17 December, 1991





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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Björn Felten on Mon Feb 1 13:37:22 2021
    That date is a joke, right?

    LOL! Rather a typo. Good catch!

    It was so obvious I didn't ever bother to respond.

    \%/@rd

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Oli on Mon Feb 1 13:38:09 2021
    That date is a joke, right?

    I thought so too, but it also could be a typo. The correct date would be
    17 December 1991. Still 29+ years.

    Substituting one typo for another?

    \%/@rd

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Dan Clough on Tue Feb 2 07:18:00 2021
    On 30/01/2021 09:04, 1123/115 wrote:

    I'm sure the cause of this (supposed) fact is all the fault of the USA too, right?

    Surely a three metre thick ice covering over USA wouldn't be anyone else's fault?

    How about a reference/citation to the source of this info?

    (Taking bets that it comes from some leftist-propaganda rag).

    ROFL

    Definition of Unbiased News : News that agrees with my opinion.

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Bj”rn Felten on Tue Feb 2 07:22:55 2021
    On 31/01/2021 02:18, 2203/2 wrote:

       Does your inferior educational system not teach you the difference between socialism and communism -- or do you still have the same old McCarthyism with the same commie scare?

       Socialism = slavery, eh?

    I see Biden is trying to increase the minimum wage in USA. The current one is little better than slavery.

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Dan Clough on Tue Feb 2 07:26:58 2021
    On 1/02/2021 00:22, 1123/115 wrote:

    Another typical Lib tactic, very common, and very deceitful.

    ROFL.

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Dan Clough on Tue Feb 2 07:27:40 2021
    On 1/02/2021 00:23, 1123/115 wrote:
    Oli wrote to Dan Clough <=-

     DC>> I won't continue to respond to your posts

     Ol>> brilliant idea

    Another context-snipper.  Maybe you're another of Bj?rn's
    sock-puppets?

    Hey Oli.  FOAD.

    That's right, attack the messenger, not the message.

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to David Drummond on Mon Feb 1 22:55:43 2021
    I see Biden is trying to increase the minimum wage in USA. The current
    one is little better than slavery.

    Objections from some senators: But then McDonald goes bankrupt!

    Blissfully unaware of the fact that even Washington D.C. already has minimum wage $15. And so has many other US cities: Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and more. McDonald still thriving there, albeit with a hefty 0.4% loss for the share holders. Corporate capitalism in a nutshell...



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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to David Drummond on Mon Feb 1 22:57:49 2021
    That's right, attack the messenger, not the message.

    Another typical Clough tactic, very common, and very deceitful.





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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to David Drummond on Tue Feb 2 08:17:11 2021
    David wrote (2021-02-02):

    That's right, attack the messenger, not the message.


    I'll attack the mail software

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    If you are using Thunderbird + JamNNTPd, why is there no TZUTC kludge? Outdated version of JamNNTPd?

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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384.125 to Oli on Tue Feb 2 17:43:09 2021
    Hi! Oli,

    On 02/02/2021 05:17 PM, you wrote to David Drummond:

    That's right, attack the messenger, not the message.

    I'll attack the mail software

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    If you are using Thunderbird + JamNNTPd, why is there no TZUTC kludge? Outdated version of JamNNTPd?

    When I had a Windows JamNNTPd server running in Windows 98SE, it never quoted the correct value all year. It would insert a DST value when we never observed that aberration. So, I turned off that option.

    Perhaps he has the same trouble?[shrug]

    How's mine? (I'll see after it's sent...)

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Paul Quinn on Tue Feb 2 08:55:14 2021
    Paul wrote (2021-02-02):

    If you are using Thunderbird + JamNNTPd, why is there no TZUTC
    kludge? Outdated version of JamNNTPd?

    When I had a Windows JamNNTPd server running in Windows 98SE, it never quoted the correct value all year. It would insert a DST value when we never observed that aberration. So, I turned off that option.

    Perhaps he has the same trouble?[shrug]

    How's mine? (I'll see after it's sent...)

    Looks good, your mail is not from the future. Time is displayed as 08:43 (my local time is 08:54).

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Oli on Tue Feb 2 09:20:04 2021
    If you are using Thunderbird + JamNNTPd, why is there no TZUTC kludge? Outdated version of JamNNTPd?

    There's really no need for that kludge when using Thunderbird, it takes care of that without the need for a fido kludge. This is what it looks like in the message you are quoting:

    Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 06:27:40 GMT

    Displays perfectly here as 07:27 (I too has local time UTC+1).



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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Paul Quinn on Tue Feb 2 09:36:07 2021
    It would insert a DST value when we never observed that aberration.

    Lucky you! When Sweden reintroduced DST in the mid 1980s almost everyone objected. Not only was it an unnecessary work going around, setting all clocks and watches twice a year, it even caused problems for the dairy farmers who never managed to teach their cows to change their milking time.

    A couple of years ago EU tried to tell the member states to abandon this shite, but the various countries cannot agree upon using summertime or wintertime, so the decree is still not implemented. :(


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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1138 to Oli on Tue Feb 2 18:30:33 2021
    Hi! Oli,

    On 02 Feb 2021, Oli said the following...

    @TZUTC: 0100

    How's mine? (I'll see after it's sent...)

    Looks good, your mail is not from the future. Time is displayed as 08:43 (my local time is 08:54).

    Yes. It's displaying your local time for when I launched the note at my end. It was 17:43 AEST here. Your 9 hour difference shows.

    Apologies if I'm telling you something already known to you.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Björn Felten on Tue Feb 2 19:01:21 2021
    Hiya!

    On 02 Feb 2021, Björn Felten said the following...

    Lucky you! When Sweden reintroduced DST in the mid 1980s almost everyone objected. Not only was it an unnecessary work going around, setting all clocks and watches twice a year, it even caused problems for the dairy farmers who never managed to teach their cows to change their milking time.

    The going joke here was the curtains faded mode rapidly. We have three
    states and an island state that toy with their time pieces twice a year, minimum. Oh, the fun!

    My sister who lives in Adelaide (South Australia) is normally a half-hour behind Queensland (my loc.) but DST puts her a half-hour ahead in summer. Hardly normal, hey. I love 'listenin'g to her mental gyrations when she
    calls me. ;)

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Paul Quinn on Tue Feb 2 11:07:53 2021
    We have three
    states and an island state that toy with their time pieces twice a year, minimum. Oh, the fun!

    Yeah, that sounds like fun. If I remember correctly from the Y2K celebrations you even have a point where three different time zones meet, so with just a few small steps you can time travel back and forth. Right?

    Sweden is fortunate enough to have longitude 15 (UTC+1) running right through the middle of our country. That means that true noon in Stockholm is at 11:54 and in Gothenburg at 12:12. Those are the two biggest cities here.

    The two extremes, Strömstad in the west and Haparanda in the east, both tiny cities with about 7,000 citizens, have true noon at 12:16 and 11:24 respectively.

    Now moving the clock one hour actually means a lot here.


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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Björn Felten on Tue Feb 2 11:20:35 2021
    true noon in Stockholm is at 11:54

    I guess nobody will notice, but I made yet another number typo. True noon in Stockholm is at 11:44.



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  • From Paul Quinn@3:640/1384 to Björn Felten on Tue Feb 2 20:28:52 2021
    Hi!

    On 02 Feb 2021, Björn Felten said the following...

    Yeah, that sounds like fun. If I remember correctly from the Y2K celebrations you even have a point where three different time zones
    meet, so with just a few small steps you can time travel back and forth. Right?

    Yes. David has been there, and done that. I haven't seen the t-shirt, yet. :)

    Cheers,
    Paul.

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Oli on Tue Feb 2 20:11:54 2021
    On 2/02/2021 17:17, 2280/464.47 wrote:

     DD>> That's right, attack the messenger, not the message.

    I'll attack the mail software


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    Gecko/20100101 Thunderbi
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    If you are using Thunderbird + JamNNTPd, why is there no TZUTC kludge?

    Do I need one of those, or is it just more clutter to compensate for my diminutive genitalia?

    Outdated version of JamNNTPd?

    Still seems to send/receive message OK.

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    David

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Paul Quinn on Tue Feb 2 20:14:19 2021
    On 2/02/2021 17:43, 3640/1384.125 wrote:

    ; If you are using Thunderbird + JamNNTPd, why is there no TZUTC kludge?
    ; Outdated version of JamNNTPd?

    When I had a Windows JamNNTPd server running in Windows 98SE, it never quoted the correct value all year.  It would insert a DST value when we never observed that aberration.  So, I turned off that option.

    Perhaps he has the same trouble?[shrug]

    It was set up some years ago - I don't remember all of the tweaks that were done to make it "stable".

    It it works then don't fix it.

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    David

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Bj”rn Felten on Tue Feb 2 20:16:55 2021
    On 2/02/2021 18:20, 2203/2 wrote:
    ; If you are using Thunderbird + JamNNTPd, why is there no TZUTC kludge?
    ; Outdated version of JamNNTPd?

       There's really no need for that kludge when using Thunderbird, it takes care of that without the need for a fido kludge. This is what it looks like in the message you are quoting:

       Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 06:27:40 GMT

       Displays perfectly here as 07:27 (I too has local time UTC+1).

    My local time is UTC+10

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    David

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to David Drummond on Tue Feb 2 12:12:53 2021
    Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 06:27:40 GMT

    Displays perfectly here as 07:27 (I too has local time UTC+1).

    My local time is UTC+10

    So we can conclude that you posted your message at 16:27:40 local time, then. That's half past four in the afternoon for those backward people who still insist on that AM/PM crap... 8-)



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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Paul Quinn on Tue Feb 2 12:35:01 2021
    Paul wrote (2021-02-02):

    Hi! Oli,

    On 02 Feb 2021, Oli said the following...

    @TZUTC: 0100

    How's mine? (I'll see after it's sent...)

    Looks good, your mail is not from the future. Time is displayed as
    08:43 (my local time is 08:54).

    Yes. It's displaying your local time for when I launched the note at my end. It was 17:43 AEST here. Your 9 hour difference shows.

    I know, I intentionally set my mail client to use local time in the message list.
    The message itself shows your local time and TZ.

    Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 18:30:33 +1000
    X-JAM-FTSKLUDGE: TZUTC: 1000

    Apologies if I'm telling you something already known to you.

    Apologies accepted ;-)
    (I mean no apologies needed)

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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to David Drummond on Tue Feb 2 13:04:34 2021
    David wrote (2021-02-02):

    If you are using Thunderbird + JamNNTPd, why is there no TZUTC
    kludge?

    Do I need one of those, or is it just more clutter to compensate for my diminutive genitalia?

    You don't need it, but it helps others to see the correct time in their mail readers.

    I just looked at the jamnntpd commit log. TZUTC is supported since JamNNTPd 0.6 wich has been released in 2004.

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  • From Charles Pierson@1:106/127 to Björn Felten on Tue Feb 2 06:02:59 2021
    On 02 Feb 2021, Björn Felten said the following...
    Lucky you! When Sweden reintroduced DST in the mid 1980s almost everyone objected. Not only was it an unnecessary work going around, setting all clocks and watches twice a year, it even caused problems for the dairy farmers who never managed to teach their cows to change their milking time.

    I have a schedule with my dogs that I'm good with. 3pm Is a time I let the girls outside run around and such. Then one day they started raising a
    rucjus at 2pm. It took me several days to realize we had switched to
    Standard time from DST but dogs can read a clock, they just think I'm maling them wait longer for their excercise.

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Charles Pierson on Tue Feb 2 13:28:26 2021
    but dogs can read a clock

    It's a bummer that we can't teach our animals to read the clock. Before I retired, I used most of my working time programming. When I was programming, I usually lost time completely.

    But my dog used to come down into my office around 02:00 reminding me that it was time to go walkie and then go to bed. He never missed with more than a few minutes. But obviously that darn DST made him "miss" by an hour.



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  • From Charles Pierson@1:106/127 to Björn Felten on Tue Feb 2 07:15:01 2021
    On 02 Feb 2021, Björn Felten said the following...
    but dogs can read a clock

    I really need to watch for my typos better.

    programming, I usually lost time completely.

    But my dog used to come down into my office around 02:00 reminding me that it was time to go walkie and then go to bed. He never missed with more than a few minutes. But obviously that darn DST made him "miss" by
    an hour.

    I felt bad when I realized that I was telling my dogs to be quiet because
    they wete too early, when actually they weren't, the time was wrong.

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Bj”rn Felten on Sat Feb 6 11:03:38 2021
    On 2/02/2021 20:20, 2203/2 wrote:
     BF>> true noon in Stockholm is at 11:54

       I guess nobody will notice, but I made yet another number typo. True noon in Stockholm is at 11:44.

    Maybe a requirement for new spectacles?

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    David

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Paul Quinn on Sat Feb 6 11:07:52 2021
    On 2/02/2021 20:28, 3640/1384 wrote:

     BF>>     Yeah, that sounds like fun. If I remember correctly from the Y2K
     BF>> celebrations you even have a point where three different time zones
     BF>> meet, so with just a few small steps you can time travel back and forth.
     BF>> Right?

    Yes.  David has been there, and done that.  I haven't seen the t-shirt, yet.
    :)

    I used to have a photo on my web page of my ex sitting on the post at Cameron Corner where Qld, NSW and SA meet.

    I had the photo captioned "An arse that covers three states". I was not in the good books for a while (cannot imagine why...)


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    David

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Björn Felten on Sat Feb 6 11:10:33 2021
    On 2/02/2021 21:12, 2203/2 wrote:

     BF>>>      Displays perfectly here as 07:27 (I too has local time UTC+1).

     DD>> My local time  is UTC+10

       So we can conclude that you posted your message at 16:27:40 local time, then.

    Probably - that was several days ago, I don't keep a close track on what I was doing at what time any more.

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    David

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  • From Jeff Smith@1:282/1031 to Björn Felten on Tue Feb 2 17:37:52 2021
    true noon in Stockholm is at 11:54
    I guess nobody will notice, but I made yet another number typo. True noon in Stockholm is at 11:44.
    ..

    I sure noticed. :)


    Jeff

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