dates and their representation

raf raf at comdyn.com.au
Wed Sep 23 12:57:51 CEST 1998


Werner wrote:

>Michael Deindl <olmur at dwarf.bb.bawue.de> writes:

>> I want to support this suggestion:  local time is usually a good idea
>> and should be the default.  But having an option to switch to UTC is a 

>Here is the reason, why I do not like time conversion:

>pub  1024D/57548DCD 1998-07-07 Werner Koch (gnupg sig) <dd9jn at gnu.org>

>This may get listed as -07-08 or -07-06 depending on the timezone.
>I think that this could lead to some confusion if two persons list the
>key but get different times (yes they are not different really, but it
>seems so)

i don't understand. how can it lead to confusion
if these two people are in different timezones?

raf





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