Time stamp incompatibility...may not be GnuPG's fault

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From: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
Subject: Re: Time stamp incompatibility...may not be GnuPG's fault
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:21:39 +0100
Message-ID: <20001107112139.V7309 at gnupg.de>

> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Hideki Saito wrote:
> 
> > Internally, it is recognized as Nov 07 04:06:40 2000 (GMT) which is 
> > 973570000 seconds since 1970/1/1 00:00 GMT. 
> 
> This is right because the specs say:
> 
> |3.5. Time fields
> |
> |   A time field is an unsigned four-octet number containing the number
> |   of seconds elapsed since midnight, 1 January 1970 UTC.
>       
> 
> > gpg: Signature made 11/07/00 13:06:40  using DSA key ID
> 
> So GnuPG (Unix) is right.  Did you test what GnuPG (Windows) shows?
> I remember that there is some confusion with the Windows localtime()
> function.

isn't the whole point of this Hideki Saito's post that GnuPG is
behaving correctly, but PGP is not?