RE: Thread date problems... 2.0a21

From: Tom von Alten <tom_vonalten_at_boi.hp.com_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 13:19:57 -0600
Message-ID: <002201be9e3e$c1adb3e0$c9d1020f_at_alien-nt.boi.hp.com>

Continuing on with 2a21...

Thanks for the dateformat enhancement, Paul. That's just what I wanted.

Without trying to get into the messages-arriving-close-together issue, I did see wrong behavior in the index order, however. Looks like the same thing Glen ran into.

With hm_reverse = 1, the thread and date indexes show the newest message at the bottom of the stack, with the rest in proper reverse order. So, for the first 5 messages (none of them replies), the order goes:

    0 0 1 2 3

        1   0   1   2
            2   0   1
                3   0
                    4

This was true for 2a20, also. With the simpler date format, the following jumped out at me, with 4 messages sent in the course of 3 minutes just before 1pm local time (MDT, 6 hours behind UTC):

  Third message        14 May 1999 19:56:28
  Second message       14 May 1999 19:55:18
  Start over with 2a21 14 May 1999 19:54:56
  4th message          14 May 1999 12:56:50

When the 5th message arrives, the 4th message date gets converted to BST (! I can understand UTC, but BST? Seems quite strange, with my system sitting in Idaho) and the stack is:

  4th message          14 May 1999 19:56:50
  Third message        14 May 1999 19:56:28
  Second message       14 May 1999 19:55:18
  Start over with 2a21 14 May 1999 19:54:56
  5th message          14 May 1999 13:03:42

My system's "From " lines are in local time (MDT). In terms of indexing, my preference would be to use the local time, and the header or footer can have a note to that effect for viewers from other time zones.

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