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    From apam@VERT/HAPPYLND to digital man on Monday, November 15, 2021 11:25:00
    One other quick question,

    What is the c1e0 at the end of the whenwritten field in headers.dat?

    WhenWritten: 20190807093601-0700 c1e0

    I'm looking to get the correct Timezone for exported messages, and figure
    this header is how.

    Andrew

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to apam on Sunday, November 14, 2021 18:53:32
    Re: HEADERS.DAT
    By: apam to digital man on Mon Nov 15 2021 11:25 am

    One other quick question,

    What is the c1e0 at the end of the whenwritten field in headers.dat?

    WhenWritten: 20190807093601-0700 c1e0

    It's a location-based timezone. It contains the same details as the "-0700" UTC offset, but can be more unique (and specific) when there are multiple time zones with the same UTC offset. See https://synchro.net/docs/smb.html#Data%20types if you want more details.

    I'm looking to get the correct Timezone for exported messages, and figure this header is how.

    If you just want the UTC offset, the ISO date/time string has it too.
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  • From apam@VERT/HAPPYLND to Digital Man on Monday, November 15, 2021 15:40:00
    If you just want the UTC offset, the ISO date/time string has it too.

    I was more concerned about the messages I'm sending out to dovenet, as I
    logged into Freeway, and it showed my messages as being from the future
    (my local time with a UTC offset - which should be +10:00)

    So I was thinking I should set the WhenWritten field (and when imported/exported while at it) but will synchronet be happy with just the
    ISO date/time or will i need to implement that location based timezone
    bit on the end too?

    I'm looking at: http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:qwk

    Andrew

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to apam on Monday, November 15, 2021 10:25:47
    Re: HEADERS.DAT
    By: apam to Digital Man on Mon Nov 15 2021 03:40 pm

    If you just want the UTC offset, the ISO date/time string has it too.

    I was more concerned about the messages I'm sending out to dovenet, as I logged into Freeway, and it showed my messages as being from the future
    (my local time with a UTC offset - which should be +10:00)

    So I was thinking I should set the WhenWritten field (and when imported/exported while at it) but will synchronet be happy with just the ISO date/time or will i need to implement that location based timezone
    bit on the end too?

    I'm looking at: http://wiki.synchro.net/ref:qwk

    The SMB/hex timezone representation is optional. It's only used (and override the UTC offset provided in the ISO date/time) if it's present.
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