Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 at 10:19:09 -0700 in <877j1838fm.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu>:
its time stamp says "PUBLISHED: 08-15-06 5:00 AM EST". But Lafayette is in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, which is observing Eastern Daylight Time now, not "EST".
If the newspaper can't even get its own time stamps right, no wonder mortals working for lesser institutions like the schools
If a major national newspaper like the New York Times can't get it right, the chances aren't good for smaller papers, especially those in a confusing place like Indiana. I noticed recently that the NYT's automated email messages (about headlines, etc.) transit a machine that claims to be -0400 but has a clock in Eastern time (which is -0500 right now). For instance: Received: from omitted by content119b.lga2.nytimes.com (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <97.0065010F@content119b.lga2.nytimes.com>; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 3:22:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:20:43 -0500 I made some attempt to find the right person to mention this to recently, but my experience is finding the right person is 2/3 of the battle. --jhawk