GMT plus or minus

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi Geoff -
I wonder if the problem might be beyond the control of the MICQ author. It
looks to me like MICQ is only a tool to access the Mirabilis data base,
which is mostly accessed by different tools - 'ICQ' instead of 'MICQ' -
and every one of the entries there has it the wrong way around: Moscow is
GMT-3, California is GMT+8, etc. When I entered by country's phone code as
'+1'  the MICQ program correctly translated that into 'USA'  but when I
left the GMT offset blank, it plugged in '0'. That suggests the problem
may not lie with MICQ, but with the other tools that access the Mirabilis
data base.

Anyway, thanks for your reassurance. Nettamer is another matter. The docs
there even try to persuade the reader of the 'truth' of the plus offsets
for North America.

Chuck.


On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Geoff Shang wrote:

> Hi Chuck:
> 
> No, you are right ant nettamer and micq are wrong.  I've been meaning to
> write to the micq guy about it but haven't yet.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
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