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kennedyh Churchill, Victoria, Australia(Zone 10a) Nov 02, 2004

I was rather amused to find that a posting from htop to this thread http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/465662/#new was reported to me as posted Nov 2, 2004
3:06 PM
and it concludes a report that it was
This message was edited Nov 1, 2004 11:08 PM
which means it was edited 16 hours before it was written LOL!
The explanation is simple. Dave now has the posting messages adjusted to our local time zones, so it is reported to me as Australian Eastern standard time. The note regarding editing is written into the message and has a standard time or the poster's time attached to it. Adjusting this for each reader would be much more complex and scarcely worth the trouble, but it does result in some surprising looking figures. I imagine it was actually edited 2 minutes after posting and the 16 hours represents the amount by which Australia is ahead of the USA.

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