I sort by 'when recieved', so it doesn't matter if the posters' time/date is
wrong, it goes by the time I (or my ISP) recieve it.
Scotty
"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
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I sort the postings by time, not by thread. This means that someone who
"post-dates"
perpetually shows up at the top of the list. Its just a minor annoyance,
like a car who's
turn signal is on all the time. I only checked the headers to see if the
time was set
wrong or if it was the wrong timezone.
The truth is, almost everyone has the correct time - there have been
relatively few people
who's clocks are set wrong. Although it may seem that I've been obsessive
about this, I
think I've only told 3 or 4 people to correct their clocks in the last 4
years. And
strangely, most people insist they're right when they're so obviously
wrong. Donal is
one of the few that confessed to having a faulty clock; I sympathize,
having had a similar
problems before upgrading to XP. Unfortunately, I miss a number of his
posts if they're
pre-dated by several hours.
I appreciate your comment on tides - we have 10 foot tides here and
significant current,
but I only have to look at the tables once every week or so, if that.
When we travel,
however, I'm flipping through Eldridge or Reed's a few times every day.
-jeff
"Constant Vigilance!" - Frances W. Wright
"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
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6 people at the dock yesterday..... none of them wearing a watch. All
of
them trying to answer some guy's question of "what time is it?".....
everyone knew it was about 3 hours before low tide slack. I knew low
tide
was at 2000 hrs..... since 5 days before it was at 1600 hrs.
That's how we keep time up here in Nova Scotia..... tides, sun, moon,
seagulls and roosters. I have a wrist sundial.... but with the fog it's
hardly worth wearing. If you live on or by the ocean and you don't know
when
the tide is high.... you have got way more problems than a watch or
calender
can correct.
Do you have shares in Timex Jeff???????
You seem to be almost fanatical about this. I mean really... I could
care
less if someone posted 5 days ago let alone 5 minutes ago. I never check
headers..... why would anyone even care?
I haven't worn a watch all season. I have one chronometer in my boat and
a
stop watch for navigation. That's it.
I get up at dawn and go to bed at sundown.
CM
"Jeff Morris" jeffmo@NoSpam-sv-lokiDOTcom wrote in message
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| You're getting closer - you have the right time zone now (I think) -
but
you probably
| posted that in the morning, not the evening.
|
| Before you accuse me of being overly picky about this, consider the
problems you'll have
| if you habitually pick the wrong day in the tide tables, etc. You
should
get in the
| practice of always double and triple checking these things.
|
| -jeff
| "Constant Vigilance!" - Frances W. Wright
|
|
| "Daniel Thompson" wrote in message
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|
| Still can't set your clock right, can you Danny? Before you get
a
real
| boat you should
| learn to tell time.
|
| Job done.
|
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