[plt-scheme] pipermail is several hours ahead in time

On May 11, Terrence Brannon wrote:
> <quote src=http://list.cs.brown.edu/pipermail/plt-scheme/2004-May/date.html>
> 
> *Last message date:* /Tue May 11 21:05:01 2004/
> *Archived on:* /Tue May 11 16:06:01 2004/
> 
> It is not possible for the last msg to be at 9:05pm on May 11.

Here's what the relevant sysadmin writes:

| Hmm.  It looks like the "Last message date" is UTC and the
| "Archived on" date is local (EST).
| 
| A quick google reveals that this is a known problem:
| 
| http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-developers/2000-September/007442.html
| http://lists.lib.uchicago.edu/pipermail/testing/20010924/000010.html
| 
| It looks like a bug was filed:
| 
| http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=214100&group_id=103&atid=100103
| 
| But the mailman people just closed it, apparently without fixing it.
| 
| I believe it only shows up in the archive pages, in just that one spot,
| so the damage is minimal.  We will upgrade the list server software this
| summer, with any luck it was fixed.
| 
| John

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