Indiana's time zone melee continues....

[Clive D.W. Feather]

John Hawkinson said:
> 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).

Pardon my confusion, but I thought that New York observed "DST", which
means that Eastern time is EDT is -0400 right now.

> Received: from omitted by content119b.lga2.nytimes.com (LSMTP for
>     Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id
>     <97.0065010F at content119b.lga2.nytimes.com>;
>     Wed, 16 Aug 2006 3:22:06 -0400
> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 03:20:43 -0500

This does indicate a lack of clue, however.

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