Not always online capsules

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org
Wed Sep 22 18:00:15 BST 2021
On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 11:35:18AM +0200,
 Felix Queißner <felix@masterq32.de> wrote 
 a message of 26 lines which said:

> OFFLINE: Our business times are 08:00 to 18:00 CEST

A detail but, in an international system like the Internet, never use
local time zones. People may not know them, and some time zones
acronyms are ambiguous. Always use UTC. (Or TAI for über-geeks.)

> OFFLINE: Sorry. Looks like i have a power outage again. Should be back up in
> 20 minutes!

Even worse since you don't know how old is the message. (It's the same
problem with capsules announcing "this will be done next week" when
the text does not mention the date where it was written. HTTP has the
- almost useless in practice - Last-Modified: but Gemini must relies
on the text.)


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