[SBB] Including Dates on Records to SBB

[Bill Bousman <[[email protected]]>]

Folks:

A great many people who provide records to SBB include the date of 
their observations within the text or in the subject line.  This is 
really helpful to me in keeping the county notebooks and I appreciate 
the extra effort these folks put out.  Thank you!  Thank you!

For those of you who do not include dates, you may find it 
interesting to look at the headers of various correspondents over a 
few week's period.  My e-mail system allows me to select local time 
or other time references (I use the former), but this depends upon 
the time that is set on each correspondent's computer (and maybe a 
few other things).  A minority of SBB correspondents have their 
machines set to Eastern Standard time, I assume for very good 
reasons, but this can make the interpretation of the time confusing 
for those of us who are easily confused, and I certainly fall into 
that category.  A small number of people use Greenwich Mean Time, 
which is even more confusing.  I have e-mailed a few people on 
occasions and they have insisted that their operating system is set 
to Pacific Time and I have no reason to doubt them.  But on my 
e-mail, their messages come through in with another time zone 
reference.  So, for those of us who care about observations and what 
day of the week they actually occur on, it is immensely helpful if 
you give the date in your text (or the day of the week, I can handle 
that.  But, sometimes people give both the date and the day of the 
week and they do not always agree.  I've done that.).

Thanks for your continuing observations and records.

Bill Bousman
Santa Clara County records compiler 



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