Comment on Open Thread, November 1-15, 2012

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 22:24:53 GMT

Damn. You have a point there, well done: I've examined closely the creation date with pdftk dumping the raw metadata, and while it turns out the datestamp can include timezone information, this one doesn't because it is suffixed with 'Z' indicating that it is UTC time. Looking at the API docs for the listed creating program, it turns out that the makers were lazy and just used a default Java library - which doesn't support timezones by default and is always UT time! So it seems Evince did mislead me.

So I guess I have to excise that entire section and update all the numbers... I'm not happy about this (especially since I put multiple hours into trying to pin down when the Parlapanides moved to California, to check that the analysis was right even on the face of it).

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