Hi Lisa, The time in emails you see in KeyMail is one of:
1. If the "Date:" (origination date) field is present in the message, the contents of this field. 2. If the field is not present, the time and date at which you downloaded the mail, expressed with minimal accuracy. RFC 2822 [1], section 3.6, requires the origination date field (section 3.6.1), which the BrailleNote at KeySoft 5.1 build 22 does not produce. This is hence a violation of the standard. The field is intended to convey the date and time at which the sender of the message prepared it for delivery into the mail transport system. BrailleNote users who send you mail will therefore not show you a meaningful date when you read the mail - it will be the time the mail was downloaded, and is not useful to you. With respect to the format of the origination date field, here is an example of a properly formatted RFC 2822 origination date field: Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:52:25 +0100 RFC 2822 makes this notation a requirement. Prior to RFC 2822, people more-or-less pleased themselves, though the above format was the recommendation. At the time, though, so-called "vernacular" timezone specifications were used, three-letter abbreviations such as "PDT", "GMT", "MST", et al. They are still used to this day by some old-hand mail systems. Now, as shown above, the timezone is expressed as an offset from Greenwich Mean Time (often, though not exactly, equated for most practical purposes to Universal Coordinated Time or UTC) as a positive or negative four-digit hh:mm where hh is hours and mm is minutes, with GMT itself represented as +0000 or -0000 (the former is suggested as standard). Any further questions? :-) Cheers, Sabahattin References: [1] Resnick, P. (Editor), "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822, April 2001 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt -- Thought for the day: Concerto (n): a fight between a piano and a pianist. Sabahattin Gucukoglu Phone: +44 20 88008915 Mobile: +44 7986 053399 http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
