#12666: Setting for sending email using localtime instead of UTC
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Reporter: net147 | Owner: nobody
Status: reopened | Milestone:
Component: django.core.mail | Version: 1.1
Resolution: | Keywords:
Stage: Unreviewed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by lukeplant):
I'm not convinced it is the right thing to do. I have sites that are
'British' (i.e. serve almost entirely a British audience who live in GMT
time), but the server happens to be in the States. It would just as
'misleading' to have e-mails that come from a non-British time zone
(whereas UTC is kind of 'neutral').
Strictly speaking, I guess the time zone ought to be the time zone of the
'sender'. But who is the sender? If it's a contact form, the sender is
the person who enters the message - we have no idea what his/her time zone
is. In the case of an automated message sent by the webserver, it's
debatable whether the machine 'lives in' the time zone the machine happens
to be located in. It's also probably not desirable for the behaviour of a
web site to change if I happen to move it to a different server.
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