#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: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by geofft):
Replying to [comment:5 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').
Isn't this what TIME_ZONE in settings.py is for?
{{{
In [3]: settings.TIME_ZONE
Out[3]: 'America/Chicago'
In [4]: formatdate(localtime=True)
Out[4]: 'Fri, 14 May 2010 12:33:04 -0500'
}}}
{{{
In [3]: settings.TIME_ZONE
Out[3]: 'Europe/London'
In [4]: formatdate(localtime=True)
Out[4]: 'Fri, 14 May 2010 18:33:35 +0100'
}}}
Replying to [comment:6 kmtracey]:
> Which sounds to me like the standard explicitly allows for specifying
dates/times using only an absolute value, with no indication of what local
time may be. This "-0000" spec is what Django is currently sending, and
thus per the standard I think what it is doing is technically correct.
Oh, good call, and sorry for not double-checking the RFC. That said, I
still think it would be more useful to send "information about the local
time zone" than not to, especially given that there is a TIME_ZONE
variable. (The part that confused me here the most was that TIME_ZONE was
set but not used.)
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