Re: Seeing sender's time zone

[Thomas Schierle]

Title: Re: Seeing sender's time zone

Again, not exactly what you are asking for -- see my
attribution line below. It displays *my* time zone, but
the receiver should be able to decipher ...

My Macs short date is set to ISO short date format, that is
day-month-year (note the hyphens, they indicate ISO date
format is meant).

My attribution string (adjusted twice a year) is:

> On [DATE] +0100, [NAME] <[ADDRESS]> wrote:

-Thomas


On 01-01-31 03:09 +0100, Jeremy Whipple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Tangentially, is there any magic word that could be plugged in to replace
> “[DATE]” in  the default attribution string and thereby to show the sender’s
> local time and date? In other words, I would like to display not
>
> “On 01.1.31 9:31 AM, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:”
>
> but rather
>
> “On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:31:55 -0800, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:”
>
> The default style seems so egocentric, and the header style (which displays
> the original sender’s local date and time) is rather clunky, no?
>
> In any case, I do appreciate the script.
>
> __
> Jeremy Whipple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
>


--
Thomas Schierle, Munich, Germany

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