Re: Using UTC as time zone in outgoing email headers
On 2019-07-24, at 12:31:23, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 07:06:52AM +, Ryan Smith wrote: >> By default, mutt uses local or computer time zone in outgoing email full >> header, Date section. >> >> How to force mutt to use UTC as time zone in all outgoing email headers? > > For what it's worth, this is probably mostly pointless. There's a > very good chance the remote end will use the user's local time zone to > display the date regardless of what you do on your end. As long as the > time that's sent is accurate, the user will see something sensible > when they view your message, and you largely can't control what that is. > That said, it can be done... > What's particularly irritating is that in text quoted in replies, most mailers show that "local time" with no indication of time zone, making it hard to follow the chronology of a thread. > Set your TZ environment variable to UTC. If you don't want all of > your programs to use UTC, but only Mutt, there are a few ways you > could accomplish this. > > 1. On the command line, when you start mutt: > > $ TZ=UTC mutt > Or define an alias. > 2. Create a shell script that sets the timezone and starts mutt: > > $ cat Mutt.sh > #!/bin/sh > export TZ=UTC > exec mutt > > Then use the shell script to start mutt instead of starting it > directly. > > 3. Edit the mutt source code to set the TZ environment variable during > initialization (but really, don't do that)... > > etc -- gil
Re: Using UTC as time zone in outgoing email headers
On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 07:06:52AM +, Ryan Smith wrote: > By default, mutt uses local or computer time zone in outgoing email full > header, Date section. > > How to force mutt to use UTC as time zone in all outgoing email headers? For what it's worth, this is probably mostly pointless. There's a very good chance the remote end will use the user's local time zone to display the date regardless of what you do on your end. As long as the time that's sent is accurate, the user will see something sensible when they view your message, and you largely can't control what that is. That said, it can be done... Set your TZ environment variable to UTC. If you don't want all of your programs to use UTC, but only Mutt, there are a few ways you could accomplish this. 1. On the command line, when you start mutt: $ TZ=UTC mutt 2. Create a shell script that sets the timezone and starts mutt: $ cat Mutt.sh #!/bin/sh export TZ=UTC exec mutt Then use the shell script to start mutt instead of starting it directly. 3. Edit the mutt source code to set the TZ environment variable during initialization (but really, don't do that)... etc -- Derek D. Martinhttp://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. pgpwxYPv1RFeE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Using UTC as time zone in outgoing email headers
Hi, I don't know the answer because I set all my devices to UTC. But I can suggest it's difficult to find all the places where your time zone is leaked so setting it to UTC or some misc. time zone is probably not a bad idea. /jl On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 07:06:52 + Ryan Smith wrote: > By default, mutt uses local or computer time zone in outgoing email > full header, Date section. > > How to force mutt to use UTC as time zone in all outgoing email > headers? > > set_hdr Date=? > > K9 Mail in Android has such option in privacy settings Hide Timezone, > use UTC instead of local time zone. Ryan
