Re[3]: Original Message Date and time query

1999-11-25 Thread Douglas Hinds
Hello TBUDL members, As I have understood it: Received time is my time, Created time is sender's time and GT or GMT is just the latter says - Mean time, or 0 time (it's the longitude, which is what makes time time). Therefore, the suggestion to include the sender's time zone in a message sent

Re: Original Message Date and time query

1999-11-24 Thread Ali Martin
Thomas Fernandez wrote: > Agree; better than my suggestion. Still it should show the time zone, > in order to avoid confusion. Imagine this lsit: some people prefer > %LTIME, otehr prefer %OTIME, how would you know who uses which? Agreed. My request is simply that the %OTIME and %OTIMELONG ma

Re[2]: Original Message Date and time query

1999-11-24 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Alexander, on Wednesday, November 24, 1999, 10:56:56 PM GMT+0800, Alexander V. Kiselev wrote: >> I would prefer it to always be in GMT (as pine does it), but I have >> seen from my colleagues that the lcoal time is more appreciated by the >> average user. AVK> And I'll explain you why... A

Re: Original Message Date and time query

1999-11-24 Thread Ali Martin
Alexander V. Kiselev wrote: > And I'll explain you why... > Now what would he think about this Alexander V. Kiselev, who > was supposed to teach students of the 4th course from 11- > 00AM till 2-45 PM?:-))) That's a nice example. I do feel ridiculous sending messages at my local time wit

Re: Original Message Date and time query

1999-11-24 Thread Alexander V. Kiselev
Hi there! On 24 Nov 99, at 11:50, Thomas Fernandez wrote about "Re: Original Message Date and time ": > I would prefer it to always be in GMT (as pine does it), but I have > seen from my colleagues that the lcoal time is more appreciated by the > average user. And I'll explain you why...

Re: Original Message Date and time query

1999-11-23 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Ali, on Wednesday, November 24, 1999, 7:41:17 AM GMT+0800, Ali Martin wrote: AM> Isn't the macro for the original message date and time be taken from AM> the Kludges of the message sent ad verbatim? Why is the time AM> converted to my time zone when I'm replying. Wouldn't the recipient AM

Re: Original Message Date and time query

1999-11-23 Thread Alexander V. Kiselev
Hi there! On 23 Nov 99, at 18:41, Ali Martin wrote about "Original Message Date and time quer": > Isn't the macro for the original message date and time be taken from > the Kludges of the message sent ad verbatim? Why is the time > converted to my time zone when I'm replying. Wouldn't the

Original Message Date and time query

1999-11-23 Thread Ali Martin
Hi all, Isn't the macro for the original message date and time be taken from the Kludges of the message sent ad verbatim? Why is the time converted to my time zone when I'm replying. Wouldn't the recipient prefer the time as he/she sent it? -- * Ali Martin mailto: <[EMAIL P