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...
Suppose I worked hard all day teaching students, then returned
back home and composed a couple of message to a mailing list
(about 5-00PM my local time). Then suppose some American
like Steve Lamb (just for example) decided to reply to these. His
message will then start with:
....., 1-00 PM, Alexander V. Kiselev wrote....
And suppose the head of our staff is the member of the same
mailing list....
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?:-)))
> I think we discussed this on this list about last month or so.
> The result was the suggestion to add "GMT+hhhh" hours to the
> Reply Template (see above).
Yup, this is a workaround of course, but this doesn't solve the
problem itself I'd say.
> Here is a suggestion: Add a %GMT macro, which would should the
> difference between your local time zone and GMT.
Better add a %LTIME macro that would default to the local time
(this is how the %OTIME works currently), and modify the
%OTIME macro to show the time as it was stated in the
message headers, *without* the timezone correction.
SY, Alex
(St.Petersburg, Russia)
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