James Bellaire via tz wrote in <[email protected]>: |On 7/15/2026 5:56 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: .. |> As Russ mentioned, RFC 822 and its successors (which your emails and ... |I note that your email software modified the time on the post to your |time zone ... and omitted the zone: "On 2026-07-15 06:23, James Bellaire |via tz wrote:" | |A post written at 6:23 PDT (9:23 EDT). Perhaps the zone should be |included so one can recalculate the time? My email software was |similarly unkind to your time zone: "On 7/15/2026 5:56 PM, Paul Eggert |wrote:" | |If you quote this email it will appear that I replied before you sent |your post. | |Inaccuracies built in to the system. An acceptable level of error? ...
The Date: header field is the only "official" thing, and the times there seem to be managed ok by involved MUAs RL 65 Paul Eggert via tz 2026-07-15 23:56 147/ 7420 [tz] Re: Sunshine Protection Act passes US House ▸RL 74 James Bellaire via tz 2026-07-16 01:37 146/ 7528 ┗▸ Also the ones in the message part quote, MUAs likely (the one i maintain surely does) use the localtime(3) function to convert that time in order to visualize it (often via strftime(3)). Maybe an idea, allow display of the UTC variant, or so. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
