Hi Maria,
The date line showing on the display that doesn't start with "Date:" is
internally generated by the BrailleNote and bares no significance to the
origination date field. The origination date field, the one that starts
with "Date:", has the timezone format in it, as you say, that someone was
unsure about and who I was trying to explain to. The line generated by
the BrailleNote appears to be a date of reception or date of sending, but
in neither case is it particularly useful, though especially not in the
former case because it doesn't help you assess when the message was first
sent, nor when it was available for download by you.
By the way, to answer someone else's related question, the timezone offset
is indeed from the perspective of the sender in relation to UTC - that is,
the local time of the sender appears in the date together with the
required procedure for applying correction to the same time in UTC. This
is an evolutionary aspect of email that stems largely from its management
on UNIX systems, where time is never local on a system clock but is always
UTC and is corrected on behalf of the user upon request in real time.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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