Hi Sabahattin, Question. I'm a little confused about what you're saying because there are two headers which show time when viewing received e-mail on the BN. When viewing e-mail you have sent out and saved, such as in the Sent folder, there's only one time header, and the time displayed is the time at which the e-mail was sent, and it's displayed as, for example, "Thursday, October 28, 2004 8:20 PM) (without the quotes). On a received e-mail, the first header which shows a time reflects the time at which the e-mail was received, and it's displayed as, for example, "Thursday, October 28, 2004 8:21 PM" (without the quotes). This heading is right after the "From" field. However, after the "To" field, there's one which displays the time as you explain in the format below (for example: "Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 8:23:47 -0400" (without the quotes)), and this one reflects the time at which the e-mail was sent. If one were to convert the time zone reflected in the "Date" field to their own time zone, they would have to do some calculating, and one could find out how their time zone compares to UTC by reading the time zone they have set in its entirety in the "Time Zone" setting of the "Time and Date Set" option of the Utilities Menu. Basically, I'd like some clarification.
Thanks much, Maria >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Sent: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 21:26:49 +0100 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] time in emails >Hi Lisa, >The time in emails you see in KeyMail is one of: >1. If the "Date:" (origination date) field is present in the message, the >contents of this field. >2. If the field is not present, the time and date at which you downloaded >the mail, expressed with minimal accuracy. >RFC 2822 [1], section 3.6, requires the origination date field (section >3.6.1), which the BrailleNote at KeySoft 5.1 build 22 does not produce. >This is hence a violation of the standard. The field is intended to >convey the date and time at which the sender of the message prepared it >for delivery into the mail transport system. BrailleNote users who send >you mail will therefore not show you a meaningful date when you read the >mail - it will be the time the mail was downloaded, and is not useful to >you. >With respect to the format of the origination date field, here is an >example of a properly formatted RFC 2822 origination date field: >Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:52:25 +0100 >RFC 2822 makes this notation a requirement. Prior to RFC 2822, people >more-or-less pleased themselves, though the above format was the >recommendation. At the time, though, so-called "vernacular" timezone >specifications were used, three-letter abbreviations such as "PDT", "GMT", >"MST", et al. They are still used to this day by some old-hand mail >systems. Now, as shown above, the timezone is expressed as an offset from >Greenwich Mean Time (often, though not exactly, equated for most practical >purposes to Universal Coordinated Time or UTC) as a positive or negative >four-digit hh:mm where hh is hours and mm is minutes, with GMT itself >represented as +0000 or -0000 (the former is suggested as standard). >Any further questions? :-) >Cheers, >Sabahattin >References: >[1] Resnick, P. (Editor), "Internet Message Format", RFC 2822, April 2001 >http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt >-- >Thought for the day: > Concerto (n): a fight between a piano and a pianist. >Sabahattin Gucukoglu >Phone: +44 20 88008915 >Mobile: +44 7986 053399 >http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ >Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
