On Sat 22 Jun 2024 at 10:02:43 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 18:35:34 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> > On 21/6/24 14:28, David Wright wrote:
> > > You could pronounce your time written above as:
> > >
> > > "It's Thu 20Jun2024 at 20:51:19 here, where clocks are UTC+10:00"
> >
> > Excellent. Now how do we get our MUA to do that when replying to mail,
>
> Depends on your MUA. In mutt, it would be:
>
> set date_format="!It's %a %d%b%Y at %H:%M:%S here, where clocks are UTC%z"
>
> except that this won't put a colon inside the timezone offset. It
> would just end with "UTC+1000".
>
> Of course, you probably don't want that exact wording, because it's
> used as *part* of the attribution. If you used the above, then the
> attribution would come out looking like:
>
> On It's Thu 20Jun2024 at 20:51:19 here, where clocks are UTC+1000,
> So-and-So wrote:
>
> So, you'd either want to change the attribution variable as well, or
> alter that wording slightly. I'd suggest removing "It's" and "here".
I think you need to set attribution, not date_format. For example,
set attribution="On %{%a %d %b %Y} at %{%H:%M:%S (%z)}, %n wrote:"
is my own. The %{…} braces indicate using the sender's time zone.
Cheers,
David.
