On Sat 22 Jun 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, > which is where I saw what I thought was a system error - but in fact > was a misinterpretation.
I don't see the point. The email has a "Date:" header. Unless it's significant that your email is like a blog that's been written over a period of time; chronicling current events, say. > > if that's indeed your intention. But what you've done is invent > > some notation of your own, which people will likely misunderstand. > > > > I think it best to look up these references and follow them: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 > > https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt > > Will do > > > > IMHO I think that email attributions are best presented in and with > > the time zone of the sender, and not oneself. > > Maybe that would be achieved if the replyer's MUA inserted the senders > date/time more clearly. I don't mean to harp on, but maybe the > coders just haven't mis-read the dates they are inserting for us. They write Date: in the same format, often called RFC822 format, see RFC 2822. Cheers, David.
