Dear Ed,
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:23:38PM -0400, Ed Blackman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 02:27:47PM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> >Often, I wish to know the time at which someone wrote me an e-mail
> >converted to the local time zone. Since most of my contacts live in
> >another time zone, (and some use the time zone +0000 even though that
> >isn't where they live), I have to do some mental calculations which
> >I'd like to avoid sometimes.
> >
> >Currently, my workaround for this is to make Mutt unignore a header
> >called X-Date, and add a procmail recipe like this:
>
> Your procmail recipe adds the date at the time the message is
> received. Perhaps using "%(fmt)" in your index_format instead of
> the default "%{fmt}" would help you get the desired time format in
> the index.
I don't think so. For your message, my recipe:
:0 f:
* ^Date: *\/[^ ].*
| formail -a "X-Date: `date +\"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z\" -d\"$MATCH\"`"
gives me this:
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:23:38 -0400
X-Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:23:38 -0500
The reason is because $MATCH parses the Date: header in the e-mail,
and passes it to the date command. In other words:
# date +"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z" -d"Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:23:38 -0400"
Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:23:38 -0500
It appears that that is the time you composed the e-mail?
> man muttrc and search for index_format to learn the difference
> between the two. If you don't have an index_format set, the default
> is
> "%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s". Experiment with
> "%4C %Z %(%b %d) %-15.15L (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s" instead.
>
> I don't think there's a way to change it in the pager.
That's sad. Thanks for the suggestions, but I'll stick to the X-Date,
since the pager is what I am interested in. I will fiddle around with
the index format, though.
Thanks.
Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah
