On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, Richard Owlett wrote:
Of particular interest at the moment is how the "time of day" is
represented. SeaMonkey expends some effort to *DISPLAY* it on a
computer screen as time in the _recipient's_ time zone.
The format for an e-mail message's Date: header is defined in RFC
5322. The GNU date utility can produce it using the -R, --rfc-email
option:
[heinlein@gladstone cur]$ date -R
Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:45:59 -0700
I suspect mail clients are able to translate that format to the local
timezone without much trouble.
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Paul Heinlein
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