Hi there!
On 29 Jan 00, at 23:30, Michael Heydekamp wrote
about "Re: Solution to %DATE and %TIME macro":
> AVK> So in your template you are now able to write something like:
>
> AVK> On %SUBPATT="2", when it was %SUBPATT="3" on your
> AVK> local clock -- and you live in timezone GMT%SUBPATT="4" ---
> AVK> you wrote me:
>
> I know this is a fairly old thread but nonetheless I wanted a) to thank
> the guys who invented this interesting solution,
No problem;-)
> and b) to ask a question that came up today:
>
> I received eMail from an AOLer; his date header reads:
>
> > Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 14:18:53 EST
Well, you see, he's quite right here;-( RFC822 states that either three-letter
abbreviation or the four-digit one is to be used... Although RFCs say that
preferrably the four-digit one should be used, stricktly speaking, that AOL guy
is kind of right.
The major problem here is that TB doesn't understand what this funny EST
means and therefore the sorting on date would probably fail on such
messages. This behaviour AFAICS can be fixed only by RIT labs right now...
> Argh. The correct timezone (-0500) is nonetheless included in one of
> the "Received:" headers:
>
> > Received: from [EMAIL PROTECTED] by imo18.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v24.8.)
> > id 5.17.11e7f9d (4367) for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 29
> > Jan 2000 14:18:53 -0500 (EST)
>
> Any idea how to get the correct timezone (EST is not a very meaningful
> indication to me) in the template in such cases?
Can probably be done with yet another regexp;-) It would be simple if the
corresponding Received: was the *first* one in the headers, but the problem is
that it's the *last* one... So one needs to:
1. get this idiotic EST or whatever from the Date: header
(for example: Date\:.*?([\w]{3})\n);
2. then search for the regexp ([+-][\d]{4})\s*?\(THREE\),
where THREE denotes the result of the item 1. above.
How to combine these two... well, it's kinda interesting question;-) Maybe it
would be better to wait for ver. 2, when it will become possible to make a
plugin taking care of such issues...
> Can we be sure to *always* find the correct timezone in one of the
> "Received:" headers?
Nope, AFAIK.
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