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Some questions about time
 
#1
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Hi,

some questions about message timestamps:

1.
Is there any way the 'Created' column in folders to show the creation date/time of incoming messages as my local time?

Now 'created' seems to display GMT for incoming messages. This is a bit confusing because for messages created by me (new/replies) it shows my local time.  
I would like to have the same time for all the messages - preferably my local time, not GMT

2.
When I reply, theBat inserts a line like
Monday, March 20, 2006, 9:30:42 PM, you wrote:
above the incoming message text.

Here the time is GMT, but I would prefer this to be the sender local time, not GMT or my local time - just this will be more convenient for the sender (now recipient)

Is any of the above possible?
 
 
 
#2
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ad 1) for me this seems not true - TB shows the "loaclized" time in the created column:
e.g. a mail created
Dienstag, 21. März 2006, 09:35:52  (Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:35:52 -0000)
shows up as "09:35" in the inbox created column, not as 08:35
did you set the time zone (TZ) of your system?

ad 2) here I can only guess... but as you said it shows GMT in the reply, this again leeds to the idea of your system running GMT as the TZ as in my installation TB uses local time in the reply
(oh... and I don't know about any possibility to generally change the reference for the %ODATE macro, but it could be possible to extract the original date from the "From" line via regex macro, couldn't it?!)
 
 
 
#3
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Well the time zone is correctly set on my computer, it's GMT + 2

Here is a date header from an incoming message:
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:47:36 -0500
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As I understand it, message was created in 13:47 (sender local time). Sender GMT offset is -5, so this means 8:47 GMT time or 10:47 my local time(GMT+2)
But in the 'created' column, theBat shows 8:47, not my local 10:47

For the messages I create , new or replies, Date header looks like this
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Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:55:09 +0200
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which is my local time 10:55 and my GMT offset +0200 - in this case the displayed 'created' time is correct - my local 10:55


 
 
 
 
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Quote

Here is a date header from an incoming message:
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:47:36 -0500
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As I understand it, message was created in 13:47 (sender local time). Sender GMT offset is -5, so this means 8:47 GMT time or 10:47 my local time(GMT+2)
But in the 'created' column, theBat shows 8:47, not my local 10:47
hm... I may head into trouble now... but could this be an AM/PM problem?! I think you made a mistake with the offset:
13:47 -0500 is 18:47 UTC (or GMT) - so it's 20:47 +0200, which would lead to 8:47 PM (!) in your TZ
 
 
 
#5
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well .. seems correct
When I sometimes send mails to myself, I noticed times are incorrect, that's why I asked - but probably the reason is elsewhere

Thanks for the help.
 
 
 
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