[Alpine-info] convert dates to localtime

[Jacob Wegelin]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Mark Crispin wrote:


> If I recall correctly, "convert dates to localtime" converts what is shown in 

> the message index, and does not affect outgoing date headers at all. I think, 

> but I am not sure, that this is a new capability in Alpine and thus was not 

> in Pine or Web Pine.


Dear Mark:

Thank you for the clarification. Now I've checked and the message index
for the email sent to Virginia at 17:12 Seattle time does show it as
20:12. So I guess the feature does work.

Jake


>

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Jacob Wegelin wrote:

>> 

>> What is the "convert dates to localtime" feature supposed to do? It does 

>> not behave as I had hoped.

>> 

>> Details:

>> 

>> I did M S C, then checked "convert dates to localtime" so that it looks

>> like this:

>>

>>  [ Message Index Preferences ]

>>      [ ]  Auto Open Next Unread

>>      [ ]  Continue NextNew Without Confirming

>>      [X]  Convert Dates To Localtime

>> 

>> and so that the pertinent part of my .pinerc looks like this:

>> 

>> # List of features; see Alpine's Setup/options menu for the current set.

>> # e.g. feature-list= select-without-confirm, signature-at-bottom

>> # Default condition for all of the features is no-.

>> feature-list=use-current-dir,

>> 	enable-incoming-folders,

>> 	enable-full-header-and-text,

>> 	no-auto-zoom-after-select,

>> 	fcc-on-bounce,

>> 	no-enable-incoming-folders-checking,

>> 	convert-dates-to-localtime

>> 

>> But then I tested it. I sent email from University of Washington

>> WebPine at 17:12 Seattle time, which is 20:12 Virginia time. The email 

>> looks like this in WebPine:

>> 

>> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:12:33 -0800 (PST)

>> From: wegelin at u.washington.edu

>> To: jwegelin at vcu.edu, jacob.wegelin at gmail.com

>> Subject: test alpine how it displays dates

>> 

>> It arrived at my account at Virginia Commonwealth University, but the

>> date has *not* been converted to local time, as you see:

>> 

>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------

>> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:12:33 -0800 (PST)

>> From: wegelin at u.washington.edu

>> To: jwegelin at vcu.edu, jacob.wegelin at gmail.com

>> Subject: test alpine how it displays dates

>> 

>> Similarly, the copy that arrived at my gmail account and which I read

>> using alpine, also had a Seattle time in the header.

>> 

>> This behavior differs from the Thunderbird email client on a Mac, which

>> does convert the date of an email to local time.

>> 

>> Any idea what is going on?

>> 

>> Thanks for any info

>> 

>> Jacob A. Wegelin

>> Assistant Professor

>> Department of Biostatistics

>> Virginia Commonwealth University

>> 730 East Broad Street Room 3006

>> P. O. Box 980032

>> Richmond VA 23298-0032

>> U.S.A. http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jwegelin

>> jwegelin at vcu dot edu

>> 

>> 

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>

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