Re: adapting scan.default to show local TZ date

[Ken Hornstein]

>In the last few years, I see more email that has no local
>timezone, as in 
>
>    Sat, 28 Dec 2019 13:59:24 +0000
>
>Please give an example of a 'scan' format file that converts
>dates to my local time zone.

We actually had a huge discussion about this a few years ago, and you
can find the details here with a number of examples (the huge discussion
was about whether or not it should be the default).

  https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2014-12/msg00065.html

But the executive summary is "use %(datetolocal{date}) before outputting
the date".  Here's the default scan format with that change (admittedly, since
the default scan format only outputs the day and not the time, it doesn't
change much):

%4(msg)%<(cur)+%| %>%<{replied}-%?{encrypted}E%| %>\
%(date2local{date})%02(mon{date})/%02(mday{date})%<{date} %|*%>\
%<(mymbox{from})%<{to}To:%14(unquote(decode(friendly{to})))%>%>\
%<(zero)%17(unquote(decode(friendly{from})))%>  \
%(decode{subject})%<{body}<<%{body}>>%>

We should probably include a scan format in the distribution that includes
a call to date2local as an example.

--Ken