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Re: [Pan-users] Timezone
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Duncan |
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Re: [Pan-users] Timezone |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Sep 2016 03:49:26 +0000 (UTC) |
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Pan/0.141 (Tarzan's Death; GIT 4e0db5ff8) |
Dave posted on Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:45:01 +0000 as excerpted:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 00:00:25 +0000, Duncan wrote:
>
>> hiker posted on Sat, 17 Sep 2016 10:42:18 +0000 as excerpted:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> An other question: Pan seems not to take the timezone information from
>>> the OS or machine. The message header contains time UTC.
>>>
>>> Any place to change this?
>>
>> I'm not aware of any.
>>
>> You will note that my headers also contain the posting date in UTC.
>> However, at least here, pan does the conversion to local time for
>> display in the overview/header pane, while continuing to display the
>> literal header time (thus UTC for pan's posts) in the body pane.
>>
>> I seem to vaguely recall something about that as an option (probably
>> MAY level, possibly SHOULD, but not MUST) discussed in the RFCs, but
>> don't remember anything at all about the details, and it's not enough
>> of a worry to me to justify spending the time to try to look it up, so
>> unless someone else either does the research or already knows and can
>> post a nicely clickable link... or at least a reference to the specific
>> RFC...
>
> IIRC the default is to always post with UTC, possibly with a modifier
> showing +/- hours for local time. Usenet is international so "local"
> time means nothing to people in other time zones. AFAICT, Pan shows the
> posting time as UTC hh:mm:ss +hhmm by default. I've never looked to see
> it can be changed. This post should show as something like UTC 21:45:00
> +0100 since we are still currently one hour ahead of UTC/GMT in the UK
> for summertime or daylight savings time as US people might say.
Check the headers in the post itself (body pane/tab) -- at least here,
they show 20:45:01 +0000. Pan does seem to be sending out UTC stamps,
unmodified for local time (+0000). It's modifying from local time to UTC
at send.
Now the date column in the overview/header pane/tab does indeed get
adjusted for local time display, but it adjusts all overviews for
localtime.
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