sorting by GMT time
Gwyn Fireman
In a typical day, I email with people across the country and sometimes
around the globe. But Pine's "sort by Date" seems to sort by the
sender's local time instead of by GMT. This messes up my mail
folders, and makes conversations look to be asynchronous.
Elm seems to automatically sort by GMT, or equivalently by my local
time. I can display the send date in my local time by showing the
full header. Is there any way to force Pine to sort by GMT or my
local time?
Sorting by arrival is not the solution, as I often move mail between
folders or bounce mail between accounts.
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Simon Lyall
Orjan Johansen <orj...@lie.math.ntnu.no> wrote:
>I have noticed than when someone has +800 rather than +0800 as time
>zone the message gets put at the beginning of the folder, which seems
>a bit _too_ brain dead - pine could try to get the date right at
>least. That may have been a few pine versions ago, I haven't checked
>what it does now.
I reported this as a Bug in 3.95 and was advised to upgrade to 3.96 to
check if it is still there. I haven't done this yet however..
The behavour seems to crop up with all sorts of bad timezone offsets.
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David L Miller
On 22 Jan 1998, Orjan Johansen wrote:
> I seem to recall (but don't quote me on it) someone at UofWashington
> promising they would try to improve pine's date handling a bit, but
> definitely not as far as to recognize new letter codes.
Pine 3.96 does indeed improve date/time handling over 3.95 and earlier
versions. I think the last count I heard was something over 30
distinct formats that it recognizes. There are all kinds of odd
formats floating about that Pine doesn't recognize, but we do try to
support those that are fairly common. However, when guesswork is
involved we would prefer to ignore what we don't understand rather
than guess wrong. For example, BST can be Bering Standard Time or
British Summer Time, among several other definitions I have seen. If
you guess wrong on BST, you're about as far off as you can get!
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