robert wrote:
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:39:44 -0500
From: hymie(_at_)lactose(_dot_)homelinux(_dot_)net
Message-ID: <E1Y0cQi-0004dv-Dg(_at_)lactose(_dot_)homelinux(_dot_)net>
| Now you're comparing content to metadata.
Not really, I was certainly not suggesting doing anything with the
content of the message (though I'm not sure about encapsulated messages).
| The fact that I need to know, or should know, or do know, that the
| sender is in British Summer Time, has no relation to my computer
| noting that "this email was sent to you at 13:30 local time."
No, but if the sender says "reply today" - I need to know what "today"
was in his/her frame of reference when the message was sent - which is
what the Date header (in its original form) tells me.
Note that for this I don't necessarily know anything about the sender at
all (consider messages requesting help sent to mailing lists - like this
one..)
a reasonable compromise might be to default scan to show local ("oh,
that's from 3 hours ago"), and default show to give something like you
described exmh doing. it's more likely you care about what time they
sent the message while you're reading it.
paul
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paul fox, pgf(_at_)foxharp(_dot_)boston(_dot_)ma(_dot_)us (arlington, ma,
where it's 31.5 degrees)
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