# fixdate -- fix the time zone on a Date: header in an email message
Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but ... why do you care what the
timezone is in your Date: headers?
If you want them to appear in your local timezone when they are displayed,
that is trivial to do with mh-format(5)
To begin with, I didn't know that mh-format had a date2local funtion, so
that would be the main reason why I'm not using it. :-)
But even now that I do know, I still value having the local timezone stored
in the file. That's because it's not uncommon for me to read an entire
message into a file (for example, when the body of an email message is an
explanation of how to do something and I want to save that explanation for
posterity, including the email headers to show its provenance), and it's
nice to have the local timezone in the file without having to convert it
manually.
I might feel differently if receiving messages from other time zones was
something that happened only once in a while, as in fact it was for most
of my career.
...but a few years ago Concordia moved to Exchange for its central email
system, and that stamps every message which passes through it in UTC.
In general I very much favour the principle of storing times in UTC and
converting to local time for display, but this (for me, at least) is an
exception.
- Steven
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