290540 - Reply header reads local time, not the original message time/TZ

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 218926

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Kari Suomela]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 1.0.2 (20050317)

// Change the reply header
// 0 - No Reply-Text
// 1 - "[Author] wrote:"
// 2 - "On [date] [author] wrote:"
// 3 - User-defined reply header. Use the prefs below in conjuction with this:
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_type", 3);

Apparently the time variable is wrong here.

// If you set 3 for the pref above then you may set the following prefs.
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_authorwrote", "%s said the following");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "on %s");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_separator", " ");
user_pref("mailnews.reply_header_colon", ":"); 
// The end result will be [authorwrote][separator][ondate][colon]

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Kari Suomela]

Not fixed!!!
TZ must be read from the original message header, NOT the local machine

Comment 3

[Brian King [:kinger]]

You have not said WHY.

It can be circumvented by stating the time zone in the header, e.g.

pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "On %s (Central European Time)");

Comment 4

[Kari Suomela]

(In reply to comment #3)
> You have not said WHY.
> 
> It can be circumvented by stating the time zone in the header, e.g.
> 
> pref("mailnews.reply_header_ondate", "On %s (Central European Time)");

Duh! What good woud that do, when I am in EDT and receive messages from all over the world?! The TZ should be read from the INCOMING message.
> 

Comment 5

[Brian King [:kinger]]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Duh! What good woud that do, when I am in EDT and receive messages from all
> over the world?! The TZ should be read from the INCOMING message.

Duh all you like ... but you still haven't given a reason. I disagree. I think it is important to show the recipient when there message was received in local time and not in their time.

So for example, they see it came in at 11pm and understand why it took you quite some time to reply.

Comment 6

[Kari Suomela]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Duh! What good woud that do, when I am in EDT and receive messages from all
> > over the world?! The TZ should be read from the INCOMING message.
> Duh all you like ... but you still haven't given a reason. I disagree. I think
> it is important to show the recipient when there message was received in local
> time and not in their time.
> So for example, they see it came in at 11pm and understand why it took you
> quite some time to reply.

And more "duhs"! Look up in the dictionary what "quote" means. Including message arrival time in the QUOTE HEADER is nonsense. If you'd like a live demonstration of correct operation of the quote header, download a trial copy of PMMail. Too bad the development was stopped. Those guys knew what they were doing.