295440 - Mail window "sorted by date" should use date after time-zone conversion.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[John David Galt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20041206)

When I receive mail from other time zones, Mozilla correctly converts the date
and time to my own time zone before displaying them in the message-list pane (as
discussed in bug 252508).  However, if I set that message-list pane to display
the messages in the order they were written (View -> Sort by -> Date), they
actually get sorted by the raw date and time in the message header, ignoring the
time zone.  Thus a message written at 3 PM, US Pacific Standard Time (= 11 PM
GMT) will be sorted as if it preceded a message sent from Britain at 4 PM GMT on
the same day.

As discussed in bug 252508,

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
The dates after conversion should be used for sorting, so that the messages are
listed in the order they were actually sent (assuming accurate clocks on the
various computers involved).

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[John David Galt]

Problem reproduced in Thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716).  Would someone with
the power to mark a bug as "confirmed" please do so.

Comment 3

[Simon Brouwer]

This bug exists in version 1.0.6. It's very annoying if you get mails from different parts of the world.

Comment 4

[David :Bienvenu]

the question is, is it fixed in 1.5beta2 for new message headers? (not previously downloaded headers) I believe it is.

Comment 5

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still occur with the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest supported Thunderbird version 2 is 2.0.0.16)

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to the last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.