Re: [Evolution] timezone in the header of a reply quote

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 05:57, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 11:13, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> > Well, it would be cool if the reply string could be altered anyway.. And
> > even better, if, when replying, evolution would automatically extract
> > the name of the recipient from the email address and put it on top of
> > the mail (with some configurable salutation). ;)
>
> It is that direction, that i thought in, especially some people not
> might want to have the timezone info.
>
> On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 02:18, Not Zed wrote:
> > You are talking about the timezone IN the message you're replying to? 
> >
> > This would be impossible to do reliably, unless you are translating to
> > the repliers timezone, not the original message's timezone.  All we 
> > get is a number, which may be affected by daylight savings, and cannot
> > possibly take into account latitude differences.
>
> If course this can be taken reliably. The time in the mail i'm replying
> to is stored locally from the sendes point of view with the modifyer
> (for me right now 11:55 +0200) so that would not be the problem.

Explain how it can be done reliably?

You dont want your timezone, you want the guy who wrote it's timezone,
and all you have is a number.  There's no way you can translate this to
a string.