Re: [evolution-patches] [PATCH] Show date in localtime.

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:26, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > > The string in italics is not terribly useful, since it doesn't tell me
> > > what date the 1:10pm refers to (is it the 16th or the 17th?).
> > 
> > In this particular rare case, it's not 100% explicit. Normally it is. 
> 
> How good is it if I can't reliably tell what day it refers to from just
> reading the label?

Better than it was before, when you couldn't even tell the localtime by
reading it. The time zone differences are a pain to calculate; adding or
subtracting a single day is trivial and I don't need help with it.

> I think it should stay as it is, unless of course we can come up with a
> more clever solution...

How about just the day-of-week? I think it's unnecessary but if it makes
you happier we could do something like...

	Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 20:24:22 -0600 (Wed 02:24 GMT)

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