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

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:53, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:39 -0400, Not Zed wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've committed this to head, but with some slight changes.  I added
> > translation for the day
> 
> Cool.
> 
> >  and removed the tm_zone stuff, since it doesn't
> > seem to add much and afaict not available many places
> 
> I think it's good to have _some_ indication of the timezone in there,
> for two reasons:
> 
> 1. It makes it 100% clear to the new user what it's there for and what
> it means.
> 
> 2. It means that even when you print mails and look at them later, it's
> still useful since you don't have to remember what timezone your laptop
> was in when you printed it. 
> 
> If you don't want tm_zone and the autoconf magic, can we at least
> include the numeric timezone? Times without zone info are bad. 

As far as i'm concerned, 'localtime', or even nothing, means a lot more
to some clueless timezone-unaware person than '+0930' or 'CST' does
(particularly since 'CST' is ambiguous).