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

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 23:12, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 18:16, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 20:12, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > > Hmm what if the date is also different between the two timezones?  In
> > > that case it looks like it would get confusing since you only add the
> > > time.
> > 
> > Hmmm.... lemme try to find an example...
> > 
> > http://www.infradead.org/~dwmw2/evo-date.jpeg
> 
> 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. 

It _is_ still very useful to me though. We _could_ add a date or just
day in the italics too in the case that it's different, but I think
that's overkill. It's subtle enough at the moment that it can't possibly
offend anyone; we don't want to make it larger without adequate reason.

> So unless you write the full date in the local timezone as well, the
> patch doesn't really add much;

I disagree. I had to search for a while to _find_ a mail where the local
and original _date_ differed. We're talking about a fairly rare case,
and it's still useful in that case anyway; it's just not 100% explicit.

I can manage adding or subtracting a single day; it's the varying number
of hours which is hard to do in my head.

> I am not sure what the right solution is, although I think this was
> discussed on the list before...

I think this is it. Anna, what do you think?

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