Re: [Nmh-workers] date math

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Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> writes:
>>So my wife's employer's hosted email system is set up in UTC.  Every
>>the email I get from her includes a header line such as
>>
>>Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:27:12 +0000
>>
>>It's probably outside the scope of NMH, but I was hoping there might
>>be a way to set up "show" or "mhl" to notice this and convert the Date
>>headerto either my (the recipient machine's) local time zone, or a
>>time zone specified in a config file.
>
>You know ... I was wondering this myself.  Turns out there is!  I
>realize that mh-format(5) can be a bit daunting, and my first effort
>didn't work, but the answer isn't so bad.  The mh-format magic is:
>
>%(date2local{date})%(pretty{date})
>
>Well, that all depends on where you're using it.  The key line in the
>default mhl.format is:
>
>Date:formatfield="%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(pretty{text})%>"
>
>For this case, you'd want:
>
>Date:formatfield="%<(nodate{text})%{text}%|%(date2local{text})%(pretty{text})%>"

Shouldn't that be the default?

    Norman Shapiro