GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 712974
Show sender's locale time for international mail
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:28:09 UTC
---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-05-31 16:39:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 5334 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5334 Searchable id: yorba-bug-5334 Original author: Christian Dywan Original description: I get a lot of mail where it is useful to have an idea of the timezone of a person. So if I'm going to have a call I have to think whether the person is awake/ working at the same time. Usually the timezone is part of the Date: header, but Geary doesn't show that without inspecting the message source. For example "Wed, 30 May 2012 16:11:10 +0530" could be "12:41 pm (Local time: 4:11 am +0530)". This is only for the conversation view, not the overview and not collapsed messages. I'm not sure if this could be seen as "noise" by someone who never has to deal with more than 1 or 2 hours of difference. Might be good to get some opinions on that first. ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-05-31 16:41:00 -0700 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Eric Gregory over 1 year ago We could show this only in cases where the sender's timezone is different. --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:18 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5334 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5334 Unknown Component Using default product and component set in Parameters Unknown version " in product geary. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
This is still open in current Geary. I've just checked an email sent from Australia. The source message shows the following Date field: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:25:03 +1100 When I hover on the date in Geary message, I see my corresponding local time (Italy), that is same day but time 5:25. That is also the time that appears in my quoted reply. Gmail has the same behaviour. IMO this is a good default, as usually I want to have an idea of how long ago my contact wrote to me and this is easier if the date is converted to my local time.
What that from me? :D This would be a good thing do as part of Bug 713727, so adding a dependency on that.
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