> On Oct 3, 2017, at 11:07 PM, Ørjan Johansen <oer...@nvg.ntnu.no> wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: > >>> On Oct 3, 2017, at 10:49 PM, Ørjan Johansen <oer...@nvg.ntnu.no> wrote: >>> >>> "The Date: header of an emailed public message constitutes a self-ratifying >>> claim that the message was sent at the indicated time.” >> >> Far too powerful, given how difficult it can be for some clients to display >> anomalous Date: headers. > > "A Date: header in standard-conforming format", then? > > I guess that won't do either, given how flexible standard formats are and how > stupid software is. > > "A Date: email header in near-universally supported format". Nailed it.
It’s not the format that’s the problem. Many clients display the date a message was received, not the Date: of the message itself, when showing dates in message lists. Mine (Mail.app, macOS Sierra, up-to-date on patches) does this. -o
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