On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 09:35:37PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, mutt. > > I'm using mutt version 1.5.24. > > Suppose someone has sent me an email with this Date: header: > > Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 12:00:49 +0100 > > . When I reply, with g or r, the following attribution line heads my > reply: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:00:49 UTC, Joe Bloggs wrote: >
Hi Alan, I made this reply with 'g' (normally I would only reply to the list because a lot of people here get pissed off if they get two copies when I reply), but we are both on UTC +0 (you are probably in UTC, I'm in British non-summer time) so it doesn't actually prove anything. > . Note that this has converted his sending time to my time zone. This > seems to me somewhat discourteous. Is there any way I can configure my > mutt (something in the $attribution value, perhaps?) so that the > attribution line would come out as: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 12:00:49 +0100, Joe Bloggs wrote: > > , i.e. retaining the OP's time zone as specified in his Date: header? > I took a look at my .muttrc, but I don't have ANY setting for attribution, so I assume I'm using the default value - and my last reply to a list quoted the sender's time (he was in -0500) correctly. This is with 1.7.2, but I'm sure the behaviour was the same in the 1.5 versions I used. So all I can suggest is that you maybe already set something in $attribution. Sorry if that doesn't help. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods
