On 2019-07-24, at 12:31:23, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 07:06:52AM +0000, Ryan Smith wrote: >> By default, mutt uses local or computer time zone in outgoing email full >> header, Date section. >> >> How to force mutt to use UTC as time zone in all outgoing email headers? > > For what it's worth, this is probably mostly pointless. There's a > very good chance the remote end will use the user's local time zone to > display the date regardless of what you do on your end. As long as the > time that's sent is accurate, the user will see something sensible > when they view your message, and you largely can't control what that is. > That said, it can be done... > What's particularly irritating is that in text quoted in replies, most mailers show that "local time" with no indication of time zone, making it hard to follow the chronology of a thread.
> Set your TZ environment variable to UTC. If you don't want all of > your programs to use UTC, but only Mutt, there are a few ways you > could accomplish this. > > 1. On the command line, when you start mutt: > > $ TZ=UTC mutt > Or define an alias. > 2. Create a shell script that sets the timezone and starts mutt: > > $ cat Mutt.sh > #!/bin/sh > export TZ=UTC > exec mutt > > Then use the shell script to start mutt instead of starting it > directly. > > 3. Edit the mutt source code to set the TZ environment variable during > initialization (but really, don't do that)... > > etc.... -- gil
