Dates in General
Dates in General
- Subject: Dates in General
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 08:52:22 -0600
[from Dates] On Jan 3, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Michael wrote:
Yes...you are correct of course....thank you. But, may I ask
another issue that has arisen. If the date sent is in a different
time zone, then Mail ( and I guess the system, presents the time
in local time...which makes sense. ( I assume it uses the settings
as defined by the user). So, if one compares two equivalent times,
but in different time zones, does the OS consider them equal ie
the string might be different, but the object date should be the
same.
Here is what I am now using.
set msgs to every message of (mailbox "INBOX" of account "Foo")
whose (message id is "email@hidden") and (date sent is Date "Wed, 14
Nov 2007 15:12:15 +0100")
Now, I am in Time zone -8, so the time shown on that particular
email is different, but I would have thought that it would still
select it. I have not yet figured out why it is not selecting it,
but it isn't.
Yes, the Date Sent and the Date Received in Mail are local. At least
in Mail, you can look at the raw header to find the actual date and
time zone of a message.
As far as I can tell, creation/modification dates for files in
general have a problem with this, at least on Mac/Unix OS. The
creation/modification dates for a file on Mac/Unix OS are always
local, without a time zone. This, of course, causes a problem if you
need to know the precise date/time for a file. (I've looked-up
details on this, but that was some time ago and I may have forgotten
something.)
Does anyone know more about this? In particular, is there any
proposed standard that would require date/times for a file to be
recorded as UTC, while allowing the displayed date to be local?
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| References: | |
| | >Dates (From: Michael <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Dates (From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Dates (From: Michael <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Dates (From: Axel Luttgens <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Dates (From: Michael <email@hidden>) |