[MlMt] Mail Date and UTC

[Alexander Kucera]

I have Ruby's date parsing working already, just on the raw date. The 
existence of #date is a huge relief.

While we are on the topic of Ruby. Is there any reason all the bundles 
are in Ruby? Would any language work? I am much more comfortable in 
Python for example.

Alexander Kucera
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On 24 Sep 2014, at 10:25, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 23 Sep 2014, at 15:35, Alexander Kucera wrote:
>
>> I have a test email whose raw headers show the date as `Date: Tue, 23 
>> Sep 2014 13:03:13 +0000` which is what is written into the variable I 
>> get from MailMate. However I live in UTC+2 so the time I should be 
>> putting into the log is `15:03:13`.
>>
>> MailMate displays this correctly in the UI, but passes the raw time 
>> value to the bundle, which is fine I guess, but I am unable to 
>> convert in in any way that makes sense due to a lack of 
>> Ruby/programming knowledge.
>>
>> A little help please?
>
> You should pass the virtual `#date` value instead of the raw date of 
> the message. That way you'll leave it to MailMate to generate a 
> canonically formatted date instead of the numerous badly formatted 
> dates used in emails.
>
> After that, you can probably make Ruby parse it and format it in any 
> way you like (I haven't checked how this works in Ruby). On the 
> command line, you can do it like this:
>
> 	date -j -f "%Y-%m-%d %T %z" "2014-01-01 10:10:10 +0000" "+%a %b %d %T 
> %Y"
>
> The format strings are described in `man strftime`.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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