[VM] Displaying time in the current time zone?

[Daniel Barrett]

Sometimes I receive email where the "Date:" header is relative to a
different time zone. For example, I am in the EDT timezone (-0400),
but a Date header might be in GMT (+0000):

Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:15:42 +0000

VM displays this Date line literally, in GMT, which is confusing to
the user (me). Is there a way to force VM to display all times (in VM
buffers) in my current time zone?

Note: this timezone problem happens only for certain messages that I
receive from vzwpix.com (Verizon's outgoing email server for iPhone
users). In case it's relevant, here are the full Received headers
from one of these messages. Notice that all times are in the EDT time
zone except the first/lowest one from a Verizon server.

Received: from my.example.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
by my.example.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70DDBF60347
for <***@localhost>; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:19:59 -0400 (EDT)
Envelope-to: ***@example.com
Delivery-date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:15:44 -0400
Received: from another.example.com [11.22.33.44]
by my.example.com with IMAP (fetchmail-6.3.26)
for <***@localhost> (single-drop); Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:19:59 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from njbrspamp10.vtext.com ([69.78.129.155]:23060)
by another.example.com with esmtps (TLSv1:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256)
(Exim 4.87)
(envelope-from <***@vzwpix.com>)
id 1bNiMZ-0008Nw-LM
for ***@example.com; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 11:15:44 -0400
Received: from 5.sub-69-78-32.myvzw.com (HELO m04.vzwpix.com) ([69.78.32.5])
by njbrspamp10.vtext.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 2016 15:15:42 +0000
From: ***@vzwpix.com
To: ***@example.com
Subject:
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:15:42 +0000

I originally posted this question on Stack Exchange (see
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/245999/why-does-email-from-an-iphone-have-the-wrong-time-zone-in-the-date-field)
and someone suggested that my mail client (VM) might be doing the
wrong thing.

Thank you,
Dan

--
Dan Barrett
***@blazemonger.com

[Patrick P Murphy]

Post by Daniel Barrett
Sometimes I receive email where the "Date:" header is relative to a
different time zone. For example, I am in the EDT timezone (-0400),
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:15:42 +0000

I believe many (Microsoft) Exchange mail servers do this. Drives me
nuts.

Post by Daniel Barrett
VM displays this Date line literally, in GMT, which is confusing to
the user (me). Is there a way to force VM to display all times (in
VM buffers) in my current time zone?

I remember looking at the issue some while ago but I didn't find an
easy fix. It's fairly clear that the mail clients others use at my
workplace will in fact do this.

So I'm also interested in a way of doing this. Adding a hook would be
one way, but my elisp skills are a tad rusty :-/

- Pat

[Daniel Barrett]

It's fairly clear that the mail clients others use at my workplace
will in fact do this.

I can confirm this. I "bucked" the problematic message from VM to
Microsoft Office 365 at my workplace, and Outlook displayed the
message's date/time in my local time zone.

--
Dan Barrett
***@blazemonger.com