Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file
On Sat 22 Jun 2024 at 18:35:34 (+1000), Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> On 21/6/24 14:28, David Wright wrote:
> > You could pronounce your time written above as:
> >
> > "It's Thu 20Jun2024 at 20:51:19 here, where clocks are UTC+10:00"
>
> Excellent. Now how do we get our MUA to do that when replying to mail,
> which is where I saw what I thought was a system error - but in fact
> was a misinterpretation.
I don't see the point. The email has a "Date:" header.
Unless it's significant that your email is like a blog that's been
written over a period of time; chronicling current events, say.
> > if that's indeed your intention. But what you've done is invent
> > some notation of your own, which people will likely misunderstand.
> >
> > I think it best to look up these references and follow them:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
> > https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt
>
> Will do
> >
> > IMHO I think that email attributions are best presented in and with
> > the time zone of the sender, and not oneself.
>
> Maybe that would be achieved if the replyer's MUA inserted the senders
> date/time more clearly. I don't mean to harp on, but maybe the
> coders just haven't mis-read the dates they are inserting for us.
They write Date: in the same format, often called RFC822 format,
see RFC 2822.
Cheers,
David.
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