On 2009-02-10_12:02:21, John Hasler wrote: > Teemu Likonen writes: > > But in international communication timezone information is sometimes > > important. > > There is no hope of it ever being implemented of course, but what would > really be useful would be a standard whereby dates and times (even when > embedded in text) would transmitted and stored in UTC but displayed > according to the locale of the user. > -- > John Hasler
I just learned a few days ago that there is a standard for the Date: header in email. The format for the date (and time) in this header is given by rfc-2822. Everything necessary to determine Unix time is available. In effect, your wish is already reality. Or at least, it is reality in the computer, internet world. date +%s -d "<enter date string from Date: header here>" will get you seconds since Unix epoch. If you leave off the time zone, it will assume local time zone for your computer, but the tz info _is_ part of the standard, and most implementations of date, implement the standard. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
