[Vagrant Cascadian] Bug#759302: notmuch-emacs: citation should use datestring from the replied to message

[Vagrant Cascadian] Bug#759302: notmuch-emacs: citation should use datestring from the replied to message

[David Bremner]

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I thought I forwarded this already, but maybe not.


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Package: notmuch-emacs
Version: 0.18.1-1
Severity: normal

So, I've struggled with coming up with a citation line format:

 '(message-citation-line-format "On %Y-%m-%d %T %z, %N wrote:")
 '(message-citation-line-function (quote message-insert-formatted-citation-line))

But it localizes the timezone of datestring, rather than simply copying
the datestring from the replied to message. Several other mail clients,
including "notmuch reply", seem to simply copy the datestring including
the timezone data, it quotes using:

  On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:36:53 +0600, Example User <exampleuser@example.org> wrote:

But notmuch-emacs does changes the datestring to my locally configured
timezone. As far as I can tell, it can either be configured to use UTC,
or my local timezone only.

David Bremner suggests this may need to be fixed upstream.


live well,
  vagrant

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Foreign Architectures: i386
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Versions of packages notmuch-emacs depends on:
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ii  notmuch                0.18.1-1

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Re: [Vagrant Cascadian] Bug#759302: notmuch-emacs: citation should use datestring from the replied to message

[David Edmondson]

> So, I've struggled with coming up with a citation line format:
> 
>  '(message-citation-line-format "On %Y-%m-%d %T %z, %N wrote:")
>  '(message-citation-line-function (quote message-insert-formatted-citation-line))
> 
> But it localizes the timezone of datestring, rather than simply copying
> the datestring from the replied to message.

This is not something that we can fix (as is alluded to in the Debian
bug report).

`message-insert-formatted-citation-line' converts the date of the
message being replied to into Emacs time (a list of two integers) and
then uses `format-time-string' with the result.

All of the timezone information from the original header is lost during
the conversion to Emacs time.

Do we typically just open an upstream emacs bug in such cases?