[Kde-pim] Display send time in header WAS: Does local time zone need a name?

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Sonntag, 1. April 2007 21:54 schrieb David Jarvie:
> There has been a thread on kde-core-devel debating whether the local time
> zone name needs to be identified. Because of the title of the thread,
> "KDED time zone module", some people may have ignored it.
>
> The thread has ended up as a debate between myself and Thiago about
> whether or not it is necessary to know the name of the local time zone. I
> have argued that it is necessary for display to the user (in time zone
> selection combo boxes at least), and for writing to iCalendar (and
> probably other data also). Thiago argues that simply calling it "local
> zone" (or similar) is sufficient, the benefit being to avoid what can in
> some circumstances be a costly initialisation process to identify it. For
> details, see the thread referred to, particularly from
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=117534844924723&w=2 onwards.
>
> I'd appreciate it if some KDE PIM people, and others, could give their
> views so that it isn't a debate between just two people.

This discussion reminds me of a wish for kmail, I had a few times:
 * it would be nice to display the creation/local send time in the header
   (with time zone info), and optionally a <delta t>, err, duration
   of transmit.

Pete
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