From: Daniel Stenberg (Daniel.Stenberg@sth.frontec.se)
Date: Wed Mar 17 1999 - 16:09:25 CST
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> One thing I noticed is that hypermail has a tendency to grab the
> top line to report the Last message date, while grabbing the Date line in
> the headers to timestamp each message.
Yeps.
> This is what originally triggered my curiosity, why the
> discrepancy. By looking at the headers, I now see which date is being
> used for what. My question now is, why?
Well I can't answer. I believe it was solved like this already in the 1.02
and no one ever changed that. A guess would be that since the from-line is
added by a server, and server's in general tend to have the clocks better set
than clients, it would be a better reference.
I'd prefer to use the Date:-string, it is more likely to reflect the time the
send sent the mail which I think most often is the interesting date. That
would of course also require a better date parsing function.
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Daniel Stenberg - http://www.fts.frontec.se/~dast
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