Using UTC time in Date header

[raf]

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 09:43:21PM -0400, John Hawkinson <jhawk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> For what it's worth, I have a desire for the opposite kind of feature,
> although I don't quite know how it should work.
> I want to see and use timezones as displayed in messages as long as
> they are nearby US timezones that my brain is facile with the trivial
> arithmetic for (i.e. US/Eastern, US/Central, US/Pacific, and I suppose
> the rare US/Mountain).
> 
> But when a header comes in UTC, I'd much rather convert it to local
> time, especially so I don't have to think about how DST affects the
> offset.
> [...]
> --
> jhawk at alum.mit.edu
> John Hawkinson

When my workplace switched to office365 (all but me anyway),
their emails started arriving with UTC date headers. So I
wrote a procmail recipe to filter incoming emails through
a little perl script to convert the date header to my timezone.
it's attached. the local timezone is hardcoded (sorry) but
can be changed as needed.

cheers,
raf

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