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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@lemming0.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: 24 Mar 1997 11:56:39 +0100
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 24 Mar 1997 03:01:10 -0800
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Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

> Jens Lautenbacher writes:
> 
> > On the other hand: what is bad with the functions gnus provides to
> > change the date string?
> 
> They're basically useless.
> 
> What time is it right now, as I'm typing this message?  I know it's
> some ungodly hour my local time, but what time is it where you are?
Aah, come on, 3.00 in the morning. I'm really getting up at this time!
(Especially when doing lisp programming and/or graphics together with
some folks that seem to live in California...) 

> I don't want to do the math in my head and I typically don't care when
> you sent the message (other than the day, month & year).  In this case 
> I *know* you just emailed it.

I see. You need the time when composing a message to someone. OK. How
about adding a field then to the bbdb database like "Timezone:" which
would be queried everytime you write to someone who is in the db?

Regards,
	JTL

