Re: time format on message citation line

["Zhao\, Gang" <gamerh2o@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2014-04-16 at 08:34:37 +0900, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:25:15 +0800, Zhao, Gang wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-04-03 at 14:18:17 +0900, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:
>>> A hack is below.  Since manipulating timezone is not so easy,
>>> probably we will have to do it in a similar way if we add this
>>> feature to the Gnus code.
>
>> This really works, as showed in above citation line :) Thanks for your help.
>
> I've implemented the `gmm-format-time-string' function and
> modified the `message-insert-formatted-citation-line' function[1]
> so as to express a date string in the original author's time
> zone.  So, there is no longer a normal way to use the local time
> zone.  But who does want it to do so?  Ok, here is a recipe:
>
> (defadvice message-insert-formatted-citation-line
>     (before use-local-time-zone (&optional from date tz) activate)
>   "Use the local time zone."
>   (setq tz (car (current-time-zone))))
>
It's good to know it will be the default to show the original author's
time zone. I think that's the more reasonable way.

Thanks again for your efforts on this problem.

> [1] `message-insert-formatted-citation-line' is one of predefined
>  functions used to generate a citation line, `... wrote:', in
>  a reply message like the one in this article.
>  To use it, customize the `message-citation-line-function'
>  variable and also the `message-citation-line-format' variable.