Choose whether timestamp of entry is taken from email header or from time set for journal

[draconic_voices]

Title:
Choose whether timestamp of entry is taken from email header or from time set for journal

Area:
posting by email

Summary:
Add an option under the mobile settings page of account settings where the journal owner can choose whether to timestamp email entries with the time that they are posted to the journal or the time that the email is sent

Description:
Dreamwidth recently changed the posting by email setup so that the timestamp on the post reflects the time that the email was sent at, which is taken from the email header (as per http://dw-suggestions.dreamwidth.org/147571.html). However, a problem arises if the server that the email is sent from is in a different time zone from the time zone set for the journal. The entry is timestamped with whatever time it is in the time zone that the server is in. If that server is in a timezone ahead of the one that the journal is set for, any other attempts to post from email from the same timezone as the one the journal is in encounter a date-out-of-order error.

This is particularly a problem if you are using an automated journal posting client such as loudtwitter whose server is set at EST+4, making it impossible to post by email until four hours after loudtwitter posts if you are in the EST timezone and longer if you are anywhere West of it.

The original post by email set up used the time that entries posted to the journal as their timestamp. Would it be possible to add an option to the mobile settings page to allow users to choose whether to use the time posted or the time the email was sent as their timestamp?

Poll #3091 Choose whether timestamp of entry is taken from email header or from time set for journal

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 35

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (54.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (5.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
2 (5.7%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (34.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[msilverstar]

oops?

[kyrielle]

I'd suggest this should be overrideable in the email also, the same way you can do userpics, security groups, etc.

ETA - ability to specify a time (not sure if that already exists), ability to specify "use email headers", ability to specify "use server time" or even "use server time in time zone X").

Among other things, this would let you pull from email headers for your updates but from server time or a given time zone for LoudTwitter....

[draconic_voices]

I thought about that after I submitted the suggestion. Especially as I could understand the reasoning for the original change. Maybe something like:

Post-time: journal
or
Post-time: server

So for an automated service like loudtwitter you could set it to use the time it's posted in the journal, and if nothing is specified the default is whatever you have chosen (or the server time).

[kerravonsen]

+1