Override email time information on post-by-email

[jmtorres]

Title:
Override email time information on post-by-email

Area:
mobile posting

Summary:
Mobile posting via email from phones may result in incorrect time stamps on entries. It should be possible to override this.

Description:
Email from phones may just use UTC for its timestamp instead of actually indicating the time zone it's sending from. Dreamwidth currently uses this timestamp for entries posted by email, which creates entries with timestamps several hours off. In addition to showing an incorrect time on the entry in question, this can also cause problems with entry sequence and subsequent entries one attempts to post from a computer with the correct time zone needing to be dated out of order (or the date on the email entry edited) because their time stamps are earlier than the entry previously posted.

However, the email data includes information stating that it is using 0000 UTC, and it is possible to set one's time zone in one's account settings, so Dreamwidth could translate the UTC to the user's preferred time zone.

Alternately, it should be possible to add a manual override. It's currently possible to set many pieces of metadata in mobile posting using "post-tags" or "post-mood" etc. Could a "post-time" also be added?

Poll #6495 Override email time information on post-by-email

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42

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Should be implemented as-is.
23 (54.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
19 (45.2%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[justhuman]

I'm wondering if this is what happened to me when I was posting via the site from the browser on my phone. Support wasn't able to help me, but I think there may be a connection.

From my support request - 8017:

I thumbed in a post on my Blackberry. When I posted, DW returned and invalid timestamp error, specifically in the hours category.

[jmtorres]

Maybe! With my phone, using the browser (either accessing gmail from browser or accessing dw posting interface from browser) I didn't get the problem, only when I used the email program to send in a post. My carrier's Sprint, who's yours?

[justhuman]

My carrier is Verizon -- I don't have the Blackberry any longer, but I'll try to give it another shot from the new phone