Re: Gmail munges dates?

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

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2. Do we want to introduce a --in-body-date option or something to
format-patch which would include an in-body Date:, similar to the
in-body From:? (Also, while we're at it, maybe we could include an
--in-body-from to force that to happen since that's been a feature that
was requested in the past[2])

I doubt I'd use it myself, but I wouldn't be opposed to an in-body-date
option. You'd perhaps want to define some heuristics to avoid
uninteresting noise. If your patch is from 10 minutes ago, and you are
just now sending it in, adding the extra date header is mostly just
clutter. So perhaps you'd want it to kick in when the date is more than
N time units or something.

I do not have a fundamental objection to the --in-body-date option,
either, although I do not want to see it used when sending patches
to this list.

As long as it is a command-line per-invocation option, I do not
think you'd need any "uninteresting noise filtering" logic.  A
configuration variable to always do so would cause a huge headache
to keep the behaviour sensible when sending one's own patches,
and would require such filtering, I would think.

Thanks.