On Saturday 14 March 2015 13:40:07 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 14 March 2015 07:06:58 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 March 2015 10:40:56 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > >  As I said, I can't remember whether it
> > > adjusts for summer time.
> >
> > It does adjust.  On 7/3/15 you were at GMT -5.  And on 8/3/15 you were
> > at GMT -4.  That is presumably when edst came in, assuming that you
> > didn't move.
> >
> > Sorry, I'll take pity.  Anyhow on the rest of you!  This is an
> > international list, and I try to remember it.  So 7/3/15 means 7th
> > March 2015.  Please Gene, could you reciprocate?  (And remember that
> > this is an international list.)
>
> Is there some kmail setting I need to make?

No.  It is doing it!  It obviously in fact uses local time not system time.

Have you noticed that it also tells you what part of the day?  Morning, 
evening, night.  It tells you the time the correspondent is on now, not the 
time (s)he wrote the email.  I thoroughly enjoy it, having once worked out 
what it was doing.  And it can occasionally be useful.

Lisi