Re: [RFC/PATCH] point pull requesters to Git Git Gadget

> > It looks like GitGitGadget just uses normal SMTP to submit the messages.
> > I wonder if normal people using gmail as their SMTP server for
> > send-email also suffer from this. I've not ever noticed it, but I
> > don't know how common that setup is.
> 
> I am using gmail as my SMTP server with 'git send-email', and it
> doesn't look like gmail is rewriting anything there, see [*1*] for
> example.  The date header looks like this:
> 
>     Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:16:04 +0000
> 
> Note the +0000 there, compared to the GMT that GitGitGadget uses.
> Looking at RFC2822, that's the new version of specifying the timezone,
> while GMT is only defined in the obsolete time and date section.  I
> guess gmail might just not like that anymore and rewrite it.
> 
> So fixing this might not be that hard, and might not involve sleeping
> while sending the patch series at all.  Changing how the date is
> calculated in [*2*] might be all that's needed.