RE: git send-email sets date

["Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>]

Behalf Of brian m. carlson
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 06:32:30PM +0100, Michal Suchánek wrote:
> > git send-email sets the message date to author date.
> >
> > This is wrong because the message will most likely not get delivered
> > when the author date differs from current time. It might give slightly
> > better results with commit date instead of author date but can't is
> > just skip that header and leave it to the mailer?
> >
> > It does not even seem to have an option to suppress adding the date
> > header.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's intended to work this way.
> 
> Without the Date header, we have no way of providing the author date
> when sending a patch.  git am will read this date and use it as the
> author date when applying patches, so if it's omitted, the author date
> will be wrong.
> 
> If you want to send patches with a different date, you can always insert
> the patch inline in your mailer using the scissors notation, which will
> allow your mailer to insert its own date while keeping the patch date
> separate.
> --

Michal, you may want to hack up an option that can automatically create 
that format if it is of use. I sometimes find the sort order an issue in 
some of my mail clients.
--
Philip