Different meanings of ‘Current Date’

  • Henk Barreveld

    (@henk-barreveld)


    4 years ago

    I thought I had already reported this earlier, but I am not aware that I received a reaction and I cannot find back my earlier message – so I guess I did not send it…

    People receiving MailPoet messages from my website get confused by the following:

    The email editor allows you to include a date shortcode: Current Day, Current Month, etc. What is that “current” date you see in messages sent? Well…

    • In your email program you see the date the message was sent
    • When using ‘view in website browser’ you see today’s date

    So, for example, I have a weekly new posts summary, sent on Sunday evening. People viewing the message from November 22 in their email program see the text “Summary of messages sent in the week up to Sunday November 22”. People viewing the same message in their browser see, today: “Summary of messages sent in the week up to Thursday November 26”.

    This cannot be the intention.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)

  • Hi there!

    Thanks for reporting this issue.

    I’m going to forward it to our developers.

    Thread Starter Henk Barreveld

    (@henk-barreveld)

    Hi there!

    I just looked into this a little bit more, because it is actually quite annoying.

    I did some tests with MailPoet custom shortcodes and it seems to me that this problem is more general than just date information: all dynamic content in a newsletter is newly generated when the newsletter is shown in a user’s browser.

    This is of course not right; users may want to view the newsletter in their browser quite some time after it was sent by email and data on the web server may have changed in the meantime. The browser should show the content as it was at the time the newsletter was sent by email.

    Hope this helps.

    Best regards!

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • The topic ‘Different meanings of ‘Current Date’’ is closed to new replies.