On 20 Aug 2007 at 0:40, Ryan Novosielski wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
> > On 18 Aug 2007 at 11:00, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> > 
> >> Dan Langille wrote:
> >>> On 18 Aug 2007 at 2:00, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Since upgrading to 2.2.0 bsmtp sets the wrong Date: header in the mail:
> >>>> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:48:56 +0000 (CEST)
> >>>>
> >>>> For the recipient the above message appears to have been receieved at 
> >>>> 03:48, two hours ahead.
> >>>>
> >>>> The correct timezone is UTC +2, the above header should have read
> >>>> Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:48:56 +0200 (CEST)
> >>>>                                    ^
> >>>> Again, this might be FreeBSD specific just as my last report.
> >>> This just in (at 23:22 local time):
> >>>
> >>> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:19:12 +0000 (EDT)
> >>>
> >>> Compare that to an email generated via: echo 'test' | mail dan
> >>>
> >>> Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:21:39 -0400 (EDT)
> >>>
> >>> It's getting the timezone wrong.  In my case, it should be -0400.  I 
> >>> won't have time to look at this until Saturday afternoon.
> >> I'd like to chime in that it is NOT just FreeBSD, but at least also
> >> Solaris. I've had this problem with Solaris and Horde/IMP before as
> >> well, so I never reported it on the Bacula list figuring it was really
> >> not their problem. My Bacula director is Solaris 9. I don't know how 10
> >> would change this.
> > 
> > Good.  Good to know.  Thank you.
> > 
> > Perhaps it was this commit:
> > 
> > http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bacula/trunk/bacula/src/tools
> > /bsmtp.c?view=diff&r1=4789&r2=479
> > 
> > If you look at older versions of bsmtp, and I think that's where the 
> > problem is, you see this (look around line 353):
> > 
> > http://bacula.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bacula/trunk/bacula/src/tools
> > /bsmtp.c?view=diff&r1=2835&r2=283
> > 
> > The code used to do:
> > 
> >   strftime(buf, sizeof(buf), "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z", &tm)
> > 
> > Where the %z (time zone offset, e.g. -04) is the time zone.  For some 
> > reason, this is now done as a different step (see the first URL) and 
> > uses %Z (time zone name, eg. EST)
> > 
> > This patch fixes the problem for me, but I suspect there were some 
> > special issues attempted by the original code that my fix does not 
> > address.
> > 
> > --- src/tools/bsmtp.c~      Sat Aug 18 16:33:26 2007
> > +++ src/tools/bsmtp.c       Sat Aug 18 16:33:26 2007
> > @@ -194,11 +194,7 @@
> >     gettimeofday(&tv, &tz);
> >     my_timezone = tz.tz_minuteswest; /* timezone offset in mins */
> >  #endif
> > -   strftime(buf, buf_len, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", &tm);
> > -   sprintf(tzbuf, " %+2.2ld%2.2u", -my_timezone / 60, 
> > abs(my_timezone) % 60);
> > -   strcat(buf, tzbuf);              /* add +0100 */
> > -   strftime(tzbuf, sizeof(tzbuf), " (%Z)", &tm);
> > -   strcat(buf, tzbuf);              /* add (CEST) */
> > +   strftime(buf, buf_len, "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z %Z", &tm);
> >  }
> 
> I haven't had a lot of time to look this over, but I think that the date
> in my headers from bstmp will be interesting to you and others who may
> be having this problem and have had more time to look at it:
> 
> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:57:00 +0000 (%z)
> 
> ...that don't look right to me. :) I suspect %z and %Z may not be
> handled properly on non-Linux? Is that even possible? I thought most of
> this stuff kinda stuck to POSIX for this kind of thing, whatever it
> might have to say about this. <shrug>

Ryan: please check man strftime and compare to what I found here for 
%z:  http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?00+00

In short, %Z is supported on Solaris, but not %z.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/
Available for hire: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php



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