Hello,
I'm trying to determine whether there's a problem with the MIME::Lite
module. I've sent an email to the module's author, but haven't heard back.
Is there a "bugs" mailing list somewhere that I can post the following info
to, in order to get verification and facilitate a fix.
(It's my opinion that the "UT" timezone on line 1057 of MIME::Lite is a
typo/error.)
Thanks in advance..!
Karl K.
Details ---
I noticed that timestamps on my emails generated using MIME::Lite were off
by 5 hours, so I looked into how MIME::Lite was timestamping the messages.
I quickly noticed what appeared to be the problem: "UTC" is being
truncated to just "UT" in the prepared message -- so the receiving system,
unable to translate the unknown timezone (i.e. 'UT'), assumes local time
instead of
UTC/GMT -- causing the 5-hour difference (since my systems are in CDT).
Here's a sample message generated by MIME::Lite..
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Length: 0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: text/plain
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 2.117 (F2.6)
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:18:44 UT
From: Wile E. Coyote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mon Aug 19 17:18:44 2002
Take a look at line 1057 and 3372 of the MIME::Lite code:
1057: my $date = "$u_wdy, $u_mdy $u_mon $u_y4 $u_time UT";
3372: Also added automatic inclusion of a UT "Date:" at top level unless
Here's my test environment specifics:
- MIME::Lite v2.117 running under Perl 5.005_03 on Solaris 2.6
- Lotus Notes R5 server is receiving the message, I believe.
Is "UT" supposed to be considered a valid timezone? I can definitely say
that it's not recognized on either version of Solaris in my environment.
Both "UTC" and "UCT" are acceptable (and identical) but not "UT."
> ls -ilR /usr/share/lib/zoneinfo | egrep -i 'ut|uc'
100358 -rw-r--r-- 11 bin bin 56 Jul 15 1997 UCT
100358 -rw-r--r-- 11 bin bin 56 Jul 15 1997 UTC
75316 -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 15504 Jul 15 1997
southamerica
82445 -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 785 Jul 15 1997 South
111113 -rw-r--r-- 1 bin bin 823 Jul 15 1997 Aleutian
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