Hiya.
I live in EST5EDT. (actually, I normally use
/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Michigan )
Mozilla's Thunderbird seems to think I live in MST7MDT. All my
e-mail's time stamps are off a couple hours, for both messages
sent and received. In fact, the date line on my messages is, um,
amusing:
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:22:40 -0600.44999999999998863
(you can probably see that on this message if you look at the
headers).
I thought this might be related to the fact that I've got a
very old install with probably 15 years of cruft in it, but
I just did a new install on a different machine, and connected
it to my imap server and ...again, all my e-mail was two hours
off. So I'm thinking it's Not Just Me, though I don't see other
complaints.
If, within Thunderbird, I go to:
tools -> Developer Tools -> Error Console
and enter the command "Date()", it comes back with
the time/date two hours off and "GMT-0600 (GMT-06:00:27)", which
is consistent with what I see
Looking at the headers of sent e-mail, I see ... confusing stuff.
The .44999... stuff seems to have started between these two:
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 23:39:18 -0400
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/60.3.3
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 08:40:47 -0400.44999999999998863
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/60.5.2
and the timezone change on OUTGOING messages seemed to start between these:
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 23:36:47 -0400.44999999999998863
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/60.8.0
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:11:31 -0400.44999999999998863
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; OpenBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/60.8.0
HOWEVER -- incoming mail was showing the two hour difference quite some
time before April 16. I'm thinking months before, though I'm not
sure exactly.
Got any hints/suggestions as to how I can persuade Thunderbird
I don't live in Theo's basement?
Nick.
