On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 10:34:00AM -0600, Nick Holland wrote: > 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?
I'd suggest searching https://bugzilla.mozilla.org (probably via the google sitesearch tab on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi?format=google) for similar reports, as i doubt this is something specific to OpenBSD - sorry i wont have time to help you further in the coming days. Help->Troubleshooting information might tell you your detected timezone too. Landry
