I tried to "fix" this once, succeeded, then decided it was Not A Good
Thing, and changed it back.
IIRC, some amount of fiddling with the hardware clock and the time zone
settings in the OS (Linux here) resulted in "correct" timestamps on mail
as well as correct timstamps elsewhere. I think I just said I was in
Grenwich.
It seems to me that there are standards, damn standards, and The Way
Things Are. Email I get from diverse global origins (eg, this list) NEVER
sorts properly on the actual UTC transmission time due to the variety ways
dates are stamped on messages by assorted MUAs/MTAs.
my $0.02
--Pete
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 05:36:17AM +0000, Mark Delany wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 11:28:30PM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote:
> > >
> > > Thursday March 01 2001 22:41, David Dyer-Bennet wrote to All:
> > >
> > > >> No, it's not! That's how I noticed it. Someone was blaming my
> > > > client
> > > >> for it, but the problem is the same with all of them. I have tested
> > > >> it with various Netscapes, Outlook 98, Outlook 2000, Outlook
> > > >> Express, PMMail Pro 2000, Sqwebmail and Adjewebmail.
> > >
> > > DB> That's because you didn't use a client which adjusts header
> > > DB> timestamps, though.
> > >
> > > I am not talking about clients! Mail generated on a qmail server
> > > doesn't have proper date headers, whereas mail coming from a sendmail
> > > server does.
> >
> > Er, what do you mean by "proper date headers" and how are you sure you
> > definition of "proper date headers" isn't being met by qmail?
> >
> > I suspect what is happening is that qmail is creating Date: headers
> > that are UTC based and you are used to seeing Date: headers in your
> > local time zone. Are you sure that what qmail is doing is incorrect or
> > is it's possible that it's legal according to the standards, but just
> > that it's different from what you want?
>
> And if it puts the Date header in your local time, what happens when you send
> mail to someone on the other side of the planet, or, for that matter, in the
> next time zone?
>
> Chris
>
