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Re: Time Stamps Question

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Subject: Re: Time Stamps Question
From: GMANE@faerber.muc.de (Claus Färber)
Date: 07 Mar 2007 10:39:00 +0100
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Keith Larson <keith@tech.activeresponsegroup.com> schrieb/wrote:
> I need to confirm if this is server or mail client issue.

> Example from me to me:

>       From:     root@tech.activeresponsegroup.com
>       Subject:        testing time Tue Mar  6 14:40:49 MST 2007
>       Date:   March 6, 2007 2:41:13 PM MST

"2:41:13 PM" is wrong, it should be "14:41:13". This date header
actually means "2:41 in the morning in the [non-existant] 'PM MST'" time
zone, which is sensibly interpreted as "2:41 GMT". (In addition to that,
"MST" is deprecated and should be "-0700".)

The culprit is whoever created the date header (probably your MUA).

> Mail client shows this as 9:41 PM but when open to read it shows

Strange.

Yes, there's a 7-hour difference between 2:41 and 9:41 but that
would mean the mailers get the "PM" right but do the time zone math
wrong.
I'd expect them to show "7:41 p.m." on the day before. (Monday 2:41 GMT  
is Sunday 19:41 MST/-0700.)

> Date:         March 6, 2007 2:41:13 PM MST

Well, it just displays the date header field as-is.

Claus



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