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- From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: timezone problems...
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 08:10:01 +0100
- Organization: INSA Informatique (Grasp), Lyon, France
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- stathop@csi.forth.gr (Costas Stathopoylos) asks:
- > Nov 16 18:26:24 pythia sendmail[12561]: AA05065: arpatounix: unparseable
- > date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:16:30 MET
-
- This is just a warning, you can ignore it.
-
- > I took a closer look in the sources and found out that the only timezones
- > supported are:
- >
- > "UT" "GMT" "EST" "EDT" "CST" "CDT" "MST" "MDT" "PST" "PDT"
- >
- > and the +0x00 -0y00 formats where x and y are the difference in hours from
- > GMT.
-
- This is what is defined in the RFC-822. And even I'm convinced that
- numeric zones are the best choice and lead to less errors that
- symbolic zones. How many systems are put on the net and have misconfigured
- zones ? Tons... Just here in Europe, I've already seen hosts where
- the admin has never changed the zone, yes there are machines in Europe
- which will be glad to send you messages in PST zone ! Also some
- do not agree in the zone name. France is mostly in MET/CET, but some
- admins prefer WET (uk) and others EET (far east Europe). On this well
- it's a question of opinion. But anyone agrees that France is one hour
- apart from GMT.
-
- > DlFrom
-
- This is the Unix From line. The only Date header which should be looked
- at is "Date:" not the date in the Unix From. On some systems (mainly
- SysV family) the Unix From contains the delivery date, not the
- sending date.
-
- > Consequently, mail from a client in my domain that inserts a Date: header
- > is delivered through my 5.65 host (mailserver) with a GMT date! (via a mailer
- > that has no "n" Flag that is it inserts a UNIX from line).
-
- Sendmail will add a "Date:" header if not present (in most standard
- configurations). If you get the warning in the syslog the the messages
- arrive and already had a non RFC "Date:" header.
-
- > If this is the case I want to know if there is the possibility to produce
- > From line with dates in the EET which is my local timezone EET==+0200
-
- Most recent user agents now produce dates conforming to the RFC, ie
- numeric offsets if not textually defined in the RFC-822.
-
- So the solution for your local users is to have RFC conforming user agents,
- or just simply ignore those warnings. It does not make messages rejected
- (at least in sendmail).
-
- --
- Christophe Wolfhugel | Email: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
- "Pour le bien-etre de tous, il est interdit de pisser dans le metro."
-