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- From: bruce@blilly.UUCP (Bruce Lilly)
- Subject: Re: timezone problems...
- References: <1e8r2aINN22q@pythia.csi.forth.gr>
- Organization: Bruce Lilly
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:45:51 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.224551.12457@blilly.UUCP>
- Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)
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- In article <1e8r2aINN22q@pythia.csi.forth.gr> stathop@csi.forth.gr (Costas Stathopoylos) wrote:
- > Recently I noticed that my sendmail-5.65c+IDA1.4.4.1 set-up has a problem
- >in translating dates from RFC822 format to UNIX format.
-
- Actually, it doesn't... RFC822 time/date fields are handled
- properly (there was an earlier problem with the sign of the
- numeric offset, but that has been fixed).
-
- >I get a lot of messages of the form:
- >
- >Nov 16 18:26:24 pythia sendmail[12561]: AA05065: arpatounix: unparseable date:
- > Fri, 13 Nov 92 17:16:30 MET
-
- That's not an RFC822-compliant date. "MET" has no meaning
- according to RFC822 (and RFC1123).
-
- >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.
-
- Those are the only ones permitted by RFC822 as amended by
- RFC1123. See RFC822 section 5.1 and Appendix D, and RFC1123
- section 5.2.14. In particular, note that RFC1123 recommends the
- use of the numeric zones rather than the often arbitrary and
- sometimes ambiguous alphabetic timezone ``names''. By the way,
- the numeric offset provides for hours and minutes of offset, so
- that e.g. -1130 is an acceptable numeric offset. The offset need
- not be single digit, whole number hours.
-
- >Did I misoconfigured something or the only solution is to change the sources
- >of the "arpatounix" routine to compute the date relative to my timezone?
-
- The MUA that is generating the bogus (i.e. non-compliant) Date:
- headers is misconfigured. Sendmail is correctly informing you
- that the Date header is unparseable due to the bogus zone. When
- the bogus headers stop, the syslog messages will stop.
-
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